Nice find!

Agree, but the leadtime is very long, so where’s the best place to invest in 10 years? Hopefully the grid is much more renewable then.

Renewables are cheaper per kwh, but it’s yet to be seen if they’re cheaper when you get to higher grid renewable percentages and need to involve massive grid storage.

!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world

Corporation controller also seems apt, since that’s what their wealth usually is.

Crypto trade

There’s where all the money went I guess. Gotta steal toilet paper to leverage that crypto position. (After you’ve already lost everything several times)

Remember, refineries are the bottleneck not the wells and pipelines. So targeting it all on refineries has the highest impact to production.

Donating to United24 hopefully helps if you can’t volunteer yourself. Does anyone have info on how to donate to Ukraine anti oil more specifically?

“Everyone needs to agree with me more”

Okay cool, I thought they were ordering online and pre paying.

I thought they’d be ordering online and paying in advance. But if not, sounds okay

Probably more effective to give to a food pantry to avoid the corporate profit cut, but the thought is very nice.

Maybe he uses the Wicked Bible translation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible

4.8kg per day gives 1.75 tons per year, giving an 800% increase. That’s still really big, thanks for tracking down the numbers.

48 tons per day, so it’d need to be less than 0.08% aluminum to double it.

Yeah you’d need to put up fewer sats per launch. But they might still have enough lift capacity on starship to do that.

Wood is interesting, but the article doesn’t address off gassing at all, which is a huge problem for communication satellites. Is there a way to keep the wood from off gassing? For 3d prints in vacuum, they metal coat them to keep the gas inside. Or maybe you could resin soak them? With hopefully an extremely UV stable resin. But I didn’t know what the weight trade looks like then, resin is heavy.

But if you’re looking composites anyway, carbon fiber would be another great option. Lightweight but with a few manufacturing constraints. But should burn up to carbon dioxide on reentry.

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About 48 tons of meteorites enter the atmosphere every day. I couldn’t find the elemental distribution, but I’d guess there is some aluminum in there. How much of an increase is 14 tons aluminum per year over the many tons of aluminum entering the atmosphere already? That might be good to get a rough estimate of how impactful this is.

SpaceX has been receptive to design changes to starlink in the past to minimize impact, like decreasing reflectivity and reflection angles for astronomers. They might be receptive to moving to different alloy for the body construction.

Magnesium comes to mind that would be light but expensive. Steel alloys might be cheap and heavy options for later when starship is operational. Would those have similar effects on ozone, or is it only the aluminum oxides?

A fine stick indeed!