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you can't facepalm at your own stupidity, that doesn't make any sense. solar power can only work where it's sunny a lot of the time, wind power only works when it's windy, these aren't complicated concepts. the only way to get around this, in order to reach global renewable usage greater than 10-15%, is to have some way of storing and transporting the energy. storage by itself might push up usage to 20-30%, but in order to get higher than that you need vast interconnected energy networks, and a means of transporting the energy without losing half of it in the process, this is the really hard bit, and not only would it require massive capital investment (which would dwarf the amount required to build a bunch of nuclear stations to achieve the same thing), it also requires significant technological advances which still look like they're a long way off (e.g. superconducting power lines). even then it's not likely to meet all our global energy needs, which continue to grow significantly every year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid

It's pretty funny that Oso is complaining about FAKE NEWS, but has no problem getting his information from a fraud and convicted criminal like James O'Keefe. lol. Also, most voters are stupid as shit.

There's no fallacy and no, my plan, if I were benevolent dictator of all Earth, would be to not let it all go to shit. I would accomplish this by closing all the dirty coal and oil plants (and the peat plants too, we have a few of them in Ireland, not only do they help bugger up the global environment, they're locally ecologically destructive as well) and replacing them with nuclear power. Natural Gas powered plants (from either regular drilling or fracking, it's all basically the same in terms of the negligible environmental impact - as long as the wells are capped properly to prevent methane from escaping), as the least carbon polluting, by far, of the fossil fuels would remain in order to help regulate peak demand, pumped storage from renewables would also help out there (most onshore wind would be banned though, because it's really dumb, offshore can make sense in certain regions, as can solar if done right - and there's a lot of potential for growth in solar, unlike wind). Geothermal and Hydro are obviously great if you can build them, but they're highly geographically dependant. Biofuels are a really dumb idea too, they'd be banned as well. The idea that renewables alone are going to replace all our fossil fuels in the next few decades is so ridiculously nonsensical a notion it really is amazing that otherwise intelligent people seem to fall for it, it's blindly optimistic stupidity of the highest order. It's important that we remember that we're only talking about a window of a few decades here, we're already passed the point where we're actively causing sea-level rise, the next few decades will merely decide by how much, and how many millions of people will end up being effected. From the article above: yes, because the rest of the world is just as sunny as California. maybe when climate change really gets going it could work

There's no fallacy and no, my plan, if I were benevolent dictator of all Earth, would be to not let it all go to shit. I would accomplish this by closing all the dirty coal and oil plants (and the peat plants too, we have a few of them in Ireland, not only do they help bugger up the global environment, they're locally ecologically destructive as well) and replacing them with nuclear power. Natural Gas powered plants (from either regular drilling or fracking, it's all basically the same in terms of the negligible environmental impact - as long as the wells are capped properly to prevent methane from escaping), as the least carbon polluting, by far, of the fossil fuels would remain in order to help regulate peak demand, pumped storage from renewables would also help out there (most onshore wind would be banned though, because it's really dumb, offshore can make sense in certain regions, as can solar if done right - and there's a lot of potential for growth in solar, unlike wind). Geothermal and Hydro are obviously great if you can build them, but they're highly geographically dependant. Biofuels are a really dumb idea too, they'd be banned as well. The idea that renewables alone are going to replace all our fossil fuels in the next few decades is so ridiculously nonsensical a notion it really is amazing that otherwise intelligent people seem to fall for it, it's blindly optimistic stupidity of the highest order. It's important that we remember that we're only talking about a window of a few decades here, we're already passed the point where we're actively causing sea-level rise, the next few decades will merely decide by how much, and how many millions of people will end up being effected.

My opinions weren't formed by a radio show, that was just a demonstration that that guy was a bit of an asshole. Renewable energy will never replace fossil fuels for base load energy generation, would be nice if it were true, but it's a pipe dream sadly. It's not just a matter of price either, sure the fact that they're heavily subsidised is a problem, but the main problem is just being able to provide enough reliable power to run the grid, and that isn't ever going to happen at base load levels, so instead we're just going to keep burning coal and oil. Germany has one of the largest installed renewable programs in the world, how much CO2 do you think they've managed to remove from their output in the last 20 years? (basically zero is the answer, and they're likely to start increasing in CO2 output in the future as the rest of their nuclear gets shut down, they're already pushing up on limits of what their renewables can contribute to the grid). There's a place for renewables in a diverse grid network, but we're only talking about 10-30% input at most (that range largely dependent on geographic concerns, local resource availability, feasibility of pumped storage, etc.). Climate change is happening, millions of people will be affected, at worst millions of people will die. Well meaning ignorance will have played a big part in that coming to pass.

Haha! Love & Light This shit isn't funny, millions of people are going to die because of attitudes like yours. Good job.

People believe all kinds of dumb shit, as you have demonstrated earlier in this very thread. The quake thing is real, not that it's a threat to anything, they're teeny tremors (in a range of 1-3 on the scale, mostly people can't even feel them). They have regulations in place to prevent larger ones (and not even that large, still wouldn't cause any damage, they only start getting serious around 6). Also they're pretty rare, and their efforts to curb their occurrences are working pretty well.

That's not a ton of evidence, it's a bullshit propaganda film that's been well debunked from multiple sources. I heard the director of that on the radio one day, he was a real asshole, started getting shirty with the interviewer for trying to ask some probing questions, rather than just gush some effusive praise over him without questioning anything, he ended up walking out of the interview (this was BBC radio 4 btw, not some right wing nonsense).

yes, and nuclear power. and shut down all the peat and coal power stations. have you heard about global warming? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LBjSXWQRV8 that's got nothing to do with fracking, that has always happened. natural gas seeps naturally into water supplies, always has.

We already know, fracking is very successful in the US. Eventually we'll have some non-ignorant fuckers in power in the country and we can do some decent shit, like that and building a nuclear power plant or two.

yeah, that's all a load of bullshit.

no, I was saying 'boo' would be much better if we were fracking instead of running peat power stations.

boo

They don't remember it that way, they just called it Easons, like everyone else, and assumed it was written that way on the front, but it wasn't. There was never a memory created in their brains from them looking at sign that never existed. I had literally no idea about the IIII vs IV thing at all, seems like there are two styles of clock face, which is a mildly interesting factoid I guess. I learnt that IV was the roman numeral in school, like everyone else, so would have just assumed that's what was on the clock face, like everyone else. And what about the symmetrical union jack? Thousands of people don't see it every day, I can guarantee you that virtually nobody has ever noticed it at all, I certainly never did, and even if they did at least 99% of them wouldn't think anything of it, and forget it immediately, because who gives a shit? Do the people on the street you're talking to start giving you funny looks and slowly start walking backwards away from you?

they're not changes, it was always Eason on the shop (was Eason & Son originally), everyone just called it Eason's. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre was always called that too afaik. Basically the problem here seems to be that you have a bad memory.

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you want to plug the base unit directly into your router (i.e. connected with an ethernet cable), then the other units go in whatever room you need them. I use cables on the receiving end as well, but you can get models that work as wifi extenders (the one I mentioned before has no wifi), but even then you'd plug the base unit directly into the router for best results.

if you're going to do powerline adapters you'd probably only want multiple units of all the same model on the same circuit (they might interfere with each other otherwise). I have four of them at home (1 hub and three receivers, TP-LINK-AV1200), they work very well when they work (good latency and much better bandwidth than wifi), though they relatively frequently just stop working and I have to reset the ethernet adapter in Windows (this happens several times a week - it would be unacceptable for me if it was for my main machine, but it's just for connections in my kitchen and two bedrooms).

how the fuck does a show from only three years ago age badly?

that would be a nice way to end the series actually, showing stuff behind the scenes that you never saw in BB, interspersed with whatever is going to happen to future jimmy at cinnabon.

That's pretty similar to the triple cook method I guess, I don't have a sous vide setup though.

the bun was quite soft actually, but not so soft that it fell apart. burger was nice, just a supermarket one, but from some cut called the Picanha, which is a Brazilian cut apparently, I usually just make them myself from some mince. spuds were Roosters, the best all purpose potato going, an Irish variety that you can get in the UK now as well. turned out a bit soggy though, need to change the oil I think, also only cooked them once, usually do them twice but was lazy last night. when I have the time I tripple cook them for the best results:

https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/06/20/heres-what-the-new-transformers-movie-is-like/