danbert2000
danbert2000 t1_j6kb1s9 wrote
Reply to comment by housevil in My local library has a "Top 10 Most Challenged Books" display by elwood612
Exactly what a phony would say.
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Reply to comment by ejsandstrom in Green steel startup Boston Metal raises $120M for its fossil-free tech by MrMike
Electrification is a huge part of a zero carbon future. You can make electricity without carbon. Even if this doesn't start 100% green, it can be 100% green. Steel processes with direct fuel needs will never be 100% green. Same idea behind EVs and heat pumps. You have to start somewhere, and this just creates a demand for clean energy when before it was a demand for more fossil fuels.
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Reply to This gacha machine dispenses 1:24 scale models of propane and propane accessories by sixpigeons
My random tiny Roomba from a gacha machine is my pride and joy.
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Reply to comment by meandmyboner in FTC Wants to Add Right to Repair to Existing Energy Saving Rules by Sorin61
Most of what you said is unmoored in fact. There are plenty of things that you can't repair because the companies lock their maintenance software away. Apple for one spent the last decade locking screen replacements behind onerous tools that they denied to people and businesses on their whim. John Deere kept parts from being installed in tractors unless an "authorized dealer" replaced them and they got their cut. Warranty void stickers still litter electronics even though they are unenforceable. You ignore the obvious proof that there is a problem and instead peddle what ifs and mischaracterizations of what right to repair is. If this cuts into business revenue it's only because they are currently rent seeking with their current repair schemes and the current loss is in user's expensive or artificially denied repairs. So essentially you're parroting some odd line that companies' repair revenue is more important than consumers' savings on being able to choose who repairs their product and how.
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Reply to comment by Lazy_Lemur_ in Major milestone for EU energy: Wind and solar produced more electricity than gas in 2022 by Zomaarwat
Electric heating is cheaper than gas if you use heat pumps. Gas heating is not a long term strategy. Yes, the cost to switch is a problem, but if a gas furnace needs to be replaced it makes sense almost 100% of the time to switch over to a heat pump at this point. I switched, and my heating bill is the same this year whereas my neighbors all have bills that are 50% higher or even double.