Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

Power and wealth seem, long-term, to make people into statists. They want to control everything. Of course, nobody understands everything but that doesn't stop them.

Yep. If those crops are planted. The world runs on rice, wheat, and corn, none of which fix nitrogen.

Unless you want to radically up _your_ consumption of tofu...

It's worth mentioning that not every jurisdiction in the U.S. regulates utilities in the same way. Some are strict; others are lax. Look at Texas.

My trash collection, strictly speaking, isn't a utility. I pay the township where I live a monthly fee and they contract with a commercial waste hauler. I imagine I get a price break compared with contracting on my own, since the township can guarantee almost 16,000 households as customers (minus apartment dwellers and condos and perhaps some other types of housing).

There are areas where cable TV isn't a monopoly. IIRC my mother can choose between two providers. Ok, not far from a monopoly, but there's still a tiny bit of competition.

An awful lot of people get their Internet connection via those regulated monopoly cable providers.

Er no, plants don't do that. You need bacteria for that, Or uncatalytic car exhausts on high air fuel ratio diesels. Or thunderstrorms Or nuclear reactors running the Haber process. Basically anything the Greens want to ban.

Not going to happen with just one green MP.

Not going to happen either.

Nope.

Soybeans and braid bens. of course you could feed your corn to cattle, eat the cattle and piss out the nitrogen.

Once upon a time crop rotation was fairly well understood. Too bad it doesn't fit into the factory farm model.

Used to be called green manure crops.

We used cannabis for that at one time.

Not always.

Phone used to be. And the postal service still is.

And some go broke anyway.

Real competition works much better.

Nope, a better way of doing things.

Have fun explaining your robber barons like Rockafella etc,

Not even possible.

Fraid so

Nope.

Wrong.

Any source of electric power can drive the Haber process. Solar panels and wind turbines work fine, and don't generate long-lived radioactive isotopes.

The Natural Philosopher imagines that the Greens are exactly as described in climate change denial propaganda, which makes a habit of depicting them as anti-technology, when they are merely against the technology that makes the fossil carbon extraction business profitable.

Why haven't I been offered this?

I can charge an electric car for free, just park it in a council car park.

At what voltage?

Birds (especially crows) learned what motorways are, I'm sure they'll learn what wind turbines are. Those that don't won't be in the gene pool.

I've never witnessed anyone climbing a wind turbine and being decapitated.

Cats can be killed by humans easily. Run them over, shoot them, electricute them.