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12 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
if I see one more person on here calling the desert "empty," "useless," or "barren" and using that as rationale for environmentally destructive resource extraction and exploitation I'm gonna fucking snap
am I gonna have to handcraft a thread about fragile desert ecosystems to go viral? what the fuck will it take
alright i'm writing it. i ask politely that folks retweet it because this is something that's making me actually angry (a rarity)
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13 Jun
While looking at the replies to this thread, I noticed people claiming that the desert is "empty," "barren," or otherwise lifeless, in an almost kneejerk pro-extractivism reaction.

This isn't true. These deserts have rich, vibrant, and incredibly fragile ecosystems. A thread:
Primer: these are concentrated solar power plants, which use mirrors to focus sunlight on the tower in the middle, heating a working fluid to run turbines.

Concentrated solar power is generally regarded as an obsolete technology. Photovoltaic has beat it in cost for a decade.
The two CSP plants in the United States are the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project and the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.

Ivanpah came online in 2013, Crescent Dunes in 2016. The former has three towers; the latter has one tower and a molten-salt energy storage system.
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12 Jun
staff at the Ivanpah solar thermal plant coined the term "streamers" for the birds that would fall from the sky, trailing a stream of smoke, after flying into the concentrated solar flux
desert solar installations cause a tremendous amount of habitat destruction and harm endangered species.

we could have solar panels on every roof in the country instead but there's more profit to be made destroying nature to build green energy
(image is from Crescent Dunes, not Ivanpah: basinandrangewatch.org/CrescentDune.h…)
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10 Jun
does putting in my info for a rate check on a motorcycle loan put a pull on my credit file
wish there was something that would just estimate my rates/payment based on my FICO score and various other factors

idea: machine learning trained on actual pull results,
reverse engineer the credit algorithms
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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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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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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 ImageImageImage
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