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It is obvious but it takes a detailed computer model to find the exact ratio. And the reason it's "obvious" is a huge difference between the costs of solar/wind capacity and storage costs. Storage is $300+ a kilowatt-hour, while solar/wind capacity can generate a single kilowatt-hour for a few cents in costs. It means you need that battery to run for a huge number of cycles ($300/0.04 or so) just to break even on the cost of the battery.

Apparently, at current price ratios, it's better to buy a whole bunch more renewable capacity.

So we were the marks the whole time, not the huge list of people he claimed to have conned? Pan Am, hundreds of banks, a sheriff, a hospital?!, many women, a federal prison.

Yep. In a reply north of here, he said that there would be a mixture of big and small players if marijuana were regulated like alcohol. Kind of how there's a Budweiser, an anheuser busch, and many small breweries. Jared didn't try to pander to the voters who would rather there were not giant corporations producing marijuana, with consistent medium quality and for low prices, with doublespeak or avoiding the question. He was honest...

The problem is that I'm not sure if retail hitmen even exist, at least in Western democracies. It's too much risk - the risk of going to jail for life or being executed means that a hitman would have to ask for more money than most potential clients could pay. Until proven otherwise, I would assume that any hitmen you could find and afford are just stings for law enforcement.

Also, frankly, it's probably easier to get away with a murder you personally commit than to hire someone who also knows. If you want to get away with murder, exactly one person can know you're the culprit - yourself. So if you have to murder the hitman anyway, might as well just do the murder the hitman committed yourself - gives the authorities only one crime scene to hunt for clues instead of two.

Mafia hitmen are more of a special case and are obviously very carefully vetted.

Not that it's easy to get away with murder these days. The slightest touch, you sneeze and you leave DNA, a hair falls and you leave DNA, your phone tracks your position, investigators are going to go through the victim's web of contacts, which are conveniently available in electronic form, and will question you*, if you don't have alibi that seems to almost be enough to prosecute these days, and so on.

But hiring a hitman would just make this task even more difficult.

*why kill someone you don't know? This is why serial killers can get away with it for decades while most murderers are caught.

? Where does my post say corn? Corn ethanol is net energy negative so an infinite amount.