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  • Global energy demand is not expected to fall, especially as more people gain access through economic development of traditionally poorer nations.

    That is why increasing renewable generation capacity is so important now.

  • It's about the perceived drug use (namely ecstasy) within the electronic music scene. Amsterdam, because of its ports and proximity to western Europe, became a hub for typically higher quality drugs.

  • Would it not be economic suicide to do so?

  • Ah wow, I had current lfp at around 220-250 but that looks like it's on the R&D lines and not in series production yet

    I guess with the sheer amount of research being lumped into Lithium batteries at the moment, I would be surprised if it is overtaken by anything short term at least in the auto space. Let's see...

  • Just to clarify, the article states these are for low voltage systems inside cars, and not powering cars themselves.

    Which makes more sense as the density of Na-ion is ~30% less that Li-ion.

  • Is there a clear reason why this is the case?

  • The auto industry does not have a choice. They need batteries and will not get them from European suppliers, as they cannot deliver the same cost and quality AND they need the growing wealthy population there to keep their bottom line up.

    Maybe 5-10 years down the line there will be enough forcing of Chinese battery suppliers to open factories in Europe to reverse this, but it is not going to happen soon. Maybe the tarrifs will speed this up, maybe not.

  • Do the economics of nuclear make sense though? A quick search showed around $5k/kW capacity. That's $5 billion per GW. Then there's permit and build times on top of that.

    Surely renewables + distributed storage is going to become key?

  • Is there already extensive precedence of undersea, long distance power distribution? I could imagine the losses would be outrageous at that distance.

  • Bluetooth and the 2.4 GHz ISM band is not electricity and is highly resilient to moderate noise over short distances. Problems are usually caused by hardware related issues.

  • To be fair, this is pretty much the story of any right wing politician too.. at least this girl (arguably) didn't ruin the lives of millions.

  • Obviously, more plants are needed to combat the destructive USB industry.

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  • The paper itself, which is linked in the BBC article, is quite a read too Original Article

  • I'm sorry, are we really going to pretend long haul flights will become hydrogen in the near future? Has any airport begun building, or even thinking of, refueling infrastructure?

  • I would argue that your perspective is a narrow one and you need to change what info you are consuming. My personal take (if you have any interest):

    1. Most of the people on this world are not rich enough to be part of daily traffic jams. They are just trying to survive and enjoy life with what they have.
    2. Current resource competition is driven by profit seeking and not bourne out of necessity (i.e. we're not "competing" in the traditional sense, where countries at war are doing so to feed their people etc... At least, not yet.)
    3. There is definitely more space and resources available for more people, if we learn to better distribute what we have - the how of this, while keeping everyone happy, is the billion dollar question.
    4. You can choose to live in the jungle by yourself if you want, no one is (hopefully) forcing you to take part in working etc.
    5. If you can, you should go travel more. If you can't, go volunteer some of your time to your community. It tends to clear my "the world is going to shit" thoughts. Sure, there's problems everywhere, and we should fight for the ones we feel are important, but there is also a lot of great things happening.
  • I'm sorry, are you saying women's rights were better in the 1700s or wars didn't happen? Or that people had less problems? Or that the ruling class shared power?

    I don't mean to offend, but this is an insanely naive view of the world.

  • A lot less humans existed for a lesser period of time without electricity.

    We used to burn oil and other fuels for lamps, raw wood for heat, raw sewerage was everywhere if not released untreated into waterways. All of this was hugely polluting and detrimental to health. Please don't kid yourself that there were better times in the 1700s.