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by ephbit 3y ago
> ... Amogy has quickly scaled its ammonia-to-power technology to 300 kW. Following an eight-minute-long fueling, the semi truck, having 900 kWh of total stored net electric energy, ... > ... Amogy’s proprietary technology enables the
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by ephbit 3y ago
My intuition (which may be totally wrong of course) lets me think that those countries with the hightest adoption of BEVs will hit scaling issues in the next decade. Scaling issues that will be a lot less serious with hydrogen powered FCEVs
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by ephbit 3y ago
I'd guess "huge space heater" would certainly have to exceed 250 MW (that's at least 100,000 kettles). IIRC that'd equal vaporizing water at 125 kg/s, doable but that's 10,800 m³ water per day. Aaaand, in
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by ephbit 3y ago
> .. why passwords? What do they do? What do they protect? They protect data/accounts on other machines. Similar to a piece of paper you'd write a password on but probably with added encryption, which would be difficult on pape
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by ephbit 3y ago
Here's an addon for Firefox that also checks websites in regular intervals to detect changes: https://github.com/WaldiPL/webpageScanner Not affiliated with it and I don't know if it still works, haven't
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by ephbit 3y ago
> .. after rigorous regulatory discussions that started back in 2019, the government of Oman eventually found bitcoin to be in line with Islamic law, ..
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by ephbit 3y ago
> .. I have to occasionally open the Syncthing app on Android to "bump" it and get it to sync. Almost the same with me. Turning WIFI off and on again is easier on my Android, it triggers syncthing to sync. But that might also r
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by ephbit 3y ago
Your linked site states: > The harmonised indices shall be annually chain-linked Laspeyres-type indices. And further down: > Elementary aggregate indices for the HICPs are computed as the ratio of the geometric average of prices or th
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by ephbit 3y ago
Isn't canola hugely more beneficial than olive oil in terms of nutrition anyway? Wondering how the mediterranean countries succeeded in marketing olive oil as especially valuable/healthy oil.
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by ephbit 3y ago
Guess they refuse to die because in the long-term, when hydrogen and derivatives like ammonia or methanol, will have become an important pillar of the renewable energy system, they will be quite useful. Fuelcell trucks are now close to mass
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by ephbit 3y ago
> It's amazing the lengths the system will go to to pretend they're not using hydrocarbons while they're using hydrocarbons. So am I right to deduce from your position, that if you were in charge of planning the research
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by ephbit 3y ago
The key assumption here is (for me): > In an ever inflating economy, ... Inflating the economy has been working over the course of the last century or even longer. What many people appear to be oblivious of is that this growth has been f
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by ephbit 3y ago
Would you agree that it somewhat makes sense (and is usually efficient) to correlate one's effort in solving some specific problem in some way to the severity of this problem relative to other problems (assuming all these problems are
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by ephbit 3y ago
> Again, the argument that 'other things are bad or worse, so this bad thing is ok' is bad one. There is no consensus for "Bitcoin is bad use of energy" as you're implying. Energy/electricity use isn't
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by ephbit 3y ago
Ferrari, Lamborghini, superyacht and so on. They're all 9x % proof of waste ... to prove wealth/"social" status.
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by ephbit 3y ago
> How about the one where I agree with you that there are other massively wasteful energy activities out there but that fact is not an argument for tolerating them or allowing for more. If you care so much about having less harm done to
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by ephbit 3y ago
> The metric to compare bitcoin to is energy per transaction compared with EXISTING forms of digital finance with which it is competing. False. Bitcoin might have originally been envisioned as "p2p electronic cash" but that&#x2
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by ephbit 3y ago
> 0.11% or even 0.08% of total worldwide energy consumption is a fucking shit ton of energy. Completely irrelevant. Because other uses of energy (that me and lots of other people consider wasted or even harmful) are orders of magnitude l
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by ephbit 3y ago
Bitcoin currently uses ~ 131 TWh electricty per year. [1] The world used ~ 176000 TWh of energy in 2021, now it's likely more. [2] Now let's say all the Bitcoin mining equipment (ASICS, ..) require another 50 % of the continuous e
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by ephbit 3y ago
> why wouldn't we use that same excess energy to run a giant tesla coil? At least that makes some pretty arcs while wasting the energy. Well, why aren't you doing it? Let me guess. You don't have enough money to waste to j
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by ephbit 3y ago
> The solution is more competitors, which requires fiscal policy to move people from producing for consumption to producing for investment. This generally sounds reasonable. It implies, that there are some (unnecessary) bottlenecks somew
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by ephbit 3y ago
> Please, EU: bring a law that forces manufacturers to release their drivers / firmware whenever they stop updating a digital device. I don't see much hope of such a thing being decided soon, if ever. The incentives for politic
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by ephbit 3y ago
The link somehow had a redirect to just the overview. Here's an actual link to the interesting episode: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/rr01-berman-m...
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by ephbit 3y ago
Agree. Your thinking appears to align pretty much with the messages of this podcast (not only this episode). In case you don't know it already, you may well find it interesting, never mind the esoteric sounding name: https:/&#x2F
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by ephbit 3y ago
> But then the nuclear power needs dispatchable power to cover the gaps! Just like renewables do, while also getting undercut by renewables. Of course it does. But no, not "just like renewables do". Why? Because unlike with win
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by ephbit 3y ago
> .. but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inher
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by ephbit 3y ago
Seriously? This comparison of cost to a NPP is obviously flawed. Why? Because a NPP wouldn't be run just for backup but continuously. Let's assume the 1 GW fossil plant runs a mere 3 weeks per year. That's a capacity factor o
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by ephbit 3y ago
> Yes, in for example Sweden these extra costs borne by all consumers for reserves and balancing markets are in the range of $0.0X cents/kWh delivered. You are not financing a nuclear plant with that. Whatever the ascribed fee/
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by ephbit 3y ago
> Power grids operate like marginal cost markets. Why would I as a consumer buy more expensive nuclear power when abundant renewables are available? I think this is an incomplete description of the system. The missing element here is the
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by ephbit 3y ago
> For nuclear this inflexibility comes from pure economics. It is economic suicide to build a new plant and operate it at 100%, now try operating it at less than 50% on average. Or even worse only nights without wind like you propose. Ag

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