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by dpierce9 3y ago
There is a chart at the bottom. Costs doubled over twenty years since 1999, directly comparable to the college rate over the same period and well above inflation.
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by dpierce9 3y ago
There is a chart at the bottom. Costs doubled over twenty years since 1999, directly comparable to the college rate over the same period and well above inflation.
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by dpierce9 3y ago
I will say it again: Private high school costs have also gone up astronomically and there are no federal loans for them. [0] https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-private-school
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by dpierce9 3y ago
Private high school costs have also gone up astronomically and there are no federal loans for them. [0] https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-private-school
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by dpierce9 3y ago
It is quite hard to write about. Suppose you are defending the claim. Your conclusion that ‘All knowledge is relative’ inherently seems like a non-relative assertion of knowledge. ‘All knowledge is relative except this statement’ seems like
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by dpierce9 3y ago
General Mills also built Alvin which launched in 1964 and is still in service. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Alvin
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by dpierce9 3y ago
Cost of capital includes an inflation term and the risk free rate (but neither may be right over the investment term). You can use NPV to evaluate different options. If NPV of one investment is $1 and another is negative $4 then it is clear
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by dpierce9 3y ago
Yes! The existence of a five-legged dog makes “all dogs have four legs” false but it doesn’t make “dogs have four legs” false. Similarly, the existence of a two-legged dog makes “some dogs have only two legs” true while “dogs have two legs”
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by dpierce9 3y ago
Definitely possible. The FDIC has almost a hundred years under its belt though. That is a lot of precedent. It is strange that textualism or republicanism is associated with small/weak government. That reputation is unearned imo. To wi
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by dpierce9 3y ago
Pick an independent agency and look at their docket. The vast majority of the things are detailed technical minutia, not big things like net neutrality. Each item typically requires detailed knowledge of the law, regulations, and past regul
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by dpierce9 3y ago
Independent agencies are completely accountable to congress. The idea that they are unaccountable is nonsense. They can only ever do things in the bounds of what congress has said they can do. Congress can change what is allowed at any time
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by dpierce9 3y ago
No Gomer Bolstrood?
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by dpierce9 3y ago
Different generators have different heat rates. There are also operational considerations (turning off a combined cycle isn’t flicking a switch). Further, the two-settlement system means you are guaranteed the day ahead price which can be h
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by dpierce9 4y ago
The panels are often warrantied for 20-25 years. Most things outlast their warranty period. Inverters are less reliable, warranties are half that for residential stuff but commercial stuff will come with a service contract. Wires and racks
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by dpierce9 4y ago
A decent reason to have rooftop solar is that it reduces daytime distribution node demand which reduces wholesale commodity prices and takes pressure of the electricity delivery infrastructure (wires, transformers, etc). These are real cost
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by dpierce9 4y ago
You want to say ‘nothing matters’ because there is some high entropy state of the universe way in the future. I don’t think that is reasonable. I am saying things matter. Individual contributions matter along the way and they easily and oft
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Without the contribution of every unique individual in your lineage it is safe to say YOU wouldn’t be here. Differences between identical twins should be enough to tell you that. You might say ‘I would be here but with a different genetic m
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by dpierce9 4y ago
YOU are the consequence of individual contributions 10s or 100s of thousands of years ago. Writings and works, almost certainly lose their effect (but not a guarantee). But kids go on to have more kids until they don’t. That impact stretche
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Concept and parallel aside, you might not want the word ‘force’ in the name of your dating app. Just a thought.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Net metering means utilities sell the power your system produces at full price to your neighbor. They pocket the avoided cost of producing and delivering that power (and during price spikes the cost of fuel can be higher than the value of p
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by dpierce9 4y ago
There is lots of behind the meter installed as well in CA which are not captured in the linked doc. Hard to find good numbers but CA senate estimates 20GW of nameplate. Assuming a 15% capacity factor that is 2/3 of that 43k GWh. They a
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by dpierce9 4y ago
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it. Here is a counterpoint. The US foundational documents (Declaration, Constitution) are written in cursive/script. Public education certainly has something to do with cre
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by dpierce9 4y ago
I don’t want to be rude but to say solar is ‘inefficient’ without qualification is essentially baseless ignorance or lying. PV/wind turbine efficiency and Rankine cycle efficiency are basically entirely different concepts physically an
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by dpierce9 4y ago
If you are in the US, read FERC Order 2222. Seriously. https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/E-1_0.pdf
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Walmart in fact has solar installations on many of its store roofs and has been putting them there for years.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Thanks for the correction. FWIW, none of the ISOs I mentioned have the ability to order natural gas to flow either. What they do have, and Texas does not, is a contract with the generators that requires the generators to offer their supply
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by dpierce9 4y ago
The Texas interconnect is not federally regulated. There is also no such thing as a federal operator. There are three interconnects in the US, east, west and Texas. The other interconnects are not run by one central authority (let alone a f
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Your second citation does not show AC peaking at 6, it shows Solar and Wind use averages over time of day. I don’t know when AC use peaks but total use tends to peak before 6PM while residential use peaks in the morning and evening [1]. Sol
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Not really because this about emissions per mile driven. It takes energy to refine and deliver energy (both electricity and gasoline) so it makes sense to take that into account when comparing total emissions (comparing local emissions just
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by dpierce9 4y ago
In my experience appropriately sizing Philips is basically impossible unless the screw itself is marked. The #2 is way more common it seems so that helps with the default but if you know it isn’t #2 then you are screwed (har har) because ma

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