Ruby has enough syntactic sugar to give you type 2 diabetes honestly.

The case for an H2 economy is one entirely based on Green H2 made from surplus renewables which are needed most days to have enough renewable energy every day.

Wouldn’t it be more compelling to store it in other types of batteries instead of H2 primarily?

That gas companies know how to build pipelines, distribution, and make metered gas sales to customers is a path for them/employees to remain useful without destroying the planet.

I honestly don’t think H2 is a good idea for these use-cases. H2 distribution is a different beast than natural gas distribution, on top of gas combustion just generally not being particularly good compared to common household electrical counterparts (induction for stoves, electric for ovens, heat pumps for heating buildings and water).

Commercial vehicles has legitimate benefits of lower cost from H2 FCs than batteries. Quicker refuel times. Aviation especially benefits from redesigning planes for H2 for the weight savings. Trains/ships need the power/range. Trucks/cars can use the range extension, and could use H2 as removable auxiliary power for extended range.

I imagine refueling times is not necessarily going to be critical for all types of commercial use-cases.

Aviation struggles with the relatively low energy density in H2.

Trains should essentially always be running on catenaries.

Boats might be able to make use of H2, I’m not super familiar with the issues affecting them.

Long-hail trucking should broadly be replaced by the much more efficient rail shipping.

Cars run pretty much fine on electric as is, I’m not sure the case for making H2 cars is compelling enough to be warranted.

Ammonia and fertilizer is traditional use for H2.

This might be a good niche for H2 to fill.

All in all, I’m still not convinced that large-scale H2 buildouts is a good use of our resources, but there are definitely a few compelling niches that it can fill. We need to be wary of them being co-opted by blue hydrogen fossil fuel companies though, which often seems to be the case today.

I have a generally negative impression of hydrogen because many of the intended use-cases seem to be a cover story for the gas industry to keep existing, which it very much should not be any more.

Do you know any use-cases where hydrogen is truly warranted, outside for example steel production, which I think might be legit?

Also when you account for those batteries the cost is going to shift a bit.

You better be bringing units if you’re going to be claiming this.

Still less than half of the LCOE of nuclear when storage is added: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1475611/global-levelized-cost-of-energy-components-by-technology/

Given that both solar and storage costs are trending downwards while nuclear is not, this basically kills any argument for nuclear in the future. It’s not viable on its face - renewables + storage is the definitive future.

This claim doesn’t really pass the smell check for me - can you point to where you get the notion from? Checking the lists for average hours worked per year per worker, richer countries routinely have lower numbers than poorer countries.

Encryption is totally and completely haram

The Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000 feet, I believe

76 million, which is not 100s.

Also unironically yes - the time for being polite has passed. Braindead people should be labelled as such in public forums.

As a counterpoint, I’ve bought loads of really good cycling accessories from AliExpress. It’s not impossible to buy high-quality things from China - this is after all where a large part of everything is manufactured these days - you just have to be careful not to fall for the offers that are just obviously too good to be true.

Uncapped overtime excuses bad management. I get why they’re pissed, this puts a spotlight on how bad they are at management.

As promised, some feature requests:

• When replying on the view comment reply from inbox-screen, when submitting response, the screen does not update with the new comment. This would be a nice addition to have!
• When on the view comment from profile-screen, I often find myself wanting to read the parent of the active comment as well as the comment itself. Additionally, it would be nice to also be able to see ‘sibling comments’, other replies to the comment that this was a reply of.
• When making posts under less-than-ideal clients side network conditions/unstable server conditions, the post can sometimes become many times duplicated, potentially by some retrying mechanism. This can be a bit of a mess, and it would be nice if retries were for non-mutating API calls only, or if possible from the Lemmy server’s side, add idempotency so that duplicates get discarded.

Thanks again for a great app!

EDIT: Bonus - when posting, the total comment for post-counter does not update to reflect the new state/fetch the new count. It would be a nice touch to have this update.

Looks good and works great now. Thanks

By the way, what is your preferred forum for feature requests? Is right here in this community good, or somewhere else?

EDIT: Hot damn, that slight animation on the back when navigating from a detail screen back to the list is downright sexy. Kudos!

So the context is that roads in the U.S are generally designed for speeds way higher than what the speed limit is, and what the average speed with regular traffic volumes is. The pandemic removed a lot of this traffic, which was the primary impediment to drivers driving the design speed of the roads. This higher speed then led to the increased pedestrian fatalities.

That’s a Burrón right there I believe

That gives a whole new meaning to the expression 🤢 Fr*nch “people” 🤮

Unlikely - Google Maps sources their own traffic data by their users, and I don’t think they share it freely.

Driverless is pretty good as far as trains are concerned. It’s already figured out in some systems, so it’s not unproven technology as is the case in cars.

This might actually be a way to save Apple devices that no longer get OS updates, since those essentially become immediately useless, owing to iOS devs policy of only supporting the two most recent OS updates in their apps. It’s not uncommon for Android apps to support positively ancient versions of the OS, all the way back to Android 5.0.

It’s the kind of bullshit that nets you top-tier pay. Unfortunately.

Some random company claiming this capability without any further evidence should probably be treated with some level of scrutiny.