Wanderer
@Wanderer@lemm.ee
- Comment on Rural counties ask Gov. Hochul to slow down on renewable energy projects 23 hours ago:
Economically disastrous.
Fossil fuel shills push nuclear because it takes so long and costs so much it will keep us on fossil fuels longer.
- Battery giant CATL showcases three innovations: 1500km range battery, 520km in 5 minutes ultra-fast charging, and 2025 mass-production sodium-ion batterycarnewschina.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 2 comments
- Comment on French newspaper: The British elites always talk about their special-relationship. They claim the americans are their lovely cousins. But do US elites actually respect them ? 2 days ago:
Yes they should be.
But fuck they are the pettiest people in the world.
I’m not saying they aren’t a close ally, they are. I’m not saying we shouldn’t work with them more, we should.
But we aren’t going to have a close relationship with them because they can’t stand us or anyone else really.
Long term I feel like Germany is a much closer ally. Culturally they act much more similar to us. France only act closer militarily which is where the main focus of that relationship should be.
Canada, nz and aus should also be kept as closest allies.
- Comment on French newspaper: The British elites always talk about their special-relationship. They claim the americans are their lovely cousins. But do US elites actually respect them ? 4 days ago:
God no. French are the pettiest most arrogant cunts in the world.
The British will want something even if the rest of Europe agrees and France will argue about fish.
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 4 days ago:
In a way.
But there was a lot of lies that represented legitimate concerns and remain didn’t really do a good enough job of bringing leave along with them. Pleanty of “we got lied too, no on told us”. No no no no. Remain clearly said the truth and you listened to the lies.
Also fish was fucking weird. Seems like people will die over fish.
But people were told immigration would go down. People have been wanting immigration to go down for 60 years and it’s never happened. First direct vote about immigration going down is obviously going to be a big factor. Didn’t happen though so far right will win soon.
- Comment on New Report - Rooftop Solar PV is THE biggest climate mitigation technology | Just Have A Think 1 week ago:
Solar rooftop just seems like wasted resources.
Solar farms are cheaper and more efficient. The government should just be buying land and building new grid cables out to the middle of nowhere then auctioning off connections for battery and solar projects that are ready to go.
- Comment on Pakistan’s 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy 2 weeks ago:
Third world is absolutely going to jump ahead of the first world in a short period of time. It just makes so much sense for things that you say and the need to expand their grid to cope with increased demand.
Batteries are going to be the real game changer and its underway.
Plus all the third world countries have great solar and only really two first world countries have good solar. 1 has the highest levels of rooftop solar and are looking to expand batteries and the other has American exceptionalism so will always have excuses to not be able to do things other countries can with a worse hand.
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- Comment on The quest to fix the irony at the heart of every heat pump 2 weeks ago:
I thought this was going to be about magnets or those metals that remember their shape.
Those heat pumps sound so sci fi.
But either way this is goodm
- Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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? 5 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 5 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. 5 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 6 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 6 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”
