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by dpierce9 4y ago
I said nothing about grid disruptions. Charitably, ‘relied on’ is undefined. Each US interconnect still has many MWh provided by coal plants. Further, coal capacity is still hundreds of gigawatts but you are right that capacity has gone dow
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by dpierce9 4y ago
This is a thorough explanation of their reasoning with pointers to relevant laws and rules. Their position is that the law doesn’t allow them to approve this and they say which laws and why. What else do you want? A 140 character limit? Wou
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Yes a trend that goes back to at least Socrates. This guy was, famously, unethically canceled by the law.
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This supports my point about the cheapness of nat gas. Higher demand AND lower prices.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Wholesale gas is around the price it was in the mid-2000s and still much lower than peaks[0]. Note that this doesn’t adjust for inflation over the last two decades either so gas is still cheaper. Gas is only relatively expensive compared to
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by dpierce9 4y ago
So what you are saying is 7/9 justices came from the six elections in this century? Sounds an awful lot like what I said but I guess redundancy is sometimes useful.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Yes just two of the last six elections. This determined 7 of the 9 sitting members of the court.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
I didn’t assume. I think you demonstrated. I agree there is no point.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
If nuclear plants were twice as efficient that would be great too. They aren’t. Land use isn’t relevant for rooftop solar. There is basically no opportunity cost. Everything becomes less efficient over time. Sunpower warranties their panels
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Articbull is saying nuclear is better than solar for the energy system. He bases this on a claim that solar panels are inefficient along a number of dimensions. Look at his actual comments, they aren’t narrowly related to lab or theoretical
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by dpierce9 4y ago
My argument has nothing to do with ‘greenness’. What I am talking about already has a name: marginal productivity or marginal efficiency. My point is if you have to dig and burn 2.5 rocks to get 1 rocks worth of energy you are really concer
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by dpierce9 4y ago
MARGINAL. I will try one more time because a stranger is wrong on the internet. It is the difference between how much a car costs and how many miles per gallon it gets. Once you have paid for the car, the only thing that matters with respec
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by dpierce9 4y ago
A nuclear plant that is 100% efficient would be better than the current ~40% units but it is thermodynamically impossible. Thanks Carnot. You are confusing operating/marginal efficiency with lifetime efficiency. Think about a power pla
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Panel temps go up and down depending on time, date, location, and weather. On cool, sunny spring days you can see panels produce more than they are rated. You can’t simply apply a fixed worst-case derate for all time to all panels regardles
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Not sure why I am responding since you moved the goal posts from operating efficiency to lifecycle efficiency but even there you are wrong. To your point re: land use, this is why I said rooftop solar. The roof is already there, the structu
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by dpierce9 4y ago
This is some bad reasoning. Solar efficiency is very different from say engine efficiency. A very efficient combustion engine is 35% efficient meaning it wastes 65% of the energy in the input fuel. Solar panels don’t waste sunlight and have
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by dpierce9 4y ago
The royal family of Britain has occasionally changed over time. Is it decentralized?
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Every major sport in the US has a union so I do not think that unions are antithetical to high performance. Certain kinds of contracts obviously are not great but you don’t have to adopt ‘same job, same pay’ contracts, you can adopt ‘min pa
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Completely agree. I suspect this wasnt just empiricism, it was also behaviorism which purported to be empirically based but added in a theoretically motivated (and ultimately empirically unsupported) skepticism about using minds to explain
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Look at area under curve for 2022 compared with 2021.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
So after expressing your concerns and asking a bunch of questions with easy to find answers that address most of your concerns, you still have those concerns? Where does it say that ballots were stripped before delivery? Do you have eviden
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Are you saying ballots were separated then transported to be counted? I don’t know of anywhere where that happens. In Detroit there were allegations that ballots were ‘left unattended under a table’ which amounted to actually meaning ‘most
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Gavagai!
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Data collection differences are well-known to the people who produce cross-country numbers. Further, your specific observation about when births are counted in the US is flat wrong. We have 54 ways of doing things. Furthermore, not everythi
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by dpierce9 4y ago
There is a story that Verrocchio hung up his pallet after seeing how good one of the pupils in his workshop was at adding a cherub detail to one of his paintings. The pupil’s name was Leonardo. The story is likely apocryphal but to your poi
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by dpierce9 4y ago
With modern inverters the ability to provide reactive power for voltage support could be signal driven. It doesn’t inherently require overbuilding or sacrificing production all the time, just when needed. Further, it could be compensated th
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by dpierce9 4y ago
“that want to prop up Tether” AND are able to do so. Crypto risks are highly correlated. The ability to bail out Tether is not a given.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Dismissing all concerns about geoengineering as moralizing is not reasonable. People are right to be cautious about geoengineering because our track record isn’t great, there are second-nth order effects which are hard to predict in a compl
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by dpierce9 4y ago
“Breast is best” does not mean or suggest “you shouldn’t have kids if you don’t want to breastfeed” for the simple reason that the second best option can also be a good one. Put differently, breast is best doesn’t imply that formula is bad.
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by dpierce9 4y ago
Not wanting to breastfeed is also a good reason. First, breastfeeding and/or pumping is a lot of work. Second, it can be painful for a number of reasons (latching, chafing, engorgement). Third, women have jobs and the US has horrendous

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