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> Multiple solutions are already known Care to link to some?
by teddyh 4y ago
> Multiple solutions are already known
Care to link to some?
- ben_w 4y agoc. 1820s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_conductor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_conductor c. 1869: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water 1897: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction Antiquity or 1835: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror 1882: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
- teddyh 4y agoAre you telling me that Sweden, a country of 10 million people, which has wildly differing electricity prices within that same small country¹, could simply use copper conductors to solve this problem, but chooses not to for political reasons? 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32618798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32618798
- ben_w 4y agoYup. Might not even be wrong to have made this choice, I can't tell — economics (which is an important part of politics) is outside my domain.
- teddyh 4y agoWhat possible political reasons might those be?
- ben_w 4y agoIf I had to guess — and it would be a guess, I'm a software engineer not an economist or a politician — I'd just give the usual catch-phrases that seem to cover everything in politics: is it popular? How much would it cost and what else can we spend that money on? Will this be finished in my term? How likely is the situation which makes this useful (without the benefit of hindsight)? Men även med så intetsägande och generiska uttalanden betyder det faktum att jag inte kan någonting om svensk politik att jag kanske saknar något som någon svensk väljare skulle anse som "sunt förnuft".