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New comment by destitude in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

destitude — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:41:51 +0000

Let alone the wind erosion from having exposed soil over winter.

New comment by destitude in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

destitude — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:36:50 +0000

I also and have gone to -46F and for me a thick wool sweater and wool felt coat makes huge difference. I can not even wear my wool sweater until it gets to -20F otherwise I will burn up :)

New comment by destitude in "ChatGPT Health"

destitude — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:39:13 +0000

You must not be involved in the medical field to realize how bad it is especially when it come to diagnosis.

New comment by destitude in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

destitude — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:38:54 +0000

Did you read the report? Doesn't sound like it was safe for him.

New comment by destitude in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

destitude — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:21:02 +0000

Now we know why Isaacman was removed from nomination because he wouldn't have put up with this BS.

New comment by destitude in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

destitude — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:14:08 +0000

Considering nobody in the world can compete with SpaceX currently this seems purely political in nature. The EU is struggling to even come up with an answer to reusable rockets. China is the closest and will likely have something equivalent to the Falcon 9 within the next 2 years. But someone in the USA? People are delusional. Sure it is always best to have competitors but how did that work for Boeing/NASA/Starliner? You can't have two players/competitors if there is only one player in the entire world. And the reason why you need reusability is so that it is actually sustainable to use it! Does anyone here thinking this is a good idea have any idea how much it costs to launch SLS just once??

New comment by destitude in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

destitude — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:09:53 +0000

They could have delivered today if they weren't concerned about reusability.

New comment by destitude in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

destitude — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:03:35 +0000

Catching of a booster which everyone else thought was the stupidest craziest thing ever and they did it on first try.

New comment by destitude in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

destitude — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:46:49 +0000

Even on cloudy days you can generate power. Unless it is very thick clouds I generate enough for my base loads even in complete overcast skies because I have an "excess" of PV panels.

New comment by destitude in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

destitude — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:31:03 +0000

In case you didn't realize he is looking to store ALL of the summer generation into a battery and generate zero power in winter.. so rely entirely off of a battery during winter.. which is absolutely no feasible for a normal person and nobody would ever do.

New comment by destitude in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

destitude — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:27:52 +0000

And the price of the egg?

New comment by destitude in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

destitude — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:23:50 +0000

Nobody seems to think twice about storing gasoline, heating oil, diesel, and/or propane around their place.

New comment by destitude in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

destitude — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:22:03 +0000

For some reason in the USA there is only a single state that has approved that (Utah).

New comment by destitude in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

destitude — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:20:57 +0000

You forgot to mention anybody who has a yard that gets full sun can mount panels there as well. As far as fires you can say same thing about all the fires that currently occur because of propane, gas, and heating oil. Those have become some engrained in society for so long that you don't even think of that as a "fire hazard therefore you shouldn't even have it".

New comment by destitude in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

destitude — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:16:34 +0000

I'm fully off grid today with no issues, even had power company remove power poles. I do heat with wood however. AC in the summer is no issue since that is when I get the most sun anyways.

New comment by destitude in "Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy"

destitude — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:17:34 +0000

And yet we still have no place to put that "clean" energy when it is depleted.

New comment by destitude in "We're Joining OpenAI"

destitude — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:11:35 +0000

Highly likely the next major Xcode update will break it.

New comment by destitude in "Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale"

destitude — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:44:51 +0000

The title is wrong, this is about using a completely different scale system.

New comment by destitude in "Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly"

destitude — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:52:07 +0000

> But put them anywhere with snow, rain, fog, or even just grey skies and they struggle heavily I have winter basically 5 months of the year where I am and have no issues being fully off grid with only solar and batteries as energy sources. You do have to compensate for winter by having more panels and more batteries but easily doable.

New comment by destitude in "Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly"

destitude — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:37:56 +0000

Not sure why you say this. I'm on solar + batteries 24/7 365 days a year. Use no fossil fuels. Even had utility company remove power poles from my place.