One person said they’d spoken with colleagues who had chosen to go hybrid, and those colleagues reported doing work in mostly empty offices punctuated with video calls with people who were in other mostly empty offices.

This is the crux of it. All of our meetings now are virtual. Full stop. Companies had to adapt during COVID and to do that they got things like teams and SharePoints going. Now these tools are still in place and the genie is out of the bottle. No going back

Moderna and Phizer stocks with every cent I could muster

Quit my shitty job I had then

Funny how we so easily mistake one cataclysm for another

You have no idea how much I appreciated the slow lead in your comment. The entire thing is very high quality and I highly enjoyed reading whatever the fuck that was.

Believe it or not, I’m of the same mindset. I’m just saying if you are going to do something shitty, do it right, keep it within the situation, and don’t make it random other people’s problems.

Like if you’ve got a beef with someone, walk up and punch them, and go about your day (after the ensuing fist fight). Don’t break tear gas and make everyone on the block pay because you’re mad at one person.

Oh entirely, but if you’re going to do something, do it right and without externalities

Damn rights…

True, but like Watchtower by Hendrix, the covering artist to the original’s lunch money, and now that song is his.

The idiots should have just girdled the tree

This is why pumped hydro is a lot better. 250 Mw from Kidston is nothing to sneeze at. Gravity works in mining situations. The one I linked to stores enough to power 1000 homes for a year

I don’t follow

Yeah, we can use whatever as long as it holds the energy without loss. A suspended load has zero loss - so does a bunch of water behind a dam.

I don’t see how thermal could do that though.

Thanks!

Can they appeal after sentencing, does that have to come before?

When is he due to be sentenced?

Another neat tidbit I learned while researching pumped hydro is that hydroelectric dams actually use the remaining inertia of the spinning generators to pump water back up the dams, which is much like the idea of regenerative braking in EVs

Some of them. Others, like the Kidston one use solar.

When I was first learning about this stuff, I (very incorrectly) thought that the purpose of the battery was to generate (rather than store) energy, so I had a hard time wrapping my head around how they could actually work. The idea, however, is that you have your main source of green energy, and when the grid can’t take more energy, you use the excess to pump the water or lift the weight. Then, when the grid needs power you release your weight/water. In this regard, it builds capacity and stability of a green grid.

Thanks; I’m just waking up so it didn’t click

It’s coming along: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/gravity-battery-mine-renewable-energy-b2492087.html

https://www.mcconnelldowell.com/projects/kidston-pumped-storage-hydro

What do you mean it is fast?

1. see? This guy here knows how to insult (see my other comment)

2. Doxxing people is a fucking terrible thing to do. Doing it to minors is even worse. You wouldn’t want to be in the same room as me if I were the doxxee, that’s for sure.