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[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well those sweet-ass trucks aren't gonna buy themselves

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah and just imagine the car insurance costs for those apocalypse-mobiles. It would cost a small fucking fortune every month! How can anyone afford to drive one of those?

Do they ever explain where they get the gas for those things?

[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

M E D I O C R E

[–] teft@startrek.website 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to invest in silver paint.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I never understood why they did not switch to solar power when the fossil fuel got so sparse.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 1 year ago

Because the fossil lobby won and there is no renewable power source.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just america that chooses to live like that. The rest of the world juat goes on

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mad Max takes place in Australia though.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Few know the movies are actually documentaries chronicling the lives of people living in the Outback.

[–] Mischala@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Outback is a funny way to spell Perth.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 1 points 1 year ago

Realistically they should be literally rolling coal

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Because then they couldn't drive around in awesome frankensteined together muscle cars.

[–] sznio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Reads like an advice: think long-term, start the transition as early as possible. So, basic rationality.

[–] sdoorex@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

It would be interesting to see them update that with current data since global PV installations are estimated at 392 GW for 2023.

It is unrealistic to imagine that we could jump into a full-scale infrastructure replacement in one year. To set the scale, the U.S. uses about 3 TW of continuous power. A 1% drop corresponds to 30 GW of power. Our modest 2% replacement therefore would require the construction of about 60 new 1 GW power plants in a single year, or a rate of one per week! Worldwide, we quadruple this number.

What capability have we demonstrated in the past? In 2010, global production of solar photovoltaics was 15 GW, which is only about 6% of what we would need to fill a world-wide energy gap of 2% per year. Even on a tear of 50% increase per year, it would take 7 years to get to the required rate. Wind installations in 2010 totaled 37 GW, or 14% of the 2% global requirement. It would take 5 years at a breakneck 50% per year rate of increase to get there. When France decided to go big on nuclear, they built 56 reactors in 15 years. In doing so, they replaced 80% of their electricity consumption, which translates to about 30% of their total energy use. So this puts them at about 2% per year in energy replacement.

[–] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Pssh, that's just a picture of the beltway around DC in the morning.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I'm just saving some blood boys for the future.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

I ride eternal on my old crappy bicycle.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is not going to be MadMax. The rich people will have their reasons for wanting to colonize Mars or even go to Venus, as the CEO of the crashed Titanic submarine wants. We can be happy if we can leave the underground bunkers without a fireproof suit and oxygen mask.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

The Mad Max open world game is so underrated. I bought it without much expectation because I liked the setting and then it was one of the few games I 100-percented.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The future is my money devaluatig because I can't even save for a fucking down payment for a house and now the EU is gonna make throw away my piece of shit ass car because it's too old.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not simply buy a house near public transport, in an incredibly expensive city.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Please, tell me this is a joke/sarcasm

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Just sell some of your other properties if you can’t afford that one.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and now the EU is gonna make throw away my piece of shit ass car because it's too old.

Citation needed

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

Parents: put some money aside. Government: pay taxes over that. Parents: do it with cash. Stores and others: we don't accept cash anymore.