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Comment Re:Overdramatic (Score 1) 42

both words are overly simplistic for the process.

however you can use up all the local resources. It is called strip mining. So galaxy's are like people they strip mine an area of all useful stuff, and living behind a desert filled with rusting metallic husks.

Comment Re:OT: Dogs (Score 1) 435

That isn't safe. you need to protect your doggy's eyes. put goggles on his head first.

It looks way cooler too.

Just before christmas one year it was snowing like made which made the traffic all the much worse. I pull up in my lane and look to my right only to see a husky with his head out the window of the car next to me. He had a grin a mile wide, going this is great. wind, snow. It was a absolutely miserable day but that brought a smile to my face.

Comment Re:Non story, headline should read (Score 2) 213

steady rate of high power for one. except for hydro and geothermal, but those doesn't fit or scale everywhere.

solar and wind are great to supply additional power, to cover spikes, and a large residential setup will stabilize the old grid. however they don't have a constant high power output and have to be built at 30-50% over capacity to get to the minimum useful outputs.

that said most homes should have a 3-5 kw solar setup that feed right back into the grid. The power generated would be enough to run their home air-conditioning setups in the hot summer months and a bit of electric heating in the winter. if 50% of homes in a given neighborhood loop had that the spikes would even out during the summer.

Comment Re:Of course, there's this (Score 1) 176

Large scale residential solar deployment though can end the price imbalance. As you need solar at the exact time the sun is out. If your solar unit generates 80-120% of your air conditoning power needs.

That will help with demand and load balance spikes. At least until we get Mr fusion that runs on fecal matter.

Comment Re:sampling bias (Score 1) 405

Your grandfather did those things to survive. Refrigerators didn't exist you had ice boxes may e if you were wealthy. So food wouldn't keep people canned food to preserve it so they could eat. You want fresh chicken you had to slaughter it, or buy it from a butcher who recently slaughtered it.

They didn't clothing stores like we do know, or grocery stores. You want fresh fruits they were only available in season.

If he didn't shovel coal in his furnace he would freeze to death. Many did from that or from carbon monoxide from said furnace. Hell indoor plumbing only became a thing in the 1920's. At least on a Practical level. Most areas didn't get electritcy until after WW2.

You will quickly figure out how to kill to survive if you find yourself starving with a knife in hand.

You have learned more by the time you are 18 than he did by the time he was 40. At least for book knowledge. Street smarts and expirence not included. We are teaching calculus to high schoolers. Half of his high school class wouldn't have had a 5th grade reading level in today world.

Standards change. Accept all of them and not just the tiny fraction you can see. Or in the words of an iwa jima vet I once knew. I fought so we can disagree. That is the right. For that I will never forget him.

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