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About noise, above 30km/h electric cars are as noisy as gas powered one.

It's better but not the panacea either.

I think I'm on an accepting phase too.

I've been through a lot personally and emotionally since I started reading about collapse 9 years ago.

I had a look at this publication a few years ago, it put me in a rough place for a few days.

Recalibration of limits to growth: An update of the World3 model

Humanity will survive I'm certain of it, however our thermo industrial civilization will not and most of the people currently living in the planet will not.

It will happen whatever I personally do.

The best I can do now is to find ways to have the happiest life I can using as little ressources as possible for my family, my community (neighbors, friends ...) and me. It's a process that forces us to reassess a lot of things we were doing but it is fascinating.

Practically it means finding ways to lower our monthly expenses, try to consume local as much as possible and learning a lot of new techniques..

Hey !

The Fiat Multipla looked awful on the outside but it is the most comfortable/functional family car ever.

The Fiat Multipla deserves some love.

I would not put too much faith into this graph to predict a specific date for the peak.

However what we can see from this graph is the inflexion of the curve, the growth slowed down and we already see the effect of it.

We are reaching the peak, it might plateaus for a few years before a slow decline or we could have a sharp decline happening before the end of the year.

It is definitely a tragedy, not a light read for sure

In 1988 already Jacques Chirac promised that in a few years everyone will be able to swim in the Seine.

It did not happened but it shows that there is already decades of work and investments to clean the river and it shows, the Seine is much cleaner today than few decades ago.

It's still not perfect but it's getting there slowly and the Olympics gave a boost to it.

It's usually the other way around, we don't fuck a baguette, we use our baguette to fuck.

Children of Hurin is an interesting read. Reading the Silmarillion felt a bit like a chore to me but Children of Hurin is well put together as a story that hold up on his own.

PS: For those that don't know Children of Hurin is part of the Silmarillion. J.R.R Tolkien's son (Christopher Tolkien) took this story, filled up the blank using his dad notes to turn this story into a full novel.

Yes, A dim bulb is extremely inefficient, it will use a lot of electricity for a very small amount of light.

On the other hand you can make very efficient lightbulb that will be very bright for a small amount of electricity but last only for a few minutes.

The 1000 hours limits is a nice middle ground.

I'm not blaming lemmings, I was there too not to long ago.

You are getting downvoted because it sound to absurd for France. I would have have downvoted you few years ago but unfortunately this is really what is happening right now.

In this case the dangerous far-left extremist they arrested was just a guy who was planning a graffiti. The "far left literature" was a sociology manual because he is a student.

In the mean time the French police also arrested 45 XR militant, they all been release now because they have nothing against them except for one of the activist who will be judge for the dangerous act of ... Refusing to give the pin to unlock his phone.

Houses in Europe are connected to the grid too.

These systems are approved in Europe by utilities because they have failsafes implemented to prevent back feeding electricity in the grid.

The fact that these systems are still illegal in the US is a political issue, not a technical one.