dec7td t1_j4ydkyn wrote on January 19, 2023 at 2:56 AM

Reply to TIL that only about 4% of the Earth's surface has two points on opposite sides of the world that are both on land by A_1337_Canadian

Via playing Worldle I found two islands almost exactly on the other side of the world from one another. I figured it had to be super low odds.

dec7td t1_ixp1nk6 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 4:15 AM

Reply to comment by smiddyslim in LPT: Place silverware at the END of the buffet, not at the beginning by whereverYouGoThereUR

Sounds like the lineup for a company trying to make money. I put the premium stuff first and the filler later. I worked hard on that protein so please enjoy lots!

dec7td t1_iwfbx7o wrote on November 15, 2022 at 5:11 AM

Reply to comment by evilleppy87 in How an engine works. by ooMEAToo

Yep

dec7td t1_ivncgwb wrote on November 9, 2022 at 5:19 AM

Reply to comment by 685327592 in More people are employed in clean energy than in fossil fuels by kickresume

Renewables, especially solar, is a lot more labor up front (one time at construction) but a lot less labor during operations. Over a 20-30 year life of the plant that breaks even pretty easily. Levelized cost of energy.

dec7td t1_ivnc97c wrote on November 9, 2022 at 5:17 AM

Reply to comment by COZRUN in More people are employed in clean energy than in fossil fuels by kickresume

Renewables are being constructed at an extremely rapid rate. Installing millions (billions?) of solar panels requires a ton of people. I suspect most of these job numbers are in construction, not operations like it is for fossil generation. The article states 70% of the clean energy jobs are in "building out" the projects.

dec7td t1_is47rwr wrote on October 13, 2022 at 4:27 AM

Reply to comment by tunaburn in US Federal Reserve sees EV “battery belt” developing as greater than 15 battery manufacturing facilities worth greater than $40 billion are in development in the US by ForHidingSquirrels

Lol this guy "that's what you've been told" which is just projection for how they get their information.

dec7td t1_is47gfw wrote on October 13, 2022 at 4:24 AM

Reply to comment by Arinium in US Federal Reserve sees EV “battery belt” developing as greater than 15 battery manufacturing facilities worth greater than $40 billion are in development in the US by ForHidingSquirrels

No one is permitting or financing pumped hydro anymore. I can get a battery storage project in the ground in 2 years. Good luck getting pumped hydro in under a decade. Wall Street is funding utilities and developers to build battery projects for grid scale; it's around 99% of projects.