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by dalyons 11mo ago
"China currently has 58 operable reactors with a total capacity of 56.9 GW. A further 30 reactors, with a total capacity of 34.4 GW are under construction" [1] So, yes, but... China installed 256GW of solar in the first 6 months
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by dalyons 11mo ago
They’re not financially attractive in other parts of the world either. China, a zero litigation single party state, is building some but a tiny % compared to their renewable buildout
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by dalyons 11mo ago
Which is honestly fine, we would be in such an amazing place if we got to 99%
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by dalyons 11mo ago
50+ years ago, not relevant.
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by dalyons 11mo ago
They’re at ~60% total power from renewables in 2025, and increasing every quarter. I’d say they’re doing pretty well! The coal is unfortunate, but was due to the Ukraine war and gas situation.
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by dalyons 11mo ago
This is such a tired trope. The differences between the two countries present day energy situation doesn’t tell you anything about how the world should proceed tomorrow. Unless you have a time machine that you can use to get every country t
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by dalyons 11mo ago
State subsided construction and maintenance doesn’t pass straight through to consumer prices. Also, France can’t build new nuclear for cheap/fast anymore either. They have a program for new reactors, even if they go ahead the first one
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by dalyons 11mo ago
The only way new coal plants get built from today on is with massive lifetime subsidies, because they are uncompetitive. Ie, if they get built it’s for dumb politics not economics
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by dalyons 11mo ago
Wild take. New coal is not cheaper. There have been no new coal plants built in the US since 2013. That solar plant you linked is an obsolete experimental technology. Obsolete because regular PV became so much cheaper.
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by dalyons 11mo ago
Same. There’s something missing here.
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by dalyons 1y ago
I provided real world data. You keep providing what if’s and hypotheticals about cars that don’t exist and driving habits people don’t have. I give up - we’ll find out in 5 years, we’ll see how successful the hybrid market is. I’d put good
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by dalyons 1y ago
What are you even arguing? These are the hybrid cars that are getting built, and this is the way people drive them. Yes the cars could theoretically be made different, but they arent today and they wont be in future. Yes people could theore
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by dalyons 1y ago
what happens to that strategy now that h1bs are being targeted by the current administration?
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by dalyons 1y ago
> These are the things they make irrelevant because they're hybrids. It doesn't matter if it has a short range or takes 8 hours to charge because you charge it once a day overnight or while you're at work, which is enough
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by dalyons 1y ago
plugin hybrids are essentially a lie. Data shows only ~19% less emissions than a gas car in real world driving [1]. For something twice as complicated as an EV, that will shortly lose any range advantage as EVs advance. [1] https:/&#
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by dalyons 1y ago
PHEVs are universally bad EVs. Terrible capacity, slow / low power charging infrastructure, minimal use of electric engines at higher speeds. They are essentially a lie to get green subsidies & tax breaks, achieving only ~19% less
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by dalyons 1y ago
hybrids are option (b), a dead end parochial technology. Pure evs will strand that technology very quickly. BYD already has 1000v / 5min charge.
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by dalyons 1y ago
side question - has retatrutide been different enough to tirzepatide for you that you would recommend going to the extra effort to source it?
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by dalyons 1y ago
I don’t think there is a single new car for sale in the US that doesn’t have an ECU, and a huge amount of digital electronics. Hell, my friends petrol jeep was bricked a few years ago by an overnight software update and had to be towed to a
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by dalyons 1y ago
Almost all ICE cars sold in the last 5+ years have as much or more electronics and software, including massively complex software engine control. For better or worse, that’s all cars now. The days of simple engines you can fix with a wrench
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by dalyons 1y ago
I understand the argument now thank you. And I guess that makes sense for people stuck in that positioning, they would have to be marketed to with guarantees to change their mind. Or, what I suspect but have nothing but anecdotal data - the
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by dalyons 1y ago
So, it is the same thing… but people have vibes and perception that it’s not? Data says otherwise, but people have feelings? I don’t really know what to do with that argument. Even if it’s true that people have a “perception”, it won’t matt
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by dalyons 1y ago
Most petrol cars will last a very long time. Some small number won’t, and will die in an expensive way. Most EVs batteries will outlast the lifetime of the car, with some acceptable loss of capacity. Some small number won’t, and that will b
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by dalyons 1y ago
My ice car _could_ spontaneously catch fire and be totaled, that would be an unknown large expense. But people (rightfully) don’t factor that into buying cars because it’s an infrequent fault. Same with this fear of spontaneous battery fail
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by dalyons 1y ago
So… we wait 30 years for this to happen while the planet cooks? Nah, I’d rather throw everything into renewables, batteries, and other innovations
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by dalyons 1y ago
Full battery random failures aren’t a thing that happen at any regularity that you should be rationally worried about. Neither are battery replacements common at all. You can of course make your own risk decisions on your own criteria, just
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by dalyons 1y ago
They don’t randomly die. They degrade slowly and predictably. Your lottery analogy is misguided.
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by dalyons 1y ago
His whole point was that the battery pack would randomly completely fail and they’d be unpredictably out a bunch of money. That doesn’t happen. Or at least, doesn’t happen more than ICE engines randomly die.
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by dalyons 1y ago
It’s not a random moment, they degrade predictably over time and at a very slow rate. They have less “random” big expensive failures than ice cars. How much is an ice whole engine replacement in a semi modern car? Not cheap and happens more
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by dalyons 1y ago
And your proposed solution for this is? Can’t be nuclear because that’s the most expensive mainstream energy we have.

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