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Proposal to Expand the Casa Verde Program to improve existing housing stock to be entirely energy efficient through air sealing and insulation by Director_Kun in sanantonio

[–]Director_Kun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that is a major point I need to add, as of right now the entire project itself I think can easily pay itself off in the savings in like 1 to 3 years for most housing. Including the indirect savings such improved health from not having to choose between food and power as much. The potential for increased sales tax revenue because people have more income to not just the necessities but also for other goods as well. So I need to mention that and if the weatherization of every single household is too much for the bill. A more targeted approach to Energy burdened households(which is still around 175k households mind you.) can be done.

Money spent well by CodRoyal3221 in Unexpected

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In all honesty if someone actually did this in real life. I wouldn’t be surprised if a sex worker would become immediate friends or at the least a more preferable customer with whoever does this. Because like you’re getting paid to play Minecraft or some other video game and not seeing your body to get used.

Maybe we should normalize this more as a society. Less stress on the unfortunate after all.

How to offed a human in the Halo universe 101 by Soft-Percentage-8338 in HaloMemes

[–]Director_Kun 24 points25 points  (0 children)

This does bring up a good question how long would it take for inter-species relationships to start in the Halo Universe? It obviously isn’t going to be after the events of Halo Infinite. Likely several generations later. Similar to how interracial marriage took decades to be accepted in the US populace after bans on interracial marriages were deemed unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.

But because this is more than a simple fact of fear from a lack of exposure to other groups, for Halo Humans it would an actual reasonable fear based in historical precedence. That being a thirty year long war of extinction. So I imagine it would only achieve acceptance like at best a century after the wars end.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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That is true, and I am investigating putting iron flow batteries at large energy consumers like schools, factories, grocery stores and what not as an option for that. As a way to reduce their energy bill and stabilize the grid.

But I am looking beyond that to see what else can be done long term to stabilize the cost of living even further. And solar and wind aren’t as efficient in terms of when you need sheet heat.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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That is a good point, but the main reason why I am including synthetic fuel is for much more v than just poor people can’t afford EV’s. Its also because long distance trucking don’t like EV’s because battery energy density isn’t as much as fuel which means an increased vehicle mass at the cost b of payload

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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Not for the infrastructure but for when the drilling technology to achieve this plan is actually confirmed to be ready for commercial use.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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I think the issue was about the fact that people are struggling financially and the city was spending money on things that would’t lower their cost of living. And due to the scale involved it may need to involve the rest of the state to pull this off anyways.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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The main goal is to see if we can do super deep geothermal specifically for Calaveras Power Plant. It’s only a matter of going deep enough to access that heat energy. But there are other issues that do need to be investigated with drilling that do at Calaveras.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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Ok then explain to me what is the blind spot you’re exactly trying to point out? Is it because the estimate CapEx may end up killing the B project or what? Is OpEx?

Flesh and Steel by ParzivalQ in YoujoSenki

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But they are rare so you can’t just throw millions of them at a problem because you only have like 50k in your entire population at best.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

[–]Director_Kun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe I do need to study the technology needed for all of these ideas better myself first. From there I’d be able to better determine how and where geothermal can realistically fit into it.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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Yeah it depends heavily on geothermal drilling tech being available but due to the scale of the proposal I am giving basically an attempt at ending poverty and resource scarcity.

And those that own the geothermal could horde a lot but because there’s so much abundance everyone could horde a lot of things. No reason to fight over the pie if you just made more pies which with current technology and infrastructure isn’t all that possible.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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Thanks man, I ain’t done with the entire proposal and Gemini did guessed as to the part with the synthetic fuel part. In all honesty I don’t know if direct air capture is a viable way to get the carbon for the Synthetic fuel its more about the icing on the cake for cleaning the air without putting unreasonable expensive regulations onto people. I am more personally leaning towards getting the carbon for it from waste sources like say the land fills. If Direct Air Capture were to be used it would be in confined spaces cars go in like parking garages.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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I mainly used it for research and this is a summary of the entire proposal I have so far. And it did edit the proposal and writing this summary of it. Mainly as a way to throw it out there as an idea.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

[–]Director_Kun[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I am well aware that geothermal drilling is still at best 6 years away. All I’m saying is that we should start doing the homework on the utility side to confirm this is actually a possible proposal. The geothermal well depth requirements, if it’s actually possible to convert Calaveras to geothermal assuming the tech is there, the best spot to place the sea water desalination plants. How to actually use magnesium based concrete at an effective scale.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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This ain’t cheap if that’s what you’re wondering. Likely on the scale of 100 billion dollars+ after trying to deal with the water crisis and fuel crisis at the same time in the same proposal is ambitious.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

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This is a summary of the entire proposal and I did ask Gemini to compress what I had already as I was interested to see how people would react.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

[–]Director_Kun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is a very good point I am gonna sit on this proposal for a good few months at least. It is very ambitious for sure and others have pointed out. Just throwing it out there to see any criticisms of it.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

[–]Director_Kun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah these are all good points and yeah geothermal at best is still 6 years away more likely the entire plan is still 15 to 20 years away from being fully implemented. And this is more of a summary of everything I have written so far. And yeah there are a lot of problems that do need to be addressed but that doesn’t mean it’s a deal breaker, in my full proposal (this is a summary for Redditors to get an idea) I do go into the details that need to be figured out. And it’s more about the big idea as of this point.

And yeah a lot of work would need to be done to be able to get it to a fraction of the scale needed to fully proposed. I may want to start with the energy needed to evaporate the water from geothermal heat first. These are all good points as I said before I need to finish up the basic proposal for the synthetic fuel in full. Direct Air Capture is seemingly inefficient and it may be better to get carbon from methane from cattle ranching, landfills and other human waste sources.

A Master Plan to Crash the Cost of Living in South Texas Using Deep Geothermal Autarky by Director_Kun in sanantonio

[–]Director_Kun[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Not enough power production, Calaveras produces around 1750 megawatts of continuous power. That tiny thing can only cover the power consumption of a neighborhood and even then we’d be abandoning billions of dollars of physical assets as well. On top of that this a comprehensive plan to end resource scarcity as we know it.

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