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  • oo1@lemmings.worldtoDad Jokes@lemmy.worldA step too far?
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    2 months ago

    Technically there is a type of ‘step ladder’ thet has wider flat ‘steps’ more like a staircase. Rungs are the narrower round bars on a more traditional ‘ladder’.

    But practically either word can be used in either case. You can either ‘step’ or ‘climb’ as the verb in either case too.


  • This image (ignoring the fact that it’s not a real photo) seems to be based in the UK/ England from the car number plate designs. (though the background houses and the cloudless sky were plainly photoshopped from somewhere else )

    I think UK has approx 0.1% of agricultural land already given to solar (but I don’t know the land classification breakdown).

    It is just enough to be noticeable traveling around you do see the occasional normal looking fields with panels all over them.

    I’ve not seen them on the hilly low grade sheep pasture either I guess it might be areas prone to flooding , I’m not sure. It looks like this trade association is looking to expand this to c0.6%. https://solarenergyuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/FactSheet-Solar-Farms-and-Agricultural-Land-2024.pdf

    UK is not self sufficient on food, so I think it’s a poor idea to use UK farmland for this stuff before using up rooftops and car parks and stuff like that for solar PV.

    USA is obviously a different situation with way more land - better food security - and in some places more things like deserts to put large scale panels in. But either way brownfield or parking lots seems like a good think to think about - and it can be closer to demand so may reduce transmission and distribution losses and infra costs. I guess most of the farmland in UK ones are probably near existing power lines to keep the grid connection cost down.


  • laughs at people scared of choice and “mess” . . .

    If they’re switcing to linux they should first come to know about open source forking around - arguably - one of the most important features of the whole thing.

    If they don’t wan’t that choice and all that inevitable open source forkery, they probably should go for an apple mac or windows or something like that. And maybe they will have to pay for some software for the privilege because it takes work to do those things. They can of course try plain old ubuntu and do stuff the way canonical wants, that removes quite a bit of choice if it is otherwise too terrifying for them.

    But in general, I don’t think its a good idea to to try to sell pig-carcasses to vegans by painting them the colours of broccoli.