Why? Even if you are pro-fossil, natural gas is cheaper and abundant in the US.

About 10% is not the same as 10%

That’s correct, using EIA’s numbers, it’s actually 10.12% ethanol in 2023!

Math: 0.33b / 3.26b -> 10.12%

The very first paragraph in your last link straight up says the actual amount varies.

That paragraph says the amount of denaturant in ethanol varries. That is normally 2%, but can vary.

That very first paragraph has ethanol numbers, and those numbers are…10%:

In 2023, about 0.33 billion barrels (13.73 billion gallons) of fuel ethanol were blended into the 3.26 billion barrels (137.11 billion gallons) of finished motor gasoline consumed.

Do you have any numbers that show it isn’t 10% or are you just trying to give me a hard time? The actual numbers, directly from the EIA, are 10%.

It’s 10%.

The Renewable Fuel Standard, createdy by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates an increasing quantity of ethanol be produced and mixed into gasoline. That is now at 36 billion gallons of ethanol as of 2022.

However, it is capped at 10% to ensure engines can safely use it. So, with the US annual consumption of gasoline at 137 billion gallons, we hit the 10% cap and put 13 billion gallons of ethanol into gasoline.

Who knows what the actual number is.

It’s 10%.

We do that with gasoline in the US. 10% of gas is corn ethanol.

The additives at the time didn’t work well; and simply removing the lead would lead to premature detonation, destroying engines. It wasn’t until the health effects were proven to be a big issue there was enough demand to change engine designs to be compatible with unleaded gas. That pressure was required as operating an additional set of incompatible fuel and engine types isn’t easy.

We still haven’t completely removed leaded gas from daily use. Namely small aircraft still use it for the same reasons cars used to use it.

Whereas a more ephemeral approach that actually encourages people to ask questions? Yes, it does cause long term issues when someone is trying to debug a project that has been on life support for years.

It isn’t just long-term, it causes issues right off the bat; no fix is searchable. All fixes require a community member to respond.

• For the user this causes significant delays. A problem that could be solved in minutes with a search now requires hours or days for someone to respond to their specific problem. A problem that likely was already solved 10 times before. And god help you if the server is active, your problem might get burred instantly and no response will ever come.

• For the support people, they have to answer the same questions over and over and over because there is no way for users to search for and solve their own problems.

These issues compound on each other as support staff burn out and users get tired of waiting. Leads to people just going elsewhere.

For me, a lack of support forums signals the creators don’t care about the software working right and don’t care the software will be unmaintainable the moment they step away. Ie: a lack of support forum is a strong signal to find greener pastures.

Just fucking own it and do better. Downplaying it means not only do people still think badly of you, but now they know you also don’t take responsibility for your own actions and instead lie about them.

You also don’t have to be specific about what happened, only that you are actively improving yourself and what steps you are taking to do so.

Edit: You are taking steps to actively improve yourself, right?

A hard drive in a PO Box; data encrypted. Retrieve it occasionally to sync it with your local storage.

Are there any truly FOSS networking options?

PFSense falls into this category for routers. Netgate makes hardware specifically for it, but you don’t have to buy anything from them to use PFSense. I only mention them because their hardware is good and you can buy anything from a normal home router to enterprise level gear.

I had to sign in with my ubiquiti account first before I could make a local account

I used to be pretty into ubiquiti, but this requirement really put me off. I have no desire to do anything ‘cloud’ with my router. This requirement sent me elsewhere and I sold off all my ubiquiti equipment.

TruNAS … What alternatives are there?

TruNAS has a community edition, so you could start there. Other alternatives are a standard Debian install, use mdadm to setup RAID, then setup a network share in the OS, etc.

I don’t have a word for this, but:

We are talking about dozens of millennia of uranium supply on Earth. Other fuel types and nuclear technologies look to extend that into billions of years. For all functional purposes, it’s infinite. Just as solar energy is functionally infinite.

a supply of energy that is practically inexhaustible on the timescale of human civilisation (what people mean when they say renewable)

As I said: Nuclear is Renewable, in the exact same way everyone uses the term.

Exactly, nuclear is no less renewable than solar. Where does everyone think solar energy comes from? Nuclear.

We might as well capture the uranium decay, as you said, it will release the energy whether we collect it or not.

AKA: A job.

Hades is pretty fun and comes in under that budget.

Never understood why people rebuy Skyrim over and over; obviously you aren’t but clearly someone is. Buy it once on Steam and call it a day. (Even works as a handheld on the Steam Deck)

The ISS is one of the most expensive pieces of infrastructure humanity has built, it costs something on the order of $150B. My home I personally paid for, out of my own pocket, and it has 3x the power power supply of the ISS.

How about this. You give me 10% of the cost of the ISS and that datacenter rack, and I’ll use the $15,000,000,000 to buy a big AC system to cool the rack. We both make out. You paid 10x less and got 3x as much power capacity, and I got FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS to service and maintain a residential sized power line.

you could absolutely launch and operate a space rack with current tech

If you aren’t getting what I’m laying down. The issue isn’t the technology, the issue is the many orders of magnitude of extra cost.

There is no magic bullet for “move this massive amount of heat somewhere else”

Space does let you dissipate heat via radiation (just not convection or conduction). Space radiators are a well understood and often-used technology.

The problem with space data centers isn’t the technology, we have the technology. It’s the cost. Everything in space is orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrially. It’s simply not economically feasible to build a data center in space when you can build hundreds for the same cost on Earth.

14 kW of electricity and reject all the waste heat, then the major concern for me is addressed.

This is a tiny amount of power. My house alone has over 3x that (I have 48 kW of electric service). Feeding my house with 48 kW and dissipating the heat is MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than doing this on the ISS not once, not twice, but thrice on this ISS…just to achieve what my home achieves right now. And don’t think this is some odd amount for a home, this is a basic 200A home service line.

Space datacenters are a meme.

Odd to say that while referring to Musk, a person who famously paid the most taxes by any individual ever in a year; over >$10B in a single year.