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by erentz 5y ago
Not following how this would work. So overnight demand of the NW and CAL looks to be ~60GW. Assuming you can get 20GW of hydro between the two (which is a bit above current peaks) as your supplement. So you'd need enough solar to on th
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by erentz 5y ago
Hydro currently produces ~7% of US electricity. Things like pumped hydro and conservation are just a smaller nice to have part of the picture, they're not the solution. CA uses ~15GW of gas power when the sun turns off at 6pm. It still
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by erentz 5y ago
10 countries with nuclear weapons. 2 of which don’t have nuclear power. 35 countries with nuclear power. 27 of which don’t have nuclear weapons.
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by erentz 5y ago
> Electricity is only 28% of global emissions. What about the other 3/4ths? How much of fixing the other 3/4ths requires more electricity to substitute? > The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has accurately estimated the planet&#
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by erentz 5y ago
> Electricity is only 28% of global emissions. Then how do you intend to decarbonize other energy uses without electricity? Want to replace gas furnaces with heat pumps? electricity. Produce hydrogen for shipping or CO2 free steel? Elect
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by erentz 5y ago
From TFA: "Jacopo Buongiorno, a nuclear-engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has calculated that over the life cycle of power plants, which includes construction, mining, transport, operation, decommissio
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by erentz 5y ago
The thrust was correct according to your source, or am I misreading it? Nuclear median 12, Solar 48 (4x nuclear), gas 490 (10x solar), coal 810 (20x solar).
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by erentz 5y ago
Why do you think the fossil fuel industry wants nuclear power? How do they benefit? They appear to have gained immensely from the halt of nuclear power deployment in the west. E.g. France famously decarbonised it's electric grid in a c
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by erentz 5y ago
Interesting, that's a pretty good illustration of the low capacity factors of wind and solar given that renewables figure includes 356GW of hydro power. And it shows them increasing nuclear power 4x but renewables only 50% by 2030.
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Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution(wsj.com)
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by erentz 5y ago
This is always an argument when taxes on property come up. By reasoning we should make all the existing f taxes on property 0% because it’d all immediately pass through. But that’s not how it works. In this case it doesn’t abolish rental pr
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by erentz 5y ago
Taxes would apply to the shareholders of the company as described. If each shareholders share along with their other properties is below the quota there’ll be no excess on which the 5% is due. Otherwise better for the university to build no
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by erentz 5y ago
If investments are the problem then likely it is mostly driven by people who own more than one property. So why not simply introduce a large (eg 5%) annual tax on secondary properties and kill the issue entirely? It would need to be done on
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by erentz 5y ago
> It’s funny how all those people who insisted that CFS wasn’t real are now nowhere to be found to answer for their mistake. Oh a many of them are still out there. Now pushing CBT and GET as a cure all for Long COVID.
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by erentz 5y ago
> Second, nuclear advocates have traditionally been, well, men. And not just any men, but the kind of men highly prone to mansplaining why they are rational and you are an over-emotional hysteric. (“Nuclear bros,” in the online argot.) I
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California’s switch to a primarily solar and wind-powered grid is a dead end(city-journal.org)
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One Billion Tons: CO2 Reductions and a Faster Coal Exit in Germany(onebilliontons.org)
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by erentz 5y ago
Well at least for Pfizer I know those with a rare PEG allergy can’t have it. Not sure about the other vaccines. But yeah it’s actually very rare with these vaccines to find someone with a genuine medical reason for exemption.
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by erentz 5y ago
Yep. The thought experiment does a good job I think of highlighting just how much being linked to nuclear weapons and thus became a target for peace and environmental action has screwed us. Take that history away, drop this gift from the un
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by erentz 5y ago
Thought recently seen somewhere but don’t know who to credit: If nuclear power were just discovered yesterday, we’d all be hailing it as the miracle to solve climate change.
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by erentz 5y ago
Why does it have to mean giving anyone power? We could for example enact privacy laws that make it illegal to share personal data. That gives no one power, and takes away power from corporations. We could enact laws that prevent targeted ad
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by erentz 5y ago
I donated to a few candidates and the same thing happened. Not sure if it’s from the campaigns individually, or via the Act Blue platform that they all used.
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by erentz 5y ago
Congress mandate the spending, that’s their job. The executive is then legally required to implement the spending Congress mandates in its budgets. That’s it’s job. the executive is not allowed to not spend what Congress tells it to spend
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by erentz 5y ago
Australia has the capital and engineering capability to solve this. It’s not afraid of spending money for example it’s spending $50 billion on a suburban rail loop in Melbourne alone that has very questionable benefits (compared to alternat
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by erentz 5y ago
This seems more like it should be “The Masks Were Barely Working All Along.” Sadly the effectiveness of surgical and cloth masks just isn’t very good [for COVID]. And we see that being used as ammunition by the anti-public health measures
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by erentz 5y ago
I’d start by looking at overseas policing and taking lessons from them. Look at basing around something like Peelian principals. Find and adopt practices that discourage corruption, just one easy example here is to do away with overtime, co
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by erentz 5y ago
You really don’t need to look for a conspiracy angle like Vox is the mouthpiece of the illuminati or something. Just read the article for the explanation and the preprint if you want more details. The difference here is that this was used i
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A cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment(vox.com)
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by erentz 5y ago
You appear to just be a troll but in case you’re not and you want to actually think critically: go away and ask some questions, such as why you think this? Who told you? How long has New Zealand actually been in lock down? What has life bee
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by erentz 5y ago
Time will tell, Delta is a new beast compared to what we dealt with during the first lockdown. But cases are so far following expected trajectory after initiation of level 4 lock down. They go up initially as you are uncovering more cases t

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