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by _ph_ 4y ago
Me too, especially as that would give Putin a reason to withdraw the troups from the contaminated Ukraine. Considering all the explosions which have been reported around the Saporischschja plant, I am really afraid.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Why would you think, pipes would be freezing? Besides the fact that due to climate change really cold winters have been rare, the current szenario just is to reduce room temperature to like 19 degrees, not stop heating alltogether.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Both are very unlikely. It has been widely acknowledged that the energy dependency from Russia was a big mistake. And of course, Germany should be on the trajectory to get rid of all fossil fuel usage. So unless the war ends tomorrow (which
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, that is definitely one goal of his, as well as in general to find out, how much Germany would yield under his pressure. So far Germany hasn't, quite contrary, the population in larger parts is in favor of delivering weapons to Ukr
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That is correct. But having the storage filled to the maximum is the best we can do in preparation because... we can't fit more than 100% into the storage :) That is the one preparation goal, to enter storage at maximum levels. In para
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by _ph_ 4y ago
A lot of plants had to be reduced in power output and are running only because of special allowances to heat the river water hotter than normally allowed. Meanwhile rivers like the Rhine and the Loire are at record low levels, in many place
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I think it will be a mix of both. Local storage at home is great for some grid independance during blackouts and usually you save some money when you have you own solar roof. But local storage usually will be more expensive per storage capa
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by _ph_ 4y ago
We have energy shortage right now, because a lot of nuclear power plants, especially the French, are powered down for lack of heating. This is why Germany has so far produced an extra 20TWh hours of electricity this year, also compensating
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I am not sure about the point you are trying to make. Yes, politics makes a lot of mistakes and those deserve to be critisized. And the efficiency point I made was about countering the previous posters numbers - which were plain wrong. And
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by _ph_ 4y ago
In my eyes, not "having good science on the last few percent of carbon emissions" was never a valid reason. We always had good science on how to get rid of 80-90% of the carbon emissions. So we should have done that quicker, as ev
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The idea was, that gas is certainly much cleaner than oil and coal. And that some gas will be needed in the transition to 100% renewable, gas is ideal for peaker plants. It was of course completely stupid to rely to such a large extend on i
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I don't like that video, but yes, I don't think that design is the solution for the future. Using water als gravitational storage is quite well developed and has additional benefits (like storing precious water for droughts). But
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by _ph_ 4y ago
If you think climate change leads to more arable land in Russia, well, I think you are wrong. And of course, Russia is missing the least arable land. They could do with some airplanes and more population in general though.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
You are wrong in several points. First of all, if we switch from burning fossil fuels to electricity for providing most uses of energy, energy consumption falls by 2/3rds. Heat pumps are easily more than 4x as effective per unit of ene
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by _ph_ 4y ago
If you look at this graph: https://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/EE/Redaktion/DE/Bilder/G... You can see that solar collapsed from 8.2GW/a[1] in 2012 to 1.2GW/a in 2015. Wind collapsed from 4.9GW
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The alternatives where ready many years before the proposed end of nuclear. Solar buildup peaked in 2012 at over 10GWh/year and fell to 1 GWh/year due to political influence. Without the actions of the Merkel government, we would
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, it clearly is. I don't know what you mean by "peak load", but it is 10% more electricity consumed. Electric cars rather help than load the grid, as their charging can be easily controlled to help balance the grid. And ye
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Stop blaming the greens for what they are not responsible. Merkel (or rathr her minister Altmaier) shortened the life time of nuclear and more importantly curbed the buildup of renewables. Of course the exit of nuclear can only work with en
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, absolutely not, it is entirely doable. By the way: stovetops are already almost exclusively electric in Germany, and electrifying all cars would mean about 10% more electricity consumption. Doing so would add about 2 TWh of storage capa
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Germany has enough wind and sun to cover all electricy needs. And the fact that the nuclear-friendly France is not able to replace their aging fleet of power plants shows, that nuclear isn't such a simple or cheap solution. If Germany
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Here in Germany we were used to pretty much "English" weather, especially in the middle regions where I grew up. A drought is something which happened once or twice in my youth. There was a bad one in 2003 and since 2015 we had a
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, you are mistaking them for the CDU and SPD which got us addicted to russian fuels and at the same time curbed the deployment of renewal sources. The Greens is the party whose minister Harbeck has now to clean up the mess left to him an
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Sorry, but no. Yes, the greens pushed for exiting nuclear, but it was the Merkel government which hastened it and at the same time cut down the deployment of renewables. Germany could be much further ahead without that. We still are at 50%
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Right. But still the expectations mostly are, that it might be, as warming continues. The only exception would be a failing of the gulf stream, which for central Europe would be a huge reset in temperatures with a more Canadian climate.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It wasn't the greens. While you can indeed make an argument about shutting down nuclear power plants while there are coal power plants in operations, the green party was part of the government which targetted the mid-20ies for an end o
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Which is true, but doesn't automatically mean that most of the code has to be developed in that compiled language. There is a reason why Python is a popular language for machine learning: the computation is done in optimized native lib
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by _ph_ 4y ago
First of all, I would wonder what you consider a "normal car"? The older Citroën cars shown in the article were all "normal". But indeed ahead of their time. The shape of "normal" cars, which I assume are ICE c
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The C6 looks to me like a great design template for an electric Citroën. They always looked like coming from the future - a future that could be now.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Putting solar on parking lots (and of course all kind of roofs) should be so obvious, that it shouln't need to be mentioned. Besides having the area already ready, they would even improve it (shade) and the grid is in place and the ele
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by _ph_ 4y ago
To be fair, they don't just "reap the benefits". They are working hard at improving new technology until it is really a product. They have many prototypes long before the first product, but don't end up selling those pro

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