Recent content by RunForTheHills

They pay other people to do that for them.

Right, you will believe anything Iran says because you hate Donald Trump that much. The truth is that, like most terrorist organizations, there are multiple groups vying for power within Iran and getting an agreement from one group doesn't mean you have the agreement of the others: The Supreme...

I thought the idea was to get the CAv3 so that you could program the throttle modulation. Grin also sells different kinds of throttles. https://ebikes.ca/product-info/grin-products/cycle-analyst-3.html#SetupThrotOut The Cycle Analyst sends the Throttle OUT signal (ThO) to the motor...

They currently building new waste storage facilities. But there is actually a better solution; breeder reactors. Unfortunately, politics are preventing using that solution. https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5995392-doe-identifies-five-states-to-hold-nuclear-waste/

They have also cornered the market on DRAM and SSD storage. 64Gb of DDR5 DRAM costs over $1000 right now.

If you read my original statement, I said both solar and SMR projects are getting built. Solar and wind don't work everywhere and for every purpose, even with batteries.

I've seen the roofs collapse on several homes in my community. Both Goodwin's Market and Jensen's had their roofs collapse three years ago during Snowmageddon. A couple of decades ago, we lost the public skating rink in Lake Arrowhead that my daughter skated at when their roof collapsed during...

I live in the California mountains. No rooftop solar in my neighborhood, no AC, and the only EVs are people vacationing from down the hill. Over 7000 foot elevation. Some years we don't get much snow. Some years there are ten foot berms. At our elevation, the snow doesn't melt between...

Those canopies would collapse under the snow load in a bad year where I live. Not that you could get a building permit to put it up in the first place. "structures must be engineered for snow loads that can exceed 150 pounds per square foot"

Perhaps you get snow, but you don't live in the mountains with tall old growth pine trees and mountain ridges. Literally no one in my community has solar panels on their roof.

That is never going to happen. I am not saying that parking lot solar doesn't exist, but they won't be as pervasive as you envision.

This is my house during the 2023 winter:

That is all pie in the sky. Commercial solar farms look like this. Sure, you can convince schools to put solar panels in their parking lots if the federal government gives them the money to pay for it and maybe even some businesses will go along if they get a tax break for doing so. But many...

The reality is that both SMR and solar/battery facilities are being funded and built. It is not an either/or choice. Solar needs 100 times more land than SMRs. Large scale storage/batteries offer only 2-8 hours of storage and will not compensate during the long winter months in northern...