There was an article posted somewhere on Lemmy a few months back where someone tried to do similar calculations for the US as a whole. What I took from the result was 95% renewable was achievable and still cheaper than fossil fuels. However the over provisioning of renewables and over double the storage needed to reliably achievable 100% made that infeasible with today’s proving and technology. Basically you can install storage to cover when the sun is not shining but it’s much more difficult to cover weeks of gloominess

Not that old, plus I don’t see it.

Asbestos is great at insulating really hot things so was used on boilers , especially ships and industrial to insulate the hot pipes and improve efficiency. However in this case we need something with thermal mass: any sand or rock might do, or water, or oil, or a modern phase change material. That material next to the heater will get hot but the entire mass won’t, so can be insulated with standard materials. There’s no point in something like asbestos

An important part of my point was also that what I assume were cheap materials was enough to take advantage of nightly time of use metering. In upstate NY, a standard “radiator” per room was sufficient, similar to hot water or steam heat

Believe it or not, also a leader of antifa

Some of the most important leaders of antifa

When I was a kid my parents had electric resistance heat with some very effective thermal storage.

Each room had a unit about the size of a typical radiator. The unit was basically an insulated box with a small circulation fan. I’m not sure what was inside but always assumed some form of brick - they weren’t expensive so it couldn’t be anything exotic. At night when electric rates were low, whatever was inside the units was heated up. During the day, the only power usage was a small circulation fan controlled by the thermostat.

I just got a heat pump installed and thought thermal storage would be worth considering since I was also looking into solar, but contractors acted like they never heard of it, and there really didn’t seem to be any consumer units available.

The solar panels are another story. I don’t see how such a scammy (in the us) industry even exists. They make it really hard to give them my money

This is a farmer. Complaining about his situation now.

Unless he’s confident of a bailout, there may be no 18 months from now. wtf would he want to kick the can down the road?

What hope do we have when a leopard is eating someone’s face and their reaction is they trust the leopard and are willing to let it continue another year and a half? What does it take for them to make the connection?

That’s the problem with being a benevolent dictator- if an action is for the greater good but the people don’t want it, is it still good? What are you willing to do to stay in office now that the people have proven they don’t know what’s best for them, and you know that you do?

Once people get desperate enough, they’ll be willing to work in the fields in the hot sun all day with no breaks, no shade, no water. The farmers will be happy with a new source of exploitable labor: win-win

Good thing we’re burning down fundamental government services, destroying our future and adding trillions to the national debt to fund tax cuts for those one percenters, huh

You see, nothing illegal happened on Trump-Epstein island. /s

This quote from the article says so much about so many of these cuts

America’s … 50-year run as the global leader of cancer research — may very well be coming to a close, and for no apparent reason. Varmus seemed as puzzled as anyone by the development. “We are great in science,” he said. “Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?”

In the 2010s, regulators in both the European Union and the United Kingdom stopped requiring companies to report quarterly results, moving to six-month reporting periods instead.

It also has precedence, real world demonstration.

In 2018, Trump urged the SEC to study moving to a six-month reporting system to “allow greater flexibility & save money.

And it’s even something he’s thought about for a while rather than a momentary impulse or reaction. I wonder what the results of that study were.

The US stock market is fairly strong at encouraging innovation, new companies, growth. My employer is one of many that moved its headquarters here to take advantage of that innovation economy. I don’t like this one proposal on the grounds that it erodes yet another US advantage. We’ll be worse off for it.

But we do have examples of it working so it’s not the end of the world. This seems far less destructive than most of his actions

Presumably a lot less trading from outside sources like 👍 investment funds and overseas investors

It’ll be like twitter: encourage the crazies and drive away the legit content until the platform is entirely ruined

I believe there were many “low information” voters who only knew they wanted change.

Where those voters might have wanted Biden Harris initiatives, those tended toward long term investments that people were not patient for or were not trumpeted as loudly. Improvements were neither visible nor immediate. Building is boring. Too many people never paid attention, wanted instant gratification or only heard the loudest voices.

Maybe the problem is the internet. It used to be easy to say that speech should be free, no matter what. But the internet has given a bigger stage while distancing people from real life consequences, allowing them to do real harm to society.

Kirk is a great example. He could have preached his hatred alone on a corner in a small village, but he got a pulpit, he faced no real life consequences, and he caused harm increasing our divisiveness, pitting neighbor against neighbor, encouraging hatred, and that is before the effect on government services.

You have to buy frosted. You have to toast them. Otherwise they’re just cardboard: you can’t really tell them apart from the box

There is no reset. All the easy to reach fossil fuels being gone may be an insurmountable obstacle to any reset being able to reach an industrial age

Why masturbate yourself like a peon, when you can spend $500000 to? And get a free Florence Pugh voice to “avenge” your crusaders?

I kind of thought that was the only real difference with 11: requiring the tpm

There are some companies that sell hardware with Linux pre-installed. The bigger companies that do are Dell and Lenovo.

Last time I checked, admittedly years ago, I was irritated at paying the same price as for the windows version of the same hardware. Why do I still need to pay the Microsoft tax and who’s getting it?