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>Although I am not sure why they then chose an open wood fire, which is likely far more polluting than even non-renewable grid power Likely not if you factor i
by balamatom 5mo ago
>Although I am not sure why they then chose an open wood fire, which is likely far more polluting than even non-renewable grid power
Likely not if you factor in the energy expenditure of gathering some firewood vs. energy expenditure of putting up a power grid.
inb4 "but it's already there" lmao
- kube-system 5mo agoWell, the atmega fab was already there and that isn’t quite clean either :) But there are many clean ways to generate electricity and electric kilns are quite efficient compared to heating over an open flame. I like the artistic element of this exercise, just thought that line of reasoning was a bit off.
- kennywinker 5mo agoThe chips were pulled from dead arduinos, not bought fresh off the production line
- kube-system 5mo agoI know. We live in a society where both the power grid and atmegas already exist, and our individual actions are marginal in impact.
- balamatom 5mo ago[flagged]
- kube-system 5mo agoI’m just providing my perspective on an article written from a different perspective that I found interesting. I’m not looking for a fight.
- balamatom 5mo ago[flagged]
- dang 5mo agoCould you please stop breaking the site guidelines, such as by posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments and/or crossing (as here) into personal attack? Your account has unfortunately been doing these things repeatedly. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- balamatom 5mo agoThere is no personal attack here; other than, perhaps, one conducted by whoever keeps flagging my perfectly substantial comments. But since you said "please", sure, I'll think about it.
- dang 5mo agoObviously these terms are open to interpretation as well as cultural differences, but in terms of how we moderate HN, your GP comment certainly counts as a personal attack. You can't use phrases like "you're providing a bullshit", "someone calls out your bullshit", and so on, when addressing another person on HN. If you feel that someone's view is mistaken, you're welcome to respond to false information with true information, and bad arguments with better arguments. But please remain personally respectful while doing so.
- balamatom 4mo agoObviously all terms are open to interpretation. Nevertheless, speech acts still have concrete intentions and meanings. Observe: - "Cultural differences" - Selective and intentionally ungrammatical quoting - "You can't" used in place of "we would like you not to" That sure don't look like the sort of honest misconception that can be resolved by good faith argument, pardner.
- poulpy123 5mo agoYou need a grid infrastructure to build and ship the rest of the electronics as well as to use the board. It's a fun dit/artistic project but the political discourse used to describe it is absurd
- balamatom 5mo agoMost political discourse you consider normal today (e.g. "fun") was considered absurd some years ago. Fewer than you imagine.
- rcxdude 5mo agoThe reason the power grid exists is because enough people want to do enough of this kind of activity that if we were still burning wood to do it there would be no trees left. Scale does matter, and this kind of 'sustainability' can't sustain a fraction of the people on the planet.