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by breadloaf 4y ago
This was the promise of Energiewende: >The promise was sweet: Germany's transition towards a low-carbon society would cost the average household no more than €1 ($1.1) per month, "the price of a scoop of ice cream," as Jür
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by breadloaf 4y ago
Eastern Europe saw it first hand what will happen when you make money worthless and success undesirable. Whole society has fallen into economical apathy between 1950-1990.
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by breadloaf 4y ago
Target of Energiewende was clean, cheap and reliable energy. It is not cheap and thanks to intermittency and lack of grid build up (Suedlink problems) will soon also be unreliable.
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by breadloaf 4y ago
> Every kwh of solar and wind produced electricity right now is a kwh not produced by gas and will be for some time almost everywhere. That assumes that fossil plants can be switched off/on as you wish. They can't. Coal needs s
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by breadloaf 4y ago
I have a washing machine with WiFi (brand Candy). Connected their Android app, everything worked fine. Tried to connect their iOS app, while connected to Android app (so two users can use it). Connecting two devices has broken WiFi so much
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by breadloaf 4y ago
Storage is unsolved mystery because it does not work at scale. Try to take any method you like and push it to supply 1GW for 18 hours of winter night. Also there is lot of things going on at night - people are heating their homes or chargin
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by breadloaf 4y ago
But it is not available in the night and energy storage is still unsolved mystery. It is like planning a project and ignoring half of issues which will make or break your project.
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by breadloaf 4y ago
They are not doing that, because they have big troubles to pull off semiconductor manufacturing See Asianometry: Why Russia Can’t Replace TSMC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_4R4X7AWtU
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by breadloaf 4y ago
Well for automotive companies, that debt is mostly car leases. Leases are secured by car which owner pays for regularly. So that debt is making money and the bigger the debt, the more money you make. It only looks scary on the surface.
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by breadloaf 4y ago
Around 50% people in EU lives in apartments. They can't charge at home and they will be using fast DC chargers in same way as they are using gas stations today. If fast DC charging will be slower than taking gas, while being more expen
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by breadloaf 4y ago
Which then comes back and bites Tesla in the butt, when it is time for service or maintenance.
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by breadloaf 4y ago
I disagree. People won't switch from cars to bikes from two reasons: 1) They don't want to be exposed to elements. 2) They want to have some kind of protection during accident.
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by breadloaf 4y ago
About damn time. I am tired of running old iMac just to have XCode so I can sign my iOS binaries and load them on my iPhone. And before somebody asks "Why don't you use Android?" - I have customers who bought an iPhone, so I
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by breadloaf 4y ago
There is lot of non-issues, especially around taskbar UI. You can switch everything as it is on Windows 10, including the file explorer choices. Only issues which are annoying to me 1) TPM necessary, from 6 PCs I have I can upgrade only 1.