oh wow, that is gorgeous

Oh man, idk how I’ve missed that one, but it just shot to the top of my list

I did not know until this very moment how deeply I wanted to build a beaver society 😂

Ooh cool - it feels like subnautica but in the sky, which is certainly promising

Love it, but it has pretty niche utility.

It’s great for improving frest fruit/vegetable access in small urban communities, without massive transportation costs and preservative use.

Also very cool for small, isolated environments like ocean voyages and space, where production space is severely limited.

And extremely interesting from an ecological perspective when combined with a full circle microsystem, as in aquaculture.

But overall, it remains wildly inefficient for large scale agriculture needs.

TX lawmakers are going to doom the state, again. “make no mistake, the 9th largest economy in the world runs on natural gas” - more like the largest laughing stock in the world blacked out the whole state on natural gas…

Wind was hit far less by the 2021 freeze, and solar was hardly impacted at all. Meanwhile, they continue to advocate for overreliance on under equipped natural gas facilities that completely failed to maintain functionality - shutting down TX for days, and killing 200 people as a result. Solar is the best option they have to prevent it from happening again, short of a total power grid overhaul, but instead of celebrating growth there, they decide to fearmonger about scary renewables.

I voted to enable because I think it’s worth seeing how restoring downvotes goes, but if the feature gets abused to bully or brigade I’m all for turning them right back off. I also think that even though voting rules aren’t really enforceable, it would be good to add voting etiquette to the instance wiki as a guideline to help discourage downvoting excessively, or for asking questions & other benign things.

Really I hope the ability is added to restrict who can downvote, or at least to disable federation for downvotes. That would be the best option imo.

Personally, as it currently stands, no. But it could potentially be, given better waste treatment practices and far better regulation and consistently enforced safety requirements.

It’s far greener than fossil fuels, when run carefully at least. But between the persistent issues with waste reclamation and harmful leakage, and the massive amount of damage that can be done when mistakes are made or safety is overlooked, I don’t think it qualifies as “green”.

So from a practical standpoint, I still think new resources are better spent developing infrastructure for solar, wind, geothermal, etc. But as we are phasing out other power sources, pretty much everything else should go before we start to decommission nuclear.

Always nice to see Braiding Sweet grass referenced. And to see Anmism treated with respect. It pairs so beautifully with a solarpunk mentality - each enhances the other.

Tidalpunk is my new favorite solarpunk subgenre. That’s a brilliant aquaculture setup