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by ocschwar 9y ago
> Sure, I could choose to run my laundry cycle at 8pm rather than 5:30pm, but the convenience factor of doing it when I want to do it is going to trump the pennies they'd give me to wait, every single time. However, the heating elem
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Take a look at the major power consumers in your house. You have HVAC. Refrigeration. Your washer. Your dryer. And your dishwasher. Each one of those things is inherently a form of energy storage, because you don't need any of those to
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I live in Boston, which is one of the most bikefriendly cities in the US, along with Portland, OR and Davis, CA. All three are pretty darn hilly, and that's not considered a problem. When I visited Amsterdam, I was at times challenged
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by ocschwar 9y ago
In the US, the problem is nationalism. See, we have a national costume that happens to be a 2 ton motorized suit of armor. And if you aren't wearing it, your loyalty is suspect.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The Japanese have the perfect answer. They don't zone by use. They zone by nuisance level. You can build whatever you want in the cement-plant-district. But you have to deal with having that kind of nuisance nearby. You can also build
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Oh, they had a big oil industry. So much so that the term "Dutch disease" refers to what happens when oil dominates an economy.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I wonder how much coal it takes to produce a steel steam turbine...
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by ocschwar 9y ago
When they're situated in mountain passes, they kill a lot of birds. When they're situated in windswept plains, they do not.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
No, he just crunched them utterly disingenuosly. Infrastructure evolves very slowly, and he's using a true figure (wind is a small part of the grid) as an argument for keeping it a small part of the grid.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Pathetic.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I'm saying at this point it's wiser to say that it is than to say that it isn't.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Nobody can link any particular home run from Barry Bonds to the steroids he took, either.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The DC Metro is subject to malicious interference from a certain political party that LIKES it to be unpunctual and troubled. Gives them something to bash
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Uh, dude, this was written in the context of rationing and austerity. A kid whose had his sugar rationed is going to consider Turkish delight in a totally different way than a kid in 2017
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Not so. For the last 20 years, Costa Rica's been making the kind of policy stances that used to pretty reliably get Latin American countries invaded by the Marines: 1. pro-environment 2. very pro organized labor 3. leftist economics 4.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
And what's worse is those wrench-turning techs have a different mindset from the test-tube shuffling techs they replace. So when they come in, they're more likely to get exposed to something nasty.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Antibiotic resistance imposes a metabolic cost on bacteria. Take away the antibiotic, and resistance slowly declines. 50 years from now, we'll have a global system that coordinates the rotation of antibiotics so we use them in lockstep
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Not realy. There are TWO markets for electricity. One is the Day Ahead system, where producers and consumers agree on who runs what generators and who consumes how much, in 24 hours. The real time market, meanwhile, covers who it is who ha
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by ocschwar 9y ago
If you own a large building or campus, you can get an ice maker to integrate into your HVAC system, and exploit electricity price dips. Thenwhen juice is pricy, you're just running air past your stored ice instead of running the AC. Th
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by ocschwar 9y ago
That is not Trump's reason for pulling out. And modifying the agreement can only be done from within.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
He's doing it in English. For a French president to do that is impressive. France used to push real hard to restore their language to pre-eminence against English. Now, that is no longer their top concern.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Lying on these forms is what they WANT you to do. That way they can have a pretext for nabbing you whenever convenient.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The car's not the hard part. The hard part is securing ownership of a parking spot for the night. You have to prove this before you can retitle a car.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
He meant they do not volunteer their time to political campaigns.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
It indicates very clearly that the leaker is editing Word documents before releasing them, since French Word users are not going to use Cyrillic. And it shows the leaker is not uber-competent. So, if an email from Macron looks too depraved
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Altamont is a disgrace for the whole industry. They had incentives to install and retain mills at the site, but almost no difference to the bottom line on how much power they produced. That's why these ancient mills are still there, ev
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I'd love that kind of life too, and the bad broadband wouldn't worry me too much. "git push" doesn't hog too much bandwidth, after all. But having to fly around the country for interviews ? That's the deal brea
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Climate predictions made in 1989 versus today: https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v7/n 3/full/nclimate3224.html?WT.feed_name=subjects_climate-sciences Climate models are actually better than me
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Liebig's Law of the Minimum describes why you can't count on plant growth to save us. Any given plant's growth is constrained by something. Might be sunlight, water, phosphorous, nitrogen, or potassium. The last 3 are of cour
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> Does anyone have ideas on how a mid-career software developer can switch gears into the clean energy/climate change industry, to do something to help? I'm in it right now. The best thing to do right now is to exert as much po

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