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by dalyons 1y ago
He cares about the bribes and grift he is personally receiving , and that’s about it.
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by dalyons 1y ago
Yes, and deserts are just as susceptible to the effects of climate change as everywhere else. You have to build solar somewhere or they’re all doomed too.
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by dalyons 1y ago
Transmission wasn’t the problem with this project. It was cancelled out of spite
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by dalyons 1y ago
It’s not just the US that sucks at mega projects. It’s everywhere that’s not china.
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by dalyons 1y ago
California hit a new low of 22% fossil generation for the first half of 25. It makes sense and is already happening
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by dalyons 1y ago
87% of all capacity added in 2024 was renewable. https://climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/...
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by dalyons 1y ago
87% of power added in china in 2024 was renewable. https://climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/...
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by dalyons 1y ago
This is a useless “technically correct” rejoinder. Yes, the top 500 would by definition still have 500 companies in it. Yes, the net value of the s&p would almost certainly be lower without the innovation brought by immigrant founders.
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by dalyons 1y ago
Germany is at 60% already! It’s close
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by dalyons 1y ago
Read this and weep https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transi... In 2024 china created $1.9 trillion USD (!!) of new GDP from solar/battery/wind tech, and it will likely reach $3t in 2025. T
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by dalyons 1y ago
They don’t actually. Renewables on the grid make nukes uneconomical.
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by dalyons 1y ago
Solar and wind are extremely simple machines and are thus much more amenable to manufacturing economies of scale than fundamentally complicated nuke plants. I very much doubt we’d get to 10x , 100x seems impossible.
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by dalyons 1y ago
If we got to 97% and use gas backups or whatever, we have already clearly won.
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by dalyons 1y ago
The massive capital costs of the plant have to be paid back in the sale price of energy, that’s what makes it expensive. France’s state built plants don’t have that accounting
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by dalyons 1y ago
If everyone had this clear unambiguous data, you’d think at least one of them would have shared it by now now. Just one!
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by dalyons 1y ago
minis didn't sell. Your wants are not mainstream enough :)
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by dalyons 1y ago
Perhaps if tariffs were implemented in a somewhat sane way, your argument might have more merit. Today, we are also tariffing the raw materials needed for domestic production, including many that have zero or insufficient local production.
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by dalyons 1y ago
I do wonder, will this drive the value of software “things” way down? Once everyone starts solo building their own things…
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by dalyons 1y ago
all energy including vehicles. The US grows an unfathomable amount of ethanol corn, ~ 30 million acres. Its insanity, its an incredibly inefficient way to get energy.
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by dalyons 1y ago
Politics and corruption. The generation cost is low, but the government backed monopoly folds all kinds of distribution, deferred maintenance, fire damage, and political pet projects into the retail price. It sucks.
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by dalyons 1y ago
The US grows more acres of corn just for ethanol than the number of acres needed to go 100% solar. We would have _more_ useful farmland if we switched.
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by dalyons 1y ago
At the speed at which coal has been declining, and will continue to decline now due to economics, it’s not going to take 50 years. Maybe 10 at most.
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by dalyons 1y ago
Postgres materialized views are pretty terrible / useless compared to other rdbms. I’ve never found a usecase for the very limited pg version.
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by dalyons 1y ago
Every time we have this discussion, we conclude that despite some good aspects nuclear is way too expensive and too slow to build.
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by dalyons 1y ago
Which of course there is a clear outside reason for it.
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by dalyons 1y ago
agreed, and they also miss the fundamental difference in compensation they're getting for those hours compared to regular workers.
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by dalyons 1y ago
A trivial google shows thats wrong, it doesn’t look to be a strong correlation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
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by dalyons 1y ago
Yep. Hybrids are a dead end, they’ll be obsolete in a few short years
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by dalyons 1y ago
batteries should help with this. They can be cited in points with existing grid connections, and used to lower overall demands on the grid by smoothing out production & demand spikes.
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by dalyons 1y ago
warning you might end up with an american partner and get stuck there, ask me how i know :). But yeah, the comp difference is crazy, if we ever move back to aus we will have set ourselves up for a very nice life with our US earned savings.

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