These figures are only possible because China massively over invested in production. They're all losing money hand over fist right now, and we're getting cheap overproduced EV cells because of it. I talked about my new bargain basement solar UPS in the last fff thread for an example of the fire sale deals you can get.
And even with those deals (6 cents/Wh!) my batteries for a 1 day backup were still 3x more expensive than the solar.
But this isn't sustainable long term, even assuming relations with China don't deteriorate the way everyone seems to be planning. And it's certainly not sustainable on the backs of the laughable US solar industry, which is a mix of subsidy farmers and outright scammers.
Storage might solve the daily duck curve, which is more than I expected to ever be possible, but there's no way to meet seasonal demand with batteries; in most of the US winter energy use more than doubles while solar produces 1/10th of what it does in summer, because the sun just isn't here (Europe could solve this one by colonizing the Sahara, admittedly). There's no way to make solar scale with those numbers, especially when you're trying to make that winter energy demand double or triple again with electric heating mandates.
I want to run the math on North-South and East-West HVDC transmission that all the greens handwave as a solution, but just don't have the figures to make a useful guess. But as seen in the northeast they won't let us build power lines either, so it's a moot point.
Is it possible to look at the state of Germany and think the other side of the issue is correct? It seems so simple there's no reason to discuss it, except as a distraction from the obvious example of terrible "green" energy policy.
I just don't feel the need to argue at this point. Just cut green subsidies and purchase mandates, and run cover for a NuclearX to solve the problem.
I'm not even particularly pro-nuclear, because solar-gas-hydro might very well be cheaper. I'm just fed up with green manipulation, dog piling, excuse-making, and histrionic crusading. And I'm especially sick of arguments that go "prove X to my satisfaction, haha you didn't satisfy me I win again"
Glad to know I'm politically unbiased and want to punch nrx architecture nerds in the face just as much as /r/yimby-communist ones.
I'd love to have a giant shed extension on my house instead of having to haul everything out to the workshop(s) in the rain. Even better if it's like a portcullis defending my house from the barbarians on the street. Having a two car garage was the only thing I liked about living in Texas.
Why on earth is a detached garage a good idea? Just complicates electrical service and makes the house insulation less efficient.
I really regret having so many shitty outbuildings, but it's optimal for property tax purposes. The only one I wouldn't rather be connected to the house is the wood shed.
Gooofuckyourself
7mo ago
If you get banned for extensive citations answering a direct question, I think it would just answer another question.
Gooofuckyourself
7mo ago
Good thing I looked up what a cervical pillow was, because I was going to say if a pillow for your cervix helps your neck pain you may a very bad sleeping posture.
Yep. From chapter 8: a reset is not a revolution
First, the existing government must be thoroughly lustrated. There is no point in trying to debug or reform it. There is certainly no need for individual purges, McCarthy-style, or for Fragebogen and Persilscheine à la 1945. Except for the security forces and essential technical personnel, all employees should be thanked for their service, asked to submit contact information so that they can be hired as temporary consultants if the new administration finds it necessary, and discharged with no hard feelings, an amnesty for any crimes they may have committed in government service, and a pension sufficient to retire.
The whole chapter is good. I forgot the feeling of reading the original UR posts, like a breath mint for the brain.
Gooofuckyourself
7mo ago
I hadn't thought of that one in years, thanks for reminding me!
I'm old enough to have watched women throw away many thousands of dollars of beanie babies and tens of thousands of dollars of llamas.
That reminds me, need to check if the alpaca bubble burst yet, or if the Tranch's alpacacaust was an isolated incident.
My dad lost his prescription glasses crabbing once. Next time we pulled the pot a crab had carried them inside. We gave the guy a fish head and let him go for his trouble.
Gooofuckyourself
7mo ago
I remember people used to call them fizzy drinks when/where I was a kid.
I still haven't touched the factorio expansion since the week I bought it. Partly having so many other projects, partly just... Don't feel that into going through all the scripted content.
Really? I thought the first season held up fairly well compared to the end, where the author was desperately scouring Chinese history for ways to keep the fights interesting (black holes, space tides, fuck it, armies crossing energy rivers and crashing into space walls!!!).
Given the scifi bullshit about low detection ranges and signalling, the concept of catching encircling forces on the march was pretty good. Especially because it helped introduce us to the problems of both the alliance and imperial militaries; one full of glory hounds trying to reenact past victories, and the other basically halfassing the war by using it to play internal politics.
Gooofuckyourself
7mo ago
Gunship is one of the bands bringing this back (that a music ignorant normie like me knows about). Tim Cappello's solo in Dark All Day was great.
Hi all, this is SteveK on a new account, thanks to not having my password saved except on a phone that is now enjoying a pacific ocean vacation.
Remember to back up your passwords, and always take your oldest phone boating.
If there's a password reset thing that doesn't require having done the email signup and doesn't take admin effort, please let me know and I'll go back to the old one.
Transmission is under-discussed because most people handwave it, yeah. Our electric co-op is trying to make everyone move to electric heat while already hitting the limits of the undersea cable. So they want to spend another x-million to replace that to meet the peak of winter demand, which means it will be used at 20% capacity the rest of the year.
That's an awful lot of expensive copper just sitting in the ocean not earning its keep. Greens always say "oh we'll just build more X" without ever considering the capital costs, then ban copper mining.
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