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by dalyons 6mo ago
California is a huge success story at a massive scale. Looking at Casio right now it’s 92% clean energy. For a state of 39 million people! And batteries keep getting deployed faster and faster 2022 - 48% gas power on grid 2025 - 25% gas pow
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by dalyons 6mo ago
Worse, the summary article makes claims using 2022 data which is so out of date to be useless
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by dalyons 6mo ago
I mean, who cares? Fire up the gas plants in the one week a year you have weather anomalies. We’d still be 90+% carbon free which would be incredible. The last gap can be solved at a later point as technology evolves
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by dalyons 6mo ago
It’s in every discussion here on EVs. Thread after thread of PHEVs lauded as the “obvious practical choice” despite being already essentially obsolete
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by dalyons 6mo ago
Is 5min charge and 500mile range enough to finally stop the usual procession of objections to EVs? I know this is a luxury model and the charging stations will take awhile to roll out, but the trajectory is crystal clear and the momentum fa
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by dalyons 6mo ago
Tell that to the 100k+ people he killed by abruptly and illegally halting usaid
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by dalyons 6mo ago
this should be the top comment, it neatly captures almost everything important about this moment.
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by dalyons 6mo ago
actually nuclear is terrible in a grid increasingly full of nearly-free variable sources (solar&wind). The nukes need to stay at 100% all the time selling their power at a high fixed price to have any remote chance of being economical.
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by dalyons 7mo ago
but much less dependent. Its way easier to stockpile a big buffer supply of LNG if its only 20% of your supply, for example. Its way easier to trim some 20% demand and still keep the country largely running, for example. "much less de
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by dalyons 7mo ago
Why do you have to go to absolutes? If 90% of countries can be 80+% self sufficient, that’s still an amazing thing
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by dalyons 7mo ago
Because in every thread about EVs someone has to chime in with their niche gas only use case, as if that somehow matters to the overall needs of the vast majority of drivers. Cool, you area niche need. Don’t buy an ev for 10 years or so.
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by dalyons 7mo ago
Cars and electriciy are the overwhelming majority of all fossil fuel use. Let’s just focusing on tranistioning them first, and we’ll be in so much of a better place. The rest can wait
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by dalyons 7mo ago
It causes massive inflation of goods and food prices, as farming and supply chains are heavily dependent on fuel prices. How is runaway inflation “massively winning in every other way” for regular americans?
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by dalyons 7mo ago
> That means they can run 80% of the time as an EV they dont though. Real world data shows it indeed makes them terrible. https://electrek.co/2026/02/19/biggest-study-yet-shows-plug-... https://
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by dalyons 7mo ago
It’s also because most PHEVs sold are terrible EVs. Weak, short range, cut to gas all the time. Impractical to use as a pure ev. This style of phev is greenwashing and should be sold as a gas car for emissions rules. EREVs are a different s
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by dalyons 7mo ago
sadly thats not true at all. In practice, on average as a category, PHEVs barely save any real world emissions over gas (~20%). https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-... https:&#x
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by dalyons 7mo ago
yes, there a lot of outdated perspectives in these threads. The world has changed, EVs are the cheaper option now, its just going to take awhile for some places to catch up.
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by dalyons 7mo ago
sadly thats not the norm. Various recent studies from the EU based on real world vehicle data show that actual savings from the PHEV category are about ~20% less emissions than a pure gas version. Aka, they are just gas cars. Despite manufa
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by dalyons 7mo ago
> EV truck is a dream at this point in history. you should tell china. https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/year-end-surge-electric...
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by dalyons 7mo ago
No one pays you for that reliability though. In free energy markets they pay you for what you supply, at the clearing price at that moment. Solar is so cheap it will push nukes off the grid during the day, you don’t get credit just because
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by dalyons 7mo ago
And still china’s share of energy provided by nuclear is declining y/y, and will continue to decline for the foreseeable future. Because their renewables buildout is >10x nuclear. Even china, a nuclear construction scale/cost&#
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by dalyons 7mo ago
Coal use in Germany has declined significantly over the last decade.
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by dalyons 7mo ago
That’s not the way the energy market works though. The cheapest sources (like daytime solar) will knock your expensive nuclear off the grid. Or force it to sell at significantly below operating cost, which is suicidal in the long term, sinc
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by dalyons 7mo ago
Not sure what we are supposed to infer from your last sentence?
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by dalyons 8mo ago
Exactly. You can see batteries displacing a huge amount of gas already, and their rollout is going to keep accelerating. The state is up to 67% clean energy total for 2025, crazy progress in a decade
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by dalyons 8mo ago
Check out the crazy amount of battery additions in California in 2025 and planned for 2026. It’s gunna be fine
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by dalyons 8mo ago
In December EV trucks outsold diesel in china https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/year-end-surge-electric...
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by dalyons 8mo ago
AFAIU that bill did not pass and died.
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by dalyons 8mo ago
Sadly they can be stopped. ~25% of US counties have adopted regulation effectively blocking new solar and wind (1). Up from 15% only a year ago! Peoples stupidity and self sabotage truly knows no bounds. 1 https://www.usatoday.co
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by dalyons 8mo ago
You’re joking but that would probably actually work

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