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by baseline-shift 2y ago
That article from 2016 is not about the CSP project in Nevada (Crescent Dunes) but the one across the border in California (Ivanpah) that had the bird kills because it had no thermal energy storage and thus had to keep heliostats focused ne
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by baseline-shift 2y ago
Lying down is best. Comfy, relaxing, best for brain
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by baseline-shift 2y ago
600 BC is hardly 'before (sic) prehistoric times'
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by baseline-shift 2y ago
It is rather ridiculous to fret about the very minor emissions of manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels compared to sticking with fossil fueled energy sources! We don't see similarly breathless studies of the carbon emissions of
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by baseline-shift 2y ago
if there were pylons already going to where the solar and wind farms are built then yes, this 'rarely used technique' of adding larger capacity wires to existing pylons would be the obvious answer, but the problem is these uninhab
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by baseline-shift 2y ago
The earliest vaccines injected at tiny amount of the disease, from smallpox on. So she probably expected to feel like shit, and that's why she felt like shit. However the covid vaccines did not have any covid in them. So there is no wa
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by baseline-shift 2y ago
Good that Australia is not the only country in the world, indeed. In the US, there was a measurable change in death rates once Blue states (Democrats) got vaccinated by May of 2021. Red states, led by Trumpism, where right wing media trumpe
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by baseline-shift 2y ago
This is incorrect. It is not for a few minutes! We are way way past that at this point. The renewable generation meeting the total demand is over most of the day. Because of solar PV, the cheapest generation now, the daytime electricity sup
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
People can only comfortably read a maximum of 17 words per line. Best is 12. That text should be in two columns.
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
We are headed for 20 MW now, so a wind farm with five 20 MW turbines is a typical size for many gas power plants; 100 MW. In the EU, there's testing facilities that are checking these at this 20 MW size now. Commercially at this point
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
It really doesn't seem like it could pencil out, as it carries only one blade at a time, that's three trips for each turbine - and most windfarms would have more than one. But I guess they think it does. Perhaps they can also deli
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
The energy use is the issue because fossil fuels supply the heat for the thermochemistry (like with most industrial processes). But direct solar heat could be used instead - this heat is supplied by concentrated solar thermal in a novel pro
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
Re 'Why these crap journals even exist is a mystery to me.' Don't journals make money by charging academics to read the whole paper?
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
His use of "he" or "his" research was a bit dated looking... More natural to say "they" presented a paper and "their" paper didn't pass muster or whatever
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
Yes, there's lots of houses in suburbs with empty bedrooms. If there was an incentive for boomers to rent rooms in their houses like in the 1920s. But that is risky for the boomers. How about to reduce risk, but reward lucky ownwes, a
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
The Ports of Los Angeles require decarbonization, and so this is not required to go great distance, but rather to spend a day moving containers around at the port.
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
Distance isn't the only issue. Nobody needs that kind of power in a truck to get around in. But short haul and heavy duty like in a mine, this would be very handy.
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
I can see EV for next-gen mining equipment, the sort of behemoth that the wheels alone dwarf a man standing next to one - and still needded for mining new climate tech energy likel lithium, copper, silicon - but jeez, just some truck?
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
California runs on 100% renewables for 4.8 months each year in a sense too. It has 40% renewables last time I checked I think in 2019. If you assign that to what percent of the annual use, that is the equivalent of everything from Jan 1st-A
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
Cottage industries from at least the time of Queen Elizabeth did have women working though. It was just that there were no factories until the industrial revolution, so that industrial activity remained in the home "the cottage",
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
it's horrible, that's why. [New Zealander, raised on mutton]
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
Good news for a change. Government is supposed to protect us from business.
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
tell it. It remembers for a bit.
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
what will happen when they only have each other to mine for data?
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
No! At least they can't have any effect on today's situation. The high inflation (it is coming down - it was 8%% - its down to 4%) was caused by worker shortages after the pandemic. Fewer able-bodied workers after covid commanded
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
they are completely different... so why? Google.
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
That article was 15 years ago, back in 2008. If it was a better alternative, we'd have seen it by now.
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
What I find compelling about this new evidence is that what they see flying is a small sphere doing impossible things. Can a sphere fly and hold its geolocation position perfectly in a hurricane as these reports cite? How would you explain
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
Mylar balloons drift about. They quickly blow away in hurricane force winds Look at the videos linked. These were perfectly stationary in hurricane force winds, and shot away to one side at the speed of sound.
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by baseline-shift 3y ago
Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill does cover parish records of births and deaths (mortality tables) in England at that time, so they must have been recording this prior to the big one

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