Makes perfect sense to me. When starting the shortest path for a flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, you don't point the plane toward Japan, you point it towards Alaska.
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[1]J. E. Cole et al., Recent strengthening of eastern Pacific ENSO in the last millennium paleorecord. Science DOI:10.1126/science.ady2660
Tidal forces have been linked to the Dec. 26, 2004 Sumatra earthquake. This paper claims there's a significant link between tidal forces and earthquakes in the region (https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027074). The authors conclude "The observed relationships suggest that the cyclical crustal flexing, which will be at a maximum at full or new moons, might provide sufficient extra force to a plate-boundary region already on the point of rupture to trigger an earthquake that was ‘waiting to happen’."
In my mind the ideal solution is in addition to daily BESS time-shifting is seasonal time-shifting: long term storage of April excess for use in July.
1. Ask AI for the 10 most commonly used verbs in ordinary daily speech in language X.
2. Prompt AI: generate 4 short sentences for each of the 10 verbs at the A1 (beginner) level. Provide the sentences in .csv format compatible with the Anki flash card program.
3. Import .csv into Anki. Study your 40 cards.
As you advance you can do much more like having conversations with AI avatars, transcribing videos, translating text, generating audio clips, and so on.
Dr Taylor Jones, a PhD linguist, goes into greater detail here: https://youtu.be/xQXiSGDXknA?
In 2020 the average US temperature was 55.7 F. In 2025 it was 57.8 F, an increase of 2.1 F in only five years. The cherry-picking conveniently excludes 2022 when the US set an all-time record of 34 days where the max temp exceeded 100 F.
Total waste of $1 Bil of taxpayer dollars. If the oil and gas industry want to shut down wind projects let them pay for it.
Californian here. There is no discussion or any desire to build an oil pipeline from TX/LA across NM and AZ to deliver oil to refineries here. Ha, if you think the Keystone XL pipeline was controversial... it'll never happen.
Calif produces about 20% from its own but tired wells. Some oil is imported from the Middle East but larger volumes come by ship from South America and Alaska.