Hoover Dam does generate power, but it’s not an energy storage project to time-shift intermittent clean energy generation to match grid consumption

All hydro is automatically “time shifting storage” when new solar is added to power the daytime. Just turn on the turbines at evening peak full blast, and at night. Average global capacity factor of hydro is 45% because the water reservoir is not sufficient to go full blast 24/7/365. Obviously, hydro time shifting is also highly complementary to wind.

In US, and EU is having similar nightmare, nuclear was last built at $15/watt. Installing solar is under $1/watt, and for 20 equivalent hours of nuclear per day (less demand at night means not full production even if available) equivalent to $5/watt-day. $1/watt capital costs is 2c/kwh for solar, and for full day production needs 10c/kwh. All before financing. Nuclear is 30c/kwh. It adds 10 extra years of construction financing, requires political bribes to suppress alternative supply whenever they decide to begin operations, uranium purchases/disposal, expensive skilled operations staff, security, disaster insurance.

Solar does need batteries for time shifting its daily supply. At current LFP prices of $100/kwh, 1c/kwh full cycle is prefinancing cost. and so 3c/kwh if triple the charging/discharging daily capacity. 6 hours of storage is a very high number in power systems. It will capture all energy from a northern summer. It will rarely fully discharge with any time shifting incentives to daytime (much higher convenience to consumers and industry) providing resilience to rainy days. A 2c/kwh value (before financing which is apples to apples comparison to nucclear) means a 5gw solar + 30gwh (much lower if enough private EVs are available for time shifting needs) battery costs 12c/wh or $8B vs a $15B equivalent 1GW nuclear solution. Both last 60 years due to low battery charge/discharge rates and capacity cycle use, with much lower maintenance costs/downtime for life extension costs for solar/battery system vs keeping a nuclear reactor operational. No/minimal operations costs.

It’s very infuriating talking to people about this

Yes. Nuclear shills are frauds who should be frustrated in their theft of the commons.

It is possible that, not too long in the future, every home could also have a 1 MegaWatt-hour battery. They would be able to capture all the excess solar power generated in a year.

Braindead strategy, that most likely is discrete fossil fuel shilling, for purposes of making decision inpractical.

The cost of storage as a baselines is how much you can charge/discharge per day. Bonus for smaller (= cheaper) that can have more discharge/charge than its capacity per day. Plus the resilience/reserve capacity value which is a convenience factor. Resilience alternatives include fire places or gas generators (that are not expected to be used often) which tend to be cheap per kw. But noise, smell, variable costs, and startup effort are all inconveniences. Driving an EV to a public charger can be a similar inconvenience level to a generator for resilience value. If a 1mwh battery is used 10kwh/day it costs 100 times more per kwh than a 10kwh battery.

OP gives an example of 12kwh summer use (no AC?) which is very high for most people, but can include cooking and floodlights.

The braindead analysis parts are “because 100 days of 10kwh surpluses happen, I need 1mwh battery”. Actual battery storage requirements are the lowest theoretical winter solar production over 1-2 weeks, together with running pumps for heat (stored mostly in fall) distribution. A 10kwh/day maximum deficit for 1 week straight, with 60 day average deficit of 5kwh/day (without requiring additional heat input), means that any consideration for a large static battery should stop at 70kwh. This is sharply reduced with 1 or 2 EVs where summer surpluses are free fuel, and EV provides backcharging at 3kw whenever needed. 30kwh battery is plenty to charge an EV overnight (300km range for small car) before next day’s sunlight exceeds needs. Even less battery with 2nd lightly used EV, but 30kwh will be cheaper than un-needed EV.

Instead of relying on batteries for heat generation, which is where $100k 1mwh delusion proposition comes, heat generated from solar stored in under $1/kwh hot water and dirt storage. Outside of winter, this also provides completely unlimited showers and hot tub use, and a $10-20k heat pump and heating system (fossil fuel systems often cost the same) and insulation improvements is the the unquestionable non-distracting path.

you really need scale for sand batteries to work

Not at all. First, (hot) water batteries are excellent for home heat storage. Sand/dirt is even more storage per volume required, and completely complimentary in sending hot water through it (pipes) to make it hotter. No combustion heat means less air exchanges, and a 300C rock/dirt/sand pit has losses that radiate through house.

1. Is HVAC excluded?
2. Do you have an EV?

With an EV you can have 80%-90% of days covered, and top up with EV. You also get to dump daily surpluses into EV, and you can think of covering winter heating with solar and a heat pump. Easier if you have a fireplace for extreme cold possibility.

Storing heat with fall surpluses is path to get winter heating covered. Heat pump can make hot water very efficiently, and resistance heating can make a pile of dirt 300+C. Radiant floor heating is most efficient because water is distributed around 30C. This means your 90C water volume is 60C effective heat storage that is generated at 600% efficiency in fall, and 300% efficiency in typical UK winter, and your dirt heat storage can be 5x more dense.

A 2nd EV even if not frequently used during the day can be an attractive option, especially if used, and tax credits will go away soon, or have gone away (makes used prices lower) can be much easier than home batteries, and much cheaper if it remains uninsured/unused, and resale value doesn’t go down much because of few miles driven. Where utility service includes a high fixed monthly charge, ($50/month in Toronto), $12000 over 20 years savings creates high incentive to remove electric utility. Gas utility has similar fixed vs variable equation, but for Toronto, heat is somewhat reasonable from high supply on our continent.

They, the strip anyways, are all on wall street (stock exchange) now.

partner country of our choosing

There is genuine freedom to choose the partner country… though

Fine print on the choices: Uganda, Swaziland, or El Salvador.

NV was slightly blue in previous 3 elections, or at least very close. It was close again, but the “no taxes on tips” bribe made Trump win, and the bribe was only made to win NV. LV tip earners total after tax earnings are probably down now.

But Stonk number go up only with ripoff.

great link, and good reason for everyone to stay away.

Canada is extra special though. As airport TSA were assholes before Trump, and there are some new ICE/border horror stories with white Canadians, in addition to the general view that US is a dislikable shithole country now, over unfair tariff extortion.

Can we remove this traitor and actually restore the rule of law?

How. DNC? Which does Israel prefer (DNC will go along with that preference)? If allies bend over for Trump, it’s not DNC that will free them. They don’t even object to that part, and only guillotines from NATO colonies will change DNC perspective. It’s much easier for US to win war against those welcoming invasion, and gaslighting their people restricting speech, than losing wars to blocks that are stronger than US.

China or Russia do not move their red lines. US concerns about TikTok were always exclusively the lack of Zionazi supremacist control over the messaging. This is what is getting “fixed” by buyer group. China will also receive other unrelated trade concessions, though falling short of “normal”, they will do better than “allies” who have no red lines on bending over.

Always pick login with calculator, and spoof someone else’s id.

Huwei and SMIC are iterating too fast. As they get good enough yields on current/last generation, they move up/announce new generations that freeze a bit of demand. I think they are doing this to get good pricing for SMIC and local designs. It doesn’t help that all the Trump sycophants are calling him brilliant for enslaving China to “NVIDIA’s 4th best chips and software stack”.

6000d with 48gb gddr7 at 1100gb/s bandwidth, or just H20s, should be sold to us for cheap if Nvidia can’t sell them. H20 at 96gb and 4tb/s is awesome.

There’s still a price that compares well to multiple 5090s that is more suitable to tasks.

h20 is actually faster than h100 for inference (what most of us would use most of the time) at less than half the price to China.

It can’t be establishment that decides. Current establishment requires disinformation to be protected speech. We have always had to say Eurasia is evil.

There needs to be a layer independent of establishment, and/or a much stronger constitution that protects truth/values from supremacist lies and direct abuses of constitution.

The 2 absolute evil examples I gave are absolute. OP spent too much energy on speech that is similar to “blacks can’t swim and whites can’t jump.” As long as it doesn’t lead to establishment policy that restricts sports team enlistment by race, it is just “relatively innocent” racism that may or may not have a grain of truth in stereotypes, and doesn’t matter. Speech that doesn’t matter is the only type that is allowed by establishment, but it would be overly broad to interfere with it. Speech/disinformation for antihuman establishment demonism shift is the critical speech, and whether establishment welcomes it or not, has no basis in whether it be permitted.

More on Christofascism… religious organizations will typically purpose themselves for demonism. Using idealist principles to capture souls in order to sell them to the most demonic evil powers/establishment. The commonality between Christofascism and (Christo)Humanism is classifying production (children, work) as good. The humanist approach instead of punishing women for failing their 28 baby quota, is positive family planning decisions made easier by easier access to prosperity, which unfortunately for the christofascists, means much freer alternatives to the requirement of listening to demons’ sermon for salvation before getting soup.

By embracing both Zionaziism and Replacement theory, Christofacsist “ambassadors” are also serving White fascism above Christianity. When Black Christians making positive family planning decisions are “acts of war” against US establishment, then the white part is necessarily more important to the fascists than the Christian demonism.

Not as strong as it should be. Some speech should be exterminated. Divisive lies for hatred and anticonstitutional genocide makes democracy dysfunctional. Trump having been jailed during last Presidency was both deserved and more democratic. Reaction to the shooting that is criticism of Kirk has an extermination movement ranging from cancel/firings to calls for civil war and genocide of everyone threatened by Kirk. There will be no political retributions for Americans cheering Putin’s death, and establishment would get ultra aggressive if in Hitler’s death someone pointed out his love of dogs. Discussion of a person’s political views should never be exterminated.

2 specific areas of speech that need extermination:

1. Replacement theory. If you have/are allowed to have children, then you will challenge the “ultimate deserved ethnic supremacist” power to control democracy. Structural or individual violent repression of undesirables is validated. GOP establishment must go along with this, as voter suppression has always been a requirement of their corruption.

2. Christofascist justification of ZIonazi first rule over America. Zionazi supremacist speech is establishment speech. DNC (Zionazi) “donor pressure” is against criticizing Christofascism because it is subservient ally to Zionism. Kirk was always granted establishment cred because Israel supremacy was the actual centeral purpose of his platform. Just as Chuck Schumer views his job as to “gaslight the left into being pro Israel” Kirk was gaslighting the right into doing the same. Nick Fuentes, whose speech is said to have inspired the murder, gaslights the right into thinking “Trump is not the most Zionazi supporting US demon in history”. Christofascism’s demonization of Islam, and “godless abomination freedom”, in addition to bribing pastors to emphasize bible passages/revelations, both support genocide, and demonize those most likely to dislike genocide.

Opposing Zionist supremacist rule over America is the actual speech that establishment exterminates from America. It is fundamentally treasonous and inhuman to protect and normalize genocide, and supremacy of another nation. Another 9/11 would only strenghten our loyalty/committment to Israel’s blame for the next 9/11. They will once again “only hate us for our freedom”.

When establishment speech is the one that should be exterminated, it obviously complicates exterminating anti-constitutional and demonic evil speech.

big deal, and fascism. NATO colonies copying the fascism is to be expected. Spirit of 2nd amendment is spirit of right to resist.

Patriot Act’s name is meant to distract from fascist powers within it, and while bitcoin is not super anonymous if you use techniques that are now recommended to “crackdown”, there is improvement.

Bitcoin’s superiority over gold is the ability to move to a more welcoming jurisdiction without border confiscation, or luggage weight, concerns, and so US/Colonies crackdown on “definancialization rights” may well lead to wealth drain from the empire.

The Russia had declared that its goal is to return the borders of the Russian empire.

That is an outright falsehood that would be exposed in democracy. Even idealist “Reconstitution of USSR” implies zero military threat to non-deranged non-propagandists.

But then, it turned out that the Russia does not care about losses.

They of course care about losses. Hopefully, you are not taking Ukrainian claims about their losses with any credibility. Not submitting to demonic evil is a very high priority for Russia. Dead, nuclear incinerated, Finns being more useful to world than the territory of Finland should be your primary concern with your rulers and the lies you repeated from them.

In May 2022 the support for joining NATO was around 80 %

All of it based on programming that the US is not 100% responsible for nazification of Ukraine and starting the war they wanted 100% started. The corrupt tyranny of Finland that dooms its people to destruction based on this genuinely absurd lie, has corruption so strong in their CIA devotion, that Trump’s extortion and 5% of GDP as military spending US tribute gives them 0 pause in their fascism over you. Similar brainwashing levels apply to Canada, but we’re lucky to not pose enough of a threat in our evil that requires nuclear annihilation of our population.

I’m not sure why you’re taking Vietnam war as an example, as it’s an offensive war and for example Finland has no plans to do anything like that.

The US instituted a mandatory draft to fight that war.

one out of 8 inhabitants will be in different forms of military service. There’s no way we could pay an adequate salary for that many soldiers.

Finland joining NATO is joining offensive military operations to diminish Russia. Finland was much much safer before. That media propaganda is permitted to claim Russia is not defending itself, or has no right to object to demonic supremacist attitude that it needs to be destroyed/divided, and privatized for pittances to US dominated financial interests, is an extreme affront to reality and humanity. Any Finnish media that says anything to the contrary could be nationalized for more pro human pro Finland prosperity mandates, and it is only liquid democracy that has a chance to not allow CIA bribed/threatened politicians to not pillage or suicide Finland for CIA diminishment value. The only threat to Finland exists from joining axis of evil against Russia. Liquid democracy offers chance to appeal to non suicidal/stupid to preserve Finland and citizen prosperity.

Yes, Finland security does require citizen training in guerilla sniper tactics for self defense. No, that security is destroyed by joining axis of demonism. CIA can compromise every politician and media in your country ultra cheaply. Not possible under liquid democracy.