cash crab posted:

i like the cut of your jib

lmaooo

cat botherer posted:

Did someone say ARkStorm?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/magazine/california-dams.html

tuyop posted:

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Tony Tone posted:

I think people should be angry, they should carry huge amounts of hatred and disdain for either a specific group of rich/powerful locally-wise or just a generalized disdain for the rich and powerful, always ready to at the bare minimum poo poo talk them openly with the same hate the average joe has for terrorists or immigrants or Jews or whatever the gently caress. The rich should be public enemy number one, and there needs to exist an aversion to wealth. Not even for any utilitarian purpose like saving the climate because lol, lmao. But solely to get even. I think it's a lot like when a situation has deteriorated so badly between two sides, that negotiation becomes irrelevant as MAD has been set in motion already, and at this point it's all about the release of intensely repressed emotions with the other party strictly for the sole purpose of getting loving even.

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

smoobles posted:

the climate is fine

Taima posted:

There's plenty of reasons to be concerned but this is some bullshit. The jet is definitely weird right now but showing a text book jetstream in the article, then the current one and being like " WhOa So WaVy aNd WeiRd" is not good journalism and/or science.

The jet is never as simple as in a textbook and frequently wiles out. Is this year getting kinda freaky with it? Sure. But don't let these people make you scared when there are plenty of reasons to actually be scared.

Right now I have two major questions about this year, climatologically:

1) How strong this insane El Nino will get
2) Will it actually work like a normal El Nino in a shifting climate?

The whole cause and effect of El Nino and La Nina is getting hosed up. Some of the biggest rain years in recent memory have been in La Nina, and some pretty lovely rain years have been during even strongly presenting El Nino... I think it's an extremely open question right now if, for example, California will even get the canonical El Nino rainfall this winter or if some other random poo poo will happen.

Anyways we'll see. I might make another El Nino effortpost in a while. Short version: It's Strong, Jim

Extremely spicy subsurface El Nino warming in the far East Pacific for June/July:

Rime posted:

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Rime posted:

No, China doesn't publish any data on those lines whatsoever, lol. All I have is watching Goldwind fall on its face the first time it had to compete in the big leagues instead of with MinYang and other similarly state-controlled entities in a state-controlled market. There are only 7 countries in the world which publicly report project-level annual windenergy production data. Specifically, the USA, Turkey, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, the Dominican Republic and Brazil.

Goldwind made a huge push to try and enter the North American & Australian markets, hugely undercutting every other manufacturer with bidding and donated a modern top of the line unit to Texas A&M as a training facility. Poached a lot of top talent from other OEM's to try and build out a domestic presence. The turbines turned out to be phenomenally poo poo and rife with component failures, which is unusual as they are direct-drive and usually those are more stable. (Goldwind acquired a majority share of the german R&D company Vensys and "acquired" a bunch of Enercon features via ??? to develop their platform). I mean so phenomenally poo poo that several major projects which Goldwind had won the bidding for subsequently dropped them and went with Enercon or other manufacturers. I spoke to a lot of techs who subsequently left and it sounded pretty extremely wild, would never want to go near one.

I'm not casting shade on China in favor of (non-existent) glorious Euro OEM's, to be clear, I'm pointing out that they aren't going to sweep in with superior technology and clean up when dumpster fires such as SGRE and others finally implode. They're worse, big "melt your plows to pimp the steel production targets vibes from the pace of installation. Time will tell I guess.

They're pulling an absolute fuckload of energy out of planetary spanning circulatory systems, sure. Unlike solar, which is passively feeding off the largest fusion reactor in our immediate area, wind generation at the scales we're now deploying is probably going to have noticeable impacts to global weather systems in the long run. Thankfully realistically it's a drop in the bucket compared to...literally everything else which is currently breaking down? And all the extra energy we've pumped in from feedback loops is more than taking up the difference. Someone graph out global annual wind energy production in Hiroshimas per annum, maybe that will contextualize things better.

To clarify: I'm still involved from time to time, but no longer aggressively traveling in field tech labor year-round (because there's no loving point, lol. The overall industry situation leading to kids getting their feet sheared off put a ridiculous premium on experience which didn't exist pre-pandemic, my most recent project was "just really glad to hear you're coming at all" when I sent them my list of requirements to attend in a senior role. I take wind work when I want to, which is very little and generally only for industry friends who have moved into managerial roles and need a crisis unfucked.

I had severe PTSD and related anxiety issues for most of 2022, it still flares up from time to time but the majority of two years at home has greatly improved matters. Broadly cutting off social media except to check the news from time to time was a major contributor to recovering from that.

Faster than expected! Oh well, back to touching grass with people who aren't totally loving insane - unlike this stirling example of why the forums continue a cancerous metastasis towards total irrelevance.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Bob Ross Nuke Test posted:

This was a loving bizarre probation? A casual forums search shows a plan to indefinitely chain-probe a user out of spite / totally deranged rap sheet axe grinding by some of the more severely maladjusted posters remaining on here.

SA feeling like a less safe and more cabal-driven cesspool every day.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

how is everything so stupid, up to and including the moderation of this thread

BIG HEADLINE posted:

All of the *good* bugs (including those in our guts) are dying.

All of the *bad* bugs (both insect and sicknesses) that tend to spread things that cripple or kill us are thriving. Almost like an immune system attacking a threat.

I mean, for gently caress's sake, there's a tick that spreads a sickness that makes you dangerously allergic to consuming red meat. How much more on the loving nose does Nature have to get?

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

how is everything so stupid, up to and including the moderation of this thread

Bob Ross Nuke Test posted:

This was a loving bizarre probation? A casual forums search shows a plan to indefinitely chain-probe a user out of spite / totally deranged rap sheet axe grinding by some of the more severely maladjusted posters remaining on here.

SA feeling like a less safe and more cabal-driven cesspool every day.

Hit Man posted:

I know there is wet bulb

But is there smoke bulb?

How does 90% humidity at 90°f with 150 AQI factor in to the incredibly healthy such as myself

Hit Man posted:

I know there is wet bulb

But is there smoke bulb?

How does 90% humidity at 90°f with 150 AQI factor in to the incredibly healthy such as myself

Hit Man posted:

I know there is wet bulb

But is there smoke bulb?

How does 90% humidity at 90°f with 150 AQI factor in to the incredibly healthy such as myself

Bob Ross Nuke Test posted:

This was a loving bizarre probation? A casual forums search shows a plan to indefinitely chain-probe a user out of spite / totally deranged rap sheet axe grinding by some of the more severely maladjusted posters remaining on here.

SA feeling like a less safe and more cabal-driven cesspool every day.

Wheeee posted:

the entire anime freak forum should be killed off if you actually care

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

how is everything so stupid, up to and including the moderation of this thread

Microplastics posted:

Gumball Gumption posted:

Sometimes they post good stuff and sometimes they have really long mental breakdowns and post pedo stuff or eco-fascist stuff. Land of contrasts

Zodium posted:

rime is a racist pedophile anime liker who should be chain probed every time he posts in cspam, and biosphere posters should stop defending him just because he posts about windmills

Zodium posted:

yeah if rime just made his good effortposts about windmills he would be a good poster, but he has a decade long record of 19th century style racism against everyone from the roma to the chinese to global southern people at large.

bawfuls posted:

then just permaban him from the site, this is such a weird way to deal with it

bawfuls posted:

then just permaban him from the site, this is such a weird way to deal with it

so the response is to.... prob him when he does stick to good windmill posting?

if his non-windmill posting is so awful then he should be banned for it directly

Microplastics posted:

cat botherer posted:

Yeah really. Calling someone a pedo and then just giving them sixers or chainprobing is loving weird. There's no actual evidence that I've seen they're a pedo except for an out of context post from years ago that doesn't look that bad too me (maybe I'm dumb and don't know enough about anime IDK) and I don't have archives anyway.