Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Submitted 8 hours ago to [deleted] | 17 comments
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 day ago:
Well you can simply look at the rollout of renewables vs Nuclear in the UK
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycNqII5HYMI
tldr: Nuclear power plants are expensive to build (complicated to build), expensive to run (need well trained staff to handle the complexities), the stuff that they run on (Uranium) isn’t easy to acquire, and on top of all this the waste product is difficult to dispose of, I believe in Germany for example when the power company shut down its Nuclear power plants it told the Germany government they can deal with the nuclear waste… so basically even though the german people get 0% of their power from nuclear power plants they pay every day to store the nuclear waste from previous ones that are no longer operational…
… and when things go wrong they REALLY go wrong
Coal on the other hand is relatively cheap, the technology is fairly simple, running them is fairly cheap, there’s no waste to get rid of etc
- Comment on Wagga Wagga man charged with displaying Nazi symbols over shopfront poster 1 day ago:
this is tough for me, on the one hand it’s pretty mild, on the other hand it continues the trend of everyone i don’t like is a nazi which continues to reduce the impact of the nazis
- Comment on Missing German backpacker found alive after 12 days missing in remote Australian bushland 2 days ago:
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Pretty amazing they found her considering how remote it is
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Why are you using grok4?
- Submitted 3 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 8 comments
- Comment on Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors 3 days ago:
“Everything is uncool and trying is uncool,” she said.
Yeah this
- Comment on Australians could cut power bills by 90% if they made their homes more energy efficient, report finds 3 days ago:
Assertion misses the point: Most Australians whose homes need to be made more energy efficient, are renting
I think the 66% still out number the 30% when it comes to energy efficiency, most people even who own their own homes don’t have solar batteries, induction cooktops, heat pump hot water etc
As of recent data, approximately 66% of Australian households own their homes, either outright or with a mortgage
The rental market has seen an increase, with about 30.6% of households living in rental properties as of the latest census data2
- Comment on Cheeze TV went on air 30 years ago today 3 days ago:
i liked pokemon, my brother liked biker mice from mars, good show
- Comment on Meta AI 5 days ago:
hell yeah facebook 💪 I hate the product that I use willingly as well👍😀
- Comment on Starvation Being Used as Weapon of War as 'Israel's Genocide Has Continued Unabated in Gaza,' Says Amnesty 1 week ago:
You’re absolutely right, we really do need to look into the malnutrition and starvation in central and west Africa, I’m glad you bought that up
- Comment on Starvation Being Used as Weapon of War as 'Israel's Genocide Has Continued Unabated in Gaza,' Says Amnesty 1 week ago:
Really putting the ‘gaza’ in ‘global news’ eh?
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
how would Qwant have links to the far right 😅
- Comment on Uploaded by Renee Coffey, Member for Griffith 1 week ago:
🤣
- Comment on Uploaded by Renee Coffey, Member for Griffith 1 week ago:
helps if you shazam the music, yep lord of the rings
- Comment on Uploaded by Renee Coffey, Member for Griffith 1 week ago:
is that a game of thrones style map?
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
sorry mate that was a joke, not a literal statement
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
I disagree it’s fun, at this rate by 2035 we’ll need to pay users to use lemmy
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 week ago:
They will say something like solar went from 600gw to 1000 thats a 66% increase this year and coal only increased 40% except coal is 3600gw to 6400.
Hrmmmm, maybe these numbers are outdated? Based on this coal and gas are down:
In Q1 2025, solar generation rose 48% compared to the same period in 2024. Solar power reached 254 TWh, making up 10% of total electricity. This was the largest increase among all clean energy sources.
Coal-fired electricity dropped by 4%, falling to 1,421 TWh.
Gas-fired power also went down by 4%, reaching 67 TWh
carboncredits.com/china-sets-clean-energy-record-…
are no where close to what is required to meet their climate goals
Which ones in particular are you talking about?
Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again
apnews.com/…/trump-paris-agreement-climate-change…
China vowed on Tuesday to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements – the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord – after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.
france24.com/…/20250121-china-says-committed-to-w…
What’s that saying? You hate it when the person you hate is doing good? I can’t remember what it is
I can’t fault them for what they’re doing at the moment, even if they are run by an evil dictatorship and do pollute the most
I’m not sure how european defense spending is relevant
It suggests there is money available in the bank to fund solar/wind/battery, but instead they are preparing for? something? what? who knows. France can make a fighter jet at home but not solar panels apparently.
Prehaps they would be made in a country with environmental and labour laws if governments legislated properly to prevent companies outsourcing manufacturing. However this doesnt absolve china. China isnt being forced at Gunpoint to produce these goods with low labour regulation and low environmental regulation.
You’re right, it doesn’t absolve china, and I avoid purchasing things from them wherever possible, my solar panels and EV were made in South Korea, my home battery was made in Germany, there is very little but things I cannot get elsewhere that are made there.
With that said it’s one thing for me to sit here and tut tut at China, but I realise I am not most people, the most clearest example is the extreme anti-ai, anti-billionaire bias on this platform, in real life most people don’t give a fuck, they love Amazon/Microsoft/Google/Apple etc, they can’t go a day without them.
So I consider myself a realist, if you want people to buy your stuff then you will need to make the conditions possible for them to WANT to buy your stuff, not out of some moral lecture and Europe isn’t doing that, if we look at energy prices:
Can someone actually point out to me where this comes from? … At the end of the day energy is a small % of EU household spending
I was looking at corporate/business energy use:
Major European companies are already moving to cut costs and retain their competitive edge.
For example, Thyssenkrupp, Germany’s largest steelmaker, said on Monday it would slash 11,000 jobs in its steel division by 2030, in a major corporate reshuffle.
oilprice.com/…/High-Energy-Costs-Continue-to-Plag…
Prices have since fallen but are still high compared to other countries.
A poll by Germany’s DIHK Chambers of Industry and Commerce of around 3,300 companies showed that 37% were considering cutting production or moving abroad, up from 31% last year and 16% in 2022.
For energy-intensive industrial firms some 45% of companies were mulling slashing output or relocation, the survey showed.
“The trust of the German economy in energy policy is severely damaged,” Achim Dercks, DIHK deputy chief executive said, adding that the government had not succeeded in providing companies with a perspective for reliable and affordable energy supply.
reuters.com/…/more-german-companies-mull-relocati…
I’ve seen nothing to suggest energy prices in the EU are SO cheap that it’s worth moving manufacturing TO Europe.
This would be great, it would have been greater 10 years ago.
Agreed
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
ngl same :|
For me Mastodon and Lemmy have shown that the general population have absolutely zero interest in decentalisation, they just don’t care
Like a hive mind they simply go where other people are, if there are two crowds of people, one with 5 people and the other with 50, they will go to the one with 50, regardless if the 50 users are mingling with people like Musk and they hate Musk and don’t want to support him in any way
Just posting that made me think, if people simply go to where people are, having lots of small servers instead of one large one is actually a turn off for most people
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
As explained by the user below
capitalist growth-focused approach
Communities growing in size is for capitalist pig dogs!
We here at the communist-iverse prefer to die slowly with brief spurts of new users when a more popular platform makes changes before they leave again
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
Up the top it has software filter, if you select lemmy:
At this rate by 2035 the lemmy userbase will be depleted
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
I login to Ecosia to see how awesome I am, in this case I am a
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
we’re gonna fumble our way forward one way or another!
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
please stop using the word slave like this, i live an incredible life, you are diluting the word
- Comment on Australia Launches $1.5 Billion Plan to Boost Home Batteries 1 week ago:
more info here: …com.au/…/battery-rebate-launch-mb3215/
- Comment on Paul Keating claims young Australians are guaranteed to have $3m in super by retirement – but not everyone agrees 1 week ago:
The Australian Financial Review has reported that the former prime minister has privately blasted as “unconscionable” the Albanese government’s decision to not adjust the threshold each year in line with inflation or wages growth.
Yes
And while other tax policy experts have said while indexation is common, they believe it is virtually impossible that the threshold will not be adjusted over the coming years and decades.
Also yes
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
I wish some people around here had half the experience you do
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
adjusted for people who cannot see the difference between wage labour and literal slavery
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
lmao
it’s hard for people so used to the comforts of capitalism to realise this is actually luxury
being inside, seated comfortably, doing non-manual work, educated, can read, listening to music, this is a job better than 99% of people who have ever lived have had
there’s plenty of slaves in the middle east right now building shitty stadiums for oil rich kings and queens who would love this WaSTeD LiFe 🤪
