nxdefiant

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Windmills have automatic shut-offs based entirely on their Bald Eagle kill counts.

phax.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can buy solar panels at Costco.

I can't help you with any more of a real world scenario. If you want to offset some dollar amount of your energy use with home-grown juice, that's the easiest way to get it done right now.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

"Oh, your solution doesn't break the laws of physics? Trash it, we're gonna keep burning shit to make more shit we can burn forever until you have a magic solution or until we kill the planet"

  • You

The hundred year solution is nuclear. The thousand year solution is colonizing other planets.

Ultra dense energy has its place, namely where weight and volume are critical like in aerospace. Everything else can deal with not putting more carbon and worse things in the air.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 12 points 7 months ago

I encourage you to run for president on the "I have no idea how any of this works, and that's why I'm going to solve all your problems" ticket.

Worked for the last guy! You might even get a shot at embarrassing yourself on an international stage, just like the last guy!

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 35 points 7 months ago (14 children)

short answer: once

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Unsolicited fact: Heinz picked the number 57 at random, it just sounded like good marketing at a time when things were general marketed as "tonic #4" and the like.

(well, maybe not fact, more like probable truth)

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's two separate statements. We don't live in a post scarcity world. Power grids have physical limitations regarding power in and power out.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The person you're responding to is talking about physics, not economics.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 9 points 7 months ago

That's why the cat is smug. It knows you know this.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They have almost 4 times the population, it should probably be way higher than that.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Good for Ozempic for making something that works and (hopefully) doesn't cook you alive like those meth diet pills used to in the 80's.

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