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by 543g43g43 4y ago
They bided their time, and knew about the (mandated) EV transition years ago.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
That was always how it was going to work! I don't know how anyone believed that the "legacy" automotive manufacturers, with their fingers on the pulse of upcoming transportation regulations, would be "caught out" by
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
That website is truly awful. Maybe it's personal, but I hate the "scroll to be shown a narrative" style of website design.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
> you mean you want an easy way to sort and aggregate the information in order to dispute this. For a start, I need the list to include the country of origin of each person. >he burden is on you to do this as you’re the one questionin
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>Hurun reports are widely cited with few (if any) questions on its accuracy. I could make the same statements about Forbes and Knight Frank, so that doesn't help explain the 3x disparity between Hunan's figures and the rest. &g
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Shame Hurun doesn't publish its source data, or a list of those people.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
I've just re-created your "PID" controller, and was completely underwhelmed with the response. I just don't find it amazing that something using that much compute power can generate source code that multiplies an input b
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
That's the very definition of cherry picking. Try this dataset instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Ah, the mythical "super-rich" who could fund all of our solutions, if only we could prise their money out of their clutching hands! It's funny how they always exist, even in countries like the UK and France which in reality h
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
The Climate Catastrophe doesn't care about what certain groups of people find "sensible".
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Ignoring the fact that there are no renewable energy-powered EV factories, there are also plenty of industrial processes that inherently emit CO2. Steel manufacture first comes to mind. By your same argument, I could say that there's n
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>But not constantly grabbing for a phone and staring at a screen... priceless. And once the spell is broken, you find yourself staring at people stumbling around, tied to their tiny screens.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>An electric car produces no CO2 over its lifetime. It just appears, fully-made and with no CO2 spent on its manufacture?
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Do you know how much CO2 an electric car produces over its lifetime?? We'll never hit our -80% reduction that we need!
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
We're talking about the cost of power. Putting aside the unbelievable idea that Alberta has as much mid-winter solar energy available as at the equator, using solar to heat my house is more expensive than burning some stuff inside.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>You claimed solar has too low EROI to be viable. Nope, I said that it's lower than other sources of power, and thus an energy economy based on solar will look very different than what we currently have. Given that electricity repre
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>Converting heat to electricity is expensive. And? Most of our power usage is not supplied through electricity. Solar panels are never going to heat my house.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Maybe - with government grants, and coal-powered manufacture of all of the associated generation equipment. That's not very interesting though - what is interesting, which has been my topic of conversation this entire time, is what the
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>A new panasonic or jinko mono panel installed in india has epbt under 6 months and an eroi around 100. I certainly haven't made any claims as specific as this without any backup!
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>the EROI of solar surpassed that of nuclear Where do you get your numbers from? >it would pay back that power in under two years. That's exactly the problem. This is a significant portion of the lifetime output of the panels. &g
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
The reason we can ignore the huge manufacturing energy inputs required to make solar panels, is because it's powered by cheap domestic coal in China. >driving operating coal plants out of business Any specific ones? The only coal pl
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
You miss my point. The reason solar is so cheap right now (along with the huge amount of government subsidies) is that the huge amount of energy required to manufacture them is currently done with very cheap coal in China. >Cost of curre
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>Comfort, convenience, speed, Didn't realise these were valid arguments in the face of the Climate Catastrophe! >It just appears at the wall socket like magic. It's by far the most convenient and quickest to burn coal.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>But they aren't going away Why? And if not, why can't we apply your argument to other things, eg, coal power plants? >Even if you could get rid of most cars, that wouldn't be enough, and it wouldn't be able to hap
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Tell me about it. I was told many times that we should have "locked down harder", like "sensible countries" including Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
We won't know what the cost of solar/battery will be in a sustainable energy economy, until someone builds a solar-powered solar panel and battery factory. At the moment, productions costs are heavily (as in, entirely) subsidised
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Sounds like what we have already! Given OP's choice of words ("two-tier"), it brought to mind something more like the European system.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
The wider point is that, despite some of the most draconian lockdowns on earth, Australia hasn't escaped Covid.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>the rest of the west were letting it rip in 2020~2021 That's funny. As restrictions started to lift during 2021 (UK/Wales), some complained that the government was now letting it rip. Just shows - anyone more cautious than y
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Paying cheap imported labour to care for isolated elderly people certainly was an "already broken" system.

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