wagtail

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I'm logged in... but can't remember my password... in c/feddituk
[–] wagtail 2 points 1 year ago

maybe the password has a special character that Lemmy can't handle. In any case, it's one that @tom might need to look at.

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A cheap fix to global warming is finally gaining support (phys.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wagtail to c/climate@kbin.social
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tl;dr: Cutting methane emissions (that is, waste methane from flaring, leaks, etc) is starting to gain government/multilateral attention.

"the short term climate impact would be equivalent to eliminating 225 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year or canceling Pakistan's emissions"

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How a Jungle Prison Became Europe's Spaceport (www.smithsonianmag.com)
submitted 1 year ago by wagtail to c/space@beehaw.org
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Subheading: "An anthropologist explains how the South American launch site for the James Webb Space Telescope evolved"

"Man-Made Cloud" experiment generates electricity from humidity in air in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] wagtail 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess the same thing that puts the energy imbalance required for lightning to happen, is being used here.

I also think based on the small scale this study was done, there would be a very small amount of electricity generated - enough to maybe power a sensor. Otherwise there would be lightning. We already have 'energy harvesting' buttons and sensors which generate electricity from what would otherwise be wasted (I have a battery free doorbell which gets enough electricity to transmit a radio signal - from the act of pressing the button). This might start out as another way to get electricity to these kinds of devices.

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"Man-Made Cloud" experiment generates electricity from humidity in air (www.inverse.com)
 

tl;dr (copied from the abstract): "Here, a generic effect for continuous energy harvesting from air humidity is reported, [...]. The common feature of these materials is that they are engineered with appropriate nanopores to allow air water to pass through and undergo dynamic adsorption–desorption exchange at the porous interface, resulting in surface charging." "The work opens a wide door for the broad exploration of sustainable electricity from air."

*Link to study (also in article): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202300748 *

*DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202300748 *

They call the effect an 'air-gen effect' so more articles can be seen here: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=Air-gen+effect&ia=news

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There’s a deeper problem hiding beneath global warming | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
 

tl;dr: Physicist writes that, even in the best case scenario for net-zero, the heat our society generates will still be a serious problem in the future.

Tom, can I request that we keep our blocklist empty? in c/feddituk
[–] wagtail 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This will very quickly go the same way as IRC. The spirit of Eris lives again on ActivityPub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet

IRC is a plaintext chat system which was originally decentralised and federated. Technically decentralisation and federation is still perfectly possible in the IRC protocol. Nobody does it so freely any more, ever since the Eris Free Net decided to go its own way because it made sense to do so.

It achieved this by blocking any IRC server that is connected to the Eris server.

In this case it wasn't political - it was due to spam, flamewars, and organisational problems (what I just called 'the spirit of Eris'). If you throw politics in there (or rather the fact that these days moderators are accustomed to seeing political views they already agree with on the Internet), I think it just will accelerate things towards defederation, or federation with only people we seem to agree with (read: easy to moderate).