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A spokesperson for the airline explained that Straka will be banned from flying American for as long as its mask requirements are in place.

Haven’t tried them. But how do the work if you move your mask to scratch your nose?

The thing is that he had a mask. AA won’t let you board without a mask. He had a mask, wore that mask as he entered the jetway and aircraft, and then removed that mask because he’s a shithead that wanted to make a nuisance of himself.

Yeah.  You’ve completely missed the fact that you’ve been responding to two separate people.  I’m done.

Recycling for decades, plural? We’ve only even had commercially available LiIon cells for about two decades. That barely qualifies, and the quantities were so low back then that no one would have even bothered.

It’s a gyroscope mounted on a multi-axis gimbal. If you want to apply torque, you apply force to the gimbal. If you don’t want to apply torque, you unlock it and just let the gyro do what it naturally wants to.

Grow up? For speaking rationally about economics?

Lead acid batteries are almost completely recycled, because we have such tight restrictions on lead. Lithium batteries aren’t getting recycled because at this time, it’s still cheaper to build new batteries with new materials than to try to recycle old. As mining hits a limit on production output, you’ll find that…

Yeah, there’s been a lot of discussion among industrial users of using some natural gas infrastructure to transition to hydrogen.

It’s still a helluva lot of batteries— and a lot of waste carbon at 20 million grams of excess cO2 production per 100 KW-hours of storage. That CO2 hole being dug, literally you can’t work the math to climb out of that hole.

As for the comment about the meltdown scenario? That’s kinda the point, right?

All carbon free huh? What about the carbon emissions from the thousands of tons of concrete the plant is built out of? Or the carbon emissions from the equipment used to mine that uranium? Or the carbon emissions from the equipment used to refine that uranium? Or all the caustic chemicals that go into production of…

Come on. That was 2.5 years ago, and it wasn’t even the largest at the time. Mitsubishi had already installed several larger facilities in Japan, and has installed several larger facilities elsewhere since. There’s also several Tesla projects in California specifically, held up only by permitting, which if you’ve ever…

Maybe that’s because you have no background in the material?

The “duck curve” can be compensated for by hours worth of storage, not days, and definitely not weeks.  It can also be significantly mitigated by just pointing your solar panels west.

The point was just that these reactors naturally produce huge quantities of hydrogen (as I pointedly told that nutty guy just now, that’s why the roofs blew off the reactor buildings in Japan— hydrogen is a by-product whether you want it or not— so you might as well capture and process and store and use it).

“Direct PV electrolysis”? I don’t even know what that means. PV is in the 40% range for extremely expensive multi-junction cells with concentrators. You can then feed that into electrolysis, and take the 30% hit it incurs. Direct conversion means the light directly splits water to produce hydrogen, but you need a…

Free hydrogen?  Just like how nuclear plants are so cheap, their electricity is free?

Hydrogen tanks leak, batteries self-discharge, gasoline goes bad. Everything does it in one way or another. The bigger issue is where it leaks. Hydrogen leaking into an enclosed garage could present an explosion hazard.  There’s the secondary issue that as the hydrogen leaks, it alters the structure of the metal it is…