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by dalyons 10mo ago
> America has neither the interest nor the capital to chase EVs or force them down American consumer throats. Ok so dont, but take the tariffs off batteries, and allow foreign EVs to compete fairly. We'll get affordable EVs, and the
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by dalyons 10mo ago
thats like $250k of cars at new prices, yes you're not typical :)
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by dalyons 10mo ago
subsidies ended in 2022 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-cut-new-energy-veh...
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by dalyons 10mo ago
i was assuming the person i was responding to was talking about recreational offroading, not ranching, oiling or mining in the middle of nowhere. A max pack rivian has a 400ml range, which is plenty for the vast majority of recreational adv
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Yeah this is an outdated talking point, because people can’t accept how far ahead Chinese auto are. They now just have a more advanced, innovative & competitive auto industry, with little subsidies.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Remains to be seen if it’s smart - personally I think erev is going to be obsoleted very quickly by batteries getting better and cheaper. You can already buy 1000v 5min charging EVs in china, as well as semi-solid state batteries. And the b
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Isn’t that the rivian R1? Incredibly capable off-road. One of a small number of stock model cars to complete the Rubicon trail
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by dalyons 10mo ago
The issue is that the administration is in an adversarial relationship with “woke”. That EVs and renewable energy somehow fall into this category is one of the dumbest parts of this timeline.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
The R3X will be that. Although you could just get an R1, incredibly capable off-road but yeah, bigger.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
The vast majority of truck owners do not live in these sparse / long distance situations. There just aren’t that many people as a % of the population that live that rural. Whilst a real factor for some, that is not the main reason behi
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by dalyons 10mo ago
NPPs are intrinsically Big Projects. The western world is almost universally suffering from Baumol’s cost disease - we cannot build Big Projects at a reasonable price anymore. Subways, bridges, NPPs, you name it - all cost many multiples of
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Who cares if we never figure out how to recycle them? bury them in a landfill, and we’ll still be so far ahead on the pollution front than any other alternative. This is such a non issue
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Chinas labor costs are no longer cheap either. They just have higher tech factories now.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Yes and no - yes it’s dumb to give up and let china have a defacto monopoly on the future of energy production. But no insofar as sanctions on battery and solar don’t hit the same as oil and other things. Because once you have them, they ke
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Once a season / 6 mo of running you replace the evaporator panel, which is ~$50 for branded or $10 for amazon copies.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
That’s not true. They are physically massive, incredibly complicated machines with all kinds of large scale pressure welding, forging, containment systems, 100s of miles of plumbing, and other serious large scale engineering. They will neve
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by dalyons 10mo ago
No, it’s mainly because it costs too much.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Fusion likely wouldn’t solve much. Fuel and disposal costs are a small part of nuclear costs. It’s amortized capex for the extremely expensive plant, then maintenance. Fusion would make both of those costs worse
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Because it’s going to be a ludicrously complicated, massive machine. Those are expensive to build and maintain
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by dalyons 10mo ago
That’s a lot of refilling. You might want to look into a whole house humidifier, I added an aprilaire 700 evaporative to my hvac ducts, it costs a few hundred $. Plumbed in, automatic. So much less screwing around
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by dalyons 10mo ago
> still fundamentally suck as cars compared to gas alternatives i can assure you my expensive EV does not suck as a car compared to gas alternatives, its better in almost every way. insane performance compared to any gas car, superb han
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by dalyons 10mo ago
i couldnt believe that animal ag was the same as power, so i looked it up. Animal ag is ~14%, power is ~35%. so not close to equivilant, but ag is still a way bigger percentage than i would have guessed!
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by dalyons 11mo ago
By the time we get around to building these it would likely be sodium ion anyway
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by dalyons 11mo ago
Same as Australia, if you’re a millennial/genx. Only 4 tv channels and one of them was showing endless simpsons repeats in the after school time slot. Almost everyone knows s1-11 references. Kids these days with their on demand streami
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by dalyons 11mo ago
You should tell the folks overwhelming choosing to build and finance renewable power plants! They clearly missed this key point, they’ll surely be grateful you let them know that their renewable investments don’t make sense, and they should
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by dalyons 11mo ago
Luckily it is already the case, and it looks like coal is starting to drop in china
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by dalyons 11mo ago
Germany sourced 57% of all power from renewables in the first 9mo of 2025 [1]. They seem to be doing just fine, might be time to update your talking points 1. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/energy-industry-relieve
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by dalyons 11mo ago
doesnt make a difference to the economics of a nuke plant. Fuel consumption is a tiny fraction of the cost of nuke power, its almost all fixed cost - amortized construction costs, operations, etc. You need to run it at as close to 100% alw
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by dalyons 11mo ago
Yes yes, one of the usual reflexive context free points repeated every time solar comes up. Whatever the actual capacity factor is(5% is not a serious number ), I’m sure chinas energy planners know that, it’s hardly a gotcha. And still they
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by dalyons 11mo ago
france cant do it any more either. Flamanville was 12 years late and [1] 400% over budget. EPR2 is already delayed and over budget and they havent even started building yet! UK cant do it either, see hinkley point c [2] [1] https:/&#x

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