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@jasonetheridge
The pipes seem to be a done deal as they were used in gas extraction in the ocean before, I believe. We already have the infrastructure, we just need to repurpose them.

I think there'll always be some sort of electricity power loss over vast distances, not entirely sure the details. I merely watched a documentary/news on TV about what we're going to do with those old gas extraction plants. I think not just wind power but also ocean current power would be utilized.

Pumped hydro would be kind of impossible here in The Netherlands, we can't have dams.. after all where would we have the height difference? ;) But we have plenty of ocean and water around us and we already have wind parks.

And with regards to nuclear plants, I understand there are blueprints for smaller plants that can power a few cities at the same time. When one goes down, it's less of a danger than one huge plant. They would be a bit faster to build too and easier to maintain. I hope that it'll be an improvement and easier to build so that it can be deployed much easier and faster.

@fulkrum I believe types.pl has blocked qoto.org, not much we can do about it.

OK, language weirdness question.

Someone recently said:

"I just about caught the train."

Did they catch it or not? Perhaps it depends whether you think of English as (one of) your first language(s).

As always, if you're happy to do so I'd be grateful if you'd boost for reach, and to get beyond my circle of followers.

Thank you!

When it comes to Duolingo, language teachers have very mixed opinions ranging from being a very effective learning tool to the most wrong way of learning a language.
What do you think?

@BioFris@mastodon.nl So is angling your camera correctly.

@WendyW That's going to smell great when you're back home. 😋

@knuppelbeer Het is zeker waterig hier in het noorden. Geen weer om naar buiten te gaan.

@jasonetheridge
That was an interesting watch and the subtitles are very well done (otherwise I couldn't watch it).

That aside, I believe the future is in electric vehicles. But... hydrogen can still be used for transport of energy. My country is currently preparing hydrogen transport pipes for the wind farms in the North Sea, because electric cables would lose a lot of power over vast distances.

Once the hydrogen reaches the land it'll go to power plants which then can utilize the hydrogen far more efficiently than individual little transport vehicles could. Then it could dish out the power in the form of electricity.

I wish this video would've touched upon that, because it'd be fairly green energy. We already have the wind farms, we already have the pipes, we just need to add an electricity-to-hydrogen thingy near the wind farms, transport the hydrogen over, and then put them in power plan ts. I wonder what Sabine's opinion about this would be.

I also wonder how hydrogen could be utilized as a 'battery' for the excess of solar and wind power on some days that would just get lost otherwise.

Next to hydrogen I would consider nuclear energy to be the best option.

@omi
I believe it is Qoto's own hosted Git thingy, and I think anyone can join. @freemo would be the better one to ask.

@hvangalen Ik vind het juist lastig om in de sfeer te blijven. 😅

Dan wil ik even wat anders doen voor een moment. Spelletje, nieuws checken, etc.

Heb ik meestal met bijna alles eigenlijk, ook met spelletjes spelen. Tenzij er een gave epische questchain bezig is in Horizon Zero Dawn... dan kom ik op het moment dat ik naar de klok kijk en schrik 'Oh, is het al 1 uur?!'

Dus ik moet nu maar eens naar bed. :P

@hvangalen @knuppelbeer Ik kan films niet eens zo lang uitzitten. Het komt vaak voor dat ik een film in 10 sessies moet uitkijken. Elke sessie varieert van 5 tot 20 minuten.

Heel soms is een film wel zo goed dat ik het wel in 1 of 2 sessie kan uitzitten... maar dat begint zeldzaam te worden.

@knuppelbeer Daar heb ik niet veel last van. Ik ben te snel verveeld met alles tegenwoordig, zeker met onzin.

@fonso_s From experience I can tell you this is going to be a sticky mess with most tapes. 😅

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