- 8bitsrule parentOne more reason for phones to be modularized. Separate the comms from the (owner-controlled) computer module until needed. Use different CPU module when needed. Swap out battery module.
- Don't hold your breath.
It needs to be illegal for anyone to buy a single-family home that already owns one, and who won't agree to live in it, full-time and exclusively for at least one year. They must also agree to sell it ONLY to someone who also accepts the same terms. The penalty should be a criminal fraud charge with minimum jailtime -and- a hefty penalty.
- Thanks to the dedicated work of Edward Bernays... nephew of Sigmund Freud ... and the Creel Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...
When Lucky Strike needed more women to smoke cigarettes in the late 1920s, it turned to Bernays.
- Water storage is great, the cat's meow ... in places where water is plentiful. But there are HUGE tracts of land in the world where there isn't any water. But people still need the energy, when the winds are calm and the skies are cloudy.
Only other kinds of gravity batteries will do, so they're a necessity, especially near remote wind-farms.
"Energy Vault’s gravity-based solutions are based on the well-understood physics and mechanical engineering fundamentals of pumped hydroelectric energy storage, but replace water with custom-made composite blocks that can be made from low-cost and locally sourced materials, including local soil, mine tailings, coal combustion residuals (coal ash), and end-of-life decommissioned wind turbine blades."
"The 100 MWh gravity-based EVx system is being built adjacent to a wind farm and national grid site in Rudong, Jiangsu Province located outside of Shanghai to augment and balance China’s national energy grid...."
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220505005467/en/Ene...
"China's $1bn bet on gravity to store massive amounts of green energy "
https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/chinas-1bn-be...
- Considering how the load at Linux Mint's forums has recently increased to the point that some of it is being re-directed to gitHummed (a minute ago there were "3362 users online :: 35 registered, 3 hidden and 3324 guests" >10 secs to respond, needed to login), it appears that distro at least is seeing a lot of newcomers.
- That's the pay-off of our 150-year rush to monetize as much of the Earth's natural resources as possible -- while making stringent efforts to keep quiet knowledge - or suppress any efforts - to utilize the benefits of free solar energy.
Having polluted and despoiled much of the biosphere, of course we'll be donating our supposed wisdom and that hard work to the future generations that will enjoy the fruits of our labors and entreasurement.
- I also moved many times in the past. Once CD-quality settled, I gifted my vinyls to a thrift store. (The 'art' was immaterial.)
20 years ago, I ripped all of my CDs into 192K MP3s (perfect enough for my ears) using an online metadata service. Getting rid of the 'jewel cases' (and eventually all of their non-CD content) but retaining the CDs (4 Logic cases worth, 3 sq. feet) saved a ton of room.
For backup I archived the thousands of MP3s onto an 80GB Seagate which I organized by genre, then stored in a shoebox. 12 years later I copied the Seagate to two more HDs. It worked fine (but gave-up-the-ghost later that year).
I've relied on those files since. Unlike several dead self-burned CD-Rs, the manu'd CDs (I never use) seem to have remained healthy in the cases at room temp.
- 'Very small'?? Depends on your perspective.
"The amount of CO2 removed from the atmosphere via photosynthesis from land plants is known as Terrestrial Gross Primary Production, or GPP. It represents the largest carbon exchange between land and atmosphere on the planet. GPP is typically cited in petagrams of carbon per year. One petagram equals 1 billion metric tons, which is roughly the amount of CO2 emitted each year from 238 million gas-powered passenger vehicles."
The article: https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/pla...
The paper: doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08050-3
- This is a great tool to avoid the constant de-railing of headline topics which is the biggest bane of HN. Too often serious news falls victim to misdirection ... which requires time spent poking endless hyphenated closures to work past. It'd be great to see this solution embedded at the end of each headline.
- According to Gigazine (Osaka, est. 2000), "In 2024, there were 296 internet shutdowns in 54 countries around the world, with Myanmar, India, Pakistan and Russia accounting for about 70% of the total."
https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250228-internet-shutdowns...
- "A new theoretical analysis ... provides evidence that large language models, such as ChatGPT, are mathematically constrained to a level of creativity comparable to an amateur human.... The study highlights that human creativity is not symmetrically distributed" - https://www.psypost.org/a-mathematical-ceiling-limits-genera...
URL of study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jocb.70077
- Same here. By the time I was old enough to have an income, reading comics had already made it possible for me to -not even see any- advertising. That carried over to newspapers, magazines... all those advertisers were wasting their money.
Later on in life I got pissed at cable-TV advertisers shoved into my favorite movies every 5-10 minutes ... ruining any ambience or artistic merit in them ... so I got rid of cable TV. By the time analog TV went away, I'd got rid of my television set. No return address on an envelope? junk mail, into the garbage unopened.
Now the pollution's ruined the 'net ... it's YouTube (re-routed) and some websites (blocked). So long, boing-boing and wired and your 'native ads'. Sites demand subscription? blocked. How much longer before advertisers realize how much they're getting ripped off?
- Interesting timing ... 6 western Irani provinces had flood warnings 4 days ago. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity...
- "At present, atomic power presents an exceptionally costly and inconvenient means of obtaining energy which can be extracted much more economically from conventional fuels.… This is expensive power, not cheap power as the public has been led to believe." — C. G. Suits, Director of Research, General Electric, who was operating the Hanford reactors, 1951.
Safe, clean, too cheap to meter?
Some things never change.