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Shaving every tenth of a degree off whatever final thermometer number we end up at means a few more glaciers hanging on, diminished perhaps, but a glacier still, with room to grow.

 

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Basically, the huge-personal-truck model doesn't work so well with batteries. Making them cheap enough means making them small...which Ford didn't try to do

 

A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals.

 

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

The problem with being at the edge of town is that your whole community needs to be resistant to embers blowing in. That requires both a ton of specific mods to older structures, as well as measures like clearing zone zero.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago

Yes, and proprietary, but without details about what or why.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The thing about nuclear which drove us to large plants in the first place is that bigger reactors have significant economies of scale. Even with big reactors, nuclear has been very expensive to build, and hasn't really come down in cost in a long time, and takes a very long time to actually build.

By contrast, wind, solar, and storage are cheap and can be deployed rapidly in small increments with much more site flexibility.

So what's going on is a false promise of future nuclear being used to prevent the deployment of renewables now.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

In the US, yes. Other countries do installers competing against each other over install price, which ends up dropping cost to about 1/4 of what it is in the US.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Basically they have a financing deal for the rooftop solar that's designed to have a lower monthly payment than the utility bill it displaces

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

A bunch of quacks profit because it creates an opening for them to provide treatments that are not evidence based, so you see chiropractors and "christian" donor-advised funds kicking in money

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Its been a longstanding issue. Lots of people care, but its not at the top of their priority list.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't expect any kind of physical object to be free as in beer...but they definitely have a lot of room for technical improvement to make batteries cheaper

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Los Angeles Times ran a map of just the ones in California. Most browsers will let you access it if you edit this URL to put a . after the .com and before the /

https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-oil-well-drilling-idle-cleanup/map/

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Anything with plastic in it, including furniture, flooring, and the glue that holds together layers of plywood.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Congress can remove a justice with a majority vote in the house and a 2/3 supermajority in the Senate. This means you can't actually remove a judge unless they lose support from within their own party, and the Republicans have shown that they wont go along with removal no matter what.

This means that in practice, the path forward is to add additional judges, so that the Republicans are a minority, and unable to do any damage.

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