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@atomicthumbs

16 Feb

here's a thread on portable stoves, because not everyone has a gas range or can safely ventilate their kitchen in a power outage

First things first: don't use these indoors. You might die of carbon monoxide poisoning unless you open all the windows, and then you're letting your house heat out. The following information is for using the stove outdoors.

If you have an electric range and your area is susceptible to power outages or natural disasters, you may want to consider a portable stove. If you have a gas range and your kitchen doesn't have windows that open, it may also be a good idea, to prevent carbon monoxide buildup.

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@atomicthumbs

16 Feb

we need to exile cryptofuturists to an island without internet access. they can run their own island area network and blockchains if they want and spare us from having to hear their opinions

the picture in question is a piece of "digital art" whose "ownership" is tracked on a blockchain

this is a thing for fools, marks, and professional swindlers

there's not very much blockchain art that looks great.

a lot of it is pretty pictures somehow about bitcoin. a lot more is about bitcoin but isn't pretty

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@atomicthumbs

16 Feb

texas's independent grid means it's desynchronized with both the western and eastern interconnects; any other state could import power to offset lost generation capacity...

...but doing an AC interconnect to Texas would destroy that interconnect and every generating station in Texas as the generators suddenly draw tremendous currents and torque the turbine rotors into phase with the rest of the country, destroying themselves.

ERCOT's only way to import power is with DC power lines, which aren't subject to syncronization. these are all of them. East and North are at or near capacity, Laredo and Railroad are out until later this year, and South is nothing. They'd need dozens more of these to meet demand

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@atomicthumbs

16 Feb

hey how many bitcoin farms do you think are still running in texas right now. lol. lol :)

ERCOT has less than a gigawatt of reserve generating capacity, AFTER rolling blackouts, when they predicted they'd have around 25 gigawatts on average this winter

how much of their load is due to bitcoin, do you think. ha ha ha

ha ha ha ha austintechnologycouncil.org/the-worlds-lar…

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@atomicthumbs

16 Feb

I have never seen anything purple on this map before. The Texas power grid is undergoing frequency sag to the point the needle is pinned at 0.09hz below nominal

all generators are synchronized with the grid and must spin at the same speed in order to keep it at 60hz. extra load would put more load on the turbines, causing them to spin more slowly, so more generating capacity would be brought online to counteract that

but they are out of generating capacity. if not for the rolling blackouts the grid frequency, and voltage with it, would fall until other things start failing and the entire system falls over

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