Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 4mo ago
You bring up assets. I think per-industrial economies the majority of couples have no ability to gain modern assets. Things like land and infrastructure was locked down. Unless you wanted to try to take stuff by force you were SOL. So only
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by Gibbon1 4mo ago
I think there are strong links between the immune system, the autonomic system, and the brain. A dysregulation immune system can seriously mess with you. The classic psychological explanation is the patient only thinks they are sick. But th
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by Gibbon1 4mo ago
Triggered a memory. As I understand wind tunnel models often has bits of sand paper placed to generate turbulence at the right spots.
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
Batteries in California have curtailed the need for peaker plants most of the year. Natural gas is starting to become a seasonal supply of electricity. Fall winter spring it's providing a few GW of power. Only in the mid to late summer
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
Probably pushing the idea that doing stuff like that is something criminal trash class families do. Helps when religious leaders are against it. The Catholic church was against forced marriage which is why that mostly died out in Europe dur
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
You means guys like William "3°C rise in global temperature would reduce global GDP by approximately 2.1%" Nordhaus?
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
Looked at my collage that I went to 40 years ago. Back then they graded on a curve. Looking student grades for 2025. A's 30% B's 45% 2 out of 254 got an A+ I look at grade inflation still being a problem at elite schools and shake
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
Cracks in pressure vessels can propagate faster then the speed of sound. Which means your pressure vessel goes to flinders before any pressure is relieved.
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
The secret sauce is bad faith and crime.
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
You would think using your office to file false charges against someone would be corruption just like using your office to embezzle money.
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
Big picture society wide economics make no sense because utility grade solar costs half as much per installed watt. On the other hand it can make sense based on arbitrage. In a lot of markets the cost of the system is unfairly subsidized. P
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
One interesting use is hydrogen to feed microbes. The driver potentially is solar panels produce 30-100 times more energy an acre than corn. So what if you use solar to produce hydrogen to feed microbes which then produce various feed stock
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by Gibbon1 5mo ago
Friend of mine used to work in that space. He said there were people who were trying to do their job making sure the rate payers interests were being looked after. And people whose only interest was sucking up to the utilities in hope that
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
You start running numbers the cost of solar and wind capacity to power an electric car is about 10% of the purchase price. And considering they have a battery that can store a weeks worth of energy and spend 95% of the time just sitting. Ba
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
Worth mentioning that 2.4GHz has a lot more attenuation due to clutter than 900MHz. Your problem is usually buildings and non line of site transmission paths. When the signal has to pass through and bounce off things your link budget takes
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
When I was at that tender age when many nerdy boys read and fall to Atlas Shrugged I read The Pearl by Steinbeck. Which has a passage I never forgot. “It was supposed that the pearl buyers were individuals acting alone, bidding against one
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
If you can get AI to write your slop is it really socially valuable enough to justify copyright? Even before AI copyrighting software was questionable.
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
The formulas used for asset valuations blow up when growth turns negative.
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
One could argue that Co-Authored by Copilot means 'not under copyright'
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
I remember one time I had to fly back from a business trip on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Made me realize there is something about business travelers, they cut towards situationally aware and self conscientious types. The opposite of
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
Worth noting you don't have to spray solar panels with pesticides and herbicides either. Nor do they require fertilizer. All of these have real negative effects. Pesticides are causing a decline in insect populations and the animals th
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
It's been interesting watching the left slipping into full blown eliminationist antisemitism.
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
If you tried that your politicians would get tossed out of office the next election. Your argument totally ignores that all this infrastructure was built around using cars. Doing things like banning street parking doesn't magically reo
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
The world seems to tolerate Iran's proxy war against Israel.
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
I like make the point that solar farms produce 30-100 times more energy per acre than farming plants. Lot of 'nature' is actually land that has been or being completely trashed via agriculture. But it's so normalized people d
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by Gibbon1 6mo ago
I had a thought about that. Using weapons that don't give the opponent an opportunity to surrender feels like a war crime.
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by Gibbon1 7mo ago
Not trying to be offensive or throw shade, but I wouldn't be surprised if the older plants were built fast and cheap and have issues; emissions, efficiency, maintenance, safety.
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by Gibbon1 7mo ago
I have the curse of having an mom who was a smart CPA. All this stuff root top solar, plug in solar costs at least twice what utility solar. And only makes sense when you have messed up rate setting schemes that enable arbitrage. But it&#x2
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by Gibbon1 7mo ago
You can run the numbers the cost isn't that bad to do it that way. I think South Africa gets most of its diesel from the Fischer–Tropsch process. You could use electrolytic hydrogen as an input for that. About 40% of the energy in gas
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by Gibbon1 7mo ago
Counter point to 4. The Israeli's wouldn't be trying to kill the Iranian leaders if they hadn't spent the last 40 years waging a proxy war against Israel.

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