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by diafygi 7y ago
Sure! A good one is battery storage. When you install a battery in a building in order to manage load more effectively, how do you know when you should charge and discharge the battery? There's a ton of complexities going all the way f
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by diafygi 7y ago
Hmmm, I'm sure the tech is great as well as the scientists and engineering perfecting it. However, I consider this kind of tech important in a post-energy transition world and probably a bad idea to pursue now. Converting CO2 to hydroc
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by diafygi 7y ago
This will likely get flagged as duplicate to the highly contentious previous thread[1], but I hope it doesn't since the other thread was a mess. It seems that in any climate change thread, many if not most of the comments get downvoted
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by diafygi 7y ago
> We have the research now, but people aren't changing their behavior. They are. Clean energy mandates are being passed in many states; climate change and the Green New Deal is a front and center topic in the Democratic presidential
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by diafygi 7y ago
Okie dokie, replies below. However, I still would like to learn more about from where your views originated, so I hope you don't mind if I email you. > Blaming the “companies” and “lobbyists” is such a cop-out. The companies are jus
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by diafygi 7y ago
Howdy leereeves, I've seen you posts alongside mine in previous climate change threads, always on opposite sides. Would you mind having a conversation offline? I'm interested in learning more about your point of view outside of th
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by diafygi 7y ago
Howdy rayiner, our paths have crossed several times on HN regarding mass surveillance and privacy, and I always mostly respected your points of view, even if different from my own. However, I'm really worried about this reply on climat
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by diafygi 7y ago
> an army of lobbyists and media companies to push the hoax/not-our-problem-narrative I've noticed on most of the climate change posts on HN that they 1. fall off the front page very quickly (due to systemic flagging?) and 2. e
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by diafygi 7y ago
I used to also be depressed about climate change, but then I got a job in the clean energy sector. Waking up every day and getting paid to fight climate change feels really good. It has really turned my depression into hope. I'd like t
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by diafygi 7y ago
I used to work at a fitness tech startup, but then when it didn't work out (heh), I took a step back and wondered what industry I wanted to be a part of. I wondered if a software engineer could help contribute to fighting climate chang
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by diafygi 7y ago
Will multi-account containers be included? The most useful feature on Firefox Desktop is the ability to isolate different browsing sessions using containers (e.g. Facebook-only, HN-only).
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by diafygi 7y ago
Firefox for Android lets you install extensions. I can't imagine using a mobile browser without an ad-blocker anymore. Saves so much battery life and stops your phone from getting hot from all the cpu usage in ads.
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by diafygi 7y ago
Correct, but plastics and other non-burned uses only accounts for <10% of oil and gas. So you'd have to 10x the number of petrochemical products to make up for the decrease in burned product. Plastics are a pretty mature industry, s
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by diafygi 7y ago
Hmmm, HN is limiting our thread depth, so can you please email me at my email in my profile? I'd like to continue the conversation and learn more about your point of view.
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by diafygi 7y ago
The IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) is the generally considered the best source on climate change science. They have a nice graph of how things can go based on various amounts of sequestered carbon being injected into the carbo
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by diafygi 7y ago
It's wrong to assume that those of us fighting climate change are anti-nuclear. The only reason I didn't include nuclear in my parent comment is because it isn't currently competitive with either clean or dirty energy sources
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by diafygi 7y ago
Well, for my company, the money is coming from homeowners and business owners buying clean energy products (solar, batteries, EVs, etc.). They are choosing to buy these new technologies because they want to. I noticed you didn't really
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by diafygi 7y ago
Sure! Most distributed battery storage (Stem, Advanced Microgrid, etc.) and building energy management companies (Carbon Lighthouse, Siemens, etc.) have software divisions that focus on data analysis tools for their customers (think energy
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by diafygi 7y ago
Nothing? If you don't believe in climate change or believe we should be fighting it, then please get out of the way. The energy transition is a bigger economic opportunity that the Internet (Bloomberg estimates it at something like $10
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by diafygi 7y ago
Howdy! I work fighting climate change, and I guess it's that time again for a what-can-you-do-about-it post :) So what can you do about it? You can get a job fighting climate change! Solar, wind, batteries, and EVs are now competitive
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by diafygi 8y ago
Within the past few years, solar+batteries is starting to win bids against new natural gas generation in many common peak-related situations (not all yet, but increasingly so). The expectation is that solar+storage will win most peak-relat
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by diafygi 8y ago
Hmmm, but renewables + storage is set to compete for both peak and baseload by 2035. https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/batteries-renewables-...
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by diafygi 8y ago
What? Wood Mackenzie is predicting that renewables + batteries will be able to beat both peak and baseload by 2035. https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/batteries-renewables-...
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by diafygi 8y ago
Hmmmm, so I work in renewables, and while I don't work in the Australian market, I would like to take issue with your assumption that a massive transition to renewables in 10 years is a joke. If you look at most utility procurement pla
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by diafygi 8y ago
Is there load-in lag for wasm functions compared to normal js functions? For example, if I had a wasm math library, and wanted to call a function immediately when the page loaded, would it be able to start returning results as fast as if I
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by diafygi 8y ago
Maybe text the link?
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by diafygi 8y ago
Good thing https://send.firefox.com/ was launched today :)
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by diafygi 8y ago
Doesn't raising this kind of money scream that you're eventually going to start to monetize the data flowing through your network (e.g. telecoms selling location data to bounty hunters)?
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by diafygi 8y ago
There was a music chatroom a few years back (turntable.fm) that was trying to do this. You had 2+ DJ slots in each chatroom, and they would take turns picking the next song, and the participants in the room could update/downvote their

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