Wanderer
@Wanderer@lemm.ee
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 1 day ago:
Yea but if I want to find something I want to be able to find it.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 1 day ago:
No batteries don’t count.
“The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to create a new “dispatchable” power credits trading program that would effectively require utilities, generation companies and electric cooperatives in Electric Reliability Council of Texas territory to offset new renewables and battery capacity — with an equal amount of new dispatchable capacity beginning as early as next year.
The bill’s definition of “dispatchable” excludes batteries while also exempting power generation companies that exclusively operate battery energy storage systems from the dispatchable power generation requirement.”
- Submitted 2 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 32 comments
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 3 days ago:
Man I feel like a large part of the internet is out of reach.
Why have I got to sign up for tiktok just to watch this happen?
Shit like this used to be easily finable on google or something. Now I can’t seem to find shit. All I get get in news articles about it.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 week ago:
The time of exposure was low. Asbestos was also outside and unbroken.
Insulation was only 1 attic.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 week ago:
Yea pretty much.
Put a shower pipe through a brick wall.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 week ago:
Oh for fuck sake is this another thing you have to wear a mask for?
My fucking dad I swear to god. He knows I got asthma. He had me install insulation as a kid and remove asbestos. I got fucking tinnitus from him giving me a drill and neither of us wearing hearing protection.
- Comment on Crude oil futures end week lower as market eyes potential for increased supply amid OPEC+ tiff 2 weeks ago:
Yes but the trend has changed. Oil demand was growing largely due to China. That has stagnated massively. The change is trend of demand links with a change in the supply from Russia. I’m not on expert on these matters and I don’t want to come across like that.
But it seems if China didn’t stop increasing we would have had price issues.
With dropping oil prices American firms won’t want to drill. Also imports of materials has gone up and China has stopped buying American LNG.
- Comment on Crude oil futures end week lower as market eyes potential for increased supply amid OPEC+ tiff 2 weeks ago:
Oil is interesting at the moment. Russia has been getting cutoff for a few years from global markets and oil didn’t really rise. Maybe I missed other reasons but it seems like demand didn’t increase enough for it to matter like it would have in years gone by. China is rapidly reducing their oil demand, Europe and America are following. Renewables seem set up surge around the rest of the world.
OPEC+ is having issues with countries not sticking to quotas.
Trumps then got a lit a petrol can on fire and thrown it onto the pile and everyone else and himself which has caused economist to predict a recession which is causing oil prices to drop.
There seems like a lot of reasons for oil to drop in price and if OPEC+ sees the writing on the wall for the end of times maybe oil will drop in price further. Which ironically is worse for the things that are causing the price drop in the first place.
Personally short term I hope it just fucks over Russia.
- Crude oil futures end week lower as market eyes potential for increased supply amid OPEC+ tiffwww.spglobal.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 3 comments
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 2 weeks ago:
My view is it’s pure hypeware until proven otherwise.
This isn’t Tesla hate from my side either. The general consensus from enthusiasts since the beginning is Tesla is way off the mark. But the latest self driving upgrades using more LLM tech has apparently been a big step up. By that I mean going from poor assisted self driving to good assisted self driving. Getting it from there to no driver behind the wheel is another matter all together. Maybe they had a single jump or maybe it’s a new path of consistent progress, I have no idea.
I’m not expecting much from Tesla. I would absolutely love to be wrong.
Expecting more from baidu, pony.ai and zoox more than Tesla. Hell even BYD with the Chinese backing it has might beat Tesla.
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been to Los Angeles and Austin. Is San Francisco seen as a bright sunny desert climate?
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 2 weeks ago:
Was hoping at this point in time Waymo would be expanding more aggressively.
But no one else seems immediately on the horizon and Waymo is consistently expanding well so they are doing very well indeed.
I’m excited for the last mile problem to be solved and be able to cycle on roads without drivers that actually wish I was dead or playing about on their phone. Also I hate driving.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Rural counties ask Gov. Hochul to slow down on renewable energy projects 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 ? 3 weeks 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 ? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 3 comments
- Comment on The quest to fix the irony at the heart of every heat pump 5 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.
- Submitted 3 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 65 comments
