There was an article posted somewhere on Lemmy a few months back where someone tried to do similar calculations for the US as a whole. What I took from the result was 95% renewable was achievable and still cheaper than fossil fuels. However the over provisioning of renewables and over double the storage needed to reliably achievable 100% made that infeasible with today’s proving and technology. Basically you can install storage to cover when the sun is not shining but it’s much more difficult to cover weeks of gloominess

Not that old, plus I don’t see it.

Asbestos is great at insulating really hot things so was used on boilers , especially ships and industrial to insulate the hot pipes and improve efficiency. However in this case we need something with thermal mass: any sand or rock might do, or water, or oil, or a modern phase change material. That material next to the heater will get hot but the entire mass won’t, so can be insulated with standard materials. There’s no point in something like asbestos

An important part of my point was also that what I assume were cheap materials was enough to take advantage of nightly time of use metering. In upstate NY, a standard “radiator” per room was sufficient, similar to hot water or steam heat

Believe it or not, also a leader of antifa

Some of the most important leaders of antifa

When I was a kid my parents had electric resistance heat with some very effective thermal storage.

Each room had a unit about the size of a typical radiator. The unit was basically an insulated box with a small circulation fan. I’m not sure what was inside but always assumed some form of brick - they weren’t expensive so it couldn’t be anything exotic. At night when electric rates were low, whatever was inside the units was heated up. During the day, the only power usage was a small circulation fan controlled by the thermostat.

I just got a heat pump installed and thought thermal storage would be worth considering since I was also looking into solar, but contractors acted like they never heard of it, and there really didn’t seem to be any consumer units available.

The solar panels are another story. I don’t see how such a scammy (in the us) industry even exists. They make it really hard to give them my money

This is a farmer. Complaining about his situation now.

Unless he’s confident of a bailout, there may be no 18 months from now. wtf would he want to kick the can down the road?

What hope do we have when a leopard is eating someone’s face and their reaction is they trust the leopard and are willing to let it continue another year and a half? What does it take for them to make the connection?

Certainly some of it is on me: I don’t like to plan ahead enough for an appointment but also don’t want to wait. I prefer a place that does walk-ins and I learn when they’re unlikely to have a line.

Supercuts is a great example. My town had two of them so I went to each several times before learning that one was consistently better, so I started going there regularly. Then they closed. So now I’m going to the other but they’re a mess: employees consistently do noticeably worse job and are not attentive to incoming customers. I don’t think I set a high bar but they’re not achieving it. And specifically they insist on giving me a combover even when I say no: I know my hair is thinning but it’s past the point where a combover is anything but sad. I also don’t comb my hair to the side so a combover just looks uneven and sad. Why can’t they just accept when I say no?

My town has been going through a generational and demographic shift so all the old places are being replaced with shiny new ones. While I’m sure those new ones will do a basic haircut, they put so much effort into being shiny and modern with modern hairstyles for young adults or hairstyles traditionally associated with various demographics. Great but why can’t we keep it simple? Why can’t I walk in, ask for a haircut, give my preferences And just get it done?

Not often enough. It looks pretty ratty by the time I force myself to go. Maybe 4-6 months?

I’ve always been annoyed by haircuts so it’s difficult to motivate myself to go. However by the time I settle on a new location to regularly use, they close down. Then it’s that much more annoying o find a new place I don’t hate

I do trim my beard weekly though. Since I have the tools and know how to use them. Currently I have a full beard but cut very short, and shave my neck - shaving a straight line is tough to do

That’s the problem with being a benevolent dictator- if an action is for the greater good but the people don’t want it, is it still good? What are you willing to do to stay in office now that the people have proven they don’t know what’s best for them, and you know that you do?

Once people get desperate enough, they’ll be willing to work in the fields in the hot sun all day with no breaks, no shade, no water. The farmers will be happy with a new source of exploitable labor: win-win

Visit trumps campaign office and adjust the campaign speech at “Four Seasons” to actually be at “Four Seasons Landscaping”

Good thing we’re burning down fundamental government services, destroying our future and adding trillions to the national debt to fund tax cuts for those one percenters, huh

You see, nothing illegal happened on Trump-Epstein island. /s

Will it be released with the Trump-Epstein files?

In the 2010s, regulators in both the European Union and the United Kingdom stopped requiring companies to report quarterly results, moving to six-month reporting periods instead.

It also has precedence, real world demonstration.

In 2018, Trump urged the SEC to study moving to a six-month reporting system to “allow greater flexibility & save money.

And it’s even something he’s thought about for a while rather than a momentary impulse or reaction. I wonder what the results of that study were.

The US stock market is fairly strong at encouraging innovation, new companies, growth. My employer is one of many that moved its headquarters here to take advantage of that innovation economy. I don’t like this one proposal on the grounds that it erodes yet another US advantage. We’ll be worse off for it.

But we do have examples of it working so it’s not the end of the world. This seems far less destructive than most of his actions

Presumably a lot less trading from outside sources like 👍 investment funds and overseas investors

It’ll be like twitter: encourage the crazies and drive away the legit content until the platform is entirely ruined

I believe there were many “low information” voters who only knew they wanted change.

Where those voters might have wanted Biden Harris initiatives, those tended toward long term investments that people were not patient for or were not trumpeted as loudly. Improvements were neither visible nor immediate. Building is boring. Too many people never paid attention, wanted instant gratification or only heard the loudest voices.

And maybe it will help pay for college when they realize that’s what takes them away from retail and from physical labor

Maybe the problem is the internet. It used to be easy to say that speech should be free, no matter what. But the internet has given a bigger stage while distancing people from real life consequences, allowing them to do real harm to society.

Kirk is a great example. He could have preached his hatred alone on a corner in a small village, but he got a pulpit, he faced no real life consequences, and he caused harm increasing our divisiveness, pitting neighbor against neighbor, encouraging hatred, and that is before the effect on government services.

There isnt much to do in my city.

My youngest kid just started college. I wanted to spend time with him before he left but it’s tough finding common activities between a teen and parent.

Our solution was walking around town: started as walking the dog until she couldn’t keep up, played a little Pokemon Go as an activity while walking but grew tired of it. Honestly, having nothing to do around town was a plus. It turned into basically talking for a couple hours! If we were thirsty, grab something at the nearest convenience store. We started a routine of takeout from our favorite kebab place to eat on the town common, but it was all just low key activity while talking! Just about every weekend this summer we’d take a couple hour walk around town, and just talk!