I mean you’re really hard to understand. I can’t figure out if you’re a kid, mentally handicapped, a poor English speaker, or a cat on a touchscreen.

Are you 8 years old?

They don’t just need to work, they need to be economically viable.

These batteries have active components, since they actually pump the electrolyte, and there’s a fairly substantial level of degradation and corrosion, along with leaking across the membrane that leads to loss of capacity over time.

If some of these problems can be reduced (like the article claims they do) then they’re even more attractive.

I really hope this helps with massively expanding renewables storage, because that’s bastion holding up fossil fuels in electricity generation, and it will allow shutting down all those coal, gas, even nuclear plants!

India ⁠achieved its target of 20% ethanol blending (E20) in petrol in 2025 ⁠and is now looking to increase blending further ⁠to reduce costly imports of petroleum products.

Well it’s something I guess.

Inb4 no one contributes voluntarily, so they make it mandatory.

I can see the headlines: US invents taxes.

NGL, was expecting a rickroll.

China has also been delivering, so I wouldn’t bet against them.

A notorious example is Tesla, when they adopted the lithium-iron-phosphate batteries made by CATL because they were cheaper, safer and easier to build (no nickel or cobalt required).

Of course some of these articles are pure hype for vapourware, but this one’s sounding plausible - they claim to have engineered a structure that is negatively charged, while also physically preventing electrolyte crossover, and that this prevents degradation by two orders of magnitude.

It’s not preposterous, and might be enough to make these batteries usable on a massive scale…

Energy density isn’t really a problem for grid-wide storage. Just build huge electrolyte tanks under the solar panels, voilà, generation and storage.

If they’re really stable, they’ll probably be placed all over the place and be a huge help in managing demand.

It won’t fit all use cases, you’ll want batteries with better density for anything mobile, but there’s definitely also a huge use case for this type of battery.

The US is irrelevant in these conversations.

It’s a global imperative, as well as in most nations own security interests, to become independent of fossil fuels.

What needs to be agreed is how the willing are going to fight back against the oil baron’s billions, because they’ll do anything, anything, to remain relevant and profitable.

Yep, and people change with time, maybe one kept the same drive they had in their early 20’s, the other did not. This happens with other things as well, and if anything, sexual issues might just be a symptom that people’s interests, needs and priorities have changed and are no longer aligned…

Growing old together is a game of compromises, but as long as both are willing to play, it is fun.

Like maybe I’m straight, but in a “knows when dudes are hot and comfortable at kink parties” way, you know

I’m throwing you in the “fun people” pile, so there’s another label ;)

I don’t get your point, you ask me a question then assume to know what my answer is, then build your case on straw?

Would you support a world government? One democratic government, one armed forces. Only the UN has the ability to be violent. Noone else.

Yes, yes I would very much support that government. I don’t see a point in “one armed forces” though, they serve no purpose in such a world, and why would the UN be allowed to be violent?

Let’s continue from here.

EDIT: About your note that anarchism doesn’t believe in the goodwill of society: I said was that freedom and equality are core rights, I don’t think you’ve corrected me on this, so the question stands on who is meant to uphold these values once they get trampled on? Is it then every man for himself, wild west style, and fuck the weak?

I mean, no objections here.

Just trying to bring a bit of hope in that, even with the recent fascist uprisings everywhere, I think the world has been gradually progressing in the last several decades, and societies are now more accepting of minorities in general.

I want to believe that what we’re seeing are the death throws of a greedy, selfish and unaccepting culture and generation, that’s trying to contaminate whatever fresh minds it still can after having lost most of us, and that our most important job is to fight them and protect the new generation from these degenerates.

Oh. When did you last have a pie?

Wholly agree, it’s a spectrum. I’m het, but that’s just a shorthand convenience label that says I’m for the most part attracted to people that don’t look like me, even if it’s not particularly useful or necessarily true, but I don’t think it’s a bad word if it’s helping express something I like.

When I do think it’s an awful word is when it’s used to restrict someone’s freedom in choosing a partner, or forcing someone’s view of themselves into a black and white stereotype, so it’s a rather loaded word at this point.

Definitely AI.

No, Flash was a proprietary platform for animated content before the modern web standards. You’re thinking of the MP3 player.

Edit: Clearly a poor attempt at setting up someone to reply with “no you’re thinking of Winamp, …”

Anarchism is, as far as I can tell, a contradiction.

Equality and freedom are a core foundation of anarchy, right? Except, how do you enforce it when inevitably someone fails to respect others freedom and rights, if you reject any sort of hierarchy or control?

I’d really love to believe that everyone would be civically irreprehensible, but reality begs to differ.

Not sure about public domain. Perhaps a non-commercial license would be best - this way fans can carry on the work, but others wouldn’t be tempted to profit off of the IP.

That’s how he found out he could not dance like that.