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silence7 OP , to world in Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks

Most of lemmy fails to load thumbnails for The Washington Post

silence7 OP , to world in Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks

Yeah, kbin has a couple of nasty bugs:

  • it can’t get thumbnails for anything on the Washington Post
  • when it doesn’t have a thumbnail, it picks one at random from some other post
silence7 OP , to world in Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry

An attack on the midstream is fundamentally different from burning oil at the well in terms of how it affects how much carbon goes into the atmosphere; it results in oil not being extracted and burned.

silence7 OP , to world in Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry

Burning an oil well directly burns oil which people would otherwise burned, while raising prices and encouraging additional extraction. I’ll also note that Saddam Hussein had people light the oil wells on fire before the US moved in.

An attack on a refinery prevents oil from being burned, and can’t burn oil that’s not there. I’d prefer to see them shut down in a planned matter, but this is better than keeping them going.

Different things are different. Deal with it.

silence7 OP , to world in Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry

Prevent crude oil from being refined, and it’s not useful, so people don’t burn it. The quantities passed through the refinery are far greater than the amount present at it on any given day, so one less refinery means a whole lot less consumption.

silence7 OP , to world in Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry

Key difference: a major failure at the nuclear reactor is can kill people across a large area.

Taking out refineries is going to raise the cost of gas, and lower the value of oil, resulting in both a cut to drilling and to burning, which is a net benefit for people.

silence7 OP , to technology in The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions

Yes, that’s the hope. It’s still more expensive than silicon cells. But this gives it a plausible path to commercial viability.

silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

On average, people junk cars at about 20 years. A few really do last longer, particularly if they’re not driven daily.

silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

That won’t work at scale; cars wear out, and become expensive enough to maintain that people scrap them

silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

Working to make the car payment, instead of zipping around on a paid-off bicycle

silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

Selling your data is a new revenue stream for automakers, and as a practical matter, you can’t avoid it.

silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

A lot of car makers use a cellular connection collect this data. You need to disable that too, as well as any apps used to access car features.

Your cell phone provider could likely deliver this same data as well.

The right answer is to make it illegal to collect, except for a small amount stored on-vehicle for crash analysis.

silence7 OP , to world in Rains Are Scarce in the Amazon. Instead, Megafires Are Raging.

For the Amazon, there’s one big trick: don’t cut it down, and restore areas which have already been cut down. Then it stays a lot moister, and you don’t lose the entire thing.

silence7 OP , to technology in Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power | AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.

Be nice, but a lot of utility regulators are effectively controlled by the utilities.

silence7 OP , to technology in Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power | AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.

US bribery laws are incredibly lax compared with other developed nations.

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