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Originally Posted by falkin42

GM also killed the Volt when its subsidies ran out, because it was no longer cost effective to keep selling.

Nope. GM killed the Volt when they killed the Cruze. They both were killed 1st quarter 2019. They were the last cars on the D2XX platform.

Originally Posted by Hersbird

I heard today an executive from our power company, Northwestern Energy, talking about the ability to handle this heatwave and our grid. She mentioned something about our giant coal fired plant, Colstrip, and how it is covering the demand that the Seattle/Portland areas are requiring right now. These are the areas that bought Colstrip's plants a few years back with the express purpose of shutting them down before their otherwise end of life. Luckily for them they had only gotten around to shutting down one of the plants so far so those coal powered A/C systems can keep pumping.

This Colstrip?

"The cleanup is a massive undertaking for the waste ponds servicing what was until January 2020 a four-unit power plant. The pond complex for the coal-fired units involves nine waste ponds that have leaked roughly 200 million gallons of contaminated water into the ground every year for more than 30 years. One day’s leakage equals an Olympic-sized swimming pool’s worth of contaminants, including boron, sulfates, selenium and heavy metals. Combined with the Unit 3 and 4 ash ponds, the pollution complex spans 800 acres, with an estimated cleanup cost of $400 million to $700 million. Remediation is expected to take decades.

https://billingsgazette.com/news/sta...me-top-story-1