I doubt it. Sure you can deploy mirrors in space to collect and focus light towards PV panels on earth, but the sun isn't any brighter in low earth orbit.
To get meaningful amounts of power you'd need square kilometers of mirrors perfectly positioned. And if you had all that, a single dark cloud could swoop in and block all your incoming power.
But it could be interesting in today's dynamic electricity markets. Solar power plant owners could order some night time sun, if demand and prices surge in their region for whatever reason. I guess it all comes down to SpaceX rideshare pricing and their reflector-tech. Maybe they've got some huge folding or inflating mirrors, which can be deployed by tiny satellites.
The author mentions an undisclosed $10 fee on every $100 invested in Robinhood. I've had an active Robinhood account since 2017 and I've never been charged a fee to invest.
in the 'good ol days', sites used to have these little background music files stored as MIDI files, which would autoplay as soon as you entered the site
like all good things, people with nothing to live for but money started abusing them...
What nonsense is this, At the Babi Yar ravine just outside Kyiv, 33,771 Jews were massacred on September 29 and 30, 1941. Months before the US entered the war. Additionally there were Jews being slaughtered from 1939.
I've had Covid at least three times myself. The first time was in Feb 2020 and was my roughest bout. I didn't fully lose my sense of smell or taste but it was very confused. Oranges tastes like parsley and other foods got swapped. I've always prided myself on my sense of smell and have been able to differentiate ingredients in a dish.
After about a month my sense of taste and smell seemed to go back to normal but for about 2 years I felt that they had not recovered fully. I love to cook and my taste clearly changed. I started drinking more full bodied wines and eating blue cheese, things that had not been my favorite.
I've had at least one but I suspect 2 brushes with Covid in the intervening years. They were pretty mild with no fever and only cold like symptoms.
Around March of this year (2023) I experienced a bout of Covid that reminded me of the original time I had contracted it. Fever, body aches, lightheadedness etc. The symptoms were the same just lighter in intensity and over quicker. The interesting thing is that I never lost my sense of smell and I feel like I've regained what I'd lost from my first bout of Covid.
I used to think this way too. Now I recognize I was naive. It's a gradual decline, and once you get to the point that you are no longer providing any value, it's probably too late to take yourself out.
