The questioner's attempted "gotcha" was, "When will the words 'Climate Change' come out of your mouth?"

The chance of me virtue-signalling for people in the media is zero, so do not count on that. I don't subscribe to your religion. And it's just a tired refrain and song and dance. I get you have an agenda, I understand that, I think you should be more honest about what that would mean for people, taxing them to smithereens, stopping oil and gas, making people pay dramatically more for energy, we would collapse as a country. So, this whole idea, of climate ideology driving policy, it just factually can't work. So in Florida, our energy is gonna be affordable and reliable. That's what you're gonna do, that's the only way you can adequately respond to things like we've just seen with the storms to get people hooked back up.

This is the Way.

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In recent years, hundreds of millions of dollars in new investment has poured into local media, but the lion’s share is coming from left-wing activists with overtly ideological and partisan agendas.

In 2022, Florida was third in the nation, after California and Texas, in total solar power generating capacity, and solar energy accounted for more than 5% of Florida’s total net generation. About four-fifths of the state’s solar generation came from utility-scale (1 megawatt or larger) facilities. //

The Lake Placid Solar Power Plant is located in Highlands County, Fla., and suffered damage during Hurricane Milton. The facility opened in December 2019 and is 45 megawatts, which is enough to power more than 12,000 homes at peak production. //

The frequency of major storms and the costs associated with repair from them must be an essential part of any calculation when deciding if a new power facility is right for the region. It appears that green energy activists aren’t providing this data, but rather their visions of would should be based on their beliefs.

Theology is no way to power a civilization. //

rebelgirl in reply to CommoChief. | October 15, 2024 at 8:26 am
My son is a commercial electrician who works on residential and commercial solar installations. He says he would never have it.
They install the panels on roofs where no one takes into account the problems involved with reaching the source of a potential attic fire. //

Joe-dallas in reply to CommoChief. | October 15, 2024 at 5:01 pm
Correct – the capacity factor for solar during summer is around 35%
The capacity factor in the winter is around 6%

The texas freeze fiasco of Feb 2021,
Solar was producing around 12% capacity factor across the entire nation and a DROP of 60% – 70% wind production across the entire NORTH AMERICAN Continent for 7 DAYS

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Lee Vann said:
Anyone valuing SpaceX above the large Aerospace companies is a fool looking to be parted from their money. Their sales are just to low compared to the big boys. For example Lockhead Martin does ~50 billion a year in sales on a bad year. Northrop Grumman is a little behind them. How much in sales does SpaceX do in a good year? 9 Billion. A pretty good chink of change, but not up there with the big boys. More in the range of the mid tier.

Business valuations are based on expectations of future profits, not historical revenues. Starlink revenues are estimated to increase to over $6.5B this year from $4B last year, and projected to reach $20B to $30B with very high margins in a decade or so.

And that doesn't factor in the impact of switching from a partially reusable launch system (Falcon 9) that throws away a $15M first stage every launch to a fully reusable launch system like Starship lowering their cost per launch from around $30M to roughly $10M while increasing payload capacity by at least 5x. Its far improved cost structure should massively increase the demand for commercial launches. Not only will it dramatically reduce the cost of satellite launches, it enables satellite providers to build them with heavier cheaper materials and to make them far larger to offer even much improved capabilities.

It also massively reduces the costs of building space stations and potentially makes space tourism not only far cheaper but more attractive with weeks long stays for far more people. And If Starship is certified to fly humans its likely to fly more than 10,000 a year to orbit, that's a big business.

And again, likely with higher margins than a Lockheed Martin or Northrup Grumman. All this said, I wouldn't value SpaceX at $200B, but I'm a bottom feeding value investor. But its certainly worth a far higher price per dollar of revenues than these old space dinosaurs..

Following a major earthquake, a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident beginning on 11 March 2011. All three cores largely melted in the first three days.

On Tuesday, Google announced that it had made a power purchase agreement for electricity generated by a small modular nuclear reactor design that hasn't even received regulatory approval yet. Today, it's Amazon's turn. The company's Amazon Web Services (AWS) group has announced three different investments, including one targeting a different startup that has its own design for small, modular nuclear reactors—one that has not yet received regulatory approval.

Unlike Google's deal, which is a commitment to purchase power should the reactors ever be completed, Amazon will lay out some money upfront as part of the agreements. We'll take a look at the deals and technology that Amazon is backing before analyzing why companies are taking a risk on unproven technologies. //

X-energy's technology is based on small, self-contained fuel pellets called TRISO particles for TRi-structural ISOtropic. These contain both the uranium fuel and a graphite moderator and are surrounded by a ceramic shell. They're structured so that there isn't sufficient uranium present to generate temperatures that can damage the ceramic, ensuring that the nuclear fuel will always remain contained.

The design is meant to run at high temperatures and extract heat from the reactor using helium, which is used to boil water and generate electricity. Each reactor can produce 80 megawatts of electricity, and the reactors are designed to work efficiently as a set of four, creating a 320 MW power plant. As of yet, however, there are no working examples of this reactor, and the design hasn't been approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. //

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I'm excited at the prospect of having new nuclear energy in the US. There's been a huge NIMBY push since at least TMI that's seen a lot of regression in the field, despite the science clearly showing advantages for nukes as a base load power source. As much as I want LLM and AI to go the way of NFTs, I am happy to see something revive nuclear.

SMRs are a step in the right modernization direction, but it'd be really cool to get some thorium mixed in here, too. //

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I am optimistic about the nuclear renaissance but I am concerned about labor shortages in the supply chain and among operators.

The premier modular reactor operator, the U.S. Navy, faces a critical shortage of skilled shipyard workers. Repair backlogs can run into year. New construction isn't meeting its goals. Subcontractors that make low volumes of critical parts are affected as much if not more.

It didn't use to be this way but capacity was cut back over the years after the Cold War. Shipyards were closed.

There's a public-private nonprofit entity receiving millions to recruit workers:
buildsubmarines.com

Join the Team Building the Next Generation of U.S. Naval Submarines
Take the first step to join our mission of constructing advanced U.S. Naval submarines. Discover numerous career opportunities across various disciplines and make your mark in this new era of manufacturing.

They have a comprehensive job board with jobs across the supply chain. They're advertising nationally.

New reactors will need the same people. //

The entire federal lawsuit will likely fail because it seems likely that the trademark and copyright claims will be dismissed because of either of two grounds, or both, and the federal court will decline to retain jurisdiction over the remaining state claims.

First, there is no trademark liability when there a sale of genuine goods bearing a true mark even if the sale is not authorized by the mark owner. Polymer Technology Corp. v. Mimran, 975 F.2d 58, 61 (2d Cir. 1992). “[E]ven repackaging of goods is not trademark infringement if it does not deceive the public or damage the mark owner’s goodwill.” Id. at 62. Although this case is about services rather than goods, the same principle applies. Skiplagged is selling genuine American Airlines transportation, and therefore is entitled to use the American Airlines mark to describe the services being sold, notwithstanding the fact that American Airlines has not authorized Skiplagged from doing so.

Second, under the nominative fair use doctrine, a person may use a third party’s mark without liability to refer to the owner of the mark or to their goods or services. That is, if there is no other way to describe the goods or services, other than by using the mark, then such mark usage is not infringement. See New Kids on the Block v Gannett Satellite Info Network, 971 F. 2d 302 (9th Cir 1992).

The copyright claim is novel. The copyright office had denied registration initially, and the court will likely be reluctant to give much protection to a logo by laws intended to protect creative writing. It seems reasonable that the same grounds for non-liability under trademark law will apply as well to this copyright claim.

Ward Clark grew up in the hills and trout streams of northeast Iowa’s wooded uplands, gaining a keen interest in wildlife, camping, hunting, fishing and the outdoors. Gentry served in the U.S. Army in the last years of the Cold War, including service in the Persian Gulf War. //

Ward Clark's vision of the future combines a high-tech, planet-hopping world presented in a gritty, real style that has led some to call him the “Tom Clancy of Sci-Fi.” His fast-paced, hard-hitting style combines a unique blend of outdoor savvy, real-world military experience and realistic character development to the sci-fi genre.

For our global adversaries, who are numerous now, that window of weakness is still open. Taking advantage must be tempting. No wonder when asked previously, Russia's Vladimir Putin said he preferred a Biden reelection because the Democrat was more "predictable" than Donald Trump.

Most of the nation's attention since summer has been focused on the presidential election campaign, now nearing its second anniversary. With early voting well underway, the outlook was reported to be close until quite recently. Media would like to keep it close for business reasons.

Ninety-five days of opportunity remain for Russia and China and Iran and North Korea and other possible troublemakers. Which means 95 more long days of anxiety for the U.S.

New Google agreement could boost development of small modular reactors—if they work.

He even takes the step that I rarely see from even the most reasonable of “reasonable” nuclear critics and concedes that “nuclear still has important uses — in particular, where land and sunlight are scarce.” He concedes so much that I’m not always entirely sure what it is we’re disagreeing about.

But a big part of the difference, I think, is probably that Noah lives in California and hangs out with a lot of tech/engineering types for whom all the points about nuclear that he’s conceded are conventional wisdom, and he’s annoyed that a lot of these people have an image of solar (and especially batteries) that’s stuck in the 1980s, rather than seeing these as dynamic, forward-thinking economic sectors. I live in DC, and I hang out with lots of people who work in or adjacent to Democratic Party politics. And among the people I know, the conventional wisdom is toward much too much complacency about the current state of renewables. Many people think that because photovoltaic panels are now cheap, all the problems are solved and the big issue is that you need to say you’re pro-fracking to win Pennsylvania, and they’re looking for linguistics gurus to help them defeat fossil fuel propaganda.

I think that this is all wrong, that the world will remain much more dependent on fossil fuels for the foreseeable future than a lot of progressives want to admit, that there are a bunch of difficult and outstanding problems that need to be solved, and that nuclear policy may provide important solutions to some of those problems. There is, of course, no way of knowing exactly what the future of any technology may hold. But I think nuclear fission remains extremely promising if — and it’s a big if — we change Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules to allow for more innovation.

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gsgrego said:
People keep praising Elon for stuff.

Name 2 things he has personally done besides fund SpaceX and then hire competent people who don't do what he suggests?

Tom Meuller, the greatest living rocket engine designer, says that Elon led every key engineering decision at SpaceX while he was there, and just tweeted yesterday about the meeting he was in where Elon told the lead engineers that he was going to optimize SuperHeavy by removing the mass of landing legs and catch it with the tower to greatly accelerate launch turnaround times. Their jaws dropped.

Now he probably got the idea from someone else, but the important thing is that he recognized a great idea and made it a priority. Just as he did when he pushed Tom for changes to make Merlin more easily reusable (in 2007!!!), demanded they attempt hypersonic flybacks and landings of F9 boosters when parachutes failed, switched to stainless steel Starship design from carbon fiber ITS design for their next generation launch system.

He's not just a checkbook, he believes fully in first principles thinking and reducing complexity to an almost religious level and clearly signs off on every major engineering decision at all his companies. You can see this across SpaceX and Tesla, for example the Tesla Cybercab without physical controls, back seats or charging connector is so Elon. It remains to be seen how long it will take to actually ship (Elon Time) and whether those compromises will turn out to be brilliant or CyberTruck level mistakes. //

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fancysunrise said:
It is possible and my position even on Musk is not black and white. But in general, he is not one of those people. And it isn't juwst about his bad behavior. It's because he's a clown.

And yes, I've read Berger's book. Actually just made a comment on that the other day in different discussion... With all due respect to the author, I don't really agree with it from what I can discern from it and other sources and my own connections to SpaceX. To your bullets: He started the company - read:funded - but is not responsible for its engineering. He was introduced to a guy who had ideas and lacked money. Money guy meets (and manipulates, often) idea guy is not exactly a novel trope in fiction or real life.

Basically you toss out any citations that conflict with your previous opinion on musk. Sure he's an internet troll. But there are also a long list of prestigious space engineers from SpaceX to NASA to others including Jim Cantrell, Robert Zubrin, Tom Meuller, and Michael Griffin who say Elon has studied rocket engineering intensely, understands it deeply and signs off or leads all major engineering decisions at SpaceX.

fancysunrise said:
The desire to build a reusable system - including one that looks like the present effort - is not his and not new. The funding push to get it done is, but even that is not exclusive to SpaceX. They're just the best funded. Where he has inserted himself into decision making, it's turned out poorly -- e.g. Berger's own example to somehow illustrate the contrary with guides in the Falcon hull to prevent slosh resulting in RUD. Musk is not a scientist or engineer. He wants attention. If he can get it by pushing for something positive, that's fine. If he has to be destructive to get it, that's also fine, whether with the aerospace industry, his workers, investors, laws and the environment or anyone and anything else. Either way, he's always dishonest. We don't need to look at antics around submarines in southeast Asia or the war in Ukraine or "X" or investment fraud or disowning his own child out of spite or awkward jumping on stage and fawning of fascists to get more money and power or any of the rest of it to comment on his role in the space industry. Same way we aren't forbidden from discussing Von Braun's historic role in space just because he was a fascist (or "merely" complicit, if we are overly generous to some disingenuous apologists, who are very wrong) -- we can talk about his engineering chops and decisions and the consequences for better or worse (and it goes both ways with him as well) before and after the war. But Musk is not like Von Braun, because again, Musk is not the "idea guy". Musk is a rich clown who wants attention, and it shows.

Again just because you hate him for his abundant personal sins doesn't change the facts, Elon is rich because he's an idea guy first and has pursued first principles thinking in everything he's done, and has never shied away from gambling his entire net worth on his ideas. It would be as crazy as claiming Von Braun wasn't a brilliant rocket engineer because of his Nazi and SS memberships.

If theft detection didn't work, there are at least two backups. Offline Device Lock activates if the Internet connection is disabled on your phone. And, using another device, you can use Remote Lock at android.com/lock to quickly lock your device with a phone number and a security challenge. It's a faster way to secure your device while you use Find My Device to locate and further lock your gear.

Those three key features—Theft Detection Lock, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock—are not exclusive to Android 15 but are rolling out along with its release. Users on Android 10 or higher should get a Google Play Services update to enable the features, though they'll have to be turned on in the device settings.

European Union regulators warned Elon Musk's X platform that it may calculate fines by including revenue from Musk's other companies, including SpaceX, according to a Bloomberg article published today.

X was previously accused of violating the Digital Services Act (DSA), which could result in fines of up to 6 percent of total worldwide annual turnover. That fine would be levied on the "provider" of X, which could be defined to include other Musk-led firms. //

Bloomberg's report says that Tesla "sales would be exempt from this calculation because it's publicly traded and not under Musk's full control."

"In considering revenue from his other companies, the commission is essentially weighing whether Musk himself should be regarded as the entity to fine as opposed to X itself," Bloomberg's sources say.

Before November 2020, when the hate speech clause was adopted, the code of ethics all related to how real estate agents and affiliates worked with clients, Fauber said. Now that has changed.

“The NAR has now given themselves permission to police real estate agents 24/7,” Fauber said. “It’s deeply troubling that an organization like the NAR can police my life, and complaints can be filed against me for reading a passage of scripture, even in church; that a person wouldn’t even have to be present to file a complaint about me. That’s far reaching.” //

In Virginia, phone calls of cases like Fauber’s come pouring in daily, Cobb said, regarding someone who has lost a job or suffered significant harm due to their faith. //

Christian realtor Hadassah Carter recently won her case against the Virginia Real Estate Board, citing harassment and discrimination for her beliefs. Carter included Bible verses and Christian phrases on her website and was subjected to monitoring and accused of violating Virginia’s fair housing statutes by the board due to her religious speech.

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I don't think they're trying to do what's right. They simply realize they're about to lose the election, and are trying to score some popularity points with the American voters, most of whom realize that our foreign policy has been a complete CF, and we've become a laughing stock and a toothless tiger under the FJB-FKH pathetic regime.

A recent report chronicles the struggles of a handful of federal employees as they learn to cope with the reality that Donald Trump just might win the election.

It is unintentionally one of the funniest things you're going to read this election cycle.

POLITICO covered the group heralding from various government agencies as they came to terms with the fact that their jobs might be on the line if Trump defeats Kamala Harris. They suggest a new administration would be "vindictive" and eliminate their jobs. As such, they prep for the inevitability.

A large portion of these federal workers are fleeing the EPA, transferring to departments that won't be as target-rich for a Trump administration eager to eliminate waste and over-spending.

But the outlet also gets down into the weeds, noting one couple who is being forced to put off buying a new car and making home renovations because they're worried about their jobs. //

It's practically an ad in the making for the Trump campaign.

“We have stopped doing any money-spending things because what if we’re without jobs in the next year?” one Interior employee tells POLITICO. “We need all the savings we can get.”

Gosh, that really resonates with the average American who has had to 'stop doing money-spending things' for four years, just so they could afford gas to drive to their two jobs and then pick up a scaled-down list of groceries that their family has to ration on the way home. //

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DC needs to be decentralized. And give the federal lands to the states, put the BLM out of work!

SpaceX: "Small-but-meaningful updates" can boost speed from about 100Mbps to 1Gbps.

Supported or not, new or old, this is everything you need to know.

In 1971, the AEC proposed a radically new regulatory philosophy requiring all nuclear plants be designed to hold all radioactive emissions to levels such that "exposures were as low as practicable". In other words, there is no limit. And the criteria is not whether the benefit of further reduction outweighs the cost. The criteria is: can you afford the reduction?

This was such a departure from standard regulation that, despite their desperation to get plants on line, it did produce push back from industry. But after considerable debate the policy was formally adopted in 1975 with the wording changed slightly to "as low as reasonably achievable" or ALARA.

In practice, As Low As Reasonably Achievable is interpreted by the regulators to mandate any regulation that allows nuclear to remain competitive with alternate sources of power.

The State Election Board (SEB) passed a rule last month that sought to ensure the number of physical ballots counted matches the Election Day machine count total at the precinct level. But after Democrats launched a lawfare campaign, a Georgia judge blocked the rule on Tuesday despite acknowledging it would simply provide “confirmation that the machine counts match reality.”

Rule 183-1-12-.12 (a)(5) stated that “three sworn precinct poll officers” shall count by hand the “number of ballots removed from the scanner … until all of the ballots have been counted separately by each of the three poll officers.” If the machine count total does not match the hand count total, “the poll manager shall immediately determine the reason for the inconsistency; correct the inconsistency, if possible; and fully document the inconsistency or problem along with any corrective measures taken.”

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney himself acknowledged the rule “may be” “smart election policy,” but that “the timing of its passage make[s] implementation now quite wrong.” //

McBurney expressed concern that as of Tuesday, “there are no guidelines or training tools for the implementation of the Hand Count Rule” and no guidance is “forthcoming,” since Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his office would be unable to “provide meaningful training” on the rule. Instead of training counties on the rule in the 25 days since it was passed, Raffensperger’s office told counties it would do nothing until the court weighed in, according to a memo obtained by The Federalist. Both Raffensperger’s office as well as the state’s attorney general opposed the rule change. SEB member Janelle King previously told The Federalist she didn’t “understand why there are complaints about the rule change being too close to the election while simultaneously delaying training.”