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Resonosity

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  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • As a solar engineer building this stuff daily, I tend to agree with your solution of sub/urban solar rather than agrivoltaics.

    Doesn't mean you can do agrivoltaics in a sub/urban context though ;P

  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • Ground-mount is good economically, but ecologically not so much.

    If we can build more Solar + Storage (SS) in suburban and urban contexts, then we can capitalize on the land that's already being used for human purposes - leaving other land able to be rewilded.

    I grew up in the Midwest of the US, and as I got older it was so disheartening to see how chopped up the natural world is in between large fields of corns, soy, and wheat. I don't want the land that's being used currently for industrial agriculture to be used for utility-scale solar. But I realize my wishes and dreams don't mean much when the people that own these properties have financial incentives to build solar anyways.

    I think we need to have more legislation about re-wilding and regenerating nature in the US apart from conserving what we have. Building solar on the already built environment is one way to prevent barriers to that regeneration.

  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • We can't generate power anywhere it needs to be pretty close to where it's being used.

    Residential and Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Solar + Storage (SS) disproves this.

    For transportation, I agree it's tough. Germany trialed a highway designed with overhead catenary power lines like electrified trains use but for trucks. Can't remember if it was successful or not. Shouldn't be hard to build out catenaries across national highways. The circuits can be aluminum to save on costs, and you incentivize adding generation along highways, further giving reason to build EV charging stations.

    Electrification can't fix everything, sure, but I think we should be ramping it up more than we already have.

  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • I think people forget that if we build enough solar, we'll have such an energy surplus that it'll be essentially free to electrify stuff and use that energy.

    Losses from transformation and transmission go away as soon as the resource is unlimited.

  • Trump administration goes after Second Amendment rights in justifying Minneapolis shooting

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  • Clearly the dog had a gun with an intent to kill

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  • The use of the word "explode" is misleading. It's definitely misinformation.

    Here's an arborist talking about it, but basically:

    Trees move sap and other liquids up and down their trunk from the soil underneath regularly. For trees like maples, this is where maple syrup comes from, except you have to collect a lot of sap and reduce it down to syrup.

    The arborist claims that these liquids present in the tree when the temperature swings faster than the tree can respond expand due to freezing, which buckles tree trunks causing the outer bark to crack open and separate. The cracks can be from the ground up, or they can look like gashes in the side of the tree. There's moisture in the soil too, which can shift tree roots and cause similar cracking.

    People say "explode" because there's usually a popping sound when this happens.

    In other contexts, people call this frost upheave. Engineers know about this phenomenon, and try to bury equipment like pipes and cable and conduit below the frost line so frost upheave doesn't crack and break that stuff. With trees, this frost upheave just takes place inside the trees themselves.

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  • The trees don't actually explode. They crack open.

    Words are meaningful

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • You don't vote

    Nice fucking strawman idiot.

    Let me know when you're ready to discuss like adults without misrepresenting other's beliefs.

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • I want a Democratic party doing propaganda IN THE LEFT DIRECTION.

    At least at the start. Cuz that's what the Right does. Lie at first, then walk it back.

    Do the investigation when the fire dies down.

    We don't have time for liberals to compromise and capitulate. People are dying every day.

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • You cannot know what every single issue will be in the future.

    Sure, vote for people who have the same values, but even then people can flip flop or cave to pressure.

    What I'm advocating for is pressure from the citizenry to have these politicians do what we want OUTSIDE OF ELECTIONS because their duty to represent people doesn't start and stop in an election season.

    Fuck that noise

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • I voted for them. Many Leftists voted for them because we were doing harm reduction.

    But there are no elections happening now, so why the fuck would we do harm reduction? Primaries don't happen for a couple more weeks! General elections don't happen for months or even years!

    The Democratic party, whether they realize it or not, are supposed to act as the opposition party to the fascists. The fact that they are CONTROLLED opposition doesn't change their primary function from the perspective of the voters. To the rich and wealthy, of course Democrats are the controlled opposition, and for good reason to the rich and wealthy.

    NOW is the time to pressure Democrats to do what we want, and scold them for ignoring to. NOW is the time to fund and volunteer for progressive candidates across the country who are participating in this year's primaries. NOW is the time to organize with political organizations and mutual aide groups.

    Democrats should be prosecuted because they've enabled this administration when they've had plenty of opportunities to ACT in the past to prevent this present time from occuring. I'm mostly referring to the triple crown of Blue Executive, House, and Senate twice since Obama's first term.

    May I remind Marxist-Leninists who give a fuck about the US that revolution cannot be forced on a people. Revolutionaries must work within the systems of the masses - indeed voting and paying lip service to their petty "democracy" - until the time is right.

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • It physically hurt when Cuck Boomer said that we still need to investigate Renee Good's murder before we know what the outcome is. I'm sorry, but that centrist slop is the exact opposite of what we need. What I believe we need.

    So yeah, I'll keep talking shit about the Dems because they're supposed to represent my views, since we live in a Representative Democracy.

    But maybe that needs to change. I'm all for a general strike to make these maggots in suits crumble to their knees. Minnesota is trying to do that today in fact

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • Fascism is capitalism's final tool before self-imploding imo. Either way, both suck

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • I would argue that fascism is the ultimate tool for capitalism, for the reasons that you outline.

    But I agree with your sentiment

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • If Democrats don't prosecute the FUCK out of themselves for being complicit with this administration as well as the scummy admin itself, then we are FUCKED because they'd just enable the next wave of fascists.

    Fuck Trump and everyone who enabled him up to this point

  • Trump, 79, Appears to Forget Name of Woman Who Just Gave Him Her Nobel Peace Prize

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  • Evil never dies.

    Wish it did though.

  • i hate dishes

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  • I can't stand dishes so much anymore that I just let the pots I used to cook cool while I'm eating dinner, then just throw them in the fridge.

    I usually eat the leftovers within the following 1-2 days, and I have less dishes because I'm not using containers.

    Ez

  • Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX 🥳

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  • Congrats Dan!

  • What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET

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  • I'd be interested in reading a debate thread on Lemmy about this.

    What the pros and cons to different communication methods are following a disaster that neutralizes mainstream methods of communication.

    Benn Jordan just did a video on Meshtastic and other decentralized tech, so I'm inclined to believe in mesh technology. But I'm also curious about the high frequency stuff you mention