JetSetWilly

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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
> What lie exactly? Scotland had produced enough to power itself twice on Wind alone. Doesn't say much for a variety of reasons: - Even in Scotland, there's loads of days where there's "no wind" - on those days e
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
I live in the UK which is primarily manual cars. Trust me that plenty of people race between speed bumps and pointlessly go at max speed to a visible red light hardly any distance away. I doubt the gear box is making much difference to whet
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
Electricity is not the same thing as energy. Most energy use in the UK is going to be heating and transportation which are both overwhelmingly fossil fuel based.
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
According to that graph, onshore wind has been cheaper than fossil fuels since 1995. What will be different about the next 20 years that this price difference will suddenly cause a huge surge in adoption, when it has already been cheaper fo
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
> It started at a wet market on the other side of the city. That's been very solidly established now. That's simply not true at all, whatsoever. See for example this paper sequencing early samples of the virus: https:/&#x
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Finnish as a world language?(hagen-schmidt.de)
379 points by JetSetWilly 4y ago|504 comments
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
Do you only drive on huge freeways or something? Where I live (where manuals are the "default") it seems like automatics are the fetishistic option. There's lots of hills, winding country roads etc round here, an automatic is
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
I mean, I don't really buy this "they were all as bad as each other" argument. We're not talking about some moral assessment of the totality of German and British civilisations, but rather more specifically about WWI its
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
It seems like it was gradually escalated on both sides to me. > When Britain joined the war on August 4, 1914, they did not immediately execute the entire plan to blockade all German imports. It was not until nearly four months into the
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
I don't think a country that performed the grotesque "rape of Belgium" can claim to be the good side. The simple fact is, Germany initiated the war, and Germany implemented the worst atrocities of the war. That makes it the
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
It was Germany which started the Blockade first. In February 1915 they announced they would sink all allied merchant vessels around Britain. Britain responded in kind a month later. If you don't want other countries doing something t
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
Allowing puberty blockers, allows children to make uninformed decisions with lasting and harmful consequences to their own body and future. That's why this issue has went to various courts, ascending the hierarchy, in England where it
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
But i never said nuclear would have to be used for 100% of power generation. I was taking issue with statements that nuclear should be avoided, and that wind can be used for 100% of power generation - it can't. Nuclear is "base lo
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
> I can tell you that weather patterns on with no wind for extended periods of time even over the size of a country are not really happening. That just isn't true - there's been plenty of times where eg the UK is generating win
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
Building an HVDC grid within Europe to allow local concentrations of renewable generation to be spread about more easily, and to further interlink the EU grid? That makes sense, sure. However for the "renewables can be base load"
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
Well, pretty common, as weather systems are typically continental in scale. Even if you built enough wind turbines to satisfy 10000% of EU demand within the EU (which is what you would need to have a shot at this kind of redundancy) the amo
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
> That baseload myth is dead these days. Batteries are merely one way to store energy but they’re not the only way. How is it a myth? Weather systems are big. it is not unusual for eg. the entirety of North-western Europe to have a calm
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
A friend of mine was on holiday in Toronto and somehow walked accidentally into a film set. He and his other half wound up "pretending" to be extras. So now the film "Kick Ass" opens with a panning shot down a skyscraper
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
The situation where 1000 get from the distributor at "retail" price is essentially a lottery. It is great if you "won" a ticket and get the item at the retail price (which is less than the market demand would have it at)
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
Meanwhile on late stage capitalism they stickied a post with home addresses of judges, encouraging people to arm themselves and generally being hysterical. And that’s OK because woke.
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
You can choose whatever colour you want. It seems they used to me more sombre but around 50 years ago the owner of the hotel decided randomly to paint it bright yellow and neighbouring houses along the front thought it was a great idea and
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
They would hate to live in Tobermory I suppose: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tobermory_Main_Stree...
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
What makes you think quality standards have gone down? From what I have seen, there's two reasons people think this. One is that modern houses are extremely well insulated. Which means that if you drill into a wall or just tap it with
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
The problem is - laptops used to have their own dedicated chargers. And generally speaking, they were grounded. Now we're moving to usb-c though, it means we've lost it being grounded. And many laptops are made of conductive mater
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
It is because it is not grounded. The leakage current then goes into the case. Unfortunately it seems to be quite difficult to buy grounded usb-c chargers. Most of them seem to come with C7 cables with no ground.
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Is it? It says things like "Smith is critical of government and officialdom, but is no champion of laissez-faire" and "A further theme of The Wealth Of Nations is that competition and free exchange are under threat from the m
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> That is a colonial view point, surely the Indians traded with the Romans or the Ancient Greeks, they were distinctly seen as Indians/Hindus and I am sure the Indians were aware of it. An external group calling you "indians&qu
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> India has been recognised as a single entity for a long time before the British, for instance the Ancient Romans, Chinese, Arabs and Greeks. So has "Europe" been recognised as a "single entity". Or "Christendom
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> A nation is peoples, tribes and ethnic groups that, in spite of differences, have something in common that binds them. What is that then? Because it can't be race, religion, language etc etc. Really the nation of "India"
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> In the case of India, with the exception of Islamic or European colonisation, much of the royal wealth can be attributed to trade and Kings/Queens building infrastructure, cities and trade routes. Temples which also acted as banks

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