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cloud_herder ,

lol who doesn’t hate this bot

cloud_herder ,

Haha same - clarifying that an asshole sarcastic comment is sarcastic doesn’t make it not an asshole comment.

Many people (hopefully most) knew it was sarcasm.

cloud_herder ,

Yep! Base load generation is the amount of energy that is constantly required and it has to be consistent. Any city or area will always use a certain minimum amount of energy, at every hour of the day. There is never a minute that demand dips below and this is called the base load. Intermittent renewables without storage can’t cover it, yet.

The other problem is economics. Hydro, geothermal, natural gas, nuclear, and coal can be operated to generate consistent reliable amounts of energy to cover it but at different costs. Removing hydro and geothermal as not all regions can leverage it - leaves, generally, coal, nat gas, and nuclear. Coal has been generally actively phased out over the last decade (in the US at least, I’m sure elsewhere), leaving natural gas and nuclear as options.

Nuclear with a substantially lower, if not negligible, carbon footprint outside of construction has so much red tape and lack of expertise and economies of scale that each plant and part ends up being close to bespoke with high costs and long construction times. Something like eight years and multiple billions of dollars.

Natural gas plants can be brought online in something like 1.5 to 2 years for substantially lower costs due to mass production, broader expertise, and less regulation.

What this leads to is a price per kW for being something like $.80+ for nuclear and like ~$.20 for natural gas over the lifetime of the plant.

These are all figures I loosely recall and haven’t confirmed or updated in my mind in a few years so I’m sure I’m off but the differences are roughly the same.

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are looking to innovate to solve this economic problem with nuclear by providing mass production capabilities of nuclear power but we aren’t there yet.

So, for now, economically, natural gas is often chosen over nuclear just as coal was before it. Hopefully that changes in the future sooner rather than later.

cloud_herder , (edited )

I’ve done lots of tech projects within the retail energy industry in Texas - this is the right answer.

To expand a little bit:

Retail energy providers (REPs), like NRG, ClearSky, Just Energy, etc. make their money by forecasting the amount of energy that will be needed as far in advance as possible and purchasing that amount from power generators like CenterPoint and marking it up a few cents. The farther out, the cheaper they can get it. I’ve helped build forecasting engines for a few that ingest historical usage data from meters (all meters in Texas are smart meters), weather data, and others to use machine learning to forecast how much individuals will need and aggregate it together to help the energy traders make better informed trade decisions farther out.

If they mess up or an unforeseen event happens and they don’t have enough energy bought for that time segment (forgot the term for a window of time they use), they have to go to the spot market which is where the prices fluctuate and can be many many multitudes higher than the rate the customers are contracted to pay.

In a storm scenario or a freeze, it can be thousands of times more expensive because demand is so high and supply is so limited. This is when REPs go bankrupt if they don’t have the cash on hand.

There are also insurance plans that the REPs pay for that cover very specific conditions for different types of events or outages that can kick in to cover the huge costs they would otherwise incur on their own buying electricity at that spot rate. I’ve known a few that were only able to stay operating because someone a few years prior had bought an insurance policy that covered said weather event.

Griddy died because of the ice storm in Texas a few years ago and the huge costs people incurred. I actually met with their CIO the year prior as part of a technology assessment of their stack. Nice guy.

Edit: also you can largely thank Enron and Rick Perry for deregulating Texas’ energy - which directly led to the terrible “performance” of the Texas grid during the winter storm Uri in 2021. Same for Enron in the constant blackouts in California in the early 2000’s.

cloud_herder ,

Where does online sports “betting” fit into this meme? Genuine ask because I have no experience or awareness of online casinos. Thanks.

cloud_herder ,

Rolling onto a client that uses “O11y” for observability almost gave me permanent damage.

cloud_herder ,

They’re shorthand for long words you don’t want to type. You keep the first and last letter and replace the rest of the word with the number of characters you removed.

Kubernetes ➡️ K8s Observability ➡️ O11y

🤷🏼‍♂️

cloud_herder ,

I thought the same until the barbarians came @me with O11y and one of my coworkers asked where the f they got “oh eleveny” from.

I just thought 8 = netes.

cloud_herder ,

I think I’d still rather type out internationalization even if it doesn’t fit on a slide lol.

cloud_herder ,

Hwat?

cloud_herder ,

I’m sure it’s annoying but if it’s people like me, they’re fascinated by watching construction happen. Probably even things you think are simple to do seem interesting from the outside. 😬

cloud_herder ,

Oh. Oh shit it hurts that reading this made me self-aware of this behavior. It’s one thing to be in this mindset and not be aware of it and it’s another to have it written out in front of you. 🤢

cloud_herder ,

Lmfao - the guy looks like Coach and this judge looks incompetent all around, needing procedures and the impact of ignoring things explained to her.

I’ll take Coach over a clown.

cloud_herder ,

Fucking ouch to read.

cloud_herder ,

Damn you’re unionized IT? Where are you general located?

cloud_herder ,

I don’t disagree with the sentiment but the Ilyushin Il-76 is made by Ilyushin, not Boeing. Let’s not cross the streams incorrectly.

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cloud_herder ,

Gah he looks worse than usual in this shot.

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cloud_herder ,

Whyyyyy would you actually say this out loud? We all know it’s a dick move but I’m curious what would possess them to actually broadcast it? Like you’re not supposed say the quiet parts out loud. Right?

cloud_herder ,

Lmfao what? I can’t wait to watch this play out…

cloud_herder ,

You don’t sayyyyy

cloud_herder ,

It doesn’t actually. It’s just an asshole.

cloud_herder ,

What are you talking about? I work in cloud and fiber infrastructure - the major players pay for fiber connections and close proximity to their customers.

ISPs have an obligation to their customers to provide a service at the speed their customer is paying for - regardless of what is coming down the pipe.

cloud_herder ,

What was this? I didn’t catch it

cloud_herder ,

TheX-37B? They definitely didn’t test that for this. The capacity weight is 227 kg.

cloud_herder ,

Why not past 2?

cloud_herder ,

Oh Jesus Christ, you’re right. I forgot. It was so hard to watch.

cloud_herder ,

Utopia (AU) - similar vein to Parks & Rec but more bureaucracy. I love it.

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cloud_herder ,

It’s so insane to think of this being an office perk. Just there for you to use… My office has a kitchen…

cloud_herder ,

It looks like the locker room of their job, looking downward.

cloud_herder ,

I’m here for u bro 🫂

cloud_herder ,

Maybe Im dense but why does the Finnish government carry a soda anyway?

cloud_herder ,

archive.today/VkRpG

cloud_herder ,

It was so criminally overlooked but I’m glad there ended up being 4 seasons!

I’ve tried to get so many people to pick this one up.

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