#industrial monitoring

[avensysseo]

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[baldursghaik]

it's funny to me to watch people speculating if another company can makes the inevitable Baldur's Gate 4 and have it turn out to be a good game, like the first two games in the series weren't total bangers

[kingmintyreturns]

i could go into how tumblr promotes OCD tendencies for hours but i'll address one thing: the ethics of media consumption. for some, pirating media by problematic creators and being critical of the source material is not enough.

almost as if the source itself will lead to moral decay by merit of its problematic elements or creators, consuming verboten media is said to be a reflection of the consumer's morality. in psychology, we call this emotional contamination--a symptom typically associated with OCD.

this is often reflected in "X fans DNI". i don't know about you, but the idea that someone can be labeled as complicit in violence and therefore untouchable simply for engaging with certain media in a critical manner without supporting the creators is a tad frightening.

[grissomesque]

re: dark lighting on Picard, maybe double-check your screen and/or video settings? Watching on my TV and while it's still on the darker side, it's not *nearly* as dark as that first cap. (I too would be super annoyed if it appeared that dark.)

TVs are brighter, yes. (TVs are different from monitors in a number of ways and my complaint is not a 1:1.) Even so, it's easier to gif Voyager than Picard. I work in an industry that requires/allows me to have professionally calibrated art monitors. If I turned up my brightness on my monitors, it would look better to me, but it wouldn't be at industry standard, which would then cause me to have an existential crisis over the certain and inevitable knowledge that every single other monitor in the world is different, often wildly so.

The other way I know it isn't just that my monitors are darker than my TV is that when I run the brightened clips through my AI restoration software (because pixelation/banding), the program pukes in my face, and results vary.

[stone-cold-groove]

Some of the finest musical instruments ever made are loudspeakers. JBL K Series speakers ad - 1975.

[ourspecial]

Yoga class (after a six month hiatus I've become unacceptably weak), then osprey voyeurism, then getting a little coffee treat on the way home! Real nice morning.

[j-oom]

Nice concept but not practical.

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[bandzboy]

totally agree about not babying them! my issue is though there is very little grey area for some people. like these idols have extremely rigorous schedules. the starbucks and mcds boycotts do have a lot of traction in america but when you compare how many followers the national bds movement has versus the korean arm (404k versus 11k) i think people need to admit to themselves that it really isn't as big in korea as it is in the us. there are also way less and smaller protests in korea compared to america. i'm not trying to make any excuses but as someone who is pro-palestine and pro-boycott, the algorithm still hides that content from me so even if idols are chronically online they truly might not see. it's much easier for people like you and me who have the time to be on our phones and engaging in convos with other people and exposing ourselves to pro-pal and boycott-related contents but that's not true for everyone and idols and the kpop industry tend to be in their own bubble.

i mean that is true! but i do i feel even if they were aware is not like these companies that are having more ties to zionism will let them say anything but then again i don't wanna take these stance that they aren't aware because we don't know that but since a lot of them are grown adults who definitely see the news every day are probably aware of this it's very hard to say anything about this to me because at the end of the day we don't know what some of their values are because these companies let them even be political per say but it doesn't mean i will sit here and not say anything to them if they use products of certain brands even tho, yes, the bds movement isn't as "popular" in korea it's very much growing every day and there have been more demonstrations there

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

In February US company LanzaJet, which produces sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from ethanol, announced that it intended to build a second, larger plant on US soil.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a "big influence", says Jimmy Samartzis, its chief executive.

The second plant would add to its facility in Soperton, Georgia - the world's first commercial scale ethanol-to-SAF plant.

"We have a global landscape that we are pursuing…[but] we have doubled down on building here in the United States because of the tax credits in the IRA, and because of the overall support system that the US government has put in place."

Signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, the IRA, along with the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) enacted in November 2021, are intended, amongst other things, to funnel billions of federal dollars into developing clean energy.

The aim is to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and incentivise private investment, to encourage the growth of green industries and jobs: a new foundation for the US economy.

With a 10-year lifespan, and a cost originally estimated at $391bn (£310bn) but now predicted to reach over $1tn - the final figure is unknown - the IRA offers new and juicer tax credits, as well as loans and loan guarantees for the deployment of emissions reducing technology.

The tax credits are available to companies for either domestically producing clean energy, or domestically manufacturing the equipment needed for the energy transition, including electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries.

Consumers can also receive tax credits, for example for buying an EV or installing a heat pump. The tax credit for SAF producers like LanzaJet is new in the IRA and, offers between $1.25 to $1.75 per gallon of SAF (though it only lasts five years).

Complementary is the BIL, which runs for five years and provides direct investment largely in the form of government grants for research and development and capital projects. Under the BIL, about $77bn (£61bn) will go to clean energy technology projects, according to the Brookings Institution which monitors the law.

One company to benefit so far is EV battery recycling company Ascend Elements.

It has won BIL grants totalling $480m (£380m), which it is matching a similar amount in private investment to build its second commercial facility in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

"[The IRA and BIL] are massive investments… larger than the infrastructure related provisions in the New Deal," says Adie Tromer from the Brookings. "There is a clear sense that America has become more serious about transitioning to a cleaner economy."

While rules for some tax credits are still being finalized, tens of billions in actual public spending is flowing into the economy, says Trevor Houser at the Rhodium Group, an independent research provider. Rhodium, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, runs the Clean Investment Monitor (CIM) to track US clean technology investments.

According to recently updated CIM data, in the 2023 fiscal year, the federal government invested approximately $34bn (£27bn) into clean energy, the vast majority through tax credits.

The extent to which the policy instruments are so far spurring not just announcements - of which there are plenty - but real extra private investment is harder to know: clean energy investment has been on a general upward trend anyway and the IRA hasn't been around long. But experts believe it is rising.

Total clean energy investment in the US in the 2023 calendar year including from both private and government sources reached a record $239bn (£190bn), up 38% from 2022 according to the CIM data.

Clean energy investment in the US, as a share of total private investment, rose from 3.7% in the fourth quarter of 2022 to 5% in the fourth quarter of 2023.

The IRA has had two main positive effects thus far, says Mr. Houser.

It has "supercharged" private investment in more mature technologies which were already growing very rapidly like solar, EVs and batteries.

It has also, combined with the BIL, led to a "dramatic growth" in investment in emerging climate technologies like clean hydrogen, carbon dioxide capture and removal and SAF. While the total magnitude of those investments are still relatively small compared to the more mature technologies, "the IRA fundamentally changed the economics" says Mr. Houser.

But the IRA is failing to reach some parts of the green economy: so far it hasn't lifted investment in more mature technologies which have been falling like wind and heat pumps, though Mr. Houser notes things may have fallen further without the IRA.

On the industry's mind is the fate of the laws, particularly the longer-to-run IRA, should there be a change of government in the US November elections.

Repealing or amending the IRA (or BIL) would require Republican control of the Presidency, Senate and House - though wholesale repeal would likely face meaningful opposition from within. The rub is many of the projects that the IRA is incentivising are being or will be built in Republican states or counties.

Yet a Republican president alone could potentially frustrate things for example by slowing or deferring loans or grants, or amending the rules which serve the laws. "A Trump presidency would definitely chill the atmosphere and possibly more," says Ashur Nissan of Kaya Partners, a climate policy advice firm.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank and purveyor of hard-right ideas for the next conservative President, advocates repeal for both the IRA and BIL. For the organization's Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former Trump administration official, it is fiscally irresponsible for the US, with its vast deficit and debt, to be spending like this.

It is also time, she says, that renewable energy such as solar and wind, into which subsidies have been poured for years, stood on their own feet.

Yet others argue the US can't afford not to do take this path. And the point of the loans program is to take risks to help unlock new solutions that scale. "It would be failing if there weren't any so called 'failures' within it," says Richard Youngman, of Cleantech Group, a research and consulting firm.

Meanwhile, the US's approach is putting competitive pressure on Europe to do more.

Some European clean energy manufacturing companies are now building facilities in the US to take advantage of the tax credits that otherwise would have been built in Europe including solar panel maker Meyer Burger and electrolyser manufacturers Nel and John Cockerill.

"The US wasn't a market for some of these companies in the past because Europe was more active," says Brandon Hurlbut, of Boundary Stone Partners, a clean energy advisory firm.

The EU's Net Zero Industrial Act (NZIA) is expected to enter into force this year. It doesn't involve new money, but seeks to coordinate existing financing and introduces domestic favourability for the first time - putting in place a non-binding target for the bloc to locally manufacture 40% of its clean energy equipment needs by 2030.

In the UK, chancellor Jeremy Hunt has made clear he isn't interested, nor can the UK afford to copy the IRA's approach in some "distortive global subsidy race" and will stick to other ways of helping. The Labour party recently scrapped its $28bn green investment plan seen as a stab at leaning into an IRA style policy.

A global audience will be watching as the US's clean energy juggernaut unfolds. And if it leads others to ask what more they can do to produce clean energy products - even if just for reasons of economic opportunity - it will be good for humanity's sake, says Mr. Hurlbut.

[mezmer]

Ok now I’m gonna play WoW here’s my new rogue hehee

[snazzyscarf]

the tragedy of getting an idea for a mixed media painting ft. vulture bear ghost lyrics but not having the time for it is killing me. society if i had time to do personal projects

[dougielombax]

Same energy.

At least that’s how I see it.

Idk.

Except One-One didn’t try to kill anybody.

Tbf that was a misunderstanding on Adjutant Resolution’s part.

[greenedgetechnologies]

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