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  1. One interesting trend we're just now starting to see is the colocation of solar with the wind farms out in West Texas to take advantage of the land leases and already installed transmission lines to produce electricity on hot windless days.
    Several solar farms have been announced out there in the last few months. Moreover, batteries for surplus energy storage are also being installed. For example, the larget battery in the world is expected to be put in place in Borden County in the next couple of years.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/texas-may-get-a-new-boast-amid-plans-for-world-s-largest-battery
    I'm curious. What type of batteries are those? I know the "high volume/low density" battery thing is very different than what you have in your phone.
  2. Our Constitution was written in part to make government action "hard." Electoral College, two Houses of Congress who are supposed to do the same thing, but have different motivations. A strong Judicial branch, and then 50 MORE governments (the States) to deal with.

    I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but much of what we're seeing is intentional. As stated above, it's a feature, not a glitch.

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  3. I’ll knock AP for fathering all those bastard kids way more than for going broke part. He, and many like him, are the same as too many lottery winners. Poor/middle class folks who all the sudden are rich.

    Like my cousin. Worked a factory job and won $180k. Did a buncha work on his house, bought dumb crap for his kids, etc. All he has to show for it now is an ex wife and a 2004 Dodge Rumble Bee pickup.

  4. In addition to non-existent gun safety and general lack of proper usage of course.

    Not actually drinking/sipping a drink.  Just bring it up to your mouth.  Should be acting 101.

    Never going to the bathroom.  This one doesn't bother me, but I know one of you is going to bring it up.

    A vehicle getting destroyed (usually in a landing of some kind) and then a cut to that same vehicle miraculously "repaired."  

    Chewing food forever.  ie:

     

  5. Just a city-killer; no big deal.

    https://instantweather.ca/2019/07/28/XyPiJ3--city-killer-asteroid-with-the-power-of-a-nuclear-bomb-came-uncomfortably-close-to-earth-this-week-and-nobody-saw-it-coming/?fbclid=IwAR2_KUp1Wmm8jrx5DmYfbZ2f9pRXL2iNcGd0H_0aEYT4Xn0Iyso4U8g5mB8

    And now scientists have revealed that they have discovered an asteroid named Asteroid 2019 OK earlier this week and only figured out the magnitude of it just hours before it came within 73,000 kilometres of the earth as reported by NASA. For comparison, the moon is over 5 times that distance at approximately 380,000 kilometres away so that’s relatively close even though it seems like a large number.

    According to The Washington Post, it was already expected that a few asteroids would pass by earth this week and pose no threat. So, for most scientists, it didn’t raise any alarm bells when reports began flowing in about an asteroid that brushed by the earth on Thursday (July 25). After information about the size of the rock was released, it was then realized that this asteroid wasn’t among the ones they were tracking and it had remained undetected until it had passed by.

     

    "2019 OK (so far)," indeed.

     

  6. 7 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Been there, done her.  Wait, never did Grace; it was Precious and her “cousin” Patience that rocked my world.

    But Cheers bar in PH isn’t even close to the nastiest bar I’ve been in.  Hell, I can’t even think of the worst one and that’s probably a good thing.

    Wait, woah.  You guys boinked east-African women.  Brave, you are.  Die, you might.

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