Comment on Gotta go fast

ascend@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well they certainly don’t fly out of it

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  • ascend@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ones with cameras might, probably a big conspiracy

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• inari@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Moths must love this shit

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  • Wakmrow@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For like… 0.002 seconds it’s gotta feel real great

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  • suodrazah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At night?

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    • ascend@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Curious how well it works with moon reflection

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      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Technically still solar power, but with the moon as an additional mirror in the system.

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      • lurker2718@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A construction like this could never work with moonlight, not even theoretically. There is a nice xkcd about it: https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The sodium probably gets hot enough to keep glowing overnight

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• errer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sadly the ones outside Vegas are about to shut down because they are not profitable …pantheonsite.io/…/california-shuts-down-its-sola…

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  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love how fucking biased that article is. It mentions Obama like 10 times, including this gem:

    Clearly, the Obama administration decided to spend taxpayer funds on a technology that was poorly conceived and quickly outdated.

    Thanks for the hindsight. Now how about we replace all those heliostats with modern solar panels? Sounds like a great opportunity…

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    • Count042@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought it was chips for free until my late twenties.

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        When I was 7-8 (when the song was popular) I thought it was checks (cheques) for free. So I thought it wand money and checks (also money to a 7 y/o back when people paid with them at grocery stores still).

        Didn’t realize it was chicks until the 90s when I became interested in chicks.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Free roast pidgeon for the workers

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• drath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, they do, and get incinerated, unfortunately. A few every day, actually. Which is one of the reasons those never took off. Besides big upfront costs for the tower generator, there are additional costs for maintaining the generator with moving parts, and then for scraping the dead birds off the mirrors to top it off. All just to save a few pennies on mirrors instead of just chucking a bunch of solar panels into a field and mostly forgetting about them.

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  • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    big advantage is that molten salt allows for energy storage for nighttime

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    • drath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But then you also have to re-heat it in the morning with combustibles to kickstart the generation again.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, but that secretly a lazer weapon.

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