My birthday. It's tomorrow.
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That's wonderful news. Congrats!
Thanks
You've been spinning around a massive ball of fire at 74 thousand miles per hour for a year 🤘
Happy Birthday!
Thanks <3
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people spilling their minds over astrology will be glad the mercury retrograde is going to be over for this year.
Daytime energy is soon going to be free in much of the world. The advances in green tech, especially solar and batteries, are real. Much faster progress than even the optimists were predicting a decade ago. The revolution is reaching a tipping point where it becomes self-sustaining and requires no state subsidies. I am not a tech utopian, and this alone will not save us. But there's no denying it's good news. It's all happening far too late but it does look like humans are going to kick their fossil habit after all.
Inconvenient footnote: thank China.
Yes, but, we depend on fossil fuels for far more than just energy. We still get most of our plastics from them, and most of our fertilizer, without which we can't feed most of the developed countries. And while renewables are great for stationary use, we still don't have anything with the energy density of fossil fuels for cars, shipping, air travel, and cargo. And, whether anyone thinks it's a good use or not, war is entirely, inefficiently, and intensely run on oil.
There are a lot of other issues entirely unrelated to power grid energy production we have to solve first, the most challenging being our own aggressive human nature. We're a long way from kicking the oil habit.
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Is there a good place to ask about independent (non-grid-connected) solar for an otherwise grid-connected structure? I'd love to set something like this up, but can't find any systems which don't require wiring into the gird.
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You wish, if we keep going towards everything has a battery power demand is only going to go up
Sure, but energy efficiency is always improving, distribution and storage are always improving. And the full electrification of transport (which is what you seem to be alluding to) is not going to happen overnight.
It's gotten so good that China might be restricting output to keep the prices high...
(their onshore wind, and pumped hydro storage, are also great success stories, as is the EV industry there)
Indeed. China is such a paradox. An absolute anathema in terms of culture and politics. It's almost impossible for us Westerners to grasp how a people could accept that level of authoritarianism, how they could value their personal freedom so little. And yet, and yet. Without China we would be royally screwed. They are pulling the weight of the green transition basically alone. So personally I've decided to hold off on China-bashing for now.
It's almost impossible for us Westerners to grasp how a people could accept that level of authoritarianism, how they could value their personal freedom so little.
This assumes that they have an alternative to authoritarianism that they could enact if they wanted. For some reason, the authorities don't allow that. And the authorities also don't like when people talk about it, so it's difficult to discuss and convince others that authoritarianism is bad.
Yes sure but China has never been anything remotely like a Western democracy. It would be difficult to keep the lid on a billion people if they really wanted to live differently. Political culture runs deep.
If they want to defer to authority, they can just keep voting in the ruling party. Democracy doesn't mean no choices.
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Westerners to grasp how a people could accept that level of authoritarianism,
So personally I've decided to hold off on China-bashing for now.
You just did, according to .ml users, because ACkShuLly cHiNa iSnT aN AuThoRitArIaN CounTRy
Joke's on them: not only authoritarian, but capitalist authoritarian.
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I'm about to go to sleep
Good night sweet prince
Goddamn you DrSleepless, your name checks out, why can't I fall asleep
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Sameeee