TWeaK

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Production and consumption are two different things. We need more green hydrogen production (currently at 0.1% of all hydrogen production), and we need to heavily tax black and brown hydrogen to balance the environmental cost against the low price of dirty production.

With hydrogen consumption, we already have a significant demand for scientific and other uses that have no alternative. This currently relies on black and brown hydrogen, but will eventually need to be fulfilled by green hydrogen. If we throw anything and everything that could use hydrogen on top of that, then we'll be using fossil fuels for even longer while we build enough renewable generation capacity for it all to be provided by green hydrogen.

Also, the vast majority use scenarios proposed for hydrogen could be fulfilled directly by electricity at a much greater overall efficiency. Maybe hydrogen would be cheaper right now, while it's all produced by petrochemicals, but when you factor in the cost of green hydrogen the long term projections simply do not work.

Do you think Maersk is designing ammonia powered ships for nothing?

I think Maersk is designing ammonia powered ships because they're not far removed from conventional ICE's, which they're already proficient in. They're less concerned with what is the best solution overall, but which is the most profitable to them right now.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That first article, the most recent one, says the unions successfully negotiated a $15 an hour minimum wage - well above the state and federal levels. The other articles seem to be leading up to that $15 an hour minimum. The argument now is that this is not enough because of soaring living costs, which neither Disney nor the unions could have predicted.

Like I say, corpos gonna corpo, but really Disney is far from the worst when it comes to that. They're shittier than they should be, but they're also a little unusual in that the penny pinchers generally know not to squeeze too hard, else it will hinder their long term profits.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Absolutely, I see no problem with using excess energy to produce hydrogen or other stuff. Maybe it's arguably better to put that into battery storage or something, but it takes time to build all of that, and diversity isn't a bad thing in most cases.

Like I said, we do need hydrogen for some things - what I'm saying is that we should be focusing on using it for things that have no other option, rather than trying to grow the hydrogen consumption market by moving anything that can be over to it, regardless of whether or not that is a good idea. Particularly if we're basing long term predictions on the current rates of hydrogen production, primarily black hydrogen ie produced from petrochemicals, which would be expected to decline and rise in price alongside a decline in petrochemical use.

And where did I say we can't build enough renewable capacity? I said we would need at least 3x the current renewable capacity dedicated to producing hydrogen to meet our current demand with green hydrogen for things that have no other option. The point I'm making is that running everything on hydrogen will drastically increase this demand, thus delaying the path to net zero as we'll need to use fossil fuels for longer while we build even more renewables than if we were just aiming to meet our current, essential hydrogen demand.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not worried about what it will start out as, I'm worried about what it might become.

Football already has independent regulatory bodies, it doesn't need a government regulatory body - it needs legislation to stop all the fraud and bribery that the current bodies commit, not a new body that funnels bribes to politicians.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

In my opinion you should just rip the bandaid off and go without Google Play Services. I haven't had it installed for a long time, if you set Magisk to Zygisk mode with and set banking apps or whatever else on the DenyList then they will likely work. I haven't actually found any apps that truly require Google Play Services in a long while, although I generally try not to use most apps where I can avoid them.

The one downside might be that you can't use Google Pay, but I question whether you should've been using that to begin with.

MIUI is definitely cancer, though usually you can get away from it. It feels proper dodgy using their Windows software to unlock the bootloader, though - I'm sure if I scan the files in 5-10 years' time I'll find a bunch of exploits that are currently zero day. That's what happened with my Baofeng radios, anyway.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Disney would quite possibly literally salt the earth before they left.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It really isn't. Disney are a big corporation, and corpos gonna corpo, but Disney does at least pull its weight in some ways that most modern politicians seem incapable of. Meanwhile, the whole region, perhaps even the whole state, is circling the drain taking innocent people with them.

It's not like Disney is any sort of a malicious actor in this.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why should the government be regulating football?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it need accessories?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Yay, they're accelerating slightly less at screwing us all over.

Although it should be noted that supermarkets probably aren't taking the lion's share. Ever since Tesco started diversifying through the supply chain, most of the profits have been squirrelled away in the middle - farmers aren't paid very much for their supply, meanwhile public facing stores pay over the odds for their products, but the manufacturers make mint (while substituting eg horse meat). And all the profits are paid for by the consumer.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

No surprise there. My first thought was that this was more correlation than causation - people who take cannabis are more likely to do a range of things that cause heart problems. But you may be onto something with smoking. Smoking breaks things down into all sorts of nasty carbon particulates.

Not that this rules out cannabis damage to the heart or brain, mind, but the phrase "more study is needed" cannot be emphasised enough.

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