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France has done a good job with their small nuke plants plus solar/wind/hydro. They only use fossil fuel for 6% of their electricity and are net exporters. They have to do tons of repairs and maintenance of their reactors. Stress fractures of the cooling systems are always happening.

I swear I don’t trust Americans with dangerous tech anymore.…[Read more]

Thanks Robert….I am not very knowledgeable about this area but I did discuss it last week with a engineer, recently returning from this project with a lot of cash!! 🙂

I agree Reg, a bank of capacitors or rechargeable batteries could supply synthetic inertia you speak of, so it’s probably just a cost thing. It’s not like carbon-based power generation is immune to failures. The big power outages in Texas a few years ago were due to cold weather and widespread failures in the natural gas infrastructure, which is…[Read more]

While I am not an electrical engineer, I had a discussion with one recently. Yes, traditional AC power from big turbines have a reserve of kinetic energy from the rotation of their turbines. Their spinning mass can resist any sudden frequency changes for a short time and this gives the grid inertia that stabilizes the frequency and gives control…[Read more]

Say it ain’t so, Greta!!! The Spain/Portugal outage was caused by going 100% renewable energy?

@Simon – He who is without sin shall cast the first stone…

Pope Bob, being a Catholic and with his degree in math, has SIN nailed down. Not sure what he is like with COS and TAN though.

I’ll say one thing about “woke”. Before it went all wrong on HAMAS, it did shine a light on the millions of racist roaches hiding in dark places. And many of the assumptions even liberals held in their heads. Old movies started making me cringe. I questioned how my life experience was so different from so many fellow Americans.

Since Trump came…[Read more]

✨ PAPAL BULL OF ABSOLUTION ✨
By the Supreme Pontificate of Pope Bob, Servant of the Servants of God, Vicar of Christ, Keeper of the Keys, and Occasional User of Spreadsheet Macros

To Whom It May Concern (Especially you Reg):

Be it known throughout the heavens, the earth, and all diocesan finance committees that:

The Fronkey Guy
having been…[Read more]

Enco, yes Catholic theology is a carbuncle on the back of reason.

In the grand hermeneutical enterprise of Catholic eschatology, the eschaton emerges as the ultimate telos of salvific history—a culmination wherein temporality is subsumed into the eternal nunc stans of the Divine ipsum esse subsistens. At this cosmological denouement, the resurrect…[Read more]

I agree with Bob. Atheism is practical 🙂

I found it a difficult read as theological word salad makes me despair for humanity 🙂 Such utter nonsense from someone of the same species.

Pope Love XI got nothing on John XII who is one of my favs. No.6 on this list. Like many of our finest, he died at age 27 too.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I think I will just call him ‘Bob’. His friends call him that and it was also the name I baptized my neighbors goldfish with in the hour before it died.. He is all about Charity, which will be given in the form of pray and platitudes.

Thoughts and prayers, yes. Wonder if he will do anything about team Trump as the…[Read more]

I think I will just call him ‘Bob’. His friends call him that and it was also the name I baptized my neighbors goldfish with in the hour before it died.. He is all about Charity, which will be given in the form of pray and platitudes.

So does this mean Pope Leo XIV will treat the Laity as numbers?

No, he sees them as sheep and then he counts them 🙂

Now that The Cuddly One is gone, I guess that Pope Love XI will be more of the same…..

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Finally some white smoke……I was so nervous. Phew!! This guy has a Degree in Math!!

And in fairy tales. Imagine if a pope got elected and then declared; “Sorry folks, it’s all bullshit!”

Finally some white smoke……I was so nervous.  Phew!! This guy has a Degree in Math!!

 If it had not been for the ancient Jews of Israel no Christianity or Islam. How can anyone say what would have filled the void? Some other nonsense but would it have been more tolerant or rational?

I doubt it. The ancient Aztecs sacrificed their children to appease. Practiced slavery as well. Attila The Hun did not follow YHWH. You didn’t wanna…[Read more]

They tortured her. Of course they did.

The train station in Moscow is beautiful and modern! And our dear leader says we can trust Putin.