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by ephbit 4y ago
> Yes and no. They're trying out this exact thing in the Netherlands right now. Appears to be technically feasible.
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by ephbit 4y ago
For this to be "clean" requires the CO2 to be CCS'ed and sequestered under ground. Just pumping CO2 under ground is one of these "solutions" that seem short-sighted and kind of childish. We take what we need and eve
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by ephbit 4y ago
The EU has Bitcoin in the crosshairs not because it uses dirty energy (just as almost every other thing humans on the planet currently do, since renewables only make up 20 % to date), but because Bitcoin gives people a means to evade the er
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by ephbit 4y ago
> ... they do not buy what they need, they wait until the very last moment. If someone is waiting to buy a thing not because they can't get the thing but because they want it cheaper, do they _really_ need the thing? I'd say no
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by ephbit 4y ago
briarproject.org .. App for messaging over Bluetooth.
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by ephbit 4y ago
> Why is the idea of a "book" tied so closely to the physical medium it is printed on? Maybe because until some 15 years ago, physical books/magazines/newspapers have been _the_ medium that people had been using to co
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by ephbit 4y ago
> But why does it have to be fiction .. ? My immediate thought was: would it even work to publish a non fiction book anonymously? > There's a big difference between being anonymous and being a social media influencer. Agree. My r
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by ephbit 4y ago
Makes me ask myself: which hugely successful works of fiction (excluding stuff like the Bible) are out there convincing readers solely through their content because the author remains anonymous/pseudonymous and how can they reliably be
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by ephbit 4y ago
I think I understood what you were after, giving an example, that is. When I read the example though, I immediately thought it didn't quite ring true. So I tried to explain to myself why and came up with what I wrote. Even though there
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by ephbit 4y ago
> What's the difference between Sony requiring you to buy headphones together with the tape player, or Android requiring Google to be the default search? Sony and headphones together with tape player ... there's a synergy there
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by ephbit 4y ago
My favourite missing feature: the possibility to add my own tags/comments/text/rating to an episode. Ideally it'd let me attach text to a certain time code (like possible with soundcloud).
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by ephbit 4y ago
Been using it for years, still using it. My favourite feature: The extension that lets you reencode the files. I use that to reencode all audio files to opus @ 20 kbit/s. If you want to keep thousands of episodes forever that really sa
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by ephbit 4y ago
> One root that branches supports a branch above ground. If that root is cut, the above-soil branch it supports dies out. Do I get this right? You're implying that specific roots are somehow more or less associated with specific bra
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by ephbit 4y ago
I think the reason why hydrogen (or derivatives such as ammonia or methanol) will become a very widespread carrier of energy in the long term is: seasonal storage of energy. There doesn't appear to be a promising solution for seasonal
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by ephbit 4y ago
I wouldn't be so sure they're out of the question. See https://altris.se
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by ephbit 4y ago
> ... while most trees grows with some kind of symmetry between upper limbs and the root system, fig trees don't follow that. Just curious, how then do fig trees differ from this symmetry of growth roughly?
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by ephbit 4y ago
> Who will they sell their homes to? As with many such large scale problems, the state will probably take care of that by bearing these costs and distributing them among the citizens. It's not a good way, but it should work.
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by ephbit 4y ago
> I did mention it, that's what the Haber process produce .. Yes, and I did read it. I was trying to put emphasis on the huge cost in the form of near endless energy. Just mentioning the process as if it somehow miraculously solved
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by ephbit 4y ago
> You might be able to use less in town but swapping 5 or 6 canisters every day sounds less pleasant than simply unplugging your EV at the start of the day and plugging it back in later. Have you been using an EV in your daily life for a
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by ephbit 4y ago
> The coupon rate is fixed at the time of issuance, but the principal is adjusted periodically based on changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the most commonly used measure of inflation. When the CPI rises, the principal is adjusted
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by ephbit 4y ago
I'd guess we'll see mid to large scale electrolyzer plants pop up in many locations throughout a country as soon as the build out of PV on roofs of private houses (also everywhere else) leads to daily overload on the electric grid
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by ephbit 4y ago
Let's say you want to use the system for heating with a heat pump. Your energy consumption for heating might be ~ 3000 kWh/month during the winter months (Nov-Mar) for a moderately insulated house. Assuming your PV produces only 1
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by ephbit 4y ago
Only thing that's missing (as always) .. ECC RAM.
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Threema?
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by ephbit 4y ago
> Conversion also costs energy. Save more energy by not listening to podcasts. Yea, no .. people should have fun and do the things they want. But being needlessly wasteful while doing them is just asocial because in the end it hurts the
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by ephbit 4y ago
> Transport uses up so incredibly much more energy, ... True. I never claimed otherwise. > ...almost none of which comes from sustainable sources at the moment. I know. The world is roughly at 80 % fossil energy right now, as far as I
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by ephbit 4y ago
Seriously .. the world is going up in flames .. and at the same time there's all these people walking around in the global west who're apparently hooked on gigapixels and ever more bandwidth/storage space/gigaherz and so
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by ephbit 4y ago
> You can always require historical-looking facades if looks are a concern. I assume you have actually seen the inside of old buildings with your own eyes. In no way is the look & feel of the inside of an old building comparable to a
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by ephbit 4y ago
> Well the Fed just reduced the effective rate it was printing money quite substantially by switching to Quantitative Tightening and increasing rates. Currently they are tightening, yes. Let's see how long they'll keep this up
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by ephbit 4y ago
> Only very recently have very wealthy western nations overcome food insecurity for most people, ... Yes, and it should be mentioned that they have managed to do so _only_ with the help of basically feeding unimaginable amounts of energy

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