Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
That's actually really cool. I always figured it'd be cheaper to have networked sensors everywhere, but maybe a pipe-climbing trouble-checking robot would be more cost effective in some situations
He's assuming batteries at 10c/Wh, which is... Remarkably optimistic because the support infrastructure (chargers, wiring, BMS, disconnects, inverters, housing, etc.) is going to quadruple it after all's said and done. You need a climate controlled environment for batteries with costs closer to a data center than a warehouse: lots of power electronics active during the day means a lot of cooling, especially in the desert!
I've gotten cells and a BMS alone for 8c/W, but only due to a pricing error.
Lots of very naive napkin math from someone who needs to get a few micro solar projects under his belt before planning macrogigamega-projects.
You don't even need to keep desal running 24/7, it's not that capital intensive. Although he hasn't covered pumping costs either, which is tremendous when you're going both ways (and pumping brine all the way back to the ocean apparently? Why not just do the desal on the coast? It's a hell of a lot easier to ship electricity than water.)
All in all storm water recovery and more reservoirs is going to be a hell of a lot cheaper.
TL;Dr I think this guy might be retarded
Desal has gotten both more energy efficient and more capital-intensive. So if you want the advantages of the new tech it's no longer a simple dump load you can afford to only run 3 hours a day in summer.
That's the problem with a lot of suggested uses for excess solar and (especially) wind power, really.
If you used the cheaper kinds of thermal desal, it's possible you could run it on solar-electric during the day and waste heat from gas turbines during the evening. Dilutes the capital costs of a plant that would otherwise spend a lot of time sitting idle. Makes use of the idle gas plant's electrical infrastructure during low demand hours too, nice bonus.
Thermal's out of favor, but RO has a lower efficiency advantage for treating seawater, which is like 5-10x worse than the worst brackish groundwater. Gets to the point where you may as well just evap the stuff.
If you had plenty of nuclear or coal in the mix you could use the cheap nighttime power to run it too. And if you get the utilization up that much you could afford a proper modern membrane system running 24/7
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
You're going to have to link me those robot dogs being used for anything practical. I haven't seen any use for them other than toys yet. What could they do that a cartbot couldn't do better?
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Isn't that exactly what the federalists did with the sedition act, like the second they got hold of power?
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
What's the application? Augmented reality overlay
Edit: ah, just saw your other post. That's really neat. I'm still looking for low profile glasses with a decent HUD, maybe those are worth a try?
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
In modern times we just spray the whole thing with roundup and trust that monsanto will know his own.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
What part of "I'm here to harvest downvotes lmao" isn't trolling? It's the literal fucking definition of it.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Letting obvious trolling go on this long is a bad look, but the mods are such easy marks for it.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
I spent some time reading up on it, and I had no idea Ireland had been so successful at that! Thanks
Overtime pay tax cut could be anywhere from .25 trillion to 3 trillion? Sounds like they just wanted to throw a few extra trillion in there.
I'm upset he wants to expand salt deductions though. Reducing those last time was a huge coup. Guess tech bending the knee means he needs to give something back.
I've always thought reciprocal carbon taxes on imports would be an amazing scissor-wrench to throw in the works.
Get the free traders arguing with the greens about why you can import silicon made with coal in China at 0% tax, but silicon made with coal in the US gets taxed and regulated to death.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
I mean, do you not count tariffs as taxes? If you eliminate the 25% tax on the profits of China-to-Amazon Inc, but instead charge them 25% on everything they bring from china, are you cutting taxes? Or just shifting the tax burden?
Holy crap thank you. I'd never heard of any of these people, but it's the perfect example of what I was trying to say about the intersecting communities of pop-feminism and weird fetish shit that hides under X layers of irony, where X= ("ick factor"^"peer pressure"/"how jealous all my friends would be")
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
No, she's right, it's the unfortunate wide but shallow forehead to chin ratio and hairline. He looks a lot better in hats
Of course 90% of the people photographing him are deliberately choosing the worst possible photo, but still.
I've watched all the people who talked about being principled free speech defenders realize they have higher principles they answer to (not getting canceled, keeping BPD side-chick #3's antifa BF from causing drama, losing a job or medical license, etc.)
You've talked about the same thing. I just think that nobody actually has free speech as their highest value, and free speech is unique in that any higher-priority value will eventually come into conflict with it.
It doesn't matter how dispassionate a moderator you are, there's something that you care more about. Eventually the neoclassical-mime vs retropostmodern-mime war will come to your comments section, and you'll prioritize shoving those lazy formulaic neoclassic hacks into an invisible locker over your commitment to rational argument.
Some people are just more honest with themselves about it, give up caring about "freeze peach" entirely, and use their lack of cognitive dissonance to cunningly exploit the Principled Defenders: "don't you at least care about basic human decency?" "if you don't punch Nazis whenever we tell you to, nobody else will come to your Nazi bar and you'll have less free speech overall!"
You've seen it all before, I know.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
I think it's very likely the chicago political machine that got Obama elected was shopping the seat around, and they needed to pin the whole thing on a guy with the least connection possible to him.
The whole concept was a transparent ploy to build an unprincipled exception.
"We're so committed to free speech, but there's these yucky witches taking advantage of how nice us quokkas are. Boy if only there was a firm leader who could purge the witches in a reign of terror. BTW everyone who isn't a bay area leftist is now defined as a witch"
It was just a disgusting mix of self-flattery, catty backbiting, and rationalization. And Ben Garrison, 4bpp, Chrisprattalpharaptr, netstack, and amadan are doing it all over again here.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
What a joke
Something nobody's mentioned yet: it's not just feminist men, it's men who are part of the "new age liberatory open relationships and bsdm because all old-fashioned sexual ethics are tools of the patriarchy" feminism that's popular in scenes like new atheism, lit shit, the film industry, etc.
You don't see e.g. Dworkin's husband getting accused of rape, because radical feminism doesn't provide the environment for weird sex shit. (At least involving men. They have their own issue with "womyn cannot rape or be violent, so telling anyone your lesbian partner beats you with a chair leg would be Letting Down The Systerhood")
But yes, as I've said before, 90% of it is the cycle of "high status men in feminist scenes have an endless supply of women who will happily do weird fetish shit" -> "retroactively regret it once the man goes from young and high status to old and merely rich" -> "reinterpret all old memories with the help of a therapist to match her current ick" -> "receive infinite praise and attention"
That's why none of these accusations are ever about something that happened last night, and there's always some string of enthusiastic text messages that are totally at odds with the way the accuser currently remembers things.
Edit: the situation Rincer talks about here is like the archetype for what I mean.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
That's the one. Of course it dropped out of the news quickly
Yeah, that's explicitly post-feudal Tudor/Bourbon-style absolutism.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Just an aside, how can people have a million in liquid assets and an income of half a million? A 0% savings rate?
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
So is that why Ireland's policies just turned it into an offshore tax haven rather than attracted foreign businesses?
My god the gen 5 designs look awful, and they're even worse in the Steven universe Tumblr style they used for the 2d versions. The ride ending was a mercy.
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