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Yes. The “we met for coffee to discuss funding when he was visiting NY” crowd is not drawing fire from what I can see. That’s not social interaction. It’s the ones who were spending a lot of time interacting with him and defended him and/or lied about the extent of their association that are the big targets. Musk, Gates, and a few other big shots in tech. Krauss. There was an email from a prof recommending a woman and the exchange included a physical description and an insinuation that she’d be to Epstein’s liking. Creepy stuff.

Yes pumped storage needs two reservoirs - where do you put the upper one? Desalination plants generally process less than a million cubic meters per day while pumped storage plants are generally much larger than that. The biggest saltwater pumped-storage plant is a 240 MW tidal generation facility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity “the 240 MW Rance tidal power station in France can partially work as a pumped-storage station. When high tides occur at off-peak hours, the turbines can be used to pump more seawater into the reservoir than the high tide would have naturally brought in. It is the only large-scale power plant of its kind.” So yes, you can do it, but basically nobody does at large scale.

Again, I don’t think his association with consenting adults is what is upsetting to most. I think it’s informative to look at the conviction of his literal partner in crime, which happened when Epstein could no longer exert influence over the system https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse “GHISLANE MAXWELL was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court by United States Circuit Judge Alison J. Nathan to 240 months in prison for her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade” “From at least 1994, up to and including in or about 2004, GHISLAINE MAXWELL assisted, facilitated, and participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims known to MAXWELL and Epstein to be under the age of 18. The victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by MAXWELL and Epstein, both of whom knew that their victims were in fact minors” We know this continued past 2004. There is the question of the number of crimes where could they not get people to testify or otherwise gather enough evidence for conviction. Maxwell continues to take the fifth when questioned, which buttresses the idea that there are more crimes not covered by her conviction. (she can’t possibly incriminate herself for the crimes for which she was convicted).

Not prostitutes. Girls. Not consenting adults. The concern is that these people continued to associate with him after he was convicted of his crimes, knowing they were more extensive than his sentence indicated because he got a sweetheart deal. Socializing with a serial rapist didn’t bother them, which is an indicator for creepiness for some. If it was just a predilection for adult prostitutes I don’t think people would have nearly as much of a problem.

Not sure where momentum entered the discussion. The relevant variables are mass (or weight) and height. The limit of extractable energy is mgh if it’s a static source. No, but it needs to then be a dedicated saltwater system that draws from and drains to the ocean. People are going to be perturbed if saltwater drains into their freshwater sources, which means leaks are more problematic. Corrosion means it’s probably got a shorter lifetime and more expensive, and the pipes need to go somewhere

Not at all. You didn’t confirm that this wasn’t just GR with the equations presented differently until the middle of November. We had some discussion of the details. The thread was moved shortly after; it’s been in speculations since before Dec 1st. Another hypothesis bites the dust.

My thought about it being because of right-handedness and not creating a shadow is supported by this, but it’s by no means universal. I’ve seen both orientations, and plenty where the windows were in the back. And it’s probably only an issue for the first column; I’d think overhead lights render it mostly moot.

Your reading comprehension leaves something to be desired. At no point did I say GR is absolute truth. I pointed out that your idea differs from GR, which was by your own admission. As stated at the beginning of the speculations rules, “The Speculations forum is provided for those who like to hypothesize new ideas in science.” The issue isn’t the truth of GR, it’s that GR is the mainstream theory. That’s it. It’s a pity you (and others who react this way) can’t understand such a simple distinction. Whatever. You’re the one that admitted to it being speculation, as we define it here. And posting to advertise your site is against the rules (which is why the hyperlinks are removed) Stop it. I asked if you had equations that differ from GR in substance (not merely form)? You answered yes, and presented one. Whether that makes you stupid or dishonest is best left to you to determine

It was the part where you agreed that your work differs from GR 10000000000000000000 orders of magnitude would be remarkable Keep telling yourself that. It’s not at all a sign of being a crank

Well, no, not really. Switzerland is a different country. And this is basically the same argument as before, about the timing of something vs the underlying sentiment; I see you omitted the paragraph that follows your quote, that shows the result of a vote to prohibit new construction. These lame “arguments” are rather tedious. You’ve obviously convinced yourself of something, but it’s not based on any facts you’ve shared.

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/why-some-people-think-in-words.html ~9 minute video in link I’m a mix of visual, inner monologue and emotional Take the surprise some have expressed in recent years upon finding out that the expression to “picture” something in one’s head isn’t just a figure of speech. You mean that people “picturing an apple,” say, haven’t been just thinking about an apple, but actually seeing one in their heads? The inability to do that has a name: aphantasia, from the Greek word phantasia, “image,” and prefix -a, “without.” I remember finding this out not that long ago (perhaps here; it’s come up a few times) Also that among those who visualize there’s a wide spectrum of what that entails.

There’s still conversion from mechanical to/from electrical for a flywheel that represents a loss. That’s the comparison for pump efficiency. The analogue of spin-down is the evaporation that was mentioned

I’m going by a memory from the story told before seeing it in college, ~45 years ago, at an annual “bad films” showing before Halloween

Isn’t that the one where he died during filming and they also used footage with an actor of much different height?

You went from Germany to Europe. That’s a different argument, but once again you have not actually supported this claim. I don’t know what SA is; you don’t explain it, but as I showed, they are not importing more oil because of the nuclear shutdowns, which was your claim. All the rest here is moving the goalposts. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, so basically Germany stopped importing oil from them when that happened. Which is a spurious argument, a non-sequitur. But you haven’t shown that they did. You referred to a poll of today’s attitude (which didn’t show what you claim) and things don’t happen instantly. What’s relevant is the attitude when it was in progress. “According to a 2015 survey produced by the Emnid, a polling institute for the German outlet BILD am Sonntag, 81 percent of Germans believe that it is the right decision to phase-out nuclear power, and only 16 percent think that it is wrong. This becomes even clearer when looking at those 14 to 29 years old—93 percent of this group support the transition.” https://fee.org/articles/why-is-germany-phasing-out-nuclear-power/ If the attitude truly has changed, more than ten years later, Germany is free to decide to build new plants.

I’ve got a space weather app that alerts me to flares and CMEs and whenever Kp hits a certain threshold. Seen a couple of aurorae because of the alerts.

Do phones have motion-activation capabilities? You might look for an app that takes pictures at regular intervals. Time-lapse with a large gap. Most phones nowadays have a feature that records several seconds of pictures with each shot, which improves odds of capturing something.

“Sunspot region 4366 produced the most powerful flare of 2026 on Monday, unleashing an X8.1 and associated coronal mass ejection (CME)—a massive explosion of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun’s outer atmosphere.“ https://gizmodo.com/this-earth-facing-sunspot-region-is-absolutely-popping-off-2000717888 Probably more to come, since 4366 just came into view a week ago

This wasn’t true last year when you claimed it and it’s still not. Germany’s oil imports are lower than when they started shutting down nuclear, and basically none of it is from Russia. So this is not only not a fact, it is a lie - a repetition of an untruth that was pointed out to you, yet you’ve repeated it https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/135990-anti-democratic-political-decisions-in-the-western-countries/#findComment-1290436 It’s also something whose connection to “less freedom” is unclear to me. Your survey quote lacks an actual link, but here it is https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/two-thirds-germans-against-shutting-down-last-nuclear-power-plants-point-survey “32 percent of those surveyed were in favour of the remaining reactors continuing to run for a limited period, and an additional 33 percent were in favour of an unlimited runtime extension. Only 26 percent fully support a complete phase-out nuclear power at this point in time” So it’s the timing that’s the issue. Only a third wanted an unlimited extension. The shutdown plan predates that; it was made under Schröder and the first shutdown occurred in 2003. Merkel initially delayed it until Fukushima caused a pivot and she accelerated the plan.

Thanks. So it’s a location issue, not a size of demand issue. i.e. any power plant situated where the solar is would face the same problem.

It might, but it’s paywalled so I don’t know what the explanation is. edit: But electrical generation in the EU has been falling slightly (through 2023, at least), so it seems that it’s not increased demand causing this, it’s location and other issues https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_production,_consumption_and_market_overview

The issue is that you write fiction too much of the time. Unsubstantiated claims deserve little weight in these discussions.

Increased use is largely untethered to the means of production, AFAICT - grid problems would affect any source in the same location. And solar/wind supplanting e.g. coal doesn’t increase load on the grid. In addition, rooftop solar reduces load on the grid.

It’s true that new EU solar has contracted slightly, but it still installed ~65GW of capacity each of the last 3 years. More of a flattening as compared to the US. ~400 GW of installed capacity at end of ‘25, while the US was at ~240GW at the end of ‘24, yet the US uses about twice as much. So the EU is pretty far ahead in this. https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-eu-hits-2025-solar-target-but-market-contraction-puts-2030-goal-at-risk

If you don’t have a point for discussion, the appropriate place would have been the “Today I learned” thread (or science news if it was news)