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i mean what i posted with biden in general was haha he said the gamer word on accident

We have a lot of trees

more excusable in meme chat

Biden's also said it on purpose

still inexcusable no one cares about biden

perhaps

Pika, how often do you lose power?

Okay, how do you want to consider loosing power

for 2 seconds? Once every few months

the 2 second thing is worse ngl

for an actual amount of time, like once or twice a year

for 5-15 minutes

Why do you people lose power for a few seconds

Horrible rainstorms

/ everything is fucking frozen

usually when a non-critical line goes down

and the system has to switch the load over

If we lose power over here, we lose power

It's either an actual blackout or nothing at all

dolf, they have a big storm like that every like 10ish years

Rolling blackouts are the thing that is fucked, which I think most of the US got away from

I think the worst one I can remember in my lifetime was 45? minutes

like 5 years back

We've had some for a couple hours at a time

but when I lose power for 3 hours because a tree fell on our street's transformer.... again it's whatever

Usually it's just some fuckery with the underground wires

that too

when Verizion came through to lay fibre ~10 years ago

they kept fucking up power cables

last time it was at that level was 1989

there was a big storm ten years ago

im not debating that

im saying it wasnt as much of a disaster

though I will agree they did fuck their by upping their power grid to 25% wind turbines not meant to be in wet and freezing conditions

23%

close enough

snopes fact checks you as false

you are a liar

at that level it doesn't matter

My favorite take I saw, hold on I need to find this

heres why fact checkers say you are false

something about how the ISS uses solar panels, and that's in space

so Texas clearly did something wrong if they couldn't handle snow

"Clean energy" is just way too volatile

I love the "but theirs wind turbines in antarctica"

theres a small number and its a dry frozen desert

We have a lot of wind turbines out in West Virginia

they're cool to watch spin

I don't think they generate much power at all though

also half of texas' turbines stopped working

roughly

causing 12% power loss

we have a lot of turbines here too

Even if they were significantly less efficient, if they just kept working at a consistent rate year round people would use them

they are indeed fun to watch

I wouldn't want to live near one, and from the stats I just looked up, ours are essentially worthless

Their best use is as a makeshift obstacle course in gta

but they're neat to drive by

i saw people posting about how their solar panels are faulty also

it's hard but funny to get green energy firms to admit that even switching to mostly green energy still needs stable dirty load plants

people just responded with pictures of them blanketed in snow

here is where leg would say go nuclear

so go nuclear

I also say nuclear

solar panels are "faulty" because they last 40 years, and require significant maintenance after 10

It's a trendy thing here for people to get 1 solar panel and fuck up their roof tiling

and are also dirty as hell to make

HOLY SHIT

I'd love to put a solar array in my back yard

MY ECON CLASS USED THE PHRASE "a memory card bought by a gamer"

but... it makes no financial sense

in a question about intermediate or final goods

even with tax breaks

gamers are represented now

The kind that actually tracks sunlight seem to be the only sensible ones

I'd be more interested in getting my own personal nuclear reactor

yeah be that nuclear eagle scout with the feds busting down on you

not for energy generation purposes or anything

but I think there's a lot of short range weaponry you could stage in this area of Virginia, that would completely bypass any defenses in DC