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by cygx 6y ago
I don't hear ANYONE making noises about "peak oil" any more. As far as I'm aware, conventional oil production did in fact peak more than a decade ago. And while the Hubbert model failed to predict global oil producti
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by cygx 6y ago
Because it's overstating the facts ("no other source", "seen only in Star Trek", "as much understanding of energy as flat earthers do of geography", "ridiculous"), contradicting any study on the
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by cygx 6y ago
Because you synthesize the gas, there's no net CO2 production.
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by cygx 6y ago
Renewables are based on the hope that one day we [...] get batteries with energy storage seen only in Star Trek. You're right that we aren't there yet, but Star Trek level technology is hyperbole. Just to give one example, the G
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by cygx 6y ago
Sure, but conversion to travel time is trivial given a signal velocity of c. Or just assume a 'natural' system of units where c=1 :p
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by cygx 6y ago
Also [...] the time it takes to arrive back here For reference: Voyager 1, interstellar space 21 lighthours Perseverance, Mars surface 12 lightminutes Artemis, lunar orbit 1.2 lightseconds
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by cygx 6y ago
Well, with the Quran, you've still got the destruction of pre-Uthmanic variants, ahruf, qiraʼat, ...
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by cygx 6y ago
You have to factor in political opposition by energy companies and unions. So I'd have expected that the bare minimum to hit our reduction goals would have been done. Given that we did manage to hit our goal, things might not have look
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by cygx 6y ago
Note that the difference shrinks to a factor 2 if you consider per capita values. That's still bad, no argument: France splits atoms, while Germany burns lignite, and peat aside, that's as bad as it gets as far as CO2 goes. Howeve
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by cygx 6y ago
Germany actually failed in its efforts to get off the coal so far There was no way to 'fail' such efforts, because until last year, there was no actual roadmap for getting rid of coal. Instead, there were CO2 reduction goals. We
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by cygx 6y ago
We still have no data that indicates wind and/or solar can displace coal/gas as energy sources. Germany, 2010: Coal+Oil+Gas 55% Nuclear 25% Wind+Solar+Hydro 13% Germany, 2020: Coal+Oil+Gas
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by cygx 6y ago
Not off-hand, no. Also note that such figures will be estimates: We've yet to raise the share of renewables to levels where such costs really become significant...
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by cygx 6y ago
Nuclear also isn't 'on demand', but load-following at best. You'd have to add some peaker plants (or storage) into the mix if you wanted to go majority-nuclear as well...
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by cygx 6y ago
You're never going to have a powermix that's 100% renewables There have been a whole bunch of studies that say you could, in principle. If things like power-to-gas or cryogenic storage panned out, going from 'in principle&#
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by cygx 6y ago
Nuclear reactors don't make sense as peaker plants, hence are not a battery replacement as such. You're correct that one should factor in the cost of storage if one wants to considers renewables as an alternative to nuclear for pr
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by cygx 6y ago
No, my own dive down the Covid rabbit hole has been fairly shallow so far (I used to keep track of local numbers, but eventually stopped; a couple of weeks ago, I looked at excess mortality in the Nordics because Sweden continued to pop up
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by cygx 6y ago
> Could you please link me to the multi-country excess morality data? Not sure if there's something better, I just clicked through https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat... via 'Cha
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by cygx 6y ago
Quote: "It is somewhat suggestive that none of Sweden's direct neighbours show significant excess mortality in 2020..." Also, I wonder what you mean by Norway disavowing lockdowns? Because they did institute fairly strict mea
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by cygx 6y ago
For reference, the paper I cited is available online [1], but it's different from the version I used. In particular, the section I quoted from now reads "We found no evidence that the more expensive, irritating and uncomfortable N
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by cygx 6y ago
Policy concerning covid diagnosis is not relevant when the metric under discussion is excess mortality.
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by cygx 6y ago
The fact is Sweden lies in middle of the Eurozone pack. But at the bottom of the Nordics: It is somewhat suggestive that none of Sweden's direct neighbours show significant excess mortality in 2020...
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by cygx 6y ago
> Masks were known not to help with respiratory viruses (Flu, CoV, etc.) The Cochrane Library 2010, Issue 1 - emphasis mine: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses Although respiratory viruses
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by cygx 6y ago
From what I've read, Petrarch did hope for some sort of Roman revival - so arguably, he can be seen as a spiritual successor to the three age approach...
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by cygx 6y ago
From on-screen to in-memory representation, we go from glyphs to grapheme clusters, to unicode 'characters', to codepoints, to encoded bytes. None of these steps are bijections (ligatures, multi-character graphemes, invalid charac
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by cygx 6y ago
Just because the boundaries are fuzzy doesn't necessarily invalidate the concept of a 'dark age'. If you don't like the term, we could call it "the age where total population, urbanization levels, manuscript product
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by cygx 6y ago
Yes.
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by cygx 6y ago
The baryon to photon number density in the early universe plays a role during big bang nucleosynthesis as well as baryon acoustic oscillations, imprinted on the microwave background. We know that the total energy density must be (close to)
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by cygx 6y ago
If we consider it benign, we call it education, if not, indoctrination. A culture that doesn't do it will cease to exist.
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by cygx 6y ago
They treat humans almost as pets. With some important differences: For one, pets don't get to vote...
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by cygx 6y ago
What about all the other big EU countries that have comparable death rates? The US actually is fairly unique in that excess mortality never returned to baseline. For example, Belgium is one of the European countries that was hit hardest:

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