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
They expect you to be answering how you are managing your emotions and your stress, or bar that give a message of hope or of some desperation, they are trying to engage with you as real human being, not as a novel character.
does EY fail to get that interview isn't for him, but for audience? if he wants to sway anyone, then he'd need to adjust what he talks about and how, otherwise it just turns into a circlejerk
it also means more interceptions per sortie, because it's 7 missiles in pod per hardpoint, instead of one. this also makes it all cheaper, on top of cost of missiles (fewer sorties = less pilot's time, less strain and wear on plane)
no serious pharma company tries to do that, it's all high proof uncut transhumanist nonsense, served by crackpots, feeding on old scifi and rooted in the same impulse that driven alchemists in search of immortality
i'm of course not gonna stop you from believing in anything, do what you want
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
my background in biochemistry makes me think it's almost guaranteed to be impossible, so i don't worry about it.
however, in hypothetical case it isn't, i'd argue that it would be proper to destroy this technology in all cases along with inventors, because it would be horridly expensive initially, and first people to get it would be people like peter thiel and larry ellison. there was a recording where putin and xi admitted that they are also interested. then what you'll get would be class of immortal oligarchs. planck once said, progress in physics happens one funeral at a time, it's really more general than just physics, and you can say goodbye to any progress from that point on
if you have to tell people that you're enlightened, you ain't
also why have you picked vaccines in particular. maybe you wanted to express something else more clearly? there's no money in vaccines to such degree that western pharma companies don't want to research them, and bulk of (non-mRNA) vaccines are made in Serum Institute of India, they make this stuff for half of the world if not more. this thing is cheeaap, and because it's a preventive one and done you can take it on your own terms, you're not under time pressure to get it so you can shop around to get it cheaply. you can't nickel and dime people on vaccines
now if you do want to nickel and dime a patient, you'd need something that they're gonna need forever and jack up prices or just keep them high from day one, like with antiretrovirals or what purdue pharma did or like with daraprim. and then there's entirely another very american problem of insurance leech layer. taking a very charitable look at it maybe you want to say a thing about availability of american healthcare in general, less charitably, and more likely, you sound like a libertarian antivaxxer
this is their endgame