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Comment Re:This isn't uncommon (Score 1) 157

As a licensed radio operator, you are eligible for emergency tags in the state of Tennessee. While that wouldn't insulate you fully from the effects of the law, I can't imagine law enforcement pulling over someone with emergency tags talking into a handheld radio, so this could be a solution to your problem.

Comment Re:Wrong units (Score 1) 108

So no idea what the first part of your post is supposed to mean. Either they are connected or not, in both cases: they are behind the meter. Or how do you pay the owner for his contribution to the grid?

...are you just trolling? You said:

Those batteries are most likely house hold installations.

but the original comment I was responding to said:

The current estimate is that the Calif. grid has about 16TWh of associated battery (excluding batteries associated with behind-the-meter solar installations).

To put it into the simplest possible language: No, that alleged 16TWh of batteries is not "household installations" because the claimed sizing specifically excluded those.

Comment Re:Wrong units (Score 2) 108

Those batteries are most likely house hold installations.

Well, given that the person who supplied that particular number specifically stated that it "exclud[ed] batteries associated with behind-the-meter solar installations" I would suggest you're "most likely" wrong in your assumption.

So they run the house holds they are attached too, and not "the country"

I'm wondering why you're scare quoting "the county" as if that were something I said rather than something you added whole cloth?

Comment Re:Wrong units (Score 3, Insightful) 108

The current estimate is that the Calif. grid has about 16TWh of associated battery (excluding batteries associated with behind-the-meter solar installations).

[citation needed]

California's peak energy usage was apparently about 3 years ago and about 52,000MW. Unless I'm doing my math wrong (which is, I admit, a distinct possibility) 16TWh of batteries represents about 13 days worth of that peak demand. I'm not saying your value is incorrect, but I would expect "California has enough battery storage to run the state for two weeks if all the power generation fails" to be headline news.

Comment Re:WTF is Uno? (Score 1) 74

That's completely irrelevant wrt to the search.

Typing what GP suggested into google gives correct and clear results that will even clarify the confusion about the type of game.

Speaking of "completely irrelevant," he wasn't suggesting search strings--in fact, it was quite the opposite. He originally claimed he didn't know what "Uno" was, then, when it was suggested he, you know, RTFA, he whined that it would not have been hard for the submitter to type "a board game, Uno that allegedly everyone is mad about" and further claimed that a game that has sold 151 million copies is "largely unknown."

Then, snarky me came along and corrected his misstatement that Uno was a board game.

Comment Re:Poor babies (Score 1) 206

If sitting at a desk typing in code all dsy resembles warehouse work to you- youve never done warehouse work.

Reminds me of a tongue in cheek (I think) bluegrass song I heard once upon a time:

Working on the keyboard
Working on the keyboard
Working on the keyboard all day long
I'm working in the new mine

Muscling my fingertips
Muscling my fingertips
Muscling my fingertips the rest of me is losing grip
I'm working on the new mine

Working in the new mine
Working in the new mine
Is breaking down my mind

Comment Re:Somehow, real banks manage (Score 1) 56

Ok, did gunmen come by and force your son into a van? Because that's the kind of problem we were discussing.

Here, I'll requote the part I responded to:

Somehow, KYC has never been a problem for real banks and their customers.

To reiterate: this customer absolutely think "KYC" is a problem, and it obviously is for our (real) banks.

Comment Re:Somehow, real banks manage (Score 1) 56

Somehow, KYC has never been a problem for real banks and their customers.

That's some fucking bullshit right there.

I tried to open a checking account for one of my kids. I've banked at that institution for decades. Kid in question has had a savings account at that bank for years. It took a fucking hour because of all the hoops that had to be jumped through. Lest you respond with "your bank sucks," my wife tried to open an account for another one of our kids at the bank she has used for decades. We left after 90 minutes, still no account set up.

The post 9/11 banking environment is a shitshow.

Comment Re:Energy independence (Score 1) 80

Taiwan has zero uranium reserves, so precisely nothing has changed for energy independence. Even before the shutdown Taiwan imported 98% of their energy.

That's missing the forest for the trees. Taiwan has to constantly import coal and natural gas. Tens of millions of tons of fuel per year getting burned. Compare to the ABWRs that they mothballed/cancelled with, what, a couple of hundred tons of fuel that gets replaced every half decade or so?

Now imagine they have a hostile neighbor with the ability to blockade them.

Comment Re:Good riddance (Score 1) 80

The history of nuclear power is a grift of over-promising, over-toxification, under-liability. Renewables have arrived.

Taiwan is a probably the best case study you'll ever find on why nuclear power is expensive--start, stop, start, stop, delay, delay, delay, then mothball the plant after you finish building it but before it generates any commercial power.

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