A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
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@cwebber and here in za people are installing rooftop solar faster than our national power supplier is losing generation capacity. it's great
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@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
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@cwebber The irony of our “drill baby drill” prez doing more to drive renewables than just about anything else recently
@FurryBeta @cwebber Feels pretty silly to be fighting over petroleum in these circumstances.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@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
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
Myth: Solar energy is safe and harmless.
Fact: If the sun explodes, it will kill all life on Earth.
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@FurryBeta @cwebber Feels pretty silly to be fighting over petroleum in these circumstances.
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@darwinwoodka @cwebber true however, my intention was small scale i.e home to village level roughly 30 homes.
Can anything other than biowaste, solar and hydro electricity be used?!@kernelvoid @darwinwoodka @cwebber wind? if the village is somewhere windy.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber
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Not downplaying just how awful those administrations fucked us over, but modern solar and batteries are generations of tech better than what we had back then. We didn't hit the "cheaper than gas" point until just the last few years.
@darwinwoodka @juliehuz @cwebber@JessTheUnstill @darwinwoodka @juliehuz @cwebber That was probably in considerable part because less effort was put into the matter than there otherwise would've been. -
Myth: Solar energy is safe and harmless.
Fact: If the sun explodes, it will kill all life on Earth.
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Myth: Don't let children play with radium, because it's bad for their health.
Fact: Sunlight also causes cancer, but parents still let their children play outside.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber this so much
I've been looking at this report that came out the other way, and the section 2.2.2 about batteries alone just makes me feel like the world isn't horribly broken for once
https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/04/Global-Electricity-Review-2026.pdf -
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Yes, but the whole format, while technically containing truths, it practically made to sell lies.
Myth: We don't put radium in toothpaste anymore, because it is radioactive.
Fact: Bananas are also radioactive, but you don't see warning labels on them.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber praise the sun!
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@lispi314 @reiddragon @cwebber
"By mixing banana and radium toothpaste, you can explore the whole banana-toothpaste continuum."
"You're toying with powerful forces here."
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Myth: Solar energy is safe and harmless.
Fact: If the sun explodes, it will kill all life on Earth.
