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  • How Fossil Fuel Disruptions Lead to Booms in Solar and Batteries

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  • Sorry, I suspect my sarcasm may have passed you by. They already make electric mining/construction equipment, solar powered factories and recycling facilities. Steel smelting can be done with grid-connected electric arc furnaces or solar furnaces. The production of solar panels and wind turbines may not be fully detached from oil for some time, but then horses played an important role in heavy industry for decades alongside gasoline and diesel trucks and steel hulled sail ships were still hauling grain well into the 1950s. These transitions are always uneven and the tipping point can be hard to spot even with hindsight, let alone while it's happening.

    Electrification can replace more and more links in the chain until the majority or even entirety of the supply chain is no longer reliant on fossil fuels. Even if those components are made with the use of fossil fuels - just like automobiles made with metal hauled by horses could replace those horses.

  • How Fossil Fuel Disruptions Lead to Booms in Solar and Batteries

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  • Much like how when automobiles were new, you could prove they weren't actually viable because you still needed horse carts to haul the iron ore, and the coal to smelt it from the mines. The idea that someday the entire fleet of mining and transportation equipment would use internal combustion engines seemed quite impossible.

    Probably there's no way to transition to electric mining equipment, electric smelters, electric battery recycling facilities, and electric transport fleets.

    Some would call it a bootstrap problem but it's possible you're right and there's no way to transition from one suite of existing technologies to a new, cheaper one.

  • Balcony solar is taking state legislatures by storm

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  • Question from someone who has only done extremely basic electrical work: if this thing is feeding power in on one circuit, can devices on another circuit use that power? I'd been assuming you'd have to plug it in next to whatever you intend to draw from it.

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    SLRPNK.net Is back online! 🌞

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  • That's good to know, thank you!

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    SLRPNK.net Is back online! 🌞

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  • Yeah how do you do that? I really ought to save this stuff off at some point

  • Did you know that the Internet Archive has classic sci-fi radio dramas?

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  • X Minus One is amazing! We have a lot of fun with that on long drives.

  • Nice to see an ICE car fire getting some media attention for a change

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  • Also they weren't singled out, other American companies producing small cars/fire traps did get sued. Ford caught actual criminal charges not because they had money but for the elements above when they came to light.

    Their victory (bought with famous lawyers) helped set a precedent that ensured American corporations are an effective shield against liability and real consequences even in truly horrendous deliberate, documented harms.

  • Nice to see an ICE car fire getting some media attention for a change

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  • It wasn't unique in small American cars in those couple decades (notable for rushed designs with an indifference to safety across the board) but the numbers were a bit worse. They stood out for Ford's extensive crash tests, and well-documented knowledge of the lethal design flaw, their early decision to pay out for deaths rather than make a quite inexpensive design change, and recall, and for the decade of expensive legal battles and PR campaigns where they lobbied against federal rear-end collision safety requirements which would have saved lives and identified the problem. They were happy to throw money at every aspect of the problem except for the part that kept burning their customers alive.

    Also it wasn't just the gas tank design but flaws with the frame and (essentially cosmetic bumper) which jammed every door even in minor rear end collisions.

  • Nice to see an ICE car fire getting some media attention for a change

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  • This was half the problem with the Ford Pinto - the big name in burning people alive after minor collisions.

  • Dun worry fren, I will save you! 🐢

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  • I stopped once to move a big snapper but he wasn't having it. A guy in a truck stopped around the same time and approached with a snow shovel with this sort of weary confidence, like he'd done this a thousand times.

    He tapped it gently on the shell, then put the shovel in front of its face. The turtle chomped right on and he pulled it off the road. I don't know if that was the right way to move it but it worked - mostly I was impressed he had a turtle-moving protocol (and shovel) ready to go.

  • Boston announces historic, city-wide energy upgrade that could become an American standard: 'Turn the Charles River into a renewable energy resource'

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  • This is very cool and I like that it uses a lot of existing infrastructure (maintaining the existing steam tunnels etc, just changing out the heat source).

    I'm curious if this will have any effect on the river good or bad - I've read articles about how outflows from human communities can warm nearby water bodies. Curious if this will have a similar impact or could reduce the harm or if it won't make any real difference

  • Fusion

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  • Retvrn to steam

  • This is my Jellyfin Cyberpunk collection - need more

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  • That's fair, but it's also worth noting that some of the absolute classics like the original Ghost in the Shell also forgo that one.

    Over the last couple decades cyberpunk kinda infiltrated mainstream science fiction - it's hard to find scifi without at least a few cyberpunk elements these days. To the point that making something that checks all the boxes or avoids them all both seem to be a very deliberate choice now. It can make drawing a line around the genre kinda difficult.

  • This is my Jellyfin Cyberpunk collection - need more

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  • Megazone23 is the reason I'm not allowed to choose movies/shows for TV and takeout night with friends anymore. What a weird, stupid, amazing mess. 100% worth it.

  • I've colored jenga pieces to play uno stacko. House rules for extra blocks?

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  • Not sure if Aniline wood dyes are all that different but they also work really well!

  • Facing Fascism: Sabotage

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  • This is my Jellyfin Cyberpunk collection - need more

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  • I'd definitely recommend adding Space Sweepers for something fun and upbeat (for cyberpunk).

    For a scifi horror with more cyberpunk elements than you might expect, I'd suggest Morgan (2016).

    Soldier (1998) might be too much of a stretch but it's got a lot of the elements (minus an evil corporation) and it's a solid film.

    Edit: I forgot Outland! It's great, plot is basic but works, actors are fun (it's got Sean Connery) and the aesthetics/sets are prime Alien/Aliens territory. I think of it as being set in the Aliens universe.

  • Why not repurpose obsolete smartphones as DAB metadata displays?

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  • I think I'd heard of this previously but I might actually have access to a supported device now! I'll have to try it out.

  • Why not repurpose obsolete smartphones as DAB metadata displays?

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  • I'd love to see more apps and especially replacement ROMs that let you use phones for a simpler task. Replacement OSs appeal to me because they could scale back the device's capabilities, which could reduce its attack surface (a good thing if the manufacturer has dropped security updates).

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Any favorite articles/essays? (Especially around how cars reshaped rural places)

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    any favorite articles/essays? (especially around how cars reshaped rural places)

  • Reclamation - restoring disturbed lands @slrpnk.net
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    Looking for input/feedback on a solarpunk fiction project largely about land restoration

  • Reclamation - restoring disturbed lands @slrpnk.net
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    Examples of detection dogs being trained to find different environmental contaniminants

  • Reclamation - restoring disturbed lands @slrpnk.net
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    Beaver Dam Analogs and restoring wetlands

    www.science.org /content/article/beaver-dams-without-beavers-artificial-logjams-are-popular-controversial-restoration
  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    Question about analog voltmeters and antique telephones

  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    Looking for advice on separating layers from a rear projector TV screen

  • Sweet Graffiti and other acts of wholesome vandalism @slrpnk.net
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    Pink cat holding flowers

  • zerowaste @slrpnk.net
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    is there any good way to put an extremely-flaking pleather jacket back into service?

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
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    Realism Question About Depicting Antennas

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    I just realized recently that our entire entertainment system is reclaimed ewaste

  • Solarpunk Farming @slrpnk.net
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    An interesting greenhouse design - curious how well the beeswax and textile replacement for plastic sheet holds up

    solarpunkarchitecture.org /t/francisco-fonseca-and-his-workshop-in-botanical-garden/104
  • Solarpunk technology @slrpnk.net
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    hoping to build a list of car parts that can be used for other things

  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    Hardcover Bookbinding and Laser Etching the Bookcloth

    movim.slrpnk.net /blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/hardcover-bookbinding-and-laser-etching-the-bookcloth-UGHW2D
  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    What would you like to see in solarpunk art of ships/boats/coasts?

  • zerowaste @slrpnk.net
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    The art of recycling/repurposing broken-up concrete (sometimes apparently called 'urbanite')

  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    Bookbinding a softcover book

    movim.slrpnk.net /blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/a-quick-paperback-bookbinding-project-qqhaeW
  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    My first bookbinding project - a hardcopy of the Fully Automated! TTRPG Rulebook

    movim.slrpnk.net /blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/bookbinding-the-fully-automated-rulebook-odTqQI
  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    Solarpunk Workshop

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    Deconstruction crew disassembling abandoned McMansions so the material can be reused - Postcard from a Solarpunk Future

    pixelfed.social /p/JacobCoffin/691779890604446248