Why would you recommend people make the effort to switch to Podman if you can’t name any benefits of doing so?

STBSQL?

30% is NOT trivial lmao

Do you know what else decreases when the sun goes down? Power demand.

You linked the Wikipedia page on electric batteries. Of course it’s going to talk about the things you put in your remote, because Wikipedia is not a dictionary and that’s what most people mean when they say “battery”. See also, the pages on energy storage that refer to them as batteries:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Thermal_Battery

You could also look at the Wikipedia disambiguation page for “battery”, found at /wiki/Battery, which mentions electrochemical batteries as the most common meaning and then has an entire section on energy storage that mentions “Energy storage, including batteries that are not electrochemical”.

You are wrong.

To answer your actual question though, we need about 85 times our current pumped hydro capacity to transition to a fully renewable US. This seems daunting, but:

• Pumped hydro is growing rapidly
• It’s not the only battery storage technology (heat batteries look promising imo)
• Any increases in storage allow more renewables, less pollution, and overall contribute to making our future better

Pumped Hydro doesn’t need to singlehandedly handle the storage load of the entire US because there are other options to use in conjunction with it and even a partial storage solution produces benefits. This is good, because Pumped Hydro is geographically limited.

If we built 43 Hoover Dams, we wouldn’t need to build any other renewables at all-- the Hoover Dam doesn’t just store power, it also generates it. I’m not sure of the numbers for pure pumped storage hydropower systems (I don’t think “pure” systems even exist, everywhere gets some rain), but we only need enough capacity to take over when the normal grid is underproducing.

Right-- batteries don’t power cities, they just smooth out the power generation. The size of the battery is determined by the reliability of power generation, desired uptime, etc., not just by the power consumption of the city.

First off, don’t be rude. Second off, bold claim saying I don’t know shit about shit when you don’t know that a gravity battery is measured in mass (or volume, sure) and height, you know, that thing that gravity needs to make stuff move.

Edit: Also, batteries don’t directly power cities, they just smooth out power generation, but I’ll show how a large enough battery could provide more than enough power if all other generation went offline and it could charge to full when that power was online.

Anyways, I’m too lazy to calculate this myself, but the Hoover Dam website has better data than I do and probably smarter people doing the formulas anyways. It produces 4 billion kWh of power per year on average. The power usage of a city of 1,000,000 people varies based on average headcount of each household and especially by industrial (and commercial) consumption compared to residential consumption, but to take NYC as an example, it uses about 11 million kWh per day, and has a population of about 8 million, so it uses about 1.375 kWh per person per day. Over the course of a year, this means that a city of 1 million people would take 1.375*365*1,000,000 = 500 million kWh for a year. Conclusion: the Hoover Dam, which is a gravity battery, could fully power 8 cities of 1 million people, or almost exactly 1 New York City.

“Battery” does not mean “chemical battery”. Gravity batteries, for example, already do provide power to midsized population centers around the world-- they’re called hydroelectric dams.

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pro-Russia idiots on the left

the left

You seem to be directionally confused

Maybe you should STOP AIDING THEM IN COMMITTING WAR CRIMES THEN???

Heads up, that spoiler syntax doesn’t work on normal lemmy

Sometimea the smallest logical unit of an algorithm uses more than 3 levels of indentation

There’s no place like localhost

Copying and pasting: $1
Knowing what to copy and where to paste it: $999

skill issue

Just read the duplicate

urganomics

Bell curves don’t work to make this point. A bell curve is symmetrical, so half of developers will always be below average on a bell curve. But yes, it is true that for other types of distributions, more or less than half of the developers could be below average. What the person above you was looking for, in the general case, would be the median.