Pretty happy with !noyank@lemmy.ml it is on its way to 300 people and has several active subscribers. If a discussion-type thread is started (rather than a recommendation thread) it does get discussion going.
do you need an explanation beyond "some people online will believe anything"
trusted by whom?
I like my odds
The steel in todays wind turbine is the steel in a thousand years from now’s turbine, where as the co2 that got pumped into the atmosphere because that turbine wasn’t enough is also the co2 killing people in a thousand years
FYI making steel emits carbon: kinda the main point of the article.
The exponential relationship is between speed and energy, rather than height and speed.
The larger the wind turbine the better an investment it is.
For better or worse our green transition is primarily capitalist. That matters a lot here.
Wind speeds are significantly higher every meter you get above the ground. The larger the blade the better it performs. Windmills can’t cluster together too closely since they induce turbulence…
It all means that bigger is better here.
I don't see anything punk about this at all, sorry. Reads anti-punk beginning to end.
They use steel more effectively, but use other resources like wind, land, labor, and electronics less effectively, and all of which are harder to recycle
Wind is a renewable resource. Saying wind is not easy to recycle is incoherent.
Electronics is the only one of the four you mentioned where recycling is a relevant concept.
As for wind farms being an effective use of land, that's just obviously wrong. You can't even have livestock near them.
As for less labour-efficient, I'd've thought that's part of solarpunk: being less capital-intensive/more labour-intensive.
Steel can be pretty easily recycled, so it’s not too bad all in all.
All in all, it is roughly 9% of greenhouse gas emissions
We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
The link is from the-most-solarpunk-website and is mostly about steel in general, but I wanted to pull out that one fact.
Wind and solar energy are not "good for the environment"; they pollute; it's just that we hope they pollute less than the alternative. One major reason they pollute is because they require a lot of steel to build. But the household-scale or village-scale ones use less
de Decker is citing: Topham, Eva, et al. “Recycling offshore wind farms at decommissioning stage.” Energy policy 129 (2019): 698-709.
The oil industry didn't legally manipulate velomobiles into having a wide turning circle
This comment is rational.
For those inter-city bike lanes like you see in some parts of France they would be great.
I feel there's probably some reasons they haven't become popular.
-
Don't turn as nimbly as a bike
-
Can't put them on your shoulder and carry them indoors, onto a train, etc. like as a bike
-
Don't climb hills as well as a bike (source)
-
20× the cost of a bike, maybe that could be brought down by economies of scale if they were more popular
I could imagine a velomobile being preferable if you're commuting from a satellite town to the city, and the journey consists of a long straight road.
I'd definitely say they're worse for getting around the city, and their comparative advantages are bought at the price of significant extra overhead.
Couldn't care less.
not my circus not my monkeys
as soon as I read his post I assumed yours was actually posted entirely to set up that joke.
I take this as a compliment that my pun was that laser-accurate.
If you follow the world of clean energy, you will probably have read all about the so-called hydrogen future and the hydrogen economy. The gas can easily be made from water by electrolysis from gre…
Don't click this unless you want to read me go on about how much I hate Ralph Waldo emerson
Let's pick out a line from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/16643-h/16643-h.htm to see what he has to say:
> "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
That's a pretty typical line. Let's set aside for now the debate on whether nonconformity is good or bad: look at the tone of the writing. It is a moral lecture. It is saying: "This is how you should think, what you should believe, how you should be." The reading allows only one interpretation. It's just beating you about the head with serious truth-claims. Another line:
> "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken."
Each sentence is a bland assertion. Commanding the reader what to think. I am reading a list of opinions. That is all it is: a list of opinions. This is considered peak Usan culture. It is considered to be literature or philosophy. Another line –
> "He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming."
This is not literature. This is a self-help book. It is downright bad, adolescent writing. It's relentlessly po-faced, and there isn't a whiff of creativity from the prose. I grew up on Irish writers. Irish writers say things like –
> "Choosing his boot, the buttoned class, as a convenient example of inanation, he lifted it in the air"
Irish writers say things like –
> "She opened the fridge for the ham, the butter, the can of Smithwick's. Happy as a duck she was"
These are just the first two lines before my eyes when I picked up the first two books by my elbow. Do you see the difference? Literature should have warmth, humanity, creativity. Writers should have the craic with language. The words should be buttered with character. Ralph Waldo Emerson's output has all the banality of ChatGPT's. Imagine living with this guy. Imagine trying to flirt with him and he just starts lecturing you like a charmless Anglican.
Edgar Allen Poe's pretty good though I'll give the yanks that.
📚🇨🇳 Classic Chinese Novels - Wikipedia
They include:
-
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
-
Water Margin
-
Journey to the West
-
The Plum in the Golden Vase (of the Ming dynasty)
-
Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone)
-
The Scholars (of the Qing dynasty).
The Chinese historian and literary theorist C. T. Hsia wrote that these six "remain the most beloved novels among the Chinese."[2]
The Guardian and other liars are reporting Fmovies is "shut down"
-
https://fmovie-s.to/
-
https://www.fmovies.hn/
-
https://fmovies.ps/
-
https://fmoviesto.cc/
-
many more
verified up and working today
The Guardian and other liars are reporting Fmovies is "shut down"
-
https://fmovie-s.to/
-
https://www.fmovies.hn/
-
https://fmoviesto.cc/
-
https://fmovies.ps/
-
many more
verified up and working today
🎥🇫🇷 Goddammit 'Anatomy of a Fall' is a brilliant film
Really really good, best film I've seen in years.
Won the 2023 Palme D'Or.
It's a French courtroom drama I suppose you could call it, though it doesn't follow some genre formula.
The brilliance of it is that the questions aren't answered, the core of the plot is a mystery rather than a stated fact. My main gripe about American culture is there is only one interpretation of the text.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUXawkH-ONM
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_a_Fall
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17009710/
🇨🇳🎮 Black Myth: Wukong breaks records in 24h as the most-played singleplayer game on Steam
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19382242
> https://steamdb.info/charts/?sort=peak
Remove All American Operating Systems From Your Life
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18182906
> Source > Linux currently 29.1%
🏴🎵 Peat & DieselBrandy in the Airidh (crofter folk-punk)
Brandy in the Airidh music video filmed in Stornoway, inverness and also Thurso so we could get Paraffin Dan involved!!!
🎥🇳🇬 'House of Ga'a' Review: This Authentic and Powerful Nigerian Historical Drama is Stunning
Director Bolanle Austen-Peters and writer Tunde Babalola were eager to convey how great the old Oyo Empire was during the 18th Century, but at the same
The golden, dome-shaped object was discovered in the Gulf of Alaska during an NOAA expedition and after bringing it to the surface, scientists still have no idea what it is.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18501734
> (Sez you: didn't you make this post a week ago? Sez I: different sport) > > Galway v Armagh at 3:30, so about 75 minutes after this post. > > This is going to be incredible. The most evenly-matched final in ages. My prediction: a draw. > > # Watch > > Here's an old comment about watching GAA online > > It's on RTÉ2 (which is on daddylive, though I'm not promising the stream will work smoothly), on BBC Sport NI, and on GAAGO Abroad (with DRM) > >
(Sez you: didn't you make this post a week ago? Sez I: different sport)
Galway v Armagh at 3:30, so about 75 minutes after this post.
This is going to be incredible. The most evenly-matched final in ages. My prediction: a draw.
Watch
Here's an old comment about watching GAA online
It's on RTÉ2 (which is on daddylive, though I'm not promising the stream will work smoothly), on BBC Sport NI, and on GAAGO Abroad (with DRM)
Defence solicitor Joseph Cuddigan said the only charge against Eric Fitzgerald was one of possession of a knife
