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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Batteries are still less energy dense and portable than fossil fuels. I think this is easily navigated for private use - provide a wide charging infrastructure - but heavy industry is the harder problem to solve, but to match how fossil fuels are used and to change the opinions and expectations of those in charge.

    A lot of remote sites rely on diesel or petrol generators, and I don’t think there’s an equivalent device to provide clean energy in both capacity and portability. I believe the only way to change industrial clean energy adoption is to make clean energy cheaper. Politicians won’t tax fossil fuels (because it’s political suicide in most economies), so we need more emerging technologies before we can get close to actual industry adoption.








  • It reminds me if when ISIS (middle eastern terrorist group) ruined the name Isis (Egyptian god, but also person’s given name).

    The cartoon Archer took the story in a whole new direction in order to disband the show’s fictional organisation that was called ISIS (by coincidence). I thought it was such a shame to let real world bad guys ruin things. Surely by caving to that we are giving them more power than if we held the attitude that other people were using that word first and they can’t ruin it.

    Having said that, the same argument doesn’t seem to work all the time. i think the “Hitler” moustache is permanently ruined.