htrayl

@htrayl@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dormice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The common name comes from the Romans, who ate them as a delicacy.

  First paragraph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “free speech absolutist” at it again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … Sodium Ion are already being sold in EVs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Send a message! Use a digital pipe bomb!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “hacker”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO a tankie on the left is just a pure anti-west authoritarian cosplaying as a communist - the communism is largely window dressing and they are generally perfectly happy defending Russia (obviously not communist) or authoritarian nonsense from China and other communist countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift on her way to her plane⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t care about hypocrisy any other time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not the function of the phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am about to scream at the number of people who use Google Slides as a method to document policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Printer driver failure: All hands abandon ship!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Print()

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar power and storage prices have dropped almost 90%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Batteries definitely do not cost the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar power and storage prices have dropped almost 90%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are not rare. It is the fastest growing energy production mode and is growing faster every year.

  Residential installations lag behind the commercial due to installation costs, but they are blowing up as well. I can walk around my neighborhood and see a couple dozen homes with it.

  It’s also highly regional. The further south in the northern hemisphere the more common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries | How we can minimize expensive, ecologically damaging battery storage by changing how we think about energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, this article really only discusses lithium ion and lead acid batteries. It is well known both of these are abysmal for grid storage, and are at best relatively expensive solutions for mobile energy.

  There are already several energy storage solutions that are starting to be installed that aren’t these and that are far more cost effective. Flow batteries are an example. For the same cost as lithium ion we get 3x the energy storage and 3x the lifespan (and are essentially 100% refurbishable) for the same cost. They just come at a price of weight and volume (which isn’t a problem for most grid or residential storage). There are others as well.

  The article does do a good job talking about thermal as a solution, and this is very true. They don’t talk about high temperature thermal energy storage, though that is admittedly more of an industrial use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You made a generalized statement about carbon capture, which is unfortunately absolutely a necessary step we need to take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  • Trees last hundreds of years
  • Trees die at differing times
  • Trees are replaced by new trees as they die
  • Trees support additional plant biomass

  Trees are not the solution. The forest is the solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … Which is more reason to invest in carbon capture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Direct carbon capture is a scam. Alternatives like biochar and enhanced basalt weathering are definitely not.