MrMakabar
@MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
- 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. 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
It already is a “problem”
- Comment on 92.5% of New Power Capacity Added Worldwide in 2024 Was from Renewables - CleanTechnica 1 week 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. 4 weeks ago:
It uses Bing in the backend though.
- Comment on 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 8 comments
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago:
$7trillion is three times the GDP if Brazil. It is bigger then the US federal budget. Seriously it is insane.
