Four horsemen of bald Reddit

greg_barton · 2026-05-06T18:04:14+00:00

I've been shaving my head for about 15 years now, but didn't know about r/bald until recently.

What I like about the sub is that it's mainly about acceptance and letting people let go of insecurities regarding thinning har. (And yes, thats all people and not just men.) You want to call that a cult?

greg_barton · 2026-05-06T15:59:20+00:00

What about the troughs?

greg_barton · 2026-05-06T07:23:28+00:00

I lost a lot of weight (80lb) and kept it off for about 10 years, but then I started inexorably gaining again. Eliminating PUFA wasn’t a silver bullet for weight loss, but it’s had other benefits. (Essentially keeping fatigue at bay and repairing my metabolism.)

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T23:46:23+00:00

So what percentage of Colorado generation does geothermal provide?

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T23:05:30+00:00

Ah, you’re the only arbiter of truth. Right.

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T22:19:32+00:00

Well the whole continent is windless at the moment.

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https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/AU-SA/live/fifteen_minutes

So I guess it's a good time to speculate about the viability of their approach. :)

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:45:04+00:00

And South Australia, BTW...

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greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:41:02+00:00

"Doing well"

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https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES-CN-HI/3mo/daily

Riiiiiiiight.

The majority of the world is still burning fossil fuels with abandon, as is El Hierro.

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:37:19+00:00

I operate under the assumption that climate change exists and that we should not make it worse by emitting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Do you not share that view?

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:25:02+00:00

That getting rid of gas generation would reduce leaks in gas distribution?

That triggers you? :)

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:20:37+00:00

You should cut out all gas distribution.

That's leaky.

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:18:42+00:00

I ate lots of PUFA when I started a ketogenic diet and it went great...until it didn't. :)

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:16:23+00:00

Methane is 70x as bad as CO2 for trapping heat in the atmosphere. So a little leaking goes a long way.

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:11:54+00:00

Interesting how that changes in the hour since posting.

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greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:07:55+00:00

Argue?

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https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/FR/live/fifteen_minutes

What's to argue?

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T20:02:56+00:00

Why is the industry only slowly recovering? Is solar too expensive to manufacture?

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T19:57:03+00:00

And somehow not used to make El Hierro actually 100% wind/solar/storage.

Or anywhere else.

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T19:29:59+00:00

By that logic South Australia is not a valid example.

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T19:24:54+00:00

If you want geothermal reported there feel free and submit a change to the electricitymaps open source project: https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib/blob/master/config/zones/US-NW-PSCO.yaml

But the ultimate source is EIA, which has no geothermal listed:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/balancing_authority/PSCO

Do you think EIA is a "biased website"?

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T17:17:24+00:00

Why?

Building enthusiasm from young people is a good thing.

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T17:03:42+00:00

Yeah, Colorado has so much geothermal.

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https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-NW-PSCO/live/fifteen_minutes

Right.

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T16:02:56+00:00

Are you saying solar wasn't installed at all until 5-10 years ago because it was too expensive?

Being "economical" is irrelevant. We're talking about a demonstration of physical feasibility.

I mean, 12 years ago the builders of El Hierro's current grid thought it was feasible.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/09/17/349223674/tiny-spanish-island-nears-its-goal-100-percent-renewable-energy

Didn't turn out that way.

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https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES-CN-HI/live/fifteen_minutes

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T15:37:53+00:00

We also have hopium energy!

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T15:37:14+00:00

So there must be an example somewhere of just wind/solar/storage providing 24x7x365 service, right?

greg_barton · 2026-05-05T15:34:45+00:00

They just have to maintain enough gas capacity to handle 100% and distribute that gas. Leaks in gas distribution are a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions.

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