Hypx

@Hypx@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t store electricity by itself. The problem we are facing is massive curtailment, i.e. massive overproduction of green energy that can’t be utilized. There needs to be way of storing it at a massive scale. There is no feasible way of storing that much energy in conventional batteries.

  If you can acknowledge that hydrogen is needed for dense energy storage and grid-level storage, then you should realize that we will eventually have a huge hydrogen infrastructure, and production capacity to match. That will create very cheap green hydrogen, and will mirror what happened with solar and wind.

  Cheap hydrogen alone will drive large-scale adoption of hydrogen cars, regardless of the popularity of BEVs. A lot of people will choose hydrogen cars (possible e-fuel cars too, since e-fuels can be made from hydrogen) simply because it is akin to an ICE-car in usage.

  The other point is that battery production is not green and is very resource intensive. Hydrogen cars let’s you avoid that almost entirely. In the long-run, it will be pointless to care about efficiency when green energy becomes nearly free. That suggests hydrogen, not batteries, is the better idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll make hydrogen from renewable energy. That is the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are failing at basic editorial controls. This is not a “pretty good fucking job.” It is a sign of real decline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the stages of enshittification. Unless we see hard changes to avoid further decay, Ars will inevitably get worse and and worse until it does become an “internet rot site.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are outright lies. For one thing, you can use fuel cells instead of gas turbines, getting rid of NOx emissions entirely (not to mention you can filter out NOx even with gas turbines).

  Sorry, but this conversation cannot continue if you proceed with dishonest arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you adopt hydrogen for energy storage, you no longer have to worry about “where.” You have a solution that is nearly geographically independent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The more renewable energy you have, the more you need long-duration energy storage. You cannot reach 100% renewable energy without huge amounts of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a few hours, yes, but that will make up a small percentage of total energy stored. To really solve the intermittency problem, you will need large scale energy storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  just use excess electricity to make hydrogen. This actually solves the intermittency problem, among many other things that will require hydrogen in order to reach zero emissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is mostly due to an AI boom. It will collapse once that goes bust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interconnection bottleneck threatens community solar success in Illinois⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thry should make green hydrogen instead, if they cannot get their solar farm connected to the grid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be cheaper than fossil fuels at some point in the future. The benefit or not being a finite resource. We can speed this process up if we scale up sooner rather than later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The easy solution is to just make green hydrogen. It’s an already solved problem, lacking only political will.