BobsShadow

Weird neighbor that makes killer guac. Slightly less
annoying than making it yourself.

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2026-05-19 05:34:14 GMT

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It's been about a decade that Class 8 trucks (18 wheelers) have had electric axles. Hybrid ice/ battery trucks have been being produced in low quanities for about 5 yrs now. GM has a truck division making all electric local delivery trucks for 3 yrs now. Amazon, UPS, and some FedX vans are all electric. China has a massive number of electric trucks and vans.

2026-05-07 03:31:26 GMT

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I'm glad I'm not in NYC. i might never leave such a place.

2026-04-24 02:30:59 GMT

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Data centers are pretty regional, so the loads tend to follow working hours. That and to be honest once the AI companies start actually charging for what was free or below cost, the loads will decrease.
Renewables, excluding geo-thermal (base load) can overlap and be somewhat supported by batteries. For instance this 3.5 GW wind project that's quietly coming online -
https://www.eenews.net/articles/largest-us-renewable-project-begins-generating-electricity/

2026-04-24 02:08:34 GMT

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Data centers are not steady loads. Ramps can go from 10% to 100% in one to two minutes. Nuclear cannot keep up with that.
Small scale nuclear is more expensive than a large, 1 GW unit that, from my reading, is at peak thermal effcency to drive a gas turbine..
In addition, fuel for SMRs tends to be sourced from China or Russia as we don't make it here. (No one asks about that.)
Data centers have 10,000 plus nodes. Nodes. Memory, gpus, nodes, die just due to numbers, thermal cycling, throttling due to heat or load. They need to be diagnosed, fixed, replaced, tested, and brought back online. There is no steady load and that is what nuclear expects. Best case it's providing 10% or so of the load.

2026-03-20 00:22:59 GMT

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Probably should give examples of CEO's:
Donald John Trump - so many examples of fail and fraud.
Larry Elison - crappy database, hires sexual preditors, Oracle facing massive debt, and banks are refusing to lend money.
Mark Zukerberg - failed VR, promotes spam, hired then fired his AI staff, continues to kill people for profit.
Peter Thiel and C-suite of Palentier - Trying to destroy the U.S. and other democratic countries by owning the meta data and details. Suing Sweden because they won't give them a contract. Also g9ing around teaching about the Anti-Christ. Scheduled to teaxh Pope Leo.
Elon Musk - pretty much every one of his companies failed after his zip code program. Hated by a large number world wide. Directly responsible for apprx. 400,000 deaths to date (with the help Marco Rubio and DJT).
Jeff Bezos - destroyed the Washington Post for a false friend.

2025-11-20 21:04:25 GMT

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Do none of the troops or ships have a phone with GPS on it? Maybe even Google Maps?