AFaithfulNihilist

There's not enough minable copper or lithium to make all of the batteries we will need. So e alternatives will have to emerge if we are to reduce the need for generating power on demand with fuels.

This CO2 is acting as a reusable fluid in a closed loop. The initial capture of the CO2 costs energy, but the battery keeps using the same CO2 over and over again. So the question of efficiency should be more about land usage and maintenance of the rest of the parts and the labor needed for each megawatt stored vs what other grid scale energy storage costs in materials and labor.

The rough reality is that batteries aren't going to be up to the task of grid scale energy storage unless they have a couple huge breakthroughs. Something like this is a far less materially expensive way to store energy for later use.

Currently most grid scale energy storage is just pumping water up a hill and letting it back down through a generator. It is extremely limited in where it can be used and requires tremendous space to be effective.

This is only a symbolic gesture until we see actual literal results. Those results are already questionable because we know they won't be arresting these criminals.

I'm not sure what you see this officer having done other than talk about encouraging his officers to do part of their job or risk losing it.

This isn't actually doing anything. This is barely an announcement of public intent to in the future do something. Every time the police don't do something will be evidence that this was full of shit. If an officer does something as a result of this order it can't even be praised because of what it's taken to force them to do it.

They aren't actually going to do it though. This is all marketing and public relations nonsense. This is purely performative. If I'm wrong I will be so happy to be wrong.

This reminds me of that teen parody of Stargate from episode 200 of Stargate.

In fairness a government should be the only entity surveilling people in its own borders under most any circumstances.

I'm pretty opposed to most any kind of surveillance outside of warranted due process, and I don't think that any domestic surveillance needs privacy for longer than it takes to do an investigation and prosecution.

It's when governments are allowed to do things in secret and outside of the law that the whole concept of the law is undermined.

Holy shit this is horrific

I don't have a computer to try it on and I can't be without a computer.

Oh here, take a Linux laptop from my giant box of Linux laptops!

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From what I can tell, it looks like there are a lot of loans out right now, the rate at which they are issued has increased since the beginning of the Trump presidency has increased dramatically, and this is like really bad because If those loans don't get paid back then pillars start collapsing underneath the financial system. Lose too many of those and the whole thing comes crashing down.

This one graph doesn't represent all of the bad that is going on, it's just a sort of a weathervane to tell you which way the wind is blowing. ...and right now it's blowing where the sun don't shine.

A mile and a half and 14 minutes is a tiny bit faster than a brisk walk. If someone has trouble handling that pace for 14 minutes then they really should not be anywhere near a law enforcement job that requires them to be on their feet.

Some will show up and do things only because they feel the support is out there to act and be seen.

I might make different efforts were I them, but they are at least paddling in the same direction I want to go. I just don't have the energy to resent how they choose to spend their outrage.

Without even knowing what he spoke about yet, which I don't, I can respect the conviction of a person who uses their platform to speak when they have rare access to that platform and there's plenty to talk about.

Plenty of us are going on marathon posting sessions on social media and it's to a much smaller audience. I have to empathize a little bit with anybody who feels exhausted or overwhelmed by the absurdity of everything but then gets up to speak for a whole damn day on one of the largest stages in the world

Even if the room is empty the audience is global. It may be grandstanding, but that's part of the job. Getting attention to things you care about is part of the job. People put you there to bring attention to things that they hope that you care about.

If government's going to work at all people have to give a shit about it and whatever this dude was talking about it's clear he gives a shit about it.

Mere accusations of being left-leaning and mysterious anonymous money were enough to insert an entire editorial board to filter the news.

They don't report things that should be important if they are offensive to right-wing politics.

They don't report on wage theft. They don't report on health care abuses. They don't report on lies or incompetence in the Trump administration.

They lick boots and rationalize genocide. They've always been a little right leaning in that reporting reality as it is is extremely hostile to right-wing politics so they have to protect people from the truth.

NPR has not been left-wing or even vaguely left of center for a while. They are rapidly homophobic or racist, but they are islamophobic and they will indulge whatever is the right-wing rumor or paranoia of the day.