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by bequanna 4y ago
> As it stands, we do not have the ability to both raise living standards and solve climate change. We just are using too many resources for it to be sustainable This is defeatist bullshit. No one is arguing that the whole world needs to
722.
by bequanna 4y ago
We can't talk about one problem because some other problem exists ? Perfect is the enemy of good.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Thanks for the sanity. The key word in your post being reliable . There are 1001 ways to generate electricity but with no good storage options we need to prize reliability over all other attributes when considering what we invest in.
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by bequanna 4y ago
You sure about that? You can't replace base load with intermittent generation sources and expect fewer price spikes. Ya'll better get busy building those nuke plants like NOW.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> The author is saying we should do all those things, that they need done, that the total amount of energy humanity uses should grow not shrink Well...yea. It's unbelievably naive how some believe humanity should somehow start using
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by bequanna 4y ago
See Europe now for an example of how over-reliance on intermittent generation with no storage yields incredible energy instability. Who wants a grid where your refrigerator can't run when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn&#x27
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by bequanna 4y ago
> If you're on a low-to-average income then Europe is probably better. If you're rich then America is better. Many (most?) people on HN are highly-skilled, highly-paid technologists and likely the latter.
728.
by bequanna 4y ago
Given the defense crisis now on Europe’s doorstep your countries may soon have to drastically increase defense spending. Taxes in Euroland are already quite high. That money is going to have to come from somewhere and likely will eat into y
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by bequanna 4y ago
Umm, you don’t need the dark web to get SSNs. If you know the person’s exact name and city of residence you can use a supposedly legit service to purchase their SSN for $50. I won’t post it here, but should be trivial to find the name of co
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by bequanna 4y ago
Right. Im in awe at the mental gymnastics some are doing in this comment section trying to blame “racism” and Republicans. This was caused by incompetent city government, period. Blame Jackson’s city council, mayor or even the voters themse
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by bequanna 4y ago
Lucky for the Saudis (and other unfriendly nations) the current regime in the US has handed them all the pricing power as the US Gov't does everything possible to hinder domestic exploration/production.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> I think you're underestimating the willingness of people to suffer financial hardship this winter to divorce themselves of Russian energy. Are you sure it will be just one winter? In general, Europe is not great at: 1. Moving fa
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by bequanna 4y ago
Bingo. Jackson’s inept local government failed to fix a known issue because they didn’t want to raise taxes to risk re-election. Now Federal taxpayers will be on the hook to bail them out. So… I guess mission succeeded?
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by bequanna 4y ago
What a clever trick! Like magic, anyone who doesn’t agree with you then instantly becomes “intolerant” and dangerous so we shouldn’t allow them to have a voice or power. That line of thinking is nothing but BS mental gymnastics to justify o
735.
by bequanna 4y ago
I think it is more than just “inconvenient”. Government control can destroy value on a pretty massive scale, see Venezuela.
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by bequanna 4y ago
I think the parent comment is referring to how corruption seems to be a given for everything the government is involved in. There are a lot of reasons we can come up with to explain this, but it does seem to be a fact that the more control
737.
by bequanna 4y ago
What kind of appeasement did you have in mind?
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by bequanna 4y ago
The situation seems to be: inept local govt refused to pay for services they are responsible for providing because they didn’t want to raise taxes. So, they begged for outside money (again, for something that is their responsibility) and wh
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by bequanna 4y ago
> The article i link says they’re getting ~10B from the feds so they’d need a ~15% tax rate on their 3M people earning avg of 25K to pay for that. Thank god for them 25K income is so low that they only pay federal tax rate of ~12%. Huh?
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by bequanna 4y ago
I do know that funding and managing local services like water, sewer, schools, police, fire dept., etc. is the responsibility of the local municipalities. If you want to argue something else then please explain why local gov't even exi
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by bequanna 4y ago
So, instead of an appropriate local bonding ballot initiative (or whatever) to fund this like every other city does, they just throw up their hands and ask for state handouts? Maybe they are worried about the political implications of risin
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by bequanna 4y ago
I think you’re confusing the responsibilities of states and local municipalities. It may surprise you to learn that Jackson is actually led by a quite liberal mayor: https://www.jacksonms.gov/departments/office-of-the-m
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by bequanna 4y ago
Wind and solar are quite unreliable. That's the dirty secret. Wind/Solar might be price competitive at some $/MWh but you need build MUCH more capacity to make up for how unreliable they are. Each utility needs to purchase ge
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by bequanna 4y ago
This seems like a huge win for the defense in a case using DMs or Tweets as evidence. It would be quite easy to argue that a highly-politicized org like Twitter _might_ alter tweets or DMs to implicate someone in the opposing party. That’s
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by bequanna 4y ago
Sure. How many natural gas plants do you reckon we will need? Following your idea, it seems like we will need to replace almost all existing base load with a stable options like nat gas. But then why bother investing in these unreliable “su
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by bequanna 4y ago
I think you might be projecting your modern politics onto the problems of the past. I don’t think that everything bad in the 1800’s was caused by racism and greedy corporations.
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by bequanna 4y ago
I really admire the ambition of something like this but wonder how exactly the water receiving areas would be compensating those sending water? Or would the majority simply be water diverted from ending up in the ocean?
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by bequanna 4y ago
As long as energy storage is expensive this is a valid argument. And as we erode our base generation in favor of these intermittent sources it becomes a more serious problem.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Right, at your current stage there is pry no need to build some task queue. However, if you anticipate infrastructure costs to grow quickly I think you’ll want to invest some effort in this. You could even have tiered services. For example,
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by bequanna 4y ago
Why are you assuming that you will need to maintain a static infrastructure? Aren’t you able to (fairy quickly) autoscale up/down based on the size of some queue of test requests?

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