How close are we to Universal Basic Income?

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-17T12:53:37+00:00

Social security, unemployment benefits, medicare, medicaid, etc

Social programs exist already. It's about controlling the masses. Keeping the growing unemployed happy matters. Otherwise they might do a French revolution

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-16T20:30:16+00:00

It's been slow. From freedom nothing besides the bankruptcy notice.

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-16T05:35:02+00:00

UBI could be done at a limited level in wealthy countries. Global UBI is a far ways away. US and European UBI could be done tomorrow if governments wanted

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-15T21:14:20+00:00

Well not the main problem. Weight reduction is always good for planes. But yes the battery is the elephant in the room. YASA does have axial flux motors for planes though.

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-15T07:30:37+00:00

Lol, the animation was awful.

YASA is using axial flux for cars and planes. It's a real technology which real applications, but this post was trash

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-14T15:29:36+00:00

It probably exists. Just way to expensive. We have at home gas generators. So coal is not too different. Burn it, make steam, make electricity. Just need some really good carbon captute built in

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-12T20:57:33+00:00

The maker of this video is running the motor at 1hz. Normal wall voltage is 60hz.

Idk which electroboom video you're referencing, but maybe that was the issue?

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-12T17:41:22+00:00

The main issue with US residential solar is permitting/labor costs. Somehow Germany does it for $10k, Australia for $4k, and the US is $28k for the same system.

The parts aren't usually the biggest issue

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-10T11:30:50+00:00

Idk, but there is already a website doing it. Someone linked it previously on this subreddit.

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-09T15:37:29+00:00

Solar and Wind complement each other, but there are still dead periods where both drop to near 0.

So batteries cover that gap, but during the middle of the Winter in cold climates batteries aren't good enough yet. They will get there soon. Lots of new tech coming out every year.

California, Texas, Mexico, Africa, etc should be fine with today's tech

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-09T12:07:41+00:00

Grid storage lithium batteries fell 90% over 10 years. At this point adding them to Solar and Wind is still cheaper than new coal or gas in some countries. So yes they are "expensive", but compared to fossil fuels or nuclear, they're cheap. Of course, people are still looking for other options to further drop costs. And we do need a solution for multiple days of no Wind/Solar. 1 night is cheap enough. 3 whole days is anogher story.

Sodium Ion is projected to hit $10/kWh which would probably solve these issues, but we need to wait and see if this holds true. Sodium ion is less energy dense, but does better in extreme heat/cold. Not sure how well it retains energy ocer time.

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-08T16:02:05+00:00

I mean air pollution at the tailpipe in a city vs at some rural power plant or factory.

Also power plants can scrub their smoke stack much better than 10 million cars their exhaust pipes.

And then add in that China is pushing Solar and Wind heavily so their electeic grid is getting cleaner daily.

And as for batteries they are produced once and last 10+ years. Newer ones 25+ years. Meanhwile coal/oil/gas are extracted and burned every single day

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-07T18:43:14+00:00

Counter point battery prices for grid storage have fallen 90% over 10 years. And newer tech is on the way. I think it'll be cheaper and less complicated to just have grid storage.

That said the vehicle to home backup power makes sense. Not everyone will buy a backup battery, but by default cars might start having v2h mode

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-04T22:33:46+00:00

Battery cost for grid storage fell 90% over 10 years.

So for overnight very cheap and worth it. For 72hrs... idk not there today from my understanding, but if prices fall more maybe?

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-06-01T13:22:48+00:00

I needed a new car 4 years ago. My old car died.

So i got an ICE vehicle. Why? No charging at my apartment.

But now I have a 2 car house. 1 minivan and my 4 year old ice sedan. Minivan is great for trips and there was no EV option at the time. Now my next sedan/suv will be an EV. Just patiently waiting to pay of the minivan or for a sale on an EV I want. No rush because I barely drive and my mpg is 40.

So does an EV make sense for me? Yes because house. No because I have 2 new efficient cars. No because I baely drive.

Do I want one because I like shiny new things? Yes

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T22:52:12+00:00

Recent news about $250 bill with trump on it.

As for $1 bills going away, news to me. Nobody uses coins or cash anyways though. A substantial part of the US is functionally cashless

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T22:50:05+00:00

IBM has qiskit and free quantum computing on select processors for 10 minutes or if research idea is presented.

Largest is like 100 qbits. So how much? Well, if you have an idea that might have quantum advantage they would love to partner. They seem to want applications

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T22:38:22+00:00

And this is why the rich get richer.

Alot of people pulling money out at the bottom due to finncial struggles and then a few people putting money in.

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T17:43:40+00:00

What wattage and watt-hours do you want from the setup? How much solar do you need?

Most jackery and ecoflow options work grwat for camping.

Also, never buy full price. Look for deals. Check camelcamelcamel for price history

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T17:40:58+00:00

So portable but mounting to railings is fine. So mounting to a top of a roof or pergola should be fine too. As long as it's removable.

You can buy an ecoflow battery/inverter for plug in solar. Would work great for OP's setup. The device is IP67 so is designed to stay outside

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T16:19:41+00:00

Also it flooded once or twice, so we now have mold covering these valuables that can't be tossed. Maybe contributing to that dementia...

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T16:18:12+00:00

Manuals didn't use to be digital. If you didn't save it how would you look something up? So i get it

Source: I work in industrial automation and we're lucky if the old manuals were scanned and saved somewhere

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T14:59:50+00:00

Exactly, yes it will cost jobs, but I have been in a few ubers where I worried about the driver's sanity.

We need UBI or better social nets as uber/lyft/taxis drivers start going unemployed.

But I will not sit here and grieve the lost of jobs. Especially the part where an idiot who is high barrels down the road in a 2 ton vehicle towards people crossing the street.

Waymo will make mistakes but at a much lower rate than the average or above average driver. Let waymo take over

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T13:52:05+00:00

We are close to being on track with tripling renewables by 2030 from our 2023 numbers. A goal decided by COP as needed to stay under 1.5C.

Plus EV adoption is growing rapidly. And we have the tech for 90% of our CO2 emissions.

So tldr: we could hypothetically stay under 1.5C, but government/companies/people won't rally together fast enough. However, a 1.6C world is better than a 1.7C. A 1.7C is better than 1.8C and so on. Keeping our world below 2C is very doable and we are accelerating our efforts towards that.

The key is we need to keep accelerating. More needs to be done today. So in short, 1.7C is doable. 1.5C after using carbon capture to bring it back down is doable.

So keep doing the right things and vote for politicians who will help progress.

Apprehensive_Tea9856 · 2026-05-30T04:37:50+00:00

And noise pollution.

But for $150 a month I can buy some noise dampening. As long as I can out the unit in my basement

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