"We also need to take into account the future of the technologies. Auke Hoekstra, an energy transition researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology, said emissions from fossil fuel cars cannot fall much further, meaning they are not a viable technology for a zero-emissions world. Yet battery development is still in relative infancy, and is likely to tip the balance further in favour of electric cars..."
"The scientific consensus is overwhelming: on any realistic like-for-like comparison a battery car will be cleaner than its petrol or diesel equivalent. Burning fossil fuels to make and drive electric cars will still cause emissions, but at a lower level than inefficient fossil fuel engines."
This is an article from the MIT climate portal featuring guest expert Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. It is over a year old and already many things have changed. Most critically batteries no longer need to be made using either Lithium or Cobalt. Cars are already available with sodium batteries. And people like myself are powering our cars using our home solar panels.
โWe shouldn't claim victory that with this switch to electric cars, problem solved, we are going to have zero emissions,โ he says. โNo, that's not the case. But electric cars are actually much, much better in terms of the impact on the climate in comparison to internal combustion vehicles. And in time, that comparative advantage of electric cars is going to grow.โ
Yes: although electric cars' batteries make them more carbon-intensive to manufacture than gas cars, they more than make up for it by driving much cleaner under nearly any conditions.
Most projects are great at saying what they're doing but most are also realy bad at explaining the why of what they're doing and this is where working with y...
@till There's also this symbiotic relationship, if you write a blog post or post about issues on mastodon, not only will people see it from you but it will also be covered to Linux news outlets and youtubers
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The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Mondayโs passing of Thomas Stafford, a lifelong space exploration advocate, former NASA
Hand-crafted robots, constructed over the past two months by 44 high school teams, duked it out at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition.
On March 15, NASAโs Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory entered into safe mode, temporarily suspending science operations due to degrading performance from one of its three gyroscopes (gyros), which are used to point the observatory for making observationโฆ
You know what makes more sense than Unlisted or Quiet Public? Home. My brain follows this so much more. Public, shows up everywhere. Home, shows up in home timeline only. Followers, only shows up to your followers. Direct, just tagged people. So clear.
Quiet public posts don't just show up in the home feed. They're publicly accessible to anyone with a link, appear on your profile, and can appear in external search engines. Calling them "Home" would be deceptive, and confusing, because "Home" could also easily mean followers-only.
NASAโs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will support commercial launch provider Rocket Labโs Electron rocket launch no earlier than March 21 at 2:40 a.m.
NASAโs Office of STEM Engagement has selected seven student teams to participate in a culminating event for the 2024 App Development Challenge (ADC), one of
@ephemeral everything that was cool when we were younger is so expensive now/still. I bought a barely working Game Boy recently for ยฃ60!!! 10 year ago would've been around the ยฃ30 mark
NASA selected 10 small research satellites across eight states to fly to the International Space Station as part of the agencyโs efforts to expand education
Valve has finally done it! They've overhauled Steam Family Sharing with the new Steam Families set of features now available in Beta and it fixes the most annoying issue with it.
oh.. so now, 3 years after I stopped having 'children' and now have young adults, this is ok, despite asking #Steam for it .. way back when. #SteamOnLinux don't get me wrong Proton is Fine++ but it's not the only thing that needed developer time, well you know, beyond the mindless UX churn that fascinates them . .
The new changes are great, however they introduced a new term that completely screws it for me is that no longer can you have cross-region accounts in the same family. Which cuts me off from my family. Which worked before just fine.
I realise this is to prevent cross-region purchasing shenanigans, which Valve has constantly had so many bad-eggs ruin things with, but it really does make my LDR that much harder. Not cool ๐
@ThatLuna I can easily see why they've done that though, there's not really all that many legit use cases for sharing a family across the world, it's supposed to be for a single household
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When Otter.ai announced their shitty pricing changes over the last couple of years, I paid up for a couple of years to stay at the reasonably-priced 6k minutes/month with Dropbox imports. That time has come to an end today. I don't use any of their meeting-related features, don't care about summaries or "insights". I just want to transcribe long podcasts and videos. Now, even their basic paid plan wouldn't handle anything longer than 90 min, which most of my files are. #podcast #accessibility
Furthermore, the performance of their editor on long transcripts had deteriorated significantly in recent months. Not only was it so sluggish that I could no longer edit on my Surface, I was getting "can't save, please reload" messages every 10 or so minutes, and I couldn't use alt-codes for em dashes without the editor choking and just showing a digit or two of the code.
I switched to a much simpler speech to text API a couple months ago, and so far it's going surprisingly well.
I wrote a little thing in python to push up an mp3, then take the returned data and format it how I like for podcast transcripts in plain text. Then I just edit in my text editor of choice with Audacity playing the audio alongside, and it is literally saving me hours and tons of frustration. The output quality is as good as Otter, although it removes the "like"-type utterances, which I'm very on the fence about. That's a personality thing that I think is important.
I have keys on my macropad for dropping in names and em dashes. I can easily customize vocab and spelling for the Star Trek-ass words we use on @show. And I'm in a regular text editor (well, VS Code), so I can navigate super smoothly with all the keyboard shortcuts I'm accustomed to.
There are a couple of downsides I'm working through, though:
For one, Audacity doesn't innately have a way to access its shortcut keys (play, pause and move cursor, change speed) without focusing on the Audacity window. I'm working through an AutoHotkey script to sort that out.
Second is that while I can also get subtitle files (SRTs), if I want both, I would need to hand-merge my edited text to/from a plaintext transcript, whereas Otter could just export the finished transcript to multiple formats. That's a bummer.
Three crew members will blast off on Thursday, March 21, to support Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station. NASA will provide full coverage of
NASA selected 10 small research satellites across eight states to fly to the International Space Station as part of the agencyโs efforts to expand education
Good Morning. Some interesting industry news for you here, as it seems Apex Legends has something of a hacker problem right now that has even messed up the Global Series esport tournament.
We in the Finance Working Group have determined that the co-op should develop a cohesive annual budget. We currently take in far more than we spend; our current balance of ยฃ24k, for instance, exceeds our total spend over 5 years of ยฃ22k.
This thread is for The Stuff of real time meetings of the Finance Committee. The agenda for the meeting could get linked here. And a link to any meeting minutes.
Playtron have teased their PlaytronOS, taking aim at the gaming space to compete with SteamOS with a Linux-powered system. Could be exciting times ahead.
NASAโs Wallops Flight Facility, partners, and area employers joined forces on a mission to inspire more than 4,500 eighth-grade students seeking answers to
Charlie Jane Anders on why she stopped loving Captain Kirk. โKirk is obsessed with maintaining his dominance over his crew, in a way thatโs very much of its time but also a product of the men who created him.โ buttondown.email/charliejane/aโฆ
I used to look up to Captain Kirk, Star Trek's fearless leader, when I was a kid. When I was seven or eight, I had a homemade Starfleet captain shirt, which...
There really are a lot of games, and with more releasing every year, Steam has gotten rather large as a platform with it now listing over 100,000 games.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars is getting a big fancy remaster in Broken Sword: Reforged, and it's currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter by Revolution Software.
NASA selected its Wildfire Climate Tech Challenge winners, awarding three teams $100,000 for their diverse, innovative approaches to address the escalating
Roblox and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite sure are popular, but you know what would be better? An open source projects, where creators can actually own what they make rather than being attached to Roblox and Fortnite. The Mirror wants to change that.
ChimeraOS Linux 45-1 is out now as a minor update to the current release, but it still comes with a healthy dose of handheld gaming improvements for people who don't want Windows.
@peterbrown Those are so much better, not to mention less menacing-looking! I was in the Netherlands a few months ago, and the absence of truck grilles as tall as I am was refreshing.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor from Funday Games and Ghost Ship Publishing has only been out for just over a month in Early Access, and it's already crossed over the 1 million mark.
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