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Every road in to that area will be 4-laned. They are looking at massive dredging of inlet to Freshwater city and inlets past the locks to their docks.

Airplane runways, massive docks and miles of rock jetties and seawalls.

Its been a while since I've played. I'll need to sharpen my skills again because this will kill my mods. But it will be worth it.

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I wonder if UL, McNeese or LSU start having aerospace programs for students?

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UL has bene launching satellites into space for years as student projects.

I would imagine all Louisiana universities will start something that will attempt to feed talent to SpaceX.

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You can start at the East Kincaid boat launch, get on the lakeshore trail, head south and get some beautiful trail riding in. Trail crosses a couple roads that you can take to Messina rd and back to the beginning.

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This is good to know. The Kincaid trails seem long. We would need to build to these longer rides. Thanks for the info.

Some pretty good reviews on Sam Houston Jones on AllTrails.

AllTrails

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What is weird though is that IMO it wasn't that bad of a deal. Sure, you paid a lot for the CDs after the initial deal, but it wasn't like they were massively overpriced or anything.

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Fair.

But they did send them out to an 11 year old, so there's that. What did they expect?

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Chicot State park has some cool trails. I've only hiked them but I feel like I have seen bikes.

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This I did not know. I will look into it.


I see a downvote. Would the downvoter tell me why? It may be helpful.

Thanks for the link. I knew Alexandria had a few, but just starting out, some of these seem a bit intimidating. Especially the distance on some. I will look for some shorter loops to get a feel. We'll work up to longer stuff.

I agree with everyone, was turrible...

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Then let them pay for it. Do not pass this onto the existing residents

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I get what you are saying, I do. But no company in its right mind will contribute somewhere to the tune of 3 billion dollars to generation plants and still have to pay a power bill. I just don't see it happening. Not to mention, if they are not using all of it, the generation company can sell the capacity on the market and make money. This is just not how business works. Now, there can be a middle ground where they pay some contribution and they get a good rate that helps them long term. Thus, the 20 year contracts. There is a way to do this and keep native load ratepayers safe. Like you, I do not trust IOUs and independent power providers to not look out for the investors.

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one that produces its own electricity,

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You do not want this.

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connect to the existing power generating assets I dislike.

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They cannot connect to existing assets. New ones have to be built. These hyperscalers cannot be supported by what is existing. It is impossible. What you want is investment into the infrastructure in the form of contribution in aid of construction. This means that these huge companies, Meta, Amazon, Google, SpaceX...are investing their money into Louisiana's energy infrastructure, transmission and generation. That brings price stability into the energy and capacity market. What you also want is a more diversified generation portfolio, natural gas, coal, solar, battery storage, and yes, nuclear. That way the huge amounts of generation needed are not beholden to one form of fuel.