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by cbmuser 5y ago
Portugal looks pretty dirty on electricitymap.org. They‘re burning quite a lot of natural gas.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Costa Rica is a small country with hardly any industry and abundant amounts of hydro power. The country’s whole electricity demand is about 1.82 GW according to electricitymap.org with around 1.5 GW from hydropower and the rest mostly from
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by cbmuser 5y ago
To be honest: It was my first thought as well to just tell her to take the hair dryer with her to give her the peace of mind after reading halfway through the text. Anyone who has experienced some sort of compulsory disorder would understan
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by cbmuser 5y ago
There is no point in introducing a CO2 tax unless the government provides actual alternatives that consumers can switch to. And, no, wind and solar and battery-electric vehicles are not viable alternatives. Solar and wind require backup pla
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by cbmuser 5y ago
iPhone 5s (2013 IIRC) is also still receiving security updates for iOS 12.5.x.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Removing driver support from CUPS is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard of in software development and I’m pretty certain it will result in a fork. I’m not going to throw my printer away just because another FOSS project has decided
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Yes, but their energy density has hardly changed and every gasoline tank beats your average LiIon battery by a factor of 10: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_chemical_rea...
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by cbmuser 5y ago
> a bullshit job is defined as one which the person doing the job believes doesn't have to, or shouldn't, exist. So, he basically admitted that he had no objective and reproducible definition of what a „bullshit job“ actually i
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by cbmuser 5y ago
That’s something that proponents of solar and wind power always happen to “forget” when they make these comparisons. Solar has a capacity factor of around 10% in Europe (don’t know for the US), so it effectively only generates 10% of its ma
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by cbmuser 5y ago
> If I understand it correctly, nuclear power has inherent latency issues that mean it can't respond to demand-spikes within seconds or minutes, but needs about an hour or so? No, nuclear plants can regulate within minutes and it’s
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by cbmuser 5y ago
> I get that this type of reactor is interesting as a research project. But given the build times, the bureaucratic hurdles and the quality, cost effectiveness and diversity of renewable alternatives, why bother? Why bother? Because vola
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Solar has a capacity factor of just 10% while nuclear is above 90%. This means that a solar farm cannot replace a nuclear reactor. Solar needs a backup plant, nuclear doesn’t. So you’re comparing apples and oranges. Plus, this is an experim
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Already old news as Lufthansa is allowed to enter Russian airspace again: > https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/streit-im-flugverkehr-lufthan...
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by cbmuser 5y ago
“Green energy” needs fossile fuels such as natural gas as backup power plants. If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power. France went the nuclear path and their energy sector causes 50 millio
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by cbmuser 5y ago
That’s on the EU, not Youtube. EU citizens needs to convince their government(s) that these age restrictions are not acceptable or live with the status quo.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Yep, the author was very clear from the beginning that he didn't like the idea of gcc-rs and wasn't really willing to compare both approaches on the same level. I personally think that's a good thing that multiple approaches
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by cbmuser 5y ago
That‘s wrong. The RBMK is not a fast reactor, it’s a pressure-channel boiling water reactor. Fast reactors are/were for example the: - French Superphenix - Russian BN-600/800 - German SNR-300 - Japanese Monji - American EBR II The
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Well, it was pretty clear in this case as even UPS confirmed the package was way too light to actually contain the TV.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
I agree. I don’t books on Amazon anymore here in Germany unless I cannot get the book anywhere else. As for Amazon Japan, their packaging is most often top-notch although that’s more related to Japanese mentality than to Amazon‘s policy.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
> This was despite the fact that when boxed the Sony a1 weighs 3.22 lb (1.46 kg), and the Chiles’ package was listed by UPS as weighing only 2 lb (900 g). Not sure why Amazon was still arguing at this point. If UPS confirms the package w
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by cbmuser 5y ago
One of the many examples how large hydropower plants destroy the environment. That’s why nuclear is the better option these days: It’s low-carbon, capable of baseload and provides large amounts of energy without the need to destroy large pa
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by cbmuser 5y ago
I wish there was a portable version of V8 similar to OpenJDK Zero which would allow Chrome to run on more platforms. It‘s really a pity how Qt applications such as kmail became less portable when the underlying web framework was switched fr
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Shell could just shutdown for a week and I bet that court will revoke their decision in no time. Seriously, such verdicts are completely pointless and achieve absolutely nothing. The court can’t blame Shell for decisions that are made by po
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by cbmuser 5y ago
It doesn’t matter whether the production of renewable energy is cheap as long as it cannot be produced on demand. A lot of people seem to think that market prices are determined by production costs but that isn’t the case. Market prices are
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by cbmuser 5y ago
If I’m understanding this correctly, this is actually a feature that was developed for RHEL and just happens to be enabled on Fedora by accident. RHEL has a stable kernel ABI because they support third-party binary modules such as from SGI.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
I agree. Everytime this project gets mentioned somewhere, it turns to be still vaporware.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Yes, that’s what I mentioned. The reactor was offline for just a few days and the shutdown is more a result of the rather unfortunate decay to build the steam turbines on the outside with no weather production. Nuclear plants have no proble
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by cbmuser 5y ago
As far as I know, it was a malfunctioning sensor. I generally that it’s a poor design decision to build the steam engines on the outside with no weather protection.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Note that generation capacity doesn’t say much of the actual amount of electricity available throughout the year. Wind and solar don’t provide dispatchable electricity and will always need a backup plant.
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Well, the point is that wind was already expected to provide much less than its installed capacity. So expectations weren’t underwhelmed much. The only electricity source that delivered with 100% capacity, minus a short outage of one reacto

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