The UK estimate alone was that 600 people would likely die[0], so 8 is probably a very big underestimation.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/uk-heatwave-temperatures-death-health-b2773913.html

I mean you literally used quotation marks to write words I didn’t say, but fine. I assume from your comments that you’re progressive and anti-Trump, so keep on pushing for those values!

I think you might have misread my initial comment in that I didn’t say, and don’t agree with branding Biden as the “foundations of facism”.

I’m not saying Biden, Obama, Bush etc are some kind of proto-facists like that implies. I said “the foundations that allowed America to become a new facist state”. I think unless you disagree with me calling Trump’s government facist, that the previous governments created an environment in which he could rise to power seems more or less a statement of fact.

If you’re interested in understanding where I’m coming from (who knows, we’re on the internet after all!) I’d say I mostly agree with Naomi Klein’s take that global politics have become too subservient to mega-corportations and that that’s creating a decline in equality which is driving far right ideology worldwide.[0]

I’m pretty far into stuff that I wasn’t initially trying to comment on though. My point is that the US political system is broken, and blaming people who are disenfranchised at that isn’t an effective strategy for changing things.

[0] https://www.noisnotenough.org/

I’m 100% not equating Biden with Trump. I’m not trying to deny the comolete horror Trump is afflicting of US and non-US citizens right now.

I’m just saying, he’s a symptom of a broken system. America will only come out of this situation if it recognises that it needs to make real and lasting change.

The non voters might not help, but they’re at least acknowledging this reality. And putting them in the same camp as literal facists is not helping anyone.

I totally feel this frustration, and I’m not US so it’s kinda not my business, but I don’t buy this argument.

Trump America is a horror show, for sure. But the status quo before Trump is also the foundations that allowed America to become a new facist state. Any real solutions need to be bigger than what middle of the road Democrats are offering.

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote against Trump. But the system is clearly broken, stop blaming victims of it, and start blaming its perpetrators.

Yeesh! It’s crazy that gas is so much cheaper in a place with such abundant sunlight- any idea why? Are there lopsided grants/funding?

How much cheaper is gas? In the UK gas is 1/3 the cost of electricity per mw, but gas boilers are less than 1/3 as efficient so heat pumps are still cheaper to run.

Shame the action this is promoting has ended now- this is hilarious and surprisingly professional.

Serious people have some other cool stuff too if anyone’s interested: https://www.seriouspeople.co/

Just want to chip in to say this depends a lot on geography. Places like Sweden with big hydro capacity can store huge amounts of energy easily, and release really fast.

The majority of European countries are still moving in the right direction, albeit far too slowly. It’s mainly just the US that’s abandoning any attempt towards sustainability.

I’d disagree. Even from a pretty neoliberal kind of economics, fast fasion doesn’t factor environmental “externalities” (i.e. the cost doesn’t include environmental destruction) so it’s massively undepriced, which artificially punps up demand for fast fashion.

In other words, the issue is caused by the way the system is set up. I.e. it’s a systemic issue.

I guess what I mean is, renewable doesn’t need tibe 100% all the time to lead to that case. The UK is about 50% renewable overall, but if it’s sunny and windy (or windy and nobody is using electricity) then that ratio jumps over 90% fast.

I think I’m just geeking out on electricity though, not making a meaningful point.

I guess the pitch is that stuff like making concrete and steel generate crazy loads of carbon, so capturing it at source in theory sounds viable and pretty effective?

That “in theory” is doing a bunch of heavy lifting though, because so far climate capture hasn’t achieved anything other than being an excuse not to actually do anything about CO2 emmisions because “maybe some magic technology in 5 years will solve everything for us”

Agree! I don’t know why other people don’t get how convenient it is to have a distinct character for every single number imaginable.

This, 100% It’s like how people started saying “PC” because personal computer was too long for them, but now I exclusively hear people taking up to a minute on each letter! (peeeeeeee-seeeeeeee)

IMO sounds a bit stupid

Ok, fine I guesss? I’m not advocating for anything, I’m just telling you about something that exists.

So I’m surprised you claim it’s widespread.

This sounds a lot like you’re implying that I would make this up, I have no idea why you think this but DFS, balancing service, and the UK balancing mechanism are all UK markets that allow you to do this. The UK isn’t unique, but I’m not as familiar with other energy markets.

For a real world example, Octopus energy in the UK will do this with your EV charger if you are on certain tariffs.

Pretty likely that they might be. The logic works differently in a few different markets but essentially:

• You demonstrate your mean usage at a given time, say 2kw
• You trade 1kw
• You demonstrate that you used 1kw less than normal
• You get paid

(obviously only in certain markets, but these are fairly widespread)

Even this is only kind of true! There’s markets where you’re paid to discharge into the grid, but also most countries have “baselined” markets, where using less electricity than normal at that time is considered the same as an export. Which something lime a powerwall lets you do by being flexible on when you use it vs the grid. Situations like that are pretty much straight win win.

Ascii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.