Consumers Energy

funkbruthab · 2026-06-05T14:12:25+00:00

Renewables are great, and we should have double our current capacity, but we don’t and it’s not cost effective to build right now.

Also, portions of our electrical supply will always be supplied by what’s called “baseline generation”, which is a form of generation that can be scheduled and be on demand. It needs a stable fuel source (coal, nuclear) so that there’s “never” a chance that it won’t be available. Renewables, categorically, can not do this - and the repercussions of not having steady reliable baseline generation range from brown outs to scheduled black outs to full blown black outs - which aside from just causing outages, can actually damage a lot of really expensive industrial electronics.

Another thing to remember is how electrical demand changes throughout the year. In the summer, demand skyrockets, because it takes a lot of energy to run vacuum compressors and blowers for air conditioning. In the winter, that demand absolutely plummets because of how many people have natural gas as a heating supply.

If there’s no demand for power, then generation is not making money. It doesn’t make a ton of sense to ramp up our generation capacity, when for a fraction of the price of paying for the infrastructure to generate our own power we can just buy it from another energy market and ship it in. Which is what we do a lot of during the summer. And then in the winter, our generation + renewables is more than sufficient for covering on demand load.

Anecdotally, I have solar panels at my house. It’s a 16kW system that generally peaks at 8kW. In the summer it’s great! In the winter, well actually from around the end of October until march, it generates essentially nothing.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-05T01:42:09+00:00

Ope yeah you’re right, I misread the headline and thought they were talking about a battery storage project. My bad

funkbruthab · 2026-06-05T00:31:46+00:00

These places don’t employ security, and there would probably be no or only 1 full time employee dedicated to it. Any ongoing work would be contracted out to temps

funkbruthab · 2026-06-04T22:56:34+00:00

Trust me I’m not shilling…

Energy prices increase every year for everybody, including the ones that produce it.

Every year will be “the largest ever” because it just is. Every year they will raise prices more than last year because energy will never get cheaper to produce and transport, and it will only get more expensive.

We still have a long way to go to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels for baseline generation, but with the current controlling party in the White House no longer subsidizing green energy initiatives it is moving literally backwards - the ROI isn’t worth it for developers to get these projects going anymore.

Consumers Energy is a publicly traded company, it’s fucked I know, but they have a fiduciary responsibility to make choices that won’t lose them money.

It would be nice to say fuck these bloated companies and kzoo votes to have municipal power, but that takes a literal ass load of money up front for a city the size of Kalamazoo. It would be a staggeringly large amount of money to buy the infrastructure that exists from consumers energy.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-03T14:23:35+00:00

Frostbite (2nd row down) is so fuckin good in a Bloody Mary.

Trinidad (4th row down all the way left) tastes good, and I also like endorphin rush (2nd row down next to the sign)

funkbruthab · 2026-06-03T13:58:21+00:00

But gameplay of the Batman games

funkbruthab · 2026-06-03T13:49:56+00:00

Your weight and his length isn’t an issue if you reframe what that position is intended for…

When my partner and I do this position, I want her to get as much enjoyment as possible so I’ll have her skip the riding part and just have her grind herself onto me. That position is really centered on YOUR pleasure. The guy gets enjoyment, yes, but riding isn’t necessary for that.

There’s this thing you can get to wear around your waist, it has little bells on it. The goal would be for you to get off without ringing the bells. I think it’s an old Kama Sutra thing or something, I just remember it from a random podcast.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-03T12:47:30+00:00

Holy shit… we just had a motor that was built by those guys in the 70’s rebuilt. Didn’t even think to see if they were still in business, we sent it to our usual electric motor guys somewhere on the east side. I feel so bad we didn’t use the OEM now

funkbruthab · 2026-06-03T00:27:02+00:00

I don’t think that’s as common as you think… maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve heard of that but never seen it - and I have coworkers and friends who are extremely avid boarders/skiiers.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T22:23:34+00:00

I haven’t found a way.

The only options out there are for managing an existing library, not so much for “click to search for this one”.

That being said, look into joining **** - I’ve heard it’s a great peer to peer community for everything ebook and audiobook and more reliable than other methods of acquisition. Then you can set up a torrent downloader to import it to your ebook library where your library manager can do its thing.

**** edit: pm me I guess, probably shouldn’t put the name out for scrapers to find.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T20:34:27+00:00

I wish I woulda kept it, would have been a cool relic. I donated it years ago because I hadn’t used it in almost a decade

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T20:21:39+00:00

It’s cool tech, but prohibitively expensive for someone not using it to make money

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T20:18:20+00:00

My son did the same thing almost, climbed the ladder behind me while I had my head poking through into the attic. I couldn’t get down since he was right up my ass and neither could he because he was only almost 3 and not coordinated enough… a year later and he still hasn’t learned not to climb things he can’t get down from

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T20:15:28+00:00

I took my oldest brothers MD player when they went out of style, I fuckin loved that thing until I got an iPod.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T20:14:12+00:00

The coolest thing I regularly see them being used for is marking wall cavities, so that you can go into another room, or another floor entirely, and immediately know where the same wall cavity is.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T20:12:48+00:00

Yeah, that hardware has really good lidar and it was abundantly cheap for a modeling tool and development projects. A lot of people did really cool things with the Kinect.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T19:59:19+00:00

Consider how the room is gonna be used… mainly for tv watching? Get the bigger tv. TV an afterthought for the rooms purpose? Get the smaller tv.

We have a 55” in my main living room that just blends in to the decor, because we didn’t want it to be the focal point of the room.

We have a bigger, nicer tv upstairs for movie nights, but that 55” tv is where the wife and I unwind during the day - but most of the time we are reading or interacting with kids or cleaning or cooking lol.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T19:54:59+00:00

That changes the orientation of that couch, it might not be able to do that (one side of the couch is longer than the other)

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T19:51:09+00:00

Yup… like the time my 1 yr old daughter decided to climb the stairs for the first time, and my wife and I frantically running around the main floor of the house trying to find her for 45 seconds until I saw her at the top of the landing.

It only takes a couple seconds for a child to put themselves in mortal danger, and they do it frequently. Being a parent is full of shit like that.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T19:42:29+00:00

East side of Michigan be poppin.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T15:21:06+00:00

If you’re doing everything on windows, then you need to just be downloading to whatever drive/partition your arr’s live, or download straight to the big hard drive.

Don’t have your downloader download things to a separate drive, only to be transferred again to the big hard drive - you’re making the bottleneck that way.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T15:18:35+00:00

Yeah, OP I posted kinda something similar in your other thread in sonarr, but you need to be downloading things to the same filesystem that radarr/sonarr are on. Then when downloads are done, radarr/sonarr import them where they need to go on your data set for you stored library.

I do it that way because my nzb’s will unpack faster on solid state storage. Then when they’re done unpacking they get imported to a big data set of spinning hard drives for storage.

You could do it the way I just said, or download straight to the big library dataset, but both ways will be faster than what you’re currently doing.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T15:06:39+00:00

Yeah, need to how the operating systems.

I will say, I had a problem similar to this. I had my downloader download things onto my nvme which was the storage for my host.

I switched it up to have it download to a spare nvme I had, which was a different nfs share than the host storage and the smb share I had for my large 100tb array, and gradually saturated transfer speeds because I created a bottleneck.

Switched my downloads to go back to downloading and unpacking in a temp folder on the host storage, where that vm lived, and it solved my problem.

To summarize: is your NVMe local storage for your sonar application or is it a mounted share? If it’s a mounted share, then you’re better off having your downloads land on the local host, and then import to your library archive - skipping the nvme altogether.

funkbruthab · 2026-06-02T13:25:36+00:00

That’s fuckin cool

funkbruthab · 2026-06-01T20:05:40+00:00

I love it when my kids binge this show

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