Well, in the northern hemisphere, we'll start getting progressively more daylight in 6 days.
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
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Wait, already? I want dark. Me need dark.
It'll still continue to feel dark until early March so don't worry.
Yea this is my first winter in the northern hemisphere, I was warned about the dark being unbearable, but it’s been pretty good so far…
It’s harder on the upswing for me. Maybe it’s because January and February seem to stretch on after the holidays, but I don’t really get tired of winter until later (luckily).
It depends how north are you
Absolutely, but unless you're in Antarctica, it can get much more extreme in the North than South. Tierra del Fuego is south of Australia and South Africa, but it's closer to the equator than the southern tip of Norway.
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Thank fuck. I hate the thing where the sunrise is at 10am, and sunset is at 2pm.
Booooo!
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Daytime energy is soon going to be free in much of the world. The advances in green tech, especially solar and batteries, are real. Much faster progress than even the optimists were predicting a decade ago. The revolution is reaching a tipping point where it becomes self-sustaining and requires no state subsidies. I am not a tech utopian, and this alone will not save us. But there's no denying it's good news. It's all happening far too late but it does look like humans are going to kick their fossil habit after all.
Inconvenient footnote: thank China.
It's gotten so good that China might be restricting output to keep the prices high...
(their onshore wind, and pumped hydro storage, are also great success stories, as is the EV industry there)
Indeed. China is such a paradox. An absolute anathema in terms of culture and politics. It's almost impossible for us Westerners to grasp how a people could accept that level of authoritarianism, how they could value their personal freedom so little. And yet, and yet. Without China we would be royally screwed. They are pulling the weight of the green transition basically alone. So personally I've decided to hold off on China-bashing for now.
It's almost impossible for us Westerners to grasp how a people could accept that level of authoritarianism, how they could value their personal freedom so little.
This assumes that they have an alternative to authoritarianism that they could enact if they wanted. For some reason, the authorities don't allow that. And the authorities also don't like when people talk about it, so it's difficult to discuss and convince others that authoritarianism is bad.
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Optimistic of you to assume pricing is cost-plus not willingness-to-pay. US utilities (and their foreign counterparts) will only too gladly keep charging you
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Yes, but, we depend on fossil fuels for far more than just energy. We still get most of our plastics from them, and most of our fertilizer, without which we can't feed most of the developed countries. And while renewables are great for stationary use, we still don't have anything with the energy density of fossil fuels for cars, shipping, air travel, and cargo. And, whether anyone thinks it's a good use or not, war is entirely, inefficiently, and intensely run on oil.
There are a lot of other issues entirely unrelated to power grid energy production we have to solve first, the most challenging being our own aggressive human nature. We're a long way from kicking the oil habit.
The energy density of batteries just keeps increasing, for cars at least it's now good enough. I agree completely about the rest but this was meant to be a happy thread! I agree with OP that we need to talk about good news too sometimes.
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My birthday. It's tomorrow.
You've been spinning around a massive ball of fire at 74 thousand miles per hour for a year 🤘
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Thailand is set to legalise same sex marriage and Norway is set to ban ICE cars, both in 2025.
There's probably a lot of these small wins happening around the world. Let's keep an eye out for them so we don't lose all our hope for a better future.
Norway is set to ban ICE cars
Newly registered ICE cars, I assume?
I'm not up to speed with it as I'm not Norwegian myself but I think that's correct. They're aiming to be ICE free in 2035.
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Battery prices are collapsing and we are at an inflection point where electric vehicles will soon be more economical to purchase, drive and maintain for a much greater number of people. This is as inevitable as the phaseout of coal.
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I might be getting a new job which is better in every way. Only a couple people know about it.
Edit: I didn't get the job. I am not taking it well.
Hey!! Congrats!!! That's really nice!!!! What will you do in this new job?
Reception, with some managerial responsibilities. There's room to move up.
I have a Bachelor's in Game Programming. The world doesn't need another game programmer right now, but my experience managing projects came in handy.
I currently work in grocery, min wage, as a janitor/stocker.
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I'm about to go to sleep
Good night sweet prince
Goddamn you DrSleepless, your name checks out, why can't I fall asleep
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursids
The Ursid (URS) meteor activity begins annually around December 17 and runs for over a week, until the 25th or 26th.
Thanks to COVID and speeding mRNA research we are at the cusp of curing many auto-immune diseases. I'm 47 with a kid with diabetes and another with celiac. I'm confident both will be cured in my lifetime
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Hopefully we're about to have dozens of Luigis. That's something to celebrate.
Nintendo should see that Luigi is trending and make some more games. For... Reasons.
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There's a bloke on Youtube who actually purveys good news on a regular basis if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/@itsSamBentley
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People now about solar but I think most people don't know that the 21st century will become dominated by solar really fast. The growth will be exponential and in the coming decade we'll really see it happening at a ridiculous pace.
It'll also be really cheap and complemented by cheap storage. It always sounds like it's 50 years away but in reality electrification is coming in so fast and cheap where the developing world will leap frog fossil fuels.
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people spilling their minds over astrology will be glad the mercury retrograde is going to be over for this year.
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All those early access games I bought will get updates in 2025.
I'm now on a Early Access conveyor belt. Every few months, something I've been waiting for gets a new update. I got like 10 games that I rotate between, with new ones being added and old ones getting dropped off.
And they're all big with their community support.
Im very excited.
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I hear crickets...
That usually means a working ecosystem in the area, so that's still good.
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