• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/108023133528204944 pull

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1507714117305577474 pull

Community energy§

Dark energy§

• Requirements for [[emotional]] [[energy]]:
  • 1. [[Bodies]] assembled in one [[place]]
    2. [[Focus]] [[attention]] on same thing
    3. [[Awareness]] of attention on the same thing
    4. [[Feeling]] and [[expressing]] the same [[emotion]]

green energy§

• [[mmlvx@mastodon.world]] https://mastodon.world/@mmlvx/110382843599352564 pull

HERE COMES THE SUN: storing clean energy§

A : [[podcast]]

URL : https://www.cheerfulpodcast.com/rtbc-episodes/here-comes-the-sun

Series : [[Reasons to be Cheerful]]

On [[energy storage]].

Energy storage can be lots of different things. From small(ish) scale batteries for the home, or storage in big infrastructure projects. You could have storage at the wind turbine, for example.

Stuff like [[Vehicle-to-grid]] is interesting.

The grid was designed for one-way flow of electricity from big power stations to cities and homes. But now it needs to work both ways and be made much smarter.

Meta report shows the company causes far more emissions than it can cover with renewable energy§

Found at : https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-report-shows-the-company-causes-far-more-emissions-than-it-can-cover-with-renewable-energy/

[[Facebook]] owner [[Meta]] has been growing too fast to achieve its goal of being net zero in 2030, according to a report it has issued.

Only one percent of the company’s emissions are in its direct control, leaving 8.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent unaccounted for.

The vast majority of Meta’s emissions are from its supply chain and partners, and the company appears to have little prospect of getting those under control.

[[Scope 3 emissions]].

Since 2020, Facebook says, it has kept emissions from its own operations to net zero, largely by buying renewable energy. The company buys more than 10GW of renewable power globally.

However, renewable energy only affects the company’s Scope 2 emissions (from electricity used). Bringing these to zero leaves its own emissions (Scope 1) which are around one percent of its total emissions, and the vast emissions from its supply chain and ecosystem (Scope 3), which make up virtually all its environmental footprint (99 percent).

Meta admits its growth over the last five years has vastly exceeded its ability to cancel the emissions: “Our business growth accelerated at a faster pace than we can scale decarbonization."

Nuclear energy§

Renewable energy§

What would a completely renewable energy system look like in terms of land use? Energy expert Vaclav Smil estimates that such a system would take up 25 to 50 per cent of the US land-mass, while rich and densely populated countries like the UK would have a ratio approaching 100 per cent

– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]

renewable energies are extremely resource-intensive, and building an infrastructure for renewable energies will itself continue to consume huge amounts of fossil energy.

– [[Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth]]

order to keep the prices of raw materials low enough so that the prices of renewables do not exceed those of fossil fuels, an imperialist race is already underway to control and develop raw material deposits. A “green” capitalism is therefore, necessarily an imperialist one

– [[Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth]]

[[green capitalism]]

Ripple Energy§

URL : https://rippleenergy.com

Company that orchestrates new wind farm and solar park projects, building and managing them on behalf of a co-op.

I joined as part of [[Derril Water Solar Park]].

If you want to join, do it via this link and we both get £25 saving once your project goes live :)

https://rippleenergy.com?ogu=27738

solar energy§

"radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of technologies"

as distinguished slightly from [[solar power]] "the generation of electricity usingsolar energy"

Tweets From Bi Dyke Energy§

Metadata§

• Author: [[@Azure_Husky on Twitter]]
• Full Title: Tweets From Bi Dyke Energy
• Category: #tweets
• URL: https://twitter.com/Azure_Husky

Highlights§

• https://t.co/hLw6rfdDPA

  ⥅ [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7V8TBdXMAE6N4y.png]]

  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/Azure_Husky/status/1420177933826732034 pull))

VPS providers using renewable energy§

Very handy list of [[VPS providers]] using [[renewable energy]] here https://office.uniteddiversity.coop/s/oZjArwQDtPEgGFd from @jdaviescoates.

As of 2022 I personally use both [[Hetzner]] and [[GreenHost]]. Hetzner is big, cheap and slick, if you’re used to Digital Ocean it’s very similar. GreenHost is small, super-ethical, less slick.

On the list as of Dec 2020 are:

• https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php
• https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
• https://www.vpsserver.com/london/
• https://1984hosting.com/product/pricelist/
• https://greenhost.net/products/vps/
• https://krystal.uk/cloud-vps
• https://cloudabove.com/servers
• https://www.gandi.net/en-GB/cloud
• https://www.greennet.org.uk/internet-services/hosting/starter-virtual-dedicated-server
• https://www.webarchitects.coop/virtual-servers

I found 1984 (https://1984.is) through it, who look really good.

Comparison notes§

1984§

• good ethics
• I like their interface, nice and simple.
• They don’t seem to do automated backups? You have to do them manually?

hetzner§

They feel a bit more pro, a bit bigger scale. Not quite so explicit about having good ethics.

Their cloud console is much more slick, and feels pretty familiar if you’re used to Digital Ocean’s.

Automatic backup snapshots provided. They do them daily rather than DO’s weekly, which is a HUGE win.

Very quick to spin up a new VPS.

We should have public ownership of energy§

We should have [[public ownership]] of the UK [[energy industry]].

Because§

• Privatised energy costs us more as private companies extract more and more profits
• Privatised energy is adding to our bills when energy companies go bust
• It’s hugely wasteful to spend public money rescuing private companies and getting nothing back
• Privatisation was supposed to cut energy prices for the public, yet energy bills went up by fifty percent in real terms between 1996 and 2018 and are now skyrocketing further, all while the private energy companies have paid out billions in dividends to their shareholders.
• A publicly owned energy provider can make sure people aren’t ripped off; can plan for fluctuations in global energy prices; and can invest in renewable energy.
• Prices are between twenty and thirty percent lower in systems with public ownership.

^ these from [[It’s Time to Bring Energy into Public Ownership]]

Nationalisation means firms would be obliged to provide an affordable service for consumers rather than maximising shareholder value. It could also help to speed up decarbonisation efforts through what’s known as a cap and adapt strategy.

– [[Cost of Living Campaigns Should Fight for a Green Transition]]

Nationalisation alone, however, wouldn’t necessarily put communities in control of energy systems or empower them to make decisions about how to balance affordable energy bills with the necessity of a green transition. Here, experiments in community owned energy, such as those conducted by Scotland’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme or Wolfhagen, Germany, are instructive.

– [[Cost of Living Campaigns Should Fight for a Green Transition]]

Epistemic status§

Type : [[claim]]

Agreement level : [[Yes definitely]]

Mainly because I general agree with public ownership of utilities.