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Comment Re: 99.98% (Score 1) 72

Plus some of us have been confused with other people with the same name. My full name, all three names, is the 400th most common name in the US and with just first and last it's about number 103. When I try to ID with services which think they know things about me they ask if I've lived on streets I've never lived on, I tell them no and they tell me I'm not me...

Comment Re:A good test (Score 1) 75

You can bomb a coal plant too you know.

Coal plant puts out less power than a nuke plant. Coal plant being bombed puts out less harmful material than a nuke plant. The two things are very different and attempting to conflate them is pathetic.

you need something to provide for base load

No, you do not. You need something to follow load. Base load is inferior.

Comment Re:pay for the environment (Score 1) 75

For what it is worth, Germany has pioneered what's referred to "balcony solar":

No. China pioneered what's now referred to by white people as "balcony solar". But in fact that isn't really the whole story either. They are just microinverters. These were created for solar farms to make expansion and maintenance easier, and wiring cheaper. Instead of running DC back to a large inverter they use a small one which only one or two panels connect to. They often output 3 phase, in fact I have such a microinverter sitting around, but obviously it's not hard to make 2 phase inverters for residential use. Microinverters are not grid creating, they won't output power if they don't see power, so the only change that had to be made to make them suitable for sale to home users was to make them cheaper. That meant putting them in a shittier enclosure and using shittier components.

Anyone can therefore reasonably safely (if not legally) buy one of these solar systems and reduce their energy bill just by plugging it in. In fact it's become very common for Chinese solar inverters (that is, a device which contains both a charge controller and inverter) to have grid tie functionality. I have a pretty cheap unit which will do it up to ~2 kW.

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