In honour of today's hilarious events, here's the wonderful Rhiannon Giddens performing Elizabeth Cotten's classic "Shake Sugaree".
Both Cotten and Giddens deserve huge places of prominence in the history of American music imo, especially in the rural and Black canon. So if you're not familiar, this is a great chance to acquaint with both.
And I suppose it's not off topic to share her performance of Woody Guthrie's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" that she did with the Resistance Revival Chorus.
"There's people of every nation, marching side by side.
They're marchin' cross a field,
where a million fascists died.
You're bound to lose.
You fascists bound to lose."
An amazing theory of change I just received in my mentions:
"If Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, and Moderates all united and voted in EVERY election for Every Democrat against EVERY republicans, states like Texas would be Blue over night"
(I need to step away from the screen, apologies for annoying everyone!) #uspol
Abolitionists do not need to prioritize performative pardoning of ruling class oppressors, fascists, pedophiles, etc.
We have our own political prisoners, as well as a whole host of folks in prison for easy outs like drug offences. No need to spend all your effort on trash when there's good people languishing, even if you do believe in total abolition in the broadest sense. Priorities.
The deeply serious reply-guys of Mastodon: conducting an argument (that they started, natch) with "what ifs"; and their main points of reference are "small tribes" and their assumedly deep, universal, and primitive need for "police"; and Mr. Bean. Oh also refusing to read the abolitionist links people are providing.
Heading out to Indigenous drumming gathering. Bringing my drum. Getting shown the deer skin that my next gifted drum will be made from during the get together 😊
Once upon a time, many folks told me that #lupines can't be #propagated by cuttings because they're very sensitive.
I decided to challenge that with #PlantPropagation experiments. I tried to propagate lupine cuttings in water, with rooting powder, with raw aloe vera gel & with raw honey & cinnamon. This is a successful new plant from honey/cinnamon rooting! I did it!
A local group wants to make it easier for people needing #paratransit to easily get on board services across #Ontario. Paratransit is for people who cannot easily access #PublicTransit due to their age or #disability.
The goal is to create a #ProvinceWide eligibility process so that qualified people can use specialized public transit services anywhere in Ontario. This can be very important for those who need to travel for treatment or appointments to different cities.
@msquebanh
So many people in my town would benefit from this. All the services here, especially medical, are so scattered between towns and regions and there is literally no transit network of any kind. I know we have some mobility services but I'm not sure about the interconnectivity. Gonna take a dig and probably harass some councilors.
The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.
@MisuseCase
Exactly. And the negative spot price is actually the biggest problem for solar generators in this case, because the time they're producing the most, hoping to pay back the capital investment in the panels, they flood the market and lose money instead (not to mention destabilize the grid). A bunch of individual profit-oriented actors competing with each other actual makes a dogshit grid.
@MisuseCase
I'm kinda low on storage because of the ecological impact of most of it though. I'd rather go the demand dispatch route if we can find some commodities that don't need 24/7 power. Hydrogen production has been floated as a possible option, and the hydrogen made through this could be used for tankers to replace the dirty ass oil they run on.
@billiglarper
You are absolutely correct that aggregate power output (and therefore capacity factor) are relevant to LCOE, as they are with all capital-loaded generating assets.
There are two very glaring issues with framing that graph as "unsubsidized though", which are subsidies through forced Chinese labour, and subsidies passed along to the grid/user/environment, which are not fully addressed. There are other more contingent ones as well.
@marwe Most jurisdictions have some form of levy on the production of nuclear power where they pay into their share of the used fuel management. Some planned grids don't, and simply account for it internally to their operating costs (same cost, same pocket, different ledger line). It is absolutely not counted as zero where I am.
(I won't make declarative statements that nowhere does though, because I haven't checked everywhere)