Claidheamh @ Claidheamh @slrpnk.net

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Renewables plus storage are very well capable of reliable supply.

Don't get me wrong, they are capable of a much larger percentage of supply than they currently provide, but to handle the predictable periods of peak demand on the grid, it would be incredibly inefficient to rely only on renewables plus storage. It's not the most environmentally friendly solution for that.

Do you have an english translation for the link in the edit btw?

an institution as unsuspicious of being “too green” as it gets

Being too green is not the problem. The problem is not being green enough...

Renewables + batteries? You wouldn't have saved any emissions. Construction of a nuclear plant doesn't require as much carbon emissions as you think. And regardless, nuclear isn't competing with renewables, anyway, it's for replacing carbon-emitting power plants. Nuclear and renewables need to work hand-in-hand if we want to actually reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

What do you prefer? A power plant where all the hazardous material it generates you throw out into the atmosphere, or one where you can capture all of it into a container and prevent it from going out into the environment?

It may be expensive to build, but it's much cheaper to run. Just compare France's and Germany's energy prices.

Bioenergy is just more emissions we really can't afford to put into the atmosphere. It's basically just a fancy name for "burning wood".

They're not mutually exclusive. A society serious about eliminating fossil fuel use needs both.

The waste disposal is a solvable issue, that is still less nefarious than fossil fuel emissions. If you set the goal to replace ALL fossil fuel power generation, then nuclear is a necessary component of a renewable energy based grid. Geothermal and hydro are great and necessary, but can't provide a reliable base load for the entire grid. Nuclear plants are complemental to renewables, not competition.

That's definitely suboptimal. Why was that?

You need a baseline for a stable power grid, which renewables alone can't provide.

It kind of is, in this community.

That's an issue of your instance, not of Lemmy. Smaller, less populated instances tend to be more stable.

The books came much earlier than the show. What they meant was that the showrunners involved the writers of the books in the production of the show, which resulted in a much more faithful adaptation than is usual for these things.

There's a line in the sand with security and transparency on one side and ease-of-use and convenience on the other.

I disagree. You can do -- and in fact have multiple options for -- both.

Connect is proprietary, like Sync.

To humanity? Probably not. To billions of people? Definitely yes.

If there's ever a time when it's justified, it's when our very existence is at stake.

I think I heard it's more around the 150-200% mark

Most cheap air conditioners have COPs (coefficients of performance) around 3.2-3.5, which means 320-350% efficiency. In real world conditions, the best systems reach 4.5, though the theoretical limit is about 8.0.

So, you have no arguments against it, you just don't like that people use it to shut out intolerant discourse?

By the way, it's not "just a thought experiment". It's a philosophical principle that Popper put out there as self-preservation for democratic societies. You can argue its merits all you want, but you haven't so far.

that paradox of tolerance bullshit

How is that bullshit?

xvideos is definitely not male only. At least not the videos I've watched.

No, for some reason the OP conflated her with Bernie Sanders, who was interviewing her.