ZeroGravitas

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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
Datacentres can in theory reduce bills. They're a large, mostly well-behaved grid load which lets you spread fixed costs over more units of electricity. The problems start when they are being built by well connected entities that can l
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
In some ways the destruction of our political, journalistic (as they hint at in this piece) and scientific cultures and institutions is even worse. And again done knowingly, by the same people.
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This particular author isn't an environmentalist as much as a low tech enthusiast. Hence, solar and wind power generating electricity, which are clean and green technologies but are not "low tech" do not fit his particular ni
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It's commonly accepted that the Leaf Gen 1 was weird because it was an EV, but in reality it's weird because it was a new generation of Japanese design. There are non-EV models Nissan released in Japan around the same time with th
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
I've long said the problem with the term racism is that real, proper, professional racists like this guy don't think they're treating other races (or women) differently based purely on race (or gender). They fundamentally bel
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Is it stupid and useless at following simple instructions without going off the reservation and doing stuff you don't want it to do? No, it's "cheating" which makes it scary and smart even when it's not doing someth
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
Quite often these stories come down to a "first come, first served" system where you just need to add your name to the list. Doesn't matter if you don't have money, don't have land, don't have customers, don&#x
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
Almost every paragraph of this puff piece made me dislike the author and the business they are covering. And that's despite me being aware of the business previously and thinking it's a good technical idea. Why would you compare s
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
Cherry picking a single day to try to demonstrate a widely accepted trend is lazy journalism. Cherry-picking to try to portray the opposite of the generally accepted truth is much more problematic.
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It seems forgotten now but for about a year before all this people were confused about why the oil price was higher than it should be as they expected a glut. This theory would suggest that China was filling giant reserves at a certain pric
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
Those electric 2, 3 and 4 wheelers and electric busses even if powered by coal fired electricity, will do less damage to city dwelling kids lungs than traditional engines would. And if the trend of China cleaning up their electricity supply
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
Yes, and... In some areas of London the ULEZ has been so successful that the measured NOx is now coming mostly from gas boilers used for heating, probably mostly old large commerical units. So shifting from gas boilers to heat pumps and fro
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
> But rarely have they been so ... bad at their jobs? Who really thinks a keyword list is the right way to filter grant applications? Depends what you (and they) think their job is. RAGE was one acronymn thrown about and name-checked by
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
California has the lowest wholesale cost in the US and were predicted to fall by 30% this summer against an 8% drop for the whole country. Lots of other stuff affects end-user prices though.
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If you price it on throughput and not storage size, because Snowy 2 is very constrained on when it can charge and discharge then the realistic 8Twh per year you can get out of Snowy2 loses to batteries by a factor of 3 based on your costs.
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
The ban isn't pointless. It's a network and the prices are based on assumptions nearly everyone connecting and staying connected for decades paying off the costs a little at a time. Once that assumption breaks you need to avoid th
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Renewbles have been more than half of all added generation over the last decade, slowly rising to near 100% of the increase from 2024 to 2025. This tracks with it being cheaper which it basically has been for that decade. The market has spo
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One of the electric flight niches might be landing at night in areas that otherwise would be restricted for noise reasons.
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
What you've said is ambigious in the context of replying to my point. Many people think Haber-Bosch requires fossil fuels as input. It doesn't. Haber-Bosch requires hydrogen. Currently this is nearly always fossil fuel derived and
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Always worth noting that the fertilizers don't require fossil fuels, just currently use them as they are cheaper if you ignore the externalities and alternatives haven't got the scale yet. Pro-fossil fuel types will regularly clai
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Specifically red meat and dairy are the big wins to cut out if you want to reducing climate damage but aren't ready to completely quit meat. And the headline suggests this applies to biodiversity damage too. Probably applies for health
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This didn't actually happen: https://backofmind.substack.com/p/chortle-on-a-chortle/
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
It's not that boring an ending as basically the same people that are portraying Europe as descending into some Mad Max with Muslims dystopia are saying the same about American cities getting worse and worse. I've seen at least one
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The new prices went live on the 1st of July the reporting was at the date they were announced: https://www.aer.gov.au/news/articles/news-releases/aer-relea...
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-26/power-prices-fall-in-... > Power prices to fall for most customers, with bigger drops for businesses > What is driving [lower prices] is a reduction in the cost of prod
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by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
It feels like you're moving the goalposts to wanting EV trucks, charged at remote sites with a 100% clean minigrid just so you can be disappointed. That's a great goal, but every step along the way to it is also meaningful progres
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I'm commenting on your first paragraph in which EVs not being the majority of a mining truck fleet is taken as failure or hype. While for example Norway only has 30% fleet EVs despite already hitting near 100% sales. It's setting
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I generally wouldn't trust big mining corporations to do the right thing but that's some extremely negative framing. For standard EV cars in Australia only 20% of new sales are EV, the fleet is maybe 3%. But everyone sane seems to
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I think it's also a YC startup called Yoshi from 2016, I wonder how often those two overlap?
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Texas burns more coal than any other state and has hundreds of premature deaths a year caused by its coal plants.

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