marine_mustang

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German poll: Majority for return to nuclear energy in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 7 points 21 hours ago

I’ve always preferred the IPCC terminology of “low-carbon”. Emphasizes that all power sources have carbon and other emissions at some point in their lifecycle. They also levelize the emissions based on energy produced over the expected lifespan of the power generation station/solar panel/dam/wind turbine/etc, and nuclear power is down there with solar, wind, geo, and hydro. Waste must be dealt with, and the best disposal method is reprocessing so you don’t have to store it.

Nuclear semiotics is fascinating. I was very excited when I came across the Federal Disposal Field in Fallout 76 and found that Bethesda used the “field of spikes” design.

Aye in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 186 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

“California lawmakers propose…”? Buddy, that’s an initiative, it can be proposed by literally anyone in the state.

USA Fencer Disqualified For Refusing To Compete Against Trans Athlete in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 51 points 1 day ago

I simply can’t fathom the effort some people will expend just to be shitty to others.

Getting the side-eye from *Branta canadensis* in the US Mid Atlantic in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 4 points 2 days ago

To be fair, side-eye is the only eye they can give.

RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 1 points 1 week ago

The patients have taken over the asylum.

Judge Moves to Prevent Hegseth, Waltz and Others From Deleting Houthi Texts in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 3 points 1 week ago

It’s ok, they were foresighted enough to use (involuntary) offsite backup.

TIT-BABBLER in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 6 points 1 week ago

Oh, c’mon…

Greenland visit cancelled after locals refuse to welcome Usha Vance in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 4 points 1 week ago

“Cultural visit” you mean junket? Honestly, I would love to go check out Pituffik, but I suspect she and I don’t have the same appreciation for the outdoors.

New here! Fuck reddit. in c/watchredditdie
[–] marine_mustang 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This should be the last migration we have to do, since the open and decentralized model resists enshittification.

Hmmmmmm 🤔 in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Eating some Girl Scout cookies as I see this.

China remains top military and cyber threat to US, intelligence report says in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m a cybersecurity professional, and I would personally place China and Russia as equal threats, but too bad our compromised government has masters to please. Of course, both of them pale in comparison to the massive insider threats occupying senior positions.

Ironic that this report was released today.

It also doesn’t say shit about Russia encouraging ships to drag anchors through the North Sea to cut telecom lines.

Warner Bros Negotiating Big Sale Of Shelved ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ Movie: The Dish in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Wouldn’t that negate that sweet sweet tax write-off? Let me guess, they get to book the tax deduction for the loss AND the profit from an eventual sale as long as enough time has passed?

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I joined a community choice power provider with 100% renewable power, and my bill went down (self.climate)
 

I just got my first bill since going to a community choice power provider. Here in California, the investor owned utilities (commercial companies, not the publicly-owned utilities) act as retailers of energy. They buy power on the open market from generators, then sell it to their customers. They bill both for the cost to generate the power, and also for power delivery (which includes maintaining the grid). An option that recently became available is for a city government to join a community choice power provider, which then buys power from generators on our behalf. The utility still delivers it, so it’s not real competition, but partway there. The community choice provider then bills the utility, who passes that bill along to individual customers.

So, the generation cost went down by about 30% for power used during the day, and a few percent for power delivered at night (three different time-of-use categories). Our community choice provider has an option for 100% renewable power, which I chose, so this is a pretty tangible demonstration that renewable power really is cheaper than fossil fuels.

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Seems suspicious at SDG&E… (self.sandiego)
 

I noticed that my projected bill will be much cheaper than my last, even though I haven’t changed my habits, so I did some math. At this same point in last month’s billing cycle (71.4% through the cycle), I used a net of 550kWh. As of the end of the day yesterday, I have used 122.5kWh. As I said, I haven’t changed my habits and have even used my electric oven more since I have family visiting that likes to bake. SDG&E has long said that they don’t make money on the generation charge, just the delivery charge, but none of that would change how much power they say I am using. Even though they have a natural monopoly on power delivery with regulatory capture of CPUC guaranteeing them whatever increases they ask for, I wouldn’t put it past them and Sempra to fuck around with how much power they say we are using. I don’t think any of us would be surprised to wake up some day to headlines about SDG&E and Sempra under investigation for fraud.

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