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Jameson Lopp · 3d
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Jesse  profile picture
At this point I just feel bad for all the plebs that buy into BIP110. They're like the folks lining up to take the C19 jab to save gramma. Will they be surprised when it fails and they need another soft fork because the first didn't rug the spammers hard enough? SMH. Keep fighting for sanity @Jameson Lopp

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Jameson Lopp · 2d
Some of them will certainly be surprised, but I don't think they'll allow failure to stop them from continuing to wail and flail.
jgbtc · 2d
Yet it was core devs like sloppy loppy who actually lined up for the jab. Ain't that right Jameson?
Kyma Fi · 2d
Cope harder https://blossom.primal.net/5a71f50ea73798c38db6a49b77064058e7715ceb4c493902c5f65475038f5d2f.jpg
Brunswick · 1w
The problem with force is that force begets force, businesses in force consolidate into cartels of force which turn into monopolies on the use of force, and that is the definition of a state.
Brunswick · 1w
He claims it is stateless and anarchic, but in effect it is not. It is minarchism in effect, only not in name. We all know what happens in minarchism. The state is a monopoly on the use of force. Rothbard proposes a free-market on the use of force, believing the market will self-regulate it.
Brunswick · 1w
Its all laid out in Rothbard's "The Ethics of Liberty" and Molyneux's "Practical Anarchy"
Peter Todd · 1w
You are repeating what I said.
Jesse  profile picture
No I'm not. You said "It is physically impossible for efficiently operating solar panels to absorb 95% of the incoming sunlight."

That is incorrect. I'm trying to help you see the logic.

In a control volume analysis at steady state, you sum the energy inputs and output and the totals must match. 100% light in, 5% out as reflection, 15% out as electricity, 80% out as heat. 95% absorption splits into 15% and 80%.

The bare desert sand is probably 30-50% reflection and 50-70% absorption. The 50-70% absorbed light also leaves as heat.

So the article is not wrong on that point. But whether the difference between 80% sunlight being converted to heat and 50-79% is enough to affect the weather seems questionable to me.

Peter Todd · 1w
You are repeating what I said.
Peter Todd · 1w
https://www.techradar.com/pro/maybe-its-not-science-fiction-solar-panels-are-causing-rainwater-to-fall-in-one-of-the-driest-places-on-earth “The researchers modeled solar panels as nearly black sur...
Jesse  profile picture
The weather mechanism may be dubious, but the energy absorption claim is not.

PV panels will absorb most of the solar energy, literally why they look black. A small percentage of that is converted into electricity and the rest is released as heat either through convection or radiation back to the surroundings. So a local warm zone above the panels is very likely.

Whether it's enough to affect the weather is another matter altogether.

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Peter Todd · 1w
"A small percentage" As I said, it's about 15% to 25%. Making the 95% claim in the article obviously wrong. It's a trivial thing to get right. Solar will of course turn a higher % into heat than many highly reflective surfaces. So the overall concept may work. But not with the numbers quoted.