My friend Julie Forchammer from Klimakultur talking about the Equinor sponsored UK school game 'energy town' I gave it a go and it yelled at me for building too many wind farms (and also has hydrogen power stations.......) e24.no/energi-og-kl... - ThreadSky

ketanjoshi.co • 8 days ago

My friend Julie Forchammer from Klimakultur talking about the Equinor sponsored UK school game 'energy town'

I gave it a go and it yelled at me for building too many wind farms (and also has hydrogen power stations.......)

https://e24.no/energi-og-klima/i/o327QW/reagerer-paa-equinors-energispill-en-liten-del-av-en-stor-pr-pakke

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feelsbadshyam.bsky.social•8 days ago

📌

djorankeil.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm actually curious how fast a wind turbine blade can even spin. I've only ever seen them be REALLY slow. Graceful even. The way a lot of articles talk about them, you'd think they were lawnmower blades.

sunerendal.bsky.social•8 days ago

Due to large diameters, the wing tip speed can be between 200-300 km/h.
Faster on off shore, due to bigger turbines.
Looks graceful, but imagine the forces at these speeds.

recombobulating.bsky.social•8 days ago

'people are too happy do you want to hurt them' 😬

aeonflux.bsky.social•7 days ago

Seriously! What the hell was that? What kind of late-stage capitalism hellscape bullshit is ‘happiness is making people lazy’?

recombobulating.bsky.social•7 days ago

Traditional British Values 😭

climateclem.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's bad to be lazy and have too much fun (sic) but it's good to use AI to work less (which I guess can be construed as turning lazier).

Go figure.

hobgoblin13.bsky.social•6 days ago

The “positive” subtext of using AI is you get to fire people

yungenchee.bsky.social•7 days ago

📌

stockfttp.bsky.social•8 days ago

You know I'm going to waste my bank holiday trying this now!

stockfttp.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ok. 200k (all green power) no idea where that places me I couldn’t see a leader-board without some key.

binaryape.bsky.social•8 days ago

I muttered 3 WTFs reading those screenshots

owenfuckem.techwork.zone•8 days ago

"Too much fun"
Bruh

illiria.bsky.social•8 days ago

Wow these are all such bad faith... Classic despicable fossil fuel companies...

ketanjoshi.co•8 days ago

"if you’re relying on electricity from renewable energy resources like wind and solar power, you may have less electricity due to these energy resources being less reliable......you should invest in a more reliable way to generate electricity, such as nuclear, oil, natural gas or hydrogen"

oliver-schafeld.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•8 days ago

This game seems to come literally "without batteries". 😑

Anyone remembering chewing gum cigarettes? Same vibe here.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/did-tobacco-companies-use-chew-dfLqHMdnQqulYO5AlCG5Zg

valentenya.bsky.social•8 days ago

Generating energy from hydrogen could be tricky 🤔

arfisk.bsky.social•8 days ago

Let me guess... no battery options?

owenfuckem.techwork.zone•8 days ago

benbarclay.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oil for electricity 👀👀

hakonnordhagen.bsky.social•1 day ago

According to the game’s «battle cards» oil has actually better «energy generation», «good environmental impact» and «cost» (high value better than low) than fossil gas. Beats me. They like best to sell oil….

ketanjoshi.co•8 days ago

You can try it out the Equinor funded game here:

https://www.wonderverselearning.com/play

ketanjoshi.co•8 days ago

A kind person let me know of a 2007 game by Chevron that sounds VERY similar

https://chevroncorp.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/chevron-and-economist-group-launch-energyville-game

It'll be amazing if this works within Wayback machine but let's try https://web.archive.org/web/20071005210043/http://www.willyoujoinus.com/energyville/

ketanjoshi.co•8 days ago

omg - got it! Here's a playable version of Chevron's 2007 game, Energyville

https://web.archive.org/web/20121003072004/http://www.energyville.com/energyville/

grahamwalkernrg.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is around the same time as Greenpeace's "Efficiencity" https://www.liftstudios.ca/efficiencity/

grahamwalkernrg.bsky.social•7 days ago

Which, btw, also includes hydrogen boilers in homes

drbrake.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is the one a near-clone of the earlier one then? Very dismayed that the Chevron game was "developed by The Economist Group". Sloppy - @economist.com's brand guidelines should have made it clearer to users this was "sponsored content" not editorially-endorsed pro-oil propaganda).

ketanjoshi.co•1 day ago

Update - the game designer quietly removed the part where they admitted the game's entire purpose was to garner positive PR for Equinor in the context of the Rosebank oil field - and then quietly added the phrase back, realising that it's probably worse to hide it

https://www.nrk.no/klima/equinor-laget-spill-for-barn_-nekter-for-pavirkning-av-unge-1.17437056

justinmikulka.bsky.social•1 day ago

Micheal Liebrich gets a lot of cred in the clean energy world. He is on Equinor's International Advisory Group of Equinor. Someone should ask him what he thinks of this

3wombats.bsky.social•8 days ago

I saw this post out of context 😀I thought you’d lost your mind

nanoprof.bsky.social•7 days ago

I will put windows on the columns and everyone will live in windmills.

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