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[–] pec@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can edit my street as a dead end to lower bar traffic, cool!

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you go into the detailed explanation (and can read French) they do have some hydraulic pumping included in their "batteries" section.

In their 100% renewables scénario on a peak consumption (105gw) hour and peak energy production (sun at zenith) they would store the excess production like such:

  • 7.2gw to water pumping
  • 22gw to static batteries
  • 2gw back to the grid (chatting electric vehicles I guess).

Also even in their most nuclear scenario (50% nuclear, 50% renewables) they still include 7.2gw of water pumping.

I'm curious of why you put so much value in water pumping? As a Quebecois I have a small notion of how disruptive (flooding of vast areas of land, massive amounts of concrete, dead rivers downstream of the dam ) water reservoirs for hydroelectricity can be and I have a hard time imagining a viable way of relying extensively on that technique.

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's pay walled but how would China enforce that ruling? Ban all of Intel's transactions with Chinese entity? Fines?

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Here in Montreal we have a very popular car sharing company that allows many of us to not own cars.

It's biggest issue at the moment is that the company can't buy cars as quickly as demand increases. This type of cars would be a great addition to their park since a lot of the trips their customer do are short inner city trips.

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like it fits on the filter

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They article mention it's more about discouraging teens from starting smoking than making current smokers quit.

It kind of make sense since you start smoking by receiving a single cigarette not by buying a pack. I know at my high school a lot of smokers started smoking by buying individual smoke from the smoke pusher

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It's ok we'll just use more fentanyl

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Apparently, from articles I read about the Canadian law, Australia tried something similar but fang got it reversed.

The problem is that Canada is a small market. FANG doesn't need the revenue from it but they would hate for these laws to become popular so they'll try to make an example out of Canada.

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Canada just passed legislation forcing Google and face book to pays for each showing (or redirecting?) of a Canadian news url. The law aims at redistributing money from internet giants back to news sites. Google and Facebook are threatening to just outright stop including Canadian news URL.

It's a bold move from the government, I'm not for how I feel about it.

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

If you don't disrupt anyone your protest has the same impact as an angry letter.

In Canada the only protests that accomplish anything are when a group blocks a road or a railroad until a very specific request is met. What typically happens is they get removed by police but I'm the background they get concessions so they don't block another road in next months

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did the west just out bid Russia and turn their mercenaries against them?

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