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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's largest pumped storage power plant fully operational in China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile the US only increased capacity in pumped hydroelectric by 2.1 Gw between 2010-2022 for a whopping 22 Gw total capacity. Hydroelectric generally hovers about 28% of total renewable energy electricity generation.

  The biggest problem (in the US) has been a lack of investment in new pumped hydroelectric projects not connected to improving existing dam infrastructure. Permitting huge new projects but smaller is unattractive unless it is geographically/geologically favorable like with most of the new sites being planned in California and Arizona.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Mushrooms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a Potawotani word “puhpowee”, whose translation into English is “the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight.” Puhpowee is the unseen, animating force that inhabits the natural world, the hot breath of life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ATTN: GEOLOGISTS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a geologist I will retort that if Minecraft environments had eroding surfaces like real life does then that bedrock would also be visible at the surface. Outcrops are just areas that are experiencing erosion rates faster than areas that are overlayed with soil. That said, there are a cool Minecraft programs for geological processes that have been shown to be educational.