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You think he can convince people to vote against their own interests in support of the "greater good" of "owning the libs"?

Whatsisface was picked specifically because he doesn't pose a threat to the cult leader.

ICE and the ICC target his lieutenants. Epstein targets the fucker himself.

Take down ICE, and he commits his next atrocity with FEMA, or DEA or the Bureau of Land Management.

Take him down, and Corporal Couchfucker can't hold the GOP together.

Ezekiel 23:20

Got me through some hard times.

Genesis 19:31

Ezekiel 23:20

The reality is that we don't actually need to wait for the epstein files to be released. We know Trump is a child rapist.

I literally explained that the economic incentives necessary to maximize the potential of one were completely opposite the incentives necessary for the other.

Again: nuclear needs daytime loads driven to off-peak hours. The difference between maximum demand and minimum demand needs to be lowered as much as possible, because nuclear can't be quickly ramped up and down to match demand. That means increasing overnight demand: Lowering off-peak pricing for large industrial consumers.

Solar needs minimum night time demand, and maximum daytime demand. It needs to drive consumers to daytime hours. Raising prices for overnight consumption, reducing them during the day.

The two require opposite, incompatible pricing strategies to maximize their efficiency potential.

Whichever one we choose as a primary, we drive the other to an inefficient auxiliary role.

I literally just explained that.

Exactly. That is exactly what we need to do.

Then the rest of the year we have cheap hyper-abundant power.

Ideally, yes. But, what is actually happening is that near the summer solstice, generation rates aren't "cheap". They are negative. We are putting so much power on the grid that generation companies are paying for people to take it off during ideal generation conditions.

That is a big fucking problem. Negative rates mean we stop "spamming" solar panels long before we have enough to meet winter demand.

The solution to that problem is 3-season industries. Major industrial consumers that only operate from spring through autumn, soaking up the excess power, then going offline, shedding their excessive load for the winter.

Not feasible.

It's barely feasible to use pumped storage for solar to match the daily demand curve in some small areas. Grid scale storage cannot be feasibly scaled to serve our current overnight power needs. But the daily demand curve isn't the problem.

The real problem is the seasonal variation.

For solar to be effective, it needs to be able to meet our winter demand with our winter sunlight. 9 hours of low-angle sunlight under largely overcast conditions. That means we need a lot of solar panels, to get sufficient power from these suboptimal conditions.

Now, take that same number of solar panels, and give them the 15 hours of high-angle sunlight under largely clear skies that we have during the summer. When we do this, we have so much power pushed on to the grid that the price of electricity actually goes negative. They literally have to pay people to take it.

There isn't enough lithium in the world to make the batteries we would need to balance seasonal variation. There isn't enough land on the planet to support pumped storage facilities that could balance seasonal variation.

We need demand shaping to make solar feasible as our primary energy source, which means driving our heaviest loads to daytime, away from the dark. (This is the exact opposite of what we need to do for nuclear, coal, and other baseload generation.)

We also need 3-season industries that can soak up excess production in spring, summer, and autumn, while going offline and shedding their loads during winter.

Fresh meat contains vitamin C, as most animals can synthesize it themselves. Jerky is uncooked, just dried.

Fermentation can develop vitamin C, depending on what you're fermenting. Cabbage is probably the most famous example, but pretty much everything you ferment produces at least a little.

Jams are preserved by canning, which introduces heat, which destroys vitamin C.

Making jam involves heating the fruit, which destroys the ascorbic acid.