MrMakabar
@MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere 2 days ago:
That also explains why he is so against offshore wind as well. That would hurt the twinned place of his golf course.
Offical looking sign saying: “Trump International Golf twinned with Epstein Island”
- Comment on How the U.S. Just Handed the Renewable Future to China 5 days ago:
Trump destroying the US green tech sector does not mean that China is going to take up all of it. For example in the EV space there are a lot of large non US or Chinese manufacturers like VW, Hyundai or BMW, for wind turbines the market outside China is dominated by European manufacturers, batteries are done pretty well by South Koreans as well and so forth.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
We need a 500% tariff on US vehicles.
- Comment on The UK Grid is currently 80% renewable energy (and 10% nuclear) 2 weeks ago:
Looks real, but it was a snapshot. Mostly it is worse.
- Comment on The UK Grid is currently 80% renewable energy (and 10% nuclear) 2 weeks ago:
Cars, heating(homes and industry), steel production and so much more.
- Comment on mentoring 4 weeks ago:
The netherlands are pumped dry anyway…
- Comment on Global South calls for Strategic Energy Transition Amidst SDG Target Slowdowns 4 weeks ago:
In Jordan, two-thirds of new cars sold last year were electric.
Wow. That is impressive!
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 4 weeks ago:
We are talking about 128million non White Americans and that is not including white Latinos. Just to put it into context the Holocaust killed 6million Jews, the Partition of India moved 12-20million people and created a lot of suffering doing so and somewhat similar numbers in displaced people in Europe after WW2(moving borders and the like). Those are some of the darkest chapters of human history and this would be an order of magnitude large then those.
First of all, doing that would create a massive reaction. We are talking 38% of the US population being deported, so a civil war is very much an option.
The honest answer is that a lot of Americans are very well educated and rather rich. So if they would be allowed to leave, then they would be welcomed by other countries. However we are talking about numbers here, which would compeletly change the housing and job markets here. The locals will not like that and close their countries off. Still a good number would make it. At that point the US has two options: Wage a war to take some land for them or kill them. Taking land would lead to hatred of the Americans including the deported. We are also talking about a massive country here and probably a lot of death. Obviously killing everybody would be even worse. There is also the option of pushing them into say Alaska and make that independent. However that is unlikely.
The US economy would be absolutly destroyed by this. If you deport them quickly, it would lead to shortages. Most certainly shortage of workers, which would indeed push up wages. Housing would end up being cheap and people would move to the best cities of the country. On the international stage the US would be widely hated and probably be hit with sanctions(they deport a lot of people and that causes huge problems for other countries). So long term it might actually be good for white workers. However the rich would hate it, due to it destroying their cheap workforce. Short term the US would have massive shortages and suffer a lot.
Even just deporting a larger part of the non-white population would cause a lot of problems.
- Comment on Foldable solar panels 5 weeks ago:
They have different size on the website, but it really depends on how large your bicycle battery is. The largest one is 60W and ways 1.7kg. A small bicycle like that might have 300Wh or so. Since you probably just lay them on the ground and they are not 100% efficent anyway with charging you need 10 solar panels or so to charge your bicycle up within an hour.
If you want it for a cycle trip, then you are probably better of having a fixed panel on a trailer. That way you can charge during the trip and non flexible panels are much more efficent. You end up with something like these.
- Comment on Foldable solar panels 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Netanyahu slams army over delay in building Gaza concentration camp 5 weeks ago:
Alligator Auschwitz costs $450million per year to run for only 5000 prisoners. That is $90,000 per prisoner.
- Comment on Netanyahu slams army over delay in building Gaza concentration camp 5 weeks ago:
Mainly supplying weapons parts to Israel, cracking down on protests and blocking EU sanctions. It is not even close to as bad as what the US is doing, but still not a good look.
- Comment on Netanyahu slams army over delay in building Gaza concentration camp 5 weeks ago:
Israeli officials estimate that building a so-called “humanitarian city” in Rafah could cost between $2.7bn and $4bn
How? It is for half a million people. That is at most $8000 per person.
- Comment on The World Has a Serious Coal Problem 1 month ago:
Thats from 2010 btw. Oil got even worse with fracking and solar and wind way better. Wikipedia has a bunch of examples.
- Comment on 4 rich Africans reportedly wealthier than half the continent 1 month ago:
Leon Schreiber is as the Minister for Home Affairs responsible for matters of citizenship in South Africa. That is why I quoted him. No idea why him being white changes any of that.
- Comment on Solar is EU’s biggest power source for the first time ever | Ember 1 month ago:
In the EU wind is stronger in winter. So you really want both.
- Comment on Solar is EU’s biggest power source for the first time ever | Ember 1 month ago:
The site also has the EU and all member countries, but:
- Comment on 4 rich Africans reportedly wealthier than half the continent 1 month ago:
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber said he could not provide details on Elon Musk, Reon Barnard, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks’ South African citizenship.
- Reclaiming Energy, Reimagining Power:Building Energy Futures from Belowradicalecologicaldemocracy.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 month ago:
It does not even need to be a majority. Actually doing it makes you more believable when you promote any sort of action. It also works as a sort of promotion in itself. As in people can see you cycle, not eat meat or have solar panels on your roof. By doing it, you also create demand for the alternative, like for example solar panels, bicycles or vegan products. That makes those alternatives easier and cheaper to purchase. It also makes it politically easier to ban something, as part of the society is not impacted at all.
In the end calling somebody an idiot, for promoting individual action due it not being an attempt to change society is just dumb. After all anybody who does that promotion tries to bring other people to do something. At that point it really is no longer the action of an individual. Honestly it really is a simple way to lobby against such actions on a bigger scale.
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Labour had a bit more then a third of the votes, which is pretty close to were Reform is polling today. However Labour won a massive majority with those votes. If Labour wants to prevent a Reform victory they need to change the election system. It is even worse for the Tories. So long term Tory supporters will cheer them on.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
We are heading into a feudal system of a sort. The wealth gap is absolutly massive and the only way to end up in the upper class is to inherit. As per usual the population feels that the system is unfair, but is unable to see the real problem. Media is really pushing far right talking points, as the upper class realizes that the system is broken and a real revolution is a problem. Thats how the US ended up with a de facto monarchy. The UK is moving towards that pretty quickly too.
The good news is that Labour might make some really usefull changes. Mainly end first past the post to prevent Reform from taking over. That might very well allow left wing parties like the LibDems and Greens to win more seats and change the narrative.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 month ago:
Less sun -> Less electricity produces -> Less electricity needs to be stored
Basically in Birmingham you need a lot more solar panels to have the same impact.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 month ago:
Why do you need me to come up with reasons justify your hate booner for China?
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 month ago:
See? Moving the goalposts. Moving from cumulative, the real important metric, to per capita current emissions during a renewable transition, because otherwise the data doesn’t fit your preconceived, chauvinistic anti-china views.
I initially just wanted to point out that China does in fact consume a lot more coal, then you claimed. If you want to have the moral discussion, we can have that. The fundamental problem with your logic, is that you presume future emissions do not matter. The fact of the matter is that we will emit much more in the coming decades. Higher current per capita emissions make it much more likely that future emissions will be higher as well. At the 2023 rate of emissions, China emits as much as the EU cumulative did until 2023 in 25 years. Last year China increased its emissions by 0.8%. Current UN forecast put the population of China 633million and the EU at 347million. I hate to say it, but it is very realistic to presume that China ends up just as guilty by your metric as say the EU.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 month ago:
First of all greenhouse gases not just CO2.
It is also a metric China will not want to use. Per capita annual emissions are already higher in China then in many Western countries. More so UN population forecast shows Chinas population falling much more quickly then that of the West.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 month ago:
Now what will you come up with? Suddenly coal numbers don’t matter anymore?
Do you think I am here to hate on China or something? Your inital claim was:
How much coal has China cumulatively used in its history compared to the US or Europe? Spoiler alert: much less.
And when you looked at the numbers and you were clearly wrong, you moved the goal poast again:
So yeah, China would have to literally consume twice as much coal as it’s already consumed to reach US values of per-capita historical cumulative coal consumption.
Or 50% more to be at the level of the EU, using the Our World in Data numbers from 1900(thanks btw). Given current production, China would overtake the EU around 2040 in that metric.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 month ago:
Maybe that is because I have the elementary school education necessary to understand that burning coal and gas also causes emissions. So when I am looking at cummulative coal consumption, I have the very basic common sense to not look at CO2.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 month ago:
Pollution per GDP is a bad measure. Mali has a high CO2 intensity, but the GDP per capita is low, so pollution is low. The best measures are emissions per capita in consumption and production terms. China is not a saint in either of those metrics, being rather close to the EU in both of them today.
