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So I read the local power co-op's plan for "local resiliency to prevent the Climate Catastrophe through public utility solar." And then I did a bunch of math with PVwatts and the state grid data and wrote a whole essay about why it doesn't make any sense, and it's obviously just smearing around a few million in federal and state subsidies to local party members. (Surprise surprise, the landowner's "farm" has a Land Acknowledgement on her website, but she doesn't seem to be giving any of the lease money from the utility to the natives whose Unceded land she's grant-farming.)
But what's the point in posting it on the local boards? This isn't how things work. Nobody's going to be convinced, all it's going to do is paint a giant target on my back. Worst case, it will put me in the company of the guy who got sued for exposing county government corruption with foia requests, or the guy who got fucking prosecuted for talking about a ballot initiative on the radio, because speaking in public counted as making an Unreported Campaign Contribution under state law.
I guess the question is how do you guys deal with this shit? What do you do with the autistic urge to check the numbers of looting racketeers and go "umm excuse me, I think you made a math mistake in the section on 'Confronting The Whiteness of Wanting Reliable Electricity', yes, down in paragraph 7."
I wasted about six hours last night when I could have been sleeping doing math that nobody will ever see because nobody cares. Judging by their shoddy work, that's about how long the project managers spent on their federal grant proposal too, which made them several million dollars richer. Surely there's a way to just stop caring about all this.
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