I disagree with the "the technology is already there" statement. Source: I was part of an aviation electrification research project.
Small regional planes are technologically possible, yes, but transatlantic or transpacific flights? We're nowhere close to that.
Also: Nobody should be treated like that no matter if anyone depends on them like that.
I'd love to upvote, but come on, that "Master of puppets" devilish Netanyahu just screams "antisemitic clishés". We don't need shit like that to criticize genocide and zionist propaganda.
Where are you, a big city or a small town? In the US or elsewhere?
It may be hit or miss, but depending on where you are, there may be people willing to help without expecting monetary compensation. Charities, e.g. by religious groups, or mutual aid groups (the latter especially in big cities).
I wish you all the best, no person deserves to be abandoned like that.
We're talking about engineers here! We're using MATLAB or Python if we're programming at all.
Geht um den Opa des Oberfaschos in den VSA: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump
Edith: vergessen, dass ich auf ich_iel bin.
Whoever wrote this has an extremely outdated technical understanding of renewables and energy storage... or wants to push this outdated understanding out of an economic interest/agenda.
Yes, a stable AC grid needs inertia, which was historically only provided by the generators in gas, coal and nuclear power plants. Yes, inverter-connected systems like batteries and PV plants don't provide inertia naturally. But there are control algorithms out there which would enable these systems to provide inertia just as well... And they could be going into large-scale rollout at least on new batteries and wind power plants within months if it was required by grid codes or incentivized by a market.
I agree that, whatever exactly happened initially, led to a disconnect of the mostly photovoltaic generation in Spain (not yet outfitted with such synthetic inertia algorithms) and the central European grid where more natural inertia was available. The high local PV surplus no longer exported to Europe led to an enormous increase in the grid frequency. The PV plants disconnected which led to a just as quick decrease of frequency and an automatic disconnect of loads - boom, the grid is dead. So far, their analysis was also what I presented to my students on Tuesday. But drawing the conclusion that renewables are bad just reveals either incompetence or an insidious agenda.
Exactly, that sentence also seemed just wrong to me. Everything else is great.
I'm not an egoist anarchist, but the other answer to your question is wrong and I don't want it to be standing there without correction. Egoism in an anarchist context goes back to "The Ego and His own" by Max Stirner, a German philosopher. He was not an anarchist, but has been and is still very influential on the movement.
Here's his works on the anarchist library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/max-stirner
I haven't read it myself yet, but read some short summaries. Afaik he wants everyone to acknowledge that we're basically working in our own self-interest all of the time BUT that this requires cooperation and that helping others without immediate material benefit can be part of our self-interest, e.g. because it makes us feel good or because it builds relationships that might be beneficial later.
Uff... Red Scare war wohl damals schon erfolgreich.
Ich meinte aber tatsächlich eine Quelle dafür, dass Ebert das Mist fand. Ich habe dann aber den Wikipedia-Artikel zum 9.11.1918 durchgelesen. Schwer, dabei nicht zu kotzen.
Ist halt totaler Käse, weil die deutschen Kommunisten keine Bolschewisten waren. Liebknecht und Luxemburg hatten andere Vorstellungen, die viel mehr an der ursprünglichen SPD orientiert waren.
Hast du irgendwelche empfehlenswerten Texte von den beiden, außer den "organisatorischen Fragen zur russischen Sozialdemokratie" und dem unfertigen Text zur Oktoberrevolution aus dem Gefängnis?
Echt, da würde ich gern mehr drüber lesen. Hast du irgendwelche halbwegs einfach zugänglichen Quellen dazu?
It's definitely easier to electrify maritime transport.
Long-range aviation might not be electrified at all because it's so hard to get enough energy from batteries without making the plane unable to lift off due to weight, or enough power from fuel cells without taking too much space. Instead we might see hydrogen turbines or synthetic fuel engines.
Either way, maybe we should ask ourselves if a future society should have flight at all? Of course it's cool that humans were able to achieve flight but right now it mostly serves an overheated capitalism and the short-lived pleasure-seeking of (globally speaking) a few fortunate people.