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Comment Re: Possibly the only good thing... (Score 1) 144

500 panels per 1000 m^2 is pretty achievable, accounting for whatever roof penetrations and facilities that need to be there. Some of those buildings are outright colossal. Plus, nobody is saying the data centers needs to be completely powered by solar.
Here's the thing: the lions share of power consumption on the grid traditionally comes from cooling. Most cooling needs, outside of the context of data centers, coincides with the sunniest, highest production times for solar panels. There is a great synergy to take advantage of here. It might be that a such a data center / solar farm farm actually produces net power for a portion of the day, covering for residential use or car charging etc. but is a net consumer off peak hours, when it's more efficient to use other means to supply power when most other consumers aren't using as much. Net effect is better grid utilization and reduced costs all around.

Comment Re: Auto Mechanic doesn't like latest symphony (Score 1) 176

The yields are much higher, and the number of warheads is insane, but there are only so many targets. Should the worst come to pass, there will be a lot of overlap, devastated areas hit multiple times. Also, a lot of these will be aimed at mostly empty space where the silos live, in order to stop the enemy from second / third strikes. I think the idea that everyone will launch everything all at once is just not likely.

Comment Re:Disinfo (Score 1) 114

That's now how prepositional phrases work. "Downstream from" is singular concept, it provides a direction. You're defining where you launch it relative to a different point.

If you say "downstream from", you're saying the launch point is already past the site. If you want it to drift to the site, you'd have to launch it 'upstream from' the site.

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