CrimeDad @ CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

Father; husband; mechanical engineer. Posting from my self-hosted Lemmy ins

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If we build out our GHG-free power capacity beyond our electricity demand, efficiency isn't an issue. We need fresh water. We need hydrogen and oxygen. I'm sure there are other convenient things to produce whenever electricity demand falls off. These energy storage and reselling schemes are just destroying value.

Well, I don't know how we're supposed to fix the climate while playing nice with bourgeois interests.

There’s also avoiding (or minimizing) the need for storage at all, with “demand shaping”. Basically, we radically overbuild solar, wind, wave, tidal, etc. Normally, that would tank energy prices and be unprofitable, but we also build out some massive, flexible demand to buy this excess power. Because they are extremely overbuilt, the minimal output from these sources during suboptimal conditions is more than enough to meet normal demands; we just shut off the flexible additional demand we added.

Bingo.

There's no IRL data for the specific model I've described, but I'm not sure what you mean by "feelings based". Using otherwise excess energy instead of storing it is a considered, rational strategy.

None. Use demand shaping instead. I like electrolysis of water, but desalination might make more sense in some regions. I suppose you could even redirect excess electricity to certain computational work.

I don't think we should be storing and reselling electricity at all.

We need an authoritarian figure to nationalize the energy supply, shut down these wasteful expressions of late stage capitalism, mandate rooftop solar, and build out our nuclear fleet.

We shouldn't have either.

Per the AP, "There were fires at the Vistra plant in 2021 and 2022".

https://lemmy.crimedad.work/comment/1484699

Abandon the model of buying and storing electricity when demand is low and reselling power back to the grid when demand is high. Instead, electricity should almost always be generated in excess of demand with the difference going to hydrogen and oxygen production for various medical, industrial, agricultural, and transport applications. If we ever run out of storage, they can be safely vented to atmosphere.

Here's a video of it disintegrating on reentry: https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662

Thanks for the heads-up!

Oof. Diabolical.

Certainly nothing like the Jellicle cats.

Yes. I have one in my refrigerator that is NSF rated to remove lead. Our tap water is good quality, but our house is 100 years old, so I'm a little bit concerned about lead from the pipe solder.

I thought that DiCaprio was dating outside of the range I described. There's nothing wrong with dating your own age. Likewise I don't think there's anything automatically wrong with dating within a wide age range. I think there's such a thing a too wide of an age range and the formula I explained seems to define those limits well.

Down votes aren't real on here so don't worry about it. For what it's worth, it wasn't me.

Well that's that. If she tries to make it more than friends hanging out, then just politely decline.

If you personally prefer to date within a narrower age range that's fine. A lower limit of half your age plus seven (and the corresponding upper limit of your age minus seven times two) is just a reasonable guideline as to whether or not a couple has a socially appropriate age gap.

The lower limit is half your age plus seven, so if you're 32 years old then it makes sense to feel uncomfortable. Are you even attracted to her?