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for another POV on Uruguay, here's Doomberg's recent article on Uruguay: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utop

for another POV on Uruguay, here's Doomberg's recent article on Uruguay: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 3y ago
paywalled
kranke155 3y ago
I used to read him but soon find it tiring. His perspective is always "im right and everyone else is wrong".
- RALaBarge 3y ago
  Sounds like he is one of us then!
- gruppe_sechs 3y ago
  As opposed to other writers whose perspective is "I'm wrong"?
  - subtra3t 3y ago
    Some writers acknowledge the possibility that they may be wrong and others are right, or that both views can be considered to be right.
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - culi 3y ago
    "I'm right" doesn't have to imply "everyone else is wrong"
pydry 3y ago
The article asks for money at exactly the point where it was going to tell you what the problems were. I have some suspicions.
kieranmaine 3y ago
I'm going to comment on the post the doomberg article links to: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-2-8-we-must-demand-a-demonstration-project-of-a-mainly-renewables-based-electrical-grid https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-2-8-we-must-de... It states: > Jacobson goes on with endless mumbo jumbo about how his fantasy system can deliver electricity at low cost. Excerpt: > When combined with electricity storage, heat storage, cold storage and hydrogen storage; techniques to encourage people to shift the time of their electricity use (demand response); a well-interconnected electrical transmission system; and nifty and efficient electrical appliances, such as heat pumps, induction cooktops, electric vehicles and electric furnaces for industry, WWS can solve the ginormous problems associated with climate change at low cost worldwide. > Is there any such thing as a demonstration project on any scale — small, medium, or large — to vindicate these claims that such a future system would be “low cost”? Absolutely not. I can't speak about anything except: "techniques to encourage people to shift the time of their electricity use (demand response)" This is happening in the UK and is lowering the cost of EV charging. The following tariff will control when your EV is charged for the price of 7p/kWh (see https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime). I just got a quote from Octopus energy (UK energy supplier) and the day rate is 35.37p/kWh and night rate is 14.84p /kWh.
locallost 3y ago
I don't who that is, but looking around there is an obvious bias that also is not based in reality.

for another POV on Uruguay, here's Doomberg's recent article on Uruguay: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 3y ago

paywalled

kranke155 3y ago

I used to read him but soon find it tiring. His perspective is always "im right and everyone else is wrong".

RALaBarge 3y ago
Sounds like he is one of us then!
gruppe_sechs 3y ago
As opposed to other writers whose perspective is "I'm wrong"?
- subtra3t 3y ago
  Some writers acknowledge the possibility that they may be wrong and others are right, or that both views can be considered to be right.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- culi 3y ago
  "I'm right" doesn't have to imply "everyone else is wrong"

pydry 3y ago

The article asks for money at exactly the point where it was going to tell you what the problems were. I have some suspicions.

kieranmaine 3y ago

I'm going to comment on the post the doomberg article links to: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-2-8-we-must-demand-a-demonstration-project-of-a-mainly-renewables-based-electrical-grid https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-2-8-we-must-de... It states: > Jacobson goes on with endless mumbo jumbo about how his fantasy system can deliver electricity at low cost. Excerpt: > When combined with electricity storage, heat storage, cold storage and hydrogen storage; techniques to encourage people to shift the time of their electricity use (demand response); a well-interconnected electrical transmission system; and nifty and efficient electrical appliances, such as heat pumps, induction cooktops, electric vehicles and electric furnaces for industry, WWS can solve the ginormous problems associated with climate change at low cost worldwide. > Is there any such thing as a demonstration project on any scale — small, medium, or large — to vindicate these claims that such a future system would be “low cost”? Absolutely not. I can't speak about anything except: "techniques to encourage people to shift the time of their electricity use (demand response)" This is happening in the UK and is lowering the cost of EV charging. The following tariff will control when your EV is charged for the price of 7p/kWh (see https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime). I just got a quote from Octopus energy (UK energy supplier) and the day rate is 35.37p/kWh and night rate is 14.84p /kWh.

locallost 3y ago

I don't who that is, but looking around there is an obvious bias that also is not based in reality.