hunterpayne

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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
In most US states, they require the delivery driver to recheck the ID in person. Depends on the state though.
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Think what that would mean for your average person in a country that didn't like their government...for instance in Russia. You clearly haven't thought through the consequences of your suggestion.
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Yes, absolutely...people drastically underestimate how much political propaganda on social media is from targeted foreign operations. Getting children and those propaganda operations off "adult"/anonymous social media would
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Wanna be rich? Make a social media company that somehow only allows real people to post. You crack that one, fame and fortune await you...
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
You want a proposal? Make a kids-only set of sites. And then make hardware/software that can access only those sites. Make sure existing and future "non-kid" hardware can't access those kids-only sites. You can allow
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
The UK is in the same boat as Minnesota for solar PV. There isn't a solar panel in the UK that will ever make more power than it took to produce.
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Sorry, PG&E's accounting says otherwise.
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
The laws of physics don't like your politics. Also, last time you played around with this stuff, the outcome was very very bad and lots of people died. So before you start trying to mess around with industrial infrastructure, maybe l
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
We already have quite a few of them.
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
The US doesn't get oil from the ME anymore. And there isn't a single functioning plant that uses any of the processes you describe anywhere on the planet after 45 years of trying. There are only a couple of pilot plants and most
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Because the PV panel itself has to be manufactured. And under ideal conditions, the amount of power needed to make the panel is about 5 years of what the panel produces. Most of the power goes to purify the poli-silica that makes the bulk
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
"What do you mean by “make good” and “prove hiring” operationally?" We aren't worried about your case. We are worried about ID theft rings who harvest information from CVs sent to fake job ads. If you hire for even a fracti
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
"We would probably have large scale use of renewable ammonia" I seriously doubt that. Using natural gas to make ammonia is cost effective even if natural gas prices go up by a lot...and by that I mean they could go up 10x and it
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Its horrendously inefficient...and inefficiency is usually bad for the environment. For example, the solar PV when sited in Minnesota is so inefficient just making the electricity from natural gas would produce less CO2 per watt. So there
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Sort of, but there are important details you miss. First the nitrogen triple bond is one of the strongest in nature so it takes a lot of energy to break it. So we don't actually do that in the way you think in a real ammonia plant.
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Its trying to complete with making ammonia from natural gas. So probably not. Natural gas is priced as a waste product and the industrial process we use there is about 120 years old. So its just about the hardest target on the board to b
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
You are confusing capacity costs (capital outlay) with utilization costs (what you actually pay per watt). Its true that renewables have a very low cap cost. They are also several times the utilization cost. That's why electricity i
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
"Solar surpassed fossil fuels in efficiency ages ago" You are going to have to explain this. Because there is no measurement of efficiency in which solar PV in Minnesota in efficient in any way. To produce a watt of electricity
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Nobody in their right mind would put Na-ion batteries in an EV. The lawsuits would never stop. It would be worse than Asbestos lawsuits.
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
"Reddit has really good data" Depends on what you mean by good. If you want to make a bot that seems like a person, then yes. If you want accurate information, not so good.
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Also the overturning of bail reform that the current CA state government refuses to honor or fund. Politicians seem to like the ballot initiatives until people actually use it. Then they feel free to ignore it, even continue to pass laws
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
I mean Trump didn't intend to help. But somehow NATO is in a better state and Ukraine is winning. Its only in the largely imaginary political narrative where NATO is somehow weaker. What is weaker is the credibility of several Europ
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Russia invaded in 2022, Trump was elected in late 2024 and took office in 2025. The out of context quote that kicked all this off was in 2017 or 2018. Somehow you picked the one year out of the last 10 or so that didn't matter for an
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Stop playing political with science!
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
correct
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
They do and how they do the price tranches has changed a lot in the last 5 years. It used to be 4 tranches, 10, 20, 30 and 40. It was very hard to get into the 20 tranch for a single home (maybe if you were bitcoin mining or something).
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
We don't measure capacity in GWh, we measure it in GW. And if Ireland had 600GW of wind, their entire island would be surrounded by a forest of windmills. Also, Ireland lacks any energy storage so none of that wind can be used for ba
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Also, I don't want a different article, I want one informed by someone who has a real understanding of these topics. For example, if a datacenter is in Washington state, fresh water (and its fresh water we care about here) isn't
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
"Many people with a STEM background understand these things .. they are not generally called "scientists" in Commonwealth English." Sure, but none of them work at the institution referenced by the article. That isn&#x27
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by hunterpayne 3mo ago
Your post doesn't have a reply link for some reasons but here is my response. What they need is expertise in energy generation. They need to understand concepts like a duck curve, power storage and its material requirements, relative

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