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jmward01 a day ago

I love how they are using a company named 'Solar Turbines'. Such an obviously misleading name. (From their website)[1]:

Powering the future through innovative, sustainable energy solutions.

Solar Turbines Incorporated, headquartered in San Diego, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. Solar manufactures the world’s most widely used family of mid-sized industrial gas turbines, ranging from 1 to 39 megawatts. More than 17,000 Solar units are installed in more than 100 countries with more than 3 billion operating hours. Solar is a leading provider of energy solutions, featuring an extensive line of gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical drive packages, and generator sets.

[1] https://www.solarturbines.com/en_US/about-us.html

mlsu a day ago | parent [-]

To be fair, solar turbines has had the name since 1929 (they were then called solar aircraft company). It’s not like they’re being intentionally misleading.

jmward01 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Thanks for point that out. I missed that context.

acheron a day ago | parent [-]

Maybe you should have looked it up before posting?

jmward01 21 hours ago | parent [-]

I'll take a minute to respond here. Would you rather live in a world where people admit they made a mistake and thanked people that pointed it out or one where they didn't? You just sent a reward signal to the 'don't ever admit your mistakes' world in case you didn't realize.

aspenmayer 20 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s also fair to say that there’s another possible world you haven’t mentioned: one where you’re both right.

In such a world, you would have looked it up before posting, and your comment, their reply to you, yours to them, and mine to you, wouldn’t exist.

Perhaps they were trying to send a reward signal to all of us in this thread in order to induce a shift from where we find ourselves now in order to arrive upon the “look it up before posting” world line?

matthewmcg a day ago | parent | prev [-]

They’ve said the company name comes from San Diego being so sunny.