Almost no chance a bot wrote that—bots don’t make phonetic mistakes like that. It happens when you mentally sound out the word, and then when you go to write it down your brain glitches and writes a similar-sounding word instead.

I pay around 9 cents/kWh, Texas has among the lowest rates for electricity in the country, and produces by far the most renewable energy in the country. I've never experienced a rolling blackout, although many people have. The winter storm that everyone points to was a result of the worst arctic weather we've had in the past century. We're not built for extreme cold and it sucks that 57 people because of that. Kind of like how Oregon and Washington aren't built for the heat wave they endured in 2021 when several hundred people died.

We had another recent hard freeze and thanks to weatherization improvements to handle extreme cold and ERCOT making sure enough plants were online, we avoided any blackouts. There's plenty of stuff out there to shit on Texas about. If you want to shit on a state's power grid, shit on California because a mere 10 day stretch of 100 degree weather almost collapsed their entire power grid. If you want to shit on Texas, I'd go for our shit for brains governor, the abortion embarrassment, and, despite having one of the world's leading medical centers in Houston, our atrocious healthcare outcomes.

Google moon dust problem . . . Yes it is a thing ! ! !

I decided to help you search . . . From the Apollo era it is known that dust on the Moon can cause serious problems for exploration activities. Such problems include adhering to clothing and equipment, reducing external visibility on landings, and causing difficulty to breathing and vision within the spacecraft [e.g. 1,2]. https://www.nasa.gov › pdfPDF IMPACT OF DUST ON LUNAR EXPLORATION - NASA

Low gravity is the problem ! ! !

Oh, sorry, thought I was on /r/LeopardsAteMyFace

This was based on an online poll of 1,200 people. Don't get too excited. I mean, they wrote an entire treatise based on this tiny sampling of data - which is impressive, but how do they know if the people who voted were even in Texas?

I've been here a long time. Texas is an energy state, and the battle between ideology and reality is always ongoing.

For example, a local power plant turns emissions into diesel fuel, and then gives us rebates based on the sales. Of course, Texas is also number one in solar generation. Nothing wrong with either. On the ground, however, the cost of power in cities which invest and rely on Federally subsidized solar is 2 to 3 times that of places which rely on other sources.

More interestingly, the Department of Energy has recently admitted that the fastest and most efficient CO2 reduction could be attained by replacing coal-fired power plants with natural gas - which the US has plenty of.

What Texans want is energy that is driven by math rather than by politics. Some cities, like Round Rock, where there was a "solar revolution" went into revolt when electricity prices began driving lower income people from their homes. Water prices are already very high, and doubling electricity rates in a state that lives on AC was deadly.

Solar has a place, but solar power needs backup generators which run in parallel just in case. It needs to be carefully integrated into a complete system of cheap and reliable energy.

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yet they keep voting for climate denyers

It is quite simply extremely illegal for a charity to buy a yacht for the founder to use. These loopholes don't exist. They're reddit "rich people bad" conspiracy theories, like the grocery store getting a tax deduction when you round up the change for charity.

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Doesn’t this just mean there was retaliation for unionizing? Even if this is true, it sounds like they were fighting for their jobs against machines and were punished for doing so, which is technically illegal.

i think that ultimately people enjoy the idea to be able to provide at least a part of their own energy and be somehow independent.

ChatGPT does not recognize the concept of being false. It is a great tool, somewhat analogous to a calculator for math but in natural language. However you have to be smarter than your tools and know what answer you should be getting

But they continue to vote for Republicans who are owned by Big Oil, because, why not.

You seem to like throwing out strawmen like I think people can avoid taxes, which may impress other idiots looking to win something.

I am satisfied mocking the pedestal you've conceived for yourself.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/15/tesla_autopilot_workers_are_launching/

Here's the article referring to them as autopilot labelers wanting to unionize for job security because their boss has been vocal about not wanting humans to do the job.

Ok but what?

Even self driving cars (automated).... is task based if you think about it

Its focus is to drive a car. And it wont be able to drive as well as a human....if factoring in traffic or accident situation.

General AI or strong AI as some of labelled it.... is almost like a human brain.

It can deep learn, make advance calculations and make this conscious decision without human approval. Its long ways away....

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Mining's a messy business, and regolith is nasty stuff that sticks to everything. You're going to want to keep that far away from any sensitive equipment and people.

So what you're saying is those being critical of me are doing so because they assume they know how I've voted and what policies I've supported in my lifetime, based on a sentence I wrote?!? Nevermind that I've put my money and resources behind what I believe in, it's a line in a paragraph that counts. That's some solid reasoning right there... /s

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How would a dust cloud work in no atmosphere?

Make your time.

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No, I'mmmmm Dave.