Meowoem

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[–] Meowoem 10 points 1 year ago

This is a fantastic idea, here in the UK we've just been dumping raw sewage in the rivers and poisoning the coast because it'd cut into water companies record profits to treat it (also Brexit chemical shortages or something)- if we can turn the poop into something useful that can sell then the won't let a drop off that precious filth go to waste.

[–] Meowoem 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Your claimed calculation is very vague, I have to say I don't believe for a second you actually did that and it's laughable you're claiming you did

When someone tells me that they've noticed a fundamental flaw that all the leading minds in the field have not it does not lead me to think that the field itself is flawed rather the person I'm speaking to's understanding of it.

Of course we understand that it's not all going to come from one source but where there are waste products like stalks and leaves left over from food production, poo, algae, and etc it makes sense to work towards using all of those so we can transition away from the extracting oil and gas.

[–] Meowoem 6 points 1 year ago

The energy comes from excess generation in renewables for load balancing, that base load thing people mistakenly say they can't do.

It's clever and simple, you put a whole load of potential generation in knowing that to meet your essential and desired demand on low generation days you'll need excess capacity which will over produce on high generation days. You then plug that in to a system which has tanks of feedstock in this case poo and empty storage capacity so that in peek generation periods it can run at maximum, when it's only a little over the requested load it runs at limited power and if there's a time with no excess power it turns off for a bit.

That's why all the carbon capture and processing facilities are focusing on modular parallel design, it's very easy then to create scalable production tied to excess load.

Of course this is only one of the many possibilities, the nuclear lovers want to build nuclear powered sequestration and processing facilities, Iceland made one using geothermal, the American one is wind and the proposed Saudi one trailer about being solar thermal.

Oh and actually the efficiency is incredibly impressive now, with some of the active catalyst chemistry they're developing we're getting into heat pump style efficiency gains and it'll looking more likely we'll be able to go below parity in cost per gallon Vs mined hydrocarbons.

I know it feels like people never explain the complex side of things but that's because journalists are bad at their jobs, there's whole organisations out there dedicated to this sort of planning and a lot of the stuff they talk about and work towards ia incredibly well thought out and sensible.

[–] Meowoem 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You're not going to stop people living their lives, visiting friends, family, and having meaningful life experiences. If we can make flying more ecologically sustainable than rail and boats then it would be a hugely positive thing in the fight against climate change.

[–] Meowoem 1 points 1 year ago

My 970 gets a thrashing editing and rendering video but it has great FPS playing tremulous and saubrauten.

(They're open source first person shooters from fifteen years ago)

[–] Meowoem 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not convinced, I need glasses and hate wearing them plus contacts are horrible but hugely popular because people think glasses are worse.

I think there are plenty of uses for HUD but they're being greedy by trying to corner a consumer market that doesn't exist when they should be trying to solve their way into niche markets which can popularise the tech and develop uses for it.

There's almost nothing that I use a smart phone for which glasses would be better, I don't need object labelling because I rarely come across an object I don't recognise, I don't need instant notification of messages or alerts. Maybe gen alpha will like having subway surfer playing at all times but I don't really think so.

I think AI voice control and natural language though text input will remove even more of the need for it and taskable automation will help reduce that even more by removing jobs that need labelling assistance.

Wearing body cameras will likely become standard though whether we like it or not, which I assume most people won't but will go along with for reasons of personal protection against slander and duplicitous editing.

[–] Meowoem -2 points 1 year ago

By 'that crowd' do you mean conservative countries in South East Asia?

[–] Meowoem 3 points 1 year ago

You'd think they'd have metal detectors on the door to MRI rooms, it's got to be cheaper than cleaning whatever mess something like this made.i mean he must have cum hard when that hit his prostate

[–] Meowoem 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a really fascinating thing, there was a type of person that obviously learned to get their knowledge from TV as a shortcut - like instead of learning about the subject they'd pick up what different characters on TV thought about it and adopt those opinions.

I think we have that even more now with people pretty much just going with the tone set by memes and internet comments - which they then amplify by paroting. This is incredibly true with politics now, actually talk to some of the people yelling about things and it soon becomes clear they have no idea about any surrounding information - and not just the obvious conspiracy theorist ones.

[–] Meowoem 11 points 1 year ago

There's a lot if you look for it, recent developments in tidal are incredibly positive and we're absolutely going to see a rapid uptake in marine electrification as existing technology progresses through the market. Most people never really think about the resources used and pollution caused by small boats but one of the big destructive forces at play is the infrastructure requirements - small boats need big boats to supply their fuel stations.

Transitioning away from this system and instead using costal tidal generators to charge electric ferries and barges could be a total game changer in many areas, especially many of the highly trafficked and polluted tidal basins like in north Brazil, Nigeria, or island clusters like in the Philippines. Also the intercoastal waterways around the US and other leisure spots.

We're making great progress in many areas and I really think it's important to acknowledge this and cheer it on least we get so caught in a false sense of doom that we just give up.

[–] Meowoem 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no collective punishment, measures aren't being done to punish but to limit the effectiveness of people actively trying to kill them.

If you have to hide behind 'yes what we're doing would be war crimes but technically we're not a nation' then it doesn't really change anything, regardless of what their actions are labelled they must be stopped and Israel is taking the measures it feels are needed to do this while also trying to limit the negative effects to other people caught up in this.

[–] Meowoem 0 points 1 year ago

Of course they don't, this has become a meme conflict with people fully ignoring reality.

The arguments people make to excuse Hamas make it incredibly clear that they're not even slightly interested in reality, they're trying to make weird logical traps as if they can magicly obscure the reality àn organisation with soldiers trained and funded by Iran and other islamist organisations is hellbent on the total direction of Israel and is doing absolutely atrocious things to try and achieve those goals.

If they had to continually hope the rockets getting fired at their house every day don't get through then they wouldn't be sitting back saying 'oh they're not technically a terrorist organisation and not technically a nation state so we should just let them carry on trying to kill us'

I'm not saying everything Israel have ever done is good or that there aren't bad Israelies but the situation is painfully complex and pretending it isn't just makes people look dumb

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