I’m a datacentre manager and I get twitchy just walking into the same room as our two 100kWh li-ion UPSes, knowing just how much chemical energy is stored in them 🤯

Oh, interesting! & that answers the question I was about to ask, which is, does it handle your fridge. Sounds like it handles somewhat more. (I wonder what a countertop induction burner would "cost" in power?) (I could look it up, but it's all so hypothetical at this point; I'll just wait. Sounds like field is moving briskly.)

Excellent, thank you. (Contemplating this for my unit, space is obviously a consideration.) (But I would really really love to be (comparatively) immune from blackouts. They're mostly fine, but I hate losing a freezer full of food.

So roughly washing-machine or stove sized, with associated dedicated breaker box?

Putin shelters in bunkers amid ‘assassination’ fears

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1t3ekny/putin_shelters_in_bunkers_amid_assassination_fears/

The dictatorship of the proletariat is a Marxist concept describing a transitional state where the working class (proletariat) holds political power to dismantle capitalism and transition to a classless, communist society. It represents the collective rule of the majority, suppressing bourgeoisie resistance and establishing public ownership of the means of production.

would it be funny if trump turned America communist?

on a side note:

@pluralistic

I hope somebody's keeping an eye out for the enshittification potentials in renewables, so that we can head those off when the Predator Class starts trying to enclose those commons. (I think I've seen some reports of those kinds of things already being tried, though not yet at national scale.)

Relatedly, I'm looking forward to the day when solar becomes bicycle-level back-yard tech that's essentially impossible to enclose.

#SolarEnergy #Renewables

PLEASE tell me somebody's already done this one...?

"Strait of #Epstein," , !

This sounds like a line from a Douglas Adams book, and yet, here we are....

I am sooo embarrassed by & ashamed of my country, right now....

Wouldn't it be just •delightful• if we woke up someday in the not-too-distant future, & fossil fuel prices had fallen off a cliff bc mostly nobody bothers with them anymore?

(I'm now pondering fertilizer & plastics replacements with renewables. Dunno if the urban algal farming I've read about would would scale, but it def gives me itchy thoughts....)

How big is that 42 kWh storage? I mean, what kind of cubic does it occupy? (Asking for a condo-dweller whose local utility can't be arsed to bury their powerlines, but who threatens "proactive blackouts" on windy days as a hedge against wildfire.) (Who is me.)

Gods, I wish people wouldn't say shit like this. There is almost certainly some state-level actor who would take this as a challenge....

If somebody hasn't done so already, I think Solnit's article (referenced in Cory's blog/post) is worth surfacing:

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/truth-consequences-climate-and-demand-destruction/

#Energy #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #USpol #Iran #StraitOfHormuz