The legalized version of widespread bribery is called lobbying.

We should consider rebranding other things - it’s not smoking weed, it’s botanical consumption.

Yeah but the issue is that wealthy people don’t follow the same rules. They’ll create a company or something out of state to funnel that money to their pockets without Cali ever knowing.

It’s only the poor people who get fucked.

What is this h t m l you speak of? Is it like tsx?

Project Freedom is escorting ships out of Hormuz right? Didn’t we just get news yesterday of a ship being hit by a projectile from an “unknown source”?

So they figured ships can still be shot at even if you surround them with escorts, huh?

Geniuses, these guys.

They don’t just need to work, they need to be economically viable.

These batteries have active components, since they actually pump the electrolyte, and there’s a fairly substantial level of degradation and corrosion, along with leaking across the membrane that leads to loss of capacity over time.

If some of these problems can be reduced (like the article claims they do) then they’re even more attractive.

I really hope this helps with massively expanding renewables storage, because that’s bastion holding up fossil fuels in electricity generation, and it will allow shutting down all those coal, gas, even nuclear plants!

China has also been delivering, so I wouldn’t bet against them.

A notorious example is Tesla, when they adopted the lithium-iron-phosphate batteries made by CATL because they were cheaper, safer and easier to build (no nickel or cobalt required).

Of course some of these articles are pure hype for vapourware, but this one’s sounding plausible - they claim to have engineered a structure that is negatively charged, while also physically preventing electrolyte crossover, and that this prevents degradation by two orders of magnitude.

It’s not preposterous, and might be enough to make these batteries usable on a massive scale…

Energy density isn’t really a problem for grid-wide storage. Just build huge electrolyte tanks under the solar panels, voilà, generation and storage.

If they’re really stable, they’ll probably be placed all over the place and be a huge help in managing demand.

It won’t fit all use cases, you’ll want batteries with better density for anything mobile, but there’s definitely also a huge use case for this type of battery.

The US is irrelevant in these conversations.

It’s a global imperative, as well as in most nations own security interests, to become independent of fossil fuels.

What needs to be agreed is how the willing are going to fight back against the oil baron’s billions, because they’ll do anything, anything, to remain relevant and profitable.

On point with the video, it cracked me up. Well played.

That would be absolutely amazing - the whole US economy, imploding in 1 day.

I know right? Remember last year how powerful and impactful the award was?

I mean, they’ll have to get in line.

Yeah! They’d better shut up!

Am I doing right? 👍

No, that’s Sisqo. You’re thinking about the tech company known for their network products.

Partition the internet… Like during the Morris worm of '88, where they had to pull off regional networks to prevent the machines from being reinfected?

The good old days were, maybe, not that good. :)

It’s like they could create a socialist party, so that America actually has at least one left-leaning party.

No, the mainline Democratic party is nowhere near being left wing.

He’s much better at communicating and dealing with the present day republican tactics than most in the party, but we know that, at heart, they all have corporate greed as their master.

Such a monstrous clusterfuck, and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone having been sacked, let alone facing actual charges over the whole debacle.

If anything, I’d say that’s the single best case for buying IBM - if you’re incompetent and/or corrupt, just go with them and even if shit hits the fan, you’ll be OK.

Vance is a puppy, maga will tear itself apart.

That’s the correct approach. Keep calling out the obvious dementia, the guy’s barely a vegetable. Just look at the recent speech with the generals , the orange turd is unrecognisable, he barely moves.