He who knows only his own generation remains always a child.
~ Cicero
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Always a Child →
Keep on keepin’ on! →
Keep on keepin’ on!: I’ve filled in the rest of the bars and this thing now needs a name. Until you’ve tried moving in a complex space, you won’t know how supremely capable the human body is; shoulders, grip, torso, knees, feet, vision, proprioception, spacial mapping… that meat-frame your mind lives in is meant to M. O. V. E.
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A tree! →
Conversation and nature… doesn’t get much better. Wow, what a convenient place to drop an entire tree…
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This to this →
Put this together yesterday. Incredibly gorgeous morning to be moving… aka rapping my head on the bars first thing in the morning :P
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Intermittent renewables can’t favorably transform grid electricity →
Few people have stopped to realize that intermittent electricity isn’t worth very much. It may even have negative value, when the cost of all of the adjustments needed to make it useful are considered.
Energy products are very different in “quality.” Intermittent electricity is of exceptionally low quality. The costs that intermittent electricity impose on the system need to be paid by someone else. This is a huge problem, especially as penetration levels start exceeding the 10% to 15% level that can be handled by operating reserves, and much more costly adjustments must be made to accommodate this energy. Even if wind turbines and solar panels could be produced for $0, it seems likely that the costs of working around the problems caused by intermittent electricity would be greater than the compensation that can be obtained to fix those problems.
~ Gail Tverberg from, Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity | Our Finite World
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I’m not saying “abandon all renewable energy sources.” I am saying, “you should go read this article… and everything else on that web site.”
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Jeep! →
In other news… actually went off-roading today. Pennsylvania shale and mud; smells like home :D
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QM in the real world →
Three foot crawl space. Yeup, Craig is detail oriented and checks everywhere. First use of sideways monkey when it was literally the best form of locomotion :)
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A house! →
Had the first walk thru today…
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Do Not Trade →
Don’t trade away your happiness now to earn money in hopes that if you make enough you’ll be able to buy it back later.
You can’t.
~ Unknown
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Lower Manhattan →
Couple of shots from the Brooklyn ferry leaving Govenor’s Island last weekend during the Art of Retreat event #artofretreat2016
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