That is just commercial electricity use. The issue is about what to do with spare power which appears sporadically, without warning. It wouldn’t be efficient or really possible to run a server farm which only switches on when power is cheap, the main power draw is cooling which is required 24/7.
I meant easier in terms of infrastructure already existing. Things like vehicle-to-grid, and Tesla Powerwalls are already on the market, so with the right incentives the power storage in the grid can scale with the speed renewables are scaling up.
It won’t be exactly inline, which is why windfarms are built with the ability to switch off if the grid rejects the power they’re creating, but it’s a start.
I agree with you about the failures in power delivery infrastructure. The UK is very slow to connect up new wind and solar farms because the grid cannot scale up fast enough. New wind farms sit idle for months before they’re connected to the grid, which is pretty crappy. Needs more focus and investment, maybe even marketplace competition to get things going, if we’re looking for capitalist solutions to things.
Right, this is essentially another form of battery. Maybe it’ll work out. It doesn’t require flooding an entire river valley somewhere, so that’s nice.
If you’re going to create infrastructure to use the extra power, you may as well do useful work with it.
Aluminium smelting is about the most energy intensive thing we do, so better electricity management around that would be far more useful to far more people than creating digital assets for board members to get excited about. Just as an example.
Realistically the easiest way to use cheap/free electricity is to charge electric cars with it. Then we have energy storage and offset power usage later on when electricity is more expensive. There are plenty of ways to continue to make money off that process even if the electricity itself costs very little.
Wasting energy isn’t the same as investing
Superman as a power source
It’s their land. What more should be required to stop people from dumping their crap on it?
By which I mean, not “what would have stopped them?”, as fences, armed guards and tanks may have stopped them.
I mean, “what is the minimum requirement to ensure land isn’t filled with other people’s, or companies, stuff?”
For me, if they want to store stuff on some land, they should make sure they own it first.
Half expected this to be a loss meme
This is interesting to me. Drive through isn’t very popular in the UK, I think there’s a few KFCs and maybe McDonald’s/burger king.
But driving is such a pita I might as well cook or buy something from a supermarket if I’m going to do anything active.
Unless I’m on the way back home from a commute perhaps? I don’t really understand the business model. Also, what’s wrong with parking and walking in to get it? Leaving the engine running and crawling forwards to a window and then waiting anyway, I don’t get it.
Honestly in my younger years I had the time to hunt around for the right streams, rips, subtitle files etc, but it does take time and effort. For the price of a few sandwiches or a handful of coffees I don’t have to spend the time doing that anymore.
What’s annoying is that it’s not a single subscription anymore, it’s 4-5 subscriptions which really adds up over the month.
Interesting, and appears well researched. I’m not sure if any of this shows “collapse” rather than just evolution or uncontrolled drift/change.
The examples of the implementation details in the US education system seem to be more a complaint of money driving decisions, but this isn’t seen anywhere near as starkly in other countries. Free or low cost education is quite available in Europe and elsewhere, for example.
Automating away housekeeping work is an interesting point. As is schools as daycare. Both are freeing up (mostly women) to add to the workforce, so it becomes increasingly clear that schooling and childcare should be cheap and available if this is the model that’s desirable. That is, equality in the workplace.
You think other countries don’t have protests?
Medication
This looks like one of those “fuck you in particular”, except for a whole country.
It also locks
This is room temperature
A lot of their constituency want the properties they own to go up in value. Or at least not down, which risks negative equity.
It’s not unheard of for lighthouses to be picked up and moved either.
I cannot think of a scenario that this is legitimately solving a problem that couldn’t be solved about 1000x cheaper and with less environmental damage.
Rtf is far more lightweight than docx. It’s closer to markdown.