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humanspiral@lemmy.caOPMtoEndless War@lemmy.ca•Russia's relative timid condemnation of Israel and war on IranEnglish11·24 hours agoSpecific fucktardery by Iran towards China includes ratting ZTE and Huawei out to US. https://x.com/PandemicTruther/status/1935027715809186120
humanspiral@lemmy.caOPMtoEndless War@lemmy.ca•Russia's relative timid condemnation of Israel and war on IranEnglish11·1 day agore China, Iran has a full tropic thunder apporach to tolerating west potential: https://x.com/PandemicTruther/status/1935021769762451584
By far, the easiest escape for Iran today is to announce total renoucement of all use of Uranium. Nuclear energy has 0 economic value, and especially in a place as sunny as Iran, with massive employment opportunities to deploy it. Solar helps Iran’s energy exports by displacing its use internally.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Americans 'Have Been Brainwashed' By Fox News, New York Post As She Opposes U.S. Entering Israel-Iran WarEnglish40·1 day agoSaw polling where even Trump voters only have 25% support for attack on Iran, and majority of all demographics oppose by over 50%. There is a huge disconnect between zionist supremacist media and politicians, and American people. Not just war, but marjority of Amercians have unfavourable view of Israel despite absolute political/media dominance to “educate them”.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato The Democratic National Convention™ of Libjerk@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Senate Passes Massive Cryptocurrency Bill, Ignoring Risk To Financial SystemEnglish2·1 day agoRegulated stablecoins (main legislation achievement) is a big consumer benefit. Selling for USD is normal “withdrawal process”. The legislation creates less of a reason for stable coins to deviate from USD value, but trading for bitcoin or other currency is much easier, as is escaping the country.
The consumer benefit is potentially getting a 2-3% discount on payments compared to credit cards. And getting better “bank deposit” rates as companies get more competitive in sharing their reserve returns with customers.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing2·1 day agoH2 makes the best long term electrical storage, because not only is it more efficient than other cheap alternatives, it can be even more efficient with heat use, and it is economically transportable/exportable and so is not capped by utilization/capacity constraints.
heat storage is extremely useful for complementing winter solar in low winter sun places. Including at small scale. Hydronic floor heating is most efficient use of heat. Heat pumps can very efficiently gain 30C of temperature gain. Sand and construction waste box with water pipes, and heat resistors, flowing through it, can store heat well above 100C that water doesn’t ineffienctly. 2000 liters of just water is sufficient in most locations with a fireplace or EV backup, but sand/dirt/gypsum of 500L to 1000L significantly boosts resilence and heat capacity.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing5·2 days agoefficient because heat is used for heat. (district heating system). getting electricity from heat is relatively inefficient. Stacked blocks are relatively efficient but concerns over wind resistance.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•The "EVs Are Big Polluters" Circus Is Back In Town - CleanTechnica3·2 days agoMines like datacenters can be in remote low land value areas that have a lot of room for solar, which without grid connections is even cheaper than grid connected energy, and cheaper power than transporting fuel. Surrounding land, certainly not usable for civilization. Most uranium mines in the world have a proper exclusion zone that allows more solar energy than the energy value of the uranium inside the mine.
After mine’s life, power availability means a cleaned up side does have civilization/land value. It also makes it attractive for eventual grid connection to rest of continent, or just “microgrid” short transmission to touristier locations. Solar development of a mining area not only offers cheapest mining operations, it creates future land value appreciation, and power supply revenues. Both significantly improving economics of a mining project.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•The "EVs Are Big Polluters" Circus Is Back In Town - CleanTechnica91·2 days agoOn mining debt, china has opened fully electric mines. Mining is not an inherently oil/diesel using activity.
Obviously japan is not forced to rely on coal, too.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•This electric pickup is taking Korea by storm, now it's going global on a 'full-scale conquest'English1·2 days agoCould be 3 row suv. $35k is pretty cheap, and cheaper to have unfinished back row and trunk.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Taiwan adds China’s Huawei, SMIC to export blacklistEnglish3·3 days agoLikely to help usa accuse China of sabotaging their latest deal. Or increase taiwan china tensions. Deeply anti democratic moves on island in recent months.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations Towards the United States and Other Countries10·3 days agoCooperation level disturbing on many fronts. Not clear how tabling affects timing of law, but some conditionality for Canadian evil on end of USA economic evil is a minimum… But that is the point of being assholes.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Global News@lemmy.zip•US warship reported heading toward Mideast as Iran, Israel fight1·3 days agoNothing good happens if headed to Persian Gulf
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repositoryEnglish242·3 days agoWhat do we want? sKYNET!!!
When do we want it? As soon as it can beat beginner atari chess?!?!
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Linux@lemmy.world•you can use your android phone as a wifi card!English2·3 days agoSome anti-China ISPs won’t let some tablets connect. wifi hotspot from phone to rescue.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Being an Anarchist is being the corpse on the Road that gets run over by both55·3 days agoweak. Ok, education camps show videos of how glorious and indivisible China is. Did you know that US children are forced to recite similar pledge of allegiance every day? Ok, the police have made a plan for dealing with insurrection. This is pure brainwashing about the power to present nothing as brainwashing, with enough style and dramatic music score.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Being an Anarchist is being the corpse on the Road that gets run over by both68·3 days agosuch an embarrassing propaganda nothing burger. BBC propaganda crew being stopped from filming proves any demonic lie they made? Where is armed “supervisors”, where is barbed wire surrounding factories? “victims of communism” organization is a nazi front. BBC a CIA propaganda arm. OMG a job recruitment ad mentioned the “glory of work” in its marketing appeal. Must be mind control forced labour.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Being an Anarchist is being the corpse on the Road that gets run over by both177·3 days agoThere is significant politicization of genocide declarations. They are all declared by fascist US empire and its slave controlled democracy colonies. There is very obvious extensive video evidence of extermination policies for Palestinians.
China responded to 2014 terrorist attacks with education and job creation programs. Xinxiang has had decent prosperity and population growth compared to other Chinese provinces despite a BDS policy from US controlled empire. The “technical genocide” accusation is based on a handful of Uyghur women with 4+ children who somehow all got to the UK, and claimed to now be sterile. Uyghurs had historically been exempt from Chinese one child policy.
Political demonism happens independently of facts. There are historical tensions in Xinxiang between Uyghur/muslim majority and relatively more prosperous Han minority, but Chinese policies are far more egalitarian than Alabama policies with much higher inequality. China has made the most humanist response to terrorism in history of civilization, even if it is not above criticism.
humanspiral@lemmy.catoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Tulsi Gabbard warns of nuclear threat in social media video1·3 days agoKing’s council member asking for no kings. Most of the King’s court can somehow calculate a win in nuclear exchange even if most of US destroyed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#%3A~%3Atext=Compared+to+conventional+railways%2C+maglev%2Cmore+energy+at+high+speeds.
There are some advantages, but 350kph might be fast enough for anybody, and it is a very expensive comparison.