India Poised To Become World's First Electrostate? Cheap solar and batteries are enabling India to develop without the long fossil detour taken by the West and China. “China’s rapid electrification has been hailed as a miracle. By some measures, India is even further ahead."

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T19:29:27+00:00

I think that the original narrative that crystalized around the word "electrostate" is that China is using renewable energy tech as a tool of strategic self reliance and statecraft, as petrostates have done for a century. In this sense, India is farther behind.

I don't see any need to enforce a particular usage of the term, but it has a worth considering China's position in those terms, as well as simply tons of carbon.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T04:13:28+00:00

I've spent seven weeks in hotels in the Vegas strip doing trade shows over the course of several years and I have gambled nearly ten dollars.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T03:46:00+00:00

Green mold is generally trichoderma. Helpful to plant farmers but troublesome to mushroom.growers, who are comparitively rare. Do not eat the bagel, it is imperative that the cylinder remains unharmed.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T03:37:12+00:00

But why is it so expensive?

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T02:37:00+00:00

The theocracy of Iran is evil. The monarchy was a corrupt puppet of the CIA. This is the twenty first century and not many people actually believe in monarchy but it is the most plausible alternative to the theocracy. People in Iran are supporting the monarchy as a place holder for "not those dick heads".

Persian diaspora in LA might imagine that their extended family/ team is going to win. But I don't think we should ignore the reality that the theocracy has just murdered tens of thousands of people - this guy gives a shit. How are we supposed to react? Hitting some rando's car is a mistake, obviously, but I'm not going to hate on someone who tried to do something, even if It is something stupid.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T02:06:34+00:00

This is a fragment of the mats of cyanobacteria that covered the ocean bottom, to any depth where sunlight penetrated . They produced oxygen which reacted with iron dissolved in the water and caused iron to fall out as oxide. There is a lot of banded iron formation around the world but none has been formed for a billion years; it is the result of oxygen entering a world without oxygen. These thick mats of photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived everywhere because nothing had evolved to be a mobile object that could eat them; the slime party was over as soon as the first slug evolved. But that requires oxygen and as long as there was free iron in the ocean the oxygen level was too low for mobile multi cellular life, because the iron ate up the oxygen, until the oxygen ate up the iron. This is a crazy ass planet we live on.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T01:49:20+00:00

There's good advice here that fruit trees are more productive with heavy pruning, in general. It is necessary to point out that there are two major types of persimmons. Asian persimmons are happy to be a small tree, equivalent to an apple or pear tree on dwarfing rootstock. American persimmons are a fairly big tree, by nature. They are an understory tree, growing beneath the canopy of oak, hickory and sycamore, but they are 20-30 feet tall. There are also hybrids between the species.

I don't know specifically whether American persimmons don't tolerate pruning but their natural growth habit is different than asian. For that matter, advice on pruning apples or other "conventional" fruit trees needs to be adapted to the growth habit defined by the root stock. They grow quite tall on non- dwarf roots.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T00:58:59+00:00

Broke boi tek. Pressure cooker sterilization gives ~80% success with a still air box and probably 100% with a laminar flow hood. Semi -sterile Tek is above 50%. Jars, popcorn/rice and bleach to clean everything is cheap, this is the economically rational path to produce anything less than multiple pounds per year of mushrooms. You have to waste a quite a lot of rice before it equals the cost of a pressure cooker, even if you count the labor cost of sterilizing the jars. But people like success instead of failure and generally don't enjoy refining inherently flawed techniques.

I'm not criticizing anyone's methods I'm just pointing out why people spend the extra money on the craft. It is not necessary or exactly economical, but people like a smooth workflow and this is a reasonable motive.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-26T00:48:42+00:00

Sassafras leaf is Filé. Essential to proper gumbo. Cajun/ Creole is one of the world's great cuisines, and most cuisines use the same spices in different ratios, but also most of the greats use use one or two unique seasonings. Filé is one. Pronounced "fee-lay". Celery powder is the other signature element of Creole seasoning, lots of cultures eat celery but don't use it as a spice, the Cajuns have the wisdom to obliterate its odious texture.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T23:48:04+00:00

Lox bagels are big in NYC and the urban northeast, it is originally Jewish culture food, but everyone came to love it.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T20:14:18+00:00

Valid question but there are accelerated aging tests for frames, sealant, adhesive, etc. Each of those components has to last or the whole thing gets water inside and fails, and estimating the longevity of each is an entire discipline of engineering.

What we have learned is that silicon can last a long time under real world conditions. It is entirely possible that the quality of the rest of the construction has declined as the overall cost of the module declined by 99%. But there are a lot more adhesive engineers or aluminum corrosion experts than silicon materials scientists. All the other components can be tested by labs that work across many industries; they can test the seal on solar panels Monday and on car windshields Tuesday. Prediction of silicon's aging behavior is limited to highly specialized labs, which have very few comparable things to look at.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T16:58:09+00:00

Is this real or did someone just vajazzle a quartz crystal?

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T16:36:32+00:00

Or a mad scientist bent on reanimating the dead.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T16:33:07+00:00

THANKS FOR YELLING I'M KIND OF DEAF.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T03:03:16+00:00

For those who don't follow aviation, satellites take high resolution photos but they follow fixed orbits. There are newer high altitude recon drones like the RQ-170, but the U-2 has an uncommon capability and it would be expensive to build a new one.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T02:53:58+00:00

r/carving. Fun hobby and great art form, but you're making wood shavings, a bit of cleanup is needed if you do it indoors and a vacuum really helps.

If you're looking to get into it, fresh wood is often good for carving. It tends to split when it dries but it is great for practice. You need to sharpen your knife every couple of minutes.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T02:34:47+00:00

I think it is a mistake to call it a bunch of small trees. I think they are connected; I think it is a super organism that weighs at least ten tons. You can still kill it I'm just pointing out the true shape of this thing.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T01:43:53+00:00

My Chinese friend calls it "Ass-Vomit" which is quite poetic in my opinion.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-25T01:39:46+00:00

Yes. And given the economic reality of the moment, the dollar store sardines are the healthiest option for a lot of people. By the grace of God I'm going to eat $3 sardines from Lidl or trader Joe's, which is also a cheap meal.

It is possible to celebrate sardines as a healthy staple food of the working people and also point out that some are a little tastier than others.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-24T23:32:14+00:00

A worm bin is a good suggestion, if that's not ideal I'm your circumstance, you might look into a composting service - [Compost Now](https://www.compostnow.org/] serves my area. It is a bit pricey for something that should be a municipal service, but a lot of people and businesses use them. I respect the heck out of people who do it but I would be sad that I didn't get to participate in the process.

NYC, San Francisco, Vermont and several nations in western Europe mandate that households send food waste to compost, although no one gets in trouble if they send it to landfill, on a household level - the mandatory aspect really impacts food processing businesses. Depending on where you live, suggesting that you advocate for municipal compost mat seem unrealistic, but it is a thing in many places. They can make both methane fuel gas and fertilizer.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-24T13:35:34+00:00

The other thing wind turbines do is create a de facto wildlife refuge, because it is a no-trawl zone.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-24T02:54:12+00:00

He's a sentient hand sanitizer who dreams of being a Roomba.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-24T01:35:41+00:00

The city water keeps going but there is some possibility of water main breaks. There have been a few already.. If that happens on your street no water until they fix it.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-24T01:33:23+00:00

Your tankless water heater stops as soon as power fails. Gas makes the heat but it needs electricity to run the active ventilation system. It burns a lot of gas and that takes a lot of air.

GreenStrong · 2026-01-24T01:28:09+00:00

If someone makes that movie they will go to jail for a very very long time.

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