itslilith
@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Germany's far-right 'firewall' under strain as migration debate flares 16 hours ago:
BILD is a far-right tabloid rag and should never be cited. Also, the ‘discussion’ about these attacks misses important details:
In December a Saudi man drove a car through a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg
The man in question was an AfD supporter, the fascist party currently being enabled by Merz. He was also already known to the police
- Comment on Tajikistan launches crackdown on 'witchcraft' and fortune-telling 6 days ago:
I mean, at least they’re cracking down on islamic faith healers too? Anyone conning people in medical distress out of their money deserves to be treated as a criminal
- Comment on Out of his depth 3 weeks ago:
Der wirkt etwas verstört
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 2 months ago:
I learned about brine pools recently and I’m fascinated
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Maybe I wasn’t clear in my comment. I think it’s fine if they quote what somebody tweeted. I don’t think it’s fine to have Twitter embeds in articles.
Come to think of it, I should write a uBlock origin custom rule
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
I agree it’s going to be a challenge. But I’m sceptical nuclear is going to help there; from historical experience, it takes upwards of 20 years to build a reactor. Even if that gets expedited through modern technologies, we’re still talking something like 15 years until they come online, and you’re still paying all the upfront costs throughout that time. Whereas solar can go from concept to grid in 2 years, and batteries aren’t much worse.
The desert indeed makes large-scale warm water storage infeasible, but the kind of home setups I mentioned first should still be good to go, it’s basically only your preexisting heating loop times 2 or 3, that’s negligible compared to farming demands, and it stays in the loop forever (except for leakage). Storing warm water that you’d use anyways also doesn’t increase demand.
The desert has the benefit that solar can be really well calculated, since you (mostly) need to consider seasonal changes in sunlight, not cloud cover. That can be planned around
You got a point about the heat pump efficiency though. For new communities there should be a trend towards centralized heating that provides for a whole city block, to make use of economy of scale and raise efficiency beyond what is reasonable for a single home. But that’s dreaming to far, probably
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Maybe not quote, but embed. They should still quote noteworthy things on there, but don’t force us to interact with the site
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
There’s no value in anything just because it’s made with “love”, that’s an illusion.
Wow, that’s a horrendously bleak and depressing take. Of course you can’t put a price tag on that (why would you want to?), but you’re not seriously suggesting that human love has no emotional value, right?
A love letter from your partner, or the diary of a passed relative, or your child’s drawings? All of these things might be objectively worse than something a machine could produce. But would you feel the same when you received a love letter that’s just been printed off of ChatGPT? Humans are more than profit-producing machines, despite what capitalists want you to believe. And there is value in human interaction.
- Comment on GOG Decides To Re-Focus In Part On Game Preservation Of Older Games 2 months ago:
They’re not called GNG now, are they
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
That’s pretty cool! Still seems to have some issues, but as the technology matures, that seems like a promising technology. I didn’t know seasonal warm water storage was a thing
- Comment on Horse denier 2 months ago:
- Comment on fatty lumps 2 months ago:
I wish I had fatty humps :c
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
Because it makes no sense, environmentally or economically speaking. Nuclear is, as you said, base load. It can’t adjust for spikes in demand. So if there’s more energy in the grid than needed, it’s gonna be solar and wind that gets turned off to balance the grid. Investments in nuclear thus slow down the adoption of renewables.
Solar is orders of magnitude cheaper to build, while nuclear is one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity, even discounting the waste storage, which gets delegated the the public.
Battery technology has been making massive gains in scalability and cost in recent years. What we need is battery arrays to cover nighttime demand and spikes in production or demand, combined with a more adaptive industry that performs energy intensive tasks when it’s abundant. With countries that have large amounts of solar, it is already happening that during peak production, energy cost goes to zero (or even negative, as traded between utilities companies).
About the heating: gas can not stay the main way to heat homes, it’s yet another fossil fuel. What we need is heat pumps, which can have an efficiency of >300% (1kWh electricity gets turned into 3kWh of heat, by taking ambient heat from outside). Combined with large, well-insulated warm-water reservoirs, you can heat up more water than you need to higher temperature during times of electricity oversupply, and have more than enough to last you the night, without even involving batteries. Warm water is an amazing energy storage medium. Batteries cover electricity demand as well as a backup in case you need uncharacteristically much water. This is a system that’s slowly getting adopted in Europe, and it’s great. Much cheaper, and 100% clean.
- Comment on flourine 2 months ago:
right, don’t know how I got that crossed in my head. but I’m gonna weasel my way out of this by noting that I said soon, implying it happens after this meme… the flourine has already been reduced :P
- Comment on Trump nominates fracking magnate and climate change skeptic as energy secretary 2 months ago:
Stop calling them sceptics and calling them what they are: liars, willful deniers and shills. Purposefully rejecting reality in pursuit of personal gain. There’s nothing sceptic about that.
- Comment on flourine 2 months ago:
soon to be
RFK - Fluorine - the US public
- Comment on pew pew 2 months ago:
No, you read Dandadan
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 2 months ago:
The other 50% of humanity then dies of salmonella and dysentery
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 2 months ago:
That’s not how probabilities work. Every lifeform flips a coin. It doesn’t matter what everyone else got, you still have a 50/50 chance.
- Comment on same as it ever was 2 months ago:
Do it next to something only discovered within the last few years
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
What fucking idiot builds fail-deadly electric door controls into a very flammable car
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 2 months ago:
chapeau.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 2 months ago:
I still don’t think you procreate if you stick it up the garbage disposal.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Me showing up to the next protest with a big-ass magnet:
- Comment on Shorebirbs 2 months ago:
Good message, but holy hell, this belongs in !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Tag your lab-mates 2 months ago:
- Comment on what's the scientific name for this fella 2 months ago:
Or, by its common name, the Black Emperor beetle
- Comment on New York City's new solar-powered school buses will support the grid too 2 months ago:
People don’t need to park busses and trams, and bikes are easy to park. The need to big parking lots is a symptoms of misguided and destructive urban planning
- Comment on New York City's new solar-powered school buses will support the grid too 2 months ago:
I’d much prefer turning parking lots into parks, but this is a good short-term compromise
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 2 months ago:
Yet every time renewables are mentioned, the nuclear shills are out in force
