delirious_owl

delirious_owl , 6 days ago to Canada in How the automobile industry turned us into SUV drivers

You clearly have never owned a hatchback

delirious_owl , 6 days ago to World News in Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims"

Great! Now do Palestine

delirious_owl , 6 days ago to Today I Learned in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

Oh, they goin straight to hell

delirious_owl , 6 days ago to Canada in Canada doesn't count emissions from oil and gas exports. So we did

You didn't even address the waste, which is the biggest danger

delirious_owl , 6 days ago to Canada in Climate goals could make gas heating obsolete. So why do gas companies keep adding customers? Building more gas infrastructure is like investing in video rental stores 15 years ago, says expert

It doesn't have a negative climate impact if the source is renewables. That's the point. Its basically free gas.

Solar energy doesn't run at night. Wind doesn't always run. Hydro doesn't work during droughts.

This is a battery that solvers these issues.

delirious_owl , 6 days ago to Today I Learned in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

They don't get a pass. That's why they establish missionaries to spread the Jesus virus

delirious_owl , 6 days ago to Canada in Climate goals could make gas heating obsolete. So why do gas companies keep adding customers? Building more gas infrastructure is like investing in video rental stores 15 years ago, says expert

Because its a waste product, but once we make digging up fossil fuels illegal, that will change. Then we can repurposed the infrastructure in ways that are not harmful

delirious_owl , 7 days ago to Canada in Canada doesn't count emissions from oil and gas exports. So we did

It is too dangerous, and we don't need that risk. Renewables work great.

delirious_owl , 7 days ago to Canada in Climate goals could make gas heating obsolete. So why do gas companies keep adding customers? Building more gas infrastructure is like investing in video rental stores 15 years ago, says expert

Its a battery. It makes more sense than electricity because its extremely energy dense, can be transported long distances far more efficiently than electricity, and can be stored indefinitely in low-tech gas tanks instead of electrical batteries

delirious_owl , 7 days ago to Canada in Climate goals could make gas heating obsolete. So why do gas companies keep adding customers? Building more gas infrastructure is like investing in video rental stores 15 years ago, says expert

No reason we can't produce hydrogen from solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal.

Add carbon dioxide to the hydrogen, and you get methane that you can transport through existing gas pipelines without the issues of hydrogen

delirious_owl , 7 days ago to Canada in Climate goals could make gas heating obsolete. So why do gas companies keep adding customers? Building more gas infrastructure is like investing in video rental stores 15 years ago, says expert

Synthetic methane.

delirious_owl , 7 days ago to Canada in Climate goals could make gas heating obsolete. So why do gas companies keep adding customers? Building more gas infrastructure is like investing in video rental stores 15 years ago, says expert

We can make synthetic methane with renewable energy though. I don't have a problem with building such infrastructure becsuse it can be used with renewable energy

delirious_owl , 7 days ago to Today I Learned in TIL Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" was NOT written to wake up sleeping audience members; that was just a myth

Grannies? Like enslaving old women?

delirious_owl , 7 days ago to Today I Learned in TIL Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" was NOT written to wake up sleeping audience members; that was just a myth

Throw a citation needed at that bitch

delirious_owl , 10 days ago to Movies in Director Kevin Costner's Western "Horizon" poised to bomb at the box office

Is this the antithesis to waterworld?