Chapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]

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Cake day: September 6th, 2020

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  • Hydroelectricity

    Destroys aquaculture. TVA has absolutely killed those rivers, and there is no way to sugar coat that.

    Geothermal can’t be used in most places (but should absolutely be used where it can be)

    Biomass is just burning shit all over again (thought that was the point of not burning coal).

    I’m also skeptical of the pivot from using renewables as a decentralized solution and then touting a massive grid which requires lots of infrastructure. Unless your problem with centralization is targetability by bombing.

    I’ve not heard much about compressed air as an energy storage medium, or thermal storage besides from using solar arrays to reflect light and melt a metal core (like Gemasolar which is another centralized solution), but I’ve heard nothing good about hydrogen except from breathless techbro types.

    Meanwhile Nuclear is a mature technology now, absolutely a less dangerous solution than coal (even without looking a climate change knock-on effects, just looking at the effects coal dust has on populations near coal-fired plants), and can be used to meet the base-load of a local grid with various renewable solutions used to meet peak load demands.







  • The first time I realized I was, for lack of a better word, different than the people I grew up around is when one of my high school buddies just casually said we should “just glass the middle east and get it over with”. Glassing is a term we got from Halo which means to incinerate an area with such a high heat the surface turns to glass. His proposed method was obviously nuclear bombs.

    No one else thought it was an outlandish thing to say, much less a truly abhorrent one.




  • I have three cats. Only one ever showed interest in outside, so we got him a harness and leash. He loves it, the best treat in the world. Now we live somewhere with a fenced in back yard, so we let him out with no leash on supervised play times, and one of his sisters has shown an interest so she comes with us into the yard. When we can’t be with them as supervision, they stay inside. Not so different from a small child.

    We also play with them all daily and are currently building an elaborate climbing wall to keep them entertained better during the sweltering heat of summer. At no occasion do they need the opportunity to murder in order to be happy.