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Infrastructure essential
for clear vitality objective
Re: “Clear vitality tech is surging” (Web page A1, July 24).
Coverage works. The Inflation Discount Act of 2022 is probably the most vital local weather laws in U.S. historical past. And the outcomes are already spectacular. The article says, “In lower than a yr, it has prompted funding in a large buildout of battery and EV manufacturing throughout the states. Almost 80 main clear vitality manufacturing services have been introduced,…”
The IRA may probably cut back U.S. emissions by as a lot as 41% by 2030. But when we don’t construct clear vitality infrastructure quicker, we won’t obtain that objective. We should velocity up the speed at which we construct electrical energy transmission to make sure we will join new wind and photo voltaic to the grid.
Urge your members of Congress to work throughout the aisle for allow reform that hastens the approval of unpolluted vitality tasks and protects the well being and security of American folks and communities.
Paula Danz
Los Altos
Chromebooks nonetheless
deal for faculties
Re: “Dying Chromebooks crowd e-waste bins” (Web page A1, July 24).
With regard to the issue of getting older Chromebooks, it’s value noting that textbooks have the identical issues.
Few, if any, textbooks are in any situation to be given to a pupil after 5 years and definitely not after eight. In addition to put on and tear, publishers put out new editions steadily; typically with vital modifications even in areas like arithmetic.
So the Chromebooks appear to be a powerful various.
Robert Macartney
Los Gatos
What occurred to
‘don’t be evil’ pledge?
Re: “Dying Chromebooks crowd e-waste bins” (Web page A1, July 24).
Disgrace on Google for choosing on a weak inhabitants — public faculties.
Promoting them Chromebooks that expire in three years? Colleges will not be industrial enterprises that may simply increase their costs as a way to afford to buy new ones. What occurred to “Don’t be evil”?
Google ought to trade these expiring gadgets for brand spanking new gadgets at no cost.
Vivian Euzent
Sunnyvale
Florida on harmful
path for training
That is in protection of Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech in regards to the state of Florida’s training pointers for educating in regards to the classes of slavery. The place did all these rose-colored glasses educators are carrying come from?
What Harris is saying is true. The Florida program is gaslighting the victims. It’s an try and whitewash historical past and make current-day People suppose slaves benefitted from the horrific therapy that they obtained. How anybody may benefit from being handled like lower than a human being is past me. These Florida people are attempting to jot down their model of slave historical past and blame African People for talking out towards their strategies.
Woke folks of America unite or fairly quickly they may have you ever considering that the pilgrims came to visit on the cruise ship Mayflower for a trip.
Terrele Schumake
San Jose
We must always take nuclear
conflict menace severely
We appear to make gentle of going into one other conflict however that is fairly severe.
