[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 20 points 11 months ago

They're different things. The OP means electromagnetism, Coulomb's law has nothing to do with quantum mechanics, it's classical physics.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The relation between them is that they're both forces that scale with the inverse square of the distance between the objects. Any force that scales with the inverse square of distance has pretty much the same general form.

Another similarity is that both are incomplete, first approximations that describe their respective forces. The more complete versions are Maxwell's laws for electromagnetism and General Relativity for gravity.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 24 points 11 months ago

It's electromagnetism you mean, not quantum mechanics.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 17 points 11 months ago

The Earth will always be here. We, on the other hand...

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Here's the energy mix for a regular domestic consumer in the month of October.

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It's not so rosy as these kinds of news want you to believe. Greenhouse gas emissions are still embarassingly high.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 year ago

Learning isn't the same as researching.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We can and should be doing both. Use the money our governments are giving to fossil fuels in subsidies. $7 trillion PER YEAR (that's 11 million every minute) in public subsidies go to fossil fuels. Channel that to nuclear and renewables and there's more than enough to decarbonise the grids with both short- and long-term solutions.

What we definitely should not be doing is closing perfectly working nuclear power plants.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago

Why would I willingly subject myself to that kind of treatment?

Why would you indeed? That's not a requirement for a relationship.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago

You need a baseline for a stable power grid, which renewables alone can't provide.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 year ago

It kind of is, in this community.

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's an issue of your instance, not of Lemmy. Smaller, less populated instances tend to be more stable.

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