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- AI Needs So Much Energy It's Distorting US Power for Homes https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-power-home-appliances/ 3 comments
- EV Battery Factory Will Require So Much Energy It Needs a Coal Plant to Power It https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/09/22/ev-battery-factory-will-require-so-much-energy-it-needs-a-coal-plant-to-power-it/ 34 comments
- Wind turbines and solar panels may be the sexy, new stars of a clean energy future, but they’ll be nothing but a side note unless the grid that powers them gets a much-needed makeover. http://www.good.is/?p=13012 19 comments technology
- How much do the chemical bonds in a terrestrial planet add to to the total energy needed to destroy it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g77WN6obk4 4 comments askscience
- Asia needs to deploy five times as much renewable energy by 2030 https://tradearabia.com/touch/article/OGN/415847 5 comments technology
- How much energy is needed to create fusion and how much is produced by it? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/69owxy/how_much_energy_is_needed_to_create_fusion_and/ 12 comments askscience
- Could solar panels fulfil much of our energy needs? http://www.worldometers.info/ 6 comments askscience
- ‘No miracles needed’:how wind, sun and water can power the world: Not only is a 100% renewables-powered world possible, it also promises much lower energy bills https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/23/no-miracles-needed-prof-mark-jacobson-on-how-wind-sun-and-water-can-power-the-world 378 comments futurology
- It’s time to start wasting solar energy "Solar is so cheap, we need to build far, far more than we need." "The strategy could theoretically lower the cost of electricity by as much as 75%." https://qz.com/1950381/the-case-for-producing-way-more-solar-energy-than-we-need/ 5 comments worldnews
- A rocket with constant 1G can reach the visible universe in under 100 years of on board time. How much solar energy/ fuel is needed for keeping up 1G in space? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_acceleration#/media/File:Roundtriptimes.png 17 comments space
- How much energy would you need to create different types of mass, such as sub atomic particles, or even whole atoms? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/73ldx1/how_much_energy_would_you_need_to_create/ 279 comments askscience
- Thanks to a combination of wind, solar, and nuclear power, Germany is producing so much energy that generating companies need to pay customers to take their surplus power. http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21585029-hopes-fears-and-worries-europes-quest-renewable-energy-when-wind-blows 513 comments worldnews
- California is awash in renewable energy — except when it’s most needed. The state has built up so much renewable energy production in recent years that it can rarely use it all during peak production hours https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/09/21/california-is-awash-renewable-energy-except-when-its-most-needed/ 381 comments energy
- Bitcoin gobbles up clean energy — just when the real world needs it most | One Bitcoin transaction uses as much energy as a single U.S. household consumes in three weeks. https://grist.org/article/bitcoin-gobbles-up-clean-energy-just-when-the-real-world-needs-it-most 532 comments hardware
- Scotland's wind farms generated twice as much energy as the country needed on Monday http://thenational.scot/news/15579776.scotland_just_hit_another_brilliant_renewables_milestone/ 17 comments worldnews
- California produced so much power from solar energy this spring that wholesale electricity prices turned negative — more than half the power needs of the entire state came from solar power for a few hours that day https://qz.com/953614/california-produced-so-much-power-from-solar-energy-this-spring-that-wholesale-electricity-prices-turned-negative/ 29 comments technology
- Imagine the energy savings of using water instead of gasoline? You won't need to much longer. http://plime.com/science/l/7168/1/ 3 comments science
- Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Energy Needs From Renewable Energy. With wind and solar in particular filling such a huge portion of the country’s power demand, electricity prices actually dipped into the negative for much of the afternoon http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/13/3436923/germany-energy-records/ 862 comments worldnews
- Lionel Scaloni: “I thanked the players again for winning the title, now it’s time to celebrate, but that this continues. It’s going to cost us more than ever and everyone will want to beat us much more. We need much more energy from everyone because everything will be more difficult.” https://www.tycsports.com/seleccion-argentina/lionel-scaloni-conferencia-seleccion-argentina-messi-panama-curazao-id500169.html 99 comments soccer
- How much energy do we need to achieve a decent life for all. Researchers have assessed how much energy is needed to provide the global poor with a decent life and have found that this can be reconciled with efforts to meet climate targets. https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/about/210902-energy-for-decent-living-standards_.html 9 comments science
- Feeding a population of 9 billion in 2050 will require much more food than previously calculated, as people on average become taller and heavier. An average adult in 2014 was 14% heavier, about 1.3% taller and needed 6.1% more energy than in 1975. Human consumption increased by 129% over this time. https://geminiresearchnews.com/2018/11/bigger-people-will-need-more-food/ 2597 comments science
- Wind turbines in the open ocean could in theory intercept more than five times as much energy as wind turbines over land. While in the winter, North Atlantic wind farms could provide sufficient energy to meet all of civilization’s current needs, according to new research published in PNAS. https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2248 900 comments science
- [Plettenberg] Thomas Müller at Sky: „You can see some symptoms on the pitch. I'm frustrated.“ „I miss from us players... We're much braver in training. We lack courage. I have to quote Oliver Kahn here. We're too caught up in our heads. It's okay to feel pressure, but there needs to be energy.... https://twitter.com/plettigoal/status/1756406267965263909?s=46&t=3MN91oJhL7tCeLgkvFUZ_g 104 comments soccer
- Researchers developed a new magneto-electric transistor could cut 5% from world’s digital energy budget, reduce the number of transistors needed to store certain data by as much as 75% and retain memory in event of power loss https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/new-transistor-could-cut-5-from-world-s-digital-energy-budget/ 35 comments science
- Nainggolan:"Hardest opponent? Jorginho, it's very difficult to follow him and stop his plays. You get tired and he doesn't even move. You need so much energy." http://www.asroma.com/it/notizie/2017/06/l-intervista-a-radja-nainggolan-il-miglior-giallorosso-della-stagione-2016-17 58 comments soccer
- Arne Slot: "In the first half, they were on top of us, we couldn't find the rhythm...We needed Konate to win the long balls. That gave us control. Ipswich put out so much energy going 1v1 everywhere in the first half, I don't think they could have kept up with that in the second half." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFLuJprQ4HI 14 comments soccer
- If You’ve Got a Dark Roof, You’re Spending Almost $700 Extra a Year to Keep Your House Cool: Cool roofs markedly reduce how much energy you need to cool a house. When used at scale, they lower the air temperatures of entire suburbs #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition https://theconversation.com/if-youve-got-a-dark-roof-youre-spending-almost-700-extra-a-year-to-keep-your-house-cool-225674 28 comments climate
- Geologists signal start of hydrogen energy ‘gold rush’. Natural sources of the gas are more abundant than expected & could supply energy needs for centuries, study shows. As much as 5tn tonnes of H2 exists in underground reservoirs worldwide, according to unpublished study by US Geological Survey https://archive.is/c6bWr 46 comments energy
- [Russo] I was never fully onboard with the idea that the Clippers needed to get a point guard but the addition of James Harden has allowed Kawhi Leonard specifically to conserve so much more energy to be a menace on defense more often. You're really seeing it this season. https://x.com/flybyknite/status/1754314209389920728?s=61&t=boHV-h7ETm6aAH3-9kIL7Q 267 comments nba
- [Autosport] As Lewis Hamilton addresses the FIA pushing back the scrutineering of drivers wearing jewellery "There’s way too much time and energy been given to this. I’ve said everything I feel I need to say. I’ve taken out the studs out every time I’ve been out in the car" https://twitter.com/autosport/status/1530108713650081796?s=19&t=li0oJgehegtY6YJrhgbVdA 39 comments formula1
- Not Battling for Belts this evening? Need something for after? Tonight at 8 pm EST: ChocoPro 191 features “Too Much Energy” Chie Koishikawa taking on “Drunken Monkey” Masa Takanashi, while in the main event the Best Bros (Mei Suruga & Baliyan Akki) battle Yuna Mizumori & Sayaka Obihiro! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIjrKYRaAAUkLAJ?format=jpg&name=large 2 comments squaredcircle
- We may need another term for "flying taxi." VTOL aircraft will most likely be used on longer trips, and we probably won't commute in them, as launch and landing use too much energy to make short trips efficient, according to research from the Univ of Michigan and Ford. https://www.inverse.com/article/54690-flying-taxis-sustainability-study 14 comments science
- Now is the Key Time to Invest in Infrastructure | "So much of America needs to be rebuilt right now. We’ve got crumbling roads and bridges. A power grid that wastes too much energy. ... [and unemployed construction workers] ... A long-term transportation bill would put them to work." http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/pages/now-is-the-key-time-to-invest-in-infrastructure.aspx#.t3muesj5viq.reddit 47 comments politics
