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Husband, father, dog owner, hiker, climate action advocate, amateur energy nerd, heat pump evangelist, audiobook enthusiast.

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Bonkers. Still lab scale, but a team has created an anode free, solid state, sodium battery. It's basically just sodium and an aluminum (some powdered) current collector. Huge theoretical potential for abundance, fast charging, high density.

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Elysis moving forward with a carbon free aluminum smelting process, licensing their tech to a Canadian smelter with first production targeted for 2027.

They also promise imporved safety, productivity, and anode life - tall order

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Super concentrated production

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Possibly, not entirely sure what would make it better than trains

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Good stuff, any snow left this year? There was one June when I was there.

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There are “no links whatsoever between the offshore wind development activity and especially the humpback whale mortalities. None. Zero.” But oil & gas & shipping interests sure want you to think wind energy is what's killing whales 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...

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In Billings, facing some of the windiest sunny day conditions I've ever seen, and somewhat disappointed there wasn't a single commercial wind turbine between the Black Hills and here.

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Should all be breadfruit and papaya smoothies or something

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There is an absurd amount of beef on the menu

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Trump, Who Incited Insurrection After Losing In 2020, Refuses To Say He Will Accept Outcome of 2024 Election there's your fucking headline.

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9 figures of debt, a record of rolling back pollution regulations, and many former staffers who refuse to endorse him and say he is fundamentally unfit for the job.

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The thing about the Presidential debate is the Biden administration has done a lot of things I like, while Trump is a twice impeached convicted felon and civilly liable sexual assaulter with three more felony cases pending (including one for playing a key role in a violent insurrection)...

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like, why is anyone treating this like a serious proposal? the trump department of labor wanted to make it easier for employers to steal tips for christssake! he has an actual record!

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No, I'm saying it's a weird fact of etymology that a hamburger means a beef burger and not, like, a pork burger.

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Interesting that ham essentially equals beef, legally, here.

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"The President has obtained "Limitless" technology"

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Nah, because the train thing happens all at once. It's more like being pelted with more and larger rocks each passing year, starting decades ago. And the rocks are of somewhat random size and you can't always predict when your rock shields will give out in a certain direction (non linear impacts).

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I know reporters don't have a lot of time, but it'd be great if they actually read the study results. Tldr; $9M spent to save $600k, control group C ($50/mo) saved more than test group B ($6.5k initial payment + $500/mo). Would've been better if they'd built cheap/free public housing instead.

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Not the point you are making, but the cough test is for hernias.

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Check this thing out, cheaper than a helicopter, comparable range, 1/3 the maintenance cost, and flies on $17 of electricity vs 700-900 of aviation fuel

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Jeez, what are they doing, aiming heliostats at them?

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I'm not even sure who the last one was, 2 or 3 options.

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The thing about owning an old house is not that it's haunted by ghosts, but by all the poor repair decisions of your predecessors.

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It cannot be emphasized enough how important the Inflation Reduction Act is.

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