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10 Oct 2022
“The best places prioritize being in the place, over getting through the place.”- @clmarohn of @StrongTowns
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Joe Kelly retweeted
May 18
Georgia Power is trying to push a family off their farm via eminent domain for a data center:
“I'm fighting for the survival of my cattle farm. I'm here because a massive data center was approved just a couple of miles from my land — and I'm being hounded by Georgia Power for an easement to build transmission lines through my property for the data center.”
“I'm a local farmer, not an industrial developer. These 500-kV lines aren't for me. They are for the data centers that the boards and surrounding counties continue to approve. I have mail from lawyers stacking up on my kitchen table, wanting to take my case because they know my land is being targeted for eminent domain — These easements are permanent.
They affect my ability to graze my cattle, they lower my property value, and they destroy the rural character of this county forever. This board makes decisions to approve these massive, massive projects, but it's residents like me, young people trying to build a life here, who pay the price.
You're voting to turn our farms into a network of high-voltage wires and noisy industrial buildings.
I'm asking you to realize the real-world impacts of your votes. Every time you say yes to a data center, you're saying no to a local farmer. We aren't just numbers on a map. We are the future of the county, and right now you're making that future impossible.“
This project impacts more than 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and, if needed, use eminent domain.
They claim it's to strengthen the grid for Georgia's rising energy demand from new data centers. The lines are widely linked to Project Sail — a $17 billion hyperscale campus by Prologis, Atlas with 9 massive buildings totaling up to 4.34 million sq ft on 829 acres, demanding hundreds of megawatts, roughly a small city's power.
We cannot allow data centers to be prioritized over farmers.
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Elon Musk just weaponized gravity.
The entire trucking industry has a physics leak bleeding billions.
Musk just sealed it.
Most people look at the Tesla Semi and see a cleaner diesel. A truck that swapped a gas tank for a battery.
That is a complete misread of the physics.
Musk: “Let’s say you’re going over a mountain range. In a diesel truck, you actually don’t capture the energy of height or potential energy.”
For a century, freight has fought gravity twice on every mountain.
A diesel truck burns thousands of dollars in fuel clawing its way to the peak. It arrives at the summit loaded with enormous gravitational potential energy.
And what does it do with that energy?
It throws it away as heat.
Musk: “You have to actually spend a lot of money on expensive brakes going down the other side so you don’t run out of control.”
Diesel burns twice.
Fuel going up. Hardware coming down.
A century of logistics, and the descent was never anything but a cost to be survived.
The Tesla Semi doesn’t survive the descent.
It harvests it.
Musk: “An electric semi truck is able to recapture the gravitational potential energy and in fact puts the energy back in the pack.”
Regenerative braking doesn’t just slow the truck. It converts 80,000 pounds of downhill momentum into raw electricity flowing back into the battery.
The mountain stops being an obstacle.
It becomes a power plant.
Here is the thermodynamic reality the market is missing.
Diesel is closed on the descent. There is no version of a combustion engine that turns downhill momentum back into liquid fuel. It is structurally impossible.
Electric is open in both directions. The same system that spends energy to climb gets paid on the way down.
Wall Street keeps pricing the Tesla Semi on a cost-per-mile comparison. Kilowatts versus gallons.
They are solving the wrong equation.
You cannot win a price war against a machine that bills the planet for its own fuel.
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Joe Kelly retweeted
Mar 16
🎶 “Baby, where the hell is my audit?” 🎶
Had fun at South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast! ☘️🇮🇪 Thanks to our host @nickcollinsma #mapoli
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Joe Kelly retweeted
Feb 16
Pam Bondi, the Epstein files, “aliens are real”… and what’s that other guy’s name again?
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Joe Kelly retweeted
Feb 10
>Got cancelled by the BBC, immediately started a bigger show on Amazon
>Bought a farm and actually works it himself
>Exposed the insane government bureaucracy destroying British farmers
>Made farming "cool" for an entire generation of young men
>Hates manual labor, does it anyway
Jeremy Clarkson is such a W
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