THAT DRONE WEREN'T POWERED BY A TINY COAL ENGINE?!?!? WHY THE HATE FOR THE COAL MINERS YOU LEZZIE VEGAN NERD GIRLS?!

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#makethefuture

Actually I think this is someone's stereotype given form

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"By having my lesbian wife who is also a vegan robotics expert place two tiny solar panels on top of our house, we will stop global warming while simultaneously giving as much of our money possible to big oil because they deserve it!"

Life itself!

Which seems to explain why they look dressed up for Carousel.

Happy I saved these.

But it's good for us, because we're the ones laughing in the back of the classroom as the school burns down in a hilarious inferno.

Sacrifice to oneself can lead to character building.

I'm not saying that they should don hair shirts and flagellate themselves, but perhaps a little sacrifice would give them an atom or two of perspective.

Well said. Looking at these two I'm left with a sense that they're just playing and will continue doing this thing only until it ceases to be fun.

Ideally work shouldn't be a detestable soul-crushing labor, but I also don't think it should be fun fun fun all the time either. Work should challenge a person to persist even even through the non-fun parts. There's something to be said for growing to overcome obstacles.

Ok, this got my wheels turning. Imagine - mobile, solar powered forts for disaster relief. The solar panel could power a USB hub for charging devices. I'm thinking a go fund will work, until investor pitch in. I could build a prototype and test it by road tripping! Nowhere shitty though.

Do you actually think these two aren't actors?

Carrot from OWS was real, the "build a fort" people were real, I do not assume any particular person is too stupid to be real.

This is what the "totally grungified" tag is for, and there's still room for it.

That's the stuff, Braze.

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DON'T JUDGE ME

No, but what we need to make a distributed system work is a real power grid. One that can handle a million little generators all going on and off at different times. I've noticed around here that the power company has real problems keeping a stable voltage, just due to load variations. Add a slew of generators, and things get ugly.

Believe it or not, the first big proponent of such a system was Enron. This was a good idea, even if promoted by Satan's toejam. If Trump wasn't such a gigantic fraudulent asshole, he'd get behind such a scheme, as every energy producer would be helped.

I mean do private homes & businesses even need to be on a grid at all?

I can understand always needing a grid for municipal stuff, but does my house need to be forever wired to it? Does every Walmart Megastore need to be? Walmart is rich, let them build their own fucking power plant.

Have you guys ever played sim city?

You don't want fossil fuel power generators near your population centers

Also economies of scale and efficiency of scale

Also also easier to regulate and upgrade one location instead of hundreds

@binro: no, but if you're going to the trouble of generating power, you will in fact end up with more than you need at times, and less at others. Hence the grid. Otherwise, you need a boatload of batteries or some other storage mechanism to buffer it. That gets expensive and flakey. The big deal with Musk's batteries is that they could do the job and power your car at the same time.

This has been informative. Thank you.