Yes, I'm sure a law that out laws a 2010 rig and not a 2011 rig is keeping a poisonous brown cloud from being over the state.
in total, yes. It forces operators to be using progressively cleaner engines, which are the sort of rules that have improved air quality there. It's not some arbitrary year for no reason, as you are presenting it. https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onrdiesel/documents/fsregsum.pdf
Problem right now is actually getting new trucks. Some regulations need to be loosened in the short run until we get everything back going to quasi-normal. Of course, second issue is either automation or figuring out a way to get younger folks in the industry.
This is it. 96% of CA diesel engines are in compliance. This isn't a problem, but it is a viral facebook meme. So here we are.
But all trucks operating in California have to be compliant to be on their roads so during a situation like this it isn’t easy to clear bottle necks. they also reclassified independent trucking companies killing a lot of small guys when they went after gig workers
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Give it time. Crypto may be a future currency, but it won't be on one that requires so much energy to compute.
I think the energy aspect is over played and I know with bitcoin it has to go to places with cheap energy.
Mining isn't profitable in areas with high energy prices. mining is helping areas with abundant energy that is cut off due to location or lack of infrastructure to move the energy. There's a lot of energy escape in gas wells, land fills and tons of other things and this gives an incentive to capture more of our wasted energy, and bitcoin lets you transfer that energy capture anywhere in the world that has internet access with no power lines or pipelines