sure they do, why do you think they’re buying lithium mines? they love mining resources because it encourages the “infinite growth” feedback loop to keep going

that is correct and that would unfortunately be a problem if we expect everyone to own a boiler instead of building neighborhood thermal battery/central heating systems. a lot of post-soviet countries had perfectly functioning stations for doing exactly that, but they were torn down during neoliberal reforms instead of converting them to modern standards

couldn’t be more wrong, also we have this thing called insulation and water tanks. we already use water loop radiators here, there’s nothing stopping us from preheating the water to last us through the night. also, wear more layers instead of being a wussy

The CO2 is in a CLOSED LOOP system meaning its not going to be leaching into the atmosphere.

yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.

The CO2 is likely harvested directly from the atmosphere

LMAO, the audacity of telling me I don’t know how electricity generation works when you don’t even know how to read. they’re using industrial CO2 derived from fossil fuels

subsidize energy storage solutions that aren’t as economically profitable as fossil fuels. like thermal batteries, pumped hydro, etc.

most people don’t need that much energy during the night, so that is a red herring from the energy companies. the reason why we need this much storage in the first place is because of the infinite growth mindset instead of making industrialists pay for their own shit when they’re consuming energy in a race to the bottom. if we banned all the slop products from being made, energy demand would go down exponentially.

in a worst case scenario, we could 100% only rely on renewables and deal with the fact that we’ll have power outages during sleeping hours. that pill would be much easier to swallow if everyone is sharing the same burden, like during the lockdowns. and for the disabled people that need electricity to stay alive, give them refurbished EV batteries for free, there’s already more of them on the market than we could use in a lifetime. same thing for hospitals and essential institutions

As per Energy Dome:

But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier, and it lives permanently inside the dome’s system to serve an eco-friendly purpose

these people are straight-up lying, how can CO2 be “eco-friendly” when all its industrial extraction processes involve fossil fuels as a source? notice how they didn’t mention who their gas supplier is? that’s because it would out them and their lies.

it’s impossible to buy gas turbines without ultimately funding the fossil fuel giants. also let’s not ignore the environmental catastrophe that would happen if these were deployed en masse and a corruption scandal like the Beirut port explosion happened.

it’s also not lost on me that this technology is being deployed in poor, economically exploited areas like Sardinia and Xinjiang. there’s a reason why they’re not building bubbles in the middle of Rome or Beijing, because the people would revolt at this eyesore of a ticking time bomb. nobody would give a fuck if thousands of Uyhurs died in a mass asphyxiation event because people are already ignoring the genocide they’re going through.

it’s concerning whenever Google gets excited about a new energy solution because we all know how they treat the environment around their data centers. if deployed, they’d use the hot breath bubbles to excuse their seemingly infinite energy consumption increase in order to keep the AI bubble from popping. this is carbon credits all over again, they’ll use the CO2 to deploy more methane gas turbines because these would “cancel them out”.

edit: removed inaccurate claim about Energy Dome in Xinjiang, added context

more greenwashing from the fossil fuels industry

you can’t be sexist against men since y’all invented sexism to oppress women and trans people. try again

Your argument: lemmy is shit because its creators are communists and it isn’t decentralized because most of the traffic is on lemmy.world

yes, Lemmy being created by tankies, genocide deniers and tech bros is the reason why most servers are rife with misogyny and incel mentality. that’s why women don’t feel comfortable participating and most active members are men. the fact that the gender hierarchy keeps reproducing itself all over the fediverse inherently disproves the myth that Lemmy is decentralized (as in abolishing hierarchical power). that doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate this experiment for what it is and I definitely prefer the limited freedom of movement I enjoy here compared to the nonexistent freedom on Reddit.

BTC is and still is a decentralized project, a few actors gained a lot of power over the network but that is another story, similarly you could argue that a bunch of people run the finance world.

the US is and still is a federal institution. just because Trump became dictator that doesn’t mean that the country is fundamentally flawed and states rights hasn’t always been bullshit. just one more election will get our freedom back bro I promise! /s

nobody said Ethereum had to be controlled by the state but when most of the influential figures who keep it running, including its creators participated in inflating the NFT ponzi scheme you can’t say it isn’t a scam because it’s “decentralized”. BTC and ETH don’t meet any definition of decentralization, that’s why DAOs failed

lmao, the blockchain that popularized NFTs is less scammy than a bank? touch grass