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None of the miracle answers can scale
That's been my argument. If or when they can you won't need the government or Greta to force you to use it
At least the EV crowd gave Elon the money to buy twitter -
They're hyping up all of their 'solutions' and 'breakthroughs' for the clicks. The sad fact is that as of now, you need a steady source of energy (most likely natural gas) to fire up these so-called miracle technologies. Nothing wrong with working on them, of course. But we are far away from relying on them. And wind and solar work in only certain places.WestlinnDuck said:
Gets a lot of MSM publicity for something that is at best decades away from production. On Fox 12 this morning they had some moron tell us that fusion could now be a decade away from utility scale electrical production. Geezus. My feeling is that the greens are going to us this to not build fission nuke reactors because we just need to wait a little longer for a fusion reactor.hardhat said:
https://instapundit.com/558543/#respond
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I'm not sure that large utility scale wind and solar pencil out anywhere. If there were no government credits and no state mandates for using wind and solar, then we wouldn't need to be concerned about whether they work in certain places. A lot of those prospective "certain places" are in the middle of nowhere. Then you need to factor in super expensive new transmission to get the power from certain places to population centers.hardhat said:
They're hyping up all of their 'solutions' and 'breakthroughs' for the clicks. The sad fact is that as of now, you need a steady source of energy (most likely natural gas) to fire up these so-called miracle technologies. Nothing wrong with working on them, of course. But we are far away from relying on them. And wind and solar work in only certain places.WestlinnDuck said:
Gets a lot of MSM publicity for something that is at best decades away from production. On Fox 12 this morning they had some moron tell us that fusion could now be a decade away from utility scale electrical production. Geezus. My feeling is that the greens are going to us this to not build fission nuke reactors because we just need to wait a little longer for a fusion reactor.hardhat said:
https://instapundit.com/558543/#respond
In certain places, small solar pencils. Like a microwave or cell tower on a high mountain or hill with no electrical. Running an electric circuit up the side of the mountain is expensive. Solar panels and a battery then makes sense. -
Pattern Energy has some wind projects near the continental divide that are paying off. It's just not something that is going to work everywhere, just like solar, just like geothermal energy, just like hydro. But the main point is that wind and solar are intermittent and dependent on the weather and geography.WestlinnDuck said:
I'm not sure that large utility scale wind and solar pencil out anywhere. If there were no government credits and no state mandates for using wind and solar, then we wouldn't need to be concerned about whether they work in certain places. A lot of those prospective "certain places" are in the middle of nowhere. Then you need to factor in super expensive new transmission to get the power from certain places to population centers.hardhat said:
They're hyping up all of their 'solutions' and 'breakthroughs' for the clicks. The sad fact is that as of now, you need a steady source of energy (most likely natural gas) to fire up these so-called miracle technologies. Nothing wrong with working on them, of course. But we are far away from relying on them. And wind and solar work in only certain places.WestlinnDuck said:
Gets a lot of MSM publicity for something that is at best decades away from production. On Fox 12 this morning they had some moron tell us that fusion could now be a decade away from utility scale electrical production. Geezus. My feeling is that the greens are going to us this to not build fission nuke reactors because we just need to wait a little longer for a fusion reactor.hardhat said:
https://instapundit.com/558543/#respond
In certain places, small solar pencils. Like a microwave or cell tower on a high mountain or hill with no electrical. Running an electric circuit up the side of the mountain is expensive. Solar panels and a battery then makes sense. -
I'm comfortable in my hypocrisy in government cash being dumped on fusion research. I think it will work, sometim, and the dividends will be yuge.RaceBannon said:None of the miracle answers can scale
That's been my argument. If or when they can you won't need the government or Greta to force you to use it
At least the EV crowd gave Elon the money to buy twitter
While I don't see it as much anymore, a libertarian argument against conventional nuclear (how's that for a contradiction in terms) power was the massive subsidies required. Part of that is baked in by the gubment regulatory process, but there's a lot of truth to it. However, pragmatically speaking, I think some degree of government involved in power generation is given, sadly, so I'd rather it be directed to shit that actually works. -
Define "paying off". I'll bet "paying off" includes the massive wind energy credit and a required purchase by a utility under a state energy mandate that artificially increases the price of the produced energy. With hundreds of billions of dollars in energy credits and purchase mandates, lots of people are being paid off, from millionaire Iowa corn farmers, Archer Daniel Midlands, turbine and solar manufacturers (both domestic and chinese) construction firms et al. Who isn't being paid off are taxpayers and electricity customers. The renewable industry is the very definition of crony capitalism. Definitely paying off for Warren Buffet.hardhat said:
Pattern Energy has some wind projects near the continental divide that are paying off. It's just not something that is going to work everywhere, just like solar, just like geothermal energy, just like hydro. But the main point is that wind and solar are intermittent and dependent on the weather and geography.WestlinnDuck said:
I'm not sure that large utility scale wind and solar pencil out anywhere. If there were no government credits and no state mandates for using wind and solar, then we wouldn't need to be concerned about whether they work in certain places. A lot of those prospective "certain places" are in the middle of nowhere. Then you need to factor in super expensive new transmission to get the power from certain places to population centers.hardhat said:
They're hyping up all of their 'solutions' and 'breakthroughs' for the clicks. The sad fact is that as of now, you need a steady source of energy (most likely natural gas) to fire up these so-called miracle technologies. Nothing wrong with working on them, of course. But we are far away from relying on them. And wind and solar work in only certain places.WestlinnDuck said:
Gets a lot of MSM publicity for something that is at best decades away from production. On Fox 12 this morning they had some moron tell us that fusion could now be a decade away from utility scale electrical production. Geezus. My feeling is that the greens are going to us this to not build fission nuke reactors because we just need to wait a little longer for a fusion reactor.hardhat said:
https://instapundit.com/558543/#respond
In certain places, small solar pencils. Like a microwave or cell tower on a high mountain or hill with no electrical. Running an electric circuit up the side of the mountain is expensive. Solar panels and a battery then makes sense.
From the Berkshire Hathaway 10-K for 2021. $1.9 billion in US energy tax credits.
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If fusion works the government should get paid back because its the trillion dollar unicornGrundleStiltzkin said:
I'm comfortable in my hypocrisy in government cash being dumped on fusion research. I think it will work, sometim, and the dividends will be yuge.RaceBannon said:None of the miracle answers can scale
That's been my argument. If or when they can you won't need the government or Greta to force you to use it
At least the EV crowd gave Elon the money to buy twitter
While I don't see it as much anymore, a libertarian argument against conventional nuclear (how's that for a contradiction in terms) power was the massive subsidies required. Part of that is baked in by the gubment regulatory process, but there's a lot of truth to it. However, pragmatically speaking, I think some degree of government involved in power generation is given, sadly, so I'd rather it be directed to shit that actually works.
OTOH if it works and you can power your home for hundreds of years on a cup full of hydrogen where's the pay off?
Nuclear power in the 70s like WPPS was a massive boondoggle. But the greens will always insist that it be so because they want the oversight
I'm not against fed funding of fusion. I'm against stupid deadlines on gas cars and the destruction of current working energy teach like carbon -
@WestlinnDuck I can send you a PM later. From what I have heard they have contracts with manufacturers, not sure if it's all just based on government subsidies. I can find out more.WestlinnDuck said:
Define "paying off". I'll bet "paying off" includes the massive wind energy credit and a required purchase by a utility under a state energy mandate that artificially increases the price of the produced energy. With hundreds of billions of dollars in energy credits and purchase mandates, lots of people are being paid off, from millionaire Iowa corn farmers, Archer Daniel Midlands, turbine and solar manufacturers (both domestic and chinese) construction firms et al. Who isn't being paid off are taxpayers and electricity customers. The renewable industry is the very definition of crony capitalism. Definitely paying off for Warren Buffet.hardhat said:
Pattern Energy has some wind projects near the continental divide that are paying off. It's just not something that is going to work everywhere, just like solar, just like geothermal energy, just like hydro. But the main point is that wind and solar are intermittent and dependent on the weather and geography.WestlinnDuck said:
I'm not sure that large utility scale wind and solar pencil out anywhere. If there were no government credits and no state mandates for using wind and solar, then we wouldn't need to be concerned about whether they work in certain places. A lot of those prospective "certain places" are in the middle of nowhere. Then you need to factor in super expensive new transmission to get the power from certain places to population centers.hardhat said:
They're hyping up all of their 'solutions' and 'breakthroughs' for the clicks. The sad fact is that as of now, you need a steady source of energy (most likely natural gas) to fire up these so-called miracle technologies. Nothing wrong with working on them, of course. But we are far away from relying on them. And wind and solar work in only certain places.WestlinnDuck said:
Gets a lot of MSM publicity for something that is at best decades away from production. On Fox 12 this morning they had some moron tell us that fusion could now be a decade away from utility scale electrical production. Geezus. My feeling is that the greens are going to us this to not build fission nuke reactors because we just need to wait a little longer for a fusion reactor.hardhat said:
https://instapundit.com/558543/#respond
In certain places, small solar pencils. Like a microwave or cell tower on a high mountain or hill with no electrical. Running an electric circuit up the side of the mountain is expensive. Solar panels and a battery then makes sense.
From the Berkshire Hathaway 10-K for 2021. $1.9 billion in US energy tax credits. -
Lot's of shootings and deaths and a fatal stabbing in the Portland Metro area. This is how you take care of the problem FAFO indeed.
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'anne frank had white privilege' is a GOOD 11 seed.
edit: absolute bangers in here:
i am not calling for a genocide BUT.... -
I did hear that downvoting brings about change tho -
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Is Democracy dying in darkness now??huskyhooligan said: -
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/zlmyv7/sus/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
This woman is incapable of doing her job. Watching her stumble through responses while frantically sorting through her prepared talking points is so embarrassing. -
I love seeing reality crush woke delusionhuskyhooligan said: -
Babies. Whiney little babies.huskyhooligan said:
For the first time in their lives, they're going to have to compete in the marketplace.
Many "careers" in that room are officially toast in a matter of weeks. -
Scratch a leftist, find a fascist. The power of pardon/commutation was the promotion of justice under the law on a individual nation. But if a dem governor has strong feelings that a law is wrong, they should go to the legislature and have it changed. But why bother, just change the law by royal decree. So Kate Brown has strong feelz about justice. Other Oregonians have their own strong feelz about justice, but Brown doesn't care about how a victim's family feel, phuck them. “I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” the governor said Tuesday.
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I honestly don't disagree with a single word.hardhat said:
I did hear that downvoting brings about change tho -
They all voted for and probably donated to Biden. Fuck all of them. Not one of them gave a shit when he canceled Keystone XL day one costing 1000’s of jobs.huskyhooligan said:
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Actually, I think they did give a shit. They probably cheered the saving of Gaia while planning their winter vacation to the Bahamas. Just ask a virtue signaler if they care. Just as long as someone else sacrifices. Karma is a bitch.46XiJCAB said:
They all voted for and probably donated to Biden. Fuck all of them. Not one of them gave a shit when he canceled Keystone XL day one costing 1000’s of jobs.huskyhooligan said:
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Some more Karma as employment in university apartments is crashing. After History became an indictment of white people and particularly American white people (especially males) who could have seen this coming as a History degree today means you are actually negatively educated and have no employment skills.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/the-suicide-of-academic-history.php
THE SUICIDE OF ACADEMIC HISTORY
I’ve written at some length about the suicide of academic history (which I’m going to expand and turn into a longer journal article eventually), but for now take in the latest grim statistics from the latest issue of the Middle West Review, where editor-in-chief John Lauck fills in some of the numbers in “The Ongoing History Crisis“:
Around the Midwest, the news from history departments is grim, even at larger institutions. Iowa State University’s history department has been told by the ISU administration that its faculty needs to shrink from 20 to 8. The ISU doctoral program in rural history, a key contributor to Midwestern studies, is also being shuttered. The University of Iowa’s full time history faculty has declined from 26 to 16 in about ten years. University of Missouri: 30 down to 21 (over the past decade); University of Kansas: 35 down to 24 (since 2017); The Ohio State University (system): 79 down to 62 (since 2008); University of Minnesota: 46 down to 40 (in ten years); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 46 down to 36 (since 2012); University ofIllinois Chicago: 32 down to 20 (from 2005–2020). Smaller universities are also seeing the loss of history faculty: Emporia State University: 7 down to 4 (over a decade); University of North Dakota: 10 down to 5 (in five years); Grand Valley State University: 31 down to 27 (in ten years); University of South Dakota: 10 down to 7 (in five years); South Dakota State University: 7 down to 4 (in five years); University of Nebraska-Omaha: 15 down to 11 (in ten years); St. Cloud State University: 10 down to 6 (in 6 years); St. Olaf College: 12 down to 7 (in ten years); Central Michigan University: 22 down to 15 (in seven years); Miami University of Ohio: 29 down to 22 (since 2015); Ohio University: 31 down to 25 (since 2017); University of Cincinnati: 30 down to 21 (in ten years); Kent State University: 15 down to 12 (since 2008); University of Missouri-Kansas City: 17 down to 8 (in 6 years); Minnesota State University, Mankato: 11 down to 9 (since 2010); University of Missouri-St. Louis: 14 down to 8 (since 2016); Truman State University: 15 down to 4 (since 2013); Indiana State University: 16 down to 13 (since 2015); Marquette University: 21 down to 16 (since 2017); University of Toledo: 12 down to 5 (in a decade). The cuts extend beyond faculty. Central Michigan University lost the Michigan Historical Review, a journal it oversaw for decades. Truman State lost Truman State University Press, which closed in 2021. Emporia State lost its Center for Great Plains Studies. The journal Studies in Midwestern History at Grand Valley State fizzled out. Long-running collaborative history conferences such as the Missouri Valley History Conference and the Mid-America Conference on History have also been terminated.
Most of the veteran historians who have been cut or downsized are not finding jobs at other institutions because there are none, as newly-minted historians know very well. Between 2019 and 2020 1,799 historians earned their PhDs and only 175 of them are now employed as full-time faculty members. In recent years the number of job listings in history has dropped to the lowest number since the American Historical Association started keeping records.
Why is this happening? Lauck dares to hint at the reasons:
Despite all the bad news from the academic world of history, the public support for studying history, it seems, is still strong. Many Americans want their children to know history and to use it to inform and energize civic life. They do not want history twisted for ideological ends, but instead tapped as a source of knowledge and a method of thinking through evidence and reaching balanced conclusions. This public support should be leveraged to stop the collapse of the profession of history and to rebuild it as a vibrant field. [Emphasis added.] -
Circle Back has become Look I'm a poodle and I've been taught tricks. Look everything I say starts with Look.thechatch said:https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/zlmyv7/sus/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
This woman is incapable of doing her job. Watching her stumble through responses while frantically sorting through her prepared talking points is so embarrassing. -
So it is a mental illness
https://newsmax.com/us/missouri-execution-mclaughlin/2022/12/15/id/1100595/
The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is asking Missouri's governor for mercy, citing mental health issues.
Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, now 49, on Monday asked Republican Gov. Mike Parson to spare her.
McLaughlin was convicted of killing 45-year-old Beverly Guenther on Nov. 20, 2003. Guenther was raped and stabbed to death in St. Louis County.
There is no known case of an openly transgender inmate being executed in the U.S. before, according to the anti-execution Death Penalty Information Center.
“It's wrong when anyone's executed regardless, but I hope that this is a first that doesn't occur," federal public defender Larry Komp said. "Amber has shown great courage in embracing who she is as a transgender woman in spite of the potential for people reacting with hate, so I admire her display of courage.”
McLaughlin's lawyers cited her traumatic childhood and mental health issues, which the jury never heard, in the clemency petition. A foster parent rubbed feces in her face when she was a toddler and her adoptive father tased her, according to the letter to Parson. She tried to kill herself multiple times, both as a child and as an adult.
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