sunshinesnacks

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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
I think you might be confusing me and my comment with the person we are both responding to. I agree that wind and solar are clean and safe compared to almost all alternatives. And much cheaper than nuclear. Edit to add: and yes, the energy
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
The first link is from a think tank started by a Koch brother and appears to have a history of being funded by coal and denying climate change, second is an editorial, and the 3rd discussed cobalt and nickel problems and does not even menti
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
> seem to be intentionally ignoring my point. I assumed your main point was something along the lines of any claims that solar is clean are lies, > Best to keep quiet and pretend solar, batteries, and other "clean" sources o
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
That’s an almost 10 year old article, about an industry that has grown almost 10x. Some of the referenced material includes work from the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, which has (intentionally or not) spread misleading information about
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
That’s a good metric for safe . I think clean is best looked at in terms of something like lifecycle CO2 equivalent per kWh. In which case wind and solar are only beat by nuclear. Then there’s lifecycle (levelized) cost per MWh, where wind
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
That’s mostly true, but not entirely. SMA (inverter) offers Secure Power Supply on some models, which give you a single 120 Vac outlet that can provide up to 2 kW (about 15 A) assuming there is enough sunlight . If the solar panels are pro
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
Capacity expansion and production cost modeling are real and important modeling exercises. Immediately dismissing those efforts doesn't seem necessary - they can be done in parallel with work focused on things like inertia, e.g., see
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
Ah, well never mind then :)
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
I originally thought you were arguing that wind turbines should not be able to be installed on someone’s property if they can’t also go on the neighbors property, but now I’m not sure. Was your first comment sarcasm? Maybe I’m just misreadi
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
> That, cannot be tolerated. Why, exactly?
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
There are federal loans involved, but this is not a government project. Georgia Power is part of an investor owned utility.
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
The good news is that it’s very possible to “run the math,” and people run power generation capacity expansion models and production cost/dispatch models to look at these things. And then 15-25 years of solar irradiance and other weath
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
> Funny they mention nickel and cobalt, since they're not actually required. I think LFP cells are somewhere around half the EV-battery market these days. Agreed!
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
ERA5 is free. The API is a bit slow. I think that only some variables from the HRES are free, but not 100% sure.
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
It seems like it would be useful to show relative risk per passenger mile in addition to vehicle mile. I don’t think that’s in the study, and I can’t find average bus utilization. For example, if cars and light trucks carry 1.5 passengers
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
In the 4-way stop example, isn’t that what right-of-way rules are for? Not following those rules because you saw a hand gesture seems like it puts you at risk if there is an accident. Maybe I’m misunderstanding your example. https:/&#
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
Why wouldn’t the entire life cycle be the most important thing? As long as the used car market doesn’t become so saturated that good cars are getting scrapped, or everyone starts buying multiple cars just for fun, I don’t see how the durati
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
I’m not sure we are having a productive conversation about the word “vaccine” or vaccine effectiveness, so I don’t have anything else to add there. When I said I don’t care as much about criticism of government comms (commas was a typo) and
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
Well, I don’t think I was the only one that had issues with your original comment. As someone else mentioned, unfortunately “I’m not anti-vax, but…” is a common anti-vax opening line. I believe you now, though.
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
“ Did you even read where I said…” I did. You said “if” as if maybe they didn’t. “We don’t know that.” Yes we do. Boosted vs not boosted is differentiated in case, hospitalization, and death data.
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
Sounds like you are moving the goalposts from “it doesn’t help at all (after 9 months) and isn’t even a vaccine” to “there was poor government marketing and tech industry actions were bad”, which are very different things. I think that do
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
“didn’t seem to reduce the chance of you catching it” It absolutely did reduce chances of catching/testing positive for COVID early on, and that benefit shrank over time as the virus mutated. “the effects of the vaccine completely disa
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
Worst case, the EV is only slightly better. Typical to best case, the EV is 2-4X better. https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/comparative-l...
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
Except that is very, very far from being an established fact. Note that minimum CO2 from gas referenced here is still higher than the range alleged by the lone researcher referenced in that article: https://www.nrel.gov/docs
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
I’m all for renewable/sustainable energy, but I disagree with your implication that people working jobs in coal or gas power plants have worthless jobs. In pretty much every part of the world, power grids rely on those plants (for now)
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
If you look at rpilocator.com’s “Last Stock” date, you can see that lots of retailers have has the 3, 4, and even Zero 2 in stock in the last few days. That was so rare earlier this year. Maybe not the 1/2GB models you are looking fo
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by sunshinesnacks 3y ago
That sounds like a list topics that he hasn’t covered, or that he hasn’t provided updates on, rather viewpoints on a topic that he hasn’t covered. Unless he’s recently written on those topics and I’m missing some context.
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by sunshinesnacks 4y ago
If a gambler consistently loses much more than they win, in a way that the odds of it happening are almost zero, will police show up and arrest someone from the casino? There may be an investigation, but I'd be surprised if anyone is a
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by sunshinesnacks 4y ago
You can also buy Raspberry Pi cameras in the "NoIR" version that comes without the short pass filter, or do an easy DIY conversion in the case of the RPi HQ camera.
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by sunshinesnacks 4y ago
This reads a bit like a short essay answer on a test, or a ChatGPT response...

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