Weird pic to post in spring.

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They teach that in gunday school.

Do you like dags?

Just over the ditch… I’ll stay in NZ, too many things that try to kill you in Oz

This map is missing all of the rivers etc… the freshies will get you there.

Do you know what “namesis” means? “A righteous infliction of retribution manefested by an appropriate agent.” Personified in this case by a horrible cunt: me.

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

The solar isn’t the goal; the energy is enabling the value in other parts of the economy.

In fact; energy supply is so important to the reasonable functioning of the economy. It should be taken out of the profit driven cycle of business.

Look at what happened with WPI in Ohakune and PanPack when energy prices sky rocketed a few months back.

Nuclear has few advantages over solar.

Solar + batteries.

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~$1000/kW vs $6 - 10,000/kW in 2018, it is cheaper today; projected costs to drop to as low as $560/kW in 2050.

Add in the ~$150/kWh of grid scale storage with the associated switchgear to connect it to the grid.

For a 10MW + 20MWh solar system; you are looking at approx $13,000,000 + install costs of probably $2-3,000,000.

CCS would be much better than bitcoin; even though CCS is very inefficient; if the power price is effectively -ve; that means that you are only paying maintenance costs to run your CCS

To be fair; this is a valid use case.

If you are a solar power producer; rather than offering your energy at -ve rates; run a crypto farm when the output is too high. This is far better than running the same farm on coal.

But it would be better going into something useful.

The “problem” of negative energy costs is easy to solve, but quite costly.

Build water desalination/carbon capture and storage/hydrogen generation plants that only run when the price goes below 0; even though these are very energy intensive, they would help stabilize the grid.

Then build more solar; you want to try to have the daytime price stay in the negative as often as possible.

It still costs real money to maintain the infrastructure; so even if the power was always free; you would still have to pay something to cover the maintenance costs.

This is a solved problem.

DC-AC conversion is pretty well understood, as is electrical protection, grid frequency matching inverters are available “off the shelf” for small units and are made to order in the MW range.

In NZ we have a DC link between the islands, there have been equipment failures over the years disabling the link, but grid frequency events are not an issue. The link has been in place for almost 60 years.

Also the distributed nature of generation makes cascade failure extremely unlikely. If you have an issue in one solar farm; another solar farm a few km away is extremely unlikely to have the same issue.

The economic model would have to be based on energy supply.

But assuming the replicators were perfect to the atomic level; making the parts for power generation would be easy. But the fuel would still have to be found / collected / mined.

Assuming that fusion is the most common type of energy generation; hydrogen fusion would probably be the dominant form of energy generation. Hydrogen collection would be a huge industry, but it also could be fully automated.

While the economic model may not be noticed by the majority; it would still be there.

Looks exactly like the cursed item - Unreliable Power Source!

I love that Master Boot Record, implies that at some point a group of Artificer-Cobblers created the “Master Boots”; a set of legendary items so powerful that a magical record was also created to track their whereabouts, lest they fall into the wrong hands.

Variable name - 7th level wizard spell.

For the next 24hours; nothing about the targets identity may be discovered by magical or mundane means. Anyone inquiring about the target has a plausible and consistent story placed in their mind instead; it doesn’t matter what the target tells them or what they see.

Someone with the Truesight ability; will know that there is magical concealment active, but will be unable to discern any details about the target.

I cast CVE-2015-0565 at the goblin horde.

I cast atomization on the giant. (9th level warlock spell)

On a failed save the targets head evaporates killing them outright.
On a success roll a d4 (or higher for higher number of limbs) and the limb clockwise from the head evaporates. Dealing either 25% or 150HP which ever is higher damage.