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by moloch-hai 4y ago
There is a great series on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@KathyLovesPhysics/videos Really took Tesla down a peg. (No, Tesla did not invent the 3-phase power system we use today. That was a Russian in Switzerland, Doli
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
They are generally labeled with "persistence of vision".
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
All public money. NuScale is a particularly egregious example.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Yet, no one has been willing, in decades, to lend any of their own money to building a nuke. What are you missing? That is a rhetorical question; the topic is dead and buried. Good day.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Wind power generation does not, in fact, require any rare-earths at all. (And, they are anyway not rare.) You have asserted this falsehood, and been corrected, many times before. Please do not repeat this falsehood again. Copper is used
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Graeber cites example after example, from throughout history and prehistory, of complex societies that displayed no evidence of permanent, pervasive hierarchical organization. It is very common for historians to insist none of that is possi
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Seeing how you are promoting instead a thoroughly dead alternative that no one will ever again spend another cent of their own money on... Good day, sir.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
... and would be in the position France is in now, with a fleet of obsolete contraptions that will cost further billions to decommission, and with nothing on the horizon to replace them.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Agreed, each added dimension adds wacky surprises. Packing spheres into a cube leaves you a pretty comprehensible space in the middle. Pack hyperspheres into a hypercube, and all hell breaks loose.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Even spiders and newborn babies count; it is a natural animal behavior. Axiomatic systems, not so much.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
The "past few thousand years" is a tiny fraction of the human timeline. And, the overwhelming majority of even the "past few thousand years" is obscured. What remains is a poster example of selection bias: hierarchical o
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Yet, we know it is more complicated than simple derivation from Etruscan. So the real question is what else happened.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
France is better known for high taxes than for low energy prices... Maybe there is a connection. No one, anywhere in the world, has ever fielded a nuke not massively propped up by public money. Germany would today be in a much worse positio
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Texas, artificially cut off from the wider grid, exhibited its domestic governance failings once again. This has no wider implications for energy policy than that grid connectivity covers for multiple sins. Need for fossil generation backin
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
The "stable grid" argument is well past its sell-by date. In the future we will need to build out storage. Before there is enough renewable generation to charge storage, building it would be foolish. After, we will need storage, a
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
https://theconversation.com/shillings-gods-and-runes-clues-i... might be a good place to start.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
It doesn't offer anything else. So, yes. "Not widely accepted" means, exactly, "usefully checked against new evidence". If you can point to anything beyond "woohoo, new older runes" and "maybe this he
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Assuming you already have all the possible evidence already leads to falsehoods. Science is about not embracing falsehoods, if it is anything. What you promote is what cemented "Clovis first" for decades beyond its sell-by date, a
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Point. We are in a race against global civilization collapse. But the race is, at base, to displace atmospheric carbon release. So displacing more, faster is the measure of merit.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
99%+. So, no.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Gravity storage in weights held far above the sea floor is probably more viable than in mineshafts, because you cannot share the motor/generator and winch between multiple mineshafts, and most mineshafts do not go not very deep. There
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
False. As has been explained in detail too many times to count. Please do not try to resurrect old falsehoods.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Summer storage for winter will not be a thing. Tropical solar farms synthesizing ammonia for export to high latitudes will be.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
No lithium or "rare earths" (which are not anyway at all rare) are needed for a transition to solar and wind for power. Electric cars use lithium, just now, and a bit of rare-earths. (They are used in wiper and window motors.) C
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
It is not "tone policing". That is an accusation guaranteed to derail any discussion. Nukes and geothermal simply cost more than solar and wind: nukes, many, many times more. Spending a billion dollars gets you N GW of solar o
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Any discussion that doesn't even mention the possibility of origin in semitic forms (which, of course, Greek and ultimately Roman also trace to) seems unlikely to enlighten. Carthaginians certainly got around. You would seem to need a
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
It would be interesting to explore whether this has any effect on the hypothesis, based purely on letterform comparisons, that runes may be traced to semitic symbols, presumably introduced by Carthaginian refugees or, anyway, travellers. (T
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
> Despite it being a non-starter from a pragmatic standpoint That was my point, thanks.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Maybe read what you just wrote.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
It is thus very, very convenient for the few that people are conditioned from childhood to believe it is the only way to organize, and announce it freely in print.

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