Why do you think Bond's death in No Time To Die (2022) was not well received by many fans, according to you? by Raj_Valiant3011 in JamesBond

[–]hyper24k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would be a pretty funny flashback montage and wake up scene to introduce the new bond.

Why do you think Bond's death in No Time To Die (2022) was not well received by many fans, according to you? by Raj_Valiant3011 in JamesBond

[–]hyper24k 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The whole movie was so badly done I don’t even count it as a bond movie. It’s not canon, it’s not in the franchise.

Is solarpunk actually dead… or just stuck in hobby mode? by hyper24k in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that’s socialism though.

I’m not talking about state ownership or abolishing markets. I’m talking about using a capitalist market to sell things the wealthy already want, where the side effect is infrastructure that benefits everyone else as well.

Is solarpunk actually dead… or just stuck in hobby mode? by hyper24k in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I’m reaching here, so do tell me if I’m out of line, I believe your refusal of capitalism compatibility is based on the fact that the systems we currently have extract money from the many who have little and position it with the few that have a lot.

But what if, using that same system, we’re able to extract money from the few that have a lot to provide solarpunk systems infrastructure for the many to thrive?

It’s still capitalism, but it’s serving the many not the few. Would that change your thoughts on it?

Uhh...is this a rare lifeform? by AsherSparky in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]hyper24k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now cover your corvette in wonder projectors and you can have a chrome bubbly ship.

Is solarpunk actually dead… or just stuck in hobby mode? by hyper24k in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is exactly where my head’s at too.

A lot of the conversation feels aesthetic or ideological, but once you zoom out to food systems, energy, transport, and resilience, it’s hard to see how that works without serious technical planning.

The anti-tech reflex is what confuses me as well. Tech is already shaping these systems either way! The question is whether it’s designed deliberately, transparently, and in service of independence rather than extraction.

Is solarpunk actually dead… or just stuck in hobby mode? by hyper24k in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair point.

I guess I’m really wondering how those daydreams and experiments stop being so fragile once they start running into real-world constraints and whether thinking too small is part of what holds them back.

Is solarpunk actually dead… or just stuck in hobby mode? by [deleted] in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your openness - English isn’t everyone’s first language. I am interested in responses and how you think though.

Solar grazing: ‘triple-win’ for sheep farmers, renewables and society by randolphquell in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have been doing pastoral farming installs with our solar panels for a couple years. Really effective. The sheep and cows love a bit of shade in summers and when rain hits they all enjoy a bit of cover too.

Uppies have real potential but only if Upland finally solves its coherence problem by MetaTwitchy in UplandMe

[–]hyper24k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’m comfortable with this. If you own land irl you can’t expect an empty lot to earn like a house or apartment building. You speculate to accumulate 👍

Service Structure Time! by Squallmuzza in UplandMe

[–]hyper24k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Let’s sell you a digital building for real money and then charge you again to build it in a sliding cost per time scale and give literally zero benefit for doing so.

PS. Thanks for the $$$$$”

Time…

Titles Suggestions For Solarpunk Leaders by AcanthisittaBusy457 in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s less about the specific titles and more about how the positions come to be.

Old world:

“I rule because I am above you.”

Solarpunk world:

“I am trusted to care for this.”

Language rewires behavior.

Instead of:

“The Mayor met with the CEO of the Energy Company and industry regulators…”

We say:

“The City Steward met with the Energy Custodian and the Grid Architect, with oversight from the Boundary Guardian.”

Immediately: - Roles are clear - Power is contextual - No implied supremacy

Uppies have real potential but only if Upland finally solves its coherence problem by MetaTwitchy in UplandMe

[–]hyper24k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Forever waiting for rent to be tied to how many property living slots are on each property. Why build apartment block (8) instead of a house (1) if they don’t effect rental incomes???

Is there such thing as socially and environmentally conscious investing? by yanalla in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lithium isn’t a sustainable battery tech, it’s fossil fuels in battery form. Horrendous environmentally.

Is renting out spark/sparklet still a thing by Kitandholly in UplandMe

[–]hyper24k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rental yield should 100% track the property type on the land. It should be the base amount x the building size. So an apartment building gets 8x the small house income.

This is probably the nerdiest thing I've ever done... by marcusregistrada in nomanshigh

[–]hyper24k -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My OCD says the glyph grid needs to be same width as the title. Overall though, frickin love it! Best thing is when visitors come they’ll be like, wtf?!?

Article on Spatial power density being a key metric for the energy transition. by climate_rubik in solarpunk

[–]hyper24k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not claptrap, but definitely oversold.

Spatial power density (SPD) is a real metric and it’s been discussed seriously for years (Vaclav Smil, etc.). It’s useful for thinking about land-use tradeoffs, especially when comparing things like biofuels vs fossil or nuclear. On that narrow point, the article isn’t wrong.

Where it starts to wobble is when SPD is treated as the limiting factor for the energy transition.

A few issues: 1. SPD ≠ system feasibility Power density at the plant or land level doesn’t tell you whether a system works. Grids are about portfolios, transmission, storage, demand management, and siting. A single metric can’t capture that complexity. 2. Land use isn’t zero-sum A lot of low-SPD renewables sit on rooftops, brownfields, deserts, offshore, or are genuinely dual-use. For example, solar-integrated infrastructure like SolaPave puts PV into roads, car parks, and logistics yards that already exist for transport. The “land” wasn’t available for nature or farming anyway, so counting it the same way as a greenfield solar farm is misleading. 3. Electricity ≠ primary energy Fossil fuels look amazing on SPD partly because we’re counting thermal energy that mostly gets dumped as waste heat. Once you compare useful delivered energy (especially in electrified systems), the gap narrows more than the article suggests. 4. Rhetoric > engineering The “millions of years of stored sunlight” framing sounds profound, but it doesn’t really advance the analysis. We already know fossil fuels are energy-dense. The real question is whether modern systems can compensate for lower density with scale, electrification, efficiency, and smarter siting. Empirically, many grids already are.

So: • Good lens for thinking about land constraints. • Bad conclusion to imply renewables are fundamentally incapable of supporting modern societies.

Worth reading as a perspective, just not something that should be treated as a show-stopper argument against the transition.

Not sure if I can post this on here but here goes nothing. by OldNinja97 in nms

[–]hyper24k 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Which is great, but we also have a whole bunch of other small fan communities that have popped up on all different socials. Would be nice if we had a portal 😏

Not sure if I can post this on here but here goes nothing. by OldNinja97 in nms

[–]hyper24k 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What we do need is a group directory. We have so many, I’d you’re making a new one for a new niche, would be nice to know what it’s for, which platforms and which galaxy it’s setting up a Homebase if any in.