ZeroGravitas

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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
I think Moss Landing was NMC as it was an older battery site. These scientists are monitoring the impact on a local wildlife and are finding Nickel, Manganese and Cobalt traces: https://elkhornslough.org/reserve/researc
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
And yet their coal usage dropped (for electricity) or was flat (when you include e.g. coal to chemicals) while both electricity use and GDP grew about 5% Half-coal powered electrification is cleaner, greener, cheaper and smarter than sticki
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by ZeroGravitas 9d ago
For some reason the bit that stuck out to me in a wild ride of an article was the guy who believed a super-intelligence was a threat to humans but distanced himself from veganism as if that was crazy part of the AI-doom sex cult that he dis
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by ZeroGravitas 10d ago
Yes, contrails appears to be mostly solvable at a small cost in time and fuel and people have started to take action on that. For most flights today though, if you only count the CO2 produced you're understanding the climate damage by
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by ZeroGravitas 10d ago
They are roughly equal problems at the moment. > Recent estimates show that contrails cause about the same amount of warming each year as all the CO₂ emitted by all flights from 1940 to 2018.
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by ZeroGravitas 11d ago
I don't think China will ever pass the per capita historical emissions of the USA.
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by ZeroGravitas 11d ago
When it began to dawn on them that their political "side" was intentionally ignoring climate change to boost fossil fuel profiteers they fell back to mocking hippies and silly women environmentalist for supporting feel good renewa
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
And yet in the US one tripped this month (that we are only two weeks into) and one tripped last month too. HN link for last month's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320856
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
Coincidentally quoting some of the most despised grid operators in the world. Which obviously correlates with a desire to flee them when offered a solar/battery escape hatch. > energy groups in some [Australian] states are having t
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
Weirdly phrased since when you have a full, real nuclear plant you need to be ready to deal with that tripping off the grid suddenly, because it happens regularly.
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
Again? Didnt he do this in 2024 too?
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
The quality of the preview layer is somewhat under the control of the user though. And that comparison was made for a JPEG-XL focused site, and uses quite large images that are then scaled down dramatically (at least on mobile) for display
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
Wasn't that also basically one guy from the VLC/ffmpeg community that drove that effort? I think they got funding from Netflix to do it again on ARM after demonstrating the benefits on desktop.
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
Yes but people add pre-preprocessor steps to image formats, like blurring jpegs or lowering bit depth in PNGs to make them more compressible.
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
People seem to love attributing the success to memes rather than a decades long campaign to destroy the media, the legal system, education, political checks and balances and unlimited funding by billionaires. When future supreme court judge
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
People seem to have forgotten how soulless cigarette companies were: > As a 1984 R.J. Reynolds report stated:1819 > “Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers… If younger adults turn away from smoking, the i
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by ZeroGravitas 13d ago
But that did actually happen. The oil corporations were publicly claiming to support carbon taxes, while also secretly fighting actual implementations of carbon taxes. All the communist/hippy stuff was done by people a couple of steps
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by ZeroGravitas 14d ago
I'd like to see more open discussion of blockading and bombing uncooperative country's fossil fuel supply chains once decarbonization is in full swing. And get wide global agreement that anyone geoengineering when they are still p
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
Germany has excess coal and gas capacity which they can turn on when needed. They, like most people import when it's cheaper than the local alternative. Interconnected nations all importing when cheap electricity is available lowers co
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
I do argue that every oil importing country should electrify. EU (collectively or independently) is distinct only in that it is ahead of the pack on many of these topics, hence why the Netherlands diesel price is higher than the US price, a
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
This came up a lot recently in regards to competition in the solar and EV spaces. And yet, the competition generated cheap power and transport that was clean and didn't rely on foreign actors. Making life easier for many Chinese people
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
Ok, but my specific comment applies to a large degree to every EU country individually and as a bloc, so you are splitting hairs pointlessly.
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
If you need a geofenced area, you don’t have real self-driving! -- some real jerk in 2019
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
Often the incentive to take a job would be better under Basic Income as there's so many cliff edge benefits that phase out quickly as you work/earn more in the current system.
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
The EU imports 97 percent of their crude oil, which is needed to refine diesel and still import a further 10% of their refined diesel. It is somewhat amazing that Europe hasn't embraced electrification even more but taxing diesel use t
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
Trump explicitly claimed that China sells wind turbines to other countries but doesn't use them for their own needs. That is of course a stupid lie. But it's amazing how many smart liars say something similar to "China contro
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
The government that keeps rejecting offshore wind for bogus security reasons is probably a bigger factor. Those wind farms would have connected into the zones with the highest prices. They've rejected an amount that would generate more
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by ZeroGravitas 15d ago
When Google was going hard on deploying renewables they stressed "additionality". They didn't want to just buy clean hydro that already existed, or renewables that were going to get built anyway without their money, they want
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by ZeroGravitas 16d ago
I wonder if Margaret Atwood was inspired by the framing device of this book for The Handmaid's Tale. Both are looking back on future dystopias from the further future beyond them. Also, Standard Ebooks has a modern ebooks edition: htt

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