Cal Abel

@Mining_Atoms asked me to write a little thread on why thermal energy storage is better than battery storage for the grid. The problem is energy storage wasn't a problem I was trying to solve. A 🧵.

Where are you buddy? We’re gonna need you!

@wil_da_beast630 An R44 flightaware.com/resources/regi…

These prom pics from rich Black areas are completely insane. That's a helicopter.

@PsychedelicBart Two days after leg days.

Leg days are the worst 😭

@adrianeaux Go pack go! So the Pope is a FIB…. It all depends on which side of the border you were born on I guess!

How do you say FUCK THE PACKERS in Latin, AI?

@nuclearzak Better nothing at all

@nuclearzak And massively messed up the already dysfunctional medical industry. Lots and lots more administrators adding to the overhead of health care because the incentives it created.

@Rothmus Then don’t mention Unit 731 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

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@skylabnz @GTJacketTrader1 The heat.

@cal_abel @GTJacketTrader1 What boils off ? Mostly carbon monoxide ?

Learning to coal. This was cooked to 820°C with steam. Mass is 65% of the original lump with an external volume 30% larger and is about as difficult to break apart as the original coal.

@GTJacketTrader1 The raw coal FSI is 3-4. So the coal will roughly swell 30% during devolatization.

@cal_abel Volume +30%? Could you share data? Other parameters completely intuitive. Curious what the resultant lattice looks like.

@elonmusk @shellenberger They need dispatchable energy, fossil or nuclear.

@shellenberger They need batteries to stabilize the grid

This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout. The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold. The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency actions. If the frequency had fallen just another 0.3 Hz — below 49.5 Hz — Europe could have suffered a system-wide cascading blackout. At that threshold, automatic protective relays disconnect major power plants, and collapse accelerates. And it's disturbingly easy to imagine multiple scenarios where that could have occurred... Full story here: x.com/shellenberger/…

@Sargon_of_Akkad You Brits kill me. Seriously what is wrong with actually having red in the red meat?!

Cooked to perfection.

@misfitpatriot_ Not to mention the Christian’s that are being purged (aka genocide) from Syria. Nobody gives a shit.

12,000 children killed in Syria in the ongoing conflict. When it’s Arabs fighting Arabs. Nobody gives a fuck. They’re “ok” with this, because one side isn’t Jewish. Where are the protests? Where are the calls of “genocide”? Where the FUCK is Dave Smiths bleeding heart for these “innocent children”? The hyperfixation on Israel’s actions in response to a terrorist attack is fucking laughable. Yall don’t give a fuck about Palestinians, you just hate Israel because someone programmed you to, and it’s obvious.

You know your civilization messed up big time when the hardest part of doing anything is getting permission to do it. We should be fighting nature, physical law, entropy, etc, not government rules and bureaucracy.

I don’t think you appreciate how centralized funding of science has destroyed and perverted the scientific endeavor. While certainly some good work is being done, the vast majority is crap. The Science™️ originated with Vannevar Bush’s report “Science the Endless Frontier”. It advocated for what Hayek cautioned against in Road to Serfdom, a continuation of wartime command and control of investment, here in the sciences. I got to see this first hand when I did my PhD at Georgia Tech. Watching what my advisor had to go through for funding the push for publications with little or no new content just to justify grant documentation and the time spent on grant writing was unreal. There is no diverging from the mainstream if you do you loose your funding which means the university looses its funding (obscene “overhead” charges) and you loose your job. The time of professors especially in STEM is spent on their grants not on teaching. It is for these reasons that I did not join the academy. I still do research and publish, but it is for my own ends on my own dime and my own benefit. The fact I share it is because of the debt that I owe to those who came before me and to those who will come after. This was the norm of science before it became the Science™️. IMO, the best thing to regain scientific progress is to burn down the federal funding system. Those projects that have actual value will find funding those that don’t and have no value, e.g. string theory and fusion, will die. [fusion does have some value but more for space propulsion and nuclear weapons]

Man, if this happens five or six more times Americans might start to understand the real goal of this project

This one has only gotten more and more accurate. LP keeps topping itself. When you think, "They can't top THAT," they just blow right through the old record.

CNN: Behind Closed Doors, Pope Is Still Focused, Sharp, And Energetic buff.ly/jFhVOVc

@AlexNowrasteh Defund the government. It is the availability and use/control of money that is where the primary method of control is.

The government should not have this power.

@TuurDemeester I’m having a hard time trimming down my position. Every time I reduce by x% I have the same amount of ETH.

After 9 years and 17+ hard-forks, the Ethereum elixir is losing its potion. There's still some time to trim down your positions.