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by cr1895 5y ago
Major banks in the Netherlands do.
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by cr1895 5y ago
An estimate of 78,000 turbines is truly a thought experiment, not a realistic solution. There does not exist manufacturing capacity or installation capacity to achieve this (not even remotely close). The offshore wind pipeline, globally, is
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by cr1895 5y ago
But then having a nominal capacity of 8000kW from the 20mt system, you’d need maybe 1200 tonnes of the 20mt systems. I’m not sure how that’s better or simpler. Sounds vastly more complex and expensive.
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by cr1895 5y ago
Residential wind power? Wind energy is something that greatly benefits from scale: it’s why the current and next generation of turbines have rotor diameters exceeding hundreds of meters. You’d probably be much better served by using solar p
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by cr1895 5y ago
> offshore wind farms have been proposed to protect the US from hurricanes No, certainly not seriously.
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by cr1895 6y ago
Well, you can always sail around.
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by cr1895 6y ago
Aside from the large “Opinion” text above the title and the clear delineation of sections?
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by cr1895 6y ago
For offshore wind farms, typically only very long export cables are HVDC, or long interconnector cables. Inter-array and export cables up to around 100km or so are AC.
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by cr1895 6y ago
What sort of heightened security measures? I think nothing of the sort would hamper an Elfstedentocht. The Vierdaagse is also a mass volunteer-driven event and it happens regularly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter
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by cr1895 6y ago
Perhaps you are not implying so, but Netherlands is not Scandinavia and is located a fair bit further south.
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by cr1895 6y ago
The billions of euros many of these oil majors are throwing behind renewable forms like solar, offshore wind, hydrogen, etc. would suggest that the idea this is a strategy to kill EVs is nonsensical.
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by cr1895 6y ago
That is true, but I don't think it has much to do with the tax. Credit card transaction fees have a big impact as well...it's why you often see a lower cash price for fuel.
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by cr1895 6y ago
You may like to read up on Orsted (formerly DONG). Formerly a major oil & coal energy producer, now one of the largest global players in green energy. It continues to be a remarkably successful transition.
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by cr1895 6y ago
>The main concern seems to be whether they can make the cultural switch in management as there are quite a few "old hands" in middle management that are quite attached to the fossil fuel sector that they grew up with. Shell has
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by cr1895 6y ago
You can trivially find the sort of investments and projects Shell is working towards...they are heavily involved in offshore wind for electricity and green hydrogen. That they would be buying up EV charging in order to dismantle it can be d
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by cr1895 6y ago
The next-gen turbines that are _actually_ going to be built in the coming years are still hugely impressive: https://www.siemensgamesa.com/products-and-services/offshore...
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by cr1895 6y ago
I'd recommend reading Michael Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" which covers the topic well. In short, "set and setting" is critically important. https://michaelpollan.com/books/how-to-cha
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by cr1895 6y ago
>In Czech Republic we have the time off accrued based on worked hours. There's no distinction, at least not with the statutory holidays. You earn them as you earn your wages and there is no adjustment for illness.
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by cr1895 6y ago
>In some jobs workers are given 20 PTO days to use as sick or vacation as they please. In other jobs workers are give 10 vacation days and 10 sick days. That may indeed be the case in the US. In the scenario I'm describing, you only
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by cr1895 6y ago
From what I understand-and perhaps it varies by state-it's just left to the benevolence of your employer whether your accrued vacation days are actually paid out to you or if they just disappear in the US if you for example leave a com
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by cr1895 6y ago
>vacation is a luxury, sick days are a necessity. In many places (Europe, generally?), vacation days are earned. At least in the Netherlands if you were absent for weeks due to illness (for which there is no fixed pool of days), and deci
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by cr1895 6y ago
>Why wouldn't you want all the sick+personal days to use as you see fit? Another thing that is important to point out is that leave days are sometimes an earned entitlement ultimately paid out to you if not taken, whereas sick leave
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by cr1895 6y ago
It's the same in the Netherlands.
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by cr1895 6y ago
But it's not a pool of sick days + personal days, with the "sick" days only available to you if you are sick. I imagine the situation in Norway is pretty similar to that in Netherlands, where if you're sick, you're
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by cr1895 6y ago
>If you replace a big party with 100 people, with ten smaller parties with ten people, you probably end with a similar amount of infections I don't think that is a correct conclusion. It doesn't behave linearly. "We can th
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by cr1895 6y ago
The article lacked any detail on the “honor system” that sustained it for centuries in place of the fixed prices charged post-WWII. What does that mean...pay-what-you-like?
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by cr1895 6y ago
>This isn't like the childhood vaccines, where we need herd immunity to protect the children who are too young to be vaccinated. It's not only too young children who might not be legitimately unvaccinated...some people who are
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by cr1895 6y ago
This is why countries and public health departments are discussing and agreeing on who gets a vaccination first - people in care homes, front-line health workers, or perhaps even young, healthy people because they heavily drive the spread.
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by cr1895 6y ago
Doesn't this have something to do with priority given to freight rail in the US?
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by cr1895 6y ago
>masks don't help much I don't think you're taking away the complete story of the paper you mention. There are two fundamentally different ways in which masks could help: protecting the wearer from others, or protecting ot

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