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Submitted by petalnose

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From the article:

Solar electricity is now highly affordable and with recent cost and technical improvements in batteries — 24-hour generation is within reach. Smooth, round-the-clock output every hour of every day will unleash solar’s true potential, enabling deeper penetration beyond the sunny hours and helping overcome grid bottlenecks. On June 21st — the Northern Hemisphere summer solstice — the “midnight sun” circles the sky continuously, providing 24 hours of daylight and theoretically, 24 hours of solar electricity generation. Thanks to advances in battery storage, this phenomenon is no longer limited to the Arctic. Rapid advances in battery technology, especially in cost, have made near-continuous solar power, available every hour of every day of the year, an economic and technological reality in sunny regions. Industries like data centres and factories need uninterrupted power to function. At the same time, the rising push for hourly-matched carbon-free energy goals — pursued largely through corporate Purchase Power Agreements (PPAs) — is increasing the demand for clean electricity every hour of the day. While solar is now extremely affordable and widely available, its real value will only be realised when it can deliver power consistently to meet the demands of a growing economy, even when the sun isn’t shining. 24-hour solar generation enables this by combining solar panels with sufficient storage to deliver a stable, clean power supply, even in areas without grid access or where the grid is congested or unreliable. While this may not solve every challenge at the grid level, since not all places are as sunny and the electricity demand varies hourly and seasonally, it provides a pathway for solar to become the backbone of a clean power system in sunny regions and to play a much bigger role in less sunny regions. This report explores how close we are to achieving constant, 24-hour solar electricity across 365 days in different cities around the world, and what it would cost to get there.

There are places in the world where it is already completely economically and technologically possible to meet nearly 100% of electricity needs with solar energy alone. This is due to massive improvements in the technology for solar panels and battery storage.

The feasibility and number of places where this is possible will only increase as solar and batteries become more efficient and the prices continue to decrease.

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so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:

signed up for a ProtonVPN account

set up a tunnel from my router to a ProtonVPN server in Sweden

written a python script to query DNS servers for social media domains every 15 minutes and collate the results into a list of IP address ranges

created routing and firewall policies to block connections to those IP ranges on my normal connection and send them through the VPN tunnel instead

set up a second, personal VPN so I can make my mobile devices connect to the internet through my home network even when I'm not at home

now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago

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The inconvenient thing about life is that half of it is all about listening to your body and letting yourself rest, and the other half is accepting that life will be uncomfortable and inconvenient sometimes and you've just go to make yourself push through your brain going Do Not Want and get the discomfort out of the way, and you never know which one it is.

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みなと

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Narrated by David Attenborough

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The Vulcan children's hospital recently redecorated. I'm not convinced they chose the most logical option

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Kitty Kitty was begging me to turn the sink on, but I was running so hard on autopilot that I didn't register that she wanted the sink to be Just A Little On, and I ended up turning it on full blast while her head was right under the faucet. Luckily she, like me, only possesses 3 brain cells, so she didn't consider getting upset, and instead just stared at me while purring as her forehead became increasingly drenched and I realized what I had done.

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These are by Satoshi Kuwabara ! *_*

 The Storyboard artist of Zexal ** :3

the image with the fans of shark is hilarious XD ahhahahahah

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the thing is, it IS going to be worse. but WE are better. 2024 me could eat 2016 me for lunch

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Asking because my brother is one of the straightest people I've ever met despite how similar we are, but a lot of queer people I know seem to have at least one queer sibling.

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nothing scarier than being a fan of a fic and then becoming mutuals with the author. like hi shakespeare. big fan of your fake dating au

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To put it bluntly, the only way to end homelessness is to house people or kill them.

That's it. Those are your options. Homelessness doesn't go away based on "crime crackdowns." You will imprison the unhoused, and when they are free, they will be unhoused again. Or they will die in prison.

When you burn encampments or force people out without their stuff, they remain unhoused or freeze to death.

After working with the unhoused, it's become abundantly clear that those who don't want to support them instead want them dead.

There is blood on the hands of every government and organization that controls the homeless population with force instead of compassion.

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Look me straight in the eyes and tell me your current music taste isn’t what your father played in the car when you were a kid.