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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Yeah, they say that, but I wonder how much of it is just to make the Trump admin happy. Like, I don't doubt that they will go and build gas projects, and might even use some of this money to kickstart it, but presumably RWE was already
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Crazy the sorts of lies people make up here.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
I somehow missed the "this", that makes way more sense, thank you for pointing it out.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Hopefully they take the money and use to to build more wind turbines in Europe I guess. Absolutely shameful what the USA has become.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Because otherwise Japan would have sold Treasuries to plug its financial gaps and defend the Yen, which would have increases US bond yields. Is the US Treasury now on the hook every time Japan feels a bit antsy about its finances?
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
I don't really understand where you two disagree. You appear to be saying the same thing. Sure, nobody is campaigning to rejoin with the old priviliges and opt-outs, but that's because nobody sees how to rejoin with the old privil
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
I think there's truth to this in that it really took the wind out of all those other exit-campaign's sails, but I'd never say that we're better off without the UK. The UK is a dynamic, innovative country with a with a lo
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Before anyone gets too excited, this is from 2025. It's a statement from a Mayor of Manchester trying to raise his political profile, not a statement from a prime minister who needs to set a concrete agenda. It was before he was forced
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
They say that the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist says "It can't get any worse than this!", and an optimist says "sure it can". I am an optimist with respect to LinkedIn.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Germany has the ability to curtail renewables when there's no buyers available for it. They offer low or even negative prices though specifically because it's better for just about everyone than production curtailment. If Germany&
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Interesting, I didn't know that the UK wasn't going to be a part of Wero. You still have SEPA though right? Hopefully this comes with time.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Sure, but the neat thing about this is that Germany did not have IDeal, but is starting to get Wero adoption.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
By 2017 Germany had 8 NPPs online. German nuclear power generation was never at 5x that level. Back in 2010, it was around 2x that level though. > Also, your claims about the German grid are non-sense. Germany produces several times as m
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Neglect of the rail systems has been true for over 16 years, but there was distinctly less chaos before 2020, because the systems were just left in operation as they rotted. Post pandemic, it was decided that they had to fix it, at the same
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Spain's shut down was the same reason Spain has cheap electricity compared to Germany: They've chronically underfunded their grid infrastructure and haven't properly adapted to a renewable grid. Germany has extremely high ren
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
The numbers I gave were only for the month of July, not the entire year since the commenter was comparing to the article's numbers for July and claiming that it would have dwarfed the power produced by solar.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
The reason Chinese solar outcompeted European solar is partially that China has real lower costs, but was more because China had way way way more appetite for massive subsidies to dominate the market. They took over the solar market from
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
The slight consumption bump you see in 2021 for coal and lignite had more to do with overall energy consumption jumping in 2021 as the world economy came out of the pandemic. If you look at the wider trajectory from 2018 to 2025, coal consu
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
The generators are not the expensive or hard part of building hydro or nuclear, so I have no idea why you're making that comparison. Wind power is an incredibly cheap form of power. Your point about rare earths is more or less covered
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
That was not generally true before the system upgrades started. It's been true for a while though. I didn't mean short-term bad timing, I mean it's bad that we're getting hit by increasing droughts in the same decade the
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Wow, impressive velocity of bullshit claims, but I guess one has to grade on a curve, this is Hacker News of course. > Germany burns the lowest grade coal known to man to make up for the loss of its nuclear fleet. Renewables are replacin
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Renewables are replacing coal and nuclear simultaneously. Coal usage was consistently dropping before and continued to consistently drop after the nuclear phase out. I agree if coal was banned before nuclear, the new renewable capcacity add
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Yeah. Bad timing that this also coincides with a period where the rail system is in chaos, and running beyond capacity due to overdue upgrades.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
German wind turbines largely don't come from China, but even if they did, the difference is that if China stopped selling us solar panels, batteries and wind turbines, the existing infrastructure would continue to function for decades
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
I was just pointing out that the claim that it has abnormally high energy prices among developed nations isn't quite true. I do agree though, that even just having 'normal' energy prices for a developed nation makes it very h
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
The elevated temperatures actually reduce the efficiency of solar panels. The increase is due to more panels, not more solar flux on Germany.
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Coal usage in Germany has continued to shrink throughout the nuclear shutdown. It's at the lowest level it's been since the early days of industrialization. I agree that nuclear should not have been phased out at the very least un
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
Germany's electrical prices are mostly in line with it's neighbours, not super high. If a company makes good usage of batteries, they could actually have quite low prices since the electrical price undergoes huge swings throughout
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by eigenspace 2mo ago
> people have no idea how good they have it here. Whenever I tell Germans that I'm Canada, they almost always respond with "Canada!? It's such a wonderful country, what are you doing here??" as if they couldn't p

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