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Comment Re:Why not vertical instead ? (Score 1) 95

I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common

Because they are on the ground.

they take less horizontal space

That's outright false.

you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want

Can you stack them high enough that they get into where the wind actually is? And if so, why not just put one windmill where the wind is?

(and use guy lines for stability)

So make them use more horizontal space?

I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...

Obsolete and dead?

VAWTs make sense only on the tops of lonely hills.

Comment Re:Buried interesting point (Score 1) 38

No, because experience isn't a protected category. Age is, but only in certain cases mostly dealing with existing employees. Youth isn't protected at all:

https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discr...

"The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination. It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older."

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 78

Either way, as far as Native American references go, I find the use by the Apache Foundation to be relatively benign.

On one hand, sure, it is that. On the other, it's still cultural appropriation, and the fact that it's using "apache" to refer to something which is "patchy" isn't positive either.

Comment Re:Must a turbine blade be INSIDE a cargo hold (Score 1) 95

A Skycrane, by contrast, has a maximum range of 370 km with no payload. Need to refuel? First you need to hover and detach your payload, then go over somewhere else to refuel, then re-hitch your payload and continue on.

Yes, but the airplane can't take things to their destinations. They have to deliver them to an airport, then the things need to be transported by truck.

Comment Re:This isnt the win you think it is. (Score 1) 93

Building an EV burns about twice the carbon of making an ICE

So what?

Run the numbers: ramping up EV sales by 10%/year for a decade actually adds ~650 million tonnes of COe from manufacturing

This is bullshit. EVs reach CO2 parity well before 100,000 miles.

and maybe even questioning whether churning out this many new cars is sustainable at all

Yes, that's a valid thing to say. But EVs have lower lifetime emissions than ICEVs because an ICE is so pathetically inefficient. Yeah 40% is possible for some engines some of the time, but more of the time they are around 25%.

Comment Re:Just what I wanted to donate money for! NOT. (Score 1) 48

ChatGPT's explanation of its mistake was probably the most interesting part of the experiment, because it claimed to be trying to do the right thing--and yet the code failed miserably

That's the weird beauty of hallucination. It's hallucinating both the explanation and the code. It just turns out that there's no part of the explanation that we can't interpret with small changes in it, while there are parts of the code which must be just so to achieve the desired result.

Comment Re: The real estate market is collapsing (Score 0) 47

I blame realtors. They are always encouraging owners to list properties at inflated prices because they get a bigger commission. I am trying to get a reasonable offer in on a crappy project mobile currently listed at 27,700 and the dickhead I was referred to demanded a $4500 flat broker's fee saying it's his minimum, that's over 15% of the current asking price which is itself too high. Fucker could maybe talk me into 7% tops. That's his flat fee for a mobile? Well this is a currently unliveable project, what's his flat fee for that?

Homes in my area sit for around a year and get reduced around 33% or more before they sell because of these greedy fucks who want to get paid for doing nothing.

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