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giggyhack | 4 months ago | on: Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites

Weather modification has been a well understood, but not particularly effective program that has been run in various places across the US for decades. The main difference with chemtrails is that those are a bunch of nonsense conspiracy theories that assume that the government is trying to do widespread mind control. Weather modification is just trying to get it rain to rain a tiny bit more, with limited success.

https://library.noaa.gov/weather-climate/weather-modificatio...

giggyhack | 6 months ago | on: Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah

I have been following this company and several others (Quaise, Fervo, Sage) in the EGS Space for a little bit now, and I think we are on the cusp of a huge breakthrough in baseload renewable energy. This site in Utah is one of the largest test cases that expands the use of EGS to a much broader area than just a few geothermal hot spots. Prices are dropping dramatically, and these things are moving quickly beyond the R&D phase. There is a world where every major data center across the Western US has its own base load power supply that has essentially no pollution, no footprint, no hazardous waste, and no need for complicated permitting. EGS truly could be a game changer in the world's push to decarbonize. I'm super excited.

giggyhack | 7 months ago | on: Burner Phone 101

I absolutely understand the sentiment and the goals that citizens should, by default, not be tracked. However, how do you square that with the proof, time and again, that truly secure and encrypted networks are primarily use by criminals (drug/human traffickers, and plenty of other people) who, through their trade, make the world a shittier place for the rest of us?

giggyhack | 8 months ago | on: Conversations with a hit man

There are plenty of places outside of Louisiana with public stakeholder processes in place before some shenanigans like this happen. There may be some mild form of "corruption" however you define it, but my experience is that wealthy blue state politics is a little less shitty.

giggyhack | 10 months ago | on: If nothing is curated, how do we find things

I've had this conversation with my friends before about how valuable it would be to understand our different perspectives if we could swap/share our full "algorithmic experience" from our apps.

What conclusions did your research find?

giggyhack | 1 year ago | on: Can a Geothermal Startup Vaporize Rock to Drill the Deepest Holes?

This video walks through the tech in a very explainable way, and the interviewer asks a lot of pointed questions.

https://youtu.be/b_EoZzE7KJ0

To your questions

> 1) keep the hole from collapsing

They are vaporizing the rock which turns everythingeft into an obsidian like substance.

> 2) remove the volume of rock required to continue going down

As the rock is vaporized, they push nitrogen gas down the hole to cycle the vapor back to the surface

The video goes through the main challenges they have, like rate of penetration, power output and other small issues.

Will they be successful? Who knows, but the concept seems sound and the tech is proven. Can they do it at scale and consistently enough to change drilling worldwide? Who knows.

giggyhack | 3 years ago | on: Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan

Thieves are the problem, not Amazon FBA. Yes, there are stolen goods there, but the vast majority of sellers are legitimate businesses who buy wholesale and sell things like deodorant/graphics cards/phone cases/canned soup.

giggyhack | 3 years ago | on: Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

> The far-right politician is not known for his economic erudition, as he gained notoriety by being the standard-bearer for impeached President Park Geun-hye and claiming that the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which South Korea’s dictatorship massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters, was a North Korean insurrection.

So he acts on gut instinct alone, without listening to expert advisors, and uses propaganda and fake news tactics to win supporters. Sounds a lot like several major ousted dictators.

Reap what you sow, SK. I hope you see through this BS quickly.

giggyhack | 3 years ago | on: Emergency SOS via satellite

This depends on the state where the rescue happens. In Colorado, rescue is free in ask cases except for isolated cases of extreme negligence.
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