I'm not sure about the last couple of decades, but prior to that geothermal was usually really a research project. Yeah, it was expensive, but boondoggle is the wrong framing.

OTOH, some of the recent proposals look serious. I'm not in a position to judge them, but maybe they're good. However they are still limited in the sites where they can operate. I'm not sure the ones that involve fracking are both safe and reasonable. And the closed circulation one that I've seen described is really still experimental. Once they get the bugs worked out of it, it may be a really good system, usable in a lot of places. My guess, though, is give it another 20 years before major investment.

I mean, I don't. Do you mean Das Boot perhaps?

More seriously, BESS does depend on using non-shit batteries. They used garbage NCM EV batteries from LG in the Moss Landing BESS plant and that went real shit. But LFPs are reasonably safe and there's a pretty simple recipe for making a safe BESS from them, using shipping containers with airspace between them.

This is why you don't build just one plant, you spread them around. That in turn is why renewables depend on grid improvements. Those improvements pay other dividends, though, like a more reliable grid.

Humans with brains and hearts don't have to look for a reason, we have many reasons already. Get fucked, poser.

He got all their names and addresses when they looted the SSA database.

So?

Hence your distraction and prevarication.

It's not a problem for me because I don't believe in magic sky daddies. But also, you don't have a solid estimate for the total number of people killed in wars, so you cannot develop a useful percentage.

No, some land is conquered by extermination. But when you accept surrender and then don't keep the terms of the surrender it makes you a thief. You are, right now, defending theft. Scum.

Straw man. Got a real argument, kid?

I stop reading at obvious logical fallacies. You can try again if you want.

Is it, though? The question is whether they are going to implement WOW support or not. There is a little discussion on the linked article about how it either is or isn't possible. If they are stopping here then it's not that exciting for most people who want to run Windows programs, because there's a surprisingly high percentage of 32 bit binaries out there.

Which is usually a boondoggle

I'm okay with massive battery storage, and I'm OK with making AI DC customers pay for it if the grid can't survive them without it.

It was probably the other O'Neil, with one L. He has no sense of humour at all.

I could understand bots and mailing lists. The thing I never understood with LinkedIn was how many real people (usually recruitment agents) had apparently spent the time to read my profile and send me a personalised message, yet still thought I'd be interested in a job paying half the market rate for someone with my skills and experience.

Exactly. They were definitely set on fire by Christians. Christians just aren't what they think they are.

That's easy to solve. If they don't have the rights to distribute the server so they can comply with the requirement, they can't sell the same.

"We do not live in a command economy. It is not the role of congress to decide what business models are appropriate."

This is laughable at the very best. Corporations wouldn't even exist if not created by law.

"What they aren't is marxist. Republicans believe in property rights. They believe in the right to defend that property and violently if necessary. This is includes self defense."

Eh, kinda. They support property rights for themselves... On stolen land. We broke every treaty we made with natives, literally every one, which is why the land is stolen and not just conquered.

Ask conservatives to return their stolen property and they will all tell you no. So no, they do not believe in property rights. They believe in their right to steal property.

At least it's possible to buy a physical copy. With games that's not a thing.

Hahhahahahhahha largely empty land mass you fucking ignorant racist fuckwit