fintechjock

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by fintechjock 4y ago
> Our results suggest a perverse impact; while there is no significant reduction in grid stress over superpeak hours, such calls lead to increased off ̇-peak generation, CO2 emissions, and price volatility. We postulate that consumer att
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Energy Conservation Requests Increase Short Term Grid Stress [pdf](nber.org)
3 points by fintechjock 4y ago|1 comments
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The Perverse Impact of Calling for Energy Conservation [pdf](nber.org)
13 points by fintechjock 4y ago|1 comments
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by fintechjock 4y ago
Bad weather is the most significant hurdle here. The article references a few of the Soviet GEVs that were successfully developed, but it looks like they only operated regularly in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea (relatively calm water). Over
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by fintechjock 4y ago
> Similarly, the Javelin, while effective and having gone through incremental upgrades, is not a wildly new weapon. It's been around for decades, and as we're finding along with the Stinger, the U.S. needs to reactivate the man
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by fintechjock 4y ago
I also thought of u/Sir_Budington's comment when this article was posted to r/CredibleDefense: > The thing is that things like anti tank and ship missiles are primarily defensive weapons, not offensive ones. Sure, a Javeli
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by fintechjock 4y ago
That isn’t a problem faced by the vast majority of Reddit users. What I posted is a workaround that has been available since Reddit was founded and would be useful for the average user to know.
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by fintechjock 4y ago
site:www.reddit.com/r/whatever_subreddit "whatever you are searching for" Works for me every time. I haven't used Reddit search in 10 years. I'm at a loss for why anyone would want to read Reddit comments in th
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by fintechjock 4y ago
Your premise is true, but you aren't looking at the context at all. France gets 70% of their energy production from nuclear and they are not dealing with destabilization. Germany never crossed the 30% mark. They can drastically increas
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by fintechjock 4y ago
> Where do you get electricity from for the peaks in the morning and the evening, when solar is still weak and wind may or may not be blowing? Not nuclear, for sure. Stable supply is the answer to unstable demand. That means nuclear is t