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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • The days the steam engine are numbered.

    Not really. Unless there are some breakthroughs in technology that significantly lower capex & opex for grid scale energy storage, they’ll be sticking around for a long time.

    There is an asterisk on the 1TW number, and that asterisk is capacity factor. In practice it means that depending on the time of year and location, the effective output of your solar panel will be between 0-40% of label capacity .

    In my country for instance, you can expect 0-2% output from a panel in the winter time, which also happens to coincide with the peak demands (heating). Luckily, our politicians had some foresight in the 70s & 80s and built lots of hydro and nuclear power, which has been the backbone of our grid ever since (despite attempts to dismantle it).









  • Ice@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlWhat is renting?
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    2 months ago

    Yes, really it’s the worst of both worlds. In the western sense of the word, there aren’t any homeowners in China. They have to pay the premium of ownership for the privilege of still having a landlord that can evict them or demand extra payment without any legal recourse for the tenant whatsoever.







  • I was a little confused by your calling it an “advent wreath”. It is quite common to light advent candles here in Sweden, counting down the number of weeks until the yule evening. Yule calendars are also fairly frequent, often with little gifts (chocolates, tea or whatever) for each day.

    Then there are actual yule wreaths, which we often decorate our doors with, like this one:





  • Ice@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzInsulin
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    3 months ago

    A lot of the benefits people associate with capitalism require a free market. The US problem is that the megacorps have gotten sufficiently powerful to abolish that free market through regularory (and legal) capture, enabling entrenched monopolies.