The first oil tankers scheduled to deliver Russian diesel to the US under a deal between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have changed course and are no longer heading toward the US coast. It spells the end of an agreement announced with great fanfare before the midterms.

[–] [S] 2 points 2 days ago

What's actually working for transport is battery-electric. About half the heavy trucks in China sold in the past few months have been done like that.

My expectation is that we'll see solar to hydrogen used for decarbonizing the chemicals industry, but not much else, largely because batteries have gotten so cheap and so energy dense.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 days ago (5 children)

    Um what? Self-hosting search that actually covers the internet requires way more resources than people are likely to have. There are things you can self-host, but global internet search is not one of them.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Water that salty is corrosive. You can't just use it for datacenter cooling (or running a power plant) without removing the salt at considerable cost. It's cheaper to bribe politicians to transfer fresh water into their use than it is to desalinate that and use it.

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