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I won't judge you, so long as you don't judge me for not allowing camp clothes for anyone.

It's hilarious when people visit in the middle of the night.

In this instance I don't think that's so much of a bad thing, as pdf's have something of a security risk with them. However mostly it was my wording that was wrong, I didn't mean to imply Google was hosting a pdf, the pdf is on Discord.

There is a url on Discord directly to the pdf, it tried to stop me but I managed to copy it using a mouse gesture extension, and I've trimmed the tracker fluff at the end: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/774119166931894272/1066138917939728494/DS9_-_Final_Workflow.pdf

The size difference is still huge. A new onshore turbine might be 5MW, offshore is now maybe 10-15MW, but a single big turbine in say a nuclear or coal plant could be hundreds of MW or even into the GW. The machines are just much bigger and much more massive.

That doesn't mean we should prioritise them, however. The UK's National Grid did a Future Energy Scenarios study and determined that the fastest way to net zero is to go hard on current renewable technology. It's ready, it's proven, and it's cheap and quick to build. Money spent on nuclear is just money that could be spent on getting renewables up and running more quickly, and we'll almost certainly use more combustible fuel waiting for nuclear than we would backing up renewables. If we build a large excess in renewable capacity we should be able to meet almost all demand, regardless of when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing (the sun still shines through the clouds and it's usually always blowing somewhere), and if we focus on building nuclear afterwards then by the time that's operational our demand may have increased so much that the excess of renewables isn't an excess anymore.

In terms of grid stability, rotating stabilisers are one solution. They're basically giant, heavy spinning discs, providing the same mass and inertia you would get from a large turbine, but driven electrically off the grid. They're used often on large ships, eg cruise ships and aircraft carriers, however on land there is a little concern over what might happen if they fail - the last thing you want is several hundred tons of metal spinning at hundreds or thousands of RPM rolling through the countryside lol. It's quite funny how the manufacturers have different ideas on how to deal with this, GE use gearing to reduce the RPM, Siemens use loads of sensors and monitoring to detect when it's failing before it happens, and ABB plan on shunting all the momentum into this smaller thing housed in a brick building that they hope will contain it.

A note on waterproofing, I've heard that barn owls (and maybe some others) are not waterproof, and that's one reason they struggle sometimes. If it's constantly raining they can't really hunt.

Poor little soggy owls.

It says that the American education system has been successfully gimped in order to create that base.

This is their workflow ~~(pdf displayed on Google): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSMdt3xYFfIErWOlXzkaRuM45szFgGI52XoWGofEIoL7umv7R_NEJEeXCMwjLMpycGzLMBabmOTn2CP/pub~~

Direct link to the pdf from Discord: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/774119166931894272/1066138917939728494/DS9_-_Final_Workflow.pdf

Haven't been able to find one, don't think they have one.

Their workflow is available in pdf on their Discord, or on Google Drive: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSMdt3xYFfIErWOlXzkaRuM45szFgGI52XoWGofEIoL7umv7R_NEJEeXCMwjLMpycGzLMBabmOTn2CP/pub

But they also had the little snake gun things which were far more practical, and also could stun.

I don't like Brave because they've done dodgy things like this time and time again over the years, and each time Brandon Eich went on a marketing campaign across social media to drum up new users and drown the story out.

Taxing capital gains better wouldn't tax people not making money, either, however it has the advantage of not taxing people who are already giving up the most valuable thing in service: time.

Just you wait until elections really kick off, then you'll really see how shit it is.