If you barely use your car, you might not even need it anymore. Perhaps a taxi/rental/car pooling might meet the few times you still take it out of the garage? Specially when you put the numbers down and see how expensive it is to maintain a car
I know this is a Buy European community, but when it comes to batteries, aliexpress is still your best bet. You can build your own or buy a pack that is ready to plug and play
Is nuclear really cheaper than renewables + batteries nowadays? I wonder if there are recent studies looking into it
Quick search points to this:
Levelized Cost of Electricity: which is a measure of the total cost of building and operating a power plant over its lifetime and expressed in dollars per megawatt-hour. [...] LCOE serves as a comprehensive metric that consolidates all direct cost components of a specific power generation technology. This includes capital expenditures, financing, fuel costs, operations and maintenance, and any expenses related to carbon pricing. However, LCOE does not account for network integration or other indirect costs
LCOE for advanced nuclear power was estimated at $110/MWh in 2023 and forecasted to remain the same up to 2050, while solar PV estimated to be $55/MWh in 2023 and expected to decline to $25/MWh in 2050. Onshore wind was $40/MWh in 2023 and expected to decline to $35/MWh in 2050 making renewables significantly cheaper in many cases
[...] Global weighted average levelized cost of electricity for newly commissioned utility-scale solar photovoltaic, onshore wind, offshore wind, and hydropower projects experienced a downward trend. The most notable drop occurred in utility-scale solar PV, which saw a 12% decrease from 2022 [in LCOE costs][...]
In contrast, nuclear power continues to face cost overruns and long construction timelines [...]
[Caveat: Below numbers are most likely not using LCOE]:
[...] In 2025, developers added 87 gigawatts of combined solar and storage, delivering power at an average of $57/MWh
By contrast, benchmark cost of a typical fixed axis solar farm increased 6% compared to 2025, hitting $39/MWh, while onshore wind reached $40/MWh and offshore wind climbed to $100/MWh globally [...]
If we aren't there yet, I still think we might see renewables + batteries as cheaper options in the short term.
I'd really like to see an LCOE analysis including batteries. If we naively assume LCOE costs for PV+batteries is the same as PV, we might already be there
Sorry, I thought it fit the theme quite clearly as it shows how a car centric infrastructure hurts us all, including animals. That huge parking lot could have been housing, or a park, or perhaps a big ass tub for them to swim in. (ps: I'm not saying they should be locked up in the first place, as the sea is right over there where they could roam freely though)
Urine from individually identified chimpanzees was collected opportunistically and non-invasively using a pipette from fresh and dry leaf litter. Chimpanzees predictably urinate just prior to leaving a fruit crop and can often be seen preparing to do so by climbing to a lower branch of a tree. Urination on the ground is often accompanied by defaecation, and in these cases, urine was pipetted from pools in the leaf litter opposite the faeces. Samples were only collected on dry days, since rainwater on understory leaves cannot be visually differentiated from urine. Urine may also be collected directly from underneath urinating chimpanzees by holding out a clean disposable plastic bag placed over the end of a forked branch; urine samples collected from leaf litter were previously shown not to significantly affect measured hormone levels relative to samples collected using a plastic bag
From the description: If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood? We'll answer the question in the 26 biggest US cities.
There are several countries where homicide is higher than traffic fatalities, but it is usually ridiculously high homicide rates:
Countries Where Homicide Rate Exceeds Traffic Death Rate
Country Homicide Rate (per 100k) Traffic Death Rate (per 100k)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 64.16 23.1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 51.32 4.8
Jamaica 49.44 17.8
Ecuador 45.72 23.4
South Africa 43.72 24.5
Haiti 41.15 31.3
Trinidad and Tobago 40.44 5.0
Saint Lucia 39.04 8.9
Lesotho 38.24 21.6
Bahamas 32.20 16.2
If you barely use your car, you might not even need it anymore. Perhaps a taxi/rental/car pooling might meet the few times you still take it out of the garage? Specially when you put the numbers down and see how expensive it is to maintain a car
Get the Aussies in here
He pressed it when it was blue
I know this is a Buy European community, but when it comes to batteries, aliexpress is still your best bet. You can build your own or buy a pack that is ready to plug and play
Is nuclear really cheaper than renewables + batteries nowadays? I wonder if there are recent studies looking into it
Quick search points to this:
Source: https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/Power-Play-The-Economics-Of-Nuclear-Vs-Renewables
[Caveat: Below numbers are most likely not using LCOE]:
Source: https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energy/battery-storage-costs-hit-record-lows-as-costs-of-other-clean-power-technologies-increased-bloombergnef/
If we aren't there yet, I still think we might see renewables + batteries as cheaper options in the short term.
I'd really like to see an LCOE analysis including batteries. If we naively assume LCOE costs for PV+batteries is the same as PV, we might already be there
Everyone is their own big solar; decentralized solar
How many liters each? I've never seen these gallons with handles around here
That's the direct result of car lobbying, it has changed the perception of a whole generation on how we should build cities
Say no more, you already got me hooked
How often did you have to add more cardboard to yours?
Sorry, I thought it fit the theme quite clearly as it shows how a car centric infrastructure hurts us all, including animals. That huge parking lot could have been housing, or a park, or perhaps a big ass tub for them to swim in. (ps: I'm not saying they should be locked up in the first place, as the sea is right over there where they could roam freely though)
Oh yeah, I meant the second one, I forgot to mention it. lol
Yummy either way
Is the liquid melted butter?
By holding a bag below them when they pee or pipetted from pooled urine on leaf litter
Full quote:
They should make rain gardens in front of fire hydrants instead of leaving the space open for parking
I'm team seagulls until I hear more about this nilla incident
That street is Wilmslow Road, which is one of the edges of Fallowfield in Manchester, UK
Big trucks and SUV loopholes probably
There is a very good video from CityNerd where he does that comparison of the car free dividend, called "Walkable Cities But They Keep Getting More Affordable"
From the description: If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood? We'll answer the question in the 26 biggest US cities.
There are several countries where homicide is higher than traffic fatalities, but it is usually ridiculously high homicide rates:
Countries Where Homicide Rate Exceeds Traffic Death Rate
Country Homicide Rate (per 100k) Traffic Death Rate (per 100k)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 64.16 23.1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 51.32 4.8
Jamaica 49.44 17.8
Ecuador 45.72 23.4
South Africa 43.72 24.5
Haiti 41.15 31.3
Trinidad and Tobago 40.44 5.0
Saint Lucia 39.04 8.9
Lesotho 38.24 21.6
Bahamas 32.20 16.2
Source:
https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/estimated-road-traffic-death-rate-(per-100-000-population)
https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/murder-rate-by-country
edit: sorry, i don't know how to make tables on lemmy