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Just over half of Americans over the age of 65 are earning under $30,000 a year, and it shows how stark the retirement crisis is in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 9 points 8 months ago

How many of these own paid off homes? That makes a big difference.

Solarpunk is an Evtopia, not a Utopia in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

EVtopia just sounds like an electric car website to me

REQUEST: A wiki on open source furniture in c/diy@slrpnk.net
[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure if they did furniture, but there was a European project I can’t find that had open source designs for a bunch of household objects. I think I saw it on notechmagazine, but there’s a lot to sift through there…

There’s a deeper problem hiding beneath global warming - waste heat in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

There is an EXCELLENT physics text book freely available that focuses on the physics of energy sources: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m

It’s by Tom Murphy of “Do the Math” fame. Basically, unlimited perpetual growth runs afoul of basic physical limitations in shockingly short timeframes.