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US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024
  • I have no idea what you are trying to say. Batteries have an environmental impact, but so does fracking for natural gas. You have the impact up front making a battery, but charging it with renewables does not have continued environmental impact. But if you use gas, you’re going to have to use an awful lot of it over that time period to offset the clean power you’re able to use when you have a battery. And that gas has a very high environmental impact, continually, over that entire time period.

    I didn’t say batteries have NO impact, but they have less impact than continually mining and burning fossil fuels.

  • US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024
  • You make the batteries once, and the pollution due to production is spread over the 10-15 year lifetime of the battery. During that time gigawatt hours of clean power sloshes in and out of them. This in contrast to having to produce enough gas to make all of those gigawatt hours once, then throw the gas away as co2 and get more, along with the attendant pollution.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene accused a DNC speaker of "pedophilia." It didn't go well for her.
  • She has political standing because the right wing media finds her constant insane shrieking useful, so they continue to platform her. It draws attention away from things they don’t want you talking about, like income inequality, looming fascism, environmental distraction… basically everything they are working so hard to achieve.

    Any mental effort they can get people to waste responding to her is effort not being put towards making the world a better place for someone other than billionaires.

  • 2024 Democratic platform emphasizes economic case for climate action
  • I agree that there are much more reasonable existential reasons to lean on but like... if "Climate change will cause NVidia to drop 900%" gets finance bros on board with a solution then fucking well done.

    This is probably the right take, although I’m sure some segment of the population will hear “So you’re saying keep going the way we’re going but short NVidia?”

  • Alex Jones and his fans are intrigued by Putin offer of sanctuary to conservatives
  • Oh no, absolutely they shouldn’t go! That would be so terrible for all of us progressives. Once they leave and take all their useful skills with them we absolutely will fail as a country and will cry tears of shame that we ever questioned them. That would show us so hard. We would be so owned!

  • Melania Trump cashed six-figure check to speak to gay Republicans at Mar-a-Lago
  • Rich people know that laws don’t apply to them. Log Cabin Republicans probably figure that Republican policies will benefit them financially, and their wealth will insulate them from any practical inconvenience from the anti-LGBT policies. Sure, it will make life unbearable for millions of people, but those people aren’t them, so who cares? I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.

  • NYT Opinion: There Is Still a Biden Scandal
  • I cancelled my subscription a few weeks ago, because I got sick of paying for have them put not only their thumb, but their entire weight, on the scale to push Trump. I’m old enough to remember when they were a reputable newspaper.

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