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- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 days ago:
Get the fuck drunk enough and it will suck itself.
- Comment on Helium-3 mining on Moon: A new frontier for science and geopolitics 2 days ago:
I loved it too. And also had the same thought. It is atmospheric, a slow burn, captivating. In the end not much actually happened. So I am not compelled to see it again.
Sam R is one of several GOAT actors however.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 2 days ago:
Ooh, gonna add garlic salt next time I make a milksteak
- Comment on It's not that complicated, guys. 2 days ago:
The useful information is in the fine print.
“Red Bull gives you wiiiings (please wait 4-6 weeks for delivery)”
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 6 days ago:
How is dirt different from a building in terms of thermal mass? It’s the same setup. Panels can shade buildings just as well as dirt. It’s actually a super complex situation that depends on a huge number of variables.
I’m pushing back because this common trope (solar panels cause heat islands) was part of a whirlwind of anti-solar FUD about a decade ago.
The moronosphere turned some wonky studies that showed some local heating effect (in some situations, not all) into a panic about it causing mega-storms and causing dogs and cats to want to live together.
Since then, actual experts have been working hard to understand the costs and benefits of large installations.
An example:
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 6 days ago:
So you ignored the fact that it’s not the earth that is getting heated, it’s the panels. So when the sun goes down the thin panels and the air around them cool down quickly, much more quickly than a large mass of hot rocks and dirt.
‘Thermal mass’ is a huge factor here. You ignored the basic finding that buildings with panels on the roof are cheaper to cool just because of the shading effect of the panels.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 6 days ago:
How do solar panels create a heat island? They shade the ground beneath them. There have been installations where panels installed on buildings saved money on cooling costs before the panels were even connected, due to the shading from the panels.
Am I missing something?
- Comment on China connects its largest battery-supercapacitor hybrid storage plant - Energy Storage 1 week ago:
Batteries and capacitors both store electrical potential, but in different ways. So yes you can compare their performance at storing and then delivering electricity under specified conditions.
Batteries can keep charge longer with less loss, but capacitors are faster at responding to rapid changes in eletrical supply and demand.
The quote you included shows exactly how they compared the performance at low temperatures, as an example. Maybe I am missing your objection?
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 week ago:
Ok, I have to back the truck up.
I tie-dyed a t-shirt at an employee ‘appreciation’ event last week in the colora of the flag of Rwanda.
It was fun.
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 week ago:
That is an informative link. Do you talk to people this way at parties, though? cuz….
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 week ago:
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 week ago:
May I ask the significance of that symbol? It is lovely and fun to stare at.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 2 weeks ago:
That would be a Radical Faerie.
Seriously check them out. It’s a cool and really influential group of pioneering gay dudes, gaying it up on the farm.
They have sort of died out as a group, but one can hold a pitchfork in a homosexual manner whenever you choose. That’s not illegal yet.
- Comment on music 2 weeks ago:
Yes, a real band. They were really popular among the indie-folk-pop set around the turn of the last century. The bit on parks and rec was just a way to establish April’s character as ‘too cool for all you bitches’.
Pretty good stuff if garage studio music is your jam, but if you haven’t heard them yet, they may sound derivative because they did influence a lot of later stuff in that genre.
- Comment on music 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like something a cuckcel would wonder…
(Replaces headphones and settles into the chair, stares intently)
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, cops have no other marketable skills, so rage quitting has more serious consequences than for normal people with transferable skills.
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Stop them? Or drop subtle hints as to how to do it correctly and teach some basic physics at the same time?
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
Finally, someone who gets it!
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
The more you spend, the more you save!
The math has been done to death. CO2 capture requires energy input and doesn’t yield any. This is basic stuff.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 4 weeks ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 4 weeks ago:
Until fossil fuels are not a part of the energy equation, DAC is a band-aid where a tourniquet is required. Sure do research, but DAC will never work while we are burning fossil fuels for energy. It doesn’t even make economic sense.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 4 weeks ago:
It can, but it isn’t and it won’t. DAC is a scam and a distraction until fossil fuels are out of the equation. It is a false hope, a glamour, to keep us from addressing the root causes.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 4 weeks ago:
Direct air capture is a scam. It requires energy that comes from somewhere else. Capturing CO2 requires energy, it’s basic physics/chemistry.
Nothing about it makes sense excpet as an expensive boondoggle and a distraction for correcting the root causes of climate change.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 4 weeks ago:
Right. It seems analogous to regenerative braking in a gas/electric hybrid car. The momentum is turned back into electricity to reclaim potential energy. Some of the energy was already spent in RO stage and this process gets some of it back.
- Comment on What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long? 4 weeks ago:
(sigh) cool story
- Comment on What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long? 4 weeks ago:
The great flood that left no evidence behind and all large animals were rescued by a guy who built a boat? The one that also left behind no genetic evidence of such a catastrophic population bottleneck? That great flood?
- Comment on WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: you do not need permission to re-word your own texts if you realize upon re-reading it that one sounds like a snarky bitch.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 4 weeks ago:
But, but KPI’s are how we know line go up.
Checkmate, artists!
- Comment on Research shows ‘compliment sandwich’ no longer effective 4 weeks ago:
Jfc, it never was effective. Anyone who has ever taken this formula seriously is an emotional moron.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 4 weeks ago:
See my comment to OP for a recentish publication that shows the same thing all studies previously have shown. You are quite correct.