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DisasterTransport

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  • TIL the cost of transporting energy around

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  • Those transmission losses don't have immediate health and environmental costs, though, and even discounting those there'll be conversion losses on both ends (e: for chemical energy carriers) if what we want to get out of it is usable electricity from renewables. Dont take my skepticism for poohpoohing btw, this kind of counterintuitive thinking is one of the more fascinating things about economics. Or maybe I just like to argue :P

    I'll look up the paper, this is an interesting topic.

  • TIL the cost of transporting energy around

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  • Pipelines are cheap because we already build a lot of them. We already use them to move multiple products. It's a somewhat generic technology (which is very impressive, dont get me wrong).

    I'd be interested to learn how the capex breaks down for the HVDC lines. Is it labor? Procurement? Those can both be optimized with scale. Expand the qualified workforce and incentivize competition among suppliers. If it's raw material cost it might be a little harder. I imagine right of way costs are also quite a bit higher owing to the large footprint. But then once you acquire the RoW it stays there in perpetuity. Still, I bet my favorite hat that once you consider the externalities and conversion losses the transmission lines are a clear winner. The electrical grid really only causes fires when its neglected, whereas gas infrastructure leaks constantly.

  • Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’

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  • If they're renters they have no economic roots and will simply move somewhere that has jobs and no data centers, or at least jobs. You live in Indiana. You should know this.

    "Why is my small city dying? this is all Indianapolis's fault, oh I hate those city slickers so, daddy gubmint pls halp"

  • Google wants your phone to track your heart rate by simply looking at you

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  • fantastic, now they can tell which specific parts of the jeep ad get my blood pumping

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  • Fair enough lmao

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  • You would have to pay taxes, and that's fine. But how do you report a sudden windfall of fifty million dollars in cash?

  • Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

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  • HSPA+ is not 4G. It has a max theoretical throughput of 168Mbit. It was sold as 4G. Same with Wimax and earlier LTE implementations.

  • New physics papers lay firm foundation for CFS’ ARC fusion power plant design | The Tokamak Times

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  • :pepega: :pepega: :blobDance:

  • Flesh-eating screwworm returns to U.S. after 60 years, threatening cattle herd

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  • I really wish BrainDead had gotten another season. My personal conspiracy theory is they got too close to the truth.

  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • Interesting how similar this is at first glance to Kerboscript. Neat!

  • Driver facing camera in cars

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  • Ah yeah I got that and then kinda lost scope reading the reply. Non sequitur for a non sequitur.

  • What is your guilty goto food that you just can't stop?

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  • Y'all have a funny definition of guilty. Didn't read the whole thread but I bet one of you silly sumremoved called a Caesar salad a guilty pleasure. Mine's pizza. Any variety. I will eat the whole pie. Pizza is love, pizza is life.

  • House approves war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran, in a rebuke of Trump

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  • They're saying you're being way too optimistic.

  • Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

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  • mistakes like selling the evolutionary upgrade of the previous generation as the revolutionary next generation? That kind of mistake?

    Never forget that the original 4G spec promised gigabit.

  • Flesh-eating screwworm infection confirmed in South Texas, USDA says | With the case confirmed, it is the fly’s first breach of the US-Mexico border.

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  • If only we elected that guy who promised to build a wall smdh

  • Be The Sunshine ☀️

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  • Yeah no we got that

  • It is now lost forever…

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  • They say they're gonna fix it with something called "AI"

  • Driver facing camera in cars

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  • Sure, but in the case of an accident that footage is ammunition. Maybe the other party was eating a four course dinner and cranking their hog, but unless they had an interior camera too you can't prove a thing. These cameras seem like they would be a disadvantage in court no matter what.

  • Be The Sunshine ☀️

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  • Are you one of those people who wants to go 30 over everywhere you go, and fuck anyone with the gall to get in your way?