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Cake day: January 28th, 2026

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  • Molten salt for heat transfer and thermal storage is a pretty mature technology that goes way back before we started using it in concentrated solar systems.

    Isn’t the core problem with anything that uses molten salt is that when the heat sauce source (thanks autocorrect, really, the context in that sentence means you should suggest “sauce”?) fails you just end up with a huge lump of solid salts that clog every part of your system?

    The Russian Alfa class had a similar problem due their use of lead-bismuth heated into a liquid.

    When they lost power for whatever they’d essentially end up being written off as reheating them was incredibly difficult and very tricky.









  • This meme is so fucking true.

    We’re replacing an entire stack with software provided by a new vendor. Our application group was excitingly telling us the go date for new platform was August 2026 (this was in December).

    Not only is it ridiculously short, considering the existing stack processes some $200m (plus) worth of business a month, but there was zero architecture work on how upstream and downstream stacks would interface (all API magic if you ask the PM). Apparently the vendor was hand waving the huge amount of integration and migration work away claiming they had an army of devs (all offshored) to handle all that messy and complex stuff.

    I discovered yesterday we haven’t even signed the fucking contract / settled on a price.

    Lol.

    And yet the bosses are like, we are go for August. Mother fuckers we haven’t even started!