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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Trump is a fucking orange chode eating shit for brains.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

When techni-optimists where talking about green tech, I called the renewables ban. Misanthrope wins again!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

This motherfucker is still on this?

He's a less lovable Don Quixote.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This seems like a slamdunk lawsuit. We get to pay the penalties for this asshole's stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

We're going to be paying in so many ways for decades because of that asshole

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

“Thank you for your attention to this matter” is how they sign all of their fascistic orders. They think it’s all funny. I promise you they’re laughing at all this shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

TBH, wind energy is the least friendly to the environment. The energy and logistics to get them manufactured and transported is pretty much doing worse for the environment than if there were no wind farms

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

What can "never" mean here?

For coal, however, if you invest 1kWh you typically get below 0.4 kWh in return.

So people run coal plants to destroy energy? Like, you have too much electricity and so you build a coal plant to get rid of it?

I'm not sure that whatever metric this source uses matches what most people think when they hear "energy amortization".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Since the emissions in the lifecycle of a wind turbine are from the energy used, the time period lasted would also be when it breaks even on CO2 emissions.

As for destroying energy, that's just the efficiency, the other 60% is wasted as heat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

So people run coal plants to destroy energy?

The energy was in a state that was not useful, and to generate useful energy with it you need to keep the input of that energy source flowing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

If you convert the chemical energy in a unit of coal to heat (burn it) you can calculate how much energy exists in that coal, measured in appropriate units (e.g. kWh). That is evidently what this author is trying to dumb down as "invested energy". The amount of energy extracted as electricity is typically 40% of that.. the rest ends up as heat which is much less useful than electricity.

I agree that this is not particularly useful in discussing the merits of different energy sources because good design tends to do as well as is practical and the supply of fuel and negative impacts of that process can't vary dramatically.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

This is demonstrably false, most wind farms offset their carbon cost in a matter of single digit years and then it's pure profit.

These numbers exist, you don't have to take propaganda at face value.

Here's something that might be accessible to you because it has funny https://youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's a fun day when I see a new talking point.

I thought about doing the math to demonstrate that it's not true, but I feel like just having a good belly laugh and moving on is probably a better use of my time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More than likely the, I don't care to have Lemmy change my mind

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't deny facts, only hide from them and live in fantasy world.

Btw, I do agree nuclear is great. But we need as much of both as we can get.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Diversifying power production is the real play, tbh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I'm for getting rid of coal and gas entirely, the grid doesn't need to be that diverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I wish it was new... These lazy fuckers recycle their talking points and morons like the one above eat them up because it's easier than a simple search I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Source: Shell via Fox News

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

No, no, you don't understand. It is far cleaner to dig huge holes in mountains, destabilizing the ground and washing the excess sludge into people's drinking water. Then, build a giant plant that belches radioactive debris and helps heat up the climate. Oh ya, also kill the people that produce it early, especially if you can use children.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Every single bad thing you can imagine, they are doing. The USA simply has villains in charge, and they've set themselves the task of destroying anything that might sustain or improve life for anyone except themselves. In movies when this happens, real Americans take them down. In real life apparently they just sit and watch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly wish there WAS something we could do but at this point its not logistically possible. I wish half the country could flood the capital and protest but the US is simply too large. It takes days and hundreds of dollars to travel even a few states away if you cant fly. I understand your frustration but you gotta cut us some slack while we figure this out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

No need to travel. Organise a general strike

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

They don't sit and watch. They cheer them on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In movies, they get taken down by a single hero. Not very realistic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. But their name is usually Bruce. Or Clark.

We got Luigi.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So are you an American not doing anything, or a foreigner who has no idea what it's like to actually be in the situation?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

a foreigner

Oof. Masks off all up in here, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Please elaborate? Is it some horrible thing to ask if someone is not from a specific place? Do tell.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Noone is a foreigner on the world wide web. It is mainly Americans who expect everyone else on the internet to be Americans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

There's something called context, which affects the meaning of words. You should look it up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

The problem is global. The US and the global elite are dragging the planet down with it. The most downtrodden victims of US domination are usually abroad anyway. So it feels pointless to worry about where people are because we all need to unite to fight Davos and its appointed imperator.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I'm a foreigner with an opinion. I talk to American friends every few days. I have some idea of what you're up against and I recognize it's not easy to do anything to slow this down or stop it. Trump's threatening my country and so are our own right-wing politicians, and I'm aware we all face similar difficulties: it's not easy to know what to do, and not easy to organize it even when you have an idea. But I can see it will take something unusual in the USA, not just waiting for an election.

Saying you're sitting and watching was unfair of me. Just an expression of frustration watching what they're doing to your country and threatening to do to ours.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Take your frustration and multiply it many times, then many times more. That's what any reasonable person who lives in the U.S. is feeling right now. Something will give, sooner rather than later.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

equally, please don’t imply that you understand global frustration at the US right now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

an opinion

Which involves critizing the US in every single comment and post you make.
This is what you do with your life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We are doing things. An important judge race in WI went our way. Couple of FL congress races were won by republicans by a lot less then expect#d. In MN we had 25000 p3ople turn out. There are tons of cases working through the couts.

About all can be done at th# moment is file law suits, try to shift public opinion enough so Republican congessman stet getting nervious, win elections as come up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

They're just another US obsessed person from another country cosplaying and trying to tell Americans what to do.

But if an American criticizes thoer country things are surely different.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

that's because america criticizes other countries with bombs or destroying their governments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Becoming fascist to own the libs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Don't let that "don't tell me what to do" attitude stop you from acting though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Europeans rolled the fuck over as Hitler came to power.

Though history Freedom fighters are the exception but everyone asshole thinks they would have been one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hitler had 40+ assassination attempts/plots targetting him, 16 of which were before 1940.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Trump has had at least a couple, the SS might know a bit a fair bit more.