

TIL Cervantes was English
TIL Cervantes was English
I would have expected Ohio to have pioneered anything involving energy domes, not Wisconsin
Russia is building out wind power?
The crowdfunding campaign to revive this technology but make it recyclable sounds a bit weird, given that conventional glass recycling typically cannot handle broken drinking glasses or similar, but only packaging glass.
How much can you build in 6 months?
Given the wild imbalance between summer- and winter-time solar generation (in Germany it’s an order of magnitude, and further north, in the Baltics, it’d be more), it’d probably be a good idea to overbuild solar capacity and have some energy storage with a year time frame like pumped hydro, storing summer surplus for the winter.
Along with basic income, there’ll need to be basic volunteering, where everybody contributes a number of hours within their ability to their local community, otherwise (outside of sci-fi scenarios where machines of loving grace look after us) the system will collapse.
You’ll still work and still get the means to live, but the two won’t be linked as an exchange.
The stunt will have served its purpose then