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HardCounter t1_j2qaknq wrote

I still have dreams of my first gyro. I thought i hated lamb. Not this lamb.

I had a serious debate about how sick was too sick to be worth a second meal.

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HardCounter t1_j23rmj8 wrote

2000W? Is it industrial strength? You'd probably get a lot more water if you put the dehumidifier outside, though.

> Portable dehumidifiers typically consume between 30 and 50 watts while whole-home dehumidifiers can use up to 250 watts per hour.

https://www.perchenergy.com/energy-calculators/dehumidifier-electricity-usage-cost-to-run

I also found this:

> On average, a home dehumidifier collects five gallons of water per day.

That's about 19 liters per day inside an already dehumidified home. That comes out to about 315 watts per liter in a relatively low (30-50%) humidity environment. That's not too bad.

I should get a dehumidifier in case of zombie apocalypse.

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HardCounter t1_j23nv2c wrote

I guess i don't know what you're trying to achieve.

Pick a number between 1 and 280 and it's on the chart somewhere, no math required. 50kJ/kG is on there somewhere, so is 83.4kJ/kG since it seems to be a continuous scale. 280kJ/kG or so seems to be the maximum for Earth. I'm not sure why 3600kJ/kG entered your mind, or what planet that would apply to.

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HardCounter t1_iysyrfc wrote

> I could not see a PV energy tax happening. People would lose their shit.

If only that were true. They'd do it incrementally so each step seems reasonable until 'surprise' there's a sudden tax with all the infrastructure in place to monitor it. They'll probably start by saying it's for tracking purposes only so they can see how effective panels are at mitigating costs and snowball from there.

Then suddenly oh my, there's a cost for using those monitors. Then oh my, in order to cover the environmental costs of making them there needs to be a tax. Then oh my, here's a tax 'cuz fuck you that's why, what's 1 cent per kwh? It's nothing, drop in the bucket. Oh my, gas taxes used to cover roads but now everyone is EV so we have to tax your energy.

Just going to boil that frog.

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HardCounter t1_iysdu0b wrote

You're forgetting a key component: government. Taxes and regulation. You are imagining a free market world where the market decides and are forgetting that the government plays favorites. There are no taxes on sunlight and the government can't charge you to hell and back for it just yet. The reason gas is so expensive now is because of the government.

This headline could very well be true by 2030 even with equipment costs if they just keep raising the taxes on gas. I definitely see the EU installing electric monitors to determine how much energy was harnessed via solar panels and taxing you on that, though.

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HardCounter t1_ivntsfn wrote

Steal 'your' stuff, sell it without permission to whomever they please without shopping around for the best price, then keep you on the hook for an additional costs due to their laziness.

Yep, sounds like government to me.

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HardCounter t1_ivgtmlp wrote

I guess people saw the link and didn't bother to check it because it doesn't say that at all. This paper relates to direct emissions. It's behind a paywall and says only this in the abstract, portions of which are utter bullshit and relate only to emissions:

> The electrification of passenger road transport and household heating features prominently in current and planned policy frameworks to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. However, since electricity generation involves using fossil fuels, it is not established where and when the replacement of fossil-fuel-based technologies by electric cars and heat pumps can effectively reduce overall emissions. Could electrification policies backfire by promoting their diffusion before electricity is decarbonized? Here we analyse current and future emissions trade-offs in 59 world regions with heterogeneous households, by combining forward-looking integrated assessment model simulations with bottom-up life-cycle assessments. We show that already under current carbon intensities of electricity generation, electric cars and heat pumps are less emission intensive than fossil-fuel-based alternatives in 53 world regions, representing 95% of the global transport and heating demand. Even if future end-use electrification is not matched by rapid power-sector decarbonization, it will probably reduce emissions in almost all world regions.

Let me highlight a part

> We show that already under current carbon intensities of electricity generation, electric cars and heat pumps are less emission intensive than fossil-fuel-based alternatives in 53 world regions, representing 95% of the global transport and heating demand.

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