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Comment Re:What is the ACP goal/success metric? (Score 5, Insightful) 134

You are not supposed to actually dig into and ask questions like this and try to go deep into the actual concept or workings of a program like this. Instead, summarize with a very simple one liner for a headline that shows you care for X and party Y does not. The details of how it works, if it works, who is paying for it, who is profiting for it, etc should be irrelevant.

Comment Re:Size (Score 4, Informative) 132

Wind generation on this scale already exists : Last year the 2nd phase of Hornsea windfarm (in the North Sea, off the UK coast) was completed - phase 1 + 2 combined can generate 2.6 GW and it took about 2 years to construct each phase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (Hornsea Wind Farm wik article)

Obviously to cover the variable output the wind farms should be over-provisioned and combined with storage and transmission grid interconnects (the UK currently has a little over 7 GW of HVDC connections to other countries according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and is constructing more)

Comment Worship Godzilla (Score 1) 107

I grew up in the city in the '60s and '70s; working as a bike messenger in high school, my first stop was to get a roll of DIMES from the dispatcher, so I could call into the office for my next run.

On the chrome coin box of every pay phone in the Five Boroughs, some little old lady had scratched the words "WORSHIP GOD" with the pointy end of a church key-style can opener. Every single pay phone in every neighborhood. She had the grudging respect of a lot of graffiti artists because of sheer coverage (and the fact that she'd go into some really rough places).

Not the respect of everyone, however. It was trivial to add "ZILLA" to the end of her tag.

All these memories will be gone, like Krylon in a subway car wash.

k.

Comment Wrong war. (Score 1) 193

I thought it was cynical but on-brand for CNN+ to launch during a war, considering the cable channel made its bones during Desert Shield, with Wolf Blitzer broadcasting from Baghdad during an air strike.

Really, though: they were two years too late. People were thirsty for news about COVID. Now, if you want to see how a war is going, there's TikTok, Twitter, etc., where you can see the videos CNN will loop two days later, without the blurred-out corpses.

Then again, if they really wanted to make money, they'd broadcast executions on HLN.

k.

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