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> Mass production in general is made cheaper by simplifying and cutting corners This is painfully wrong. Go shopping for pretty much any industrial part, and y
by zdragnar 4y ago
> Mass production in general is made cheaper by simplifying and cutting corners
This is painfully wrong. Go shopping for pretty much any industrial part, and you'll pay through the nose for a few. Order a few dozen, and you get massive discounts in price for identical products.
It takes time and effort to configure machines and tooling to produce something. Those are fixed costs- the more you order, the per-unit price of those fixed costs drops.
> Once the shit hits the fan
That's not gonna happen. No climate model is predicting a doomsday event. It's going to continue to be a slow, gradually worsening crisis at worst. From a political perspective, it'll never need an urgent solution, because next year isn't going to be significantly different from this year- just a little bit. Even for those people who finally realize they're going to be displaced, no urgent solution could possibly turn back the clock, short of a massive deployment of C02 removal from the atmosphere.
- dale_glass 4y ago> That's not gonna happen. No climate model is predicting a doomsday event. I'm not talking about the climate. I'm talking about the grid. My prediction is that we'll keep on building renewables until renewables break the grid, then patch it up in a hurry, and nuclear will still not be built in the end.
- zdragnar 4y agoIf renewables start straining the grid, they'll just face economically infeasible grid connect fees, reduced or negative rates. That's already the case in California. Power companies don't get to just start supplying electricity to the grid at will; rather than the grid breaking, operators will simply say "no more". At that point, the only urgency will be an artificial, political one.