People really tend to forget that natural gas + variable renewable energies is the current cheapest/more profitable option, but is overall non sustainable.

Storage + VRE is barely existent because energy provider aren’t incentivised to build it.

I don’t find the source anymore, but i saw a lifetime analysis about sodium ion batteries. Overall they are slighly worse than lithium ion due to higher energy input required during fabrication, despite better mineral availability.

The most common Na-ion batteries use Prussian Blue.

“Saw six” is pronounced like “saucisse” which mean sausage.

This map is great, time and space wise

It is incredible how overbloated their app are. I have no idea why every app need to integrate a social media feed, and be able book a taxi/takeout or whatever.

They seriously need to have a look at KISS principles.

Well since the US sanctions started, the chinese semiconductor industry went from being a multi generations late, government funded laughing stock, even for Chinese officials, to something that is now close to the best Intel and USA can make.

Both now are at 7nm non-EUV, only Taiwan is significantly ahead.

If anything the sanctions are counterproductive, instead of crippling the competition, they lit a fire under them.

There are some countries where you can reclaim a few cents if you return your plastic PET bootles on a specialized container.

On this particular case, since the plastic isn’t mixed with other incompatible plastics, the recyclability is actually really good, as good as paper/cardboard.

The carbon emission from anyone in a developed country is a gargantuan amount compared to the poorest people on earth, especially if you consider the share of CO2 emissions since the industrial revolution.

The “private jet class” you are talking about is the “peasant class” of the developed countrles.

No one want to be accountable, corporate blame it on consumers, consumer blame it on corporate, and the state doesn’t want to act because they fear the backslash from both citizens and corporations.

We urgently need drastic change that will undoubtedly and severely lower our quality of life. No magic tech is coming to save us.