Wanderer

You need to look up how much grid storage lithium batteries are being built. It's exponential growth. Faster than solar.

The reason it's worthwhile is because solar makes energy with 0 or near 0 price to the owner in certain places, if they store that and use it for later they save money. There are cost calculators out there and for certain markets they make sense.

Of course Tesla pushes it they got a product people want and it makes the consumer and Tesla money. Win win. That's business, nothing shady about that.

Yes batteries are better on the grid but that's for exactly the same reasons why solar is better on the grid.

Oil is interesting at the moment. Russia has been getting cutoff for a few years from global markets and oil didn't really rise. Maybe I missed other reasons but it seems like demand didn't increase enough for it to matter like it would have in years gone by. China is rapidly reducing their oil demand, Europe and America are following. Renewables seem set up surge around the rest of the world.

OPEC+ is having issues with countries not sticking to quotas.

Trumps then got a lit a petrol can on fire and thrown it onto the pile and everyone else and himself which has caused economist to predict a recession which is causing oil prices to drop.

There seems like a lot of reasons for oil to drop in price and if OPEC+ sees the writing on the wall for the end of times maybe oil will drop in price further. Which ironically is worse for the things that are causing the price drop in the first place.

Personally short term I hope it just fucks over Russia.

I don't see why home batteries are propaganda. Those prices are plummeting and they have decent payback times in some markets.

The reasons for getting solar is the same reasons for getting batteries.

Just to be clear this can't be solved with storage. Currently it can be but not permanently.

For ease of argument let's say the grid runs 100% on solar with batteries that last a day. For 100% solar you need to build power for when demand is highest, winter, and supply is lowest also winter. Come summer demand is lowest and supply is highest. You can't store all that energy in summer because you got fuck all to do with it.

It's a really weird cost saving exercise but basically when supply is massively abundant it has to be wasted. No one is going to build that final battery that is only used for 1 day every 10 years.

Bringing it all together. In a 100% renewables grid with solar, wind, hydro and batteries a lot of electricity will be wasted and it will be the cheapest way to do it. Cheaper than now.

Quite a few people talk about this on youtube. Tony Seba and rethinkx is the best place to start in my opinion.

People have moved closer to the middle from both sides, but the average has moved to it being bad.

I'm saying from the 70's to the 80's things got less sexist, less conservative, more liberating, more free speech. Same thing happened from the 80's to the 90's. Possibly same from 90's to 00's (or maybe largely the same). Then 00's to 10's the trend reversed, then 10's to 20's that reversal continued.

Now here we are.

What I am saying is. Whenever I talked to people about university that were older than me it seemed better in their view and mine. Everyone I talked about university after seems it got worse in their view and mine.

Same for childhood and same for 20's (2008 being an exception). I also noticed this about travelling to other countries.

Thank you. I didnt know about lenovo so that's good to know.

System76 seems especially out of my price range. I haven't bought a computer for 12 years, can't believe laptop's cost more now (even accounting for inflation) than they did back then. It's unbelievable. Might have to work out if I want a good one to last a long time (which is risky) or to get a cheaper one and expect to replace earlier.

By thank you that is helpful.

I just spent two years living and working in Australia and New Zealand. Not sure any of that applies to me.

When I came to university and meeting girls/ having fun everything that came before me seemed better, everything that came after me seemed worse.

Its been on the downward for a while. Same applies to being a kid, though I did get somewhat a good foot in both worlds as a kid. Now seems worse than my time though.

Family still means something because the definition is limited.

Community is dead and the reason for that is community is exclusive, by necessity it has to have people in the community and people outside the community.

People can't stand not being involved so they force they way in shit all over the floor ruin it and then suddenly the community is dead.

I want to get into Linux and I need a new laptop. I'm happy to go secondhand but I actually want a half decent thing that can play some games, not the cheapest box I can put Linux on and use fake word.

Am I best off just buying a new windows laptop than I can dual boot? Or any other suggestions?

Windows is US$ 139.00. So I figured if I buy a laptop without windows it will be 139 less but I guess manufacturers get windows for like $20 so there are no saving anyway.

Edit:should probably add I'm from to UK I that's relevant

Me a Europoor master race :)

Looks like all that wealth you got in your tech elite is really going great isn't it?

I really feel like the world's changed.

The last 20-30 has seen everything flip on it's head it's so weird.

Everything seemed more freeing and liberating, more open . But now everything's gone to shit. Don't even care if I sound like a boomer anymore. World is actually fucked up.