Gwypaas

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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Yes, fossil funding and subsidies should have been removed some 30 years ago. At least. Can't argue with that. Baseload as a term does not exist on the producer side. Simply by chance the cheapest sources of energy were the most inflex
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Yep. So close you can call it equal, unless future deaths from groundwater pollution where to happen from leakage. So lets discount that and focus on the side which allocates capital and brings projects to completion. The cheapest renewable
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Renewables are what you should compare nuclear with. And by your own stats they win even there. Framing it as a contest versus fossil fuels is building a strawman nowadays.
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Call it a solution in search of a problem. The best fuel cells today reach about 50% round trip efficiency. That's even a high estimate. That by physics defines the price difference between where you buy low and sell high. Without even
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
I think Stockholm's greatest problem is the geography. Everything going north or south in the entire region has to pass through the same few islands in central Stockholm, all options are awful. Therefore we end up with the horrific tra
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
The issue is alarm fatigue. Couple this with the regular result of a collision avoidance situation being to go at most ~0.5 NM behind. You also have issue with corners where the vectors will intersect. There are projects to start trying to
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
No idea for the US. In the maritime industry the US likes to be the odd one out. The US coast guard likely have something all on their own. Looking globally at larger vessels, which would be like the ones in the article here, you have IMO G
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Depends on enforcement. We tend to hoist ours when getting to Germany because both the police and coast guard actually care and will fine you in typical German fashion. Otherwise, pretty much never.
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Then it should display a downward pointed cone as a daytime signal and regular power vessel lanterns in the dark.
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Seems similar to a release or buyout clause often used in sports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyout_clause
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Thankfully HYBRIT is a smart consumer with the explicit goal of taking advantage of cheap wind power. The hydrogen production is oversized to allow a buffer to be used. What sweden sorely needs is off-shore wind power which has higher capac
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
And now the largest ones are ~15 MW with capacity factors above 60%. Insane scale. https://www.vestas.com/en/products/offshore/V236-15MW https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy&#x2
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Starting at 540 000 SEK it jumps 20% to 64% in total. Then at 645 000 SEK the last percents. What is important to the remember which most Swedes tend to forget is the payroll tax at 31.42% on the employer side. To see how it evolves across
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
With the effective marginal tax rate at 67% for regular income in Sweden, excluding VAT and other point taxes, the only real possible method is to start a company.
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Hinkley Point C another EPR is right in that range with the fixed strike price being paid by the consumers at £106 per MWh, or $0.140 per kWh. The nice thing about nuclear and average prices is that unless nuclear is ran at about 100% all t
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Well, saying it's an easy profit for 40 years seems like a too certain conclusion then? On a yearly basis these are the average wholesale prices in Finland: 2020 - €28,02 /MWh 2019 - €44,04 /MWh 2018 - €46,80 /MWh 2017 -
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Always two sides of the coin. These are the average spot prices the last couple of years in SE3. 2020: $0,024 per kWh. 2019: $0,045 per kWh. 2018: $0,050 per kWh. Nuclear are $0.13 - $0.204 per kWh to build. Therefore, even with these fluct
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Well, no one is going to make an investment calculation on only OPEX. Lazard puts the average marginal cost for fully depreciated reactors at $29/MWh. There in lies the issue, the total cost for newly built solar and wind is lower than
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
That seems like extremely low numbers. From what I've found the range seems to be $123-$204 / MWh, or $0.123 - $0.204 per KWh https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... For Hinkley Point
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Until they don't. France's EDF takes more nuclear reactors offline after faults found - 2021-12-17 https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/edf-extend-civaux-nuc...
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Why not? Why wasn't there a nuclear module (SMR) 20 years ago that can be installed in banks of multiple modules, just like a solar array made of multiple solar cells? Why should every single nuclear plant be semi-bespoke for that par
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
$50 is a very high number and location specific. You get off-shore wind power in the UK for that, with off-shore being more expensive than on-shore. $13.5 for solar in Abu Dhabi could be set as the current lower limit in optimal conditions.
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Ah right, that's an awful one. This is one of the worst examples I find in my vicinity, no new road would ever get designed like this. To thin. https://goo.gl/maps/8wP7UUb5ZtFm7uu87 Here's a more newly design
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
I think that comes down to mandating winter tires, effective snowplowing and drivers education including driving in slippery conditions, if such conditions are regularly encountered and expected. Important is enforcing it also, let people s
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Good then that I can't remember the last time I saw a bent light pole due to a car losing control. I actually haven't seen it happen in my life. I have seen bent light poles, but I couldn't tell you when or where last. Escape
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
The cashier or customer manages all that in your regular Scandinavian grocery store. The cashier has two "lanes" so two customers can bag simultaneously, if that is too slow they'll just leave a third pile up and close and ho
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
You have to separate the road from the stroad. Roads in Europe might be up to 60-70 kph even in a city center, but they also have calming intersections with roundabouts and to get on an off regularly or even ramps. Streets tend to be 30-40
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
All those examples are honestly still awful. What is needed is traffic/refuge islands so you has a pedestrian only have to deal with the possibility of crossing traffic coming from one direction and no chance of getting stuck in a unpr
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
This is something that has always fascinated me regarding the US, there's so many workers standing around providing "service". Greeters, baggers and what not, maybe this has changed in recent years since I last visited, and p
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
The only one still operating except Tesla's, which is listed 3 times on that page, is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Auto_Body_California It has ~300 employees compared to Tesla's Fremont factory

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