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  • Nuclear for flat energy output and as a fallback in case of grid failure, sure, but renewables are where it’s at. “If properly harvested, there is enough solar energy cast on the earth inan hour to power all of humanity for a year”.

    We have the technology right now to do this. Solutions Project, like more than a decade ago, came up with a specific model for each individual state based on their unique geography and climates, modeling a specific mix of renewables that would work for that region. More offshore wind and solar for California, more geothermal for Hawaii, more solar-thermal towers fir the desert, etc. they also broke down the economic impact this would have in each region (which is very positive). And the messed up thing is that we know this plan would have worked, because Europe has kind of been doing exactly that and we’re starting to see the real benefits emerge.

    Personally I advocate for a mixed-renewables energy model, ideally with a distributed micro-grid down to the neighborhood level.

    TLDR: This is a solved problem and capitalists are actively suppressing it. Click around on the Solutions Project energy map for you area. It’s pretty neat:

    https://thesolutionsproject.org/what-we-do/inspiring-action/why-clean-energy/









  • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldCourage
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    14 days ago

    Whatever you want to do. Go spend a season helping out ona farm in Hawaii, then go help build an ecovillage in Australia, then spend some time walking around New Zealand washing dishes and bussing tables, then off to India where you’ll build rope bridges and tree houses for a sustainable community. After that, you can go to Thailand or Vietnam and teach English for a little while, before making your way into the Mediterranean and spending a year and a half on the island of Bozcaada helping an old man repair out building and herd goats.

    That’s literally what my friend did for over 5 years after one day he just decided to leave and had just enough money for a plane ticket to Hawaii from San Diego. Everything else was work and accommodations he found along the way. The only reason he came back was because of covid, and now he’s an RN and makes a bunch of money and he hates his life and is in and out of rehab.


  • Marie-Thérèse, mother, had moved to the US after marrying her long-lost love - an American man named Billy whom she had met in the 1960s, when he was a soldier stationed in the Nato base of Saint-Nazaire, and she a secretary.

    Marie-Thérèse (mother), had moved to the US after marrying her long-lost love - an American man named Billy whom she had met in the 1960s, when he was a soldier stationed in the Nato base of Saint-Nazaire, and she a secretary.

    They appear to have just accidentally dropped appositive commas or a parathetical. Otherwise it looks fine to me.