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

How many users were they subscribed to overall?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah who the fuck thinks a bomb going off next door is gonna keep your house liveable no matter if a single wall is standing pretty good.

Where did I say anything like that? I merely pointed out something notable.

You can see in those photos that it’s really just a few walls remaining.

Now you're speaking in hyperbole. There is a range of degrees of destruction clearly visible from these photos. Far too many people are making blanket statements without really looking at things and making an accurate assessment.

The dust alone is a crazily significant yet drastically under-represented health hazard. Western countries are only just starting to recognise the harmful effects of silicosis from the workplace, particularly in construction and demolition, when the reality is it is likely that much of what was historically attributed to asbestosis is in fact more strongly linked to silicosis - both conditions involve inhaling small but sharp particles that rattle around and destroy the lungs, but it's far more likely that some silica-based substance will get airborne and then inhaled than asbestos.

Understanding that doesn't make it any less notable that some buildings remain while others are demolished. If anything, it points to the inhumanity of Israel's actions - they claim they're only targeting military targets and minimising civilian casualties, but the fallout is far, far more significant than anyone is discussing.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

This is so not fair. How dare you post this and not give us a more recent photo?!

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

Scotland is a country, but so is the UK, and the UK governs over Scotland.

It's a similar mess with the transmission network. You have NGET owning the transmission lines in England and Wales, but SPT and SHET for Scotland, however all of these are overseen by NGESO, the system operator, who balance the generation and load. Just to make it even more confusing, the Wales and South West distributor WPD has been brought back into British ownership as part of the National Grid group, so you have NGED providing some distribution as well.

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

You're looking at the overall generation portfolio though, I'm pretty sure the OP's figures are just taking total renewable generation against total demand - meaning it doesn't account for the exported generation, eg how Scotland exports to the UK and Europe.

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

The crazy thing is that renewable energy (particularly land-based) is much, much cheaper than conventional generation. This makes sense, as while construction and maintenance costs might be higher over the life of the plant, there is no fuel cost. And yet, consumers end up paying more for this cheap energy.

Detaching the generation market from the consumption market was down right evil.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

There's definitely some figure manipulation going on here. Portugal might claim it's importing green energy from France, meanwhile France might stack up its renewable generation against its overall demand to make its claims, meaning both are ignoring much of the fossil fuel generation from France.

It's still good progress, but the devil really is in the details. There's a reason this post doesn't call it "net-zero" or any other industry recognised term.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It's very a good sign, but I do have doubts about those figures. It's all too easy to look at total demand and total renewable generation, while ignoring the fact that the country is a net exporter and thus produces more than 100% of its demand - with the remaining uncounted percentage not being green.

"Fossil free" isn't exactly a recognised term, either, in which case fossil free =/= net zero =/= completely green.

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

Fair play, my mistake. Saudi Arabia is still starting to cosy up to Iran now, though.

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