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fibers ◴[] No.45126940[source]
I was looking into energy markets and how they work and it is truly a cluster of moving parts all along the Eastern Interconnect. The question is when is the shoe going to really drop? You can only keep prices going up on an inelastic good before something really bad happens, and this doesn't even touch climate tail risks like heat sagging tx lines across the grid.
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Covzire ◴[] No.45127051[source]
This is a tangent, but one untapped source of energy savings that seems to be invisible to climate activists is Microsoft Windows' constant drain on resources relative to Linux and MacOS. It's shocking how energy inefficient Windows is even when it's doing absolutely nothing noticable for a user.
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1. dist-epoch ◴[] No.45127118[source]
You are being funny, considering what a shit-show is Linux laptop power management.
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2. esseph ◴[] No.45128740[source]
As a desktop and laptop Linux user for many years, I wholeheartedly agree.