Is it weird that I’ve been arguing about solar and whether it’s viable on these forums since right when I got into the industry in 2007 and the argument about its viability hasn’t really changed at all despite:
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I think you might be over reading into big’s comment. I think he was making a comment as to the need for new storage and transmission infrastructure to incorporate solar, not questioning solar as a viable energy source.
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Maybe, but it’s something people have always said and, intentional or not - and from many it is, it’s an argument that solar is not viable and that energy and money should be put elsewhere. The debate about storage is following exactly the same path only it’s 10 or 15 years behind solar. We are now on a course where storage adoption is booming and that will develop on a scale faster than most people expect, but not as fast as it could if it’s resisted instead of encouraged.
(and no disrespect to wind - it is doing great as well, and also ultra-high voltage long distance transmission lines)
FWIW I concede lithium supply is not an issue for batteries.
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I just had to turn off the power to an outlet so now I know my whole damn apartment is running off a single 20 A breaker. Meanwhile Microsoft wants nuclear reactors for AI.
I read this as “microbet wants nuclear reactors for AI” and was really confused for a couple seconds. Didn’t seem exactly like the point he was making in the last few posts.
More like nuclear weapons dropped on AI.
Just kidding Hal.
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There is lots of work on getting lithium from abandoned oil and gas wells by tapping into brine hosted minerals.
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Fake Iowan lets loose on the corporate fish farmers or whatever they are.
Beryl’s arrival marks an exceptionally early start to the Atlantic hurricane season. On Sunday it became the earliest Category 4 on record in the Atlantic Ocean and the only Category 4 in the month of June.
Beryl is breaking records for June because the ocean is as warm now as it would normally be at the peak of hurricane season, said Jim Kossin, a hurricane expert and science advisor at nonprofit First Street Foundation.
Everything is fine. Nothing to see here.
#FOFF
July 21st was the hottest day ever recorded so far.
The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that based on preliminary data, July 21 was Earth’s hottest day since at least 1940, with the daily global average temperature reaching 17.09℃, or about 63℉, slightly exceeding the previous record of 17.08℃ from July 6, 2023.
June was the 13th straight month of record-warm temperatures for the planet, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That means every month for more than a year has been the warmest ever recorded. And 2023 was the hottest summer in 2,000 years, a study published last year found.
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While watching this I was really worried where she is going but her conclusion is just grim. Climate scientists are so worried about public opinion that they make their conclusions less scary and underestimate uncertainties.
Just jump in here every so often. I have no problem spelling out that we are super fucking doomed and way past the point where any changes will stop us from being doomed.
Can you blame the client scientists? They know nothing can stop the train we are on. Might as well try to live as comfortably as possible for as much time as we have left.
Like, we need to be at net zero CO2 and methane emissions AND need to have a way to remove millions of tons of both from the atmosphere five years ago.
The permafrost will break in the next 10-20 years and when it does, we are D O N E - fucked. The massive amounts of methane that will be released will cripple the planet, and captain trips will come. And oh yeah, through the stupidity of our species we’ve decided we will never take a global pandemic seriously again.
Bodies will pile in the streets, rot, and produce even more greenhouse gasses. There isnt anything we can do to stop this from happening.
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Like seriously, somebody put together the jelly bean game mentioned in the other thread and give me the bowl. Let me go to town so I can take my earnings and see all the amazing wonders we made over thousands of years as a species that we’ve decided to flush down the fucking drain in less than 200 years chasing the fucking fantasy of infinitie growth.
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