SeattlePioneer

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SeattlePioneer replied to the FIRE Wannabees board. 8:47 PM

Re: No-longer-annual FIRE update

Congratulations are your numerous successes in life.

Far too often, we tend to hear about those who are failing in life in the press it seems.



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SeattlePioneer replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 8:44 PM

Re: VT Poised to Allow Lethal Meds for Terminal

<<<but the liberal appetite for killing innocent people is obviously back.>

If you think this is the point of this thread, then you're not as smart as you sometimes appear to be. "Killing innocent [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 8:36 PM

Re: Ultracapacitors & wind power

<<I have already proved you wrong in my previous post. Wind/gas combination is cheaper than coal or nuclear and just as reliable.

jaagu
>>


I'm not surprised that your study chooses convenient data points [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 4:00 PM

Re: VT Poised to Allow Lethal Meds for Terminal

<<PS--It's lack of passive euthanasia (letting nature take it's course rather than hooking up tubes and machines and pumping a body full of drugs), that sends medical costs through the roof. Letting the terminally ill go gently into that good [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 3:44 PM

Re: Ultracapacitors & wind power

<<There is a variant on the ultracapacitor theme that has real potential for enhancing efficiency of windpower turbine farms Axion International Power, Inc. has developed an asymmetric power storage device with capacitance of 13,000 farads or [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Self-Employed Fools board. 3:32 PM

Re: Cheese store hands out grate business cards

<<Dave, I want one.

>>



Well, help yourself, but it looks like a gimmick to me. I really don't have a need for unschduled use of a cheese grater, and wouldn't want to carry such a thing around with [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Fools and Their Money board. 3:30 PM

Re: When To Take Social Security

<<In spite of all the tooth gnashing that goes on on this subject and all the advice people give, the bottom line is the actuaries have it figured out so you collect exactly the same amount whenever you begin collecting and assuming you live as [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 3:22 PM

Re: Oops!

<< The city will pay for new cars if the wind turbine was installed according to city engineer approval.>>



As I understand it, getting government approval for a project doesn't relieve the project owner from [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 8:16 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

<<The capacity factor for nukes is about 85% because of refueling, O&M, and unexpected trips and accidents. Natural gas fired plants have no refueling, much less maintenance, cheaper to operate, and much less unexpected trips and accidents. [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 8:11 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

<<Geez, here's a nuclear plant that went from 100% to 0% overnight.

But in SeattlePioneer world that doesn't count, apparently.
>>



Of course it counts. And it happens from time to [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 8:08 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

<<Much of the wind power development has been about getting fat subsidies.
From the link:
More than half of the installed wind in the U.S. when measured in megawatts was built under the Section 1603 grant program which imposed no [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 8:05 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

<<NG plants come in many configurations. Some are combined cycle, some are just gas turbines.

Compared to nuclear and coal, capital cost of NG is cheap as I said

$15.8 per MWhr combined cycle NG

$83.4 per MWhr [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:54 PM

Re: VT Poised to Allow Lethal Meds for Terminal Ill

Even if the law permits it, it's hard to imagine an ethical physician who would engage in the vulgar behavior of killing off his patient.


WHY do people imagine that they need to professionalize services that people have provided for [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:50 PM

Re: Younger Seniors Burning thru IRAs

<<Older seniors (aged 71 and up) appeared to be more frugal, >>



I think the word "frugal" is what is missing from the gist of this article.


Prudent people will have a diversified and varied [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 6:36 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

<<<Anytime you need some more useful information on wind, just ask me.
>>



I haven't seen much useful infoprmation on wind, but there has been quite a lot of hot air expended in defense of unreliable wind [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 6:33 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

<<Nuclear trips and goes offline for various reasons. Occasionally they must be shut down for refueling. Occasionally they need to be shut down for even longer periods for maintenance, replacement, upgrading of safety equipment, or because (as [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 6:28 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

<<NG plants are cheap to build. >>



What a bunch of balogney! As a practical matter, the costs of building peaking plants to supplement unreliable wind power should be added to the cost of wind power when figuring [more]

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SeattlePioneer replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 6:23 PM

Re: A real scandal

<<. . . Republicans, by abusing their Constitutional powers, are — deliberately, in several cases — preventing the government from carrying out duly passed laws. . .

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Oh, boo hoo.


The Senate [more]

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SeattlePioneer posted to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 10:05 PM

Legalized Pot Growing

<<<<The carbon footprint of producing 2.2 pounds of marijuana indoors, one study says, is equivalent to driving across country seven times. Yet almost no one is pushing for cleaner sun-grown weed as state officials make rules for legal [more]

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SeattlePioneer posted to the Energy & Utilities board. 10:01 PM

Solar Marijuana

<<The carbon footprint of producing 2.2 pounds of marijuana indoors, one study says, is equivalent to driving across country seven times. Yet almost no one is pushing for cleaner sun-grown weed as state officials make rules for legal growing [more]