MrMakabar
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- Comment on The UK steps up with an 81% emissions cut target at COP29 following Trump win 1 week 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 1 week ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 8 comments
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Would you buy 2nd-hand PV panels? 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 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.
- Comment on “Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism 3 months ago:
!europe!europe@feddit.org comes to mind as a somewhat political community, with a non US focus. It however has a lot of Germans in it.
- Comment on South Africa Now Has Over 12 Gigawatts of Wind & Solar Generation Capacity! 3 months ago:
- Comment on Solar to meet half of global electricity demand growth in 2024 and 2025 3 months ago:
The key is to lower emissions. However electricity is only a part of the transition. For a lot of the rest, the key is to electrify the processes. Heatpumps and EVs are two clear examples However both are much more efficent the their fossil fuel alternative in fact to the point that using 100%gas power plant electricity would lower emissions for them. Obviously at that point the only thing needed is to clean the grid, which already started.
- Comment on Solar to meet half of global electricity demand growth in 2024 and 2025 3 months ago:
The IEA seems to be wrong on China. Electricity demand has grown by 2.3% YOY in China, which is obviously much lower then the projected 6%of the IEA. China makes up about a third of global electricity production, so this has a big impact to the better.
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- Comment on Europe’s battery problems show the governments need to up their game 4 months ago:
It has to be zero emissions “synthetic fuel” though. So if you use methane it has to be biogas and not natural gas.
- Comment on Europe’s battery problems show the governments need to up their game 4 months ago:
The rule is zero emissions for new cars sold in the EU starting 2035. So plug in hybrids are allowed as long as they only use e-fuels. Methane steam reformed hydrogen would also be allowed, as long as the methane does not come from fossil fuels.
- Comment on Europe’s battery problems show the governments need to up their game 4 months ago:
Sorry, but the fact of the matter is that the EU has a ban on fossil fuel cars starting 2035. The EU parliament is very likely going to have a coalition of EPP, Renew and S&D with maybe some support of the Greens or some groups from ECR. S&D and Renew are mostly pro ban. France just voted in a more left leaning parliament as well. So the Council is very likely to remain pro ban and it takes a qualified majority to change that law. There is basically no way to get the ban removed before the car manufacturers have to make the big investments into new EV factories.
This is CEOs preferring short term profits to make themself richer, while destroying the future of their companies.
- Comment on World passes 30% renewables milestone for the first time, decline of fossil inevitable 4 months ago:
Universal health care is not EU wide. Quite a few countries do not have that. Bulgaria sits at 15% uninsured for example. PTO is nice, but it is really just a way of paying out money. In the end it hardly matters. If you earn more on the days you work, then it ends up being roughly the same. Mutual assistance is very very loose. Plenty of EU countries have no problem whatsortever to send refugees to die. Homelessness is much more common in the EU then in the US.
At the same time the EU has with Hungary a full blown dictatorship. Far right governments are ruling multiple member states already and are systematically removing workers rights. Greece just introduced the 6 day work week and eliminated a lot of worker protections as well.