Should've /s thought it was too obvious

Wait you're going to tell me that all the money I spent on biotin tablets, didn't actually stimulate hair growth?

Edit: was thinking ammonium hydroxide, a compound used in laboratories. Especially for water chemistry in industrial applications

the second issue to overcome is variability - i.e., to keep the lights on you need to be able to turn generation up in real time to meet demand. Because that's not how solar and wind farms work, they pair with storage. Put them together for the needed flexibility.

Fortunately, around 2020, storage-integrated variable facilities became cost competitive with combined cycle natural gas. NREL - for the desert southwest and plains, at least.

So really all of the biggest economic barriers have been removed. Every major utility in the southwest is already pivoting, but not as fast as some people would like. A few lesser problems are on the horizon - first-order voltage modulation without synchronous machines is hard, and the vast majority of solar&wind equipment we've installed so far isn't designed to do it. the 2016 blue cut fire

I always get a very mixed response for talking about this stuff - I worked for the first US developer of utility scale solar. At the time; there were problems getting banks to lend on these projects. I frequently spoke with the leadership of Edison, PG&E, SDG&E, Pacificorp.... about these technical challenges, and how to meet them. Unfortunately CAISO chose to overbuild without requiring flexibility (SCADA curtailment); they lean on exports instead, which isn't scalable - the EIM will become less of a solution as more participants overbuild variable resources.

I'm pretty sure they switched to the Skyrim version because.... Bethesda's direction has been to steadily remove mechanics and simplify the ones that are left over. The new one - even if you find it more difficult - aligns with that goal: simpler mechanics

Except if they represented the pins as not "latching in place" somehow. Dunno how you'd pick a lock with 5 pins using old fashioned lockpicks, though

Scale changes everything. I could accept this answer from a power plant running a desalinator to get their pure water. But, larger operations are a problem, and hopefully your person's company is doing continuous environmental impact study.

The euroweek article claims that hydrogen leaks change relative concentrations of other gases in the atmosphere and this somehow has a net heating effect. I'm sorry, I'm not the right person. They might have a point. Someone more knowledgeable will have to chime in.

Another very problematic byproduct of electrolysis is brine. Handled improperly, brine disposal on an industrial scale could devastate entire ecosystems. That would include large ocean biomes. Responsible brine disposal is expensive, so will big industry do the right thing? Answer is no. That's not what this article is about, though.

Raj is a blog about science journalism. Here's why that matters: he gets a few things wrong by writing in his own words. The original article is more accurate. here

One example from Raj's blog:

"It concluded that in many cases, there were no incentives for producers to use low-carbon methods such as electrolysis instead of high-carbon ones like steam reforming – which produces more CO2 emissions than their cleaner counterparts when extracting hydrogen from natural gas molecules"

Okay: the Euronews article does talk about grey hydrogen. But this paragraph is all wrong. One does not simply disincentive grey hydrogen; steam reforming scrubs leftover methane from turbine exhaust, making power plants run cleaner.

Next, you're probably not getting grey hydrogen at a fill station - it's best used in the power plant that makes it. These are usually two different supply chains.

I question whether ron knows much about steam reforming.

The actual study focuses mostly on hydrogen leaks and how they can have a negative climate impact. And this is why steam reforming is relevant: it gives us a foundation of data to study regarding hydrogen leaks.

Some evaporative cooling systems re-condense their own steam but even these ones lose water over time. A percentage of the steam escapes.

Older systems vent the steam straight out because that used to be the cheap way to do things.

This is why we have courts. If the plaintiffs think there's negligence and there's any possible route to success, their counsel (Google, that's not how you spell that) is going to make the complaint. Keep the pitchfork at ease until the judge weighs in.

You're making some assumptions about demographics there. Government debt could become a real catastrophe under a shrinking population, which is an imminent problem across the first world.

now now, the answer is clearly to require that a full count be completed by midnight same day.

This is an inverter manufacturer's wet dream. Someone benefits tremendously by building a new bulk interconnected DC system. As someone in operations & planning with an understanding of the underlying technology (DC/DC converters) I understand the benefits but I'm still skeptical.

Even at 1000kvdc the losses for transmitting power from Nevada to new York would be pretty substantial, and I have doubts that the benefits outweigh the cost. Though I do understand the energy potential in the southwest, this must be weighed against the trade-off of keeping generation regional.

These traditional parkas are very fascinating to see from culture to culture

Median gives you the 50th percentile, what we intuitively would consider "an average person". For instance, the average adult's net wealth in the US is around $600k, but that's actually the 80th percentile. A median adult's wealth in the US (what we would intuitively think of as an "average person"), the 50th percentile, is closer to $100k (little variation depending on whose survey you use). The difference between mean and median shows just how unequal the distribution of wealth is.

Not intentionally choosing controversy here - I've limited my statements to just plain facts, not opinions.