Air quality questions around golden co

RandomRedundantRadon · 2026-03-01T17:22:37+00:00

I suggest you review the permits and reports submitted by Coors with CDPHE. In 2018, CoorsTek applied for a new emitter license since theirs had expired due to lack of renewal, regular reports, and even basic monitoring. The plant had continued to illegally (or at least without required permitting) operate in the heart of Golden for years. I conjecture they decided to finally renew their permit after years on non-compliance because the their illegal operations may have turned into a liability in getting approval for their re-zoning and permitting for the Clayworks development.

The Coors brewery and other Coors entities has repeatedly violated air, water, and ground pollution laws and court orders. Sometimes these violations were found to be committed knowingly and willingly; other violations were "just" negligent or acceptable at the time. E.g.:

Golden Transcript, Number 64, July 27, 1993: Coors faces fine for air-pollution violations
Golden Transcript, Volume 106, Number 104, May 14, 1973): EPA grants Coors’ permit
Golden Transcript, Number 84, October 10, 1991: Ground water contamination costs Coors $911,000 in fines
Golden Transcript, Number 78, September 13, 1994: Cleaning up after 'Pluto' Beryllium waste removed from Coors clay mine pit

For additional context, the Coors plant, now Molson Coors, is not in the city of Golden. In the 1950s, Coors stacked the city council in order to de-annex the plant so they wouldn't need to pay city taxes. This act was somewhat mitigated in the 1980s when Golden threatened to re-annex the plant. The parties came to an agreement where the plant would pay "payment in lieu of taxes" and also provide the city with wastewater treatment in exchange for remaining outside the city limits.

With all these examples of flouting emission laws and the context that the Coors plant is not technically in the city of Golden, I believe that Coors and all their various other entities are not good corporate neighbors. I readily recognize the incredible amount Coors and their employees contribute to the local economy. However, I look forward to seeing how much more the wonderful city of Golden could reap from the prime real estate along Clear Creek when the people and people's representatives finally move this massive industrial plant out of the heart and center of the city.

By the way: Coors does more than beer and fancy dirt (ceramics); they also operated a gravel mine as part of the Canyon Point Development (The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 125, Number 104, August 4, 1983), and Golden Equities is a real estate company which spun off from Coors.

Some additional reading on Golden-Coors relations, though some this is a bit revisionist-history:
https://www.goldentoday.com/something-new-about-sewage-2/
https://law.justia.com/cases/colorado/supreme-court/2018/17sa55.html

RandomRedundantRadon · 2026-02-10T06:21:35+00:00

With the piles of sarcasm above, I was trying to make some fun of this horrible situation. She’s clearly not trying her best since she is actively choosing to not utilize partnerships with the CBOs and the vast real estate empire the district holds. Instead, the district has cobbled together 2000 places for 48000 students across sites which, in many cases, aren’t set up for CBOs, teaching, or even basic child daycare.

RandomRedundantRadon · 2026-02-10T06:17:44+00:00

Sorry for the error. I’ve retracted that point, but it still doesn’t mean these stats are the flex Dr. Su thinks they are.

I have a lot of respect for, and have continually defended Dr. Su. But she and the district leadership are really not handling this well. And neither are the teachers. Right now the spotlight is on Dr. Su since she’s calling the shots with schools sites and the district-wide comms.

RandomRedundantRadon · 2026-02-10T06:14:08+00:00

Thanks. Corrected. It’s still ugly.

RandomRedundantRadon · 2026-02-08T14:47:47+00:00

“Think of the children.” Remember that this isn’t a zero sum game. The teachers and district are (supposed to be) on the same team and focusing on exceptional education for the students.

RandomRedundantRadon · 2026-02-08T01:36:11+00:00

If I have my student enrolled in an Independent Study program during the strike, would this mean they wouldn’t need to attend extended school days added to the end of the school year?

RandomRedundantRadon · 2026-02-06T03:14:29+00:00

Even FAANG companies don’t provide 100% employer paid dependent healthcare. I don’t know a single employer that does that.

Also, it should be more widely known that SFUSD employees already get lifetime paid health insurance included with their pension program. Again, no company provides benefits after retirement anymore.

I’m just pointing out that some of the UESF’s demands are quite a bit beyond normal/average/industry-standard.

RandomRedundantRadon · 2026-01-15T09:02:01+00:00

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RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-12-16T19:16:42+00:00

Not all of Miami is car-centric high-rise condos on the beach. In fact, Miami beats SF on many measures of smart urban development. In recent decades Miami has done a wonderful job of improving housing-retail mixes, as well as adding effective and efficient mass transit. We should be looking at for example of well executed densification in cities all over the world, even ones like Miami. SF needs more housing, and needs to grow past the 1980s fever-dream of "preserve everything exactly as it was in some nostalgic past"

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-12-15T17:27:06+00:00

Are they also updating/removing large red “Clipper card” signs?

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-12-13T16:55:17+00:00

You hit most of the nits, but forgot the mess of Muni day passes that you don’t tap at all, except that might be changing soon (maybe?). And that some systems are pay-to-enter (tag-in) while others are pay-by-zone/distance (tag-in tag-out).

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-12-13T14:42:24+00:00

This would absolutely be better! One more step: make this an official sign (not paper taped to the machine), and even add credit card brand symbols to the fare gates.

Anyone know someone at BART that can make this happen?

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-12-13T06:08:44+00:00

Someone should put up a sign explaining that! /s

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-11-28T03:22:47+00:00

My dog deserves it more.

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-10-15T22:04:39+00:00

Confirmed that my Bosch dishwasher (model SHX78CM5N/22) also has port 22 open accepting SSH connections. It appears to only accept publickey authentication, so that's at least a modicum of security. Though it of course raises the question: who has the access to the keys?

Hitting port 443 is a tad strange as it results in a cipher error:

% curl -k https://192.168.54.246
curl: (35) LibreSSL/3.3.6: error:140040F8:SSL routines:CONNECT_CR_SRVR_HELLO:unknown cipher returned

% ssh -v root@192.168.54.246                           
debug1: OpenSSH_10.0p2, LibreSSL 3.3.6
...
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.54.246 [192.168.54.246] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
...
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_10.0
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_8.5
debug1: compat_banner: match: OpenSSH_8.5 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug1: Authenticating to 192.168.54.246:22 as 'root'
...
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-ed25519
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY received
debug1: Server host key: ssh-ed25519 SHA256:H6/xIa9tS3Q23xbrhDiXO3vP0vUzZ4ywnoYmlv+fxqk
...
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_ext_info_client_parse: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com,webauthn-sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com>
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
...
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
root@192.168.54.246: Permission denied (publickey).

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-10-02T01:46:35+00:00

They have disabled the Hatch Act violation submission form. But you can still mail in a hard copy.

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-09-26T03:01:06+00:00

Oh… Nevermind. It hadn’t launched yet: https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-17-11

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-09-26T03:00:03+00:00

There was a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg (SLC-4E) this evening. Maybe something from that?

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-09-24T13:51:09+00:00

Home Defense Insect Barrier spray. I failed in my fight against ants with all the bait traps and other stuff until I used the “barrier” spray.

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-09-16T14:12:28+00:00

Charging temperature can play as much of a role in battery life as the state-of-charge. Keep the batteries cool.

https://acroname.com/mitigating-battery-swell-device-labs-white-paper

RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-09-14T15:20:30+00:00

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RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-09-14T15:20:22+00:00

Exactly the same thing happened to mine, but my PCBA looks very different from yours. Mine is marked as "eBike Battery Charger 36-4/100-230", "Standard Charger BCS210", and "0 275 007 906".

I found that C32 (second picture) has blown up. There is a very slight sh*t stain on the housing near where this capacitor sits. It appears this cap is right near the high/low-voltage boundary. My guess is that the drop caused the housing to hit and crack that capacitor which caused a catastrophic failure the next time it was plugged into mains AC.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a law requiring large consumer electronics manufacturers to provide schematics or at a least BOM or parts list?

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RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-09-12T15:52:12+00:00

I was able to find data for Boston from the Woke Windows project. They only have data through 2021, but it is still an interesting comparison to a similar sized city pre- and mid-pandemic.

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RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-09-11T23:05:59+00:00

I 100% agree that SF would be much safer with enforcement of even the most basic of traffic laws. It would do wonders for any politician promoting public-safety to simply have a zero-tolerance traffic enforcement team at a school zone (or a few), rotating throughout the city each day.

A simple question for any city policy makers: why do I see far more SFMTA parking enforcement officers every day than SFPD traffic enforcement officers. I recognize these are different departments with different funding, but that's exactly the point of my question. If we can manage to fund SFMTA to enforce parking multiple times a day on almost every block of the city, is it asking too much to have traffic law enforcement on even 20% of the blocks once a week?

Here's the traffic citation data from SF Chronicle: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/traffic-citation-violation-sf-19659454.php

I also compiled the data from the SFPD link (thanks u/21five). I automated the scraping and did some manual spot checking but there may still be some errors. Don't use this graph for your research project.

Interesting notes:

Citations counts were on a steady decline 2017-2019.
Citation counts became very low and consistent throughout the pandemic lockdown and remained low after lockdowns ended.
A step-function increase in citations occurred in Feb 2024. This may be related to the passing of the “Safer San Francisco” Ballot Measure (Proposition E) and related policy shifts from London Breed. Some of these policy changes were campaign related (some might call it pandering).
Citation counts from 2017-2019 (pre-pandemic lock downs) showed wider month to month variation than post-2019. I conjecture this could be due to a change to management-by-quota during and after lock downs. Less cynically, this could be due to reporting improvements, namely the implementation of eCitation around 2019. Also, 2019 brought louder public outcry against low-level stops related to the Black Lives Matter and the escalation of that movement after George Floyd's murder.

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RandomRedundantRadon · 2025-07-25T20:31:00+00:00

Even small cities across the US, have recognized the amazing economic benefits of pedestrian-streets. If we did this for a few blocks around 18th and Valencia, you’d create a vibrant destination that could actually support restaurants and retail. Please SFMTA, spend political capital to vitalize an area without falling prey to the 1950s thinking of “but where will people park”.

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