Perhaps they should have. Along with all the slaves we imported.

Perhaps we should have let Democrats win the war against the 2nd Amendment a couple hundred years ago too. That way you would have been able to keep your slaves when the Civil War broke out and nothing but redneck illegal gun owners fought to keep their plantations. The South would have won.

Hope that clarifies how ignorant it is to re-plant yourself into 19th Century arguments as if it makes two shits worth of difference today. You paid your reparation payment this month? You better have. You owe for your ancestors crimes.

Big tank isn't going to cut it. You'll need to pump everything through high surface high throughput heat exchangers. It's going to cause significant additional energy losses.

a non-functioning traffic light is always supposed to be treated as a 4-way stop

Supposed to. But I can guarantee this is not the case, As I have seen actual power outages.

And try getting onto a major thoroughfare from a side road that normally has occasional traffic light protection.
But literally 99% of the people on the main road in massive numbers just ignore the downed lights at the intersections entirely.

And at the main junction where Major roads intersect Is complete and utter chaos for the half hour before a police officer gets there to deploy portable stop signs and manually direct anyone to stop.

Unless you want to have kids.

Yes. We store is in steel tanks by cryogenically cooling it prior to compression so it doesn't go supercritical during compression. After compression is done, we just need to maintain subcritical temperature and pressure.

Basic physics time: do you remember that when you compress something, it heats up? So what happens to a gas that goes supercritical at around 30 celsius if you attempt to rapidly compress it into a liquid without doing extreme cooling on it before compressing it?

Important part of the battery is that you can in fact move things between energy states EFFICIENTLY. Last I looked at compressed gas capacitors is that you use a gas like CO2 for cost reasons, but you cryogenically cool it before compressing it. That way you can actually rapidly compress meaningful volumes of gas without it going into supercritical range and causing a Significant Emotional Event for people nearby. This is one of the main reasons why compressed gas capacitors aren't anywhere near chemical battery efficiency.

These people are claiming that they got high efficiency without cryogenics. They never tell us how. Basic physics look very, VERY wrong for this claim. Either they have discovered laws of thermodynamics are wrong, they have devised some novel kind of a compressor that actively cools the gas as it compresses it. Or they're lying to sell ESG green credits.

First option is "lol no". Second is "would be amazing, but we'd have seen the patent, because it would revolutionize a lot of power production today". And third is "done all the time nowadays as all massive companies want to farm ESG green credits for cheap loans and to qualify for certain funds, so by far the likeliest option".

Think the current ownership even knows about ThinkGeek?

ThinkGeek is more like a historical footnote, and the counterexample to show geek gifts have not been a viable demographic.
And I'm not sure where the article is going with that. The Oregon trail is iconic among old people who were never geeks for nostalgic purposes as a famous game played when kids. Game Enjoyer and Nostalgic gamer are true demographics though, and these demographics are Not related to geekdom; any more than gift for Movie enjoyer puts one in a geek demographic.

Firefox merch and to an extent Github merch are not even gifts for geeks anymore, as these products are simple common items for general audiences and more widely used by non-Geeks than by geeks, but hey. The $55 Github magic ball has a geek theme without much appeal. It's just maginally geeky at most.

Considering ThinkGeekp ended up shutting down their online store, and their product line was absorbed by Gamestop. One of those retailers who caters to pretty much the opposite of geeks; Pop culture clientele and physical media-loving Gaming enthusiasts.

No, anti-AI luddites lost. Suno won.

It's not even a competition any more. Basically everyone in music uses Suno for everything from helping them with lyrics, to testing out tunes, to making entire compositions. Doesn't matter if you're a massively successful artist, or a kid just starting his music hobby.

They all use Suno now. It won.

Currently there are more things not working on Windows - included, but not limited to old hardware support - thannnot working on Linux.

TYOTLL isn't delayed by Linux features, workflow or user friendliness itself.

There have been successful prototypes of gas compression capacitors "injecting electrons into the grid" for much longer than that.

What matters isn't "injecting electrons in the grid". What matters is doing this efficiently at low cost.

My entire point is that none of these sources, including this blog have a single word to say on the issue that matters. Instead they all focus on various language trick and creative wording to divert attention from thing that matters to things that don't.

You know, like "injecting electrons into the grid". That's the long solved part. It's the cost of doing it and efficiency with which it is done that actually matters, and we get nothing on that in all those pretty ESG green credit themed corporate blogs.

We're in agreement on lies catching up to people. They already have caught up to your types in music. Suno.ai won. Anti-AI liars lost. Relevant Majors are now all invested in AI. Mainline artists all use Suno for everything from figuring out a specific tune, to testing out how certain things could be done with specific voices under specific conditions. It's done and there's no going back.

We're well in progress of same being done the same to movie industry and gaming. Every single one of the activists will have to go back to Burger King. You can arrange all the bluesky cancellation campaigns and take back awards as you please. For a couple more years.

Meanwhile Expedition 33 guys will just have to wipe their tears with their fat wads of cash from product sales, while sitting at McDonalds. And then pay you in those salty, wet bills in your new, productive employment as a burger flipper.

Welcome home.

I've had some inside access to this tech in recent past. The main problem is efficiency. It's horrendous. You lose tremendous amounts of energy doing this, and you need quite a bit of energy to maintain the compressed state. We're nowhere near mainline chemical batteries in terms of efficiency numbers, and whatever numbers they're claiming on their website are likely specifically negating some critical losses. I've seen efficiency numbers as low as 20-25%, through they can really struggle to push into upper 30s for long term storage, and can probably get above 50 for very short term (i.e. minimal compressed state maintenance costs). Still nowhere near the required efficiency numbers to competitive with chemical batteries of current gen. These people claim 75%. Odd.

And it's completely unsuitable to any kind of "long term storage". This is very much a potential energy capacitor, and maintaining compressed state requires constant energy burn (which is one of the parts of it having awful energy efficiency). They claim "long term storage". Doubly odd.

Finally there's just basic physics. From memory, CO2 goes supercritical at just over 30C (liquid and gas phase become effectively indistinguishable no matter the pressure you put it under). Last 10 degrees or so before that, pressure needed to maintain it it liquid form goes from something like 50 bar to around 80 bar if memory serves me right. And as gas passes through turbines and such, it picks up impurities, increasing need to compress it, and often lowering supercriticiality point. This is why it's generally difficult to do this sort of battery as an actual battery (CO2 going all the way both ways), because it picks up a whole bunch of impurities quickly.

So you're constantly fighting your compressible medium, trying to keep it purified and cooled. These people claim no cryogenics, which is 100% impossible claim. When you pressurize the gas, it heats up. A lot. You will need an incredibly powerful cooling system to keep it under that supercritical temp unless your "charging" is hilariously slow. Also this will suck up power.

With this in mind, I started looking. First, the project page. It has all the markers of ESG green credit mill. It has a page that has a lot of pretty renders, a lot of outrageous claims about efficiency and readiness for deployment, and a lot of famous big company names participating to show that green credits are indeed available from this project.

Next is the website. No operating principles, no actual numbers, no relevant paper links, no direct phone contact to the rep, nothing. Just renders, slick page with basically no details, and a general contact form. Doesn't matter if you click "buy", "rent" or "contact" button on one of the several pages on the website. They all lead to that same form. Again highly unusual for an actual company, and completely normal for an ESG green credits mill.

Another marker of this being just another green credits scam is typing their address into google maps. Their headquarters is supposedly in Milan. Building shows that it's office building of Edison (one of the older energy companies in Italy). Meanwhile, they also have a separate legal office is another small residential building in Milan centre.

Neither building shows this company on google maps as having an office there. Odd for a company listing to have upper two to low three digits on staff, but completely normal for ESG green credit mill. ESG green credit mills basically hire existing experts that already work for power companies, as their primary focus is producing reports for the purpose of generating said credits for various green credit schemes and mechanisms that exist globally. I.e. people who already work in the field pick up part time work generating necessary red tape. And company will claim that them working at their actual employers office = being company office.

Finally the name of the head of the company. I'm going to just straight up quote Barclays, who calls him a "serial environmental enterpreneur". That is indeed what someone who runs many ESG green credits mills would be titled to be both truthful AND not reveal what he does.

Overall, this could be not just an ESG green credits mill. There's a tiny chance they're some kind of a tiny company too small to feature even their headquarters on google maps that actually have some kind of unique tech that actually did what none of the power majors who really threw everything into this in US and across Europe could do - make a viable compressible gas battery without complex cryogenics, with high efficiency, reliability and throughput.

But there's a lot of evidence pointing at it being just another ESG green credits mill, and very little evidence of it having such a breakthrough.

I know of no men who are being quite that antiquated about the problem. And men don’t engage in girl math, so they know how difficult it is to demand she return to the kitchen and stay there from a financial point of view. We’re taking about the 1% of men who can afford that, honor it, and respect it with full support. Many men would love to Provide and Protect like that. For a woman who loves and respects it as everything other than what feminism sells as demeaning or subservient.

We also many women embracing the trad wife ideology. So they’ll be no shortage of finding those who don’t see a problem at all. Trad implies traditional. As in what creates that resource globally.

I know of many women who regret putting their own happiness above their family with pre-mature never-your-fault divorce sold by single women. I know how unaccountable arrogance can easily lead to regret-filled outcomes. I know men don’t like what modern feminism sold to women under the guise of progress. Zero accountability by any victimhood necessary.

I commend you for making the effort to raise good daughters who were fortunate enough to have the right Father figure in their upbringing. I’ll bet they can easily tell when a woman hasn’t had that in her life, in a society that tolerates a touch too much of it.

The best part about this denialist screeeching is that it doesn't matter even if you manage to claw back some of the progress and temporarily stall it.

Chinese are coming. They already showed how good they are. And they're all in on AI, just like all of the good studios are. And as we've seen with your ilk publishing the "very optimized, very efficient decolonization simulators" like the latest installment in Assassin's Creed that killed not just the studio that made it, not just the franchise, but got the entire parent company chopped up so that everything that is still of value in it could be sold to... Chinese.

Welcome home.

You can rage. You can moan. You can scream. You can deploy SIGN (Shame, Insults, Guilt, Need to be right) language. None of it matters. Consumers have already chosen. All the elite pressure groups you can muster cannot change it.

Good studios that deploy the latest technologies and build on good vision will stand. The rest will die to lack of income because their raging hatred will be unable to even break even to pay for their time spent ranting here and on bluesky.

I just did a build and got 64GB DDR5 for about $500. Same modules were maybe $300 three months ago. It has gone up quite a bit. I donâ(TM)t know if it would kill a new build, depends on how bad I need the rig, but I feel you.