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The issue is monetizing the excess power produced by adequately-sized solar facilities for 9 months out of the year. Getting enough people to point giant lasers into space would solve the overcapacity problem that comes with solar generation outside of the tropics. Crypto has a slightly higher ROI.

Desalination, fischer-tropsch synfuel production, hydrogen electrolysis, demand-shaping of conventional industries like steel production and aluminum smelting, widespread adoption of electrified parking garages are some other options. Even other maligned, power-hungry technologies like AI can address the overproduction problems of solar better than conventional grid-scale storage solutions.

Also destroying the planet for literally no reason

Not necessarily.

Solar has a problem where, if you install enough capacity to meet demand during short, overcast winter days, you have twice the capacity you need in spring or autumn, and 4 times as much capacity as you need during long, clear summer days.

That excess production tanks the value of the power produced. Itnis already regularly driving power prices negative, making it impossible to recoup the value of your installation. Since it's cheaper for you to just buy electricity on the market than to install solar, you don't install solar. Nobody does. Solar installation never expands enough to meet winter demand.

Unless we can monetize that cheap summer power. If we have some way of profitably consuming that excess power, we have every reason to maximize solar rollout.

Crypto can do that just as well as anything else.

Worked in two factories since Covid. The first stockpiled components we produced in house, and relied in JIT logistics for external components. Which was basically the stupidest arrangement they could have cone up with. They had 10+ years worth of parts they could make in house, clogging up their warehouse. And couldn't ship anything because they were waiting on suppliers.

The other built two new warehouses to stockpile external supplies, and never let up on production.

Its not electoral reform or state action that we need. Its the DNC. Their policies and positions support the billionaire Problem Class. The Guillotine Party needs to decapitate the billionaire class and their political lapdogs in the Democratic party.

The funny part is that this is an actual centrist position: there is broad bipartisan support for attacking the oligarchs. If the Democrats would actually go after them, the GOP would have to do the same. We would end up with two parties focused on class warfare instead of none.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42qgkBf6s4

Guillotine Party.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/of-course-grindr-gay-dating-app-crashes-in-milwaukee-during-republican-national-convention/ar-BB1qiAQH

Looks like Little John and Robin Hood

Beat on red hot metal with a hammer, and fly hot air balloons.

So all that would change is that my basic needs would actually be met.

Practically none. The only formal education I had that covered the 1930s focused on the Great Depression, and blaming it primarily on the Dust Bowl The same school system completely skipped WWI, and the only WWII lesson was a week on the Diary of Anne Frank.

Everything I know about the rise of Hitler, I learned on my own.

I don't know. You'll have to ask them.

All I know is they whine a lot when you mention 1/4 cup or 3/16 of an inch, and seem to think it's really important to be able to measure a 2000km car trip to mm precision.