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by yodelshady 3y ago
If you ever doubt that the US has a simply fucking insane advantage in primary resource extraction and consumption, consider your comment. You think $40 per MWh is expensive . Wholesale rates in Europe hit SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Sure but the problem might be internal find-the-lady accounting. In fact it probably is . Much like internet advertising has to be. You can't have an entire economy based around free services funded by advertising for other free servi
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by yodelshady 3y ago
It's all converted to heat. (nearly) 2/3 is used for computation, which produces waste heat, 1/3 is used to move that heat out of the building. Presumably HVAC designers are smart enough to ensure their waste heat is made o
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by yodelshady 3y ago
For those that are, for example, in CA, Thames Water probably rivals PG&E or various telecoms for Examples Of Neoliberalism Not Working Very Well. Billions in dividends paid out to the private equity that bought it, terrible performance
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Hilarious, but utterly pigheaded. Unsustainable doesn't mean "Great thunberg is sad". It means our way of life stops , with an iron certainty. What tf do you think rising food prices are? They are a crisis of not enough res
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by yodelshady 3y ago
We have burned through approximately 70 million years' worth of carbon and hydrocarbon resource [1] in less than 200 years, certainly enough that any anthropologist will tell you the rebuilding of our civilisation would be impossible
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by yodelshady 3y ago
See: collapsing European industry, finally now even in Germany, due to thinking "demand-side response" was a good solution.
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Right, islands (and Israel) normally do because there's not the space for a large enough reservoir. We're playing silly buggers with economics again here; when it's rainy, "DeSaL iS uNcOmPeTiTiVe", because the &quot
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Good practice should really follow the joke about airliners: the ideal flight deck crew consists of pilot and dog. The pilot is there to look after the dog, the dog is there to make sure the pilot doesn't touch anything. Even the RBMK
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Multiple times I've seen companies be the originator. Quite simply, it's insurance fraud. They demand an air gap, you say you have one. You can certainly argue that, at a general level, air gaps don't work for the same reason
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by yodelshady 3y ago
> Running out of money is how you lose this battle. True, but I honestly find it hard to conceptualise how that relates to military spending. You think the Soviet population would be better fed if MIC scientists had paid more attention t
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Unfortunately, the internet hasn't rewarded nuanced argument very well.
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Partially related, low speed parking lot and shop window accidents are much less common in manual-dominant countries (although those are less frequent yearly). The usual cause is hitting gas instead of brake, followed by disorientation (exp
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Yes, it can and does. Go to a chemicals conference these days and half the research is on managing blackouts. In the best case your plant, which is the same CAPEX in Europe as it is the US, is producing 25% less. There's only so much
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by yodelshady 3y ago
But the title and tweet do NOT label it Eurozone. They label it EU. That rather makes it poor communication, no?
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by yodelshady 3y ago
It either does not or mislabels the chart. The chart refers to Eurozone.
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by yodelshady 3y ago
The title and tweet both say "EU".
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Who do you think cover any and all negative externalities when wind and PV combined "fluctuate" to pretty much zero for a solid 96 hours, as happened in the UK in winter 2021? Batteries for that scale are a simple fucking lie . T
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Where I live currently, the first fossil-burning power source for the grid is the fourth largest . That's not that unusual for Europe any more. Overall I think you can quite easily make an argument for 200 g / kWh as a conservati
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by yodelshady 3y ago
There should absolutely be a human where the buck stops. But... "fixing an organisation" involves calling people racist. Then screwing their careers. That should carry a heavy emotional burden. It should involve anger and pu
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by yodelshady 3y ago
I've spent the last two days working with (not-Kubernetes) virtualisation software that has serious, workflow-breaking bugs from... uploading and removing regular files, of a format it expects. In some random-aaS frontend I could expec
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Because it isn't mildly long. It's either very long or infinite, anywhere where gas is ~ 1/3 the cost of electricity per kWh. COP of 3 at a 3:1 price ratio for electricity to gas = 1. Which itself makes sense if you use gas a
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by yodelshady 3y ago
> for 10wks at a caloric deficit. A human lifespan is not 10 weeks. Did he do that for the next 50 years? Because that's what's necessary. IIRC the average American gains weight equivalent to a 50 kCal / day surplus, or 2.
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by yodelshady 3y ago
I explicitly stated a predictive model, which that isn't . I can come up with any old crap as advice if, afterwards, I can tell the recipient "you need to update the figures until my predictions stop being wrong". That jus
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by yodelshady 3y ago
I've recently come off a 10 week pause in any significant exercise due to injury (and still can't do many strength exercises, though I was already mostly cardio). I made zero effort to change my eating habits, since I still have
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by yodelshady 3y ago
(Saving you a click): GE think they have a Ceramic Matrix Composite blade ready, replacing nickel alloys. This should result in higher turbine entry temperatures, and so higher engine efficiency. And gas turbine efficiency is already pretty
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by yodelshady 3y ago
> Mines in the US are frequently delayed or prevented from opening entirely due to environmental lobbying pushback. They are now , yes. I believe the point is, that's a relatively recent development. (And surely, from an environmen
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by yodelshady 3y ago
> But - outside of performative activism and spleen-venting - do they have any interest in sustained or intelligent actions which might address a few of the problems? Well, that would like under the purview of your conundrums of politica
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Even without the Algorithm, Twitter would be awful. Quite simply: when was the last time you went in Twitter to see an intelligent argument that opposes yours ? Never, because such a thing simply requires more than 280 characters, and mul
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by yodelshady 3y ago
It definitely strikes me as thought-terminating cliche. If people were calling themselves woke maybe, but I've only seen it as pejorative for several years. I don't think it's fair to entirely dismiss either, there really is

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