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SomeoneSomewhere

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  • The True Meaning of Easter

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  • Slightly differs from the actual comic, though.

    "Give birth to Spring itself" and "hang on, Spring" vs "give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here"

    And ends with TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM

  • Hydrogen Direct Reduction ❌ EVs Powered by Fossil Fuels ✅

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  • Cost-to-benefit analysis, sure. But you still need a realistic comparison of the costs side of the equation to do that.

    People were whining about the energy costs of regular data centers long before AI came along.

    That invites a lot of questions like is it lower carbon to have a zoom call than fly out for a meeting? Do the travel emissions of an imported tomato offset the heating emissions for a local out-of-season hothouse tomato? If I'm going to make one personal sacrifice, is it more effective to give up red meat, bike to work, or make my next holiday less far away?

    Intentionally ignoring evidence is just dumb; decisions made purely on vibes are often going to be wrong.

  • Hydrogen Direct Reduction ❌ EVs Powered by Fossil Fuels ✅

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  • So your alternative is what? Just say a tonne is a tonne?

    It's adequate for the purpose at hand.

  • Hydrogen Direct Reduction ❌ EVs Powered by Fossil Fuels ✅

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  • Hydrogen Direct Reduction ❌ EVs Powered by Fossil Fuels ✅

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  • Anaerobic bacteria produce methane. When oxygen is present, the aerobic pathway outcompetes anaerobic because more energy is available, producing CO2 instead.

    GHG are usually measured in tonnes of CO2 equivalent (GWP) where methane is about 80x as much warming as the same mass of CO2 over a 20 year period, or about 25x as much warming over a 100 year period.

    This is also what's going on in the steady replacement of various refrigerants with lower-GWP alternatives.

  • Hydrogen Direct Reduction ❌ EVs Powered by Fossil Fuels ✅

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  • But all of those are net emissions?

  • Hydrogen Direct Reduction ❌ EVs Powered by Fossil Fuels ✅

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  • A lot of the emissions from food are not things that are already in the carbon cycle.

    • Deforestation to turn forest into farmland.
    • Fossil fuels for equipment and to manufacture fertiliser.
    • Methane from animals is significantly more potent than if that same carbon was released as CO2.

  • Japan is turning footsteps into electricity

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  • Cycling and rowing machines are probably the only practical options for that - they both have intentional friction brakes to dissipate energy, because they are actually efficient enough to need them.

    Treadmills still need to put power in because of the friction, and most weight or spring machines rely on you absorbing the energy you just put in (unless you drop the weights...)

  • How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?

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  • If we expect to be remotely large, sorting by new only is infeasible.

  • Sad but true

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  • I like NZ.

    When you're done, you get up, walk to the counter, pay, and leave.

    Card never leaves your sight. No timing issues. No tipping.

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  • Even nightly doesn't seem to be necessary; I've used those for years without issue

  • xkcd #3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

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  • The most obvious one for me (maybe because I live there...) is that NZ is basically vertical, rather than being on a big angle.

  • Looking sideways

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  • It's like transferring software licenses.

  • A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate

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  • Coefficient of performance (i.e. energy efficiency) at decent delta-T is always the most important factor and rarely mentioned.

    Modern cooling equipment generally has the largest environmental impact from energy consumption, not manufacturing or refrigerant leakage.

    Especially with ultra-low-GWP propane or butane refrigerant, though that's not usually used in large-scale systems.

  • Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy

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  • The non-Hydrogen, non-Helium atoms are a larger proportion of total mass, but that's just because they're really fat.

  • School

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  • Oh lordy.

    U-series number plate; this is probably a pretty old photo of a pretty old bus.

  • Names to be left off Canadian "victims of communism" monument after more than half of names linked to Nazis

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  • The Eastern Front happened; surely communism was one of the biggest killers of Nazis?

  • What is too high for a pending authorization charge for a gasoline purchase?

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  • Funny, $200 is standard in NZ if you pre pay. Can usually post pay though as you say.

    Or guess how much fuel you're going to need and pre-auth a little more than that.

  • Television channel Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle lawsuit over claims it made about the 2020 presidential election

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  • Defamation is a civil issue so you can't be jailed for it, I believe.