Spoiler alert: I’m giving away the conclusion to Thomas Fazi’s question Where are the peacekeepers for Gaza?

We are the UN
But if even this last resort is not taken, one must conclude, as a participant in the Global Sumud Flotilla put it: international law is dead. We, the peoples of the world, must be the “united nations” to enforce law and justice.

Here we have the recipe for a hopium quesadilla: a little touch of cheesy truth — a conditional acknowledgement of the nonexistence of international law — wrapped in thick steaming layers of tantamount tortilla! Make no mistake: we are, or at least must be, the “united nations” (small u, small n)! Whew boy, now I’m fired up and inspired. Or maybe it’s just the coffee kicking in…

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 7 2025 13:27 utc | 3

posted prev. thread.
Britain’s Descent Towards Civil War is No Accident
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/09/03/britains-descent-towards-civil-war-is-no-accident/
A confused + some points OK article, too wordy and mixing up different arguments (readers supposed to nod, yes, wise, great argument..) preachy, and maybe… sneaky…
quote:
The prospect of civil conflict is no longer whispered in private but debated openly. This is a healthy development. Britain and Europe are grappling with the results of elite overreach — economic stagnation, political paralysis, social fragmentation…
So it is coming on…
Notice how all over Europe the ‘migrant crisis’ is getting front pages, and any unrest – major demo – violence, is called a ‘migrant riot’, whatever that is supposed to mean. (Ex. an anti-police breakout in Switz. is called a ‘migrant riot’ by Politico.)
In Europe, Gvmts. are trying to stir up strife to legitimise crack-downs, the old divide to conquer strategy, plus, to mobilise young ppl to join repressive, authoritarian bodies, be violent (for or against XYZ, even in gangs, join the army, etc.)
Britain considers itself a master of propaganda spewing / psychological manipulation (‘nudging’ by very primitive moves, carrot + stick, awards, and more subtle, varied, control mechs, via MSM but not only) and their aim is to be first in that field, control their populace, and sell their expertise. They are VERY good at it.
In much of the ‘prop’ when ‘CIVIL WAR’ is hyped as looming, no distinctions are made, e.g. as between take down of the sitting Gvmt. by a coalition of nay-sayers who attack the rulers successfully / violence between two or more different factions – groups – tribes etc. / infiltration by outside powers / influence from afar (e.g. color revolutions) / terrorist ‘actions’ by small splinter groups that aim to polarise, change an agenda, etc.
The ‘results’ of the ‘civil war’ (aimed for, hoped for, or whatever) are never mentioned at all. Often, the outcome is splitting of territory under ‘local’ Mafia type control, but that is another story, I’m no historian.

Posted by: Noirette | Sep 7 2025 13:44 utc | 5

“Typepad is closing down. I am currently working to move this blog elsewhere. I will let you know more when it is going to happen.”
You don’t have to move it anywhere, you have the domain, for us it would be transparent
Yes, for you there is a platform migration (and should you need help there are volunteers for helping)
Something like this with the org variant
https://www.beingpeterkim.com/2014/04/typepad-to-wordpress.html

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 7 2025 13:49 utc | 7

A great number of important events occurred while MoA was down. I posted “Global Governance Initiative=UN Charter 2.0” as my report on the SCO Summit that was capped by “Putin’s PM Presser from Beijing” that’s being talked about everywhere on alt-media. I provided the entire transcript of the Eastern Economic Forum in two parts, “10th Eastern Economic Forum Plenary Session, Part One” and “Part Two EEF Plenary Session”, both of which are long reads.
I reported on Xi’s newest initiative, “Another Chinese Initiative: The Global Governance Initiative”, and wrote the following interpretation of what the GGI entailed given the added overall context of the Taijin Declaration, “Global Governance Initiative=UN Charter 2.0”.
There are several other reports barflies might find interesting related to Putin’s travels in the Far East I reported on after the major events. I’ve yet to read or view a good overall analysis of the past 8 days-worth of events, although Pepe Escobar did provide a good 6-minute summation of the EEF.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 7 2025 14:11 utc | 9

Re: “Powering Up the Global South”
This is a garbage publication. RMI – ie the Rocky Mountain Institute – is the multi-decadal NGO vehicle for Amory Lovins. Enough said.
Note that I am not against solar power, period.
There certainly are some use cases in Africa where it makes sense, but the problem is that solar power as national infrastructure is a first world solution that doesn’t even work well in the first world.
This is different than off grid households or even villages using solar in place of nothing – were it not for the massive capital cost problem.
To give an idea of how ridiculous this concept is: Africa has something like 70000 miles of high voltage transmission lines. The United States alone has 500,000 miles and Europe – 310K to 340K.
Building hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines, along with all of their accompanying transformers and substations and whatnot, is extremely expensive. End user transmission is certainly also, proportionately, not built out in Africa.
Now add in the massive capital cost of solar: basically paying most of the cost up front in the form of capital. Africa doesn’t have money as it is – where will it get the massive sums to pay for all this?
The primary impact of Africa “going greentech” will be a massive slowing of electrification across the continent because the “green field build” capital cost per household for greentech is many multiples that of fossil fuels.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 7 2025 14:22 utc | 11

The other bullshit part of the “greentech revolution in Africa” propaganda is the assertion that Africa does not have fossil fuels.
Utter bollocks. Among other things: Europe is importing ever increasing quantities of natural gas from Morocco/Algeria.
Africa has a lot of proven natural gas reserves.
Nigeria is also the 9th largest oil exporter in the world.
South Africa and the nations near it have massive coal reserves.
Are there fossil fuels in between? ie interior Africa and East/NE Africa? Yes. CAR has a lot of natural gas.
What is happening is the usual Western/IMF bullshit: only give money to pay for what the West considers acceptable – be it non-competing food crops or “greentech”.
And again: the outcome is slower electrification than if other avenues ie fossil fuels were executed.
I haven’t looked deeply, but I would bet money that Africa’s “increasing fossil fuel imports” are more a function of refined products as opposed to raw fossil fuels. Or more specifically, gasoline and diesel for road transport of people and goods.
I also love how Canada and the US are painted as “First world” when they are both among the largest fossil fuel extractors.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 7 2025 14:33 utc | 13

@LoveDonbass | Sep 7 2025 13:28 utc, who said (excerpted):

Information is no longer passive.
Those who continue to “feed” their minds with TV, radio, approved podcasts, are being presented narrow slivers of information doused in the heavy bias of propaganda and censorship.
The intelligent and discerning curate multiple feeds of data, not relying on the primacy of a single source.
A personal network recommends and drives expansion and pruning of the data sources.

———-
LD: as time permits, please elaborate more on this vital subject. Seems there are a few dimensions to consider:
a. ID new sources. What steps did/do you take to ID new sources, vet them, decide that they merited attention over time, and
b. Triangulation (colliding sources, comparing viewpoints, etc.) to construct a composite world-view from the parts which survived the collision, and therefore seemed durable/valid enough to include in your evolving world-view, and
c. Dialog. The collisions of assertions/opinions take effort to provoke, conduct, etc. What habits, attitudes, etc. do you advocate for which yield max collisions with minimum effort?
=====
And to B: Thank you very much for doing the extra work nec to re-host MoA. This is a timely moment, possibly, to solicit input (e.g. “new requirements”) from the Bar on the dimension of “what would you, Barfly, like to see a) stay the same and b) change in the next edition of MoA?”
You only re-platform once in a great while. It’s an unusual opportunity.
Thanks again for all your terrific work.

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Sep 7 2025 14:57 utc | 15

Re: Typepad migration…
I vote for Substack, monetization there could be good for b, however:

While Substack supports importing content from platforms such as WordPress, Medium, Ghost, and Mailchimp, it does not currently support direct imports from Typepad. Users seeking to move from Typepad to Substack will need to first export their content from Typepad and then manually transfer it or use an intermediary step, such as migrating to WordPress first, which has dedicated import tools for Typepad.

Since migrating the volume of comments here will prove to be a daunting task for any platform, we can expect those to be vaporized.
Multiple subscriptions on Substack can add up. It would be great if they would offer bundles of 5 or 10 at a discount. The larger volume of subscribers would offset the discount.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Sep 7 2025 15:42 utc | 17

c1ue – I’m sure you know all about distributed (rooftop or village scale) or small scale solar … these systems may be quite cost efficient, not requiring much distribution infrastructure at all and promoting local self-reliance, which would go a long way to promote good governance, which Africa needs greatly. Just solving refrigeration/lighting/cooling/water treatment needs of the people would be a HUGE step up for quality of life for billions.

Posted by: Caliman | Sep 7 2025 15:45 utc | 19

@ b
good luck moving moa to some other place… as english outsider says – it would be good to save all the past articles in book form or written, as opposed to on the internet..
@ mary – enjoy the harvest! we went to a farmers market yesterday and really enjoyed it..

Posted by: james | Sep 7 2025 16:03 utc | 21

She was a prostitute. Now, she’s a politician….
Sometimes, the jokes just write themselves.
Posted by: Eighthman | Sep 7 2025 14:20 utc | 10
Don’t laugh. As an ex-prostitute she is probably 100 times more trustworthy and honourable than 99% of other politicians.

Posted by: BM | Sep 7 2025 16:06 utc | 23

@Caliman #19
Rooftop solar: depends on context.
The value add declines dramatically as you scale monthly electricity usage.
For example: just having enough electricity for night-time lighting, internet service and refrigeration is a huge bonus.
However, as you scale towards full air conditioning or EV charging…not so much.
Against this value add: you have cost. Refrigeration and night-time lighting requires storage. A Western level of refrigerator requires around 1 to 2 kWh per day. Western lighting is roughly comparable, but of course is far, far above what basic need entails.
So let’s call this 3 kWh a day.
With rain/storms/clouds/seasons – you would need at least 20 kWh of storage to have a reasonable chance of not losing food.
A 20kWh battery is $10K.
A 3kW solar system costs $9K.
There are additional costs, but let’s call this $20K for simplicity sake.
Given that the average monthly pay in Africa is under $800 – this shows just how unaffordable even a light+fridge system would be – the average African could very possibly not even be able to pay the interest on a $20K loan for a solar system ($1000 a year at 5% interest).
For shits and grins – let’s scale the above to an “average” American household: 30 kWh a day.
Amazon has this 30kW solar kit for $19K: source
But this “off grid” kit has only 3kWh of storage. Meh. Actual cost is probably around $50K to $100K all in for a 200kWh storage setup. So call it $70K to $120K for a full off grid, Western style setup.
Still pretty fucking unaffordable.
The only reason it works is due to massive subsidies: federal tax credits, state tax credits, feed-in tariff credits, no charges for feed-in grid costs, no clawbacks for feedin during oversupply periods, being able to tap into the grid when the sun isn’t shining, etc etc.
Sure, you can do variants: no storage or minimal storage and just live on canned/dried food all the time, and no lights/internet during long periods of low/no solar production. You can use lead-acid batteries – cheaper by far.
But there is a reason why modern living depends on a functional electricity grid: it is the cheapest, most reliable method of getting electricity to populations.
Individual offgrid solar rooftop ain’t it.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 7 2025 16:36 utc | 25

c1ue @25
You’re right. Those stupid Africans should save up until they can afford some nuke plants and a few $billion in smart grid infrastructure. They should listen to you and not waste money on small scale solar for charging stations for their mobile devices and community wifi and power for small shops that are not open long enough after sunset to worry about the cheap powerpack for the LED lights going flat anyway.
But they ARE buying into solar and using it right now. How stupid is that? I don’t know. Obviously they’ve come up with lots of use cases that your imagination failed to uncover, but I know you’re just concerned that they use their resources wisely, isn’t that so?

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 7 2025 17:12 utc | 27

Posted by: Caliman | Sep 7 2025 15:45 utc | 19
Re: Micro-grid solar – Africa
I’ve been reading a bit about this, and studies seem to indicate that for only around 45% of Africans would large-scale Solar PV+Storage be an affordable and accessible solution.
This is especially true for nations with very little grid infrastructure, like Somalia.
For these circumstances, as you suggest, smaller micro-grids (aka island-grids) are a cost effective and very viable solution.
While the IEA predicts that Northern Africa will still be likely to source ~85% of their electricity from fossil fuels by 2030-2040, the falling costs of solar PV/inverters/batteries should be able to provide the majority with electricity.
Forward projections of the LCOE (Levelised Cost Of Energy) to 2030 anticipate a wholesale rate of ~$0.02 to $0.05 per kWh (kilowatt-hour). This is cheaper than building new coal or gas plants, or going nuclear.
Small-scale micro-grids provide more evenly distributed and ongoing employment opportunities, but are slightly more expensive as a consequence when compared to the scaling factor savings for large solar farms.
Desert Knowledge in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, did some fantastic work designing and implementing fairly bulletproof micro-grids for a roll-out on Aboriginal lands as part of a diesel offset program. This was started over 20 years ago.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Sep 7 2025 17:17 utc | 29

Jon in AU – Thanks for the information … very useful.
c1ue – I think your numbers are (1) out of date and (2) not relevant to African cost structures (as opposed to western costs) and (3) don’t account for lack of options, as others have indicated.
In other words, the options here are centralized fossil/nuke/etc. with humongous infrastructure costs versus distributed solar/wind/storage whose cost is dropping all the time as Chinese genius works on it. I’m betting on the latter, by necessity.

Posted by: Caliman | Sep 7 2025 17:46 utc | 31

“The great problem, of course, is that the Americans want to blow up the world if they can’t control it and dominate all other countries. ” [https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/michael-hudson-sco-and-brics-2025.html%5D
Too true, I’m afraid.

Posted by: lester | Sep 7 2025 17:54 utc | 33

a. ID new sources. What steps did/do you take to ID new sources, vet them, decide that they merited attention over time, and
b. Triangulation (colliding sources, comparing viewpoints, etc.) to construct a composite world-view from the parts which survived the collision, and therefore seemed durable/valid enough to include in your evolving world-view, and
c. Dialog. The collisions of assertions/opinions take effort to provoke, conduct, etc. What habits, attitudes, etc. do you advocate for which yield max collisions with minimum effort?
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Sep 7 2025 14:57 utc | 15
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1. On many social media services, you can see who follows whom. On Twitter (which I use the most) I see retweets which is someone promoting what someone else has to say. It’s almost like a referral. Not every services has that sort of sharing feature.
Then, if I like the retweet content, I may subscribe to the person I was referred to, and the process begins again, as I refer you, and then you refer b, and b refers karlof1, and so on, before you know it, I am 3 or 4 layers deep into content.
Now, it is important to prune. Adding is easy, but then the feed becomes excessively noisy. Ideally, we want the 3 or 4 best pieces of content, we don’t need 20. No time to read, and it is unlikely that there will be much differentiation.
Pruning, IMO, should be a ruthless endeavor. There is no shortage of opinion or content. Anyone can be cut for someone better. At one point, a cut or two for every addition may make sense.
2. I personally want contrasting opinions, but I do not want psyops or propaganda. Sometimes it can be informative to get the narrative view, but one should learn to identify those and regard their content through that lens. Every opinion has merit if one understands the motivation behind it.
3. I have had a Twitter account for a long time and use it only for reading. I do give likes (hearts), but I resist the urge to pile on or debate. I am on Twitter to get information, not to engage in mud-slinging catharsis.
When I was on Telegram, I would do likes, but never post. No one gives a crap about what I have to say, and I am not trying to gain a following or change the world, even less so since I became a Muslim and now regard everything as predestined.
Relative anonymity is a habit for me. Who I am, what I like, how unbelievably handsome I am 😉, that is irrelevant to learning and information gathering.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 7 2025 18:23 utc | 35

Otto Penn | Sep 7 2025 12:38 utc | 1
duckduckgo changed hands back in 2014. Since the its just been another google look alike. all western browsers/search engines that run on windows are the same. It was through the few years up to 2014 that all western search engines became politically censored.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 7 2025 18:30 utc | 37

@ Jon_in_AU | Sep 7 2025 17:22 utc | 30
you need copper for electricity.. do you know what kind of footprint copper mining makes on the planet?? i recommend a book called ‘material world’ by ed conway, where he goes into 6 substances/minerals and the importance of them for continuing as we do in our present lifestyle.. gread book from 2023..
Material World
The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Posted by: james | Sep 7 2025 18:59 utc | 39

To the tune of Three Lions…
Hegemon still dreaming,
Reserve currency is a curse,
Gold increasingly gleaming,
Hyperinflation is worse…
[Chorus]
They’re coming home,
They’re coming home,
They’re coming,
Dollars are coming home,
They’re coming home,
They’re coming home,
They’re coming,
Dollars are coming home
Sorry folks, best I can do, feel free to improve on it.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 7 2025 19:16 utc | 41

c1ue:

A 20kWh battery is $10K.
A 3kW solar system costs $9K.
There are additional costs, but let’s call this $20K for simplicity sake.

For the non-bourgeois minded, how about a couple hundred bucks for panels, a hundred bucks for a couple deep cycle batteries, and another hundred bucks for a lux charge controller/inverter. Let’s call this $400 for simplicity sake.
Yeah, you can spend more, but you can also spend less and still get a serviceable system. I know `cuz I lived on a sailboat for a while back in the day (Sounds pretty bourgeois, right? Far from it!) and even with what was available back then for cheap, solar could do the job. With what you can get today it’s a no-brainer. Just have to be mindful of your battery charge and not stand there with the fridge door open waiting for inspiration like a middle-class idiot. Leave the icebox closed after sunset (or get in and out quick) and use your stored charge for more interesting things.
The only reason anyone would need a $20,000 system is if they are trying to live in the most conspicuously wasteful manner possible like a middle-class American. There are plenty of people in the Global South who do not fall into that category.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 7 2025 19:38 utc | 43

Jon_in_AU
Yes, mining has had some environmental horror stories… again, though, pertinent to gruff , all under heaven, c1ue debates, look into the horrific scale of electrical energy that goes to waste, simply dumped when it can’t be stored, losses over long transmission lines, etc … is there any heavy electrical consumer that can compete with satoshis invention in load-balancing grids?! (not even adding in that it is a completely separate non-debt system that incentives/restores a savings culture and mitigates corrupt/violent consuming culture)

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 19:58 utc | 45

@25 c1ue
Your figures are a long way out…e.g.
https://mtbest.net/chest-fridge/
However what is sold (govt. planning, corporate) is very wasteful. Have experience of this, and the official show is grid monopoly, sales etc.
A lot of innovation comes out of Africa wrt what Caliman mentioned. Cooling and heating there are natural systems (have made heat exchangers, very inexpensive for ex.), or that are low tech and not expensive. Water purification is not rocket science, grey water and reed beds is one example, drinking water is minimal and easy enough. Lighting is easy and low consumption.
What happens is finance is only offered for expensive systems, govt. signs off infrastructure, legislation bans homemade systems etc. . All very corrupt.
Most fossil fuel necessity is vehicles (transport). Electric cars are a nice idea, but in practice in terms of cost and savings, not.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 7 2025 20:10 utc | 47

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 19:31 utc | 42
“Whether large or quite small, Load-balancing of grids is the difficult part… what invention can scalably , with instant on/off capability, use “excess”energy production?!”
The major problems with frequency drift related voltage excursions (which appears to have been the source of the recent Iberian episode) have several solutions, but whether they are suited to the grid in question is another matter.
The excess output that exceeds demand has the effect of lowering the apparent impedance of the grid, causing voltage to rise and frequency to shift upwards and distribution transformers start to effectively appear as loads. This activates protection measures that cause shutdowns. Unfortunately, as the settings for PV inverters are all identical, they all react at the same time, making the problems more pronounced.
Storage dumping of excess energy is the eventual path we will most likely take. This can be compressed air, pumped hydropower, thermal piles, or EV batteries, as a few examples.
There are also grid upgrades and software tweaks that can allow sections of the grid to isolate into smaller macro grids, but allow the inverters on those sections to communicate with each other act in a coordinated fashion to stabilise the grid.
PV inverters already have the ability to have their maximum power output, ramp-up time to max power, voltage, frequency, and power factor adjusted. It is becoming increasing a part of requirements in PV standards around the world, and to automate this through the central electricity network operator would allow adjustments on a time scale of milliseconds.
There are also peer-to-peer systems being trialled, where the inverters talk to each other allowing people to directly share a networked system and trade or store energy depending on requirements.
Electric vehicles will offer important future opportunities for grid stabilisation, as they can be used as an automated source of energy for peak demand and as a store for excess energy.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Sep 7 2025 20:26 utc | 49

With regard to saving the MoA articles in book form, the best place to do so would be academia.edu
I believe there is no limit in the number of articles than can be posted.

Posted by: Tom | Sep 7 2025 20:36 utc | 51

Software control of electricity trading will likely be the same as software in automobiles… highly proprietary, “safety” being the cover for all kinds of chicanery ( displaying favouritism to the larger entity)

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 20:42 utc | 53

Existing infrastructure is persistent and hard to change without massive investments (like some of the load balancing techniques Jon listed)… ASIC mining rigs are like cockroaches (in the nicest sense :)… China 2021 showed how they can scurry off in ten directions and keep on hashing when someone tries to fumigate them 🙂

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 20:52 utc | 55

@ Jon_in_AU | Sep 7 2025 20:26 utc | 49
Some good information there, thank you.
I can recall reading something about solar-generated current needing to be manipulated to mimic the alternating current frequency that rotational generation naturally created.
Would this manipulation cause losses in the amount of power available from solar generation?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 7 2025 20:56 utc | 57

Credit also to satoshis’ invention for pushing the boundaries of energy efficiency in computing (did the New York Times mention this ?!)… also, there remains massive potential in heat recovery/reuse from ASIC mining rigs in colder climates…

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 21:06 utc | 59

In case you don’t know, the two week difficulty adjustment ensures the focus is on improving energy efficiency of chips/hashing and NOT consuming more energy willy-nilly (which can never produce more satoshis)… now back to our regularly scheduled programming… oooh, what’s the FED rate forecast, oh my

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 21:15 utc | 61

Buggering about with highly energy hungry equations is a serious misallocation of energy capital; energy capital that is now lost to greenhouses in northern climes, food preserving refrigeration in tropical regions, or lighting and ventilation in hospitals, schools and other public institutions all over the place.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 7 2025 21:18 utc | 63

63 Jeremy
You’re not fooling anyone, there are greenhouse operators who run ASICs instead of electric heaters… stop being a shill for highly corruptible ledgers … so you are really into “public” institutions ,let’s hear your criticism of Bhutan now!
No worries, though, I’m sure some big empire will eventually go after Bhutan (just like the IMF went after little El Salvador!)

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 21:32 utc | 65

@ L | Sep 7 2025 21:32 utc | 65
Go on then, write a 16-bit Satoshi, or even an 8-bit.
It remains a serious misallocation of energy capital.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 7 2025 21:36 utc | 67

Jeremy, the corruptible ledger lover
You are free to code something better yourself, many have tried and most other proof-of-work alternatives caved to environmental bullies like yourself!

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 21:39 utc | 69

Jeremy, joining in on scapegoating the incredible ~50% inefficiency of power production and grids onto the 1% of satoshi consumption…

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 21:41 utc | 71

Listening to 10+ years of mainstream media lies on a subject radicalizes a person… which I’m sure many here understand… so, yes, call me a fundamentalist if you want

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 21:49 utc | 73

the incredible ~50% inefficiency of power production and grids

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 21:41 utc | 71
And that needs a credible citation, not that I expect one; fundamentalists don’t do that…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 7 2025 21:51 utc | 75

@L | Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:31:00 GMT | 42

Whether large or quite small, Load-balancing of grids is the difficult part… what invention can scalably , with instant on/off capability, use “excess”energy production?!

Charging of batteries in a distributed intelligent network, perhaps? It obviously needs some scale to work. I don’t know about the numbers involved (percentage of baseload), but the power sink might come from EV batteries. I imagine you might hook up your ride and dial in a number of hours you are giving for a full recharge. Flexibility could be incentivized. Large customers such as the Hamburg municipal bus services with thousands of vehicles, many already electric, could act on plans even better, perhaps with quick exchange units which are placed into a bus much like giving it a fill of gas.
A while back we were discussing steelmaking as a process in that regard. It didn’t find much acclaim then, but I’ll remember people that Mao once tried to put a little furnace into every village …

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 7 2025 21:52 utc | 77

… a hundred bucks for a couple deep cycle batteries …
Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 7 2025 19:38 utc | 43

What sort of deep cycle batteries are you buying for $50 each? Have you got a link?

Posted by: Tel | Sep 7 2025 21:53 utc | 79

@All Under Heaven #34
You are such a stupid moron.
I made zero references to China; I reference only the technology itself.
China, having only coal basically, has a use case for solar and EVs which is not the case in the United States – especially with dumb Western governments subsidizing industrial production.
But China burns an ENORMOUS amount coal – enough coal is burned every year today in China, that is matches global energy consumption from the 1990s. And some visible part of this coal burn is what makes Chinese solar panels so much cheaper than their counterparts anywhere else.
This is not a criticism – this is purely descriptive.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 7 2025 21:56 utc | 81

@William Gruff #43
Sorry dude, but you can’t run a refrigerator on the $1000 setup you reference.
Lights and charge a cell phone, sure.
So thanks for demonstrating that you have zero idea of energy realities.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 7 2025 21:57 utc | 83

I can recall reading something about solar-generated current needing to be manipulated to mimic the alternating current frequency that rotational generation naturally created.
Would this manipulation cause losses in the amount of power available from solar generation?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 7 2025 20:56 utc | 57
Changing DC to AC. Generally some energy loss as a lot of that sort of stuff requires at least heat sinks if not cooling fans.
Rotational energy. I think most old time vehicles ran generators that put out direct current. Most or all engines now have alternators which put out alternating current. They have diodes in the back that converts AC to DC.
Pre digital DC welders that plugged into AC had and electric motor driving a generator putting out DC.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 7 2025 21:59 utc | 85

77 persiflo
…and when this huge centralized grid is weaponized and little folks like myself are switched off for wrong thoughts (let alone calling out lies ) ?!? Just like TPTB financial system , all part of the same system… and I’m the totalitarian fundamentalist one … sheesh

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 22:03 utc | 87

86 do tell, and did you also measure the CO2 emissions coming out of the back of the ASICS… you just refuted yourself in showing that ASICS can (not that they MUST) be a massive power sink AND that they can almost instantaneously be powered on/off (not that they WILL ) … unlike, steel/aluminum mill, AI center, etc… is this not the definition of load-balancing capability! don’t blame me that Texas regulators can’t do basic math or contracts!!

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 22:09 utc | 89

>>> “…incredible ~50% inefficiency of power production and grids…” <<<
Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 21:41 utc | 71
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Dude, you should publish your treatise ASAP. The utility guys I work with are dying to hear from you.
Also, be sure to clear shelf space for your Nobel.

Posted by: seer | Sep 7 2025 22:14 utc | 91

Re: Crypto mining energy inefficiency.
Once almost all the coins are mined and operators have to rely on transaction processing fees only, there will be a huge exodus of rigs and the problem solves itself.
That is also when real price discovery begins.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Sep 7 2025 22:18 utc | 93

93 has nothing to do with permissioned crypto, satoshis invention has a 2 week difficulty adjustment that is waaaaaaaay longer than the capital investment/planning cycle of hashers… anticipating where you are heading next with this… 2021 exodus of hashers from China was a massive stress test of this

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 22:21 utc | 95

@c1ue | Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:08:00 GMT | 88

Every time you open a door whether vertical or horizontal – the very act of opening introduces outside air into the refrigerator.

A simple trick is to keep the fridge filled, perhaps using storage boxes which stay in place even when empty.

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 7 2025 22:24 utc | 97

95 now I’m embarrassed,
*waaaaaay shorter

Posted by: L | Sep 7 2025 22:27 utc | 99