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You're very confident for someone who's wrong. Cool story anyway.
January 21, 2026 at 9:50 AM
You're very confident for someone who's wrong. Cool story anyway.
what happens when the nuclear supply goes down? If you've built that backup capacity why wait for nuclear when SWB is available now and cheaper though?
January 21, 2026 at 2:36 AM
what happens when the nuclear supply goes down? If you've built that backup capacity why wait for nuclear when SWB is available now and cheaper though?
And of course large mines are moving to renewables as fast as they can because they are typically not grid connected and it's solar+wind+battery, or diesel. The largest private solar farm in the world is owned by Hancock Prospecting, ironically owned by an anti-renewables billionaire.
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 AM
And of course large mines are moving to renewables as fast as they can because they are typically not grid connected and it's solar+wind+battery, or diesel. The largest private solar farm in the world is owned by Hancock Prospecting, ironically owned by an anti-renewables billionaire.
Steel is already mostly dispatchable electrical load (EAF). Glass is a thermal storage problem, and currently most glass is gas fired. Even then glass is moving to solar resistive heat with gas firming due to economics. nuclear economics just don't work out in practice.
January 21, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Steel is already mostly dispatchable electrical load (EAF). Glass is a thermal storage problem, and currently most glass is gas fired. Even then glass is moving to solar resistive heat with gas firming due to economics. nuclear economics just don't work out in practice.
if 100% of the grid demand is met by solar once a week, or just for summer months, nuclear loses on economics. the ratio between nuclear and fully firmed solar+batteries is already > 5x. And that's ignoring wind and seasonal storage and EVs.
January 21, 2026 at 2:29 AM
if 100% of the grid demand is met by solar once a week, or just for summer months, nuclear loses on economics. the ratio between nuclear and fully firmed solar+batteries is already > 5x. And that's ignoring wind and seasonal storage and EVs.
exactly right, and once you have that storage, you're going to fill it with cheap solar and wind.
January 20, 2026 at 8:48 PM
exactly right, and once you have that storage, you're going to fill it with cheap solar and wind.
there is no "constant power needs" when solar can easily scale to provide 100% of demand for the day time.
January 20, 2026 at 8:47 PM
there is no "constant power needs" when solar can easily scale to provide 100% of demand for the day time.
No, solar is much cheaper, which destroys the part of the supply curve where baseload generation used to exist. base load is dead.
January 20, 2026 at 8:46 PM
No, solar is much cheaper, which destroys the part of the supply curve where baseload generation used to exist. base load is dead.
perhaps they are the entirety of references available. It might just be that it was poorly documented.
January 20, 2026 at 4:30 AM
perhaps they are the entirety of references available. It might just be that it was poorly documented.
I think it was based on the code imported/libraries references, but I didn't look any further. Now you've built it and run it perhaps you can ask an llm to compare against existing implementations for novelty?
January 20, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I think it was based on the code imported/libraries references, but I didn't look any further. Now you've built it and run it perhaps you can ask an llm to compare against existing implementations for novelty?
you're holding it wrong. (are you using a free tier?)
find primary sources for "Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power generator on 4 July 1904, at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy"
chatgpt.com/share/696e8a...
find primary sources for "Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power generator on 4 July 1904, at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy"
chatgpt.com/share/696e8a...
January 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM
you're holding it wrong. (are you using a free tier?)
find primary sources for "Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power generator on 4 July 1904, at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy"
chatgpt.com/share/696e8a...
find primary sources for "Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal power generator on 4 July 1904, at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy"
chatgpt.com/share/696e8a...
I saw some commentary suggesting it was just a very inefficient `git clone servo`. WDYT?
January 19, 2026 at 6:52 AM
I saw some commentary suggesting it was just a very inefficient `git clone servo`. WDYT?
Indeed, a chart of 'total energy produced in the last year' would not have most of those companies visible.
January 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Indeed, a chart of 'total energy produced in the last year' would not have most of those companies visible.
South Australia’s high electricity prices are not driven by expensive renewable generation, but by scarcity and transmission constraints in a small, weakly interconnected market. This is the cross SA has borne forever.
January 13, 2026 at 8:15 PM
South Australia’s high electricity prices are not driven by expensive renewable generation, but by scarcity and transmission constraints in a small, weakly interconnected market. This is the cross SA has borne forever.
By framing institutional and policy design failures as immutable engineering limits, the argument turns a valid critique of naïve modelling into an overstated claim about physical impossibility, thereby mischaracterising both the problem and the solution space.
January 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
By framing institutional and policy design failures as immutable engineering limits, the argument turns a valid critique of naïve modelling into an overstated claim about physical impossibility, thereby mischaracterising both the problem and the solution space.
Curtailment, rooftop-utility cannibalisation, and low battery utilisation are presented as unavoidable properties of high-renewables systems, when in fact they are contingent on present transmission topology, tariff structures, and investment sequencing.
January 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Curtailment, rooftop-utility cannibalisation, and low battery utilisation are presented as unavoidable properties of high-renewables systems, when in fact they are contingent on present transmission topology, tariff structures, and investment sequencing.
While he is correct that copper-plate models cannot establish feasibility and that transmission constraints dominate real-world outcomes, he overreaches by sliding from “this will not be profitable under today’s grid design and market rules” to “this cannot happen at all.”
January 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
While he is correct that copper-plate models cannot establish feasibility and that transmission constraints dominate real-world outcomes, he overreaches by sliding from “this will not be profitable under today’s grid design and market rules” to “this cannot happen at all.”
The central weakness in Russell’s argument is that it repeatedly treats current market outcomes and planning failures as physical inevitabilities, and in doing so misrepresents what his own evidence actually shows.
January 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
The central weakness in Russell’s argument is that it repeatedly treats current market outcomes and planning failures as physical inevitabilities, and in doing so misrepresents what his own evidence actually shows.
without numbers, it's easy to imagine that the production of said biochar eats all the emissions benefit.
January 13, 2026 at 1:55 AM
without numbers, it's easy to imagine that the production of said biochar eats all the emissions benefit.
the numbers don't work for me. 0.5% means 5g/kg of concrete and thus about 10g of CO2 offset, but concrete is about 30% cement, and hence about 300g of CO2.
January 12, 2026 at 8:56 PM
the numbers don't work for me. 0.5% means 5g/kg of concrete and thus about 10g of CO2 offset, but concrete is about 30% cement, and hence about 300g of CO2.
❌ Comparing annual energy use to storage capacity is wrong
❌ Batteries weren't meant to power heavy industry directly
❌ Hydrogen doesn't replace batteries
✅ Batteries solve a different, essential problem
✅ Hydrogen solves another one
✅ You need both plus grids, demand response, and firm generation
❌ Batteries weren't meant to power heavy industry directly
❌ Hydrogen doesn't replace batteries
✅ Batteries solve a different, essential problem
✅ Hydrogen solves another one
✅ You need both plus grids, demand response, and firm generation
January 9, 2026 at 7:43 AM
❌ Comparing annual energy use to storage capacity is wrong
❌ Batteries weren't meant to power heavy industry directly
❌ Hydrogen doesn't replace batteries
✅ Batteries solve a different, essential problem
✅ Hydrogen solves another one
✅ You need both plus grids, demand response, and firm generation
❌ Batteries weren't meant to power heavy industry directly
❌ Hydrogen doesn't replace batteries
✅ Batteries solve a different, essential problem
✅ Hydrogen solves another one
✅ You need both plus grids, demand response, and firm generation
I dont get it, wild guess here, but it seems likely that spending the difference in price on a lfp would get more energy over night. and cloudy nights are going to be poor.
January 8, 2026 at 6:48 AM
I dont get it, wild guess here, but it seems likely that spending the difference in price on a lfp would get more energy over night. and cloudy nights are going to be poor.
unlikely, magnesium is widely available in the crust, and the volumes of water make this silly (mg(oh)2 is around $100/t but you'd need GWh to make enough hydrogen to get a tonne of Mg)
January 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM
unlikely, magnesium is widely available in the crust, and the volumes of water make this silly (mg(oh)2 is around $100/t but you'd need GWh to make enough hydrogen to get a tonne of Mg)