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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
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11·2 months agoThe fuel becomes hot because the nuclear reaction in it is producing both light (eg: gamma rays) and fast-moving subatomic particles. These both interact with the rest of the fuel to heat it up.
In most places, at most times of day, a lot less.
Why? First, because a lot of electricity is generated using wind, water, solar, and nuclear. Those don’t have that problem (ok, nuclear wastes a lot of heat, but really, who cares). The second reason is that power plants that burn stuff tend to be a lot more efficient than internal combustion engines; the best case is combined-cycle gas turbine power plants, which turn over 60% of the energy available into electricity, as compared with a gasoline engine which turns about 20% of the energy in the gas into motion.
It’s “a shipload full of solar panels can provide the same amount of energy over 25 years as the many ships of LNG or coal would when burned”
I included the context quote making this sort-of clear quite intentionally.
About 40% of shipping by tonnage today is moving fossil fuels around. If we move to renewables, this pretty much goes away.
About two more years I think. I’m expecting there to be enough solar to decarbonize by 2050 if we also ramp up wind turbine manufacturing. The latter part is important because the different intermittency of the two renewables sharply reduces the amount of storage needed.
Mostly, because the manufacturing capacity is constrained still. If the factories currently being built actually go into operation, we’ll end up with enough solar to meet peoples’ needs (though not enough wind turbines)
If a couple percent of the population stops shopping there, Amazon will miss it’s quarterly numbers and the stock price will fall sharply.
There have already been resignations over it. Not quite sure how many
Mind, you, they reportedly set the permissive action link code to all-zeros for decades.
It’s both - I’m well aware that it’s not just pressing a random button behind a curtain, and it’s a bit of an issue that generals under Trump were thinking seriously about disobeying a military order because the considered him to be potentially erratic around the use of nuclear weapons.
Can’t speak for the upthread poster, but I keep a portable 20w solar panel around to charge my cell phone and satellite transponder in emergencies.
The move they’re making is to claim that Democrats control the weather and inflict storms like this on people. It’s bullshit, like most of their other claims, and really reeks of desperation.
Yeah, hearing similar things from others; it takes a really long time to fix the utilities when the roads are washed out all over the place, and need to be repaired to even bring heavy equipment in to many locations.
I figure it’s the spray-tan which doesn’t go on right next to the eyes.
7·4 months agoIt’s more that the owning family is incredibly wealthy, and believes in regularly presenting their viewers with right-wing views.
I don’t actually know; try asking Christopher Webb whom I think created it.