Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week

Because in theory, that replaces a fossil fuel car without creating a new demand on the grid. If the subsidised combo also includes a certain amount of home storage for the electricity generated when it's sunny (eg a bank of sodium ion batteries), that's even more likely to be grid neutral.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week

"This drop in total energy use is due to the fact that electric machines like heat pumps, induction cooktops and EVs are so much more efficient than the gas and oil machines that we use today, and can do the same job with less energy."

#DominicThorn, 2024

https://www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/energy-use-in-new-zealand

This is true. However, efficiency sits at one end of a continuum, and at the other end is resilience.

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#resilience
Jeroen Bosman
@jeroenbosman@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Science, researchers and research communities increasingly need to be resilient to threats and actual incursions relating to budget, academic freedom, safety in the public arena, availability of science databases and infrastructures and more. We created this framework to inspire communities in their resilience. It is quite generic, so needs to be customised to specific contexts and threats. #safeguardingresearch #defendresearch #resilience #academnicfreedom @RShetty

A visualization of resilience strategies connecting prevention to potential threats, protection to actual threats, resistance to encounters/attacks, withstanding to incursions and repair to destruction. For the prevention strategy we suggest mutual interest and agreements/contracts. For protection we suggest (double) walls and sovereignty/control. For resistance we suggest action/fighting back and in/external solidarity. For withstanding we suggest elasticity and redundancy. For repair we suggest jugaad (=hindi for 'make do') and resources. The are generic strategies that need to be customised to specific contexts and threats.
A visualization of resilience strategies connecting prevention to potential threats, protection to actual threats, resistance to encounters/attacks, withstanding to incursions and repair to destruction. For the prevention strategy we suggest mutual interest and agreements/contracts. For protection we suggest (double) walls and sovereignty/control. For resistance we suggest action/fighting back and in/external solidarity. For withstanding we suggest elasticity and redundancy. For repair we suggest jugaad (=hindi for 'make do') and resources. The are generic strategies that need to be customised to specific contexts and threats.
A visualization of resilience strategies connecting prevention to potential threats, protection to actual threats, resistance to encounters/attacks, withstanding to incursions and repair to destruction. For the prevention strategy we suggest mutual interest and agreements/contracts. For protection we suggest (double) walls and sovereignty/control. For resistance we suggest action/fighting back and in/external solidarity. For withstanding we suggest elasticity and redundancy. For repair we suggest jugaad (=hindi for 'make do') and resources. The are generic strategies that need to be customised to specific contexts and threats.