TheDemonBuer
@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 2 days ago:
The CATL TENER grid battery system contains 6.25 MWh capacity in a single storage container that is 20’ long.
A 6.25 MWh battery can output 6.25 MW continuously for 1 hour, or 1 MW continuously for 6.25 hours.
We would need 148,800 TENER batteries to output 930 GW continuously for 1 hour. We would need 3,571,200 TENER batteries (22,320 GWh of storage) to output 930 GW continuously for 24 hours. However, the average continuous power demand in the US in 2025 was 466.21 GW. Now, that is an average, so the continuous power demand is sometimes higher than that but also sometimes lower than that. According to the EIA, the peak continuous power demand in the US in 2025 was 759.18 GW. We also have to understand that there would never be a time when all the electricity demand is coming only from battery storage. Between hydro, wind, solar, geothermal and all other renewable power sources, we would always be generating some electricity somewhere. Still, we would want a significant buffer, though we probably wouldn’t need 22,320 GWh of capacity. But, yes, would likely need at least a million of CATL’s TENER batteries to meet current power demand. That’s a lot of batteries, for sure. Although, not an unfeasible number, imo.
That said, I think renewables with battery storage plus nuclear is the best course of action.
^sorry if any of my math is wrong^
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
This is also a function of transit efficiency. It’s not the distance to a metro center that is the problem, it’s the time to get to that metro center.
Yeah, but the further a suburban neighborhood is from the metro center, the more time it will take to get there, necessarily. Maximally efficient transportation would minimize the travel time but not eliminate it. Even with great transportation options, the further the sprawl, the longer the commute.
Not even going to mention the poor design of suburban areas that lack a proper downtown of their own.
But if a suburban area grows enough to need urban infrastructure it kinda stops being suburban. Which is fine, there’s nothing wrong with increasing the number of urban areas. I don’t think we should have only a few Tokyo style mega cities. But I also don’t think higher density is necessarily a bad thing. I get that not everyone wants to live in a relatively high density urban area, but I’m also sure that we can’t just keep sprawling out forever.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
The problem is if you get a million bucks, and everybody else gets a million bucks, demand for goods and services would skyrocket, taking prices with it. Essentially everything would get more expensive. Your rent would go up. A lot. Now, if only you got a million bucks, then, yeah, everything you said would apply, but while that would fix your problems, everyone else would be left in the lurch.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
Median household income has increased about 18% since 2021. Source.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
The inflation rate in the US has been above the Fed’s 2% target every year since 2022. That’s by no means a result of the stimulus checks, but it is a result of relatively cheap money and growing incomes without a sufficient corresponding increase in the supply of goods and services.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
Bringing the costs of necessary goods and services down would help people significantly. But the opposite would happen if everybody had more money. And that’s what I’m saying: more money isn’t the answer, lower prices are the answer. Just giving people more money to try and keep up with ever increasing prices is a never-ending cycle that doesn’t result in anyone actually being better off.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Nothing’s broken, least of all the laws of physics. Detached, single family homes are low density housing. The land that makes up any given metro area is basically a two dimensional plane. That plane is a finite amount of space that can only be filled with so many buildings. Detached homes are almost always limited to just a few stories at the most, and they can’t be stacked on top of each other, so vertical expansion is essentially non-existent. The only way to build more detached homes is to spread out horizontally along the two dimensional plane. But the further you go out horizontally from the metro center, the further you are from the jobs and amenities that are associated with an urban core. The detached houses that are nearest to that center are in the highest demand, so their prices go up the most. You can continue to just build out horizontally, but after a while you simply run out of land. Or, the houses get so far from where the jobs and amenities are that it’s not viable.
There are areas in the US where you can buy a home for $138,000, but most people probably don’t want to live there, which is why the homes only cost $138,000. Areas in greater demand will have higher home prices. In the areas that are in higher demand, again, the only option is horizontal sprawl away from the metro center, if you’re building only detached single family homes.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
I think that’s at least partly because people don’t understand money. We could give every American household a million bucks right now and I can guarantee you it would not solve their problems. In fact, it would almost certainly make them worse.
- Comment on Trump implemented tariffs illegally, creating over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers. Your refund: $0.00 1 week ago:
The US economy is just one giant grift, and we’re the mark.
- Comment on Israel blew $100 million to lose by 20 points. Their stranglehold is over. Let’s fucking go! 2 weeks ago:
We’re no longer going to tolerate being an Israeli vassal state.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
Factor in owner profit and executive compensation and it all sums up.
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 2 weeks ago:
People are down voting you even though you are objectively correct. That’s sad. I feel bad for those people.
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 2 weeks ago:
Also, even if only 1/3 consider themselves democratic socialists, 73% would be either enthusiastic or OK with nominating someone who described themselves as a democratic socialist, and only 27% would be uneasy or upset by that.
That 27% are the Democratic establishment. Those somehow still committed to neoliberalism, that sad, failed ideology.
- Comment on The only one country 3 weeks ago:
It’s true, we are beyond pathetic.
- Comment on Fuck AIPAC 3 weeks ago:
Turns out Americans are tired of being Israel’s attack dog.
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 3 weeks ago:
The county isn’t really divided by state lines, it’s divided by: urban v rural, college educated v non educated and rich v poor, as well culture, ethnicity and religion.
I would say the “heartland” of America is relatively culturally homogeneous, and many, if not most people from the heartland definitely seem not to like or trust the Pacific Coast states or the Northeast/Atlantic Coast area. If there’s a big political divide in America I’d say it’s more the interior v the coasts and big cities v small towns than red states v blue states.
- Comment on Beans 3 weeks ago:
Rob or kill the successful
Famously self made success Tsar Nicholas II.
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 3 weeks ago:
Will America continue to be a hyper-individualist/ everyone for themselves/hustle and grind/zero sum/I got mine so fuck you society? Or will we come together and try to make our nation a good place for us all to live the healthiest, happiest life possible? I guess we’ll see. I can tell you, though, the former is not sustainable. The everyone for themselves/zero sum way requires violence to maintain, and it will end in violence.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 3 weeks ago:
The fourth major US city is Springfield. Which Springfield, you ask? Any and all.
- Comment on Pov It's 2035 4 weeks ago:
What makes you think they’re pretending? Do you think all politicians are ideological nhilisists? That no politician, ever, anywhere, actually adheres to an ideology? Because I’m pretty certain that most do. And I think it matters what ideology guides a politician. I mean, I want to know that before I decide to vote for someone. I want to know what their guiding philosophy is. I think that’s important information.
- Comment on Pov It's 2035 4 weeks ago:
The liberal dream. (I use liberal in the classical sense. Here in the US - where people don’t know what words mean - instead of “liberal” folks here might refer to them as “centrists,” “moderates” or “neoliberals.” Interesting that neoliberals are not liberals here in the US, even though “liberal” is IN THE DAMN NAME!)
- Comment on Interesting 4 weeks ago:
Marxism-Leninism is a dead-end.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 5 weeks ago:
They believe everything is zero-sum
Well, they’re right about that. The Earth, and all the resources on it, are finite. The more any one person owns, the less everyone else can own. Now, I would agree that the Earth’s resources are abundant, and that there’s more than enough for everyone on Earth (at our current population level, at least) to not only survive but thrive. But, because the Earth’s resources are finite, it’s not possible for any one person to own an infinite amount of resources, let alone for that person to own infinite resources and there still be resources leftover for everyone else.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 5 weeks ago:
Clearly their problem isn’t with good wages or quality healthcare, it’s the “universal” part they have a problem with. And I don’t think it’s necessarily because they want some people to go without (although that could be the case for at least some of them), it’s just that they realize that for everyone to have enough, they have to have less, and that’s unacceptable to them.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 5 weeks ago:
I have never refunded a game on Steam. But then, I usually wait to buy a game until it’s been out for a while and usually on sale.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 1 month ago:
I found this in 30 seconds.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 1 month ago:
It’s more than a little disingenuous to pretend that Bernie Sanders hasn’t received significant criticism from the left, especially on matters related to race and gender.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 1 month ago:
Even if he was completely free of controversy, you’d find something to disqualify him. Maybe even just the fact that he’s white and/or a man. Men are inherently sexist and white people are inherently racist, so either of those characteristics alone would be enough.
But I will concede that there could potentially be a candidate who could be deemed acceptable, but such a candidate would necessarily hold limited appeal to the working class broadly, and especially the white working class, specifically, thus making them not a threat to capital. So, yes, liberals might allow a candidate who fails to meet their unattainable standard, but only if that candidate poses no threat of organizing the working class.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 1 month ago:
The standard is perfection. You establish that any and all leftists must attain this standard, or they are not true leftists. This works because perfect is an unattainable standard for every single leftist, so all are guaranteed to fall short of it. It’s such an easy, effective means of suppressing actual leftist movements. Remember, liberals are not new to this. They’ve been doing this for the better part of a century now, and they’ve gotten quite good at it.
- Comment on Don't worry, not like they are fake leftist planted to suppress actual revolution or anything 1 month ago:
Just keep waiting for that glorious international proletarian revolution. I’m sure it will start any day now.