blau3

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   by blau3 9y ago

   > If you put old vegetable oil in them they would break instantly and expensively. Haha, an acquaintance of a local Linux user group I used to visit drives an old BMW which he has modified to run on vegetable oil. To be precise, oil whic
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   by blau3 9y ago

   > Now Germany spews out about same carbon as before giant investments in solar, electricity is four times the price as in US, plus they now have to buy from France cause they don't produce enough. Well, they require a more complex m
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   by blau3 9y ago

   That's an inherent problem of non-fossil electricity production. Electrical energy is expensive to store (some hydro plants e.g. in Austria do that). For both nuclear and renewable, the marginal costs for producing an extra MWh, once t
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   by blau3 9y ago

   Coal plants in Germany have the same problem as elsewhere: They are becoming too expensive. Renwable power in Germany is mostly a mix of solar and wind energy. In the summer, the curve of solar production fits nicely the daytime of the high
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   by blau3 9y ago

   > It's important to note that popularity of diesel is the doing of the German government. The fuel is subsidized for the sake of the environment because it's more efficient. https://www.google.com/amp/s&#x2