this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
606 points (87.3% liked)

Science Memes

11068 readers
2850 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
606
Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)
submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
166 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

1000005010. Don't feed the troll ๐Ÿ’ฉ

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

As long as you don't care when the electricity is produced

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Storage is a solvable problem. Whereas we don't have the resources to power the world with nuclear plants.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 35 minutes ago

Storage is a solvable problem

I'm not convinced it is. Storage technologies exist for sure, but the general public seems to grossly underestimate the scale of storage required to match grid demand and renewables only production.