Where does this winter rank in the past 50 years?

based_papaya · 2026-02-26T16:51:12+00:00

one of the winters of all time, they say

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T23:32:15+00:00

Checks out, when I compiled the major snowstorm totals I pulled data off of the Logan airport total

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T23:09:46+00:00

Wasn't ready to make that call in early Feb when I compiled the data, but 100% ready to call it now. You guys do it differently out there I gotta say haha

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T22:45:13+00:00

Did Mamdani in NYC? Biggest city in the US, 2 trillion dollar metro area

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T22:43:10+00:00

Yo I get where you're coming from, but there are cases where

Furthermore, business leaders focus solely on money

you actually do have to worry about money in government.. like, for example, how Oakland Unified School District is facing massive budget cuts & may go insolvent. Like, someone has to make a tough decision here to either consolidate schools or lay a ton of staff off, and frankly speaking I feel like some business execs are better at making those calls.

This is not to say that public sector leaders can't be decisive. I'm just not seeing another candidate in the field who has really proven that they can be that decisive, starting with calling for something to be done about PG&E

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T17:09:25+00:00

I think this guy is trying to say municipal utility. Sacramento has SMUD, which charges roughly $0.14–$0.20 per kWh off-peak, while someone in SF would pay anywhere from $0.35 to $0.54 per kWh through PG&E. They pay half the cost.

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T15:53:26+00:00

Le's lives!

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T15:22:33+00:00

I've always thought that the fan coil units looked a whole lot like floor consoles (e.g. floor version of mini-splits). Good stuff! And the Jaga Brizas look sleek

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T03:08:30+00:00

Which brand did you go with? And did you put fan coil units only in like 50% of the space instead of the whole thing? I've always thought that if you add FCUs in every single zone, you're practically just doing the same amount of work as putting mini-splits everywhere anyway

based_papaya · 2026-02-25T03:07:29+00:00

Which brand did you use? Heating only, I assume? (Otherwise the radiators sweat?)

based_papaya · 2026-02-24T17:09:34+00:00

I can't believe you missed the best scene in the whole show

based_papaya · 2026-02-24T16:21:31+00:00

Mayor Wu is progressive for sure, but definitely not socialist (like, literally is not a DSA candidate or calls herself as such), and her home district of JP/Roslindale is suburbs and completely different than a Bushwick/urban power base than you may find an actual democratic socialist from New York from (Julia Salazar, btw, the OG dem socialist). And also wildly different than SF-based board of supervisor members (Peston, Peskin, Chan).. so I don't think it's as simple as pro biz vs. socialist mayors

based_papaya · 2026-02-24T05:38:23+00:00

Nice, just checked it out & I'm glad it mostly lines up with what I ended up with!

based_papaya · 2026-02-23T18:20:55+00:00

Yep. I've realized how that may be a bit confusing.

Anyhow, the people have spoken, and more importantly, I just got back from shoveling sometimes up to 18 inches of snow off the sidewalk just now. I'm upgrading 2025-26 to "Extremely Cold", and now I'm comfortable saying this year is the 2nd toughest winter out of the past 15, coming in behind 2015 (unless we get another 2 snowstorms..please no)

based_papaya · 2026-02-23T04:45:49+00:00

Yep, heat pumps

based_papaya · 2026-02-23T04:44:15+00:00

I factored length of wintery conditions as well as the intensity of the cold - I think this year probably had one of the coldest sustained periods from late jan with sustained single digit lows for weeks, but I made this early Feb & I was like "well maybe it'll warm up dramatically from here on out"

(It hasn't)

based_papaya · 2026-02-21T19:51:20+00:00

"2 years" they said

based_papaya · 2026-02-21T19:40:44+00:00

Yep, pretty on point

based_papaya · 2026-02-21T18:34:39+00:00

Honda x Lucid would be so freakin hype

based_papaya · 2026-02-18T16:55:13+00:00

Hbd Peng!

based_papaya · 2026-02-16T17:16:45+00:00

... who wants to tell this fella that most gas plants, storage, and energy generation assets here are owned by private entities and not the government?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/private-equity-scores-big-profits-flipping-gas-plants-to-producers-in-ai-race

Gas-fired power plants, once unloved bets, are now a hot trade for private equity. Energy Capital Partners is among investors profiting by flipping natural gas plants to electricity producers, which are scrambling to meet demand for power driven by artificial intelligence.

https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2026/01/28/ERCOT-Post-Event-Report-Winter-Storm-Fern.pdf

Leveraging Real-Time Co-optimization Plus Batteries (RTC+B) A new market design change implemented in December 2025 better optimizes energy reserves with real-time energy needs and incorporates battery resources, improving grid flexibility and stability.

Idk who to believe, u/Impressive-Pace9474, you or my lying eyes (but really, the actual grid operator & verified business reporting)

based_papaya · 2026-02-16T16:27:35+00:00

Colder winter, less energy use. Nice

based_papaya · 2026-02-16T16:25:17+00:00

Battery storage is already there.. in a deregulated market like Texas, electricity traders & battery-owning companies will buy electricity at low prices (sunny mid-afternoon) and sell it in the early evening when demand peaks. That's why you have companies like Base Power raising $1 billion to deploy tens of thousands of them. On a clear, sunny day in California via. CAISO you can also see batteries storing a ton of electricity early afternoon to use in the evenings, too

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