thefluffiest
@thefluffiest@feddit.nl
- Comment on France to send ‘land, air and sea assets’ to Greenland 2 days ago:
Send the nukes too
- Comment on World's Energy 2 weeks ago:
This graph claims to be based on IEA numbers. Let’s say that’s true and the numbers used are correct.
Then this graph says:
- oil use will remain more or less stable
- natural gas use will increase
- coal use will half
- nuclear capacity will double
- solar will multiply about 9-fold
- wind will increase about 5-fold
- the rest will stay more or less static
Keep in mind that energy usage across the board is increasing daily. And this graph assumes that to be and remain true up to 2050. So this is NOT a degrowth scenario, nor even a no-growth or static scenario. Visual Capitalist, indeed.
Given those assumptions, it makes sense that even significant growth in solar and wind will not dent their share of the total that much. For solar to equal oil in this scenario it would have to increase almost 21-fold against the end-of-2024 graph baseline, and to replace all fossils it would have to grow about 50-fold. Wind would need to grow with it, because solar and wind need to more or less go together. If we stick to the ratios of this graph, then wind would need to grow about 25-fold.
It’s clear that the authors of the IEA report are firm believers in ‘business as usual’. Kiss your climate goals goodbye. And your big coastal cities.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a fascist
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Why go back in time if there’s plenty of fascists to kill right here and now?
- Comment on Questions during planning 3 weeks ago:
In China, Mongolian bbq comes to you!
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 3 weeks ago:
OP is a bottom. Thanks for the info
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 3 weeks ago:
Ditch TrumpTok
- Comment on When you hold the power in your own hands 4 weeks ago:
OP is over 40
- Comment on ‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s called capitalism. The greed, the stripmining, the destruction of anything of artistic or moral value for a few penny’s on the dollar: that’s how capitalism is supposed to work.
- Comment on Chilean hard right victory stirs memories of dictatorship 4 weeks ago:
Except that this time, they voted for it
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 5 weeks ago:
The US is a third-world country that failed upwards
- Comment on It's not the size of the corn, but the love for it 5 weeks ago:
Kernel contributions should be posted in /c/linux
- Comment on Japan revises economic data to show bigger contraction in July-September period 5 weeks ago:
-2.3% instead of -1.8%
- Comment on Skier narrowly avoids a crevasse 5 weeks ago:
And why classes were a lot smaller in those days
- Comment on Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box 1 month ago:
He’s just here for the cuddles. Stop scaring people
- Comment on Brazil's Bolsonaro backs eldest son's bid for presidency 1 month ago:
You know you’re an authoritarian when… you start tapping your deadbeat kid as your successor
- Comment on As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ 1 month ago:
- guillotine
- Comment on YSK that Boris Johnson was one of the most corrupt Prime Minister in British history. He was obsessed about money 1 month ago:
Amen 🙏🏼
- Comment on YSK that Boris Johnson was one of the most corrupt Prime Minister in British history. He was obsessed about money 1 month ago:
Good story, didn’t know. Lovely look behind the corrupt scenes. However it is more than 4 years old. It’s undoubtedly still relevant and ongoing in one way or another, but it’s not breaking news.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 month ago:
That’s what you get for being born in the USA
- Comment on It's important! 2 months ago:
That’s such a French attitude. Gotta love it
- Comment on Save us!!! 2 months ago:
We urgently need a new ice age
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 2 months ago:
May you wear it proudly
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 2 months ago:
And all he had to do was fuck over everyone who helped him get there. His co-founder and users most of all
Peak US
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 2 months ago:
Or fuck /u/spez, for short
- Comment on should have to walk the dog 2 months ago:
Now that’s a shitpost as ever there was one
- Comment on Ed Miliband says it is ‘possible’ that UK government should leave X 2 months ago:
It’s a disgrace you guys are still on there
- Comment on Taxes and nature 2 months ago:
From the looks of it he’s been creating jobs!
- Comment on Why are my fingers black 2 months ago:
He looks very happy
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 2 months ago:
First of all, it’s beautiful you want to remember your late historian friend by learning more history. Kudos!
The fall of Rome is a deeply fascinating topic and it doesn’t disappoint in scale, complexity and nuance. Even the house-in-disrepair analogy doesn’t necessarily work, because in many places no one ever even realised something had fallen - though in other places they surely did. In 476 CE, typically the date we use for the fall of the western empire, no one at the time thought anything was more substantially wrong than anything that had happened over the preceding 200 or so years.
This podcast, also by an historian with a PhD on the topic of the fall, delves into all of it. The literature, the archeology, from the large political structures to the lives of individuals. Highly recommended, again.