the enemies of the ruling class are not my enemies

people treating memes like a treatise to be debated has to be my favorite trope

when you definitely read and understood the comment you’re replying to

First of all, conversion from electricity to hydrogen achieves 60–80% system efficiency which isn’t even the theoretical maximum. Meanwhile, round-trip efficiency of P2P energy storage system with micro gas turbines between 22% and 29%.. It’s expected that efficiency could get to around 40% in the next decade as well.

So, I don’t think that’s actually a huge issue. The main problem with hydrogen for stuff like planes is low energy density. But that’s not an issue for stuff like ground batteries which are used to capture energy from wind and solar. This also works for transport like trucks. And a big advantage for hydrogen is that it doesn’t need large amounts of rare earths as you do for traditional batteries.

China is taking a shotgun approach to their energy mix where they try a whole bunch of different things, and then see where different methods of energy production and storage make the most sense.

cry ab it

people waking up to how a capitalist government actually functions and whose interest it serves is the one silver lining here

The fact that people in the west don’t understand there is propaganda in the west has always been astounding to me.

I agree, without applying a materialist lens, you just end up discussing symptoms endlessly and ignoring the actual mechanics of the system responsible for producing these outcomes. This is another example I just ran across today where the author is discovering the contradictions of capitalism from first principles. https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

I was gonna say, it was a neat concept, but he didn’t really spend the time to make it convincing or explain the mechanism for how life would evolve to be like that. It’s like he just had this idea that life could be more modular, but didn’t bother fleshing it out past that. I actually enjoyed Shroud a lot more, I feel like he put more work into making it plausible. Can recommend if you missed it.

Yeah more like people are starting to realize the internet is too American.

For non fiction I’m reading The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle, and can highly recommend. Short, thought provocative, and engaging. For fiction, Children of Strife is great, latest instalment in Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series which I really enjoyed overall.

Given the history of what the US military personnel has done in places like Iraq, a chance to shoot women and children is literally why they sign up. What they’re really worried about is that somebody might actually fight back like they do in Iran.

Get ready for 10 bucks a gallon, also this will mean that costs of all the goods will go up because delivery costs and energy bills will be higher, which companies will pass on to the consumer.

It can be since it’s more socially acceptable, and then people start engaging with new ideas which can lead them towards more rigorous analysis.

there seem to be a whole a bunch of these projects now

oh I didn’t even consider the last bit

The whole premise behind private enterprise is that it was supposed to be more efficient than state planning. If we’re saying now that state planning works better, then maybe the west should think about abandoning the dogma of letting private businesses run wild. It’s also worth noting that the US also gives massive subsidies to their car companies. Tesla wouldn’t exist without decades of government grants for example.

Steam Deck is a really under appreciated Linux machine in my opinion.

it was like a movie explosion, I loved it

Actually, I grew up in USSR and frankly, I was shocked when I saw at how much worse the propaganda in the west. Most people in USSR understood there was domestic propaganda and were able to think critically about it. Meanwhile, Westerners gobble their propaganda up completely uncritically, and many don’t even realize they have domestic propaganda.