Scientists invented fabric that makes
electricity from motion and sunlight.
To create the fabric, researchers at
Georgia Tech wove together solar
cell fibers with materials that generate
power from movement. It could be
used in “tents, curtains, or wearable
garments,” meaning we’d virtually
never be without power. Source
Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.
Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.
Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.
And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.
But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.
Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy
I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert.
The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.
And don’t forget wave and geothermal power.
The best place to install solar? Parking lots! Here’s the Community Mercantile in LFK:
Not only can it supply almost all the power needed for stores that build these, it also reduces ambient heating from the roasting pavement and keeps cars covered from the elements.
Everyone wins!
The ways we can produce sustainable, renewable energy grow by the year. There is zero reason to keep maintaining oil and natural gas industries!
Properly designed from ground up, you can replace the pavement with a hexagonal mesh and pea gravel reducing runoff and improving the water table. Also introduce low level round cover and work with a local goat service for when you need ground cover service.
The amazing thing to me is you’re all still behind Disney after that village in Mexico called them out for literally stealing their homes and faces and basically lives as “inspiration” for Book of Life Coco without compensation.
Patronizing much? I boycotted that movie too. I can’t give up my MCU though. I worked for the Jack Kirby Museum and I’m thrilled everyday that Jack gets any recognition.
Tumblr is being sold to WordPress parent company Automattic
for a reported price of “less than $3m,” a substantial decline from the
$1.1B Yahoo paid for the company in 2013 (Yahoo subsequently sold
Tumblr and several other startups it had overpaid for and then ruined to
Verizon for more than $4b).
Much of that decline in value is the result of Verizon’s decision to introduce a fucking terrible automated “adult content” filter (that decision, in turn, was driven by the passage of SESTA, a US censorship law that pushed Apple to briefly remove the Tumblr app from the Ios App Store).
When I first read the announcement of the Automattic acquisition, I
briefly held out hope that the new owners would reverse Verizon’s
mistake, but those hopes were dashed then Automattic founder Matt
Mullenweg announced that the filter would stay.
It’s hard to understand this decision. The filter is a piece of
unadulterated, unsalvageable garbage. Its awfulness is hard to
overstate, but it can be neatly illustrated by this Bruce Sterling post,
which reveals that the Tumblr porn filter blocked Sterling’s post of a
screenshot of a news story about the acquisition, which includes the
happy coda, “This decision cannot be appealed.”
