[baggy_trough]

It might be, depending on the particular case. For example, generators when the power goes out, as it does all too frequently in places.

[quantified]

I’d imagine that these have less overall impact. Along those lines, remote job sites probably need fuel-based energy.

In this case there’s some carbon and a relative lot of pollution going on.

[baggy_trough]

Making that kind of tradeoff is something that California legislators seem very bad at.