“hopefully China's massive PV manufacturing capacity will start flowing to the developing world”
You are so out of date, it’s not even funny. The developing world has been dramatically increasing its solar growth for the past five years. Here’s an article about Pakistan:
https://www.wri.org/insights/p...
Same is happening right across Africa
As has urban noise. There’s endless videos of the uncannily quiet streets, and it’s clear how much more peaceful life is.
Here’s an example
If you had to choose between the schoolboy error of assuming growth continues to increase exponentially till 2045 and the schoolboy error of assuming that exponential growth immediately flattens out this year, the former looks a shit load more plausible than the latter, as demonstrated by the past 20 years of projections from the IEA in this famous chart from Auke Hoekstra. There may be a topping out and an S-curve, but there’s no signs of it in the data.
My son took this exam in 2022. It was absurd - he was being taught about magnetic tape storage (for home computers!), instead of anything actually useful. It definitely wasn’t computer science either. No call by push value or P vs NP or complexity theory etc.
No worries! Renault are haunted by their old reputation, but they’ve been knocking it out the park recently when it comes to EVs. The only shame is that they’ve not been able to do better on range — the 5 has the same range as the Zoe did when it was discontinued 4 years ago. 245 miles is still good for a supermini, but I was hoping they’d be able to push past 300. Still, that’s a minor quibble, especially as not many folks drive a supermini on massive road trips very often. You could get from Paris to Nice with one big stop and one little stop for your summer holiday, for example.
I get the feeling that positive feedback mechanisms are starting to kick in
Like electing far right morons hell bent on destroying the earth for a dollar? Positive feedback is the same as a negative feedforward right
If we had spent even a small fraction of those hard-earned taxpayer dollars spent on developing solar, wind, tidal and even next-gen nuclear power
Because the world doesn't need synthetic rubber, pharma, plastics, roads, and the shitton of other things you ignore from the oil industry, all the while ignoring the fact that the world isn't funding the Saudis for power generation at all since most of the world does not use oil fired power stations?
I'm all for a rant, but please at least have it make sense.
There is precedent in Cupertino, CA, even if it is just office space for Apple.
I would have gone with The Pentagon which was built back in the 1940s, but sure, let's give apple the credit.
Most EU decisions die on the table even when "implemented". That's one of the downsides of a system that relies on implementation among all member states, three of which seemingly wish they could be part of the USSR instead of the EU.
For whatever reason, some EU politicians think that enshittifying the union's principles and law frameworks will help the EU regain competitiveness. Fat chance.
The EU politicians are no different than those of any other country. If they get enough morons to follow them, even some true dumbfucks can get elected. We've been seeing a lot of stupid proposals come through the EU parliament since the last election turned the EU government more conservative. This is what happens when the VP of the commission gets replaced by someone from the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Look at the history of the PDF spec. Way back, it allowed embedded javascript and ActiveX controls. It has zillions of features and allows almost arbitrary shit.
Back then security didn't exist as a concept. Everyone supported embedding ActiveX and Javascript.
Who modded this informative? WebP isn't deprecated in the slightest despite how much you wish it were. In fact it was only formally ratified as a standard literally exactly one year ago. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc... The lastest revision to the primary library was done less than 3 months ago.
WebP remains supported by all major platforms, unlike JPEG XL, and is in active use, unlike JPEG XL.
Yeah I too wish it were different, but seriously come join us in reality man.
Who said this is to solve the decline? This sounds more like depreciating a button that not even your mum clicks while pooping. Remember Facebook is an AI company now. They want to feed you a steady diet of AI slop. No need to link any internet content anymore.
This is about the least retarded decision they've made in a long time.
This airline levy isn't nor should it be a high-priority levy for the US.
This is a dumb take. You're implying that a country with 330million people are only able to do one thing at a time? Yeah okay the government was shutdown for a few weeks but it's open again. There's more than one employee and you can focus on two things at once. Airlines is still 2.5% of the emissions of the most carbon polluting per capita country in the west. It remains something worth going after, especially since the tiny penis brigade won't let you pry their monster trucks from their cold dead hands.
Hasn't the UK been doing this for years? Levying a fee based on total distance of your journey?
No. Most countries levy a passenger tax, but as far as I am aware none of those taxes go to targeted investment and all go back into the general treasury. Taxes aren't green simply because they are levied on airline passengers. They are green based on what they are spent on. The taxes from the UK was introduced back before we had an environment (yes this is a joke, but the point is in 1994 the word "carbon" was unknown in the the general vernacular"
The only difference between a car salesman and a computer salesman is that the car salesman knows he's lying.
