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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, fossil fuels have powered the industrial revolution. But for some time already we were at a point, where it is more beneficial to switch to renewable power. Going forward, renewables are the way of preventing poverty, not trying to sti
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by _ph_ 4y ago
We don't have to eliminate electricity, heating and transport. All these things can be powered by renewables. Quite the contrary, as the long term costs of renewables are lower, we can raise our living standards, if we push them forwar
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Without even plotting the data, it seems to be very obvious to me. Starting out at 13-14 degrees annually at the beginning of the recording, it is now pretty solidly 16-17 degrees. The last year under 16 was 1996. If that isn't a drama
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Germany is currently testing this on some selected sections.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Sorry, first you should consider your language. "Holds no water" is way to strong, especially as it is absolutely wrong. VSCode is nice but a far cry from the abilities of Emacs. And while it does somewhat support a lot of languag
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I don't mind a good IDE. But that only "works" well, as long as you are working in one single language, day in and out. There have been such times in my life and I was happy with the corresponding IDE (unless it itself was ju
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I have. I had used various IDEs, from Turbo Pascal over Borland C++ and Visuaol Basic, the last being jBuilder. When Borland refused to give me an upgrade deal to the next version after I had bought jBuilder 1.0, I had enough anger to reall
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I have to disagree with this a bit. I try to keep my emacs file pretty minimal, like 20 lines of customizations like fonts and a few flags, the rest mostly just requiring additional packages and a very few custom functions.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It is not about asking questions in general, it is about asking questions in a suggestive way, if it suggests something toxic.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, I didn't want to say it had something to do with nuclear, you are right about the Altmaier-Knick :). I just found it especially odd that the same government which had set the final end date for nuclear would slow down the one real
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes and no. Germany was on a great track until the early 10s. There solar and wind installations peaked and then steeply declined, as a consequence of the actions of the same government which had hastened the exit from nuclear. So yes, on
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That's not quite true. You are allowed to buy games without an age rating in Germany, if you are over 18. However, the burden is onto the seller to verify your age and it might not be publicly listed. So many resellers are not botherin
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The very interesting thing here is, that Apple announced Rosetta for Linux being released together with Ventura (assuming the Linux is running a VM, but it seems it works on plain Linux installations too).
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Whenever they come up, I find the Amish highly faszinating, and looking at the comments here, I don't seem to be alone in this. They look as if they found their perfect life style and are happy with that. If they are, I can congratulat
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by _ph_ 4y ago
While there are of course radical environmentalists whose position often have little to do with actual environment protection, most people wouldn't object to a technology just because it is new. But of course, if it is really bad for t
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by _ph_ 4y ago
High voltage DC lines are quite practical over 1000 kilometers and more - Germany already operates an 1.4GW line to Norway, using the Norwegian grid as a storage for electricity.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The funny thing is: in German public transit there is no ticket scanning. You have to stamp single use tickets in rather old stamping machines, so no data collection there other than the count of stamps. Any longer time-ticket isn't sc
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Thats not how biology works. With sweet water, oxygen supply is the killer at high temperatures, and as soon as more than a few fishes die, a cascade reaction is triggered. Yes over centuries, more resilient species might emerge, but short
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Quite a few are down for maintenance, but every hot summer, the French nuclear capacity is reduced further, due to limited cooling. They could, of course, just boil the rivers.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
And of course to buy new fish after the heatwave.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I agree it is quite likely also a scheduling challenge. But it doesn't matter how difficult it is to compute, my take is, that there is so much variation in the intermediate steps which have a mutual dependency, that an elaborate sched
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, right. Not because we are exporting so much less, but pay hugely more for the things we are importing, due to the ballooning gas prices.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The high inflation rate comes from several factors pushing together at the moment. On the one side, the policy of cheap money had to come to an end. On the other side, there is the war and the energy shortage as well as the global economy s
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by _ph_ 4y ago
In 2010 or 2011 solar capacity was increased by 10GW in one year. We are currently at about 70GW, so it would take 7 years at the 2010 rate - one would assume that with much more efficient panels available today, the first doubling could be
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Worse or, and that would be the point of the change, entirely different. You would do some study of all possible opponents, but you obviously can no longer do so much focus on the single player. Which means, the better preparation would jus
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Right. I wrote about peak output today, which is admittedly a sunny day. But just doubling the amount of solar installations would mean that Germany could run at times entirely on solar. That definitely means "solar is working". A
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Right, but the renewables are the one power source which is well suited going into the future. They don't use up any non-renewable source (hence the name), and they are the one energy production which is really available in most countr
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The same what I am doing when all the nuclear power plants are down. In fact this isn't going to happen and there needs to be enough fungible capacity both internally and in the European grid. Right now, France is highly dependent on t
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That is wrong. There are multiple options and the environmental friendly ones consist of mostly solar and wind.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I would not be so arrogant to assume the German power industry would solve the problems so much better than the French. The French mostly suffers from the fact that it has become prohibitively expensive to build new reactors. And of course

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