Dogyote
@Dogyote@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 13 hours ago:
Ha, hey ERCOT, we gotta clean these panels every night, takes 15 hours.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 2 days ago:
You don’t understand Texas’s powergrid. It’s a free market, there is little planning or foresight. Large scale power production is provided by hundreds, possibly thousands, of independent producers who can turn their production on as they see fit, in other words, when it’s profitable. Therefore backup generation for solar is already present. If there’s not enough, then the market will dictate how much to build and where. That’s how it works in Texas.
instead of dumping the volatility on ancillary services, which get less revenue, because of their off-time, accommodating wind and solar.
Free market, they can deal with it. Yes, it’s a dumb system, but thems the rules in Texas.
A mandate like this makes room for reliable energy rollout, basically more support for natural gas, and presumably batteries, instead of just crowding out the preferred energy types.
This bill is clearly designed to stifle renewable production in favor of fossil energy. Requiring one mode of production to have or purchase backup generation isn’t fair in the current market system. Do away with the market system first before putting a thumb on the scale.
Also preferred energy types? Energy types with the least amount of emissions should be preferred. Not gas, not coal, not oil, or whatever else Texas wants to burn.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You don’t notice the flies as much when you’re covered in shit too, it’s a win-win
- Comment on US classifies South Korea as ‘sensitive country,’ limiting cooperation on advanced tech. 1 month ago:
Analysts read the decision as the US government sending a stern warning to counter the calls for independent nuclear armament that have recently been surfacing in South Korea.
Here’s the real reason.
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 2 months ago:
Any good places where one could stream this?
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 2 months ago:
but they have a different goal: they want drivers to feel like they’re making progress instead of actually improving things.
Sorry but I want a source for that claim.
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
Okay, how then would you generalize this trait? We would expect an intelligent species to be social to some degree? It’s hard to imagine how a species could evolve the capacity to achieve technological advances without cooperation between individuals.
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
A beak falls under “some kind of appendage”
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
Yeah… no, I don’t think that can evolve naturally
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
I understand the sentiment, but there must be some number of common attributes all advanced intelligent species across the universe have. Tool use, for example, would require that the organism have some kind of appendage that can manipulate things.
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 2 months ago:
Why does it often seem like only China is using modern tech to make real quality of life improvements? It’s the opposite of the US. Seems like that same modern tech is making everything a bit worse day after day.