In many ways, Norway is ahead on climate change - see EV take up there. Until we have a way of replacing fossil fuels in everything, we have to use them. We can either produce some domestically, or i… (View Post)

Previous to Sunday, most people were unaware of the fact that vape kiosks/shops have a large concentration of particularly shitty lithium batteries. Asking questions after a fire that nearly destroye… (View Post)

The reason they haven’t sunk is probably to do with the fact that modern ships are vast and the better ones have a zillion compartments. Modern design/ops is to have every compartment you can, unmann… (View Post)

Battery storage is now cheaper than building hydro. Even if the sites for enough hydro were available - they aren’t. And it’s getting cheaper all the time The desparate NIMBY pushback is something to… (View Post)

You could stockpile a decade or two of reactor fuel, quite easily. It’s not radioactive, really. I wouldn’t recommend eating it. Just a bunch of metal It wouldn’t even take up much space. I’d be a li… (View Post)