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Xavienth @ Xavienth @lemmygrad.ml
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What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?

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  • I mean, driving in two inches of unploughed snow isn't a big deal where I'm from but that's - as you mentioned - where everyone has winter driving experience, but also winter tires.

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • It's not 10-20 years of construction AND 10-20 years at a loss, it's 10-20 years of construction at a loss. Not great, but up to 40 years as you suggest sounds a lot worse because it's a misrepresentation.

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • And you would be running 10-20 years of gas and coal power plants in addition to the renewables if you're not in a suitable area for hydro because suitable grid scale energy storage solutions literally don't exist. Maybe they will in 10-20 years, but would you bet on a maybe or go with nuclear which we know will work as a baseload?

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • Nuclear (with the exception of France because they're special) is limited to being a base load as you alluded, but power demand varies throughout the day. Nuclear can't vary on a 24 hour scale to follow the load so we need renewables and energy storage or hydroelectric to make up the difference. That's what "nuclear OR renewables" misses

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • You cannot run the entire grid on entirely renewable. We physically don't have enough lithium in the world to make the batteries for it, and even if you don't use lithium there would be untold ecological destruction to extract the rare earths.

    Renewable and hydroelectric is a solution but not viable everywhere and hydro also causes massive ecological destruction

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • Nuclear plants are immensely profitable, just not on time scales politicians are interested in. You're deep in the red for 10-20 years and then after that it prints money

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • The US needs to legalize it first

    • In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars

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  • It depends on a number of factors: outdoor temperature, the model of car, whether climate control is used. At temperatures of an average January daytime high where I live, using climate control, range can decrease by 40% and anecdotally my model is even higher.

    • Why are trending posts on Mastodon mostly negatively politically oriented?

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  • How do you follow hashtags?

    • What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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  • In Canada the decimal after the cents is part of the screen and changes rather than being fixed at .9

    • Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?

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  • My brother is gen Z and is having a kid this year