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811.
by khuey 6y ago
Existing already-operating nuclear plants can barely compete with cheap fracked gas in the United States. Capital investment in new nuclear is never going to pencil for a private operator without carbon taxes or enormous price drops.
812.
by khuey 6y ago
You're thinking of the coast redwood's relative, the giant sequoia. Fire dries out the cones causing the seeds to release.
813.
by khuey 6y ago
Redwoods are adapted to fire, yes, but surely there's some limit to how much they can take. Thankfully it seems this event may have been below that limit.
814.
by khuey 6y ago
For those who don't live here, a series of dry thunderstorms last weekend sparked a number of wildfires that have combined to burn more than 1500 square miles (more than 4000 square kilometers) in less than a week.
815.
by khuey 6y ago
If you're ever in the Florida Keys Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas National Park is a (never completed) fort in the same style and definitely worth visiting on a day with good weather.
816.
by khuey 6y ago
> The CCP controls China. Maybe not down to the most local level, but almost. The CCP controls China to the extent that China doesn't even have its own military, the party does.
817.
by khuey 6y ago
> Only because the US unilaterally decides what international law means. That would be news to Mike Pompeo who just lost a big UNSC vote this week.
818.
by khuey 6y ago
If you truly believe someone who would sign his name to something this obsequious about one of his companies would tell Beijing to get lost for another one of his companies I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
819.
by khuey 6y ago
The idea that ByteDance is not beholden to the Chinese state is contradicted by the founder's own words. https://chinamediaproject.org/2018/04/11/tech-shame-in-the-n...
820.
by khuey 6y ago
I think the specific ways Trump is going about it (targeting individual companies, and the insane bit about the treasury deserving a I-bankers commission) are awful but I also think that taking zero action towards reciprocal market access b
821.
by khuey 6y ago
Most of those sites predate modern environmental law.
822.
by khuey 6y ago
R&D tax credits are pretty common.
823.
by khuey 6y ago
The vast majority of beef is not grazed on lands incapable of naturally supporting more intensive forms of agriculture.
824.
by khuey 6y ago
Yes, when I wrote that the Stage 2 Emergency had not yet been announced.
825.
by khuey 6y ago
Maybe there was unintentional curtailment of some sort, idk. There's still no announcement of stage 3 emergency (intentional curtailment).
826.
by khuey 6y ago
We're just in the last few minutes getting the stage 2 warning that capacity limits could be reached soon.
827.
by khuey 6y ago
That is likely natural fluctuations in demand. The grid operator has not announced any load shedding (they have not even announced any imminent need to shed load) and there's still another 5GW of available capacity according to the das
828.
by khuey 6y ago
California never had much nuclear to begin with. Only 2GW of capacity has been decommissioned so far this millennium.
829.
by khuey 6y ago
The issue is time of day. Everything is fine while the sun is still up. Once the sun starts setting and the ~10GW of solar power California has goes away things get challenging.
830.
Control Flow Guard for Clang/LLVM and Rust(msrc-blog.microsoft.com)
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831.
by khuey 6y ago
This is called sortition, and the only common use of it in the US today is for drawing juries.
832.
by khuey 6y ago
You still have to replace that 9% with something that runs 24/7.
833.
by khuey 6y ago
In case this question is actually being asked in earnest, there's little evidence for any particular origin beyond that the first outbreak of noticeable size in humans happened in Wuhan in late 2019. The exact mechanism that led to the
834.
by khuey 6y ago
Failures can cascade across the grid. A software bug in an Ohio utility's computers in 2003 ultimately took out power for 55 million people in several US states and the province of Ontario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
835.
by khuey 6y ago
There's also a big difference between one or two people from other places on an American team, which will still behave like an American team, and a team of people entirely from country X, which will behave like a country X team. Exhibi
836.
by khuey 6y ago
Staying within North America largely eliminates the timezone problem.
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by khuey 6y ago
Residential air conditioners are usually the largest "peaky" electrical demand and most utilities have a program where they'll give you discounts in exchange for being able to remotely turn off your air conditioner occasional
838.
by khuey 6y ago
This is why houses have circuit breakers, which are functionally identical to the load shedding we had last night ...
839.
by khuey 6y ago
I don't know about most but it's certainly not unheard of in places with similar climates. https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/rolling-bla...
840.
by khuey 6y ago
The problem is not lack of grid capacity. California is capable of importing upwards of 11 GW[0] but there was only around 8 GW[1] available yesterday because it's hot in neighboring states like Oregon too. The load shedding occurred a

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