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by sightbroke 2y ago
The subheadline: > Solar power has doubled in just three years, according to thinktank Ember, but rising electricity demand from air conditioning, AI and electric vehicles means electricity from fossil fuel sources still grew.
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I got to tour a new recycling facility in my home town last year. It's neat seeing the increase in automation and improvement in processes. > Getting as many residents as possible to even consider recycling is the obvious first benc
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Kind of sad that iPhone and Switch 2 price increase anxiety appears to be driving the discussion around the tariffs. Regardless, higher labor costs perhaps will drive more automative manufacturing. Maybe we'll see a partially adative m
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by sightbroke 2y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio... If you look at which is growing faster you see that renewables appear to be growing faster relative to fossil fuels.
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by sightbroke 2y ago
> The 2025 trump-cession guarantees that CO2 emissions will drop in 2025. I do not want to start a whole political tirade so the following is meant more as humor: Wouldn't that be ironic. Trump's actions help curb global climat
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by sightbroke 2y ago
If fossil fuels are growing at a decreasing rate that means that eventually they will stop growing. That's the point.
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Article is limited on numbers perhaps but does state: > Phil MacDonald, Ember's managing director, said: "Paired with battery storage, solar is set to be an unstoppable force. "As the fastest-growing and largest source of
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by sightbroke 2y ago
They invaded two countries simultaneously (one landlocked). Then used secret stealth helicopters to fly a hit squad into an allied nations territory for one particular individual. I don't think this is a fruitful debate but I doubt ris
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I could be wrong, but I'd think assuming that it's within design tolerances you could increase power delivered to the digger mechanism itself with a different type of battery. In the future we might have batteries that both increa
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by sightbroke 2y ago
That appears to be an issue of policy not one of technology. Because they'd more than likely target those same individuals with less precise weapons if not for the given alternative.
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I wonder if the swappable battery system also allows for new upgrades to the battery package as energy & power densities increase?
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by sightbroke 2y ago
How are drone strikes any different than a pilot, a warplane, and advanced precision bombs/missiles? Except they're cheaper to run and don't physically risk a pilot.
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I would think there's almost more pressure in academia compared to private sector to sell your work as valuable. By that I mean, in order to advance in ones career (assuming an intensive research track) one needs to bring in research m
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I doubt price hikes hurt Apple as much as other brands. Apple is good at branding & marketing, they're partially a luxury good & status symbol, and have ecosystem lock-in. These things makes it harder for people to switch to a
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Ironically I believe I've seen that U.S. EV manufacturing has already started to slow down & projects being cancelled. Edit: relevant links https://archive.ph/J1wSt https://apnews.com/article/t
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Does Russia have a comparably large automotive manufacturing industry & related industry in comparison to the U.S.? I fail to see how public transit to shopping center in Russia is counter to my point that America likes to consume cars
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by sightbroke 2y ago
America is built for maximizing consumption. Public transit gets in the way of selling cars which goes against maximizing consumption. Additionally there is a lack of infrastructure and culture to keep public transit clean.
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Maybe not, depending on how much truth there's to this: https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-a...
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by sightbroke 2y ago
> I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one. - Twain It seems unfair to compare Rowling with Steinbeck to aid in making their argument. A writer's intended audience ought to be considered.
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by sightbroke 2y ago
It certainly eliminates the lengthy and costly bidding process.
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I think that may be a trickier proposition than it appears. Certainly a standard form factor for a pack would be helpful for a specific manufacturer (similar to building multiple cars on top of the same basic frame). Some of the issues I th
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by sightbroke 2y ago
That is why you sort them. Some recent research into that: https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/20... You can also consider maintaining packs together to avoid complicated disassembling p
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Wouldn't they presumably be the ones selling crack, meth, heroin , etc to the government?
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Why would the illegal drug economy ever let politicians that would implement this get into positions of power to do so?
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I'm no expert. And generally it seems most experts say there's no real predicting the market. I think real measured growth will be slowed by these tariffs but that will take some time to really know. However, regardless some of th
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I'm saying the opposite has been my experience. There's plenty of ways for Universities to lower costs without hurting quality. There are plenty of open resources nowadays. Many of the paid online only textbooks with inconsistent
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Why would faster signal attenuation be a good thing?
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by sightbroke 2y ago
Here's a battery density graph, there are a variety of these out there but give a good approximate comparison of different types. https://media.monolithicpower.com/wysiwyg/Educational/BMS_Ch... Lead acid I be
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by sightbroke 2y ago
I started college at the CC level (having no HS diploma) to get into a State school. And from a series of poor choices and ignorance on my part needed to take a several years gap before returning to finish up. I don't think in my exper
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by sightbroke 2y ago
100 years ago batteries didn't have thermal runaway issues. It's true that currently commercially available EV tech today has a lot of engineering involved to prevent fires. However, on the bright side safer chemistries and tech r

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