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by ephbit 5y ago
Even with HVDC I'm very sceptical that we'll soon see enough transmission capacity (electrical) from northern africa to europe or other regions in the world for that to become a relevant part of the eurafrican grid. Why? Because w
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by ephbit 5y ago
Add enough storage to the system and the on-demand problem is solved.
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by ephbit 5y ago
Hydrogen is relatively inconventient/difficult to handle except when transported via pipeline. There appear to be no dense long range pipeline networks (for hydrogen) connecting multiple countries (yet). Pipeline networks for natural g
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by ephbit 5y ago
80 per cent is what you call extremely inefficient ... what percentage would be "efficient" then in your opinion? > Accounting for the accepted use of the higher heat value (because inefficiency via heat can be redirected back
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by ephbit 5y ago
Because they at least can store months worth of gas/oil/coal on their own territory.
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by ephbit 5y ago
Something makes me think that storing weeks worth of electricity isn't going to happen in the near future (< 30 years). Storing hydrogen isn't that easy/cheap either. So I'd guess we're going to see storage of en
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by ephbit 5y ago
> ... appallingly high safety standards are expensive. Not an expert on probability/statistics ... but wouldn't lower safety standards have meant, not 1 Tschernobyl and 1 Fukushima but most probably like say 10 such events in t
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by ephbit 5y ago
> I think it's a mistake (and ahistorical) to assume that these methods are intended to improve people's well being. The religions existing in the world today are here BECAUSE they were the most effective at altering peoples be
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by ephbit 5y ago
Ok, I guess people use google (or search engines in general) differently ... I rarely if ever use a search enginge to calculate stuff or do unit conversions. I use google only to search and when ecosia/bing doesn't return anything
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by ephbit 5y ago
I'll repeat what I wrote a few comments up .. Couldn't the solution be a mastodon instance/server? If people used careful tagging combined with search, it might enable all that seeking for help online, but without signing on
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by ephbit 5y ago
I get your point. Signing up for yet another forum with confirmation email, password and so on ... totally annoying. Couldn't the solution be a mastodon instance/server? If people used careful tagging combined with search, it migh
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by ephbit 5y ago
Quoted from the linked site: > Convenience functions have been added, and the search engine can now perform simple calculations and unit conversions. Try 1 pint in cubic centimeters, or 50+sqrt(pi). This functionality is still under deve
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by ephbit 5y ago
Awesome :D .. how often do you actually vocalise "Autobahn" as a verb when other people might hear? ... have mercy with your fellows or some might laugh their asses off raises finger
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by ephbit 5y ago
There's also the annotation features in PDFs which allow me to highlight text and add a comment. I don't know of any more convenient way to directly attach my thoughts to a specific portion of text. (If there is, I'd genuinel
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by ephbit 5y ago
Isn't PayPal in itself a dark pattern? Most of my online payment transactions happen with credit card or bank transfer anyway ... absolutely no need for PayPal to annoy me by injecting themselves as man in the middle ... such an annoyi
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by ephbit 5y ago
> Imagine any item with a certain amount of demand. Now cut the supply of that good in half. What happens to the price? IMO the assumption/premise here doesn't describe the situation ("bitcoin" or more broadly "c
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by ephbit 5y ago
This is pretty much how I interpret what's happening in the US and Europe as well. Anyone here who can point their finger on any of the above statements and explain why it's wrong?
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by ephbit 5y ago
Scarcity is built in, yes .. but block reward halving is built in as well. Now if there were a time to come, when lightning network allowed wide adoption of bitcoin as an actual payment system ... and the speculation on ever rising price we
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by ephbit 5y ago
I always assumed the main reason for using PDFs is, that an author/distributor can be pretty sure, that they're rendered almost exactly the same (fonts, layout) no matter with which viewer they're viewed. This probably evokes
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by ephbit 5y ago
Agree, fossil fuels have the energy density and are just sitting there, waiting to be consumed. The only thing really that can overcome this massive temptation that fossil fuels pose right now (until renewables become abundant enough), is s
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by ephbit 5y ago
IMO the criterion to compare by should be protein content (also taking into account the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_value ) rather than calories. For most people suffering from malnutrition worldwide thei
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by ephbit 5y ago
Isn't it a mostly unavoidable characteristic of p2p distributed systems (when they're not introduced top down by governments) that they grow from "practically zero users" to (maybe) mass adoption? I'd think that it&
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by ephbit 5y ago
Isn't the reason why people are interested in projects like Gnubee or Helios that they want to get away from closed source hardware with rootkits like the Intel ME? I thought this was the main criteria why such projects based upon RISC
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by ephbit 5y ago
True. Not that big. But let's not forget that it's not about merely pumping the water around. All this water must be processed. And I figure the process is a little more involved than simple reverse osmosis for seawater desalinati
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by ephbit 5y ago
Wow .. 11,000 tonnes of seawater per tonne of CO2 is indeed huge. Assuming that the new process stochiometrically generates CaO according to the amount of CO2 taken up from the ocean you'd produce 1.27 tonnes of CaO per tonne of CO2. (
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by ephbit 5y ago
Let's say we had a situation where everything was backed by bitcoin (as a reserve currency). Governmental budgets are one of the most obvious ways in which political decisions manifest themselves and become relevant for everyday life.
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by ephbit 5y ago
It'll take another 10-20 years or so, until we likely have sound evidence, whether the conclusion drawn from modern monetary theory - that forever growing national debt is not in itself a problem - is reasonable or not. Either we'
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by ephbit 5y ago
It appears to me as though "magically" the wealthy always seem to manage to store their wealth in some form that isn't devalued by inflation (real-estate, ...) whereas the poorer people are, the fewer possibilities to do some
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by ephbit 5y ago
Some whataboutism .. individual people expend energy for countless things that are useless or even harmful to many others. Most people in the west are totally egoistic when it comes to the sheer amount of energy/resources they use&#x2F
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by ephbit 5y ago
Don't gnu/linux ISO images make up a considerable proportion of bittorrent traffic nowadays?

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