this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
148 points (99.3% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
6940 readers
593 users here now
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not sure how feasible it is to roll this out large scale. There aren't that many stretches of water as lively as the pentland firth.
This is true, but I think the big thing is that this lasted as long as it did. Material science is important, and if we want Io scale these up for more general use we need to make sure they can at least survive.
Thanks to the power of two, a larger diameter blade could capture a lot more energy, and might be put in places with lesser tidal bores.
100 percent accurate because building benthic structures is incredibly hard. Having one with moving parts is even more crazy.
New word day for me!