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Cake day: October 23rd, 2024

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  • For headline, yes it is game over. Video is too long. While 1.5C isn’t a magical threshold for tipping points, it is an approximate one. Planet will not be cooling from here. War is huge in boosting short term use and prices and desperate FF projects ensures long term use at any price.

    Tipping point for forest fires and permafrost thaw has already been breached. Lumber tariffs will make forest fires worse. While energy sector in many regions has shown peak FF use, Atmostpheric CO2 concentration rose by a near record last year. War and forest fires likely the culprit.

    AMOC effects are misunderstood. Europe likely to stay/get warmer every winter, as Atlantic overall gets warmer. AMOC slowdown is just tropical Atlantic getting extra hot, but the heat will still move north, and Arctic ice extent/volume will ensure longer summer that makes European/Arctic winters warmer, and ever hotter northern Atlantic end of summer temperatures.


  • Every piece of land can be useful. US’s current friendship with/lordship over NATO would get any project it wants done, and allow any shipments to/from America. Project value is overblown due to high development costs and distance to markets.

    The reason you will hear economics and defense from enemies motives, is that is the sweetest sounding lie. It would increase the purchase price if Denmark citizens knew that Denmark government and its king are selling US to improve its capabilities to murder all Danes.








  • Hydrogen electrolysis meshes well with batteries. Having enough solar to meet non-heating needs in winter even on cloudy days, means having way too much power in other 3 seasons when sunny. Enough solar and batteries to charge in winter cloudy days, and dump into heat storage (or some H2 electrolysis) on winter sunny days, would also let you overcool till 3pm in summer, and do electrolysis in 3 seasons.

    Not only is H2 import/exportable for backup power or heating, but the electrolysis equipment is sizeable into truck containers that let them move around seasonally. Canada/Europe long summers is good time for electrolysis from winter sufficient solar. Southern US, can be good enough other seasons, but southern hemisphere can gain more from other hemisphere’s winter.


  • This has been happening every spring for last 5 years, with California. This is the first time for France. It should also be happening in the same places in fall, but doesn’t make the news as much.

    This is power shoulder season where demand is lowest due to no heating/cooling demand. Europe has had a very warm winter/spring.

    Expect news within a couple of weeks of Solar and battery records in California meeting record energy demand.

    Batteries, or enough grid connected EVs, is the solution to monetizing high solar energy later on in the day.


  • F35 is a terrible plane. Requires Lockheed consultants to maintain, even for US military, which is expensive. No manuals are provided with plane. Requires permission to turn on the electronics for every flight. Has lower flight time/readiness than any other western aircraft. No actual Canadian mission requires a bombing focused air fighter. Only middle east type force amplification from static airbases (not aircraft carrier capable). Pure BS of defending Arctic from complete non threat in next 30 years is a mission for navy, missiles and drones that have longer lives and much cheaper, and better at bombing focused missions.

    We need to get a refund for the crap we bought already, or sell them to a sucker like KSA, or US enemy.





  • now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of “just being themselves” for those who appreciate that most

    hmmm… contradicting the corporatist theory that technology/automation/AI has always resulted in more employment, the employment level of horses has decreased significantly… so let us all welcome those who will appreciate our use as glue ingredients.


  • future of air conditioning stocks, which it provided to clients on March 17. A 3 degree warming scenario, the analysts determined, could more than double the growth rate of the $235 billion cooling market every year, from 3 percent to 7 percent until 2030.

    This is not banks preparing for catastrophic warming. It is the stock brokerage division of banks giving their boiler room reps a “hot tip” lead.

    Banks should be worried about their fractional reserve lending (about to be deregulated to a lower fraction requirement) in housing, and the affordability issues created by tariffs, high interest rates from government debt unsustainability, and importantly insurance.

    Poor insurability of housing and farmland is incompatible with high property values. Tropical Atlantic temperatures are already extreme, and forest fires/flooding all going to intensify.



  • headline not claimed. 1 km2 as a continuous flat surface that can be pointed at sun is 250mw from commercial cells. Outside of our atmsophere, irradiance boost is only 33%. so 340mw. Geosynchronous over China will only gain up to 3 hours per day of sun. That can be a 75% boost in average daily power.

    except microwave energy transmission… While a 50% efficient transmission is possible (effectively 250mw earth equivalent delivered), it needs a 100 square km receiver array. Even at 150mw per square km earth solar, is enough space for 15gw of solar.

    So, it only makes sense at much larger scale, and only makes sense if denser energy costs as astronomically high as such a project. Beaming energy to other points in space, or even remotely powering a spacecraft are applications.