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Old 06-30-2019, 12:58 PM   #6104 (permalink)
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hardware.slashdot.org/story/.../massive-lithium-ion-battery-fireexplosion-shows-challenges-of-renewable-energy-storage
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The APS fire was the third involving a utility-scale battery. One was at an APS-owned battery in Flagstaff in 2012, and the other was in Hawaii.
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Originally Posted by aerohead
Corporations have been 'persons' since 1886,as ruled by the Supreme Court,under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Money is speech,as with it,you can purchase access to 'We the People',through a myriad channels.
Seriously?

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A headnote issued by the Court Reporter in the 1886 Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. claimed to state the sense of the Court regarding the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as it applies to corporations, without the Court having actually made a decision or issued a written opinion on that point.
Corporations don't serve on jury duty. Money doesn't buy speech, it buy a platform.
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