Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
In this instance, it’ll involve a mix of ingenuity around supply chains (like using blockchain to improve traceability) and materials science (like using alternatives such as niobium from Canada or Brazil).
International Intrigue • 🌍 Tantalising
Supply chain is going to be everything when it comes to renewables. How do we make it sustainable and ethical to make energy sustainable?
The presence of many nice-enough choices without any meaningful way to distinguish among them is a fundamental dysphoria of modern consumerism. Anybody can track in intimate detail how the wealthy and stylish spend their money via social media, and just when you’ve learned exactly what you can’t have, the internet swoops in to offer a look-for-less... See more
Amanda Mull • It’s All So … Premiocre
In addition, if you can code 10x as fast, you also get to do 10x as much coding practice, which will probably lead to yet more improvements.
scattered-thoughts.net • Scattered Thoughts: Speed matters
So few people think to upgrade how they move around their computer, but it can have huge impacts
We need very large (multi-gigawatt-hour) storage for big cities and megacities, but so far the only viable option to serve them is pumped hydro storage (PHS): it uses cheaper nighttime electricity to pump water from a low-lying reservoir to high-lying storage, and its discharge provides instantly available generation.[76] With renewably generated
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
I rarely hear about this solution.
The vision was always just out of reach, because the tech was just out of reach.
Yet today, Apple is selling a technically flawless pen computing system in the Pencil and the iPad, and no-one cares.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 546
Wild to see that we can perfect a form of UX and find it largely useless
Don’t debate, if the data is available (get the data first, then discuss)
Shaan Puri • 5 Tweet Tuesday - July 9, 2024
I forgot this constantly. Switch and Decisive by the Heaths mean I should know better by now.
Heating and air conditioning account for half of residential consumption, which is why the single best thing we could do for the energy budget is to keep the heat
