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The land requirement for solar should not be so casually dismissed.

To power the US energy needs, you need an area about the size of New Jersey. Also roughly equivalent to the area taken up by roads. The interstate highway system alone has been cited as the largest public works project in history, and that's "just" asphalt.


The LCOE of solar and wind is cheaper than all fossil fuel plants and nuclear plants. Existing generation will peak load.

Look, any new nuclear or fusion project won't turn on for a decade. Given that even with inflation wind/solar STILL dropped in LCOE cost last year, and still likely has technological and economies of scale, you REALLY think a 10 year out fusion or nuclear project will launch at a price competitive with what even solar/wind + storage will be?

Solar/wind likely will be half the inflation adjusted cost it currently is now even with storage in 10 years.

LFP batteries are coming on the market now for storage that are half what lithium ion cost. Sodium will be release by CATL later this year or next. I'm not handwaving anything.

There is a LOT of roof real estate. A fair amount more than the interstate system. The costs are already pushing wind/solar to deploy as fast as it can be made, it basically is a production scaling problem.

New Jersey is not a large state, given we have west texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and lots of other desert. Which we don't need, because of rooftops and wind.


To be fair, the main reason instabilities are less of a concern is wrapped up in that B^4 scaling.


I understand there's a bit more to it than that.

Here's the section in Professor Whyte's talk: https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4?t=2215

> It's even more subtle than that, in fact this is really one of the things we've studies at MIT, is that there's other things that come in terms of benefits, particularly when you make the magnetic field very high, it basically starts to tame, just all of the whole suite of plasma instabilities that exist.


"But do the media..."

Media is a plural noun. To use it incorrectly this way gives credence to conspiratorial thinking about the press.


Shades of gr[ea]y my friend. If you think of the media as each broadcaster/publisher it might be plural, but in the conspiratorial sense of things the "media" is just the propaganda arm of "them". That makes it a singular thing. QED


Depends where you live really. Some places say "the band is performing" and treat it as a singular, others say "the band are performing" and treat it as a collection of individuals. I think the latter is more of a UK thing.


I would think (and hope) that, when it comes to the possibility of millions of deaths, ideology would be sacrificed to some extent.


What if one pays $200/mo for the HIPAA-compliant plans?


So what? If AirBnB or the property owners are not held accountable, the law doesn't matter.


"Well, it's not a problem for me..."


It's far more petty than that. No one actually has to be inconvenienced. The average American is just plain resentful of unionized public employees.


Jealous because they get benefits private companies don't offer anyone below a certain level. This is accepted because top level pay is so mucher higher.

Unionized employees realized it is better we get more now and take less if/when we make it to the top(which won't happen anyways).


Don't forget screwing the next generation! Unions love incumbancy.


Yes, it's one thing to gang up to extort General Motors, and another thing entirely to gang up to extort the taxpayer.

Public-sector unions should not be a thing.


Maybe it's because police unions form a sizable chunk of those unions...


It's been like that for at least 15 years.


The government has been in the business of basic research since science was a thing. Funding from taxes is a more fundamental component of the scientific process than peer review (a more recent development).


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