Aeon Flux was a weird one. Had some cool stuff going on, but the execution was shoddy
Hydrogen has always been a distraction i fear
Walz is such a genuine man. He never had interest in any of this, he just wanted to make things a little better, and found himself inches of the seat of vice president. I know he's on record saying he didn't want to seek the presidency after Harris got her 8 years in, but there's a chance he looks at things throws his hat in the ring in 4 years
With the 50/50 announcement, it's pretty clear that magic is dead and walking
What is he doing with all that time he just saved?
James, while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
As an actual anarcho communist, I know that the only difference between the CIA and your local neighborhood tankie is that the tankie has no access to power, large sums of money, or the ability to achieve violence.
Sonicthehedgehog protein was named after being studied in fruit flies. Turns out a defect in that protein can cause infant brains to not be made right. Ma'am, i regret to inform you that your child has a deadly malformation of their sonictheheadhog proteins and is going to die.
This is great, it reminds me of a Volts podcast episode about a company that uses large sheets of Limestone to do the same. But if this is really that much more efficient, then we have a real solution on our hands
I broke up with my fiance today, it was was the most painful thing I've ever done
If you see this on your kids computer, go to a therapist and figure out whfailur kids don't trust you
That's not what AIDs patients patients wanted. or trans youth seeking puberty blockers to reduce their suicidal thoughts wanted.
Because it sounds more ethical when you call the control group placebo instead what they are, and expendable group of fools sacrificed for numerical convenience
Trains drop metal bits pretty often too. A lot of these panels will get shattered
To me, this is the kind of limitation that we should innovate away from. Computers can be so personalized and we should let the sky be the limit
Okay so I don't have Linux, i honestly don't know much about it. But I have dreamed for a while now of a future in which I could use 2 MMO gaming mice to bring my computer usage to the next level. Now I don't think that most computers would know how to handle 2 mice, and I don't think a single game would either, but if there is any that could, it has to be a Linux right? Is that even theoretically possible? Do you think we could ever have that future?
Beverly Craig of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center discusses what passive house building principles entail, the benefits they generate for building occupants and the grid, and what it would take to persuade more US builders and policymakers to adopt them.
Passive homes (a building designed for minimum losses on heating and cooling) are cheaper and easier to construct than you might think. In fact, it's nearly the default code in Massachusetts.
CEO Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies walks us through the details of how to design, build, and operate electric planes — first for relatively short light-cargo flights, but eventually, he says, for all of aviation. I loved this conversation so much.
Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. Equipped to move up to 6 passengers or 2 pilots and 3 pallets, its a small yet versatile tool. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the aircraft, much like the engine of a traditional aircraft, however, future batteries could feature improvements, meaning the vehicle gets better over time. The redundancy that Electric motors allow more easily than mechanical motors means this aircraft is far safer than anything else in the air.
CEO Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies walks us through the details of how to design, build, and operate electric planes — first for relatively short light-cargo flights, but eventually, he says, for all of aviation. I loved this conversation so much.
Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the aircraft, much like the engine of a traditional aircraft, however, future batteries could feature improvements, meaning the vehicle gets better over time. The redundancy that Electric motors allow more easily than mechanical motors means this aircraft is far safer than anything else in the air.
Steel production generates almost 10% of global carbon emissions and has long been considered “hard to abate.” Enter Boston Metal, a startup that aims to make carbon-free steel using only (sing it with me!) clean electricity. CEO Tadeu Carneiro explains “molten oxide electrolysis” and its potential ...
This boston company has developed a new process to manufacture steel using zero carbon dioxide and a whole lot of electricity
Steel production generates almost 10% of global carbon emissions and has long been considered “hard to abate.” Enter Boston Metal, a startup that aims to make carbon-free steel using only (sing it with me!) clean electricity. CEO Tadeu Carneiro explains “molten oxide electrolysis” and its potential ...
This boston company has developed a new process to manufacture steel using zero carbon dioxide and a whole lot of electricity
California electricity guru Lorenzo Kristov shares his vision of a just, democratic, “bottom-up” grid based in distributed local energy.
The energy system we have today does not match the solarpunk future we dream of. If we work towards the right energy system today, we may just have a solarpunk tomorrow
At long last, one of clean energy's OGs, Michael Liebreich, has come to Volts. He and I discuss his recent essays on five causes for pessimism about the net-zero transition, alongside five causes for optimism.
The take that struck me the most came towards the end. And it's that when you electrify, not only are you not burning fossil fuels to work your stove, but you're also not burning fossil fuels to power the drilling equipment, to ship the crude oil, to refine it, to pump it to your stove.
A large portion of our critical energy demand is just getting fossil fuel energy to its point of use, so small amounts of electrification and efficiency improvements at point of use have large impacts on the upstream emissions
Hardware and software improvements may enable geothermal heat pumps to be installed more quickly and less expensively, even in large commercial and industrial buildings in tight urban spaces. I talk it over with Joselyn Lai of Bedrock Energy.
David Roberts interviews a representative from the company that is making effective ground source heat pumps for large buildings. How they do it, ensure efficiency, and look to scale up the operation
Urbanists like to say that dense, walkable urban land use is a powerful climate tool. But what kind of emissions can urban land use really reduce? What is the scale here? I discuss it with the authors of a recent RMI report on the subject.
Urbanists like to say that dense, walkable urban land use is a powerful climate tool. But what kind of emissions can urban land use really reduce? What is the scale here? I discuss it with the authors of a recent RMI report on the subject.
15 minute cities are great for a number of reasons, but are they really a good climate policy? David Roberts discusses with researchers Heather House and Rushad Nanavatty
I discuss the newly launched MethaneSAT — a satellite that can detect methane emissions on the ground — with Mark Brownstein of EDF. We cover how it came to be, its technical capacities, and the ways satellite detection might serve global efforts to reduce emissions.
The path to zero emissions requires household electrification. Go electric!
By entering some information about your home and appliances, they generate a basic plan for your next upgrades, including price estimates, available rebates, and estimated energy savings. Takes like 5 minutes, 10 minutes if you want to read all the details.
I don't want any lemmy.nsfw posts on my All tab. And there are so many instances
Making cement -- the most commonly used substance on Earth after water -- is responsible for 8% of global carbon emissions. It generates CO2 both through combustion of fossil fuels & through chemical processes. Sublime Systems thinks it has solved both sides of that equation. I talk with the CEO.
Climate Tech Reporter David Roberts discusses battery recycling with ceo of a company that is working on scaling up a newer fossil fuel free method of melting down and separating battery metals. This method has advantages of not burning up most of the valuables and sending them into the open atmosphere as well as not requiring a constant stream of harsh chemical feed, or having chemical waste.
Today his small scale plant is handling mostly the waste from faulty primary manufacturing, and is looking to scale up in time for the 2030 boom in lithium battery recycling.
A beautiful medieval sounding song features a wisened warrior recounting his regret. As a young man, a dragon plagued his lands, the beast with a forked tongue and breathe of fire, surely it must be slain. Before he goes, his father warns him to know his enemy well. He sneaks into the lair, kills the sleeping dragon, and looks across the room to see a baby dragon, and he realized that he killed the poor things loving parent who was just living it's life. He did not understand the enemy he just slew.
Now he listens to his own son talk of an enemy plaguing their lands, forked tongue and breath of fire, clearly a problem, but instead of a dragon, it's men of Muslim faith. The father begs his son to truly know his enemy before going to war.
The story in this song is simple and maybe heavy handed in its message, but beautiful none the less. I probably cried the first 20-30 times I listened to it. I will always love this song that teaches kindness and wisdom. If Songs with good storytelling get you everytime, you'll love it too.
Storing electricity as heat! It's so, uh, hot right now. I talk with the head of a company that makes a thermal battery that outputs either heat or electricity. It's one of my favorite technologies around -- super-geeked about this one.
Climate Tech Reporter David Roberts discusses heat battery with PV panels that can be used to heat up industrial processes, one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize
