A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@cwebber and here in za people are installing rooftop solar faster than our national power supplier is losing generation capacity. it's great

[jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt]

@raulinbonn they'd need (concentrated) solar (thermal) power stations (CSP) with thermal storage, and those occupy large areas and might not even produce enough energy for the AI datacentres (and they take longer to build than datacentres). We don't need more AI datacentres, even AI companies are reaching that conclusion.
@cwebber

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@cwebber Wish we were allowed to out here..

[http_error_418@hachyderm.io]

@cwebber I specifically remember reading articles in my childhood in a pop science mag bemoaning the way that solar panels were expensive and not very efficient and expressing longing for the imagined future where they were cheap and worked well.

Here you go, Focus columnist, this is the future you were dreaming of ️🥲

[douardda@pouet.chapril.org]

@cwebber Michael Kosta (Daily show) rightfully awarded Trump with this beautiful trophee yesterday

[stonsoftware@mastodon.social]

@kernelvoid @darwinwoodka @cwebber that needs just solar at winter level plus batteries

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@cwebber And, outside the US, the world is actually doing rather well with it, investing, subsidizing, supporting.

[ninestonesclose@mastodon.social]

@cwebber still hoping, but certain some billionaires fuck it all up even more.

[bellegraylane@universeodon.com]

@cwebber it does rule. Solar works everywhere you have a sun, it’s amazing in its simplicity.

[marion_grau@climatejustice.social]

@mensrea @cwebber bye bye rolling black outs!!

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@marion_grau @cwebber it's been very strange over the last 2 years how the loadshedding seems to have vanished. and i keep expecting to pop up again

[be@floss.social]

@FurryBeta @cwebber Feels pretty silly to be fighting over petroleum in these circumstances.

[interpipes@thx.gg]

@cwebber @bert_hubert if only our energy market wasn't so irredeemably broken so that we still pay based on the price of the most expensive unit on the grid no matter the actual mean price of generation

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@cwebber

Myth: Solar energy is safe and harmless.

Fact: If the sun explodes, it will kill all life on Earth.

[furrybeta@shark.community]

@be @cwebber I look forward to the day that oil is only used for lubricants

[mwt@toot.garden]

@kernelvoid @darwinwoodka @cwebber wind? if the village is somewhere windy.

[vyllenjamnin@mastodon.social]

@cwebber
I really like your vibe!

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@JessTheUnstill @darwinwoodka @juliehuz @cwebber That was probably in considerable part because less effort was put into the matter than there otherwise would've been.

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@wakame @cwebber My instance apparently lacks the blobcat explosion gif emoji, so you'll just have to imagine it instead of this reply.

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@lispi314 @cwebber @wakame