coryrc

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by coryrc 6d ago
It's 98% humidity for months, you need to worry about the whole house!
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by coryrc 9d ago
More, if it causes the organization to change course and avoid being sued into oblivion.
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by coryrc 11d ago
It certainly can't be leading to more government services. We get less every year. There might be more spending, but there's fewer results. We can't build trains, our police don't stop crime, healthcare covers less and c
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by coryrc 16d ago
Instead of getting a local locksmith, it's a "lead gen" service which charges the locksmith $100 or something to get your info. They're placed on the map, but aren't actually there. The only thing that should come u
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by coryrc 17d ago
All I can say is, I'm sorry Cassandra. Here in Washington State, a decade ago we had an initiative (I-732) to do a carbon tax and lower regressive taxes (we have one of the most-regressive tax structure in the USA). The environmental g
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by coryrc 19d ago
That's fine, but you need to include the cost of having barely-used gas peaker plants when calculating the cost of "renewables+storage". Laymen keep using arbitrary "marginal cost of solar with sun shining" to say &
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by coryrc 19d ago
Hanford was nuclear weapons, not nuclear power.
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by coryrc 19d ago
Each of those existing plants were competitive against coal at the time without having the negative externalities of widespread radiation exposure (uranium in coal just released to the atmosphere); mercury contamination in all our freshwate
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by coryrc 20d ago
Botfly. Don't cut, they dig deeper. The proper solution is a thick layer of petroleum jelly over your skin. The larva has to come up to breathe eventually (~hours). Use tweezers and grab it. Gross, but perfectly safe.
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by coryrc 1mo ago
You could design in an electric autonomous-returning JATO-like system to allow for extended distance flights. Oh, even better, you're always going to have enough propeller power to take off. Extremely high power-density batteries on a
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by coryrc 1mo ago
That's not that much higher energy density and, IIRC, low power density, so not powerful enough to be useful in an emergency.
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by coryrc 1mo ago
The jet planes are flying much higher and are loaded; I'm assuming this one was empty. That would account for the power discrepancy. Finally, I think you might be still high on the power cost. $.10/kwh is retail cost in the PNW, t
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by coryrc 1mo ago
Why do you believe that?
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by coryrc 1mo ago
No. The closest I can think is to have a solid rocket booster and that has obvious risks as well.
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by coryrc 1mo ago
Standby generation -- "spinning reserve" -- doesn't count as generated energy, because it's not. Until you're at that point you still can reduce natural gas consumption with more renewable.
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by coryrc 1mo ago
Relatedly, I made an embedded product. I built a live CD (yes this was a while ago) for my employer with the entire development environment. As long as you can find an x86 machine with CD-ROM you could build, compile, test, and program usin
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by coryrc 1mo ago
Another way to look at the social model is kids playing in neighborhoods. It's not unsafe to walk from one place to another because of lousy sidewalks or excessive leaves: it's the roads we put between any place they want to go. T
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by coryrc 2mo ago
No, because the phosphors glow for much longer than human persistence of vision.
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Long distance trucking gets heavily subsidized by all other road users. Damage is caused by the fourth power of weight, but trucking only paid 35% of maintenance while being responsible for 99% of the cost. https://truecostblog.c
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by coryrc 2mo ago
I hate having to come up with different variable names than `list` so I don't shadow the function `list`. Repeat that for a lot of common words: count, first, length, map, max, min, search, string; that you would then actually consider
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by coryrc 2mo ago
That's a stupid point to be trying to make and irrelevant.
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Building interconnects costs money. What's the ROI on building more? Positive ROI becomes present if Texas has large amounts of nondispatchable power and the neighboring areas do not have the same. So if Texas builds more wind and sola
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by coryrc 2mo ago
GGP didn't say ERCOT, they said "Texas". Which further demonstrates how ignorant it is to say there are "no major connections".
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Every place I'm familiar with has demand charges on large-scale users that is supposed to pay for that equipment. The real problem is boomers have stopped allowing things to be built efficiently, so supply is limited, had been limited
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Texas is the second-biggest state. Where are they going to make major connections to -- the Great Prairie? There's a whole New Mexico-worth of sparse population between Dallas/Austin/San Antonio before you get to New Mexico i
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by coryrc 2mo ago
You're looking for "deep adaptation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation
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by coryrc 2mo ago
> because there is no realistic path for nuclear reactors to compete with PV+batteries It's not that in Northern climates, it's PV+batteries+Natural Gas turbines, because PV doesn't supply enough power for winter heating.
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Have you considered electric heaters to run for a few hours just if temperatures are consistently low for multiple consecutive days?
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by coryrc 2mo ago
I was thinking the same thing 10 years ago, but people are still buying houses, the stock market keeps going up. It doesn't make sense. But I lost a lot of money not being more heavily invested and buying a house I could easily afford.
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by coryrc 2mo ago
> In 2013 you couldn't say that prices have nearly doubled since 2013 under ZIRP, which is the argument that buying now would be buying high. But in 2013 you could say they've nearly doubled since 1998 under ZIRP, and then ever

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