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Jel Shaker posted:bitcoin alone uses the equivalent annual energy expenditure of ireland to run i recall, i’m sure alt coins are not much better It's significantly more than that now I think.
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Surprisingly Ireland uses more electricity per capita than the UK (but much less overall). Each person in the Republic consumes on average 628W, whereas each person in the UK consumes 513W, but the UK government has been going around turning as many of them off as possible recently.
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gh0stpinballa posted:what are the crimes The actual charges are under American computer crime laws (which are, somehow, even more overly broad than the UK Computer MIsuse Act) and the Espionage Act. The things he's actually accused of are publishing confidential US government and military documents (I *think* they dropped the BoA charges but can't confirm with a quick Google) and assisting someone in accessing protected military networks (he helped Chelsea Manning to bypass the security on some of the files she leaked). Like I say, nobody actually denies he did these things, or that they are a breach of US laws - the legal argument is over whether or not he should be extradited to face trial for those, and the moral argument is over whether he *should* be prosecuted for them.
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Jose posted:lol i read an article the other day about a guy who pumped $1.4bn into bitcoin That's higher than any time before 2 Jan.... It's double the value it was any time before November 2020, and near enough triple its peak 2019 value.
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Guavanaut posted:Surprisingly Ireland uses more electricity per capita than the UK (but much less overall). That's a factor of population size and density, and rollout of other fuel sources for heating and cooking. Ireland never really had a gas infrastructure outside Dublin so gas cooking and heating is much less common there than it is here, so even if all other factors are equal they're going to use more electricity. Also densely-packed cities generally consume less electricity than towns and villages, and most cities in Ireland have had a massive boom of shittily-built modern housing in the last few years. Ireland could be a massive exporter of electricity - they've got way more wind and tidal power potential than GB - but for some reason they've never really fully tapped that potential. NI has almost as much wind power as the Republic despite the massive disparity in size.
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Jel Shaker posted:bitcoin alone uses the equivalent annual energy expenditure of ireland to run i recall, i’m sure alt coins are not much better I thought it was Iceland, not Ireland.
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Sturgeon is speaking in 30 minutes, supposedly Scotland is bringing a lockdown tonight with tougher restrictions that in March / April - https://twitter.com/GlennBBC/status/1346077410488414208
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Jedit posted:I thought it was Iceland, not Ireland. yeah at one point, but it’s way worse now. there are stories of whole hydrodams in china and power plants in iran just running constantly to feed server farms, obviously with the intention to avoid currency controls and get USDs
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goddamnedtwisto posted:NI has almost as much wind power as the Republic despite the massive disparity in size. An example of what you can get if you keep shouting NO SURRENDER! & NEVER! at 140 decibels all the time... gods i hate the way we talk up here. 
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Cryptocurrencies are loving stupid but couldn't there be a way of running one where the mining actually processes data that's worth something for humanity? Like Folding @ Home or something.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Cryptocurrencies are loving stupid but couldn't there be a way of running one where the mining actually processes data that's worth something for humanity? Like Folding @ Home or something. It's not all useless, you could feasibly have a number of parties who don't necessarily trust one another, but can verify who each other are (states, hawala networks, etc.), and are limited by treaty or common cause at how much power they can throw at it, use it to run a ledger between one another or similar. You could do that with a dozen nintendos though.
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gh0stpinballa posted:julian assange has done more to expose the crimes of the american war machine than almost anybody and it's a good thing that he won't be extradited. Steady on. The actual Whistleblowers (such as Chelsea Manning or Snowden) did more to expose. All Assange did was arrange the publishing of them and take credit for it. Like, Assange didn't smuggle out any files at great personal risk or anything. goddamnedtwisto posted:That's a factor of population size and density, and rollout of other fuel sources for heating and cooking. Ireland never really had a gas infrastructure outside Dublin so gas cooking and heating is much less common there than it is here, so even if all other factors are equal they're going to use more electricity. Also densely-packed cities generally consume less electricity than towns and villages, and most cities in Ireland have had a massive boom of shittily-built modern housing in the last few years. 1) Yes the lack of wind/tidal power is tied into NIMBY (or coast in this case.) I really wish they would do more to develop green power like this. 2) The lack of gas cookers is a major thing in my house. We couldn't get a gas cooker and went with an electric one. Since the wife and I are considering building our own place she again has gone back to beating the drum for getting a gas cooker "as they are better for cooking things." I disagree and want an induction hob for the inside. I would compromise by agreeing to install a Gas BBQ in the back garden with a roof overhead and use that for most of the big cooking. I think the big thing that will swing it will be if the various architects/builders say (as I suspect they will) that you just can't get gas installed in new builds.
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Has anywhere ever successfully harnessed tidal at scale? Quick google says Korea has a big tidal plant (254MW) but I have no frame of reference for how much energy that is.
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The Question IRL posted:at great personal risk or anything.  The Question IRL posted:1) Yes the lack of wind/tidal power is tied into NIMBY (or coast in this case.) Wind power is awful. It ultrafucks untouched nature, kills birds, makes an incredibly maddening humming noise for miles and miles around, disrupts tv and radio signals and can't be recycled at all so you end up with wind-turbine mass-graves because the only thing you can do is dig a big hole to dump in.
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Electric hobs are poo poo but there's induction that's as good as gas now, and the levels of indoor nitrogen oxides from gas hobs are now a subject of concern, so I'd be looking to switch my gas to an induction one if they didn't keep putting gas prices down and electric prices up every few months, as if they're dumping stock in future anticipation.
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The Question IRL posted:
Tell her that Forums Goon Bobstar is a total induction convert after years of cooking with gas.
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Guavanaut posted:Electric hobs are poo poo but there's induction that's as good as gas now What do you mean now? Induction has been a thing for absolute ages
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jiggerypokery posted:Has anywhere ever successfully harnessed tidal at scale? The UK uses about 60,000 MW a year.
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TheRat posted:What do you mean now? Induction has been a thing for absolute ages
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lol the Tories hosed up so badly that they had to make up a new English Virus strain to explain it and got Christmas cancelled but it's all memory holed a week later. Good of Keir not to say anything that could have made people pay attention to that.
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TheRat posted:
I'm currently on Gran Canara which is roughly 50% wind turbine. I can assure you you cannot hear a thing. I don't know about analogue TV/radio signals because I'm under 300 years old.
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah but the old induction ones were either lovely granular control or cost a lot compared to other hobs, now it's just running them that costs 7x as much. I had a induction hob 15 years ago that didnt cost much and beat the everliving gently caress out of any other option I've ever tried in terms of power, reliability and safety. But maybe it's different in Norway? jiggerypokery posted:I'm currently on Gran Canara which is roughly 50% wind turbine. I can assure you you cannot hear a thing. I don't know about analogue TV/radio signals because I'm under 300 years old. I suggest you check out the Norwegian countryside then, because there's currently a bunch of scandals surrounding them causing way more than the promised sound ceiling and driving people completely mad. And one operator in my area recently got told to shut it all off until they could make sure it didnt kill the TV signal.
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Induction is technically great and a doddle to cook with but it just isn’t as much fun as gas. I don’t feel at all like Gordon Ramsay when I use induction.
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Jakabite posted:Induction is technically great and a doddle to cook with but it just isn’t as much fun as gas. I don’t feel at all like Gordon Ramsay when I use induction. Get a blowtorch for your kitchen
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Guavanaut posted:Electric hobs are poo poo but there's induction that's as good as gas now, and the levels of indoor nitrogen oxides from gas hobs are now a subject of concern, so I'd be looking to switch my gas to an induction one if they didn't keep putting gas prices down and electric prices up every few months, as if they're dumping stock in future anticipation.
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The Question IRL posted:Steady on. The actual Whistleblowers (such as Chelsea Manning or Snowden) did more to expose. All Assange did was arrange the publishing of them and take credit for it. He acts as the public lightning rod by openly publishing them and thereby puts himself at risk. In a best case scenario, the original whistleblowers would have remained unknown. By all accounts Assange is a bit of a narcissist (which might explain why he feels comfortable at centre stage) and seems to have burned bridges with most former colleagues, but he did knowingly make himself a target.
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The Question IRL posted:2) The lack of gas cookers is a major thing in my house. We couldn't get a gas cooker and went with an electric one. LPG cookers are a thing, but - as much as I love a gas hob - I don't know if I could be arsed going through the extra hassle of swapping out bottles (or the expense of getting someone else to do it) - I suspect if you priced it up an induction hob would probably work out cheaper, and be better in almost every way (the only advantages of gas over induction being cheaper initial outlay and cookware and being able to light a fag off it).
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Ewan posted:Modern electric ones are alright (the ones that look similar to induction hobs; i.e. a big flat black surface). They don't suffer from the same massive "lag" that you get with the older style ones that were basically just a lovely, exposed heating element. You're still heating the element which heats the stovetop which heats the pan which heats the food. Slower to heat, slower to cool, less control, 100% more risk of accidentally burning something by putting it on top of a hob which is "off" but still hot as gently caress.
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Jose posted:Get a blowtorch for your kitchen This, along with cooking with vastly more butter than I really need, will have to compensate. My previously apolitical family are starting to get very mad with the government. Just absolute bafflement to the point my stepmum feels like she just doesn’t get it and must be missing something. I keep telling her she isn’t, they’re just stupid selfish lazy arseholes. Any time Starmer is brought up we all just laugh.
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I've done the research about Electric v Gas v Induction. The problem is the wife has these romantic notions of using gas cookers in her mums home and how much better it is than our electric hob. (And she is right. The gas cooker is better than what we have now. But I don't think it is as good as a new Induction hob.) And no amount of articles or videos will change her mind. The only thing likely to change her mind will be real world evidence. This came up over Christmas where I bought rear Wireless LG speakers to add onto my Soundbar to turn it into a 5.1.2 sound system. Before I got it, she complained that it was a waste of money and would do nothing. Five minutes into watching Midnight Sky on Netflix with the new sound system she admits that she was wrong.
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