myrrh
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- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 days ago:
…you forgot these: * *…
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 days ago:
…i have a virulently-antifascist friend who laments emperor oompa-loopma 24/7 and he
won’t.
leave.
xitter. - Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 days ago:
…sounds like a good reason to cease operations and liquidate assets…
- Comment on Solar Array 250 Miles Long to Power Beijing 1 week ago:
…i’ve only done urban installations, but recently i’ve been giving a lot of thought to the localised effect of high-albedo reflective roofs (and other materials) and transpirative tree canopies (and other vegetation) being replaced by low-albedo solar photovoltaic arrays: it measurably increases heat load on the local environment, reduces radiative cooling at night, and drives up overall cooling demand, which presents a deep rabbit-hole of cost-benefit analyses in the tradeoff between reduced grid use during the day versus increased grid use at night, the net reduction in carbon emissions therefrom, the added carbon emissions from manufacturing and maintaining solar photovoltaic infrastructure, and the loss of ecosystem carbon capture and biodiversity services from decreased solar exposure and increased heat island effect…
…it’s a poorly-understood subject of ongoing academic study in both urban and natural environments, with the largest arrays i’ve read subjected to that sort of rigorous analysis measuring on the order of 1/300,000 the scale of this proposed project…still, apples-to-apples, that larger study was performed in desert scrubland and measured about 4°C increased local temperatures, which is significant but not a good proxy for the weather effects one would see generated by 750 square-mile convection cell over truly barren desert…
…back to your original question, most solar photovoltaic panels loose somewhere on the order of ¼ to ½ percent efficiency per °C incease in panel temperature, but like most things in the real world it’s actually a much more complicated that a straight multiplier…the short version is that investors wouldn’t be building desert arrays if they didn’t present an short-term economic gain, and they certainly do provide plenty of power despite the increased heat, but the long-term environmental impact of radically altering surface albedo at such a large scale isn’t well-understood relative to the implied let alone actual changes in carbon-intensive energy generation…
- Comment on Solar Array 250 Miles Long to Power Beijing 1 week ago:
…ye gads, just imagine the heat island of 750 square miles of black glass…
- Comment on It shows you love them 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
(ha - getaway car)
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
…maybe they like charge up at some lush port with a cheap grid surplus, sail across the atlantic to like, i don’t know, maybe texas during a polar vortex, supplement that grid for a couple of days, return + repeat for like a couple dollars’ profit?..
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
…NCSA mosaic won the web, absolutely…
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
…i remember going to our computer lab in the early nineties and seeing a flyer about this new protocol called the world wide web, thinking to myself in what way is that better than gopher?..
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 4 weeks ago:
…my wife is mortified when she sees what those beta magic cards we ebayed to make rent go for these days…
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 4 weeks ago:
…i still regret having to sell off my playmates starships during the dot-com crash…
- Comment on Canadian minister says Trump was joking when he said Canada could become the 51st state 1 month ago:
…unless?.. 👉 👈
- Comment on Anotha one 1 month ago:
…always there are two: a master and an apprentice…
- Comment on Turning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels (discussion: is this a useful tech?) 2 months ago:
…isn’t that essentially a port with extra steps?..
- Comment on USA | Trump speaks with Putin and advises him not to escalate Ukraine war – report 2 months ago:
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 months ago:
- Comment on smart engineering 2 months ago:
…IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Billboard 4 months ago:
…i read this in the tone of an exasperated husband responding to his wife waiting impatiently to drag him along to some saturday-afternoon garden tea party…
- Comment on 1337 4 months ago:
…i, too, had to text-message my coworker…
- Comment on Too soon? 4 months ago:
…most low-earth-orbit photos are shot with a wide-angle lens, which exaggerates the curvature of the earth and makes local features appear disproportionately large relative to the horizon…
- Comment on Do any "thickening" products actually work to prevent hair loss/thinning? 5 months ago:
…finesteride works, not a placebo…
- Comment on New model 5 months ago:
- Comment on The sun, it burns. 5 months ago:
…i always make a point to go barefoot when i walk my dog + cat around the block to the mailbox; i’ve blistered my feet a couple of times but it’s worth it to guide them away from too-hot pavement…
- Comment on Aluminum 5 months ago:
…that’s - hardness…
- Comment on Aluminum 5 months ago:
…my steel frame split at the welds fourty-five years ago; my bonded aluminum frame has ridden out building fires with nary an issue…
- Comment on Aluminum 5 months ago:
…anodised aluminium beats stainless steel in every application except hardness…
- Comment on Hide your couch! 5 months ago:
…alright boys, he’s made his point, let’s pack it in and call a doll a doll…
- Comment on YSK that the recommended daily fiber intake is 25g for women and 38g for men in the USA. 95% of the country does not meet this amount. 5 months ago:
…i parsed that as ‘once a month’ and pondered your ensuing lifestyle…
