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by fuoqi 1y ago
Add to that cost of electricity routinely rising in EU. The practice shows that with the current technology intermittent renewable generation above a certain threshold in the total generation mix results in a sharply higher cost of electric
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by fuoqi 1y ago
Yeah, and you can even consider yourself lucky if it's just downvotes, sometimes your messages just get flagged, like when I called renewables being a major reason for the Iberian blackout with citations from the official report.
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by fuoqi 1y ago
It's often quite easy to distinguish LLM-generated low-effort slop and it's far easier to point to the established policy than to explain why the PR is a complete garbage. On Github it's even easier to detect by inspecting th
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by fuoqi 1y ago
Well, some people just operate under the "some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make" principle...
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by fuoqi 1y ago
Disposing heat at a higher temperature would also mean that you need to dispose of more heat (~2x in the case of 400°C vs sub-100°C) and losing energy which could've been used for useful work such as generating electricity. It may be r
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by fuoqi 1y ago
No, it absolutely will be an issue. You need to dispose of ~100 MW of heat energy. Simply dumping it into ground will quickly heat it up, you can't rely on water evaporation for obvious reasons, same goes for convection because of the
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by fuoqi 1y ago
>It's heavy, and any accident would render a chunk of Mars radioactive for quite some time. Do you think that nuclear fuel is some kind of green glowing stuff like in Simpsons? New nuclear pellets is just a bunch of uranium dioxide,
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by fuoqi 1y ago
Just replace "money" with a gold bricks. If I have them in the trunk of my car and move it around, you can't arrest my car on the assumption that the bricks are "the proceeds of a crime". You have to reasonably prov
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by fuoqi 1y ago
I agree. We already see instances of debanking (logical evolution of money laundering "control") being used to pressure political opponents and dissenters even in the "free" West. Even worse, governments silently share t
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by fuoqi 1y ago
>I don't think you can apply a price to a human life Not only we can, but it also done routinely. For example, see this Practical Engineering video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbaVdge7kU
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by fuoqi 1y ago
Was the comment above also in "inflammatory style"? It's an obvious fact that flagging on HN is used by some people as a tool to censor unfavorable opinions. Even worse, AFAIK there is zero consequence for such frivolous flag
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by fuoqi 1y ago
>Why is the problem the cheap source of supply rather than the market rules and incentives that made everything act the way it did? I explicitly mentioned this line of argument in the GP. The problem is that renewables only sometimes c
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by fuoqi 1y ago
See the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44360082
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by fuoqi 1y ago
Temporary negative prices have been caused by the renewable generation which exceeded the grid demand at the time, which then evolved into the nasty feedback loop caused by the reaction of renewable generation to those conditions. You simpl
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by fuoqi 1y ago
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by fuoqi 1y ago
>we adjust for inflation Using a very debatable inflation metric (e.g. should deflationary technological advancements in electronics manufacturing boost the "real GDP" metric?), which is quite muted (even with the post-COVID sp
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by fuoqi 1y ago
>BTW, government expenditure only appears in the GDP calculations by expenditure. It doesn't appear in the income nor in the production. The later one the one you are actually thinking of. I am not sure against what you argue exactl
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by fuoqi 1y ago
While I can't say that Musk is right, I also can't say he is completely wrong here. The private sector can also spend on dumb and inefficient things and we are fine in counting it in the GDP metric, the difference between private
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by fuoqi 1y ago
I haven't wrote that the government said that. But a lot of online commentators and even some news outlets immediately started to discuss "cyberattacks" (including the linked article) and asking "maybe it was the Russian
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by fuoqi 2y ago
A really great video from Tom Nicholas which discusses the same topic: "How Britain Became a Poor Country" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vry5deT8lc0
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by fuoqi 2y ago
The place was originally selected because of the combination of several factors: - Closeness to the equator. - Ease of access by rail. - Lack of populated/foreign areas at the path of falling booster stages. - Relative closeness to pro
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by fuoqi 2y ago
Consider an electric unicycle (EUC). It's much more compact, so you can easily bring it into shops and other buildings, as well as it's much less troublesome when you use public transport (most models can be easily kept between yo
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by fuoqi 2y ago
>It seems more likely that people would trade in local currencies Use of local currencies is certainly on the rise, but the problem is lack of bilateral financial trust caused by various factors, including capital controls. There is the
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by fuoqi 2y ago
>I dont think anyone's moved beyond freezing access to existing russian assets, eg disputing rightful ownership, yet. They "just" appropriate "profits" from those assets, which effectively means inflationary eras
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by fuoqi 2y ago
I do not understand your logic. Imagine I have 1 gold bar and issued 100 paper claims on it. How would one claim worth more than one physical gold bar? After someone retrieves the bar, I will have zero gold bars and 99 claims. Would you buy
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by fuoqi 2y ago
The difference now is that professional market participants act on this "theory" by physically moving a significant amount of gold from UK to US. And "weeks-long" withdrawal queues certainly do not look great and confide
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by fuoqi 2y ago
The article has failed to address the most interesting question: why this spread exists. The most interesting theory is that it's effectively a "bank rank" on "paper gold" issued by London, i.e. traders may fear tha
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by fuoqi 2y ago
You are mixing casual relationships. GPS was jammed because of the Ukrainian drone attack, it's a standard electronic warfare countermeasure and civilian planes are well equipped to fly without relying on GPS. And it's perfectly r
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by fuoqi 2y ago
Attempts to ban AfD (which is projected to take the second place), "firewalled" LePen's party which has won with 33% of votes and has zero political power, and now this. And people wonder why trust in the "democratic&quo
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by fuoqi 2y ago
So you do understand that the world can not work according to your simple tit-for-tat principle of "counterattack with equal force". It's a multi-dimensional game where each player has its own fairly opaque "reward funct

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