MrMakabar
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- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 2 days ago:
The EU actually has a pretty good plan to deal with that. It is called CBAM, a carbon tariff for high energy goods imported by the EU. The tariff is as high as the carbon price, which would be paid in the EU minus the carbon price in the country exporting. So smart policy as it insentivises other countries to create their own carbon price.
Last COP China made it their prime objective to destroy the idea of such systems.
Also in general it is best to blaim the entity, which has the easiest time to fix it. Countries pass their own laws and then enforce them. That is why we mainly look at production based emissions. In other words, if China can not produce its exports cleanly, then I expect them to shut down those factories.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 2 days ago:
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 3 days ago:
Stop burning more fossil fuels as quickly as possible. The most important start is to stop adding more fossil fuel infrastructure like coal power plants.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 3 days ago:
Moving away from coal would mean China is shutting down coal power plants. Instead they are building even more of them. They started construction on 94.5GW. The USA has 196.2GW of coal power plants total. You do not build them, if you do not plan to use them. So China is going to burn more coal in the coming years increasing their emissions.
- Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy? 3 days ago:
The problem is that renewables can be done by a lot smaller companies then fossil fuels. Solar can be done by a family on the roof rather easily. Wind turbines cost 3million per piece, so very possible investment for a farmer, small company and the like.
Fossil fuel power plants are a lot more expensive hence competition is smaller. We are easily talking 100million and more per plant. Large pipelines, refineries and oil or gas field developments easily cost over a billion. That keeps out competition. Not to mention oil having the largest cartel in the world backing it.
- Comment on China installed 8 GW of solar in ‘Belt and Road’ countries in 2024 3 weeks ago:
Please read up on what the EU actually is. That statement is about as smart as calling China a US state, because US companies invested a lot in China.
- Comment on Looking for some (re-)use cases for older Android smartphones 1 month ago:
You can run servers on Android as well. Kodi is a dedicated media server app for streaming and the like, which is available for Android as well. It might also be an interesting interface for Home Assistant, if you are into that kind of stuff. As in put it on a stand or something permanently plugged in. Something like an old school radio might also be an idea. As in connect it to some good loud speakers and just play music from it.
- Comment on Battery Electric Vehicles still being shunned by EU buyers 2 months ago:
This is going to change in pretty much a month. Car makers make more money selling combution engine cars, but emission guidelines are hard in 2025, hence they need to sell more EVs. So EV prices will drop and sales increase. That has been the case in the past as well. It is going to 37% plug in or so.
- Comment on The UK steps up with an 81% emissions cut target at COP29 following Trump win 3 months ago:
81% by 2035 if anybody is wondering. That however is a strong target. Lets see how they plan to meet it.
- It took 68 years for the world to reach 1 terawatt of solar PV capacity. It took just two years to double it | RenewEconomyreneweconomy.com.au ↗Submitted 3 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 8 comments
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 months ago:
You can look at the thread. The initial one got a lot of replies from a “Vladimir Putin” saying “You should kill yourself NOW!”. The Git commit is even worse, with the a lot of insults. Not what usually happens on that kind of places, not that they are always kind and lovely.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 months ago:
Like not risking his lifelyhood to fight US and EU sanctions against a genocidal regime?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 months ago:
Because there are both US and EU laws preventing code from countries deemed a threat. Torvalds is paid by the Ameircan Linux Foundation, which has to work under US law and he himself is an EU citizen. Also a lot of other developers are from those countries and if they do not comply, they could get into some pretty bad legal trouble.
So it pretty much boils down to kick out the Russians or kick out all US and EU citizens and well we see Linus choice.
- Comment on China's rapid electrification is catching out oil producers 4 months ago:
Great news! Lets hope the oil producers get caught by other countries as well.
- Comment on Sweden switches on largest battery energy storage system in the Nordics - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
It very much looks like it is 211MW lasting for 1h giving 211MWh.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 4 months ago:
$7trillion is three times the GDP if Brazil. It is bigger then the US federal budget. Seriously it is insane.
- Comment on Women in STEM 4 months ago:
At first the committee had intended to honour only Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, but a committee member and advocate for women scientists, Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler, alerted Pierre to the situation, and after his complaint, Marie’s name was added to the nomination. Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
- Comment on Britain’s grid battery storage record is maddening | The UK is great at building renewables but not the batteries needed to use green electricity effectively 4 months ago:
The answer is rather simple. Batteries only really make sense, when you have enough renewable overproduction to actually store. If not you just take turn off gas power plants instead.
- Comment on Applications Open for 6,200 Jobs in Egypt’s new Dabaa Nuclear Project 4 months ago:
So Egypt, which already has massive financial problems, gets a massive loan from Russia to built a nuclear power plant. Why do I get the feeling like this could turn into a giant disaster with Western sanctions and all.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 5 months ago:
Moving away from Office and Windows and so forth is a nightmare for any larger company. If you use specialized software, it might very well only run on Windows or only have an integration into Office. Even if you could, you then have to retrain staff to use Libre Office, Linux and other alternatives. You also will have problems converting, changing servers and so forth.
So companies just do not switch. That is how Microsoft makes money. They really do not care that much about private users. That is only usefull so people can use their products.
- Comment on America’s Oil Country Increasingly Runs on Renewables 5 months ago:
So if you want the Republicans to be anticapitalist, you only need to make renewables cheaper then fossil fuels?
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 5 months ago:
There are other types of biomass though. Using waste product from food production or gas from sewage plants is somewhat reasonable.
- Comment on The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers 5 months ago:
- Comment on The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers 5 months ago:
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- Comment on Would you buy 2nd-hand PV panels? 5 months ago:
The absolute cheapest 420Wp panels are €50-80 new. That would be a roughly 1.7m X 1.1m panel. So 35€ for the risk of buying scrap and them having been degraded would be a bad deal. If you can get the rest of the needed installation parts with it, it might be worth it or if those are new panels.
If you want to get started there are solar home kits online, which are rather easy to install, if you have some very basic diy skills. The electronics is basically plugin in some cables and the difficult part would be actually setting up the panels. On a flat roof that might just be screwing on some metal stands and drilling a hole to run the cables through.
- Comment on Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Dêrik partnership builds first solar-powered drinking water well 5 months ago:
I just looked up the Wikipedia article on it. They seem to have started the partnership in 2019. So when it was part of Rojava for a long time.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 6 months ago:
The thing is that the value is in the communities and not in the old content. So most likely the mods would just post we move to a new instance and a lot of users would follow. We just saw that on the German speakin lemmy instance feddit.de, which was abandoned and now most of the users and communities moved to feddit.org, which is already one of the larger ones.
What lemmy really needs is the ability to easily move accounts and communities. Mastodon has that for users already.
- Comment on Solar Photovoltaics with Battery Storage Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants 6 months ago:
Also you have to consider conventional hydro. The reservoirs have considerable storage capacity, which is obviously limited by a lot of factors.
- Comment on Sineng Electric launches world’s largest sodium-ion battery storage project 6 months ago:
They have a problem with the number of charging cycles. State of the art is about 500, which is obviously way to little for a project like this.