Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Pro-Life Texans Gather In Austin To Rally Against Abortion | News Radio 1200 WOAI | San Antonio's First News 2 days ago:
The right to life is the supreme law and rule. Everything else is secondary, including bodily autonomy
So, why aren’t we forcing people to donate blood? Or organs? Why can’t we take half your liver, against your will, to save someone else?
- Comment on Pro-Life Texans Gather In Austin To Rally Against Abortion | News Radio 1200 WOAI | San Antonio's First News 3 days ago:
Bodily autonomy of the person inside her during pregnany.
Even if we hold that a fetus is a person, that person is not having their bodily autonomy violated.
Even if we hold that abortion is murder, it is still morally right, because the right to bodily autonomy is more important than the right to life.
- Comment on GitHub - Keriew/augustus: An open source re-implementation of Caesar III 3 days ago:
Oh, I have this on an aging CD-rom somewhere. This is really awesome, thanks!
- Comment on US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo 5 days ago:
No, but they’ll be funnelled into aiding rich Americans, close enough, right?
- Comment on 'I rip out my lashes to ease pain': Eye disease afflicts Ethiopia 6 days ago:
A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.
Oh looky, an entirely new nightmare that I’ll never forget.
- Comment on Solar power surpasses coal in EU for first time 1 week ago:
Exactly. I’m just surprised that the article suggest solar+battery, which is a great solution for owners of solar farms, but not so useful for everyone else.
- Comment on Solar power surpasses coal in EU for first time 1 week ago:
The problem with solar in much of Europe is that it’s basically summer power only. You can’t solve that with batteries, unfortunately.
I like using less coal and gas in summer, but solar won’t fix things in December. Wind will.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
No, it’s a perfect score
- Comment on Has anybody played Foundation, the medieval city builder? Looking for a laidback game 2 weeks ago:
Going by the lets-plays ive watched, it’s very much a sandbox, and not really a game. It’s potentially very cosy though
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair, but somehow I never seem to see hatred directed towards any other nationality on Lemmy, aside from Americans
Because you only speak English, not German, Dutch, Italian or French (or at least, aren’t actively posting in those communities with this account). And, rather ironically, that’s a very common thing to see in Americans. I’ve never seen a German post about how few people are commenting on (negative) events in Sweden, because they realize that most people commenting on Swedish events are Swedes are posting in Swedish, in Swedish forums, and not Germans posting in German in German forums, except when it occasionally makes the German newpapers.
- Comment on Russian newspaper says its reporter killed by Ukraine drone strike 3 weeks ago:
Russian state newspaper freelance reporter?
That’s a LOT of words for “government propagandist”. But Russian newspapers could report that the sky is blue and I still wouldn’t believe them.
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 3 weeks ago:
Thank you, I had no idea!
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the trigger is that someone who was alive in 1855 is dead today. The method is pretty horrible though.
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 3 weeks ago:
They call those roads.
- Comment on Treat taking a dump like a sport 3 weeks ago:
So, being a shitty athlete might actually literally be the problem?
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 weeks ago:
Amusingly, I tried X4 recently, and it’s a MUCH better fit for me than Elite, mostly because I loathe MMO games that don’t need to be MMO games.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 4 weeks ago:
Before that, every place had these massive brown glass ashtrays.
- Comment on USA | High-speed passenger train collides with firetruck in Florida, injuring 15 people 4 weeks ago:
Ah, terminal carbrain
- Comment on Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes in a first for the EU 4 weeks ago:
I hope the rest of Europe joins in quickly
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 4 weeks ago:
The grandmaster said he had offered to change his trousers for the next day, but was fined and told he needed to change immediately.
Who is being childish and unprofessional? Fining and kicking someone out over pants (and shoes) is the height of pettiness to me. He sounds like someone who just didn’t care about it, and that’s fine. If you don’t like the rules, leave. And he did.
- Comment on Sweeping Vietnam internet law comes into force 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, communism, where private individuals own all the businesses and factories with massive income equality.
- Comment on Sweeping Vietnam internet law comes into force 5 weeks ago:
Vietnam is very much capitalist.
- Comment on Ban Exotic Animal Skins on the Runway? “Ridiculous!” Say Conservation Experts. 5 weeks ago:
I think this is a hard ethical question. On the one hand, my leather hiking shoes are 15 years old and on their third pair of soles, where my regular walking shoes made from synthetics are basically worn out after three years.
On the other hand, no cows were killed even if I wear them out more.
So, one dead cow? or a pile of forever-trash?
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
20% of your bodies energy is about 20 Watts.
Normal-weight humans burn about 2200 kilocalories a day, which is about 9.2 megajoules. There are 8640 seconds in a day, so that works out to roughly 100 joules per second, or 100 Watt.
- Comment on oh no 2 months ago:
As a chemist, I’d say it’s great for watering decorative plants and flushing the toilet.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
But, in the end you get a really awesome piece of paper that doesn’t fit in any normal frame!
- Comment on Just a little guy 2 months ago:
Once in a lifetime. Probably the crowning achievement
- Comment on Electric Eels 2 months ago:
So, not obligate then???
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
You’re right in that I used yearly numbers and wrongly used them as daily numbers. The stats are from the central statistics bureau, and unfortunately it auto translates poorly www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/cijfers/detail/83989NED
The numbers include use of gas and coal for heating and industry, which often get ignored by people (mostly because it makes us look fucking terrible in renewable power stats).
- The assumption that you must store an entire day’s worth of energy demand is ludicrous.
It is, in fact extremely generous, if you’re using the solar+storage method. But let’s go with this and I’ll demonstrate what it means in practice.
Let’s assume that we need to cover all of the electricity that is currently produced using coal, oil and natural gas. All other sources already have infrastructure supporting them, including the pre-existing solar. This amount comes to about 48% [1], so let’s assume 50%.
You just made the switch from “energy used” to “electricity generated”. For a country that still does most of its heating with imported gas, that’s a big difference. The real amount of non-fossil energy is about 18%, call it 80% fossil.
- Now, we need to cover 50% of 50% of 1.9 petajoules at any one time, or 475 gigajoules, at any one time.
So it’s 50% of 80% of 2600/365, or 2.8 petajoules. So that’s only 10 of those facilities. Not great, not terrible. But that’s not the point. Nor is it important that their demo facility has a height difference twice that of the whole country.
Let’s stick with the “one night of power store is plenty”.
That’s true, but only if you can use solar to power your whole day. In other words, to make do with only 1 night of storage, you need to generate all your power for 24 hours in December during December daylight hours. Assuming it doesn’t snow, one solar panel produces about .15kwh on a december day (working off of 2% of yearly production happening in december, and 300Wattpeak panels), or 540kj.
So you’re right, we only need to build 10 facilities twice the height difference of the entire country, to save one average night of power. Unfortunately in order for that to be true, we would also need to cover about 960.000 hectares in solar panels, which is roughly twice the total built up area in the country, including roads.
And that’s assuming you keep a perfectly level energy use throughout the year, and a perfectly level production during December. Neither of which is true, and generally the worst days for solar production are the worst ones for use as well.
On the bright side, if we can put down two extra cities worth of solar panels for every city, we’ll probably have no issues building 600m tall hills by hand as well.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
There is simply no excuse other than corruption for the fact that we don’t just run a couple trains up a hill when we need to store massive amounts of solar energy.
Well, I don’t know about you, but the nearest hill to me is 200km away, and a whopping 300 meters above me.
Also, scale is a huge fucking issue. The little country of the Netherlands, where I ha etl
So let’s store 1 day of power, at 100% efficiency, using the tallest Alp (the Mont Blanc).
Let’s round up to 5000 meters of elevation. We need to store 2.6e18 joules, and 1 joule is 100 grams going up 1 meter. So to power a tiny little country, we need to lift roughly 5e13 kilos up the Mont Blanc. To visualize, that’s 1.7 billion 40ft shipping containers, or roughly 100 per inhabitants.