MrMakabar
@MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 day ago:
It is a modified version of Mastodon, with a Soapbox front end. It does not have ActivityPub enabled and lacks a bunch of features.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 day ago:
Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.
- Comment on Dear Leader 4 days ago:
For your average Trump support they are the same thing.
- Comment on Dear Leader 4 days ago:
Stop it! The Chinese parade did not have ads!!!
- Comment on Pakistan's solar surge lifts it into rarefied 25% club 1 week ago:
Clearly shows that developing countries can and should go renewable.
- Comment on China Is The World's First Electrostate - CleanTechnica 1 week ago:
Heatpumps produce 3-5 times more heat then the electricity put into them. EVs are about as bad as a n ice car, even when run on coal electricity. Also we know how to replace coal based electricity.
- Comment on Against Corporate Food 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like the US is nuking theirs, which certainly makes a bang.
- Comment on As battery prices have fallen, installations have skyrocketed 1 month ago:
Your link to a pdf seems to be wrong…
- Comment on On May 1, German ran almost entirely on renewables energy during the day 1 month ago:
In the beginning of the year the German grid operators had requests for over 226GW of grid connections for utility scale batteries. That is the very first step of developing a utility scale battery site, so most of that probably is not going to be built. Then again peak load in Germany was also only a bit over 75GW.
- Comment on Crude oil futures end week lower as market eyes potential for increased supply amid OPEC+ tiff 1 month ago:
China’s oil consumption was unfortunatly still going up last year. Before Trump’s tariffs most analyst predicted a stagnation of oil consumption in China.
Trump also is burning down enviromental protection in the US, which means drill baby drill.
EV sales are growing in developing countries. Brazil for example crossed the 5% mark this year. India saw a 20% growth in EV sales so far as well.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 1 month ago:
Yes
- Comment on Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects 2 months ago:
The coup failed somewhat. Morales is no longer president. However Arce the current president was finance and economics minister under Morales, but got kicked out of the party, due to preventing Morales from being president.
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 2 months ago:
Ukraine is working on anti air drones…
- Comment on Will US Tariffs Make World Leaders Value the Stability of Renewables? 2 months ago:
That is not the only part of it. Most wars of agression are fought using fossil fuel money and often for fossil fuels. Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen come to mind. Going green makes the world more peaceful.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
To be fair the one living in Spain does speak Spanish.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
One of the biggest German Nazi YouTubers lives on Mallorca. Another one lives in Panama and it is too funny to have the disconnect between him complaining about migration, while making praising Panama in the same sentence.
- Comment on Pakistan’s 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy 2 months ago:
Western and third world are political categories. You probably mean high and low income countries. Btw also works well within countries.
- Comment on Record-Breaking Annual Growth in Renewable Power Capacity; With 585 GW of capacity additions, renewables accounted for over 90% of total power expansion globally in 2024. 2 months ago:
Solar spikes in markets with a lot of solar for example.
- Comment on Record-Breaking Annual Growth in Renewable Power Capacity; With 585 GW of capacity additions, renewables accounted for over 90% of total power expansion globally in 2024. 2 months ago:
It already is a “problem”
- Comment on 92.5% of New Power Capacity Added Worldwide in 2024 Was from Renewables - CleanTechnica 2 months ago:
The 32% is the share of all not just new renewable electricity generation. The growt of clean electricity generation was 80% with most of that being wind and solar.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 months ago:
It uses Bing in the backend though.
- Comment on 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 3 months ago:
Obviously it depends on the location and how different technologies develop in the future, but it is certainly possible.
- Comment on 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 3 months ago:
You massivly underestimate what hydro can do today. The reservoirs can be used as storage and those are massive. Norways hydro storage is 87TWh. That is about 11 days of electricity consumption of the entire EU in itself. Obviously there are issues with that, but it is a lot of storage.
Solar and wind are weather dependent. So a large enough grid will have times with lower production, but it is never really nothing. With strong connections that massivly reduces storage needs. For the EU:
www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=…
So overcapacity is another great option. Add a bit of battery storage to balance the grid and high renewable grids are entirly possible. Even with limited hydro.
That is not to mention geothermal, biomass, hydrogen, adapting electricity consumption and a bunch of other more niche technologies.
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 3 months ago:
Norway only has a population of 5.5million. The area is relativly big though.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 3 months 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 4 months ago:
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 4 months 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 4 months 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? 4 months 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.
