kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

🇵🇱 OSW jak zwykle dostarcza

https://www.osw.waw.pl/pl/publikacje/komentarze-osw/2021-02-16/szwedzkie-lekcje-z-pandemii

Seems like it's not a bug, it's a feature 🇺🇸

"Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds. But grid independence has been violated a few times over the years — not even counting Mexico's help during last week's blackouts."

https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/08/texplainer-why-does-texas-have-its-own-power-grid/

New railway transport corridor is opening between Baltic port of Gdańsk 🇵🇱 and port of Odessa 🇺🇦 and extending sea route to Karasu port 🇹🇷 Route further extends through Azerbeijan and Georgia to Central Asia, Iran etc.

@sp6ina @wojgx@lhub.social @m_gdula

Jak to jak? XXI wiek, można nagrywać 🤷

🇵🇱 Całość debaty najlepiej podsumowuje komentarz: "UseCrypt – Albicla komunikatorów internetowych"😂

https://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/kto-zarejestrowal-domene-przez-ktora-przechodzi-ruch-uzytkownikow-usecrypt-messengera/

@harce @themactep@fosstodon.org

On the other hand you can see Polish government being extremely active in terms of "education" on many other topics - WW2, "gender ideology" etc. So it's not matted of being totally passive, it's matter of specific choices. I can't explain it, maybe it's reflection of individual preferences of people who run the government, but then again these people were *elected* by 1/3 of Poles.

@harce @themactep@fosstodon.org

On the other hand, if you're in the gov and you *know* option A is better than B (because you got data), then you should educate people about it.

When we started to face the return of measles in Poland due to anti-vaxxers, I once casually asked some vaccinology doctors on a conference when there was any public education campaign about vaccines in Poland - I mean a country-wide one, with banners, radio, TV etc.

The answer was a blank stare and then "well maybe in 50's".

@harce @themactep@fosstodon.org

To be honest, most people don't care. There's gov.uk and EU websites for public consultations and I personally don't care about 99% topics posted there. Or maybe I put that differently: I would care but there's just too much of that and too little time.

Maybe we should vote on high-level topics that can be boiled down to actual policy decisions.

@harce @themactep@fosstodon.org

To be honest, I don't know.

Myself personally I routinely spend months in mountains living in very rough conditions, sometimes literally in a cave, and I can enjoy it. On the other hand, without all the hi-tech equipment made from advanced alloys and synthetics (=much energy) I wouldn't enjoy it and even probably survive.

This is myself. And then there's the rest of the society. So it's complicated.

One thing we definitely need is more and more education.

@harce @themactep@fosstodon.org

Same for Germany: people are scared to death of "nuclear apocalypse", they want all NPP shut down and now. Scared people are angry.

But they still want their energy 24/7, which VRE are unable to supply so if you just shut down NPP you get blackouts. People are angry.

Trade-off: shut down NPP and replace the missing power with fossil gas and coal, which are *perceived* as safe even if the data shows otherwise 🤷

@harce @themactep@fosstodon.org

This last part I would like to explore further: we as society make choices, and these choices are often trade-offs.

Recent Texas situation a good example: grid operators made specific predictions which didn't account for actually very unusual weather, which resulted in limited supply of energy. People are angry.

Let's imagine grid increases the safety margin (=supply reserves) to cover for unusually cold weather *each season,* but costs money. People are angry.

@harce @themactep@fosstodon.org

In this you are 100% right, but I don't think any country (maybe for very small ones) plans to rely on *literally* single large power plant. UK has 7 of nuclear and dozens of gas/coal spread across the whole island.

Poland is far from that but this is the preference of the society - we at least have plenty of churches to pray in case of an actual blackout 🤷

@rysiek @harce

SMR are certainly future and I can certainly imagine a SMR per major town which certainly would provide some resilience. I think we will still need some of the massive centralised nuclear/wind/PV plants for balancing the country- and continent-wide load.

@harce @themactep@fosstodon.org

But if there's like ~20 nuclear fuel suppliers worldwide then how can we even talk about "single point"?

Most of Eastern Europe for decades had just a single oil and gas supplier, only in 2000's countries like Poland obtained maybe 1-2 additional sources and that was already massive step towards diversification.

Ukraine faced this problem in 2014 after Crimea as it obtained 100% of nuclear fuel from Russia. Since 2015 they have also Sweden and this is diversification.

@petros

> not everything has to be electrical, especially cooking and heating

*If* decarbonisation is the priority then I believe we should electrify as much as possible. Induction cooker is much more energy efficient than gas cooker, which is in turn more efficient than coal/wood cooker.

And the diagram is quite nice indeed.

@strypey

e.foundation - been using that on a number of devices (Google, OP, Redmi) for a number of years and working.

@rysiek @harce

But apart from rooftop PV, the only scalable option available for decentralisation would be gas co-generation - so basically your in-house gas boiler also produces electricity which it feeds into the grid.

This makes *some* sense for houses which *already* have gas for heating, otherwise it makes none.

Or am I missing something?