VintageCool

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by VintageCool 24d ago
I think that's because we've made it politically difficult to build transmission. In the United States, you have to get approval from every jurisdiction and landowner along the route, so valuable transmission lines are politically
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by VintageCool 3mo ago
The Grain Belt Express has been in limbo for 15 years now, despite backing from Invenergy. It has recently taken hits from President Trump, Senator Hawley, and Missouri's AG. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/07/
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by VintageCool 6mo ago
The tax on fuel has not been able to keep up with expenditures for the Highway Trust Fund for two decades; now a third of the money comes from the General Fund. https://t4america.org/2025/05/22/the-highway-tru
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by VintageCool 6mo ago
It says in the linked article that they only have support for 9 cities so far, and they list them as: Spokane, WA Syracuse, NY South Bend, IN Bellingham, WA Morgantown, WV Cincinnati, OH St Paul, MN Rochester, NY New York City, NY It also s
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by VintageCool 11mo ago
Nooo... we have a bunch of metrics and logs reporting systems at my company. Some of them are in UTC, some of them display my local time, some of them display China Time, and I'm trying to collaborate with colleagues in London and Aust
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by VintageCool 1y ago
Zephyr Teachout wrote an early article critiquing Abundance , the book by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein. She appeared on Ezra's podcast and (IMHO) did not appear to have thought very deeply about the problem of housing affordability;
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by VintageCool 1y ago
I remember in 2015 watching this great tsunami video at a harbor. It was about 11 minutes long. At the start, there's just a white line at the horizon. Then the fishing boats in the harbor start rocking and jangling. Then water starts
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by VintageCool 1y ago
If China is manufacturing solar panels for us, that doesn't give them control of our energy supply. It's not like being dependent on Saudi Arabia to supply oil. If China cuts us off from new solar panels, the solar panels we alrea
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by VintageCool 2y ago
And Pfizer is an investor in his company.
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by VintageCool 3y ago
https://indyweek.com/news/opinions/op-ed-the-purpose-of-zoni... https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/06/17/... Some of the housing regulations were legiti
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by VintageCool 3y ago
The energy efficiency initiatives of the 1970s significantly reduced the energy cost of economic activity. (Ironically, this helped kill nuclear, by undercutting the expected increase in demand that utilities built all those nuclear power p
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by VintageCool 3y ago
Okay, sure, if you look at geologic timescales then eventually Africa will move and the region of northern Africa will cease to be desert. Within a human timescale, I think "never" is an acceptable term. Atmospheric circulation me
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by VintageCool 3y ago
The goal is to eliminate trash in the environment. Thin plastic bags get discarded carelessly, then catch in the wind and get strewn around a wide area. Plastic bag bans have been sufficiently successful that people have forgotten this was
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by VintageCool 3y ago
The cost of solar dropped by 90% between 2010 and 2020, and the cost of panels fell by 14% last year. Batteries were just straight up not a thing until 2019: California's grid-scale battery storage capacity has been doubling every year
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by VintageCool 3y ago
Based on the past 30 years, I think the safe assumption is that there will not be much nuclear built in the US+Europe in the next 15 years.
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by VintageCool 3y ago
If China stops selling us solar panels, the ones we already have will keep producing power and we'll be just fine. I feel like you're making an analogy here to 1973 when Saudi Arabia cut off the supply of oil or 2022 when Russia c
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by VintageCool 3y ago
Quite right old chap! Surely no reasonable consumer would interpret terms like "Autopilot" or "Full Self Driving" to mean that the car autonomously drives itself!
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by VintageCool 3y ago
I love to bike around the city and listen to the frogs in the Stormwater Ponds.
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by VintageCool 3y ago
It has become popular to refer to it as "fossil gas".
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by VintageCool 3y ago
The article referenced mentions of goitre in Switzerland from Victor Hugo in 1839, Mark Twain in 1880, a medical survey in 1883, and Roman authors like Vitrivius and Pliny the Elder. It also mentioned that the iodine idea had been going aro
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by VintageCool 3y ago
There is no excuse to be using MyISAM instead of InnoDB in 2023. It was a scarcely forgivable mistake in 2013. The read performance advantages of MyISAM are solved better by using SSDs instead of HDDs. MyISAM will cost you dearly when perfo
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by VintageCool 3y ago
24/7 companionship, with owners that don't leave all day for work...
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by VintageCool 3y ago
Construction of the lithium mine at Thacker Pass began in June, and it is expected to start producing lithium by 2026. There is a (super nutty ) environmentalist group and some Native Americans protesting and trying to delay the mine, but i
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by VintageCool 3y ago
The Texas grid has been buckling because of extreme weather events and rapidly increasing load. Texas broke electricity demand records 11 times last summer [2022] and 9 times this summer. The rapid deployment of renewables and grid-scale ba
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by VintageCool 3y ago
There is a wind farm by the highway east of Seattle. I enjoy looking at them when I drive through that area. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Horse_Wind_Farm
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by VintageCool 3y ago
A cobalt mine recently opened in Idaho, but apparently is idle because cobalt from Nigeria is priced too low for the Idaho mine to be competitive. https://www.eenews.net/articles/biden-is-scrambling-for-mine...
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by VintageCool 3y ago
Donate to aspiring Democrats running for state legislatures in blues states with red State Legislatures or split governments. > Back in 2019, [David Roberts] wrote for Vox that there is one weird trick states can use to ensure good clima
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by VintageCool 3y ago
Those calls threaten their Mandarin-speaking target that US Immigration services are going to kick them out of the country. But the scammers (who might be dressed up as immigration lawyers) will take care of the problem in exchange for a bu
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by VintageCool 3y ago
I have been upset with the NY Times for years because of their uncritical addiction to access journalism. * They held into the Abu Ghraib story for a year to avoid influencing the 2004 election. * They dismissed and discredited the story ab
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by VintageCool 3y ago
The article really really wants to put a positive spin on Richard III, but in Dictator's Handbook terms he clearly failed at building an effective coalition to rule England. The people whose opinions counted in 1485 mostly did not want

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