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fruitsforhire35 karma

I'm not a medical professional either but I can tell you that mixing those two is not safe. They both decrease your blood pressure, and the two together put a lot of pressure on your heart. Your blood pressure can get dangerously low combining the two.

fruitsforhire15 karma

Would you say it's on par with going out to a bar that didn't have strippers and not tipping the bartenders?

Tipping is a shitty practice in general. The cooks at the back are working harder and getting paid less. There's nothing good about tipping.

fruitsforhire5 karma

This is actually the exact reason why I find the blanket support for "less government" so perplexing. It's baffling. Nothing in life is that simple. Ever. It seems so self-evident to me that there no single solution to every single issue out there, yet for some reason so many people can't grasp this simple concept. It just blows my mind.

fruitsforhire5 karma

iama is meant to be for unusual or extraordinary things.

No it's not. It's meant for people who find a particular career or subject interesting. It can be completely ordinary and usual like a fast food worker. I read a fast food place manager AMA here a month ago or so. It was interesting to read. That's what it's for.

fruitsforhire3 karma

I can partially answer your question. Solar is not a base load power source. It only runs something like 10-25% of the time over a 24 hour period (based on the region). This is called capacity factor. See here for comparison with other power sources. And the biggest problem with that very low capacity factor is that it occurs at the exact same time of day 100% of the time, unlike say wind which at least is blowing somewhere at any point in time. Its load is never balanced in any way.

Solar can't replace any base load power source, so it will never compete with nuclear on a comprehensive level. During the 80% of the 24 hours that solar is useless something else has to produce energy. It doesn't matter how cheap solar is. It simply doesn't do anything most of the time.

Solar also has extreme practical problems when it comes to scaling its use up. The amount of land required to power massive urban cities even partially is immense. There are very serious environmental concerns with dedicating large tracts of land to solar.