MrMakabar
@MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Netanyahu slams army over delay in building Gaza concentration camp 20 hours 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 20 hours 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 1 day 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 day 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago:
The site also has the EU and all member countries, but:
- Comment on 4 rich Africans reportedly wealthier than half the continent 5 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 week 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) 2 weeks 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) 2 weeks 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) 2 weeks 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) 2 weeks 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) 2 weeks 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) 2 weeks 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.
- 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) 2 weeks ago:
Not so sure about that. China overtook the EU in 1987 in coal consumption, but today it is at 25,000TWh or so. In 1965 the current EU countries were at 4,500TWh. It certainly is not much less, if China has not overtaken the EU by cumulative coal consumption.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.
- Comment on Dear Leader 3 weeks ago:
For your average Trump support they are the same thing.
- Comment on Dear Leader 3 weeks ago:
Stop it! The Chinese parade did not have ads!!!
- Comment on Pakistan's solar surge lifts it into rarefied 25% club 3 weeks ago:
Clearly shows that developing countries can and should go renewable.
- Comment on China Is The World's First Electrostate - CleanTechnica 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis 1 month ago:
Sounds like the US is nuking theirs, which certainly makes a bang.
- Comment on As battery prices have fallen, installations have skyrocketed 2 months ago:
Your link to a pdf seems to be wrong…
