Green energy/tech reporter, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.
I’ve done the same and feel the same way. I’m still active on Reddit because I want to be an active part of helping people who have questions. I don’t feel the larger Lemmy community wants that so much as to complain about things. I certainly have things to complain about in life, but I don’t feel it’s healthy for me to engage with spaces that are going to cause more issues than they resolve.
And you would be … 🤣
I do kid. I enjoy that we have the options to dive into the deep end elsewhere or just hang out in a space where bullshit is quickly quashed. I’m here for discussion and to be active in ensuring this is a place I never find myself regretting joining.
Is it what everyone wants? Of course not, but that was never the intent of Beehaw to my knowledge. I’m glad you’re happy here and hope you continue to feel that way. And, you know what? Fuck anyone who tells you not to be happy with what you have. This is not Beehaw- or Lemmy-specific, this is life. Never let anyone else bring you down for what you’re comfortable with.
Yes, we clearly need better storage, and it feels (red flag, everyone!) like we’re nearly there. Sodium is looking very promising without the issues LFP represents. I’ve very much enjoyed the learning I’ve done here, especially the Nova link. I’m always open to changing my mind given new data, and I love that y’all have provided that.
Thank you for this link. I’m still not sure this is the solution, but it certainly is a solution. And we need everything we can get.
I don’t wish to be dismissive, but, uh … yeah. Fewer risks and baseload are kinda the holy grail.
This is honestly why I enjoy covering what I do. I don’t see it being commercially viable in three decades, let alone more. Better tokamaks are not the answer. There’s still too much input voltage where we’re not getting net output.
That’s the joke, though. Fusion is always 30 years out. I want to see real breakthroughs, and we aren’t there yet with fusion. That said, I’ve not paid a power bill since September, so we have solutions; they just aren’t at utility scale.
I wish to be very clear that fission could have solved a lot 40 years ago, but it currently does not help.
I’m working on a fusion story where all involved know we’re just 30 years out. Not sure yet where that story is going, but Georgia’s experience didn’t help matters because people hear “nuclear,” and at that point, we have Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and other such nice things. Overbudget and really late doesn’t help matters. (For a fun time, check out Palo Verde.) While there was more outrage in Germany over nuclear, if you grew up in Phoenix in the '80s, Palo Verde was shorthand for poor execution.
Enhanced geothermal is the answer here. I’d like to think we can figure out fusion, but it’s one of those things where we’re trying to harness the power of stars, and we are not Type II. Cart, horse.
Yes, fission is preferable to coal, but that’s a low bar. We need renewables that can perform when it’s neither sunny nor windy, and this is where EGS makes sense. I expect we will see more investment in wave power, but that’s also likely decades off, with desalinization being part and parcel, and that has its own waste problems.
This revolutionizes nothing. It’s old tech trying to address new problems, and short of the wheel, this generally goes poorly. I do want to say I think Gates has his heart in the right place, and, you know, malaria vaccines are totally changing the world.
One nuke plant in Wyoming will not.
If this is being done to avoid coal miners not getting uppity, I guess OK, but this is tech from nearly 80 years ago competing with PV, wind and EGS. This is backward looking.
CO2 is an important greenhouse gas, but not the only one, and certainly not the most potent, PPM-wise. As a proxy for the overall situation, it’s acceptable, but relying solely on CO2 concentrations invites all manner of problems at the margin to go unnoticed.
We also crossed the threshold for “beyond anything humans have experienced” for CO2 several exits ago. Claiming this is suddenly news is disingenuous, and you want some excellent geologists on your team before claiming “faster than ever.”
Like, yeah, we’re fucked, but this is not great reporting in terms of explaining why and what it means.
They do give the best cuddles, though raver bois are a close second!
Appreciate the sourcing. As with so many things, the original is better.
Fucking amazing. First burn, work goes well. I’m actually happy in my own skin after decades of crippling depression.
This is such an amazingly beautiful offer that I’m not sure how to respond. Thank you for bringing the burn spirit into the real world … I’m still working on integrating my experience and know I won’t ever be the same person I was last week, but it’s such a massive shift that I want to take my time to understand who I now am and the extent to which some of my mental struggles will be different.
And thank you for the kind words about my writing. It means so much to me that what I enjoy doing can bring others joy.
Secured my roll by trading shrooms.
I’m not entirely mobile yet … watch this space. What do tickets run for that?
I’m aware of the cliche. What is why I drove from Portland to Tsawwassen on Thanksgiving night 1999 to catch the ferry over to Vic and bring my Canadian girlfriend down for the rest of the weekend.
I just thought that would be the end of it.
She felt it was preferable to still having anything tying her to her father. For valid reasons.
The collar is just inexcusable. I hope for the sake of my neck that it’s gotten a bit duller over the years.
I have been trying for so many jobs, and I never qualified in tech. I’m trying to determine what this now looks like. Journalism is this sort of thing where there is a substantial wall at roughly Sept. 10, 2001.
From here, those aware of how shit worked up to there was not ideal.
Dunning-Kruger applies when you aren’t already competent.
I was angling for a coding role in my last job search. I am not in the area code of a know-it-all there. But here, I just apply 26 years of experience to determine news value.
This is actually funny if done in a Foghorn Leghorn voice.