Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[Raoul Duke III]

Could someone tell me what fusion power is, preferably in words of two syllables or less?

[Raoul Duke III]

Just realised I don't ever have to ask you morons anything ever again. Chat GPT does it all.

explain fusion power to me, in the style of a fairy tale suitable for five year olds

Once upon a time, deep in the heart of the sun, there was a special type of energy called nuclear fusion. This energy was created when tiny particles called atoms came together and joined forces to create a brighter, more powerful energy.

This fusion energy was so strong, it could power an entire kingdom of stars for millions of years without ever running out. And because it was clean and renewable, it was loved by all the creatures who lived in the universe.

But for many years, humans on earth didn't know how to harness this magical energy. They used dirty, non-renewable sources of energy that polluted the air and made the earth sick.

Then, one day, a group of clever scientists figured out how to capture the power of fusion and use it to create electricity. They built a special machine called a fusion reactor, which could mimic the conditions inside the sun and create fusion energy right here on earth.

Now, with the help of fusion power, humans can have clean, abundant energy that will never run out. It's a true fairy tale ending for a brighter, happier future.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Ha.

[DeadParrot]

Pray for DP.

Much fun and merriment

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

It could well be redundant by the time it arrives, with smartgrids allowing a survivable zero-carbon blend of renewables. But it is still a notable development - a massive milestone really, that what has been proposed in theory seems to now be a reality. I'd imagine the development will be quicker that we envisage also, as you look to China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia - the four big future population centres, as places with possibly a combined trillion dollar plus energy development need, and insufficient domestic carbon resources. They will probably drive commercialisation and speed things up significantly, rather than the likes of a European country with its decade-long planning systems.

[Raoul Duke III]

Much fun and merriment

Did you get back? Think I would have abandoned ship at the airport.

[pokerhand]

Did you get back? Think I would have abandoned ship at the airport.

Why would there be a ship at the airport

[Solksjaer!]

It’s a crazy new world we are going to be living in. Has anyone asked the AI Chat thingamajig , about the dangers of it/AI to human kind and the likelihood of it making independent decisions/actions.

I asked it but I must have phrased the question incorrectly as it simply typed some rambling consonants that made no sense. Something along the lines of Muhaah, Muhaahha haahaa . An odd response.

[Lazare]

It’s a crazy new world we are going to be living in. Has anyone asked the AI Chat thingamajig , about the dangers of it/AI to human kind and the likelihood of it making independent decisions/actions.

I asked it but I must have phrased the question incorrectly as it simply typed some rambling consonants that made no sense. Something along the lines of Muhaah, Muhaahha haahaa . An odd response.

Here's an incredible read on the subject. It's long, you may not have time now but would recommend reading when you do. Kinda terrifying tbh.

Part 1

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

Part 2

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Trying to use the Christmas lull between semesters to get a grip on the Chinese learning. Its the basic level HSK-1 - which roughly has its aim as 'you can sound like a simpleton in Chinese and use grunts and gesturing to aide your limited vocabulary'. Have the official exam at the end of March. jaysus its rough but quite fascinating. Task at the moment is that I've printed out the 150 flashcard words in the HSK-1 test, Chinese character on one side, and pinyin and English meaning on the other, and am trying to remember what the word is and its meaning, based on the character. Feel like parts of the brain are changing as I do it - that connection between visuals and words feels like a new skill.

[Raoul Duke III]

I think one very reassuring thing that is becoming increasingly apparent as winter wears on is that the EU is handling its transition off RuSSian gas surprisingly well.

For example, German gas reserves today are at 91%. (a year ago, it was 60%)

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

I think one very reassuring thing that is becoming increasingly apparent as winter wears on is that the EU is handling its transition off RuSSian gas surprisingly well.

For example, German gas reserves today are at 91%. (a year ago, it was 60%)

yeah, its amazing really. Although hopefully Europe will use the opportunity to switch away from gas altogether as much as possible, rather than just switch to using US LNG. Hence, why using the crisis to build the LNG plant in Shannon would be a brutal idea as would remove the necessary pressure to rapidly expand a good mix of renewables and build more interconnectors.

I see today is going to be the highest ever demand on the electric grid: https://smartgriddashboard.com/#all/demand

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

murica fuck yeah

[Raoul Duke III]

yeah, its amazing really. Although hopefully Europe will use the opportunity to switch away from gas altogether as much as possible, rather than just switch to using US LNG. Hence, why using the crisis to build the LNG plant in Shannon would be a brutal idea as would remove the necessary pressure to rapidly expand a good mix of renewables and build more interconnectors.

I see today is going to be the highest ever demand on the electric grid: https://smartgriddashboard.com/#all/demand

One of my Brussels buddies is high up in the Energy commission. It was apparently a fairly sleepy existence until February but he says they have literally done ten years work in ten months.

It's really been amazing how the EU has responded to the Ukraine war. Would make you very optimistic for our shared future.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

One of my Brussels buddies is high up in the Energy commission. It was apparently a fairly sleepy existence until February but he says they have literally done ten years work in ten months.

It's really been amazing how the EU has responded to the Ukraine war. Would make you very optimistic for our shared future.

without spilling any private insights - they're planning to boost renewables in a big way?

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

this also:

[Hectorjelly]

It could well be redundant by the time it arrives, with smartgrids allowing a survivable zero-carbon blend of renewables. But it is still a notable development -

Meanwhile in the real world Germany is using coal

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Meanwhile in the real world Germany is using coal

meh, its acknowledged as a brief necessity because of the exceptional circumstances. It is, though, going, and will be gone in the next few years.

[Raoul Duke III]

without spilling any private insights - they're planning to boost renewables in a big way?

I don't think there's any secrets there.

[balfejohn]

Pepsi withacap 5.45 Dundalk
friend of mine has a few shares in it
very hopeful this evening of a good run
bit worried about the favourite

[Denny Crane]

yeah, its amazing really. Although hopefully Europe will use the opportunity to switch away from gas altogether as much as possible, rather than just switch to using US LNG. Hence, why using the crisis to build the LNG plant in Shannon would be a brutal idea as would remove the necessary pressure to rapidly expand a good mix of renewables and build more interconnectors.

I see today is going to be the highest ever demand on the electric grid: https://smartgriddashboard.com/#all/demand

Can't do renewables without LNG

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Can't do renewables without LNG

Thats not true. You can do a broad blend of renewables, battery storage, plus interconnectors.

[Raoul Duke III]

Pepsi withacap 5.45 Dundalk
friend of mine has a few shares in it
very hopeful this evening of a good run
bit worried about the favourite

Pity the meeting was called off before you posted this.

We usually BBV individual horses, not an entire gathering of them.

[balfejohn]

Pity the meeting was called off before you posted this.

We usually BBV individual horses, not an entire gathering of them.

Very sorry about that
busy in work , got call 10 mins after post to let me know it was off

stick whatever u can on England for the world cup

[Denny Crane]

Thats not true. You can do a broad blend of renewables, battery storage, plus interconnectors.

Gonna need to see working for that.

[Goodluck2me]

Thats not true. You can do a broad blend of renewables, battery storage, plus interconnectors.

New nuclear will be here before batteries of that scale!

[Goodluck2me]

Here's an incredible read on the subject. It's long, you may not have time now but would recommend reading when you do. Kinda terrifying tbh.

Part 1

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

Part 2

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

Any cliffs? Found the writing style way too wordy, needs a good editor

[Denny Crane]

Quite a positive piece from WSJ considering they benefitted from the stolen client funds.

NYT and WSJ treating SBF with kid gloves.

[Ed]

Stuck in Aberdeen, hopefully get home tomorrow, was -7 when when we were on the way to the airport this morning

[Lazare]

Any cliffs? Found the writing style way too wordy, needs a good editor

Oh I love his style, love his use of really cool analogies to explain incomprehensible vastness.

Cliffs are the future of humanity or the planet depends on who gets there first, and their intentions.

The idea that it can quickly attain an intelligence that we won't be able to comprehend. He likens it to the gulf in intelligence between humans and chimpanzees.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Gonna need to see working for that.

https://theconversation.com/how-to-have-an-all-renewable-electric-grid-120713

As the research linked in this article shows, it has been demonstrated for just about every country studied that fully renewable grids are completely feasible.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Cliffs:

1. You need a diversity of renewable sources that have some element of complementarity 2. You need some storage, but that can be solved by excess capacity that gets dumped or exported when not needed
3. You need a grid capable of quickly moving power around
4. You probably need some form of backup supply - which interconnectors from systems with more stable generation can solve

There has been no need shown for any fossil fuel backup. Studies have even shown that nuclear isn't even necessary for large scale grids.

[MysteryGuest]

Quite a positive piece from WSJ considering they benefitted from the stolen client funds.

NYT and WSJ treating SBF with kid gloves.

I wonder what the reason for this is

[Emmet]

Quite a positive piece from WSJ considering they benefitted from the stolen client funds.

NYT and WSJ treating SBF with kid gloves.

Give him a break, imagine losing $10b of other people's money.

He must feel terrible, the poor chap.

[DeadParrot]

Did you get back? Think I would have abandoned ship at the airport.

We are now stuck in Brussels. The plane hasn't left Dublin yet

[dinekes]

Marge my brain hurts after reading all those words!
Stupid AI can't even tell a dog from a cat..heh heh heh.........loooooozer

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

We are now stuck in Brussels. The plane hasn't left Dublin yet

It was just a quick family break over there? ugh. That must have put a fair dampener on the whole thing between getting out and getting back.

[DeadParrot]

It was just a quick family break over there? ugh. That must have put a fair dampener on the whole thing between getting out and getting back.

I have spent an altogether stupid amount of money to get this somehow workable.
Mentally assigning it to a few buyins has somewhat softened the blow.

[dinekes]

Upgraded to a nearly not old Citroen C5 last week.
week.
This AM
Fog lights ..hmmm...no that's not it....hmmm...turn that and twist that...for fucks sake why do they have to make it.....ok relax just breathe...so twist and half turn anti clockwise.....ah shure prob won't need them (looks out window).. ...hmmmmm.....ok think logically.. turn on move stalk to position 1 and....for fucks sake will you just work you piece of ..............
several minutes later
Owners manual......hmmm ...index...L or F...hmmm.....ok F then ...page 12,16 and 28 ...oh for fucks sake

[Denny Crane]

I wonder what the reason for this is

Lesson is pay off the right people before you defraud the commoners

[Denny Crane]

Cliffs:

1. You need a diversity of renewable sources that have some element of complementarity 2. You need some storage, but that can be solved by excess capacity that gets dumped or exported when not needed
3. You need a grid capable of quickly moving power around
4. You probably need some form of backup supply - which interconnectors from systems with more stable generation can solve

There has been no need shown for any fossil fuel backup. Studies have even shown that nuclear isn't even necessary for large scale grids.

We're beyond the limits of the % that come from wind
We're correlated with the UK for usage and production
French connector is less than 10% of what we use
Could be wrong but don't think we've much more capacity in terms of pumped storage.
batteries will never be enough

LNG is an easy compliment to renewables

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Thats not true. You can do a broad blend of renewables, battery storage, plus interconnectors.

Gonna need to see working for that.

You asked for workings and I linked you to a range of studies showing a blend has been proven to be perfectly feasible for all sizes of countries!

I think maybe the issue is you are wondering if it is 'feasible right now', which of course it isn't. But is it workable towards if we invest in the right infrastructure - clearly it is. There's already a complete funded plan in Ireland for working towards 80% of electricity being from renewables by 2030. No grid needs to have any fossil fuels supporting it.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

The RESS auctions seems to be where its all happening. Recently awarded 1.5GW of solar farms. My understanding is that, unlike RESS1 which included quite a lot of speculative projects that never went ahead, that these are all projects that have approved connections to the national grid. 5.5gw of solar eventually to be installed by 2030, 8gw of onshore wind power, and endless offshore potential (30gw+ is the target by 2040).

I guess the big issue is the extent to which we can get 'green hydrogen' as a storage solution to pay off. ESB seems to be putting a lot of faith in it as the main driver of storage.

[Denny Crane]

You asked for workings and I linked you to a range of studies showing a blend has been proven to be perfectly feasible for all sizes of countries!

Ah I meant workings in terms of % of where the generation was going to come from.

[Micknail]

I guess the big issue is the extent to which we can get 'green hydrogen' as a storage solution to pay off. ESB seems to be putting a lot of faith in it as the main driver of storage.

So should we get hydrogen cars instead of electric then? Wouldn't that solve the range anxiety through quick refills (infrastructure pending).
Toyota mirai says hello.

[ComradeCollie]

Upgraded to a nearly not old Citroen C5 last week.
week.
This AM
Fog lights ..hmmm...no that's not it....hmmm...turn that and twist that...for fucks sake why do they have to make it.....ok relax just breathe...so twist and half turn anti clockwise.....ah shure prob won't need them (looks out window).. ...hmmmmm.....ok think logically.. turn on move stalk to position 1 and....for fucks sake will you just work you piece of ..............
several minutes later
Owners manual......hmmm ...index...L or F...hmmm.....ok F then ...page 12,16 and 28 ...oh for fucks sake

I still have a love of the Citroens and Renaults from the 60s and well into the 80s. Though having, and being able to work on them was most of the charm.

[Wombatman]

Give him a break, imagine losing $10b of other people's money.

He must feel terrible, the poor chap.

Lolz.

Think the parents actually give classes in corporate governance.

Guy is so obviously a criminal.

https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/11/30/ftxs-collapse-was-a-crime-not-an-accident/

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

So should we get hydrogen cars instead of electric then? Wouldn't that solve the range anxiety through quick refills (infrastructure pending).
Toyota mirai says hello.

Was speaking to a guy who runs the Renault/Peugeot/something French hydrogen division and he said hydrogen cars are a slamdunk, compared to electric cars, providing they can actually make green hydrogen. Although he clearly had skin in the game.

Think zuut posted here before that the costs on green hydrogen are still far too high, and regular hydrogen is apparently as bad for the environment as smoking a chimney.

My vague understanding is that it takes too much electricity to make green hydrogen at the moment. But the plan is that if we have endless surplus offshore wind energy then that input cost falls close to zero.

Current Irish plan, whether it works out or not, is to have 30GW of offshore wind capacity by 2040. Which would produce 9GW of energy on average, I think, given that wind power returns about 30% of generating capacity over a year. With massive peaks and troughs in that generation dependent on the weather. We're currently using about 7GW at peak capacity, so with onshore wind and solar (another minimum of about 6GW capacity), there should be loads of surplus to generate cheap green hydrogen in the windy months even if we were to sell power to just about any data centre that wanted to set up shop (a decent business really, given that they would be buying the electricity and making revenue for the grid).

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Disclaimer: I'm more intrigued and fascinated by the switch to renewables, than deeply informed. Its such a massive societal movement. Almost, the democratisation of endless free energy.

[Wombatman]

Disclaimer: I'm more intrigued and fascinated by the switch to renewables, than deeply informed. Its such a massive societal movement. Almost, the democratisation of endless free energy.

It's the equivalent of peasant farming. Should obviously be done on an industrial scale.

The energy elephant in the room.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/China-s-demonstration-HTR-PM-reaches-full-power

[DeadParrot]

We are in Dublin.
Thanks be to fuck
.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

It's the equivalent of peasant farming. Should obviously be done on an industrial scale.

The energy elephant in the room.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/China-s-demonstration-HTR-PM-reaches-full-power

Although if we can switch beef farms to solar farms, it's a massive net gain. Let the peasants reap the sun.

[6starpool]

Although if we can switch beef farms to solar farms, it's a massive net gain. Let the peasants reap the sun.

If you could farm cloud cover we'd be laughing.

[Raoul Duke III]

If you could farm cloud cover we'd be laughing.

Don't complain, definitely a good 5-6 degrees less cold\warmer out there today thanks to those sweet, fluffy little adorable clouds...

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Reading Money by Martin Amis at the moment. Its some book - a while since a novel quite gripped me for its inventiveness.

Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, fast food, drugs, pornography, and more, Money is ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage; a tale of life lived without restraint, of money and the disasters it can precipitate.

[6starpool]

Don't complain, definitely a good 5-6 degrees less cold\warmer out there today thanks to those sweet, fluffy little adorable clouds...

Ground still blanketed white here, but thankfully none of that fog that never lifted yesterday.

[Raoul Duke III]

Ground still blanketed white here, but thankfully none of that fog that never lifted yesterday.

Was out with the hideous hound of hell at about 7.30 and no ice or frost at all in the park. The Great Freeze of 2022 will be one we'll tell the grandkids about.

[Solksjaer!]

Was out with the hideous hound of hell at about 7.30 and no ice or frost at all in the park. The Great Freeze of 2022 will be one we'll tell the grandkids about.

Jaysus , again very Harsh. You'll be found out .

[Solksjaer!]

My spidey like reflexes were put to use this morning as the 6 year old was trying out a bit of ol projectile vomiting.

[6starpool]

Was out with the hideous hound of hell at about 7.30 and no ice or frost at all in the park. The Great Freeze of 2022 will be one we'll tell the grandkids about.

Just because something wasn't deeply frozen for days on end very close to the coast doesn't mean there wasn't severe freezes elsewhere. Hardly a spell of weather for the ages, but the coldest 10 days of weather in general in a good while in most places.