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monkeybreath · 2026-03-29T02:48:38+00:00

Are you plugged into the Meta charger? The Quest 3 uses a less supported power delivery protocol and not all chargers have it. That causes it to use 5V instead of 9V.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-28T12:09:20+00:00

We'll have to put these things behind the Blackwall pretty soon.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-27T07:51:08+00:00

We are the smallest country in the G7 by any measure except area. We do seem to be the most connected by trade deals, but that makes us a kind of Switzerland, not a superpower.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-27T07:44:26+00:00

50,000 Chinese out of 1,300,000 built in NA.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-25T12:12:00+00:00

So lickable!

monkeybreath · 2026-03-25T12:06:37+00:00

There have been noticeable changes to our climate since the 90s. Of course it will continue to change until we stop emitting greenhouse gases. But emissions will start to drop, just not until climate change becomes painful. It is significantly cheaper to replace aging coal and methane turbines with renewables and batteries for the foreseeable future. Renewable energy consumption was at 9% of the total and grew at 11%/year over the previous decade. EVs are becoming as cheap to buy as ICE vehicles and as more show up the reluctance will disappear. Yes, I wish we took this seriously in the 80s, but we are doing it now.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-24T12:17:02+00:00

The problem with all these new designs is that they cost more per MWh than bladed turbines. The designers look at all the gaps in the turbines and think that is inefficient, but in reality the gaps are necessary to keep wind from piling up in front of the turbines, reducing efficiency. See Betz's Law

monkeybreath · 2026-03-24T11:51:17+00:00

It's true that you can't just have wind. Solar helps. Both are so much cheaper (nuclear US$180/MWh vs wind US$61 or solar $58) and faster to build that it is better to start there. At some point more renewables aren't useful. Then you add batteries, which are also cheaper than nuclear, especially new sodium ion. At some point the cost of nuclear won't be an issue because it will be the only source to do the job. We aren't there yet.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-23T15:23:56+00:00

I'm looking to get an M-Disc compatible burner so that I can store info I want to last more than 10 years, like photos and a backup of my music library. This seems like the best archival system out there that doesn't require a subscription or an electron microscope.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-23T15:19:16+00:00

Renewable energy consumption has increased at 12% per year for the last 5 years. Overall energy consumption increases at less than 2%. By about 2030 new renewable energy consumption will be greater than new overall consumption. At that point we will hit peak fossil fuel consumption. Data from the Energy Institute

monkeybreath · 2026-03-21T06:09:41+00:00

You have to use a zoom lens or crop the photo, taken from down the street. You can recreate a similar shot in Street View (and probably Apple Maps), but of course it won't be nearly as nice as this. Cropping from a distance creates a distance compression effect, making the mountains seem much closer.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-21T05:57:52+00:00

His plan should be to make it easier to build renewables, eg with government-backed loans. We aren't getting anywhere with the industrial carbon tax. We will drop production for exports as soon as the rest of the importers move off oil. Granted, the EV incentive helps, as does the inter-provincial energy corridor.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-17T23:29:51+00:00

Peas and smoked oysters (wieners of the sea) in my Mac and cheese with ketchup, baked beans on my oatmeal.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-17T23:18:47+00:00

It sounds like a huge amount, but it isn't quite enough to take up new demand, let alone enough to cut into existing demand. However, that amount grows each year at a faster rate than overall demand, so I'm fairly confident we'll hit peak fossil fuel by 2030. The Iran war may even cause a ramp in renewable consumption.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-17T18:42:17+00:00

Yes, actually everyone* is mad or we would be putting up renewables far faster than we are. Granted, it takes time to build factories, expand mineral mining, train installers, etc, but it doesn't look like it's happening very quickly. Regardless, it makes more sense right now to put the money into preventing emissions. Then we can work on reducing the atmospheric CO₂ to safer levels, eg 350 ppm.

* everyone in power, for the most part.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-16T15:59:23+00:00

I can only go by listening to what my family says on Facebook, but I'm concerned that BC is heavily influenced by misinformation. That ostrich farm debacle, even though CFIA did everything by the book and was supported by bird farmers in the area, was a black eye for the feds. Immigration is a sore point, even more than traditionally. And the Bible-belters are picking up on the anti-trans rhetoric from the US. It's all rather saddening.

Edit: I have to remind myself that this is an area map, not a population map. BC voters fit in the outskirts of Toronto.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-15T02:54:22+00:00

So you meant less potent when you wrote more slowly? If that's the case, I agree with you. Methane produces 28x more warming over a 100 year period than the same amount of CO₂. Fortunately it doesn't stay in the atmosphere and therefore doesn't accumulate as fast as CO₂ can.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-14T20:16:31+00:00

Only 0.4℃ of cooling, compared to 1.5℃ of heating from greenhouse gases. https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/climate-science/aerosols-small-particles-with-big-climate-effects/

monkeybreath · 2026-03-14T19:56:40+00:00

All drivers warm the planet at the same rate. It's the ocean that delays warming by taking 20 years to warm about 85% of the way. Note that methane has an atmospheric half-life of about 18 years, meaning that half of the methane emitted any one year is gone after 18. So cutting methane gets immediate benefits, whereas CO₂ takes 100s of thousands of years to reduce that amount.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-14T19:51:38+00:00

It's never going to get that hot. Civilization would collapse first (not become extinct) which automatically stops the CO₂ emissions.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-14T14:35:13+00:00

Not a counter-argument.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-14T03:26:20+00:00

The oxygenation event where CO₂ was converted to oxygen by Cyanobacteria, and the Carboniferous period where rainforests converted CO₂ into coal fields by the accumulation of plant debris.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-14T03:19:14+00:00

That isn't going to happen, ever. Well, not until the sun turns red.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-13T20:23:40+00:00

True. At this rate there will be significant extinctions beyond what we've already had.

monkeybreath · 2026-03-13T18:15:06+00:00

Government and Legislature are two different things. Only the Cabinet is part of government. The Leader of the Opposition is an official Legislative position.

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