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That article from 2016 is not about the CSP project in Nevada (Crescent Dunes) but the one across the border in California (Ivanpah) that had the bird kills because it had no thermal energy storage and thus had to keep heliostats focused near the solar receiver, creating a hot spot nearby.

Crescent Dunes invented the algorithm for focus that prevents birdkills. And it had thermal energy storage, the first tower CSP at utility scale to do so, which removes the need to keep the heliostats always on standby focused together on one spot. Ivanpah was the last CSP built with no storage, and since then no bird kills. All 30 projects in China have been required to include storage.

Crescent Dunes (100 MW) had other problems as the first ever Tower CSP with storage at utility scale (Gemasolar had been built with storage a few years earlier in Spain, at 50 MW. Crescent Dunes had a major outage because a tank leaked, bankrupting the startup that developed it, but now its owned by a big Spanish outfit and has been back online for several years, supplying night solar to Las Vegas: https://www.solarpaces.org/what-happened-with-crescent-dunes...

Lying down is best. Comfy, relaxing, best for brain

600 BC is hardly 'before (sic) prehistoric times'

It is rather ridiculous to fret about the very minor emissions of manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels compared to sticking with fossil fueled energy sources!

We don't see similarly breathless studies of the carbon emissions of all the other manufactured things we need to run our civilization.

Where's the emissions involved in making washing machines? Highways? Primary schools? Oh dear, let's not make those things!

But no, it is only the things that compete with the fossil industry that must be tallied up so NIMBYs can have some excuse to ditch these crucial solutions to our climate problem.

if there were pylons already going to where the solar and wind farms are built then yes, this 'rarely used technique' of adding larger capacity wires to existing pylons would be the obvious answer, but the problem is these uninhabitably hot sunny deserts and windy plains ideal for new solar and wind energy do not have grid connections because people don't live there.

The earliest vaccines injected at tiny amount of the disease, from smallpox on. So she probably expected to feel like shit, and that's why she felt like shit.

However the covid vaccines did not have any covid in them. So there is no way she got a taste of covid shittyness.

Most traditional vaccines consist of either killed or weakened forms of a virus or bacterium. These provoke an immune response that allows the body to fight off the actual pathogen later on.

Instead of delivering a virus, RNA vaccines deliver genetic information that allows the body’s own cells to produce a viral protein which stimulate the immune system to mount a response, without posing any risk of infection.

Good that Australia is not the only country in the world, indeed. In the US, there was a measurable change in death rates once Blue states (Democrats) got vaccinated by May of 2021. Red states, led by Trumpism, where right wing media trumpeted vaccine conspiracy theories, which lowered their vaccination rate, had higher death rates.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828...

This is incorrect. It is not for a few minutes!

We are way way past that at this point. The renewable generation meeting the total demand is over most of the day. Because of solar PV, the cheapest generation now, the daytime electricity supply is actually more than we need in California. Solar farms (and also wind farms)get curtailed here due to supplying more than the grid can take at times; this is usually for several hours.

Source; reporter covering solar news through interviews with grid operators, solar developers and policymakers since 2008

People can only comfortably read a maximum of 17 words per line. Best is 12. That text should be in two columns.

We are headed for 20 MW now, so a wind farm with five 20 MW turbines is a typical size for many gas power plants; 100 MW.

In the EU, there's testing facilities that are checking these at this 20 MW size now. Commercially at this point there's up to 17 MW operating in the North Sea.

It really doesn't seem like it could pencil out, as it carries only one blade at a time, that's three trips for each turbine - and most windfarms would have more than one. But I guess they think it does. Perhaps they can also deliver to offshore farms, which already have contracts. I know there is a shortage of the specialized ships to float their huge blades out.

Also, I hope they've done their homework on NIMBY pushback on land which is pretty effective against wind farms even with regular sized turbines.

The energy use is the issue because fossil fuels supply the heat for the thermochemistry (like with most industrial processes). But direct solar heat could be used instead - this heat is supplied by concentrated solar thermal in a novel process

https://www.solarpaces.org/solar-pyrolysis-to-recycle-lithiu...

Re 'Why these crap journals even exist is a mystery to me.' Don't journals make money by charging academics to read the whole paper?

His use of "he" or "his" research was a bit dated looking... More natural to say "they" presented a paper and "their" paper didn't pass muster or whatever

Yes, there's lots of houses in suburbs with empty bedrooms. If there was an incentive for boomers to rent rooms in their houses like in the 1920s. But that is risky for the boomers.

How about to reduce risk, but reward lucky ownwes, a lot of houses too big for aging boomers, could have incentive payments to sell to HUD to convert into rooming houses, with lockable bedrooms rented separately, and the shared kitchens and bathrooms cleaned by HUD, and quick evictions for any troublesome renters. So more like renting at a YMCA or backpackers' hostel, ideal for the working poor.

The Ports of Los Angeles require decarbonization, and so this is not required to go great distance, but rather to spend a day moving containers around at the port.

Distance isn't the only issue. Nobody needs that kind of power in a truck to get around in.

But short haul and heavy duty like in a mine, this would be very handy.

I can see EV for next-gen mining equipment, the sort of behemoth that the wheels alone dwarf a man standing next to one - and still needded for mining new climate tech energy likel lithium, copper, silicon - but jeez, just some truck?

California runs on 100% renewables for 4.8 months each year in a sense too.

It has 40% renewables last time I checked I think in 2019.

If you assign that to what percent of the annual use, that is the equivalent of everything from Jan 1st-April 24ish California is runing on 100% renewables.

Cottage industries from at least the time of Queen Elizabeth did have women working though. It was just that there were no factories until the industrial revolution, so that industrial activity remained in the home "the cottage", for both husbands and wives.

it's horrible, that's why. [New Zealander, raised on mutton]

Good news for a change. Government is supposed to protect us from business.

tell it. It remembers for a bit.

what will happen when they only have each other to mine for data?

No!

At least they can't have any effect on today's situation. The high inflation (it is coming down - it was 8%% - its down to 4%) was caused by worker shortages after the pandemic.

Fewer able-bodied workers after covid commanded higher prices, just as the serfs who survived the Black Death in the middle ages commanded better working conditions subsequently. The shortages in goods as fewer factory workers could make them and fewer truckers could move them also raised prices.

None of these causes for higher prices is impacted by higher interest rates.

they are completely different... so why? Google.

That article was 15 years ago, back in 2008. If it was a better alternative, we'd have seen it by now.

What I find compelling about this new evidence is that what they see flying is a small sphere doing impossible things. Can a sphere fly and hold its geolocation position perfectly in a hurricane as these reports cite?

How would you explain it as any earthly tech? And if not US, what nation hass more advanced tech than the US?

And isn't as likely that alien civilizations would send a probe, rather than arrive with their organic selves in a big spaceship needing food etc? Like us with our Mars rover, etc, wouldn't they send a small remote controlled probe to check out alien worlds?

Mylar balloons drift about. They quickly blow away in hurricane force winds

Look at the videos linked. These were perfectly stationary in hurricane force winds, and shot away to one side at the speed of sound.

Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill does cover parish records of births and deaths (mortality tables) in England at that time, so they must have been recording this prior to the big one