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My main account is here. I'm also using this one: solo@piefed.social, because I really like the feed feature.

Btw I'm a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].

Offshore wind power cables can affect sensory system of sharks and rays: studies

12d 7h ago in tidalpunk@slrpnk.net from news.mongabay.com

A disease of deforestation: how Ebola is linked to the smartphone in your pocket

12d 7h ago in collapse@slrpnk.net from www.theguardian.com

In bizarre attack on solar, lawmakers spread myths about spud farms

12d 7h ago in usa@midwest.social from www.motherjones.com

Mycelium-Based Materials — How It's Made

12d 7h ago in fungus@slrpnk.net from optarray.substack.com

A brief history of epigenetics

12d 8h ago in science@slrpnk.net from www.sciencedirect.com

Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment

13d 6h ago in conservation@slrpnk.net from theconversation.com

Digital Cash, Not Crypto

14d 4h ago in money@slrpnk.net from blog.gelbphoenix.de

Interesting project for sure. Still, I think I don't understand what is the insentive for banks and central banks to adopt this system?

New miniature bright-orange toadlet found in southern Brazil and named after Lula

14d 23h ago in science@slrpnk.net from news.mongabay.com

Lula also this:

Brazil’s president Lula has greatly escalated his pressure for approval of oil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon River

The hypocrisy of Lula’s claims that the oil project will finance an energy transition

[source]

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

15d 9h ago in biodiversity@mander.xyz from journals.plos.org

Fungi transform unrecyclable building waste into low-carbon insulation

15d 9h ago in fungus@slrpnk.net from www.bath.ac.uk

Dam Removal Europe | Freedom begins where barriers end

15d 9h ago in water@slrpnk.net from damremoval.eu

Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them

17d 8h ago in science@slrpnk.net from web.archive.org

Waving to you :)

Latin America reaches 10,000 electric buses in operation

18d 12h ago in electricvehicles@slrpnk.net from www.electrive.com

Intreseting point you made there, and I think you are correct. Found this relevant percentage about Chile, Santiago. And damn, I had to do some digging.

According to official data, the fleet went from 922 electric buses in 2022 to 4,088 units in February 2026, and is projected to reach 4,400 electric buses during 2026 – a figure equal to roughly 68% of the entire system fleet. [source]

To clarify and to my understanding, here they talk about the Red Movilidad system fleet which is the public transport system that serves Santiago.

If I got you right, the percentages you are looking for are in the article and you can have a visual representation in Figure 2 - Share of the electric bus fleet (...)

I could have murdered your entire family yesterday, but I only killed one of them instead. [...]

RCP8.5 was not about yesterday. It was about tomorrow.

Solar Punk Farms | A queer-run regenerative hub

24d 12h ago in farming@slrpnk.net from www.solarpunkfarms.com

I think it's very important to share these kind of thoughts, to protect ourselves and others. So thank you for your remark!

It didn't cross my mind to be honnest. Their about page didn't give that impression. Also, I looked up a bit Spencer Scott and I found some decent articles. For example: Solarpunk: Refuturing our Imagination for an Ecological Transformation.

Personnaly, I wanted to find specifics about their decission-making process. I didn't manage to really. I suppose if they had a model of horizontal organizing, they would be talking about it? In the same time it looked like a decent enough project, so it seemed like worth posting.

On second thought, does this project seem to you like it could be a cult?

Share of global electricity generation by source (2000-2025)

1mon 1d ago in energy@slrpnk.net from cdn.statcdn.com

It looks like one of the main problems with fusion are the materials.

Long-term research and design strategies for fusion energy materials

the materials required for commercially viable fusion power plants do not exist today. [...] The challenge of fusion materials is compounded by the fact that design targets are not precisely defined and are rapidly evolving and by a lack of representative testing facilities.