"The expansion of #RooftopSolar in #NewEngland is keeping the lights on during #winter, surprising the region’s grid operator and challenging long-standing assumptions that the growth of #RenewableEnergy could destabilize the power system."
So many experts were surprised by this outcome, but #solar and #wind keep the #grid stable and save customers on their power #bills:
"The influx of solar has paved the way for the retirement of one of NewEngland’s dirtiest #PowerPlants. #Mystic Generating Station, the third-largest power plant in the region, is slated to close next summer. New England electric customers have been paying a subsidy in recent years to keep the 1,413 megawatt gas plant from shutting down."
And when #grid is done, the entire Layout part exists in draft form - though I have to add a few more items and do one final check before sending it to my editors.
To close off the rather large section on placing #css#grid items (with grid-column: 2 and so on), I'd like to give some general advice. But which advice?
My current feeling is that you should use explicit grid placement in one of two ways:
Either place all items explicitly, but this can be brittle - essentially the same problem as absolutely positioning everything
Or restrict explicit placement to a few well-defined items for a well-defined reason.
@polarity i know from other Software Synthesizer that i can randomize the phase or reset it for example if you need a more digital sound or a stronger bass. But how i can do this in #Bitwig in the #Grid ?
I'm starting to think that it might be useful to have a #css#grid property that causes the grid to reject any implicit definitions.
This would be useful during development, since it allows you to use it in order to see if an implicit track definition is messing up your grid or something else is going on.
Maybe not so much a CSS property but an inspector function or something.
Do you have a favourite non-obvious use of #css#grid? I'm looking for nice examples for my Grid chapter that will expand beyond "here's how you make a responsive four-column grid"
"To get on the path to #NetZero, we must rebuild most of the physical energy #infrastructure of this country. And we need to do it with unprecedented speed.
It took us about 150 years from the days of Edison,Tesla, and Westinghouse to build today’s #grid. Now we have to double the grid’s electricity generation, using only new, clean resources, in just three decades."
"The theory of #bottlenecks could amount to a hopeful strategy for supercharging the fight against #ClimateChange."
Upgrading one crucial #interconnect can strengthen the entire #grid, for instance.
"The same logic can also be applied to #FossilFuel infrastructure, but in the opposite direction. One argument for protesting against oil and gas #pipelines is that they’re bottlenecks."
Cropping Images with CSS While Keeping a Focal Point in the Center (johannesodland.github.io)
Power outages continue across southern US; triple-digit heat wave grips Texas (apnews.com)
Worth reading the whole article, as these events will become more and more frequent....