The weather patterns along California's coast is very suitable for getting wind power starting shortly before sunset from a relatively small wind farm. And there are a few big projects that get a steady wind all day long, which tend to be our biggest wind power producers. Solano 4 Wind Project over in Solano County is the one nearest to me, it's huge and not-for-profit.
They are charging conventionally overnight, when there's no solar power.
an Entire Nuclear Reactor, JUST for EV Charging.
That would be fantastic. Imagine a world where we did not have hundreds of ships, about a hundred refinery sites, and a million oil wells. Transmission lines could be construct with a fraction of the material used for oil and gas pipelines.
Honestly even if it took 100 nuclear reactors to replace all our fossil fuels for cars, I'd say DO IT NOW. Because it would solve so many problems for us. Economic, geopolitically, pollution, rural access to energy, and climate change.
A major difference between a human and a chimpanzee is a gap in language abilities; with chimps generally unable to grasp the mechanics of syntax that are commonplace in the world's (human) languages.
It may be impossible to ever know, but I am curious of differences in language function that a million old version of humans has versus modern humans. And of course if they intend on voting Republican.
You'd need a time machine to beat the Danes at developing off shore wind farms.
I'm generally against activities that worsen climate change and against the use of AI. But you pose a very convincing argument.
The lack of lease availability in the Gulf is the current obstacle there rather than the depth.
There are are some projects in the planning stages on the Pacific Coast, with lease agreements completed, but none in the Gulf of Mexico. But given the current administration I think the California projects will be indefinitely mothballed.
Of the Eastern seaboard sites, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind and South Fork Wind are at a 40 m depth. To put that into perspective, Hywind Scotland's 110 m depth. There are multiple sites in the Gulf that were investigated of less than 60 m, with sites off LA and TX having a potential of over 100 GW.
Storms resistance makes for a difficult design requirement with off shore wind on the Eastern seaboard. The extremes in the US are worse than what the UK typically faces on its shores.
Mostly deadlocked on the US side of the deal. With US manufacturers unable to export products in exchange for the products the US would have to buy in an reciprocal deal. This is problematic when one integrated circuit is not a substitute for another integrated circuit, since chips aren't a commodity.
I agree though, that the world economy will move on without the US.
In college I had a paper to write, I was given the assignment roughly halfway into the semester and it was due in a few weeks. I put it off then woke up in a panic that I only had one day left. That morning I promised myself I would finish it that night after school and work. And when I got to school, the professor was going to be out Friday (small class and no TA) and we all had until Tuesday (the next class) to bring the assignment. "GREAT" I thought with relief. So I spent the weekend at a LAN party with my friends and failed the assignment.
From my understanding of the intended goals, this policy aligns well with that.
Wikipedia neatly sums up how this works.
In most cases, fascists discouraged or banned foreign trade, supporting protectionism. Fascists believed that too much international trade would make the national economy dependent on international capital and therefore vulnerable to international economic sanctions. Economic self-sufficiency, known as autarky, was a major goal of most fascist governments.
I think some sticking points and consequences of ratio trade restrictions are:
It keeps your fingers warm during the long cold winters. The perfect Christmas gift!
I've been paying for Prime since July 2008. Kind of fed up with the various B.S. that Bezos has done over the years and felt it was a good time to drop the service.
I still have an Amazon account, I'm slowly pulling my digital content off there so I'm not completely screwed. It's mostly music, and most of it I have the CD for, but sorting out which albums I don't have the physical copy of takes a little time with their horrible UI.
I doubt cancelling my membership will cause Bezos to lose any sleep. But I at least can feel better and save a little money.
so-called AI is a fucking computer program, numbnuts.
Often with a garbage UI, like every other piece of crap app that we are required to learn in order to do our job.
Nothing has improved in that respect.
Make sure you count the fingers on the AI generated "astronauts"
I once drove through Oregon without stepping out of my car, only stopping for traffic lights.
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White
