-45 is a very different beast
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Well, it was -4F at the gas plant last night, with howling wind.
Weāve been here 72 hours straight keeping this lady working (min operating temp is 0F, so weāve literally heated it), and have this sucker running at 110% of specs (could go to 200%, but I am not going near it if we did) and demand is so great weāre actually drawing a vacuum on the downstream side, when we normally have to pump.
Basically every windmill is frozen solid in NM and TX and every gas generator is going full blast.
Once again, oil and gas to the rescue. But, hey, screw us, says Joe.
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The hope is to one day NOT rely on polluting fuel sources that may or may not be used up in the somewhat near future. Scientists and a lot of very rich and smart people are currently working on this issue, but in the mean timeā¦
is 100% accurate and politicians like
should recognize this instead of putting everything in black and white terms
ā¦ left, right, democratic, authoritarian, politicians will be politiciansā¦
On the confession side, we havenāt been able to leave and no one can come, so weāve been living on what is in the break room, which is: (1) coffee; (2) bottled water; (3) diet Coke; (4) Fanta; (3) boxes of corn nuts; and (4) hundreds of snack-sized Takis (a disgusting chip thing).
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Diet Coke and Cornuts ftmfw!
srsly, tho - Thanks to people like you, the US keeps running~
Thanks,
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I just learned that Oliver Sacks - the neurologist and author - was a California state champion for squatting 600 when he was an exchange student in the 1960s. The man who mistook his wife for a barbellā¦
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Well, I had a friend who thought Ed Harrisās character was literally named āHoustonā in Apollo 13.
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Iām not even from the old-school on here but I remember being fucking intimidated to post anything when I first came on this site. Just read what others had written and tried to learn so that I didnāt come off like a dumbass.
Then some giant dude Bauer commented on a post of mine saying I was doing alright and it was like a āwelcome to the clubā moment.
Gotta miss those days.
Also, anyone got an opinion on this dudes bf%?
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You could try solar power instead.
Panels covered in snow?
Iām not sure how they get touted as āgreenā. Iāve seen plenty of panel farms.
They spray the ground with some sort of persistent herbicide. Concrete everywhere. Looks like the surface of the moon. The land will never be the same.
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That was kinda my point 
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More seriously though if they improve the storage technology, I can see solar making a real difference.
Iāve got a place in Andalucia and thereās a solar farm out there which is now powering 180,000 homes, and there are 3 more coming on stream in the next few years. Itās still early days for this tech but you can see it taking off eventually, like the way electric cars have been around for 30 years but are only now going mainstream.
Plenty of time for the oil & gas companies to adapt - they will when the economic equation changes, same as the big car companies stayed with petrol and diesel until the maths made sense.
The pandemic has meant that I walk a lot less than I used to. I am going to make sure I get a lot more done and it has nothing to do with the fact I just came across this 
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Maybe Iām old and out of touchā¦ but to me actual competition and doing well is a good measuring stick.
I think you would you agree @T3hPwnisher .
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I used to get very indignant when people said that the humanities and social sciences are āsoftā, but my experience has continued to contradict this stance.
@cyclonengineer @garagerocker13
Uni is flying by so fastā¦
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So long as it isnāt powerlifting, haha.
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By ānot softā do you mean hard to understand? Or do you mean hard as in concrete and not very open to interpretation?
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This makes me laugh so hard. This new gym just opened and they have this logo (picture) thatās HUGE on the front of the building. What makes it funny is the front of the building is very awkwardly shaped, so all you can see from the road is basically ā PED fitnessā
I was so excited the first time I saw it 
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āSoftā as in the attitudes of professor and difficulty
For example:
First day of decision science course: letās go to breakout rooms and discuss favourite ice cream flavours. By the way, please put your preferred pronouns in the chat
First day of proofs course: spend 10 min on syllabus, jump into set theory
ON a related note: I confess I sometimes have a hard time believing the research in my field. Itās astounding just how little conscious control we have
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