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by cbmuser 4y ago
The problem aren’t the gas plants, the problem is the insufficient amount of cheap electricity on the market. Wind and PV heavily rely on backup power plants. So building a lot of wind and PV increases the reliance on gas plants instead of
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Poland is actually going to build nuclear power plants soon. In ten years, Poland‘s electricity mix will be much cleaner than Germany‘s.
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> They werent that many to begin with they growing increasingly expensive to run, were coming to the end of their lifespan and Fukushima was a risk that was hard to ignore. That’s simply untrue. Nuclear reactors are permanently maintaine
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No, the main reason is Germany shutting down nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels. I know that lots of people will argue that wind and solar will lower electricity prices, but since these don’t provide reliable baseload
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by cbmuser 4y ago
That's not the proper homepage, this is: > http://previous.alternative-system.com/ Also, the homepage at unixdude.net is not distributing the sources which is a GPL license violation.
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TeX Live 2023 release for Debian/m68k(lists.debian.org)
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No, decarbonize the grid the way France did it. Don’t follow Germany’s example. It’s that simple.
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by cbmuser 4y ago
If you look at the market shares, you’ll quickly realize that this would mean abandoning all the BSDs, Haiku, Hurd, all the obscure Linux distributions and so on. Just support macOS, RHEL/SLES, Debian, Ubuntu and Windows. Everything el
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by cbmuser 4y ago
IBM zSeries runs Linux in big-endian mode and is still a mainstream product. If your code doesn’t work on big-endian, it’s usually poorly designed.
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Being orphaned doesn’t mean it’s being removed. Some subsystems will eventually get a new maintainer such as the floppy driver.
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by cbmuser 4y ago
> How is nuclear fuel any different in this respect? Sure it's more compact, but it has other complications regarding transport. They're still going to be reliant on other countries. Solar panels, even if imported, do not requi
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by cbmuser 4y ago
The reactors in Fukushima and their protection against flooding and cooling failure would have never passed German safety standards. Japan’s nuclear safety standards were way too lenient before the Fukushima accident happened. All the chang
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by cbmuser 4y ago
Well, you know Japan is just acting like that because they didn’t have a Fukushima like Germant. Oh, wait! On a more serious note: Since the beginning of the Ukraine-Russian war, Germany fully returned 19 coal-fired power units with a total
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by cbmuser 4y ago
Yep, just recently switched to Evolution which is considerably faster and has a nicely working calender.
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VueScan is usually able to handle old scanners with recent operating systems. Definitely worth the investment!
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Japan’s government actually just decided to revitalize nuclear power and support among the population is growing. And, FWIW, Japan plans to use high-temperature nuclear reactors to produce hydrogen with very high efficiency. See: https:&#x
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by cbmuser 4y ago
Japan plans to make hydrogen using high-temperature nuclear reactors (HTGR or HTTR). See: https://www.jaea.go.jp/04/o-arai/en/research/research_03.htm...
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»Turning electricity into hydrogen and then into motive power for a car is dramatically less efficient than using a battery, and car commutes in Japan are on the short side, so huge batteries wouldn’t be as necessary.« Which is why Japan is
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by cbmuser 4y ago
»The primary source for hydrogen would be from methane in natural gas, and they could then sell this as a "zero pollution fuel" while continuing their non-renewable energy business as normal.« No, that’s wrong. They’re planning to
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by cbmuser 4y ago
Japan’s hydrogen strategy is based upon the high-temperature reactor HTGR in Ibaraki prefecture. This reactor doesn’t use electricity to produce H2 but high temperature hydrolysis. See: https://www.jaea.go.jp/04/o-arai&
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by cbmuser 4y ago
Or, you know, we could just build more nuclear power plants instead of such an overengineered solution which requires millions of car owners to be cooperative citizens.
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by cbmuser 4y ago
Yes, that’s one of the main problems with volatile generation. You often don’t get the power when you need it and vice versa. This isn’t news though and the reason why Germany is returning to goal despite of having installed 130 GW of wind
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by cbmuser 4y ago
Debian and Gentoo still provide current installation images for various big-endian architectures such as hppa, m68k, ppc32, ppc64 and sparc64.
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by cbmuser 4y ago
If only New York hadn’t shut down its perfectly working Indian Point nuclear power plant. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Germany didn’t build a complete LNG terminal. Instead, they built docks for floating LNG terminals which itself are going to be rented from other countries.
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The headline is misleading. What Germany did here was building a dock for a floating LNG terminal, not the LNG terminal itself. The whole point floating LNG terminals is to be able to provide a site within a very short timeframe. Germany di
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by cbmuser 4y ago
PayPal is a licensed bank in the EU.
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Germany produced about 30 TWh electricity in 1990 from natural gas. In 2021, it was about 95 TWh. Even the current government in Germany was planning to build more natural gas power stations to replace coal plants. Wind and solar do not pro
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by cbmuser 4y ago
Germany has tripled its electricity generation from natural gas since 1990 from ~30 to 95 TWh. Also, Germany is bringing more and more coal-fired power stations back online despite a combined 120 GW of wind and solar installations. Neither
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You as a private person are the last entity to be cut off from the power grid. It’s the big consumers in the industry that are cut off first. Oh, and the fact that the grid has become more unstable is even reported by the German federal age

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