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@joao
OK, then I understood you.
Well, actually a phone does not really give info about the state (= quality) of the battery. It gives an estimation (in %) of the state of charge. A 10 year old phone battery might have 30% of its original capacity, but can still be charged up to 100% (giving then only the 30% of its power and hence running time of your phone)
A car battery hardly gets discharged in normal use. When a car starts the battery gives lots of power to start it, but will be recharged to 100% in a couple of minutes of driving. And it stays in that state of around 100% all the time, because the alternator/dynamo supplies all the energy needed.
So with a car that is in a good state and starts quickly, you migh, in many years, end up with a battery that has lost 80 to 90% of its capacity without giving you any problems, because for starting it only uses a few % of its (original) capacity.
Hope this clarifies.
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The state of the battery of an car with combustion motor???
Sorry, It seems I'm missing something here...
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Os problemas não tem nada a fazer com o novo fornecedor Digi?
Digi ainda funcione bem?
@joaopinheiro
and what do you do with that bandwidth?
Watch 12 videos at the same time?
I have 100 Mbps, hardly noticed any difference with 30Mbps and there is even a server running with 3 websites on it.
PS I saw they have cheaper options than MEO so will look at their details...
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Aijaijai... 🤔
@joaopinheiro
Some textual explanation would be helpful 😜
What's the first one?
(or is it a lack in my education asking it?)
@joaopinheiro
Maybe its been meeting up with my sleep that has been missing regularly as well around that time 😜
@joaopinheiro Ahh, nice, sending crossposts 😜
I'll look them up.
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Is this for pen drawings?
I use a fountain pen and am curious about other types/colours.
@joaopinheiro
Sounds like a fun project! 👍
You participate?
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@nan_ano/115724266478085106
Ola @joaopinheiro
Another book for your reading list!
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Thanks @xs4me2 !
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Há um pouco de confusão aqui. O movimento chame-se ALTERNATIVAcom ?
Existe um site com mesma nome (--- .com), mas não é isso...?
Looks like someone in the Portuguese mountains had some hobby fun....
#statue #MennekePis #art #hobby #sculpture #portugal #fun
@joaopinheiro
The writer of the article focusses more on what doesn't work then giving working examples for the current predicament.
I guess he has an other agenda: selling his book.
Lithium mining in Portugal. Some villagers say No. Some quotes from the article:
The ‘sacrifice zone’: villagers resist the EU’s green push for lithium mining
Residents of a Portuguese rural idyll where four vast mines are planned are among those who feel they will pay too high a cost for the energy transition.
Covas do Barroso is among the first villages caught up in Europe’s efforts to green its economy. As the continent weans itself off fossil fuels that poison the air and heat the planet, demand for lithium is surging, to build batteries that can run electric vehicles and balance renewable-heavy power grids.
Across Europe, people living near lithium deposits appear unconvinced that mines will bring good jobs and are unmoved by pleas to stop a bigger ecological threat. Attempts to push projects through in the face of local resistance have been met with cries of “colonialism”.
In Serbia, broad swathes of society have taken to the streets over the past year to protest against a lithium mine planned for the Jadar valley. In France, a lithium mine planned beneath a kaolin quarry in Allier has alarmed activists and divided residents. In Covas do Barroso, in northern Portugal, people say their village – at the heart of a heritage farming region recognised by the United Nations – has been turned into a “sacrifice zone”.
“You’re talking about destroying an area that has been classified as a globally important agricultural heritage site, an example of sustainability, an area with a system of water management that is at least over 500 years old,” said Catarina Alves Scarrott, a member of the protest group Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso (UDCB). “You’re going to sacrifice all of this for open-pit mines. And then, you start to ask: for what?”
The answer, for EU officials and the Portuguese government, is to obtain a soft white metal that is needed to stop burning fuels that make extreme weather dramatically worse – and do so without relying exclusively on foreign suppliers. Europe produces almost no lithium itself. More than three-quarters of the world’s raw supply comes from just three countries: Australia, Chile and China. The latter dominates the refined supply of lithium too.
.....
\"The biggest shock initially was not even the impact of the mine,” said Alves Scarrott, who grew up in Covas and moved to London. “It’s the attack on democracy, and democratic processes, and the rights of the people that live there.”
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https://pinheirodeabrantes.pt/books/
Thanks @joaopinheiro
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https://pinheirodeabrantes.pt/books/
Thanks @joaopinheiro
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Mouthwatering.
Yep, it's the time of the year again...
Time for making jam and juice,and drying them.
#gardening #photography #cherries #SelfReliance #food #preserving #jam
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Just thinking what to say now, well let's start with this then:
Quote: We live in a time where intelligent people are silenced so that stupid people won't be offended.
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