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by fundatus 3y ago
Might be true (didn't check the numbers) but German coal/lignite plants (which are the biggest contributors to the German CO2 footprint) will be phased off gradually over the next 7 years. So that will change drastically. It would
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by fundatus 4y ago
> except thousands of common herbal remedies are replaced by patent medicine with legal controls, because $MONEY Except they are not being replaced? Just like in the good old days™ you can still get out and collect the herbs you're
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by fundatus 4y ago
Regional trains in Germany are not run for-profit. For each route there is a public tender for subsidies every 10 years or so. Private companies that win these contracts have to fulfill whatever local authorities put into these tenders (lik
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by fundatus 4y ago
Yep, 15 minutes to full load is not uncommon with gas plants.
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by fundatus 4y ago
that is exactly what i am talking about in my second point?! you‘re at 11.5 GW considering the capacity factor, divide that by 3 (first point) and you’re still above whatever you’ll produce with Hinkley Point C!
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by fundatus 4y ago
> sure nuclear is very expensive up front, but a nuclear powerplant can run for 100 years while wind and solar had to be completely replaced every 25 years. Hinkley Point C is currently expected to cost around $31 billion once finished f
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by fundatus 4y ago
Yep, and fusion reactors will probably be even more expensive (especially the first ones). Looking at the current prices of renewables, I don't see a market for fusion reactors at all to be honest. After all we already have a giant fus
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by fundatus 4y ago
So when you said "currently" you actually meant "right at this moment". Because currently (as is "this year") about 50% of Germany's electricity generation comes from renewables.
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by fundatus 4y ago
In case you still want to build it yourself: you can use sshfs to mount a Storage box on your Hetzner server instance.
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by fundatus 4y ago
Yeah, but the EU said back then: "You either find a common standard, or we're gonna legislate." Companies didn't want legislation, so most of them complied.
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by fundatus 4y ago
A regular bank transfer? I know the US doesn't really do that kind of thing, but here in Europe I can send money to another bank account within 10 seconds.[1] And it doesn't even cost me or you anything and all I need is your IBAN
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by fundatus 4y ago
Nuclear is an energy source of the past. It's too expensive and therefore rejected by the markets. Modern, emmission-free energy-sources like solar or wind (accompanied by storage in homes, districts and some larger-scale storage facil
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by fundatus 4y ago
> It isn't good enough due to variability. We don't have efficient energy storage so that means you have to build massive overcapacity, like 5x as much. That's a problem already solved: Storage. Germany alone has 3.4 GWh o
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by fundatus 4y ago
Hinkley Point C, £23 billion for a measly ~3.000 MW. you could literally build ten+ times the capacity using modern, emission-free alternatives.
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by fundatus 4y ago
my point obviously being that this still affects plants, animals and humans in a much larger area than just the surrounding area - which makes the argument "We could have a chernobyl every year for the next hundred years" not very
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by fundatus 4y ago
It's literally natural market forces that are "killing" nuclear energy. It's simply too expensive compared to modern, emission-free alternatives.
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by fundatus 4y ago
> Nuclear power is cheaper when built in serial production. That's the basic conclusion of any analysis of the history of nuclear power construction. There's nuance as to why, but the basic pattern is that putting an order of 4
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by fundatus 4y ago
After Chernobyl clouds containing radioactive material where blown westwards by the wind and eventually those clouds rained down over parts of Germany. To this day if you go out hunting for example wild boards in those areas they have to be
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by fundatus 4y ago
Who Killed Nuclear Energy? The absurd cost to build this technology and the emergence of much more cost-effective and emission-free alternatives. It's as simple as that. It wasn't the tree-huggers or a big conspiracy.
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by fundatus 4y ago
Same! Also it washes at up to 70°C which you simply can't do when hand washing - but it gives you a much better result with less water usage.
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by fundatus 5y ago
Not sure about other countries, but Germany's long distance trains are run for-profit. Only commuter trains are subsidized. Tracks are paid for by taxes - but so are streets.
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by fundatus 5y ago
The thing is "neutral state" for Putin means a russian vassal state. So not an option.
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by fundatus 5y ago
Every Pro iPhone has one. So it already got pretty cheap by now. Looking at Mercedes' Level 3 Autopilot tech you can also see how well you can integrate the sensors into the front of a car.
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by fundatus 5y ago
Well, might be. The question is though if it's worth a price orders of magnitude higher than competing energy sources. And most countries on this planet seem to have come to the conclusion that it is actually not worth the price. Now I
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by fundatus 5y ago
I've compared the build costs of HPC to the build costs of wind turbines. Not total costs.
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by fundatus 5y ago
Don't think so. Taking Germany as an example, many people joined these movements after the country was in large parts affected (to this day actually) by the nuclear fallout of the disaster in Chernobyl. So I guess experiencing this fir
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by fundatus 5y ago
Refueling outages last on average for about 2 months every 18-24 months, so it's never been "constantly" really.
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by fundatus 5y ago
Let's do some math. You can build a 3 MW wind turbine for around £2 million. Which means you could build around 11,500 wind turbines with the amount of money spent on HPC. Which in turn means a maximum production of 34,500 MW. So even
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by fundatus 5y ago
Nuclear is also the most expensive energy source (total cost per MWh). Which is the real reason why "Europe is losing nuclear power". When finished the UKs Hinkley Point C nuclear plant will probably have cost around £23 billion f
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by fundatus 5y ago
I am sure this is not about Apple being altruistic or caring about artists at all. All streaming services pay out about 70-80% of their revenue. It just happens to be that for Apple Music "money to be paid to rights holders" &#x2F

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