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- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
sure they do, why do you think they’re buying lithium mines? they love mining resources because it encourages the “infinite growth” feedback loop to keep going
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
that is correct and that would unfortunately be a problem if we expect everyone to own a boiler instead of building neighborhood thermal battery/central heating systems. a lot of post-soviet countries had perfectly functioning stations for doing exactly that, but they were torn down during neoliberal reforms instead of converting them to modern standards
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
couldn’t be more wrong, also we have this thing called insulation and water tanks. we already use water loop radiators here, there’s nothing stopping us from preheating the water to last us through the night. also, wear more layers instead of being a wussy
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
The CO2 is in a CLOSED LOOP system meaning its not going to be leaching into the atmosphere.
yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.
The CO2 is likely harvested directly from the atmosphere
LMAO, the audacity of telling me I don’t know how electricity generation works when you don’t even know how to read. they’re using industrial CO2 derived from fossil fuels
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
subsidize energy storage solutions that aren’t as economically profitable as fossil fuels. like thermal batteries, pumped hydro, etc.
most people don’t need that much energy during the night, so that is a red herring from the energy companies. the reason why we need this much storage in the first place is because of the infinite growth mindset instead of making industrialists pay for their own shit when they’re consuming energy in a race to the bottom. if we banned all the slop products from being made, energy demand would go down exponentially.
in a worst case scenario, we could 100% only rely on renewables and deal with the fact that we’ll have power outages during sleeping hours. that pill would be much easier to swallow if everyone is sharing the same burden, like during the lockdowns. and for the disabled people that need electricity to stay alive, give them refurbished EV batteries for free, there’s already more of them on the market than we could use in a lifetime. same thing for hospitals and essential institutions
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
As per Energy Dome
But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier, and it lives permanently inside the dome’s system to serve an eco-friendly purpose
these people are straight-up lying, how can CO2 be “eco-friendly” when all its industrial extraction processes involve fossil fuels as a source? notice how they didn’t mention who their gas supplier is? that’s because it would out them and their lies.
it’s impossible to buy gas turbines without ultimately funding the fossil fuel giants. also let’s not ignore the environmental catastrophe that would happen if these were deployed en masse and a corruption scandal like the Beirut port explosion happened.
it’s also not lost on me that this company is willing to contract with Xinjiang companies, despite the genocide that China is comitting there.
it’s concerning whenever Google gets excited about a new energy solution because we all know how they treat the environment around their data centers. if deployed, they’d use the hot breath bubbles to excuse their seemingly infinite energy consumption increase in order to keep the AI bubble from popping. this is carbon credits all over again, they’ll use the CO2 to deploy more methane gas turbines because these would “cancel them out”.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
more greenwashing from the fossil fuels industry
- Comment on Alternate Ending [Death Note] 1 week ago:
you could just change your name again. before birth certificates and all that bs existed you could just go by a new name in every single town you visited
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
wrong, Europe still has executions because there are armed police killing drowning refugees in the Mediterranean or cops shooting Roma people
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 3 weeks ago:
fast food isn’t bad for you, unless you only eat only fast food for years. if you wanna recreate the MCD taste at home, try sprinkling MSG on your food.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
nobody said Ethereum had to be controlled by the state but when most of the influential figures who keep it running, including its creators participated in inflating the NFT ponzi scheme you can’t say it isn’t a scam because it’s “decentralized”. BTC and ETH don’t meet any definition of decentralization, that’s why DAOs failed
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
lmao, the blockchain that popularized NFTs is less scammy than a bank? touch grass
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 3 weeks ago:
the only good soldier is a dead one, just like for cops. you too can achieve this feat today by killing the patriotic soldier in your mind. Aaron Bushnell did an admirable thing by bringing attention to his complicity in the planetary genocide machine that is the United States.
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 5 weeks ago:
not necessarily, there’s a reason why cops and stepfathers marry women with underage daughters
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 5 weeks ago:
here comes the #notallmen weirdo
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 5 weeks ago:
Most men never get convicted for rape regardless of their class. quite the opposite, if you defend yourself you’ll end up in jail. so yeah, in this context of patriarchy most men have power over everyone else
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 5 weeks ago:
soda isn’t unhealthy unless you stop drinking all other liquids and treat soda like tap water
- Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed. 5 weeks ago:
as long as you’re white and not an immigrant
- Comment on [Episode] Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill Season 2 • Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi 2 - Episode 6 discussion 1 month ago:
Mukohda is basically cooking Jesus performing miracles on sick people and giving to the needy
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 1 month ago:
DIY HRT for minors. every time KOSA pops up again, that’s the government trying to stop a trans kid from living
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 1 month ago:
Valve could literally ban gambling on all Steam games if they wanted to. stop playing devil’s advocate for billionaires, Gaben already has enough yachts already
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
why I mention prepping and mutual aid strategies is because you can’t pay for daily living expenses if there are no jobs and food becomes unaffordable. in 2008 millions of people became homeless so we need to learn from them how they survived
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
I believe they’re referring to stock money not being real money since regular citizens have no power over whether that money disappears overnight or not. only billionaires do. nobody is criticizing your personal savings and idk why you’d take it that way. although during depressions that money might become inaccessible as well due to mass cash withdrawals
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
look up the many people who had their money held up arbitrarily due to surveillance algorithms gone wrong. I couldn’t access a small donation I really needed at the time because of this
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
our infrastructure is heavily reliant on Microsoft, Amazon and Google hosting services, all of which could go down during their financial turmoil due to their AI obsession
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
I beg everyone if you swap currencies on fintech apps, open a real bank account with a normal bank. Revolut can arbitrarily withhold your money at any time unless you can afford a good lawyer to get it back
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
as someone from the EU, that’s a dumb idea. the AI bubble will also pop here and we all know how the EU handled the Greek financial crisis
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
invest into real world assets instead of stocks. think of the infrastructure you’ll need once everything stops working. food pantries, solar panels, ham radio, water purification, community self-defense, etc. basically solarpunk
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 2 months ago:
poker
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 2 months ago:
microwaves don’t work as faraday cages