There was an article posted somewhere on Lemmy a few months back where someone tried to do similar calculations for the US as a whole. What I took from the result was 95% renewable was achievable and still cheaper than fossil fuels. However the over provisioning of renewables and over double the storage needed to reliably achievable 100% made that infeasible with today’s proving and technology. Basically you can install storage to cover when the sun is not shining but it’s much more difficult to cover weeks of gloominess

Not that old, plus I don’t see it.

Asbestos is great at insulating really hot things so was used on boilers , especially ships and industrial to insulate the hot pipes and improve efficiency. However in this case we need something with thermal mass: any sand or rock might do, or water, or oil, or a modern phase change material. That material next to the heater will get hot but the entire mass won’t, so can be insulated with standard materials. There’s no point in something like asbestos

An important part of my point was also that what I assume were cheap materials was enough to take advantage of nightly time of use metering. In upstate NY, a standard “radiator” per room was sufficient, similar to hot water or steam heat

When I was a kid my parents had electric resistance heat with some very effective thermal storage.

Each room had a unit about the size of a typical radiator. The unit was basically an insulated box with a small circulation fan. I’m not sure what was inside but always assumed some form of brick - they weren’t expensive so it couldn’t be anything exotic. At night when electric rates were low, whatever was inside the units was heated up. During the day, the only power usage was a small circulation fan controlled by the thermostat.

I just got a heat pump installed and thought thermal storage would be worth considering since I was also looking into solar, but contractors acted like they never heard of it, and there really didn’t seem to be any consumer units available.

The solar panels are another story. I don’t see how such a scammy (in the us) industry even exists. They make it really hard to give them my money

This is a farmer. Complaining about his situation now.

Unless he’s confident of a bailout, there may be no 18 months from now. wtf would he want to kick the can down the road?

What hope do we have when a leopard is eating someone’s face and their reaction is they trust the leopard and are willing to let it continue another year and a half? What does it take for them to make the connection?

You see, nothing illegal happened on Trump-Epstein island. /s

In the 2010s, regulators in both the European Union and the United Kingdom stopped requiring companies to report quarterly results, moving to six-month reporting periods instead.

It also has precedence, real world demonstration.

In 2018, Trump urged the SEC to study moving to a six-month reporting system to “allow greater flexibility & save money.

And it’s even something he’s thought about for a while rather than a momentary impulse or reaction. I wonder what the results of that study were.

The US stock market is fairly strong at encouraging innovation, new companies, growth. My employer is one of many that moved its headquarters here to take advantage of that innovation economy. I don’t like this one proposal on the grounds that it erodes yet another US advantage. We’ll be worse off for it.

But we do have examples of it working so it’s not the end of the world. This seems far less destructive than most of his actions

Presumably a lot less trading from outside sources like 👍 investment funds and overseas investors

It’ll be like twitter: encourage the crazies and drive away the legit content until the platform is entirely ruined

I believe there were many “low information” voters who only knew they wanted change.

Where those voters might have wanted Biden Harris initiatives, those tended toward long term investments that people were not patient for or were not trumpeted as loudly. Improvements were neither visible nor immediate. Building is boring. Too many people never paid attention, wanted instant gratification or only heard the loudest voices.

There is no reset. All the easy to reach fossil fuels being gone may be an insurmountable obstacle to any reset being able to reach an industrial age

Why masturbate yourself like a peon, when you can spend $500000 to? And get a free Florence Pugh voice to “avenge” your crusaders?

I kind of thought that was the only real difference with 11: requiring the tpm

There are some companies that sell hardware with Linux pre-installed. The bigger companies that do are Dell and Lenovo.

Last time I checked, admittedly years ago, I was irritated at paying the same price as for the windows version of the same hardware. Why do I still need to pay the Microsoft tax and who’s getting it?

I hear diy law enforcement is now ok. Just modify the bill to let any concerned citizen file suit. Let the gestapo deal with millions of pesky lawsuits

Think of it like grandma. She can fold your underwear for you but needs to go sit down every half hour

…second phone number…

Of course but it doesn’t scale. I’m currently up to 182 unique generated email addresses to help keep my online accounts a little more secure. But they all go through one or two phone numbers, leaving me more open to sim attacks, social engineering and data aggregation

In this case apparently it’s “liberal violence” before there’s any indication of the murder motives or affiliation

I never paid attention to the guy in life so was surprised that this is becoming a thing, but on reading his wikipedias entry …. I’d say he deserves partial credit for political violence becoming normalized

I’m not entirely sure what you mean but my password manager alerts when the hash of one of my passwords matches one from a dark web data dump, and prompts me to replace it with a newly generated one.

I’m sure it’s not a unique feature

Admittedly I do have a few bad password, a combination of I don’t see how I could care (like a Reddit alt account) and sites that break the password change automation (yeah I’m lazy)

In some ways 2fa is a weak spot even disregarding recovery processes being open to social engineering, now you’re giving a verified identifier uniquely tied to you

I generate unique email addresses and passwords for every account but can’t realistically do that with phone numbers

2fa by sms or voice isn’t especially secure anyway since you’re open to sim attacks and social engineering. I have a lot more hope for Passkeys but don’t really trust the practical advice arts of managing them yet

A great place to start is data privacy laws. If they don’t collect unnecessary PII, it can’t be exposed.

But yes, companies need to face more liability. While it’s true that no one is inhackable - you’d need to be perfect everywhere all the time and the bad guys only need one break to succeed - there are best practices that make it a lot more unlikely. If you as a company have been hacked and you’re not taking good care of your customers data, you should be liable for carelessness. Admittedly following good data security practices can be expensive but that’s why there should be consequences for those who cut corners