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Comment · 10 months ago
> Our community, though, has kept asking
Comment · 11 months ago
The Usual Suspects
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Looks like OP didn't. Now what?

This comment reads like one of those boomer Facebook "do not use my information" posts.

Comment · 1 year ago
What airports are you flying out of? Every major airport i have been to in the last year has a dedicated rideshare pickup lane.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can you link to one of these reports that shows a breakdown by high disaster areas?
Comment · 1 year ago
Assuming we can drill deep enough and harness it, the thermal energy in the earth's crust is essentially infinite.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have been following this company and several others (Quaise, Fervo, Sage) in the EGS Space for a little bit now, and I think we are on the cusp of a huge breakthrough in baseload renewable energy. This site in Utah is one of the largest test cases that expands the use of EGS to a much broader area than just a few geothermal hot spots. Prices are dropping dramatically, and these things are moving quickly beyond the R&D phase. There is a world where every major data center across the Western US has its own base load power supply that has essentially no pollution, no footprint, no hazardous waste, and no need for complicated permitting. EGS truly could be a game changer in the world's push to decarbonize. I'm super excited.
Comment · 1 year ago
I absolutely understand the sentiment and the goals that citizens should, by default, not be tracked. However, how do you square that with the proof, time and again, that truly secure and encrypted networks are primarily use by criminals (drug/human traffickers, and plenty of other people) who, through their trade, make the world a shittier place for the rest of us?
Comment · 1 year ago
There are plenty of places outside of Louisiana with public stakeholder processes in place before some shenanigans like this happen. There may be some mild form of "corruption" however you define it, but my experience is that wealthy blue state politics is a little less shitty.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've had this conversation with my friends before about how valuable it would be to understand our different perspectives if we could swap/share our full "algorithmic experience" from our apps.

What conclusions did your research find?

Comment · 1 year ago
This video walks through the tech in a very explainable way, and the interviewer asks a lot of pointed questions.

https://youtu.be/b_EoZzE7KJ0

To your questions

> 1) keep the hole from collapsing

They are vaporizing the rock which turns everythingeft into an obsidian like substance.

> 2) remove the volume of rock required to continue going down

As the rock is vaporized, they push nitrogen gas down the hole to cycle the vapor back to the surface

The video goes through the main challenges they have, like rate of penetration, power output and other small issues.

Will they be successful? Who knows, but the concept seems sound and the tech is proven. Can they do it at scale and consistently enough to change drilling worldwide? Who knows.

Comment · 3 years ago
Also, YT Premium is free with Google Fi phones and other things
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe there is Brother astroturfing going on, but I've had a similar excellent experience with a Brother LaserJet. It uses 3rd party toner and drums without a problem, rarely jams, prints high volume quickly, is stupid simple to install, and has no software lock.
Comment · 3 years ago
Related question here, do you know if they have done anything public with that data besides showing you a speed trap in real time? Like are there any summary maps of where speed traps typically occur?

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