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elfenix

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  1. Totally forgot a second season came out, apparently hadn't watched the final episode of the first season either, and just spent a bit over a week running through 9 episodes. Second season effects and pacing were much better. 

     

    Not sure what it says about the show when the antagonists are pretty much all far more interesting characters than the protagonists. 

  2. 13 hours ago, futureman said:

    https://twitter.com/alexmaisonducoq/status/1892612395266343349 

    the thing that makes you crazy is that it really is this simple.  it is so fucking simple.  you could swap cavill with hardy or elba or several others, stick closely to everything else, and you’ve got a blockbuster mega hit that everyone loves.  it’s as easy as it gets.

    but they won’t do that. 

    So, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?

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  3. The GOP pledged to plant a trillion trees to combat climate change. There's currently about 3 trillion trees on earth. Where the fuck are they going to find the space to plant an additional trillion? It's not a serious solution, it's just a side show that they never plan on following through on, much like Hyperloop and the 1994 GOP health plan.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    r/Conservative is normally one of the bleakest locations on the internet, but reading the comments here - even they aren't buying Trump's bullshit on this. 

     

    This is r/conservative not bleak?

  5. 37 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Except they’re nerds who once they won the Greek Council rather than inviting Betty and Ogre into the fold decided to burn down the entire university out of anger on how they got treated. 

    Office Space Milton GIF by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

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    The Gainesville Intermediate School was aware Carranza was being bullied and mocked by students who told the young girl she would be left alone when her parents got deported. It had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified.

    must notify abusive parents if the kid is trans, but don't dare tell the parents if students are abusive

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  7. When you text customer service and immediately get 4 messages back, the first that your message has been received, the second from a 'person' who introduces themselves, a third from said 'person' who says they will be happy to help, and then a fourth from said 'person' asking if this is my preferred phone number. Motherfucker that could have been one, maybe two messages, and I wouldn't have had to hear 4 notification dings in short succession. And no, I don't want you to email me, I gave you a burner phone number and that should be good enough.

     

     

    Also that there's no setting on my phone that will automatically suppress notification dings for the next few minutes after one is received unless i reset it by checking the notifications in between.

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  8. 30 minutes ago, PTINS said:

    I understand that.

    You cannot build on a pipeline 50 foot ROW, but you can build next to it.  You can raise crops and cattle or damn near anything else above ground, over the ROW. You cannot see or hear a buried pipeline, and live next to it for years on end without ever being impacted by its operation.

    You can hear the windmills, and see the towers and 100's of blinking lights that are visible from many miles away.  

    Wind farms require tens of thousands of acres, ~ 80 acres per windmill. The actual "footprint" of a single windmill may only be 1/4 acre, but the "encumbered" area that cannot be built upon is many times that. 

    There is a reason "windmill farms" are located on farm land, and in the places in Texas very few people live on; those are the only large tracts of relatively flat, undeveloped land to build upon.

    You don't see many wind farms in Texas close to population centers, where the power is actually needed, with hardly anything at east of I-35 and north of I-10.

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    It's not like oil production doesn't have an issue with light pollution - the flaring in the Permian is unbelievable flying over west Texas at night 

    The point isn't that wind or solar doesn't have these issues, it's that it's so much of the pot calling the kettle black.

    Frankly I think the ruined view argument is overblown by developers who don't want coastal wind. The view from Galveston already has a shit ton of lights from platforms and ship traffic.

     

     

  9. 24 minutes ago, PTINS said:

    Energy economics go from simple to complex very quickly.

    Transmission lines, and land costs are huge variables that are treated differently.

    -The footprint of a gas fired power plant is very small compared to a nuclear plant, a solar farm or a wind farm. A gas fired power plant can be located any place proximate to a gas pipeline and a electrical transmission line, making it easier to locate the power plant close to the power demand/population center, decreasing the size and length of power transmission lines.

    Nuclear, Solar and Wind power generation facilities require a much larger footprint.

    Sand Hills Gas fired Plant            595 MW,           ~ 50 acres, 2001

    South Texas Nuclear Plant       2,600 MW,    ~ 12,000 acres, 1988

    Sweetwater, TX Wind Farm         585 MW,  ~ 100,000 acres, 2007

    Roscoe Wind Farm                       782 MW,  ~ 100,000 acres, 2009

    Horse Hollow Wind Farm            736 MW,     ~ 47,000 acres, 2006

    Roadrunner Solar Plant.              497 MW,      ~ 2,500 acres, 2019  

    From the link below; (no judgment on the accuracy of the information)

    Wind Turbine Cost: How Much? Are They Worth It in 2025?

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    At an installation coast of ~ $1 million/1 MW of capacity, the above numbers indicate you would not get a straight payout (undiscounted) for 8-10 years, at a 65% utilization rate. A 50% utilization rate would take well over 10 years.

    Very few public companies, if any, would make capital investments on those economics.

    Most large renewable projects have government support (subsidies). The absence of large scale commercial projects constructed with private equity is an indicator that those economics are challenging at best. 

    Always love these footprint comparisons. My dude go look at Texas in Google maps south of San Antonio. Those aren't windmills. You can farm under a windmill. You can't farm on those caliche tank batteries.

    And I can see where damn near every pipeline in the Houston area is because there is nothing on top of them.

     

    We can build transmission. Just requires some old fashioned will. 

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