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TomFulp
Hi there! In case you didn't know, I created newgrounds. No, it wasn't made by some giant company - just some dumb kid who now has help. I also co-founded the Behemoth; we made Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers. Icon by Pegosho, banner by OmenaKettu.

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I might have mentioned this before, but if the people who run other social media sites like YouTube, Twitter and ESPECIALLY Facebook cared about the climate crisis half as much as Tom Fulp does (and not just to cynically take advantage of current events for money like “corporate wokeness/greenwashing” so often does) we’d have this problem solved in no time flat and have the time and capacity to solve smaller (but no less important) issues, too!

As long as it doesn’t spontaneously set my devices on fire, that’s fine by me!

One of my biggest concerns about electricity is that the current method of preserving energy is extremely inefficient and toxic to the environment. I am very happy to hear about these developments in battery tech.

We only got one Earth so we gotta keep it up and running for as long as possible.

all these cool innovations but stupid boomers are too scared of Nuclear Power, the eternal option to make any of this battery tech clean. It's stupid how we were closer to figuring out recycling and renewable power in 1955 then we are today. all the fearmongering over nuclear power to end up with coal plants still running in 2022

I hope it pans out too in the future so that history will write this off as a mistake we nearly avoided, like what we did with the ozone layer

Maaaannnnn, why is Tom so based

Wowie! I don't know what half of that means, but it sounds like some really cool stuff that would be incredable for cleaning up the envirement, that last part about the carbon capture especially!

It's nice to see you posting about this as it's something I've kept an eye on as well over the years. The one space I am really hoping to see some traction on is battery/supercap hybrid models. There was a testbed model of this with li-ion and super capacitors for high volume + frequent usage that was showing promising results.

I would imagine that leveraging something like this with a 'mediation' board between the battery and individual electronic components would lead to more efficient energy use and a 'buffer' akin to an additional fuse or trip switch. That and much less cumbersome to replace a cap array vs a battery for larger machines.

Let's hope they come up with some more interesting alternatives that don't have to rely heavily on batteries in the first place.

There's a few posts I've read not long ago about leveraging emerging nano tubule tech for harnessing solar energy and it's been theorized that leveraging a crystalline underbelly it's possible to suddenly squeeze out 40%+ in terms of surface efficiency. That could lead to the same cell size that normally provided about 100 Watts to offer anywhere between 300-400 Watts. Pretty big in the long run.

I just hope that all these battery initiatives don't just lead to existing methodologies being leveraged to meet consumer demand and leads to another environmental problem in the long term. Here's hoping, anyways.

The problem with a lot of 'green' initiatives is that they sate people's feelings but offer little in terms of practical improvement over prior iterations of <insert problem product or pipeline here>. A carbon tax is a joke from an objective, scientific and technological standpoint. It's the illusion of doing something for the environment- but even then most of the time it's political and poorly implemented. Do the funds go to a third party technocracy filled with engineers, scientists and environmental specialists/toxicologists that have high authority and oversight? Nah. Just funnels into the pockets of government bodies that spend it dubiously.

A massive overhaul of dogshit recycling infrastructure and creating condensed and controlled electronics reclamation facilities that DON'T just immediately ship shit out to a third world country in Asia would go a long way... But you don't see many people talking about that.

It's a damned shame, really.

Hopefully at least one of these reaches market.
Entrepreneurs constantly lie about wonder tech, since they can cash-out as millionaires before making (or proving) anything.

"Papers that cannot be replicated are cited 153 times more [by other scientific papers] because their findings are interesting" - UC San Diego paper

Ban overly intensive games and Art made with Blender on your site unless the user proves it was created while utilizing renewable energy sources in the meantime? Offer Newgrounds with a white background to use less energy on a LCD Display.

Same thoughts. Personally I love how technology is evolving fast, but I just wonder if people who invent and manufacture these products really DO CARE about the environment. Because even if we plant more trees and reduce waste, it's not enough because massive companies are the epitome of climate change.

Also in my country, only 5% of the electricity here is renewable, which means we're still being reliant on coal power plants. Coal is non-renewable and the gases it releases in the atmosphere are toxic for the environment. Solar lights are pretty good because they get recharged by the sun, despite the materials used to create them are kinda toxic. But god, I think we need to get over coal power plants and use nuclear ones

Will they go to Santa Marta (my city)?
Also my charger is 2.31A

@DOugdimmadab1337 These 58-76 year old guys are scared of that because they heard of the Big Boom 2 with their parents that started in September 1st 1939 and ended in 30th April 1945.

AH TOM FULP. BLESSED.