a strait flush

eunis never say die

and then encasing it with aluminum

of course bessent is trading all of this news, it doesn't really seem like a conspiracy it's right on the website

“A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire”. - Nelson Mandela

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screenshot of gmail from Nithya Raman to me with subject "Welcome to my Substack"

@nithyaforthecity.bsky.social why in the world

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

he told his wife canada is gross and he never wanted to be in the same room as them!

Just very puzzling that there are people out there insisting that the charts are right and that nothing any individual is experiencing actually matters and then being surprised when they're told to go piss up a rope

screen grab from artemis ii mission showing the capsule with drogue parachutes with the miscaption "passing through 10,000 ft. still on drugs"

Is labor even that much of a factor in these facilities?

Before the ai buildout, data centers were a net positive for the environment and were the drivers of almost all power efficiency changes in computing over the years, even before the efficiency gained from fewer wasted machine resources. RAM alone is like 5w per stick.

this is very much how i operate as well

a single family home?

when you can't figure out how to burn cash any faster: cash-burning agents

yeah I'm actually shocked and thought this was standard practice. options on oil futures have been cheap for a long time and could cover tail risk for next to nothing.

i'm tempted to make a bot that pops into any blue wave swarm and starts pointing out which bluewavers don't follow each other

but then again i would have to unblock some of them

it's almost like things aren't just that simple

i found the reason the math works in germany

We have been running one balcony power plant per household for about 2.5 years. Both systems are mounted on a garage roof facing south with no relevant shading. On sunny days we see peaks of 700–800 W between roughly 12 and 3 pm. Self-consumption is very high. In about 1.5 years the two meters together exported only around 32 kWh to the grid.

Few who buy plug-in solar are doing a professional roof mount with full south-facing sun and no shade. This is a perfectly ideal scenario. Most put them on their balconies, because that's how they're marketed. If you can do a roof install, get batteries and an inverter so you also have backup power!

Despite the hype, most users concede that balcony solar provides modest cost and energy savings. Weyland spent around $530 for his 600-watt-capacity system. While he’s happy with how his south-facing panels perform during balmy weather, such days are rare in northern Germany. He estimates that he’ll save around $100 in annual electricity costs and recoup his investment in about five years. That’s fairly typical, although advocates of the technology say a system’s efficacy — and, therefore, payback timeline — varies widely depending upon the number of panels, their location and direction, and how much shade surrounds them. A household with a “comparatively large well-positioned balcony system in a sunny spot facing south” can produce 15 percent of its electricity with balcony solar, according to Peter Stratmann, head of renewables at German Federal Network Agency, the country’s utility regulator.

You're telling me hype.

The article never mentions the key thing you explained here, that the panels aren't a threat because they don't work during an outage. And it's clear the sellers and manufacturers and media have no interest in telling that simple fact to the people who purchase them and don't realize otherwise.

Yes, maybe some day the math will make sense for many. But that is not today.

Show me the panel, the cost, and the zip code where it's being installed. I'm not sure how there's much more relevant than that. By not providing backup power, there's no benefit besides how much is generated minus losses

Theory? I'm talking about thermodynamics. The math does not add up. I've been following these plugin panels for several years. I've personally done 3 battery solar installs and built several solar water heaters. I'm not a hater, I hate that this mostly preys on people with good intentions.

Just because it "works" doesn't mean it's actually saving any money or doing anything to help the environment if the generation doesn't even cover the resource extraction, manufacturing, and shipping of the panel.

The economics just do not work out for people who put them on balconies getting partial sunlight a few hours a day. The 1kwh per day most people are lucky to pull from this setup isn't worth the cost of maintenance and the time to clean them, not even factoring purchase price.

It's true and that also makes them not very useful for most people, who think they're getting some kind of battery backup, when in reality they're just paying too much money for a panel that won't likely ever generate its cost in electricity.

lets put them on flights instead

US ICE Logo changed to U.S. Iran Combat Enforcement

we already have a well-funded military force dressed up and ready for war, all it takes is a simple rebranding