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by 7952 5y ago
It's interesting how difficult it is to think of anything. Not much of that stuff keeps you warm, or fed, or safe. Maybe some battery Christmas lights to make Christmas a little less depressing.
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It might be optimal in terms of a reliable income to have different things you can sell.
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by 7952 5y ago
Animals and plants are perfectly happy living under solar panels.
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If the market rewards battery storage it will get built quickly.
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by 7952 5y ago
Battery storage seems eminently scalable compared to other energy developments. A commodity that can be manufactured in a factory and that we would need anyway for cars. Small components that can be built into enclosures, and racked in a
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by 7952 5y ago
A lot of the world is low density, but high population. Subsistence farmers on small plots of land (often degraded with little nature). A dwelling every few hundred yards. It looks natural but probably isn't.
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by 7952 5y ago
You talk about smashing biodiversity. But farmland is often degraded already. A residential development can retain hedgerows, and include plots of land managed for wildlife. It absolutely can and should improve biodiversity. Also, the i
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People tend to overestimate how much brown field land there actually is. And what does exist is often more suitable for commercial or industrial development anyway. A disused power station site (for example) could be better for a data cen
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by 7952 5y ago
Driving through the south east is going to give you a very distorted perspective. Roads are busy and new development tend to be built around roads. Leave you car and walk a couple of miles and it can be completely different. The South Ea
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by 7952 5y ago
I wonder if government will ever shift focus to the OS layer? Seems like surveillance of keyboard apps and app metadata would be more difficult to casually get around.
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by 7952 5y ago
Utility grade solar has much better economics than residential. That is what will get built at scale and is a much fairer comparison.
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Yes. Before that Northern Europe was stuck with Swede and Turnip as a staple. Potatoes reduced the resources needed to feed people which was a factor in the industrial revolution. Suddenly you had a cheap, storable, filling food that was
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New world crops were a major change and had serious economic implications for northern Europe. Given how peasents were treated at the time I can understand anxiety.
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The plants that potato evolved from were toxic and people would soak them in a mix of clay and water to remove the toxicity. Eventually less poisonous varieties were created. Potatoes still produce toxins as a defence mechanism when expo
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by 7952 5y ago
You seem to be fixating on the word "market". I don't mean that in a liberal economic way. Electricity markets are natural monopolies and need intervention. That is what subsidies are. The energy markets let you bundle up
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What you are talking about is the marginal cost of producing an extra kWh of electricity. That does vary between different sources. For nuclear, solar and wind it is exceptionally low. For gas and coal it is higher due to fuel costs and
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by 7952 5y ago
For me reading documentation is the major part of the development process and having a good experience and a reduced palette of options helps a lot. I have used css for years but never really learned it properly. I would spend ages trying
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You have the concept of a reasonable person in law and that is necessary. The world changes and contracts cannot define every possiblity. Nor can you completely standardise what a professional does in their work. I think the hacker experi
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I guess this is why the concept of informed consent is important. There is an information imbalance between the parties involved, and it is unreasonable to expect the widow to independently rectify that. And there should be some default e
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Some parents will constantly narrate the world as they imagine it from their babies perspective. Like they are standing in for consciousness that has not developed yet. Makes me wonder if the differences in how parents do this could effec
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None of these rules are 100% true. "Natural" food can be bad for you, and processed food good. It is just a heuristic that works somewhat well when you have limited information.
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Thinking about land required is more familiar to the public. But it does lead to these broad statements about feasibility that don't necessarily match up with reality. Real schemes are just going to be more complex and will look at l
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by 7952 5y ago
But the phone number system isn't perfectly secure. A fraudster could transfer your account or even have physical access to the phone line. And it still relies on a solicitor to authenticate changes which could then be fraudulent. Th
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Selling for below market rate would probably help things a lot.
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But if you die without a will there will be different heirs for your part of the property.
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But why is it important to optimise MW per km2? Seems like premature optimization of something that is not the bottleneck.
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by 7952 5y ago
But the constraint on growth may not be land (or sea) availability. So why worry? Optimise the thing that is holding you back.
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Things like power to gas would work economically because you buy cheap and sell high. The efficiency figure becomes less important if renewables are cheap and gas is expensive.
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I think you could make the same argument against nuclear advocates. Ego based focus on the "best" option and endless ad-hominem against proponents of good options. When actually the best option is one that is politically possibl
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Life finds a way!

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