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They shouldn’t distract us from our primary goal which is to stop the burning of any fossil fuel as quickly as possible.

This should not be the "primary goal" and doing so "as quickly as possible" would be counterproductive.

Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed?

 

The ongoing political turmoil and bottlenecked federal funding have prompted the widespread development of solar-plus-storage systems across the island that are privately financed via leases, loans, or Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). Each month, the island sees around 4,000 solar-plus-battery storage systems come online, Rúa-Jovet says. These installations are connected to the grid but can also operate during blackouts.

At the end of March, LUMA reported over 1.14 gigawatts of grid-connected distributed solar capacity, with an additional 2.34 gigawatt-hours of distributed batteries connected to the grid. Solar power produces over 2 terawatt-hours of electricity each year, which accounts for more than 12.5 percent of Puerto Rico’s total residential electricity consumption annually. The majority of that power is generated from residential solar, and capacity continues to grow as more residents install systems with private financing.

Adjuntas, which has a population of about 18,000, took a more experimental approach. The town’s local environmental nonprofit Casa Pueblo teamed up with researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., to develop a way to connect multiple microgrids to exchange power with one another, all without having to be hooked up to Puerto Rico’s grid. The strategy, called grid orchestration, ensures that if power is knocked out on one of the installations, the others aren’t compromised. It’s what kept multiple areas in Adjuntas electrified during April’s island-wide blackout.

During the blackout, Casa Pueblo and the Oak Ridge researchers were completing the testing of the orchestration strategy with three of the five microgrids connected in Adjuntas. These three microgrids are connected to the grid via net metering. The remaining two grids are isolated.

“By decentralizing, it’s creating a more resilient and redundant energy setup,” says Arturo Massol-Deyá, Casa Pueblo’s executive director. “Engineers will say: If you have redundancy, that’s more resilient; that’s better.”

The teams demonstrated trading energy from one microgrid to the other, and vice versa. This kind of transfer enables the system to overcome energy limitations during peak demand times and draw from additional storage at night when the sun is down. Together, the town’s five microgrids provide 228 kilowatts of photovoltaic capacity and an additional 1.2 megawatt-hours of storage, which serve residences and 15 commercial businesses. It’s a small amount of power, but an example of a way for systems to operate independently from the grid.

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2025 marks 10 years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 17 goals and 169 targets to achieve global prosperity.

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[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

For what it's worth, I don't like change, whether it's in the climate or in the software that I use.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

!fruit@slrpnk.net is getting more subscribers, but no one else is posting yet.

!climate_lm@slrpnk.net is slowly gaining traction, and I'm no longer the only one posting.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

It is. :)

...The quality can vary a lot, both as a result of diverse conditions during ripening (damaged or not, in the water or baking in the sun...) and as a result of the huge genetic variation in this (dioecious) species, but in general, it's delicious and nutritious and also very abundant! Making the chicha is the most practical way to consume large amounts of it, but either way, it's an excellent and underappreciated fruit!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248930687_Nutritional_and_ecological_aspects_of_buriti_or_aguaje_Mauritia_flexuosa_Linnaeus_filius_A_carotene-rich_palm_fruit_from_Latin_America

(It also thrives in marshy areas where most fruit trees would not survive, making it an important plant for reforesting those areas.)

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Unfortunate that it's hosted on GitHub, but the software is FOSS. (BSD 3-Clause)

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

More about CLAs for those interested: Seriously, don't sign a CLA by Drew Devault

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know how hairless apes can tolerate living so far from the equator. It's too hot and then it's too cold.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Move your decimal.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for keeping it simple, Blaze.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I'd say so. There doesn't seem to be another like it. slrpnk.net would seem somewhat fitting with the theme, lemmy.cafe is more general, beehaw.org is bigger but probably has interested people over there... @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com would probably know more than I do.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

I don't think that solutions are going to come from within capitalism or the monetary system. None of that is real. Forest protection requires people living there on the land and defending the forest, and no amount of "national fiscal planning" is going to achieve that. People need to want to do it, not for money, but for its own sake. If they planted the trees and/or eat from the trees, that's a reasonable incentive...

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