gestures broadly

I mean, open is in their name. They shouldn’t have dressed like that. They were asking for it.

His Seagal stuff is pretty funny, but the rampant misogyny he mixes in is incredibly outputting.

“in 2003 in the United States, Wrigley’s replaced some of the sugar with aspartame and Ace K, both artificial sweeteners.”

Now all gum is shit.

This is a shitty Texas-based company cutting corners, who also had fires in 2021 and 2022. There are plenty of battery storage facilities operating safely.

What if you’re on fire?

I’ve got silksong (ha) and uhh… Umm…

They get revenue from the pre roll ad while you read the summary. Then they don’t have to pay the creator when you click away before watching.

Unfortunately it’s true, whether you like it or not. The amount of times one random radical asshat saying something outrageous turns into a major outlet “people-are-saying” news article is infuriating.

kW is a unit of instantaneous power; kW/s makes no sense. Note how multiplying that by seconds would cancel time out and return you power again instead of energy. You got there in the end, though.

And she has been doing a lot more of this click baity “science bad” shit because they get 10x the views of her actual science content.

In many regions solar capacity factor is much higher than 20%; for example, the entire US. https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2021/utility-scale_pv

Ok let’s compare real data then. Vogtle 3&4 are the latest nuclear plants to be completed in the US. They cost over 30 billion dollars for a capacity of 2.106GW. That’s >14.2 dollars/watt. Let’s be generous and assume nuclear has a 100% capacity factor (it doesn’t).

I can’t find real numbers for Moss Landing specifically, but NREL has data on BESS costs up to 10 hr storage at $4.2/watt. Let’s ignore that no grid in the country actually needs 10hr storage yet.

Utility scale solar has well known costs of ~1 dollar/watt. Let’s assume a capacity factor of 25%, so for equivalent total energy generation we are looking at $4.

$4 for solar, $4.2 for BESS, and since you’ll complain about not having 24hr baseline let’s add another equivalent 10hr storage system at $4.2. that’s a total of $12.4, compared to Vogtle’s $14.2.

Add in that the solar plus BESS would be built in 1-2 years, while Vogtle took well over a decade.

Also consider that BESS systems have additional value in providing peaking ability and frequency regulation, among other benefits.

Also consider that PV and batteries have always gotten cheaper over time, while nuclear has always gotten more expensive.

Funny how solar, wind, and batteries are way cheaper and faster to build yet people are still talking about nuclear.

I’m kind of a fan of government doing the right thing regardless of the (high) chance of someone else coming in and shitting all over it.

Of course most don’t actually even believe it, that’s just the pitch to get that VC juice. It’s basically fraud all the way down.

Yet still VASTLY cheaper than Grainger.

Solar panels are incredibly thin and light. There is no reason not to include them.

They still sell physical copies of games? TIL

Ahh Reggie, I hear yer quite the man aboot toon