SpongyAneurysm

@SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy Air ☢️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kudos for a measured response to my sometimes snarky tone.

  www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/…/29e7df00-en.pdf

  I only had the time to read the executive summary of this thing, but I learned a bit more about nuclear power plants.

  It’s still not enough for me to evaluate how well that can integrate with a grid dominated by renewables (can the load following be fast enough, to match wind and solar fluctuations) but still good to know more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy Air ☢️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a super basic view on the science of nuclear power. As an engineer, I need a lot more than that, because it needs a lot more to put basic principles into working projects.

  So, is there a nuclear powerplant, that exists outside of some powerpoint slides, that is actually used to match fluctuating generation from other energy sources and/or fluctuating demands?

  All of the ones I know are/were used to provide a base supply by running more or less 24/7 at their designated output, not least because they need to do that to be even somehow economically feasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy Air ☢️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s an example for an operating nuclear power-plant that can be dialed down to match demand?

  Afaik they have lots of momentum (for days even), and even their propenents argue for them being critical for providing a base supply^1^. Never have I heard anyone claiming they’d be good for matching fluctuating demand. Can you back that up?

  Or are you getting your anti-reneweblaes lobbying talking points mixed up? That argument is usually used for natural gas plants.

  ^1^ which doesn’t make sense in a renewables dominated grid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy Air ☢️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuclear isn’t exactly ‘burning fuel’, at least not in a traditional sense. But I guess you just mean that as ‘consuming a finite, non-renewable ressource’ which it still does.

  No disagreement, I’m just here to nitpick that bit of phrasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Grade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  THW spotted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cup or nah?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaand it’s called … ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cup or nah?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s Lazlo? And is it the same actor that played Douglas Reynholm in The IT-Crowd?

  If so: I loved that role and need to see this, because that costume looks like he’s playing a sleadzy vampire version of Douglas, and I need to see that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some cheeses are luminescent.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m linguistically 100% convinced. Somehow I have an intuitive understanding of the concept. Wonder where that came from…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  English isn’t my first language, but can you even fix the prepositions to the verbs like that. Wouldn’t you have to define your frame of reference? I’d say it shifts with your perspective.

  Example: I’m in Homeyland and there are migrants, who are emigrating from the Faraway Islands and immigrating to Homeyland.

  When I’m in the Faraway Islands, I’d say the same people are emigrating to Homeyland. While Homeylanders coming here are immigrating from Homeyland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some cheeses are luminescent.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t you know? The enlightenment spreads like an ideology. Traditional physics outplayed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some cheeses are luminescent.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A good summary. I doubt the person who tweeted (?xed?) that ignorance is going to read it, though. And even if they were to read it, would probably not listen. This is moon-landing-hoax level ignorance and its most likely performative and maliciously intended.

  But kudos to you still. I hope your post reaches other ill-informed, but less ignorant people, who need to hear this and might even appreciate, that you are enlightening the dark sides of their knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot less blue too... Hmmmm....⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You got your science all wrong. Global warming is about the earths athmosphere, which is gaseous. When gases get COMPRESSED they become HOTTER. The earth becoming smaller means the atmosphere is becoming SMALLER too, so the gas gets COMPRESSEd! Climate change is because the earth is getting smaller! And they want you to use less oil and gasoline and hook you up to the sun and stuff like heroin addict!!

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t be a surprise, that some people are dumb as hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it really do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe you. You so little about fashion, you don’t even have a verb for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is heresy but lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a skill issue.

  If you listen to Skeletons of Society, Seasons in the Abyss or South of Heaven and can’t find anything to enjoy. I have to say, that’s on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, not if you still want to have some fun while doing so.

  But I agree, that a regular bike should suffice and you don’t need to worry about optimizing gear weight if you’re not competing for anything and just ride it for your own well-being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever heard of footnotes? :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mathematically speaking it can’t be, because if you put it in relation to only the OTHER people, you’d have to divide by zero which ends up non defined.

  It only works out when you put it in relation to ALL people within those criteria, thus dividing by one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but with a dimensional portal to Hell opened on them. Or where do you suppose the demons come from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MSG isn’t just enhancing umami, it tastes umami by itself, because the umami taste is triggered receptors on the tongue that react to some amino acids, one of them being the glutamate in Mono-Sodium-Glutamate. The salty part comes from the sodium, which has its own receptors as well.

  This stuff is literaly made for our taste buds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Metal in general. Not too many lovesongs there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A succulent meal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The roast chicken is usually not an egg creating machine though.
  They are fairly young male chickens, that have been raised just past their maximum growth rates.

  I guess that wouldn’t have been that much different in medieval times. The difference nowadays is, that we have specialized breeds for egg-laying or meat production vice versa and the respective ‘wrong’ sex of each will just be ‘discarded’ right after hatching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this thing work? (wrong answers only)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik. My flight instructor advises a strict diet of brussels sprouts, kidney beans, onions and Jalapeno chilies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this thing work? (wrong answers only)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will never be enough for anal aviation, but if you want to move stuff with your body heat, check out stirling engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sleepmaxxing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because not everywhere is as mild as Alabama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude’s just trying to coerce 18^1-24 year-olds into having sex with him.

  It’s not very effective.

  <small> ^1 Letws give him the benefit of the doubt. </small>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too much seriousness in the world which Wacky Wheels character would you main?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. I was in elementary school when I used to play this and sharks were just too damn cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same.

  I can also order tea with milk on an airplane.

  That’s about it, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hallo. Wie geht’s, mon ami?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans aswell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🌽