VintageCool

13 ms·

91.
by VintageCool 5y ago
If you made up your mind on this issue ten or fifteen years ago then it is probably wrong now, because things have changed. The cost of PV solar farms dropped by 90% from 2010 to 2020. The cost of lithium ion batteries also dropped 89% in a
92.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Exelon was going to shut down the plants (instead of refueling them) if they didn't get subsidies from Illinois. They got subsidies from Ohio and New Jersey. They didn't get subsidies from Pennsylvania and shut down TMI 1. If exis
93.
by VintageCool 5y ago
I realize that you won't be impressed, but 20% of electricity in Texas came from wind in 2019 (plus 1% solar) [1]. Texas has been building wind and solar like crazy since then, such electricity in Texas in 2021 was 24% wind + 4% solar
94.
by VintageCool 5y ago
1. the natural gas backup system already exists; it is our current infrastructure 2. batteries are already here. The US built 3.1 GW of grid-scale batteries in 2021, and utilities have filed with the EIA that they are building 10 GW of batt
95.
by VintageCool 5y ago
The Davis-Beisse reactor in Ohio was found in 2002 to have a boric acid leak that ate through 6 inches of steeling cladding, leaving only 3/8ths inch of steel holding in the high-pressure coolant. A few months earlier, the company had
96.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Estimated death toll from the Banqiao Dam failure ranges from 26,000 to 240,000.
97.
by VintageCool 5y ago
because the tunnel was built for trains, not cars. The tunnel was built by and for the military back when the base was important; there isn't enough reason to spend the money to expand the tunnel now.
98.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Having a timer running constantly in the corner counting up tenths of seconds makes your version much more stressful than Wordle.
99.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Green hydrogen is a thing. It is not economically viable now, but the costs of electrolyzers are falling. The world in 2020 had 300 MW of electrolyzer capacity, but multiple companies (Cummins, thyssenkrupp, etc) are building factories with
100.
by VintageCool 5y ago
> If you propose a new wind farm today, to start construction in 2024 and be online in 2030 And it doesn't take 6 years to build a wind farm! Hornsea 1 began construction in Jan 2018, started supplying power in Feb 2019, and was com
101.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Expanding highways is sold as "making traffic better", or "scaling to day-to-day traffic" as the grandparent poster put it. However, what expanding highways actually accomplishes is incentivizing people to move out of th
102.
by VintageCool 5y ago
> I love transit and want more of it, but the transit folks realized it's hard to compete with driving, so they've just given up entirely on making transit great. It's easier to ruin driving. Seattle just opened light rail
103.
by VintageCool 5y ago
I've carpooled in a Prius and a Honda Civic Hybrid. Both of those cars seemed to be extremely capable of accelerating to pass other cars on the freeway. I was riding in the Prius one time and my friend was complaining about the Prius b
104.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Most subduction zones are quite far underwater, so... the trash would probably just bob to the surface and float.
105.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Given that this is a transcript of a video, and that video has pictures and diagrams to help illustrate what is being discussed, I would have really liked to be able to see those pictures and diagrams interspersed with the text while I was
106.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Nuclear has been in a holding pattern for years in France while they waited to see if the EPR unit being built at Flamanville 3 would work out. There was also a scandal a few years ago when the state-owned nuclear construction company Arev
107.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Germany's electricity, as of H1 2021, actually comes from: 1. Renewables: 41% 2. Coal: 26% 3. Natural gas: 17% 4. Nuclear: 12% https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... New s
108.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Solar is cheap. Wind is cheap. They're cheap like cheaper than continuing to run existing coal plants, even without subsidies. And the costs are dropping rapidly, especially for solar. Meanwhile, nuclear is expensive. Like $6B to $8B p
109.
by VintageCool 5y ago
The deal is that you provide the recipe book in exchange for legal protection and a short-term legal monopoly. The other side of that deal is not honored by China, which is Elon's point.
110.
by VintageCool 5y ago
The mix of sources for electricity in Germany in H1 2021 was like 41% renewables, 26% coal, 17% natural gas, and 12% nuclear. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
111.
by VintageCool 5y ago
I think that we will just mentally adjust and adapt to the suffering. If people in Bangladesh are losing their farms to flooding because of global warming, then voters in Kansas will simply... not care.
112.
by VintageCool 5y ago
The US maintained a strategic helium reserve for decades (originally for airships). Then people started producing helium as a by-product of natural gas drilling, and the government bought helium from private natural gas producers. The heliu
113.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Battery prices have dropped 89% since 2010. BloombergNEF has predicted that, with battery costs continuing to decline, EVs will be less expensive than ICE cars by 2027. UBS predicts 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/business
114.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Early hybrids and EVs were designed to stand out and show that the owner cared about the environment to drive an EV. Now that EVs have arrived and make sense for every car, the styling should change to just be a good-looking good-driving ca
115.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Your charts show lignite holding stable, hard coal declining, nuclear declining, natural gas increasing slightly, and renewables expanding tremendously. Renewables provided 45% of Germany's power production in 2020, and 41% in 2021 H1.
116.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Israel only has a 61% fully vaccinated rate. It is having to deal with widespread vaccine skepticism just like the US. Since the Delta variant is so much more infectious than the original covid, you'd have to get to 90% vaccination rat
117.
by VintageCool 5y ago
I think the current wave is going to drift Northwards as the weather turns colder and people spend more time socializing inside.
118.
by VintageCool 5y ago
That one study found a 1 in 5000 risk. The background here is that hospitalization from covid increases dramatically with age. Teenagers are at low risk of hospitalization from covid themselves, but I expect that vaccination would still red
119.
by VintageCool 5y ago
Russia is 81% ethnic Russian, per Wikipedia. I think that's close enough to qualify for "nation and state are congruent". Sure, it might make more sense to define this as "state-level agency", but that would confuse
120.
by VintageCool 5y ago
By the time he gets to "the long national nightmare known as Hannibal", it's pretty good!

More ›