LaLuzDelSol
@LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data 1 week ago:
Yeah people in the comments are talking about wind turbines killing birds being a hoax though. It definitely isn’t.
Another important distinction is that wind turbines disproportionately kill raptors like eagles, which are not threatened by cats.
- Comment on The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data 1 week ago:
People saying this is some kind of hoax have not done their research. As someone who works for a renewable energy company they do hit birds (and bats, which are attracted to their low-frequency hum). I thought it was kind of nonsense before this job, but up close you realize those blades are spinning FAST. Theres nothing like them in the animal kingdom so birds arent afraid of them. There are steps you can take to mitigate the threat, but it is a valid concern. On the whole, though, they are still much better for the environment than pretty much any other type of energy generation.
- Comment on The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data 1 week ago:
I work for a renewable energy company. We regularly find dead birds at our wind sites, including occasionally protected species like eagles (killing bats is also a concern).
There are steps you can take to mitigate the threat. We have dumped a ton of money into a really cool technology that scans the skies constantly with super high res cameras and automatically stops turbines in the vicinity of protected species.
Overall, renewable energy is still much better for wildlife than burning fossil fuels.
- Comment on Why nor???? 2 weeks ago:
Well it’s interesting that it makes regular ringing/metallic sounds when it’s dropped(at least in the movies), so it is not inelastic. Which means it could be deformed if placed under extreme force but it would always spring back into shape. So I think it might be the world’s most powerful spring.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 4 weeks ago:
Untitled Goose Game is what you are looking for :)
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah batteries are cool, especially if you’ve already got them (i.e. an EV). I could definitely see that happening. A real-time market for individuals/homeowners is a really cool idea, but people just have to be cognizant of the fact that in a pure free market the prices they get aren’t going to be as good as the prices utility-scale generators get. To the current administration’s credit while they did gut a lot of subsidies for renewable energy they left the battery ones intact (for utility scale). I’d like to see the same subsidies for individuals as well.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 4 weeks ago:
No there is a real concern there. Suppose you have a daisy chain that goes breaker - PV panel - load. Say you have 20A draw on the load - enough to trip a 15A breaker, but the PV is providing 10A. In that case you only have 10A at the breaker, but your wires will be significantly over-current.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 4 weeks ago:
As an electrical engineer in renewable energy, it’s a lot more complicated than that unfortunately. To trot out the often-used water analogy, net metering is a bit like pumping water back into your water main and then billing your water utility for it. The grid isn’t really designed to allow power to flow backwards and it causes all kinds of problems when it does. Distributed generation CAN work, but because of its challenges net metering isn’t realistic. Even wholesale power prices aren’t realistic, because utilities would much rather buy that power from conventional power plants. Requiring net metering or the market rate for rooftop solar is fine to promote solar, but it’s a market distortion and at that point I would rather they just have a conventional subsidy.
- Comment on They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is 1 month ago:
Haha are you trolling me? That’s literally my favorite song, I posted about it just a couple days ago.
- Comment on They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is 1 month ago:
I think you could also make a strong argument for Zheng Yi Sao, basically seduced a pirate king and took over his fleet and became the most powerful pirate of all time.
- Comment on WHY??? 3 months ago:
Yeah apparently it has to do with the bit sort of sliding in behind the holes it carves out with its blades. Doesn’t happen with a regular drill bit because those don’t have sticky-out parts.
- Comment on WHY??? 3 months ago:
Haha I love AI! We’re so close to AGI I swear bro!
Interesting, I’ve only had the hexagon thing happen to me in plywood, but it seems it can happen in regular wood as well.
- Comment on WHY??? 3 months ago:
You get hexagons as well when you drill a countersink bit into plywood. Something something layers.
- Comment on The osu! Open Source Client, Lazer, Has Been Made the Default Download Option for New Users 3 months ago:
Was it though??
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 4 months ago:
Became concerned"
I’d put “hypothetical aliens listening to our radio transmissions won’t know what our vaginas sound like” preeeety far down my list of concerns but you do you, king
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 months ago:
Yeah my friend has a cb radio and he says when traffic is bad people are just yelling at each other. Although that’s anonymous, if the messages showed you were X person from C vehicle it would probably be a bit more civil
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 4 months ago:
And heart attack came out in 2013 haha
- Comment on Velma can't math. 4 months ago:
Oh true!
- Comment on Velma can't math. 4 months ago:
They’re the coefficients of a quadratic equation! Y = ax^2 + bx + c
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 4 months ago:
Oh yeah it’s definitely bad in the long run. I’m just saying that it isn’t fair to say that the economy wouldn’t be growing without these new datacenters.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 4 months ago:
It’s also not completely fair, some of that money would have been spent elsewhere without datacenters. Investors still gonna invest.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 5 months ago:
Well, they do run like moonshiners, but that’s different from street racing for the fun of it.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 5 months ago:
The Purge, but for street racing?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 months ago:
When was game pass ever $5? I always remember it being 10.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 5 months ago:
Well, as I just showed in the definition, censorship can also be suppression of content without banning. If the government says, you can’t show X content before 9PM on television that is a form of censorship (even though anyone that wants to see that content can still freely see it)
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 5 months ago:
I’m not blaming anyone I’m just saying it meets the definition of censorship.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 5 months ago:
Censorship is “the suppression or prohibition of [media] that is considered obscene, politically unacceptable or a threat to security” according to Oxford dictionary.
How is downvoting content with the intent to make it less visible to other users not a form of suppression?
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 5 months ago:
They certainly are censorship in the sense that it reduces other people’s ability to see that content.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Yea but what part of American government would you trust to restrict the speech you don’t like (and only that speech)? In the UK you’ve got the government arresting people for protesting in support of those guys that sprayed paint into the jet engines.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Lemmy mods have always been just as quick to ban and remove as reddit mods, if not faster. Although I feel like it varies more widely because of all the different instances.