TheGoodKall
@TheGoodKall@lemm.ee
- Comment on New solar installations to grow by 58% to hit 413 GW this year, says BloombergNEF 11 months ago:
Only when predicting renewable energy adoption would they draw an exponential curve with data and then forecast a near flat-lined linear growth
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 1 year ago:
I was in your same position until I realized updating ublock and updating the filter list arw two different tasks. The filter lists are in ublock settings and after updating those I’ve had no problems
- Comment on Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. 1 year ago:
At first I thought you were a clever advertisment for that game, but as it turns out searching “mom wax” does not garner any results about games at all, so if you’re not pulling our legs and they game actually exists could you post the full name? It sounds interesring
- Comment on Texas power prices soar 20,000% as brutal heat wave sets off emergency 1 year ago:
What you’re describing is a pump and dump scheme. In any market where there is low volume, either in terms of units or value, it is possible that a wealthy individual buys a large enough share of the available item to make the price jump up a bunch. Then when other people buy to get in on the next bitcoin/NFT/GME craze, often motivated by person A, that first person can then sell to the next wave.
What is weird about the power grid is that A) electricity has to be used at the time of purchase so you couldn’t resell it and B) there are often power plants specifically for spikes in demand (called peaker plants) that rely on those moments to jump in and produce to make their profit, keeping things under control. However if you’re the Texas grid, which is isolated from any other electric grid, you can just ignore obvious signs that more power is needed and everytime demand spikes you make a bunch of profit and super promise you’ll fix it for the next time