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How we made it: will China be the first electrostate? (www.ft.com)
 

"China could be on its way to becoming the world’s first major “electrostate”, with its electrification rate climbing to 30 per cent, ahead of the EU and US where electricity as a final share of energy has plateaued at about 22 per cent in recent years."

Call Centers Replaced Many Doctors’ Receptionists. Now, AI Is Coming for Call Centers. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

Honestly in some ways this is such a stupid solution to the problem.

When it comes to cost saving or on the other side of the coin efficiency. The most useful thing is to remove it not make it cheap.

We should be looking and giving people very good and easy alternatives elsewhere were they don't need call centres at all.

I called my doctors a million times to book an appointment and if I could have done it all online I would have. This is how many times I called:

Went to hospital and Dr told me book drs appointment.

  1. called to book

  2. they call back asked futher questions

got one (got told to come back by doctor)

  1. can't book that doctor for the future call up first thing in the morning at our busiest and we can rush you in. (I then got a job so needed to book)

  2. we have no staff call back when we do (didnt say when)

  3. called. We have no appointments call be next week. "Can I book that Dr"? "I don't know. You'll have to call back Tuesday"

  4. I'll call back next tuesday.

This isn't fixed with an AI this is fixed by me being able to book an appointment online. If the Dr needs to give me a slip for one booking approval to not be abused so be it. Receptionist doesn't need to know my business so fuck them.

‘I’m Not Looking For a Deal’: Trump Says EU Tariffs Staying At Fifty Percent in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

He's not unreasonable he's just a dickhead.

Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.

He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He's just a dickhead.

I'm gay and I dunno what it means in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I'm sure someone mentioned that girls with one hairstyle is trashy or something. You know like "those type of people". Whatever the other women look down on.

Trashy women going to cheat.

At least thats how it has been explained to me. I'm jot even American so I dont know

Russia classifies population data as birth rates plunge to 200-year low in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Think its more high house prices and low wages. But the wealthy are more concerned with making money so immigration is at an all time high meaning house prices keep going up even when wages are kept below market value and training is non existent.

Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wish I had time to read it now. But I'll get to it tomorrow

Is there any talk on here (or elsewhere) about being able to run the grid entirely without gas. Seems like currently gas has to be running in some form even if that means turning off renewables. I haven't heard anything concrete about fixing that. Just seems hand waving vaguely long enough into the future we don't care.

It doesn't seem like anyone is treating it as a big issue.

Edit: not in the article. Hopefully we just throw up so many batteries eventually it happens.

Tesla paid Powerwall owners $10 million through virtual power plants in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that until the battery stops working or till the 10,000 cycles 10 year guarantee?

Because there would still be life in it after that

Has the imperial system gone to far? in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand. Aren't fractions better than decimals for algerba?

Like 22/7 is better than 3.14 when it comes to pi for example.

We always got taught to do everything as fractions and then convert to units at the last possible moment to reduce errors in rounding.

Has the imperial system gone to far? in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee -1 points 6 days ago

I'm American. I got 80% on my IQ test am I dumb? That's a GPA of 3.0.

Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No batteries don't count.

"The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to create a new “dispatchable” power credits trading program that would effectively require utilities, generation companies and electric cooperatives in Electric Reliability Council of Texas territory to offset new renewables and battery capacity — with an equal amount of new dispatchable capacity beginning as early as next year. 

The bill’s definition of “dispatchable” excludes batteries while also exempting power generation companies that exclusively operate battery energy storage systems from the dispatchable power generation requirement."

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-senate-bill-dispatchable-power-credits-trading/743185/

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Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night (thehill.com)
 

"The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts.

If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants.

This would require solar plants in particular to buy backup power to “match their output at night — a time when no one expects them to produce energy and when demand is typically at its lowest anyway,” consultant and energy expert Doug Lewin wrote in an April analysis"

Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Man I feel like a large part of the internet is out of reach.

Why have I got to sign up for tiktok just to watch this happen?

Shit like this used to be easily finable on google or something. Now I can't seem to find shit. All I get get in news articles about it.

Now you know to double check file types. in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Deleting system32 fixed my issues.

If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

The time of exposure was low. Asbestos was also outside and unbroken.

Insulation was only 1 attic.

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Crude oil futures end week lower as market eyes potential for increased supply amid OPEC+ tiff (www.spglobal.com)
 

"Crude oil futures settled lower on the week as the market eyed a potential for rising global supply amid signs of internal OPEC+ tensions.

Prompt-dated June WTI settled at $63.02/b April 25, a gain of 23 cents on the day but down $1.66/b from the April 17 close. Front-month ICE Brent ended the April 25 session up 32 cents at $66.87/b but still down $1.09/b from its week-ago level.

Selling pressure emerged midweek after Kazakh Energy Minister Erlan Akkenzhenov on April 23 roiled crude markets when he said Kazakhstan would pursue its own "national interests" when determining production levels, raising doubts about the country's commitment to fulfilling output cuts as part of the OPEC+ producer group"

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Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. (www.cnbc.com)
 

"Key Points

  • Alphabet reported Thursday that Waymo, its autonomous vehicle unit, is now delivering more than 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in the U.S.
  • That figure is up from 200,000 in February, before Waymo opened in Austin and expanded in the San Francisco Bay Area in March.
  • Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said Waymo is building partnerships with ride-hailing app Uber, automakers and operations and maintenance businesses that tend to its vehicle fleets."
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Battery giant CATL showcases three innovations: 1500km range battery, 520km in 5 minutes ultra-fast charging, and 2025 mass-production sodium-ion battery (carnewschina.com)
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Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian Businesses (trendsnewsline.com)
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Pakistan’s 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (cleantechnica.com)
 

"Pakistan isn’t the first country you’d expect to crash the global solar party. But by the end of 2024, it quietly rocketed into the top tier of solar adopters, importing a jaw-dropping 22 gigawatts worth of solar panels in a single year. That’s not a typo or a spreadsheet rounding error. That’s the kind of number that turns heads at IEA meetings and makes policy analysts double-check their databases. It certainly made me sit up and take notice when I first heard about what was happening in mid-2024.

It’s more solar than Canada has installed in total. It’s more than the UK added in the past five years. And yet it didn’t make a blip in most Western media."

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[Cars] Norway on track to be first to go all-electric (www.bbc.com)
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"Norway is the world leader when it comes to the take up of electric cars, which last year accounted for nine out of 10 new vehicles sold in the country."

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BMW’s Figure 02 humanoid robot gets 400% faster in manufacturing tasks (interestingengineering.com)
 

Figure AI, a robotics innovator, and BMW, the German automobile giant, have revealed remarkable advancements in the Figure 02 humanoid robot’s capabilities. 

Operating on a production line, the Figure 02 robot has made a significant leap, achieving a 400% increase in speed and a sevenfold improvement in success rate.

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The UK’s journey to a coal power phase-out. The UK’s era of coal-free power begins on the 1st October 2024 (ember-climate.org)
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"The UK’s era of coal-free power begins on the 1st October 2024, following a rapid decline over the last 12 years which has seen power sector emissions plummet by three quarters."

"This report provides an overview of the UK coal power phase-out, looking at changes in electricity generation since 2012 when coal began to rapidly decline. It provides context on how phase-out was achieved through a mix of initiatives and policy frameworks, and considers how this can inform the next chapter of UK power sector decarbonisation."

"Coal power provided almost 40% of UK generation in 2012, shrinking to 2% by 2019, and finally falling to zero by October 2024. In 2012, coal generated 143 TWh of electricity, equivalent to Sweden’s total power demand in 2023."

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