@Nimof11 @ShuffleFM if you can only clear a5 with infinites, then you arent actually good enough to clear a5
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AlienTree
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@ShuffleFM If you only play a0 then this patch is acceptable.But when it comes to a5 or higher then this patch is completely ruining the game
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This patch looks healthy for the game so I'm surprised at all the pushback. Prepared is the only real one I'm disagreeing with. My buddy sent me the perfect image.
Mega Crit ⚔️ Slay the Spire 2 Out Now!@MegaCrit
Hey everyone, we appreciate all the feedback on the recent beta patch! Since we have a lot of new players that weren’t around for StS1’s Early Access phase and players who are new to Early Access games in general, we wanted to explain our patching methodology a bit. (1/4)
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@millohi @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist none of that is true though - you're absolutely making it up. like i said, solar construction is sized to its *minimum* daily productivity; the problem to solve is where to put *excess* generation in summer, not how to "deal with blackouts" in winter. and even so, it's cheaper!
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@alien_tree @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist its planning for the boat to leak as in its planning to fail. its planning to need to put an entire citys worth of extra load on neighbouring supplies anytime theres more than like 1 day w/o sun. its planning for rolling blackouts every winter, nd saying its fine
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This argument against nuclear is "Hypothetically in some distant future where society for some reason can't understand why this resource shouldn't be opened, it COULD cause catastrophe" while coal & fossil fuels actively destroys the world with a 100% climate catastrophe rate
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The fact that young people talk about nuclear power and never, ever, EVER mention the nuclear waste that is buried all over USA in storage sites that will remain radioactive basically forever and aren’t secured or really “safe”
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@millohi @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist at more productive latitudes, the land use question becomes even sillier. there is basically no world where any country on earth runs the risk of land overuse on modern solar technology with even double our current global energy demand - and solar tech is *still* improving.
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@millohi @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist to power the entirety of current US energy demand on a watt-hour basis (matching all current generation by yearly energy output, not peak generating capacity) at Wisconsin-latitude solar would take less than 1/4 the land we currently use to grow corn *exclusively* for ethanol.
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@millohi @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist no, no part of a solar-based grid is planning for "the boat to leak." if anything, a nuclear-based grid would be a boat that has no bottom - with static base load, any demand fluctuation has no answer. only storage answers it, and if storage is already built, solar is obvious.
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@alien_tree @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist i mean yeah no shit. i just think we shouldnt be planning to build a leaky boat, i want an actually resilient energy infrastructure. transmission nd gen issues happen now, but theyre not whats supposed to happen. youre opting for their outcomes to happen basically on purpose.
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@SkylarKaede @millohi @aidenconartist which is something nuclear *also* doesn't solve. so it's hardly relevant to the fundamental question of "is nuclear worth spending the money on when cheaper, better solar already exists?"
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@alien_tree @millohi @aidenconartist and most of the power problems that require backup power are caused by storms yeeting power lines, not supply problems. except in texas where they apparently don't believe in winter.
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@SkylarKaede @millohi @aidenconartist yep, which is why battery manufacturers started developing inverter-stabilizer tech 10 years ago and deploying it in grid scale projects 3 years ago to provide a better version of the same inertial service without requiring spinning masses. like i said, you're talking last decade
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@alien_tree @millohi @aidenconartist lots of solar on the grid introduces a new mode of failure: inverters lack the gorillion tons of synchronized spinning metal turbines that stabilize the AC frequency, they just trip offline when too far from 50/60Hz
that's what caused the blackout in spain last year-ish
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@SkylarKaede @millohi @aidenconartist and a grid with a strong storage component can actually begin to provide sufficient service that on-site backups for critical infrastructure can be sized to only be used in times of serious emergency, rather than to compensate for grid instability (which our pre-solar grid has!)
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@SkylarKaede @millohi @aidenconartist yes, if you want to talk about the strict energy density mathematics for short-term small-scale operation, obviously hydrocarbons are still the best chemical energy store we've ever discovered. fortunately, grid scale batteries don't have to fit in a hospital's basement.
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@SkylarKaede @millohi @aidenconartist we are not hurting for power during minimum demand! be it overnight or any other time! there has not been a moment where even solar-heavy regions, anywhere in the world, are struggling to fulfill their baseline. and base load plants do not help with peaks.
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@SkylarKaede @millohi @aidenconartist no, you are strictly wrong - the problem to be solved is the difference in minimum vs maximum demand, which on modern grids is immense. a base load system *cannot* operate above minimum demand, because it would have to curtail during low hours and could not be economically viable
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@SkylarKaede @millohi @aidenconartist yes! they literally already are! all over the world! solar farms and battery storage are outcompeting every other option in costs, both short term and long term. this is why they're all that places like pakistan and china build anymore - without oil subsidies, solar takes over.
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@alien_tree @millohi @aidenconartist and are they providing cheap enough electricity to consumers that people are happy to consider electric appliances instead of gas? that's the primary reason batteries are an insane choice.
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@millohi @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist which, yes, can include curtailing when grid storage and transmission are insufficient to route summer excesses to distant markets! but the myth that solar just "doesn't work" in winter is insanely false - even building to winter production is massively cheaper than anything else
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@millohi @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist solar projects are already sited and scaled to demand - both performance and likely load schedules are taken into account when the final ratings for the site permits are completed, and they are constructed to provide what is needed by the communities they're in.
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@SkylarKaede @millohi @aidenconartist and, amazingly, nuclear does nothing to solve this! since output cannot meaningfully change in response to demand. some kind of peaker plant would still be required even if the entire rest of the grid were nuclear - the best version of which is clearly grid scale batteries.
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@millohi @alien_tree @aidenconartist peak load in a world where gas appliances have been mostly phased out will happen at the absolute worst time for solar+storage: in the dead of winter, some morning when it's -26 out and everyone's heat pump runs to heat the house from the cooler night time set point
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@millohi @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist there has never been a time in the history of man when the entire US has experienced no sun and no wind. not "for some length of time." at no instant has it ever been true. what you're describing is an issue of transmission, which is inevitable on any grid in the next 10 years.
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@alien_tree @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist …do u think their batteries are magic? BESSs are mostly LIB, sure SIB are better but they’re barely in the market.
also, even if SIBs suddenly became everywhere, theres still the issue of ‘the sun hasnt been out for days nd theres been barely a breeze’.
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@millohi @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist this is so laughably untrue with any tech from this decade it's almost sad. the key issue of grid-size batteries is onsite cooling, not "cold weather performance" like a phone or car battery. you're parroting outdated understandings at best and outright lies at worst.
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@alien_tree @SkylarKaede @aidenconartist batteries are shit in the winter in cold climates tho- and obv theres way less sun out too. wind also has the issue of its not always windy.
hydro is great if u can do it, but its super geography dependent. nuclear is the only other nonfossil that actually gives a reliable grid
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