Derek Kerton

I don't want a few strong businesses that extract value from society. I want a strong society that can offer their custom to many competing businesses.

@deez20818243 @MistedTwister @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 Good points. I'll add that nuclear has a 5 to 10 year lag to get built and produce output. Solar is faster. In those 10 years, solar, wind, batteries, fusion, and many other renewable technologies will only get better.

@MistedTwister @derekkerton @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 1. Nuclear is extremely expensive on the front end investment and has very high regulation so it’s hard to get them funded and cleared 2. Electricity output is higher per dollar per day with solar vs nuclear by 2-3x Both have strengths & weaknesses. We can do both.

China’s solar power plant in Dunhuang uses around 12,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto a central tower, heating molten salt to extreme temperatures. That heat is stored and used to generate electricity on demand, including after sunset.

@MistedTwister @deez20818243 @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 Sure, let's build it. Although it's not more energy output than the Sun, it does produce at night. Meanwhile, the Sun is there providing energy, whether we "require" it or not. We don't have to build it. Seems like a free lunch.

@deez20818243 @derekkerton @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 So why not build more nuclear? The power output is far greater and doesn’t require the sun.

@sandibachom Trump sends his private army, impetuously and without a clear plan, and this is most of what they do: stand around doing nuthin. Unless some douche like Noem or Bovino tells them to knock heads. Then they do that. Those are the two modes.

🔥🔥🔥I’m at JFK and I was on the train leaving a whole bunch of TSA officers and they were bitching about having these ICE guys standing around doing nothing while they’re working their asses off and not getting paid! They are really really really mad and they’re not blaming the Democrats

@ChDellen @BFleurot Laissons le monde à ses problèmes Les gens haineux face à eux-mêmes Avec leurs petites idées Mourir d'aimer

« Songe à la douceur D’aller là-bas vivre ensemble !    Aimer à loisir,    Aimer et mourir Au pays qui te ressemble ! » 📷 @BFleurot 🌷

How are their slopes? Any green trails? Is it all downhill from here?

Sending ICE to airports to help TSA *may* achieve the objective of shortening lines. But the real objective here is mission creep - to keep using ICE as Trump's private army. Domestic tasks. Interior law enforcement tasks. Any task Trump wants them to do. Could that be abused?

@MistedTwister @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 I owe her a like, but I also feel like a winner!

@derekkerton @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 I’m wrong because I missed the part about them solely being mirrors. Yes nothing when it comes to energy is 100% non-toxic. @gator_gum you win the bet.

@u_dilemi @jonfavs Yeah, you're right. My post isn't very good, since i neglected ICE doing TSA work, and catching undocumented people flying domestically.

@derekkerton @jonfavs Look, an illegal alien was caught at the airport even though she wasn’t living inside it. Surprise, surprise! cnn.com/2025/12/01/us/…

Ah yes, people usually enter the country illegally by just booking a plane ticket

@MistedTwister @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 Stop moving goalposts. 1. you were wrong about mirrors 2. You said "Toxic" - they are not 3. Now you want 100% safe. Nothing is 100% safe - Except my bet with @gator_gum that you never admit being wrong, even if painfully obvious.

@derekkerton @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 So they are 100% safe and will never create toxins that could get into the air we breathe…not even corrosive

@samstein I can't tell if you mean that: - because he's the finance guy - because he's so bad at it. So, i'll go with "Both".

I continue to be intrigued at the administration's decision to send Scott Bessent out to defend the war.

@HadleySheley @atrupar Not even. Cuz he's lying here. Something as good as the JCPOA is a distant dream.

@atrupar Oh. So the same thing, Obama got Iran to agree to without bombing, getting American troops killed, or putting the oil and gas market in complete disarray.

COLLINS: You said there's many points of agreement with Iran. Can you give us a few? TRUMP: Like 15 points COLLINS: That Iran has said yes to? TRUMP: They're not gonna have a nuclear weapon. That's number 1, 2, and 3 COLLINS: They've said yes to that? TRUMP: They agreed to that

@atrupar His lips are moving, so you know what that means.

@atrupar The buck stops... ...with Pete Hegseth, apparently. Trump, never one to take ANY responsibility for the disasters in his wake.

Trump blames Hegseth for the war: "Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. You said, 'Let's do it.'"

@MistedTwister @LoyalD_14613 @gator_gum @volcaholic1 A: those are mirrors B: No, photovoltaic panels are not toxic. There IS a small amount of solder to make the connections & a trace amount of lead in the solder. So, I assume you use no electronic product that uses solder. Are you Amish?

@LoyalD_14613 @derekkerton @gator_gum @volcaholic1 So you say solar panels, never leach chemicals?

@MistedTwister @gator_gum @volcaholic1 Those are mirrors, you numbnuts. Go look at yourself in one, and you will see something toxic. I guess you're kinda right.

@derekkerton @gator_gum @volcaholic1 Yes… solar panels, never leach, toxic chemicals.

@JustFonz_ @JustAnotherM44 @volcaholic1 Exactly. One model allows them to sell power at the same time it competes with photovoltaic producers, & spot energy prices are cheap. The molten salt model allows them to sell power in the afternoon and after the sun sets, when energy prices are high. Very different economics.

@JustAnotherM44 @volcaholic1 Similar, but still different especially with China's ability to store the electricity.

@MistedTwister @gator_gum @volcaholic1 This guy ⬆️ is extremely creative when it comes to guessing solved problems with renewable energy. Maybe not so good at guessing problems caused by fossil fuel energy. Maybe those are just too obvious for such a sharp mind.

@gator_gum @volcaholic1 Hopefully that solar farm doesn’t get hit by a large hail storm

@MistedTwister @volcaholic1 Toxic? Mirrors and salt? Then water and steam to power a turbine?

@volcaholic1 I can only imagine how toxic that is.

@volcaholic1 FWIW, this kind of solar was tried in the USA, but fell out of favor as panels became cheap & efficient. However, it's coming BACK into favor, because the hot salt can store heat, & produce steam AFTER sunset. A built-in "battery".