chelical

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by chelical 5y ago
People keep touting the low cost of renewables plus storage, but this is incredibly misleading when most regions (Germany, Denmark, California, etc.) that have high renewable adoption have some of the most expensive electricity in the world
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by chelical 6y ago
There is a massive difference in interpreting law vs code. Code can be patched immediately. New laws or changes to an existing law can take months, even years or decades to pass.
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by chelical 6y ago
To be fair, solar mix places more stress on the electrical grid and likely requires more expertise to maintain in countries struggling with brain drain. That said it's still preferable to building more coal plants.
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by chelical 6y ago
Germany is hovering around 41% renewable electricity, but its primary energy supply is still 78% fossil fuels. https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/germanys-energie...
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by chelical 7y ago
Fair point. I hadn't considered the time to install all the batteries on a massive scale on top of the time to reduce the production cost.
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by chelical 7y ago
To be fair, nuclear power plants can also take a decade or more to build.
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by chelical 8y ago
That situation will need to be handled by the law. Let's say stores are required to accept cash. Are they allowed to charge more for someone who pays in cash? Will they be required to provide change? If they run out of change, would th
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by chelical 8y ago
I worked on an application that converts HTML to PDF and font rendering on Windows was incredibly frustrating. The kerning made text unreadable at smaller fonts. It's difficult for me to believe someone would actually prefer the way Wi
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by chelical 8y ago
China has actively promoted and condoned IP theft as a way of catching up to the US. I'm surprised you're unaware of the widespread coordinated Chinese industrial espionage, especially by Chinese students studying abroad in Americ