This is exactly right. If resume driven development results in more money, people are (rightly) going to do it. The incentive structure isn't set by the ICs.

It's not a competition. Both can be sights that people view in awe. Are you "Four Yorkshiremen-ing" wildfires?

Look, the annual fire disasters in California are not a normal thing.

If people just point out it's not normal, people complain that nowhere else has fire so nobody else understands the problem. If people point out similar places, looks like it's "Four Yorkshiremen-ing" (whatever that is). So, yeah, let it keep burning, whatever.

This always comes up in RTO discussions. Why haven't they already done it - why go through the pain of forcing an RTO when they can cut costs by 2/3?

This is a Black Mirror level hellscape. It really does capture the overstimulation of the modern world without filters. I found myself simultaneously anxious and inclined to keep clicking so I can unlock the next tier. It's over the top but not by much.

Rock often has sufficient structural integrity to get by with some bolting vs adding structure (steel, shotcrete, etc) to the soil tunnel as they go

It never seems to get stated directly by tunneling through stable rock has to be really easy. Like if you can drill and blast your way through you just need a small crew of workers and a dump truck.

There is a half mile long tunnel in the California desert that an addled miner made with hand tools and dynamite over 38 years. Self funded and part time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burro_Schmidt_Tunnel

Then digging through unstable rock with water intrusion and danger of flooding the costs have to go way way up.

Ecobee thermostats can run in dual heat/cool mode

Pressure is only part of the equation. The pressure gets it to the field economically and does boos reservoir pressure, but co2 injection has more to do with miscibility with hydrocarbons at relatively low pressures. Miscibility yields viscosity reduction and swells the oil to improve displacement and mobility, particularly in heavier crude. Couple that with pressure and you can dramatically improve recovery factor.

That sounds like a lot of it ends bound to, and thus comes up with, the oil/crude.

It absolutely does and has to be stripped out in processing. It typically gets compressed and reinjected over and over again

Exactly. And getting back to the original poster's comment "the CO2 starts underground and ends up underground"... that assumes there are no leaks anywhere in the process.

I also wonder how often people are actually turning them off. It's generally a rare event to push the power button on a mac in my experience

I turn my Mac off every day

Why?

I only reboot my Mac laptop when I’m forced to due to os updates. With a Mac mini? That thing would never get shut down.

If this was such an easy proposition and there was actually arbitrage available, why haven't they already done it. If the market is to be believed, this would only be a temporary boost if it were even achievable. Demand goes up for offshore workers, their prices start to rise, and the delta closes.

This has happened with several offshore manufacturing destinations already.

These formerly poor countries become middle class and then manufacturing has to shift to one of remaining poor countries.