Good. Imagine Canada spent millions searching for a poorly built underwater capsule with a few billionaires on it but can’t be bothered searching a landfill for 2 specific bodies, and quite possibly more. Reconciliation my fucking arse. I hope they get more support and exposure, this has been going on way too long already.
This is about risk to staff doing the work. Its not like flying back and forth to a makeshift flotilla in a patch of remote ocean might have any risks… err… oh wait.
I don’t feel bad from stealing from corporations. Not my fault they wanted to increase their profits by raising prices, lowering quality and firing people.
What I do is deliberately go to a cashier, even if the line is extremely long, and I see more and more people doing the same. This forces more lines to open. One time they asked if I could use the self-checkout to speed up the process. I replied that if the items were cheaper at the self-checkout, sure, otherwise I’d stay in line.
I noticed this at my local Loblaws. At first they only had one to two lines open and they were extremely long. Now they have several lines open and it’s very fluid.
I do the same thing. Aside from a gas pump, I no longer will use self-checkout for any reason. I'm done working for Big Retail for no pay & no discount.
It’s a good bot tho, it doesn’t lie or pretend. Lemmy needs content right now and good bots help with that. They will be taken offline once communities are big enough.
@L4s is a very well known bot account at this point. Users are able to block each other. I think it will increasingly become a problem if we tolerate unmarked bots, but this is the only one I know atm that isn’t marked as one
“average person changes sheets 4 times a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person changes sheets 25 times per year. Sheets Georg, who lives in cave & changes sheets never, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
First is where the hydrogen comes from. Most commercially available hydrogen comes from fossil fuels. The most common process involves superheated steam, methane (aka natural gas), and a catalyst. Very little hydrogen comes from renewable energy via hydrolysis.
Second is efficiency. The total process of transforming renewable energy to hydrogen, storing and transporting the gas, then using it to move a locomotive is only about 30% efficient. There are significant losses at every stage, and it’s a very complex supply chain.
Now, compare this to very boring overhead electrified railroads, which have existed for over one hundred years. Modern systems can achieve nearly 85% efficiency from generation to locomotion, are cheap and easy to build, and have some of the most reliable rolling stock around since they’re essentially a really big slot car. The only downside is the big up-front investment in overhead lines, but that quickly pays for itself with the overall efficiency of the railroad system.
If you ask me, this is a bad idea. It’s somewhere between well intentioned but poorly thought through engineering, and the good old fashioned greenwashing of the fossil fuel industry.
This is just a FUD post. No one cared about green energy until recently. Everything was powered by fossil fuels until recently. And when people started to care, suddenly it becomes impossible because, wait for it, no one use green energy before! It is a circular argument.
It is a matter of when and not if hydrogen becomes a way of powering many types of transportation. Skeptics have their own agenda to oppose this and it is usually not a good one.
Then you must be very outdated on your knowledge. The things you've listed, they're solved problems. You can buy hydrogen cars today with none of those issues. Criticisms of hydrogen cars now are just a repeat of BEV criticism back in the early 2010s.
And what do you know? They're both pressure vessels. Why would one cost significantly more than the other? With modern technology, the cost of making hydrogen tanks should be fairly cheap.
What do I know? I've designed pressure vessels as a job.
No. The material requirements for a H2 pressure vessel is vastly more expensive for the reasons I stated above.
H2 reacts with everything, Extreme low carbon stainless is required, on top of the tank wouldn't last long due to hydrogen embrittlement.
Hydrogen being the smallest element literally just permeates through every material.
My current profession involves large equipment. Especially electrically driven equipment.
The mining industry would pay BILLIONS.. scratch that.. TRILLIONS of dollars if hydrogen source was achievable, if they could reduce the need to vent their mines, if their equipment could output only water...
They already pay $$$$$$ for fully electric mining equipment. I've personally worked on those machines and many others like fully electric passenger buses.
They've all abandoned H2. Batteries are the future. H2 is not.
Unless someone can use H2 in a kind of fusion process to generate power... H2 will never be a thing. In combustion or Fuel cell form.
Again, if I was a good idea, we'd be doing it already. No new technology in either materials, chemistry or combustion have come to light that could possibly make H2 viable.
It's a green-washing farce until someone can crack open the hydrogen atom.
Much of the focus with hydrogen vehicles is using Type III or Type IV which have inner linings and don't have the problems with leakage or embrittlement. Eventually, the goal is the switch to all-composite Type V which don't need inner linings. And FYI, this is the same system used for CNG. So costs are in fact, very similar to each other.
The mining industry would pay BILLIONS.. scratch that.. TRILLIONS of dollars if hydrogen source was achievable, if they could reduce the need to vent their mines, if their equipment could output only water...
The rest of your post is either just pure Ludditism or ridiculous pro-battery fanboyism. It's objectively false. In fact, you're quite literally implying that the original story we're talking about is a work of fiction. You should be embarrassed to have written such nonsense.
In the article they call this out as a good solution for low density lines that are unlikely to get overhang wires installed. In the case of the QC line, it’s using green hydrogen.
You’re probably right for the higher density lines.
This is just a FUD argument. The route in question can never be electrified because it is a lightly used route. The alternative is just diesel itself.
People who question hydrogen pretty much always have an agenda. Either they are secretly promoting fossil fuels, or believe in environmental fantasy that is detached from reality. Akin to how green parties shut down nuclear power development.
I think a lot of it comes from us being sold the idea that the ultra-rich got where they are through hard work and intelligence. “The American Dream,” etc… When things like this happen, it proves that the ruling class are just as stupid as any Joe-blow off the street.
Generational wealth is finally (maybe) being discussed as a big issue and one which skews figures for one trying to break down our economic disparity problems. I hope it ends up helping because something has to give.
Self-care is important, though. Without caring about and for myself, I would never have left shitty employers behind. Now, of course, self-care is something pushed by those who want us to suck it up and live with shitty policies.
Now, of course, self-care is something pushed by those who want us to suck it up and live with shitty policies.
And that’s the point the article makes, tbh.
It’s not that self-care is “bad”. It’s that the whole concept of self-care is mindfulness tangental, and practicing mindfulness means grasping the wider situation. Being told constantly to “deal with it” and self-caring through it is accepting abuse. There are ways to practice self-care and refuse to stand for this shit.
Yep. Self care, but you need to sit in traffic, come to the office, do the work of two people on a project that has unrealistic deadlines, for pay that lets you enjoy absolutely nothing in the free time you do have. And absolutely no self-care on company time.
I just want to know, if it were me and my kids lost on a homemade raft would 4 countries send 10 ships, airiel surveylence , and the most advanced remote operating vehicles available for 4 days to try and find me? If not, they should pay the extra.
I swear, how did we get to this point, where we have massive (effectively) monopolies that are able to continue to merge and buy up smaller companies and grow?
I know we have anti-trust laws, but if companies are able to keep doing this, we need a review of those laws.
Because that's how capitalism works. The goal is to make as much money as possible as fast as possible, which is harder to do when you have competition.
The myth of the "free market" is a way to distract people from the reality of a capital based system. The haves all want to be have-mores, and they will take from the needs to accomplish it.
Nope. All you’d be doing is slowing down the damage in the short term while breeding more clever and less moral actors. The only way to get rid of that behaviour is to change the rules of the game.
I would love to see that. Forcing politicians to live off minimum wage or close to it would fix a lot, I bet. They would see how tough it can be for everyday people.
Because that’s how capitalism works without strong enough regulations. You need to grow every year, and at a certain point you can’t really do that without expanding into a new market or buying a competitor.
In exaggerated capitalism, one company grows until it owns everything. Its goal is to extract as much as possible from the population.
Usually three companies will end up owning an imdustry. It’s far easier to manage a collusive oligopoly than a pure monopoly; and the governments are more likely to leave you alone.
This happened in the US. The quality dropped, the prices skyrocketed, and the staff stopped caring. They hid fees in prescriptions- $17 for 30 pills and $15 for 4 more because there’s a $12 dispensing fee hidden in every prescription. It took them a year to finally explain it to me. They fired me as a client (after 20+ years) when I questioned them. Find an independent clinic and support them!
Except in a lot of places there’s no option to switch to an independent clinic. In my area, you’re lucky to even have a vet in the first place. With the exception of one clinic that only deals with cats and another clinic with a questionable vet, all other clinics in my city are owned by the same company!
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