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by adrianN 6mo ago
It took about a billion years of photosynthesis on earth before all the ferrous iron dissolved in the oceans was oxidized and atmospheric oxygen concentration began to take off.
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It has also never been easier to find bad niche music. The problem is the work required to separate the two.
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How good are LLMs at geoguessing?
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by adrianN 6mo ago
Wind generally works well when solar output is low. That greatly reduces the amount of seasonal storage you need (although you still need some).
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by adrianN 6mo ago
I would call brains with the needed support infrastructure small.
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by adrianN 6mo ago
The corporate moat is the army of lawyers they have. It doesn’t matter whether they win or not if you can’t afford endless litigation. Is the same for patents.
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by adrianN 6mo ago
It can form during radioactive decay of uranium and thorium.
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by adrianN 6mo ago
Fusion is a number of dollars away, not years. It gets almost no funding because it’sa science and engineering experiment that most likely will not lead to economically viable power plants in a market dominated by renewables.
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Resilience against what though?
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by adrianN 6mo ago
Or you can burn some hydrogen or synthetic methane and get your energy for less money.
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by adrianN 6mo ago
Every hour you don't run your nuclear power plant at full capacity you lose money. Nuclear power is mostly capex. You need to maximize utilization if you want to be profitable.
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by adrianN 6mo ago
Peak electricity demand will go up quite a bit as we replace fossil fuels for transportation and heating.
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It is unclear to me what that has to do with the way we price electricity.
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How do you make money with a nuclear power plant when renewables deliver more than enough power 95% of the year?
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by adrianN 6mo ago
A good way to destroy real forests is moving a lot of people closer to them to have a forest experience near their house.
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by adrianN 6mo ago
some ruminants are good because they can turn inedible biomass into calories. However the scale at which we farm them is orders of magnitude beyond those levels.
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Here is one in German for one in Berlin https://group.vattenfall.com/de/newsroom/pressemitteilungen/...
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I have two three year olds. Parks where they can run around with relaxed supervision are not far. A big park is close enough that they can walk the distance and in less than half an hour by bike we can reach a forest and four or five other
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by adrianN 6mo ago
I grew up in a city and my wife grew up in a village. We now live in a city and don’t own a car.
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by adrianN 6mo ago
I usually vote for left-of-center parties in my country and find your comment needlessly aggressive.
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As someone from Europe, to me the democrats don’t seem to particularly care about poor people either. They apparently do a slightly better job than the republicans, but that’s not a very high bar.
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Cars in rural settings are generally faster and more indispensable for their owners. It is much easier to enact policy that reduces car traffic in cities than in villages.
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That is my understanding too, but many people equate rural life with „natural“. Unfortunately the rural environment is all but natural. The cultural landscape that has been engineered over centuries all but displaced true wilderness and is
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It would be nice if the people hit hardest by this weren’t the poorest.
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Any day now quantum computers will be able to do something better than classical of the shelf devices.
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Presumably they mean that acceptance of migration is a continuum and the numbers of climate refugees would push a large fraction of people self identifying as liberal to oppose it.
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If the market agreed, the stock wouldn’t go up.
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In the case we have dust for years that significantly reduces solar output, most people die. What powers our electric grid doesn’t matter if agriculture is crippled.
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by adrianN 7mo ago
Most people on the planet did not pick Trump or Putin or any of the other leaders who recently chose to start a war.
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by adrianN 7mo ago
Balcony solar has been allowed for a number of years in Germany.

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