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@besttrousers If a “woke mind virus” ever existed doesn’t that imply other “mind viruses” can exist?

@goatpurple1 @YoucanAxel @mattyglesias Yet those who bet on that seem to lose money

@e_considine @YoucanAxel @mattyglesias Sometimes wind n solar both go low

Solar progress depends on sunshine, transmission infrastructure, and the ability to obtain large parcels of land — it's not about anti-fossil fuel regulations.

@SamaHoole Fake pic and fake dialogue

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]

@goatpurple1 @YoucanAxel @mattyglesias Add wind and storage.

@e_considine @YoucanAxel @mattyglesias Renewables can only go do far Solar zero at night battery on for 2 hours

@goatpurple1 @YoucanAxel @mattyglesias Demand at night rarely is equal to day demand.

@e_considine @YoucanAxel @mattyglesias They are both Profitable backup Ever night gas cycles up

@goatpurple1 @mattyglesias x.com/e_considine/st…

@e_considine @mattyglesias I never said shadow in OP No difference nce either way you need capital for full generation. TX gas backup China Coal backup

@DPGBehler This does require us to define this very carefully. What is the line between “Jesus existed but he was very different than what we think” versus “the truth was so different we can’t even say there was a Jesus”

Claiming Jesus didn’t exist is a fringe belief even among secular historians.

@YoucanAxel @goatpurple1 @mattyglesias I think what you’re missing is the grid is buying from producers in real time. It doesn’t matter what the plant invested, they will either sell their output in the auctions every day or they won’t. x.com/e_considine/st…

@e_considine @goatpurple1 @mattyglesias Well if they don't get enough to make a profit they will eventually close down and we'll have to load shedd

@YoucanAxel @goatpurple1 @mattyglesias They might demand but they won’t get it as renewables increase production.

@e_considine @goatpurple1 @mattyglesias Yes why they will demand higher an higher prices the lower capacity factor they get, which they will get with increased renewables. This might need to be fixed with legislation, or the price variability will become ridiculous

@YoucanAxel @goatpurple1 @mattyglesias Those aren’t “backup”. They are profit seeking investments

@e_considine @goatpurple1 @mattyglesias Texas have a lot of "extra" gas turbine capacity that ramp up and down with the wind and solar, these want more money the lower capacity factor they have, since capex and loans need to be paid if on fewer operating hours.

@goatpurple1 @mattyglesias Not a shadow backup like you claimed

@e_considine @mattyglesias TX has nuke + fossil capacity for max load even with very little solar or wind. They only had one big blackout and that were from cold with poor weatherizing

@GregNotSure @haugejostein Kill two birds with one stone

@e_considine @haugejostein This lot looks kind of sus. They were probably asked to build this to manage groundwater issues.

I live right next to the US embassy in London. They built an actual moat around it. Who builds a moat around their embassy? Countries that do bad things and expect retaliation. Or countries who do diplomacy as if we’re in the Middle Ages.

@goatpurple1 @mattyglesias Shrug. Does Texas have a silent fossil system just sitting around just in case like you might have a generator in your garage waiting for an outage? Where is this ghost fleet of plants?

@mattyglesias You miss biggest problem storage Plot is cherry picked day n batteries small effect. You will get dunkelflaute like 2 week w little wind or sun. You need fossil system on standby not cheap

@Mithra_Is_Fine @scrubbedlaunch @haugejostein This doesn't look like 'for defense' unless you're defending against stormwater runoff from the highway.

@scrubbedlaunch @e_considine @haugejostein What do you suppose “around” means? Because the fucking dictionary thinks it means “located or situated on every side."

@Dgaganche1984 @boulderfish @Geronimo6723 @neoavatara @theblaze I think what we are missing here is what happened with the unvaccinated during that period isn't really relevant. It's what happens to the unvaccinated when they are confronted with a Covid infection since everyone will eventually be infected, as we know now.

@boulderfish @Geronimo6723 @e_considine @neoavatara @theblaze Hm, so if data was collected as pre Covid, and we know that pre covid myocarditis rates were 1-10 per 100 000 (that's basically unvacinated group), how they found 0 per 100 000 among unvacinated?

This is incorrect, @theblaze . You need better science journalists.

@boulderfish @Geronimo6723 @neoavatara @theblaze Misses the point, what you want is how often do you get myocarditis with the vaccine then* versus getting covid w/o vaccination. * Today it's irrelevant, myocarditis vanishes if you space vaccination out more than a month or two. But the antivaxxers never bother to mention that.

@e_considine @Geronimo6723 @neoavatara @theblaze What they wrote there in fact aligns exactly with what The Blaze wrote. No?

@boulderfish @Dgaganche1984 @Geronimo6723 @neoavatara @theblaze They shaded it a lot.

@Dgaganche1984 @Geronimo6723 @e_considine @neoavatara @theblaze That would be something to take up with the study authors. Not The Blaze. The Blaze accurately reported what the study authors claimed to have found.

@Samuel_Gregson E = MC2 E = MC2+AI substitute: MC2=MC2+AI 0 = AI AI = 0

Reminded of this banger:

@Brad08414464 And how do such scientists make a living? How do they build their careers?

imagine a world where the scientist with the most clout was not a Nobel prize winner, but just some random internet anon. imagine if the world’s top AI researcher was unaffiliated and completely anon this makes me think of OASIS from ready player one

why isn’t there an underground research community for people to publish research outside of the system and outside of conventional channels? the world doesn’t have very good infrastructure to enable this

@Dgaganche1984 @Geronimo6723 @neoavatara @theblaze That, of course, doesn't address the fact that myocarditis cases are not all equal. Vaccinated related ones are mild while Covid related ones are severe.

@Dgaganche1984 @Geronimo6723 @neoavatara @theblaze And for unvaxxed who get infected it's about 146 per 100,000. Using the same scale doesn't help you.