The first sentence of the article answers the rhetorical question:

No.

There's many interesting examples linked on that wiki page, especially the Cincinnati Time Store (1827–1830).

Meanwhile anti-renewables are still repeating "But solar and wind are unreliable because they're dependent on the weather"

In Germany, apparently not yet. According to the article there is a German group campaigning for an anti-SLAPP law which has taken interest in the case.

The footage is linked in the article. The animals are clearly panicking and stressed.

.. pigs fighting for their lives as CO₂ flooded the chamber. Struggling to breathe. Panicking. Bloodying their heads against the walls. Screaming.

Just because some people do things one way in Denmark that doesn't mean everyone in Germany does it the same way.

One government minister has suggested carrying an onion in your pocket as an alternative to air conditioning:

As India swelters, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia suggested skipping air conditioning and carrying an onion to combat extreme heat, citing his 'Chambal skin' and traditional remedies. While temperatures soar between 40-46°C across many states, with heatwave warnings issued, Scindia's advice blends personal habit with age-old practices, highlighting a contrast between traditional relief and the escalating reality of intense heatwaves.

PS: Australia wastes a lot of our renewable energy because of insufficient storage during the day. The data of our energy generation can be seen on OpenElectricity [edit: fixed link]. The shaded section on top is the amount of renewables which are "curtailed" (turned off due to insufficient storage), and the little bit below the zero line is the amount that actually gets stored in batteries or pumped hydro.

Because coal power can't turn on and off easily, we burn coal 24/7 for power and throw away 10% of our renewable generation. Hence this policy, to encourage more use during the day when we can use more renewable power. Some retailers have been already offering this as "happy hours" or "three for free" during the solar peak.

There are even a few retailers that vary their charges (pun intended) based on current (intended again) wholesale rates - because of all the excess solar, electricity through those providers is often completely free from 9-10am to 3-4pm.

There are a few links to short videos in the article, but are there any torrents or similar things suitable for mirroring so all the footage can be retained by activists internationally?

Living up to my username: Pink mold isn't an actual mold, it's usually a growth of a common airborne bacteria, Serratia marcescens. It's not particularly dangerous but can cause urinary tract, wound, skin and lung infections in immunocompromised people.

Condensate from home driers, air cons, dehumidifiers (etc) is not sterile or potable, it gets lots of airborne bacterial and fungal spores in it.

Megaman Battle Network series, some of my favourite GBA games.

Wild, An Almost Zero Waste Toiletries Company Sells Out To Unilever

At first I thought the first word was sarcasm and didn't realize the company was called "Wild"

We're going to find out soon enough.

Almost half of the global population will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2C of global warming above preindustrial levels, according to a University of Oxford study published in January. India will have the largest affected population, says urban climatologist Radhika Khosla, an associate professor who co-authored the study.

In 2024, [Florida] Republican lawmakers prohibited cities and counties from requiring heat protections for workers, such as mandatory shade or water breaks.

Florida and Texas republicans, always competing to see who can be the cruelest pricks.

Lowering the price will just increase consumption and hoarding.

The solution to shortages is rationing, but the government is worried (probably accurately) that it will be unpopular.

lithium and the used rare earth elements can be recycled. It's not like they'd evaporate when being used.

This always amazes me about the anti-EV hysteria.

"But they aren't 100% renewable, you have to mine metal" as they jump in their combustion car powered by a fuel that has to be mined only to be burnt up in use.

AFAIK (I'm not a botanist) it's true of many larger trees that they use more oxygen than they produce and emit more CO2 than they consume. It's the biosphere that the large trees support that does a lot of the carbon sinking - mosses, ferns, vines, etc.

As a rule of thumb, the greater the ratio of woody mass to leafy mass the more the ratio tilts away from being a carbon sink, as the whole lifeform has to undergo aerobic respiration but only the leaves participate in photosynthesis.

Isn't that when you give a pigeon a bit of food and it vocally thanks you?

Edit: No wait, that's a bread coo

Just like with "chick'n" etc, this is just going to mean alternative spellings of borgors and sosages on packets and affect nothing else.

If you think a 20% change is not noticeable, I would invite you to walk into a room that’s 100% nitrogen.

That's a 100% change, not a 20% change. A 20% change would reduce the oxygen by 20%, to around 16%. You're confusing percentages with percentage points.

Fires in Petrol/Diesel vehicles are about 20 times more likely than in EVs.

More data from Norway - at the time 28.3% of cars in the country were electric but they were involved in only 7.4% of total vehicle fires. More data in the article shows that the rate is decreasing too.