Wanderer
@Wanderer@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy? 1 month ago:
China makes more renewables than the rest of the world.
Look at completed and under construction. Wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, pumped hydro.
50% car sales are EVs.
10% of GDP is clean tec.
A large part of emission growth is rapid increases of the petrochemical industry. That’s not going to last long.
The energy demand increase is almost entirely being met by renewables and increasing. Its going to drop very fast.
- Comment on Why are energy bills going up, if there is more green power? - BBC News 1 month ago:
Lemmy has such a bad understanding of capitalism.
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that’s the united states of america. Not the UK.
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Lobbying isn’t capitalism. The government needs to be involved in capitalism.
But finally, finally after all that. The core is energy production is not a monopoly it is a largely free market where many businesses and even many countries can create energy production in the UK. Home owners, co-ops, France nuclear, Norwegian hydro, gas, wind.
What you are talking about is electrical distribution being a natural monopoly. The National Grid (Great Britain) is largely a single monopoly but that’s not where the price comes from. The UK has a lot of oversight of that and inter connectors and offshore wind leases and even maximum pricing. How are companies going to shaft consumers when the UK government limits the amount they can sell for.
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- Comment on Why are energy bills going up, if there is more green power? - BBC News 1 month ago:
That’s no how capitalism works. If there is money to be made there will be more competition.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 2 months ago:
electric vehicle (EV) drivers to wait in line for hours at charging stations last month; some even found themselves stranded when their battery died while they waited in the queues.
I’m sure “some” ICE cars have also ran out of fuel while queueing, seems like a bit of a nothing statement. More stations are needed and range does get lower in colder conditions that is known. Waiting until you have 30 miles left when you know electric cars lose 15% of range isn’t smart.
Norway does winter testing on their vehicles and I’m sure people ask other people about car performance.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 2 months ago:
When I went to Oslo I only took public transport.
I even used to to take the bus to the forest. I walked into the bush for hours then slept. Decided I couldn’t be bothered walking back. Checked my paper map and walked into a one road town/suburb and took the bus back. That’s how much faith I had that some random place would have a regular bus going to the city centre.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 2 months ago:
I think the only logical conclusion would be EV actually work better in the cold than what you have been told. Maybe that’s the same for charging stations or maybe Norway builds to a standard that fits their climate and doesn’t cut corners.
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- Comment on Renewables supply 71% of Portugal’s electricity in 2024, led by solar 2 months ago:
There always a grid cost and solar energy is always cheapest when there is more solar power. Additionally users of electricity largely want fixed prices not wholesale prices.
So how do you expect people putting solar on their houses to pay fair share of, low energy value, grid costs, inertia and frequency control, higher prices at peak?
I’m all for solar but there is no way solar producers should get prices at peak time when they producing at off peak time with high supply and getting free additional costs.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 4 months ago:
Exactly thanks.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 4 months ago:
Don’t know why sexual content is so distained.
Thought with the liberty movement in the 70’s, near 50 years later no one would be bothered.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 months ago:
The Robot That Robot I Made That Shines a Laser in Your Eye
(I’m not that guy)
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 4 months ago:
Freedom of speech should be something we absolutely we have in civilised society. I can’t believe how many people are against it.
I think it needs more protection. I don’t even understand how jobs can dictate your freedom of speech outside of work when not about work. It’s dystopian and no one cares.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 4 months ago:
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Be attractive
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Don’t be unattractive
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- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 5 months ago:
Just follow the good old rules of 1 and 2.
It’s not hard
- Comment on The US's first Atlantic floating offshore wind lease sale raises $21.9 million 5 months ago:
I can’t help but believe that building the largest factory in the world that pumps out floating offshore will be a game changer.
But first they would need to decide on a what the turbine looks like.
- Comment on Why solar will soon dominate & what that means for the world 5 months ago:
It is a sign of market opportunity and batteries will come into play more.
But it will always be cheaper in the middle of the day so demand shift would be good.
Things like heating, cooling, water, washing, cleaning, charging. All being done in the middle of the day will be the easy wins.
But certainly in high production low usage times the arse is going to fall out of the price. But really how many processes can run for short durations? Most high energy processes are high capital and run 24/7.
- Comment on Africa's road map to a bigger, greener power system 5 months ago:
I think that will be a waste.
Like if your household usage on average is 100% you might go on holiday and hit 0%. You might have a week where friends come over and you use 200% so you need 200% storage for those edge cases. But as a whole your neighbourhood will use closer to 100% all the time and doesn’t need that extra storage.
So individual is a lot less efficient than grid. Same applies to production.
If the grid is fucked and doesn’t work probably it might be better, but that says more about people controlling the grid fucking up more than it being inferior.
- Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks? 5 months ago:
This but for cycling pathways in cities (no cars allowed).
- Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks? 5 months ago:
These people can get fucked. Everyone can get fucked. We don’t need new ideas we need old ones.
We need the market to be able to react. Being able to build on land, fuck the NIMBYs. And being able to connect to the grid quickly, there is different ways to sort this but it comes from government intervention.
Then if you want more progress it’s externalities. Tax fossil fuels and use the same money to subsidise renewables and batteries, and grid upgrades.
Or another possibility is mandate shutdowns based on a percentage over time (this will work better for EVs I think than than utility power. “Oh you want tariff on Chinese cars. Well fine you will have that for 10 years and in return 100% of your sales need to be evs in 10 years and to get you moving in 5 years its 25%, 6 40%, 7 55%, 8 70%, 9 75%.”)
It’s getting so tiring now that they have evidence of what works and instead just talk about how the worlds going to be different in 2050. Start building some fucking grid upgrades then. You know it is going to take 10 years tondo anything meaningful, you know you are 10 years behind, you know if you build it they will come.
Christ
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 months ago:
The first time I learnt about my asbestos I was about 12 and my mum was going off at my dad about it. This was after we just took a load of roofing off an old shed without masks or gloves.
Thinking of it. He also give me fucking tinnitus when I was like 22. Really should have fucking learnt my lesson by then :(
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 months ago:
God: “I’ll make a wonder material. Fire proof. Strong. Insulating. Just dig it up from the ground. Common a fuck. Waterproof.”
“Then they can all get cancer the cunts”
“Okay I’m done shit posting for now. Where’s that big tittie blonde gone”
- Comment on Tough Shit 5 months ago:
Thank god for that.
Imagine if LLM were made in Oxford in the 1950’s.
It be trained on the fucking Iliad and Shakespeare.
- Comment on Chart: More and more rooftop solar buyers are adding home batteries 5 months ago:
It seems solar and batteries are much better ideas at grid level.
Seems like the government has 0 interest in building out the grid to accommodate it.
- Comment on Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers. 5 months ago:
Capitalism working as intended.
Supply and demand. In this case means higher wages.
- Comment on Exclusive | Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas can’t afford a Kamala Harris presidency after spending $10B to secure border 5 months ago:
Wow I guess alternative views really aren’t tolerated on this website.
I was hoping after reddit lost it’s mind this might be a more open and free speech place. Instead it is more about right think and wrongthink than reddit has become.
Christ I miss the old internet were we could have different ideas and have actual conversations.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 5 months ago:
And no, the hypothetical of the robot skyscrapers is not “meaningless.”
It’s not meaningless in itself. Its meaningless to the conversation. It’s literally a hypothetical you invented for no reason. You’re just rambling.
Are you actually trying to claim that if the population was much smaller than it is today total resource use across the globe would be the same?
Because if not my point stands.
A lot of people think rockets can be very profitable. Its just a long term bet and you lack imagination. I would need to check but I’m pretty certain spacex is profitable.
Those other companies are still in R and D.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 5 months ago:
The only billionaire I know of that is launching rockets is Elon Musk.
That’s just evidence that capitalism is efficient. Because SpaceX has revolutionised space travel making the only reusable rocket doing something all the government agencies said was impossible. NASAs new unbuilt rocket is using tech from the 1970 that they are going to throe away into the ocean on every launch.
The rest you say is meaningless. How you expect this robotic skyscrapers to be built? Some MIT masters project or some capitalist experiment?
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 5 months ago:
There has been efficiency gains throughout. Capitalism is amazing for that, far better than other systems.
The problem is too many people. If standard of living is to increase then the resource requirement is due to massive unsustainable population growth.
That and the fact the public hate externalities and don’t want them used at all never mind aggressively.
- Comment on The UK officially closes its last remaining coal power plant 5 months ago:
Coal is on it’s deathbed the world over.
With the price solar and batteries are going gas is going to be dead very soon in places that don’t have European winter solar potential.
- Comment on Vinegar 5 months ago:
Also perfect for going in a sarnie
