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Mostly funny memes but occasionally astounding science advancements and technology that leans positive and funny. My alter ego is @ShITVoid (ShoutingIntoTheVoid) and he is a serious grump!

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@greenpeace I think the politicians, who make their money from arms dealers, don't like it for that very reason though?
@greenpeace #ALT4you
Sketch with a glad person saying the coolest thing with solar energy is that you don't need to invade another country to get it.
@Npfmorsan @greenpeace
the coolest thing with solar energy is that you don't need to invade another country to get it.

@fourmiune @Npfmorsan @greenpeace Yet. Billionaires are working the problem and already have plans for space based energy supplies/restrictions.

You will be paying for your quota of sunlight as soon as they can figure out how to make it scarce.

@gooba42 @fourmiune @Npfmorsan @greenpeace it's so obviously inferior, bless their hearts

@gooba42 @fourmiune @Npfmorsan @greenpeace You'd think that was hyperbole, but at least one of the #EpsteinClass billionaires is actively working on dimming the sun...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/01/11/bill-gates-backed-climate-solution-gains-traction-but-concerns-linger/

A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong?

The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), launched by Harvard University scientists, hopes to examine the effects of spraying calcium carbonate (CaCO3) dust into the atmosphere — a sun-reflecting aerosol that may offset the effects of global warming.

Forbes

@thomas_decker @fourmiune @Npfmorsan @greenpeace Not at all, between this and the Reflect orbital "sunlight as a service", that's exactly what I was talking about.

They are *literally* planning to control wind and solar as much as they control anything else.

@thomas_decker @fourmiune @Npfmorsan @greenpeace Not at all, between this and the Reflect orbital "sunlight as a service", that's exactly what I was talking about.

They are *literally* planning to control wind and solar as much as they control anything else.

@greenpeace 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸👍👍👍

@greenpeace

unless you're seattle

@saltywizard @greenpeace

That would be what wind and hydro are for (along with the nuclear plants in eastern Washington).

@greenpeace Yeh, Lithium, and other things become the new oil. But yes, a good start.
@revk @greenpeace
There is quite a big move away from lithium for just the reasons you make, sodium is looking good for bulk energy storage, lithium iron phosphate was developed to stop using nickel and cobolt and many other technologies are in the pipe line.
The move away from scarce materials is in full swing, its not like the carbon economies where there are only a few use once type solutions 😃

@julesbl @greenpeace Sodium is great as anyone with a coastline has that.

But magnets are also a thing, and that is a tad harder to solve.

@revk @greenpeace
Sure but you don't burn the lithium like oil. It can be reused for decades
@greenpeace you've never been to the British Isles, then? People here regularly invade Spain for sunshine! 😉
@BackFromTheDud @greenpeace And yet they work fine, even better combined with wind turbines. We're already doing this.
@greenpeace Fortunately, Musk and Bezos are trying to make sure that changes. 👍

@greenpeace the point is not getting it but monopolizing it, because capitalism loves monopoly to maximize profit.

We will soon be shifting from sun as communal property to the sun as private property.

@greenpeace The Mole People beg to differ
@greenpeace 
Solar has it's issues. 
They want to build a plant on top of my shallow fresh water aquifer and I am on private well, so not all is rosy. I am fighting it, they can move it were it will not potentially hurt people.
@greenpeace You also can't strangle a straight to limit its supply.

@greenpeace I would extend this thought one step further, and point out that plants/tree etcetera are using solar energy all the time, and we don't need to construct anything to make that happen.

The construction of solar panels, taken from start to finish, is just as dirty and polluting as any other industrial process.

I just wonder where we are at on that.

@dckim @greenpeace the construction doesn't lead to consumption, it's appliances that just work. And can be recycled.

Why were you planning on doing with those trees? Burning them for power is crappy.

@andygates @greenpeace true, you can't really burn the wood for power, but for heating in the winter, it's pretty good.

The odd bonfire is pretty good too but, it really does all depend on the type of wood.

Generally I just meant photosynthesis.

@dckim @greenpeace home wood burners don't scale (and they're bad for you, all that soot!).

@andygates @greenpeace you're right, it gets in the house, and then the soot gets into things. Similarly with an oil furnace. It also ends up with a lot of dust getting blown around because you need those blowers.

There are some people up my way using those pellet wood stoves. I'm in Ontario, there is a lot of wood here.

@greenpeace

Vikings pillaged why? Because they wanted to and got rich doing so.

Idiots will still pillage, especially when we breed greedy f^%&in silver spoon billionaires who have enough for thousands of lifetimes.

@greenpeace Oh I guess some people will power their cars and homes with any ol' photons. Personally, I import pristine high-desert Californian photons and convert them to electrons at home myself.
UK scientists are about to attempt to dim the Sun

The project will see scientists attempt to reduce sunlight and as a result the temperature of the earth

The Independent
Actually, there are a lot of things we can go steal to get more solar energy ☝️🤓
@greenpeace Have you heard of Gazprom?
@greenpeace I dunno, they don't shut down the Straight of Hormuz every night and every time it's cloudy... Also, the way China is restricting rare earths, pretty soon you'll have to invade another country in order to make solar panels...
Pretty sure the Venezuelans working the lithium mines have some things to say about this post as well but we don't care about them long as we're getting people to keep buying into an endless cycle of consumption and feel good about it
@greenpeace The coolest thing about Alt Text is you don't have to be sighted to read it.
@underseamonkey The second coolest thing about Alt Text is that you don't have to be unsighted to find it useful. And the third coolest thing, as I am discovering, is that composing meaningful Alt Text often requires some thought about how to describe what you are presenting.
@greenpeace Don’t give them ideas! In the future they’ll charge us to be in the Sun(shine)
This is dope if we're talking about the solar energy stored in trees, grasses, and other living bodies and not like, acting like solar panels and lithium batteries don't require loads of materials that either directly rely on petrol derivatives or extractive mining. That *is* what you meant, right?