Looks like the fed, state and county are all behind the construction by Texas' Vistra Corp. of the worlds largest Lithium BESS next to the beach in the middle of our isolated tiny (10K people) town.

And it would appear the fed, state and county will overrule any local objections to the development by foreign corporations of 300 square miles of turbines 20 to 50 miles offshore..... with shoreside support facilities for offshore support vessels in the last relatively natural estuary on the California coast.

Despite local opposition it's gonna happen. If there's a fire at the BESS, thankfully I live slightly upwind of it. The rest of the little tourist trap, the waterfront and town will be S.O.L. if a hydroflouric acid cloud wafts around.

The opposition wails about the whales, sea birds that will be exposed to the turbine choppers, underwater cabling, maintenance ship traffic.... but it's kinda ironic that they don't express similar concerns when it somebody elses backyard. The rain forests, for example, the arctic wilderness, the GoM (deepwater blowout) or Prince Willam Sound, krill harvesting, robotic vacuuming of olives decimating the songbirds of Europe.

8 billion people want their stuff and that takes energy.

Carbon or renewable, it causes pollution and destroys habitat.

AI and robotics appear to be taking energy demand to a whole new level.