mosiacmango
@mosiacmango@lemm.ee
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 23 hours ago:
2d isometric vs 3d first person. One format clearly lets stories breathe better, but that doesn’t mean half life isn’t story driven.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 1 day ago:
Rogue tower is another great game with rogue in its name.
Fantastic tower defense.
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
They didnt issue a DMCA takedown request, which has a legslly prescribed back and forth
They ijstead told the registar itch.io was committing phishing/fraud crimes. The registar clearly knee jerked on being told the domain was illegal, but it was Funko and their vendor Brandshield that lied about that in the first place.
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
And yet Blackwater has renamed itself again and again.
Apparently there is a “whoops, too much” level of villainy, even for villain factories.
- Comment on Vice Undercover imagines an alternate past where '80s drug lords had the internet, so obviously you've gotta hack 'em 1 week ago:
I have no doubt that there were “drug lord” amounts of drugs around 80s David Bowie.
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 2 weeks ago:
They’ve got 18 other people to see that day, and most of them probably want help. Might as well go help them.
- Comment on Muscle Chart 2 weeks ago:
“Ouch.”
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
Its something of a mystery game. You wake up in an unfamiliar place and have a nebulous goal.
Letting the clues of the story build is a big part of the experience.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 3 weeks ago:
The fun part of this is this is true of any 1GW power source. We have been deploying solar+battery arrays in that range recently for much less money and much faster than nuclear.
Thanks nuclear power for pointing out useful large scale solar+battery is too!
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 3 weeks ago:
Slay the spire, balatro, stardew valley. All one time payment, all amazing.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact:
The dairy was fined in 2023 for a Salmonella outbreak and is very militantly anti-government.
- Comment on Anon gets home from a long day at work 3 weeks ago:
Most hot sauce is mainly vinegar. It doesnt really have a shelf life, but if so, it’s years and years.
Im betting that no, whoever has got the staircase full isn’t going to use them all, but they will use some. At that stage, it’s a collector enjoying collecting a foodstuff.
- Comment on Anon gets home from a long day at work 3 weeks ago:
Y’all dont have condiments in your house?
This guy found one he likes and just kept going.
- Comment on punchable babies 3 weeks ago:
Hes not kidding. The cgi on the child is horrifying for a “blockbuster” movie.
Very much movie execs going “why spend time and money on CGI when these idiots will go anyway?”
- Comment on Humble creating a bundle for this game is wild 3 weeks ago:
You can still customize it, but it has hard minimum at what I think is $7. The old humble had no minimum at all.
IGN leaning in to make its money back, most likely.
- Comment on Humble creating a bundle for this game is wild 3 weeks ago:
They sold to IGN a few years ago.
It was also when they introduced a $7 minimum humble tip for the bundles
- Comment on Trump Transition Live Updates: Gaetz Withdraws as Attorney General Pick 4 weeks ago:
Seriously. This included a $900 payment to his convicted sex trafficing friend, the same friend convicted for sex trafficking this same girl gaetz raped, for “school tuition.”
They were just having fun with their child rape.
- Comment on Monster catcher Cassette Beasts adds Steam Workshop support and a new battle mode 4 weeks ago:
Its currently in the humble choice bundle with 7 other games for $12.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 weeks ago:
There is no law of diminishing returns. That’s an aphorism, not an actual scientific principle. If your power source can generate the power, it does so.
You don’t need to store an entire county’s power per day. Thats never been anyone’s goal, nor is it needed. You generate power for at least half of it, then continue to generate power with other green sources while also storing it.
You need to “restudy” the current state of battery tech and geothermal. There are huge arrays of different batteries being built now, and active 100+MW geothermal plants in operation, with more coming. The tech is here now, being built as we speak.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 weeks ago:
So you agree that solar + battery resolves 90-99% of power needs now at a drastically reduced cost and build time than nuclear today?
I expect that 10% will get much closer to 1% in the next decade with all the versatile battery/solar tech coming onboard, but to compensate for solar fluctuations, you use wind, you use hydro, and you use the new “dig anywhere” steady state geothermal that is also being brought online today. We can run more HVDC lines to connect various parts of the country. We are working on some now, but not enough. With a robust transmission system, solar gets 3hrs of “free” storage across our time zones.
Worst case? You burn green hydrogen you made with your excess solar capacity in retrofitted natgas plants.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 weeks ago:
You can quibble about battery engineering or focus on your original question, which is : can solar + battery tech do what nuclear does today, but faster and cheaper?
That is a clear yes.
If you want more exact details about the batteries that array used, click on the link in my comment
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 weeks ago:
My math assumes the sun shines for 12 hours/day, so you don’t need 24 hours storage since you produce power for 12 of it.
My math is drastically off though. Assuming that 12 hours of sun, you just need 2Gw production and 12gw of battery to supply 1gw during the day of solar, and 1gw during the night of solar, to match a 1gw nuclear plants output and “storage.”
Seeing as those recent projects put that nuclear output at 17bil dollars and a 14 year build time like, and they put the solar equivalent at roughly 14billion( 2 billion for solar and 12 billion for storage) with a 2 - 6 year build timeline, nuckear cannot complete with current solar/battery tech, much less advancing solar/battery tech.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 weeks ago:
Uptime is calculated by kWh, I.E How many kilowatts of power you can produce for how many hours.
So it’s flexible. If you have 4kw of battery, you can produce 1kw for 4hrs, or 2kw for 2hrs, 4kw for 1hr, etc.
Nuclear is steady state. If the reactor can generate 1gw, it can only generate 1gw, but for 24hrs.
So to match a 1gw nuclear plant, you need around 12gw of of storage, and 13gw of production.
This has come up before. See this comment where I break down the most recent utility scale nuclear and solar deployments in the US. The comentor above is right, and that doesn’t take into account huge strides in solar and battery tech we are currently making.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
We discovered a banger like 200 years ago and have held on tight until eight about now with wind/solar/hydro.
Still going to be using their geothermal/fission/fusion for at least another 200 years though.
- Comment on Anon falls through the cracks 5 weeks ago:
World doesn’t have to be just hustle and grind. The man can enjoy himself however he likes, especially if he’s getting paid too.
- Comment on Other than Smite, what are some other games with a large amount of mythological pantheons as playable characters? 5 weeks ago:
Titan Quest is an older aRPG with mythological god vibem same folks who did grim dawn.
A sequel is also on the works.
- Comment on Risk of Rain 2 - Seekers of the Storm DLC is Getting a Major Overhaul 1 month ago:
I’m glad they are going to take the DLC from the alpha state they released it in to an actual product people will want to buy. Maybe I’ll actually get it at that point.
- Comment on Respect 1 month ago:
we, I thought the joke was about the common mutation where your second toe is longer than your big toe.
- Comment on Trump Supporter Arrested After Brandishing Machete at Early-Voting Site 1 month ago:
Sounds like he’s going to enjoy prison.
- Comment on Stress 1 month ago:
Paris Hilton is an abuse survivor that built a public persona to sell to people. The “rich spoiler girl tries common people’s things” was an act.