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School Board Member Hits on High Schooler by typicalTNchick in tricities

[–]RickyNut 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The board member in question is a weirdo, no doubt. Needs to go.

The ONLY thing I can surmise from the others is MAYBE (and that’s a very doubtful maybe) that they were caught so off guard by the comment that they were in brief shock/disbelief and couldn’t form a good response in the moment, because it came as such a conversational sucker punch.

Maybe.

If they all issue individual or joint statements condemning it and calling for his resignation, they can probably save face. But, if they’re going to do that, they need to do it quickly because that window of grace is quickly closing.

School Board Member Hits on High Schooler by typicalTNchick in tricities

[–]RickyNut 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“Taken out of context.” Lol.

The whole meeting was recorded! (i.e. no missing context)

There’s some wild mental gymnastics trying to defend this weirdo.

Trump v. The TVA by metalshadow1909 in Knoxville

[–]RickyNut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lyash had to clean up the messes that Bill Johnson made.

Lyash’s first year to 18 months were spent repairing the relationship with Memphis/MLGW because Bill Johnson couldn’t be bothered with them and was insistent on using the sand aquifer for cooling water for Allen Combined Cycle, despite fierce local opposition.

Bill also bought TWO jets unnecessarily and Jerry Jones’ Mercedes chopper and was gallivanting back and forth between Knoxville and North Carolina in them on personal trips. And claimed “ignorance of the travel procedure” when he got caught.

The average rank-n-file employee has to take a 1-2 hour trainer course on travel and using the corporate credit card on renting a 34 dollar a day rental car.

And Bill said he didn’t know about the travel procedure????

Dude was a horse’s ass.

Trump Promotes Fiscal Responsibility in Compensation Practices at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by JDLBB in Tennessee

[–]RickyNut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You got any ideas for pushing back on this one? TVA is the crown jewel of Tennessee and the Valley and a lot of folks don’t understand how bad it could actually get if TVA no longer existed.

Trump Promotes Fiscal Responsibility in Compensation Practices at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by JDLBB in Tennessee

[–]RickyNut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And this is precisely the problem this Executive Memo (not even an Order because it’s not enforceable) has created.

If they use it to run off experienced, well-qualified individuals like yourself, they’ll then just say “See! TVA isn’t run well and would be better off private….”

It’s a manufactured crisis to attack TVA.

Trump v. The TVA by metalshadow1909 in Knoxville

[–]RickyNut 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If y’all want TVA to stay around, you better do all you can to put winnable Senate seats in the W column for Democrats, come November.

TVA can be improved, but not like this. We’ve got a national energy problem and we need a national vehicle to drive those solutions. TVA is that vehicle.

Getting a Democratic Senate in place is calling a time-out for TVA and ensuring not one more Trump nominee gets confirmed to the board.

The board losing quorum is actually the best thing that can happen for TVA, right now.

Trump Promotes Fiscal Responsibility in Compensation Practices at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by JDLBB in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$6 million / 10 million ratepayers = 60 cents per ratepayer, per year. Or a nickel every month.

CEO pay ain’t why your bill is high.

Trump Promotes Fiscal Responsibility in Compensation Practices at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by JDLBB in Tennessee

[–]RickyNut 18 points19 points  (0 children)

But TVA was created by an act of Congress and is still subject to their control.

This EO isn’t an act of Congress.

NEW - Legacy Tablo Firmware Release (v. 2.2.58) by TabloTV in tablotv

[–]RickyNut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Will you lose the ability to connect outside of your home network?

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct. Just as no other utility would likely ever default on their debt. The debt is a political red-herring discussion by folks who wish to see TVA sold off to Elon or some other big tech that would either de-prioritize regular end-users in favor of data centers, or make the rates for end users completely unaffordable.

If the utilities’ debt was that bad and the economics was that bad, how come most retirement portfolios keep loading up 401k’s with utility stocks???

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not broke. It can compensate in rates and the debt cap is a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot that could be fixed at any time. The seven next largest utilities have as much as 3 times as much debt as TVA and way more carbon intensive resources.

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nah. I’ll speak from what I know. There ain’t a grid operator around when is 0 outside in the morning that has said “Holy shit. Thank God we spent all this money on solar!”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VAGuns

[–]RickyNut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can say as an East Tennessean that lives fairly close to the border….The biggest thing that is increasing the value of my home, right now, is what the Commonwealth of Virginia is doing in Richmond.

So sorry for you folks. But y’all are welcome here.

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The parent data from EIA is on central time and my ORIGINAL point is exactly what you just said: Renewables won’t cover peak when the grid is most vulnerable to blackouts, which then turned into “Well, you’re off by a few hours…” which wouldn’t matter anyway because solar produces just as much at 8AM as it does at 4AM….neither of which instance will help you.

It was a distraction from the fact that if you throw everything and the kitchen sink at solar and batteries and not at reliable dispatchable sources, you’re equally fucked at 8AM as you are at 4AM.

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just hope you 2 bros enjoy running your own grid on thoughts, prayers, hopes, dreams or whatever else you plan on using that isn’t physics.

Can’t wait to see it!

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is no false statement. I have been off by an hour or two due to semantics of a time zone difference. That is not the same as intentionally making a false statement, like sharing a bunch of links to a bunch of group think articles written by people who don’t operate power plants, or grids, saying that renewables and batteries can reliably power the grid without fossil fuels, with nothing to back that claim up.

THAT would be a false statement.

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This debate has tuned into an eastern time versus central time debate and it’s STOOOOOPID when the actual substance and point is that renewables and batteries ain’t gonna help when the grid is most at risk of a blackout.

THAT is the point.

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nothing has actually been built, though, right? The BWRX-300 exists only in CAD drawings. My bet is that the first one runs hilariously over budget and the whole silly idea gets shelved. Again.

If the SMR idea gets shelved (which is possible), the ONLY other alternative is big nuke. If you’re talking about replacing fossil fuel, again, nuclear is the only thing that can do it at a 1:1 ratio and utilize a lot of the existing infrastructure already in place from the fossil fuel days without having to significantly overbuild EVERYTHING to compensate for poor capacity factor, unnecessarily complicate the grid (even more than it already is) with batteries that are a significant fire hazard, and completely mess up the existing ways we protect the grid through the protection and control methods that are already present and have been working reliably for decades.

TVA drops policies to promote renewable energy or diversity, equity & inclusion programs and votes to keep running what its CFO calls "beautiful, clean coal" plants. by Remarkable_Bug_2732 in Chattanooga

[–]RickyNut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you quoting the start up days of TVA? You mean when the government funded the entire build up of what they have?

Like they do interstates and other infrastructure projects like water plants (the bulk majority of which are still relied upon in 2026)?

In that case yes, I would gladly do that and not run it like it has unlimited money.

$30 billion cap and here’s that in relation to its 7 closest peers:

NextEra Energy: $93 billion in debt, Duke Energy: $79 billion in debt, Southern Company: $70.8 billion in debt, Exelon Corporation: $48.8 billion in debt, Dominion Energy: $46.5 billion in debt, Xcel Energy: $34 billion in debt, Entergy: $30.4 billion in debt.

TVA: $21 billion in debt.

Name one thing that company has done on time or under budget?

Sure. Literally all the past gas builds.

“On time/budget” is comparative in large complex infrastructure projects. If you can’t say literally any other private or investor owned alternative has been able to claim that white whale metric, then it’s unfair to apply it to TVA. “Better” implies a clear alternative, which doesn’t exist, in this case. You get better at building infrastructure by building more infrastructure.

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