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  • Catholic practice of adolescent confirmation

    this must be country-specific, because the way i know it, it happens at age when people still can be pressured by parents/grandparents (under 15 or so), it’s about the only reason why it happens, and it marks the last time they are seen in church before marriage (formal requirement for catholic marriage), if at all (country secularizes and many ditch catholic marriage entirely). there’s also very little on the “inside” (you’re picking a saint and write an essay on them that nobody reads; unless you want to become a priest, it has absolutely zero bearing on your life)




  • They’re only about 40% efficient. Boom says the Superpower turbine will be about the same, and it’s up to the customer to bring the turbine up to 60% efficiency. And to limit the pollution and noise.

    They also say that there’s an future option for carbon capture, but they say a lot of things, this requires small chemical plant and no one is gonna make it work, and these gas turbines will stay just like this without heat recovery system and steam turbines

    if these get delivered at all before crusoe craters, that is







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    nah. loam is, for example, 40% sand, 20% clay, 40% silt and it’s close to middle of that polygon, on top of letter O

    for example, draw a line from 50% sand point on edge to 50% clay point on edge, the first one is 50% sand 50% silt because that axis for sand is also 0% for clay, the second one is 50% sand 50% clay because it lies at the line that is 0% silt





  • regarding my take in previous stubsack, it does seem like crusoe intends to use these gas turbines as backup, and as of 31.07.2025 they had five turbines installed, who knows if connected, with obvious place for five more, with some pieces of them (smokestacks mostly) in place. it does make sense that as of october announcement, they had the first tranche of 10 installed or at least delivered. there’s no obvious prepared place where they intend to put next 19 of them, and that’s just stuff from GE, with more 21 coming from proenergy (maybe it’s for different site?). that said, it’s texas with famously reliable ercot, which means that on top using these for shortages, they might be paying market rates for electricity, which means that even with power available, they might turn turbines on when electricity gets ridiculously expensive. i’m sure that dispatchers will love some random fuckass telling them “hey, we’re disconnecting 250MW load in 15 minutes” when grid is already unstable due to being overloaded





  • why wouldn’t they be subject to emission controls if they’re islanded? anyway they aren’t islanded, they’re using gas turbines to supplement what they can draw from substation or the other way around, either way it’s probably all synchronized and connected, they just put these turbines behind the meter

    i guess they’re not subject to emission controls because they’re in texas and anything green is woke, so they might just not do any of that and vent all the carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides these things belch. also, no surprises if they fold before emaciated epa gets to them, if republicans don’t prevent it outright that is

    welcome to the abyss, it sucks here

    i mostly meant to point out that it looks like they prioritized delivery speed and minimum construction, while paying top dollar for extra 50-70% fuel so it makes sense short term, and who cares what comes in two years when they’re under. this also means they bought out all gas turbines money can buy. if marine diesels weren’t so heavy these would be next