Connor Kingman

@Weather_West Any thoughts on when this inversion layer will end so we finally get some sunshine in the valley?

Central California is currently experiencing one of the most remarkable temperature inversions I've ever seen in this part of the world. The Central Valley remains miserably damp & chilly under dense fog layer, but it's balmily warm & sunny just 2,000ft up nearby mountain slopes!

Grow up and bet on corporate earnings like an adult

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We really need public spaces separated by credit scores. Imagine the 800+ airport terminal.

I NEED a Christopher Nolan movie about Wernher von Braun

I agree. Grow up and bet on corporate earnings like an adult.

Freedom of speech. Freedom of enterprise. Freedom of compute. We must protect these freedoms above all. They are what allow us to progress towards a better future.

Donner Pass in Northern California

The California Central Coast in winter looks like Middle Earth.

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

my dad has made it pretty clear that he is not interested in my line of work but i think we finally have a story that suits his fancy: fresnoland.org/2023/10/25/res… (if there's one thing i've learned about small growers, they love gossiping about the big guys)

The greatest man you've never heard of died this week on Wednesday, September 6th. Marcel Boiteux built the French nuclear fleet as head of national utility EdF, making superb, far-sighted decisions against powerful entrenched interests. Decisions such as abandoning the poorly-performing French gas reactors for outstanding Westinghouse technology. And insisting on ruthless standardization that allowed true learning-by-doing, with his teams completing several reactors a year for more than a decade. His fleet provides 70% of French electricity, and but for the sabotage by his weak, stupid successors inside and outside French government, it should be making half again as much electricity as the 56 reactors do today. Boiteux's reactor fleet (plus a few more units after his retirement) cost about $150 billion. Compare this to Germany spending about $500 billion on their mess of an "energy transition" which requires them to keep almost all of their coal and gas plants in service. As a young man Marcel Boiteux refused to accept France's defeat and at age 21 in 1942 as an elite university student he escaped Nazi-occupied France while escorting downed Allied pilots over the Pyrenees mountains to safety in Spain. Brass. Balls. This episode revealed the pattern for the rest of his life. After the war, he studied economics and wrote *the* foundational paper in electricity economics, on how to price electricity service in a way that covered system costs while being fair and sustainable. He completely understood liberal economics, and knew it did not apply to electricity grids and service. He built cheap power for all, then after his retirement watched as a bunch of pathetic hack economists broke the grid with idiotic "markets" that are failing all over the world. He rapidly rose in public service after university graduation, and after appointment to the head of Electricité de France, successfully built the most astonishing energy system in the history of the world, proving for all time that a country could truly rely on its own fleet of standardized nuclear reactors producing low-cost emissions-free energy. Anti-nuclear terrorists exploded a bomb outside the door of his family home in 1977 but he kept building. It must have been torture for this truly great man to watch twenty years of silly, unserious leaders damage and begin to destroy his beloved EDF and its fleet of reactors, leading France straight into its worst energy crisis since the oil crisis of 1973 that triggered Boiteux's nuclear fleet construction in the first place. But he didn't come up with the idea of a nuclear fleet powering a total electrification of the economy because an oil crisis hit. He was too prophetic to be a mere reactionary. Rather, he declared the slogan "All nuclear, all electric" months before the OPEC embargo hit in 1973. Marcel Boiteux died this week at the age of 101.

Just passed my checkride. Officially a private pilot!

Triple digit weather > cold weather

The easiest way to get the feds to stop the Chinese Spy Balloon is to load it up with American-made goods and try floating it between 2 US ports.

Four engineers get into a car. The car won’t start. Mechanical engineer: it’s a broken starter. Electrical engineer: dead battery. Chemical engineer: impurities in the gasoline. IT engineer: hey guys, I have an idea how about we all get out of the car and get back in.

POTUS said that the food shortage is ‘gonna be real’ following Russian Sanctions. In the Central Valley, we can produce more but the government refuses to build more water capacity. This year farmers get 0%-5% of water from State and Feds that was promised. Unacceptable.

People think Germany's a climate leader but it produces 6x more emissions per unit of electricity than France People say nuclear is too expensive but nuclear-heavy France spends 59% as much for electricity as Germany, which will have spent $580B on renewables by 2025