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by manfredo 7y ago
Price and global production capacity are two different figures. Global capacity is limited by things like raw materials. Regardless even if we go with your more optimistic projections, you're still talking about 5-7 years of global b
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Battery production isn't set to be anywhere near the scale required. Current production is 300GWh per year globally [1]. Production is projected to reach 2TWh per year at ~2030. How much capacity is needed for a country to be powered b
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There's nothing in the company's interest to give feedback. It takes working time to compile this feedback and give it to the candidate. The candidate isn't going to interview at the company again until probably a year or mor
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> Why would growth slow down after 2023? The growth is mostly linear. > And are you’re comparing primary energy to electricity? That’s a lot of waste heat that would not need to be replicated Are there plants that scavenge waste heat
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Lithium ion battery production is estimated to reach 1TWh per year in 2023 and 2TWh per year at ~2030 [1]. If you integrate that curve, you're still looking at several decades to build enough battery capacity to fulfill the world'
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For thermodynamic efficiency, yes, batteries are better. But they're not available at anywhere near the levels required. The global battery production capacity is at just under 300GWh per year. By comparison, the US's night-time e
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While lobbyists have sometimes bribed officials through gifts and perks, which is illegal, lobbying is not bribery. Say you're interesting in promoting renewable energy. You and like minded people put together resources to promote rene
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> People cannot live in a building under construction, they have to find somewhere else to live while it is being b Incorrect. Apartments can be built on empty lots or on land currently used for things other than apartments. Yet this kin
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So in short: * EARN IT creates a committee that is set out to define "best practices" for preventing child sex abuse. * Companies that don't adhere to these best practices lose liability protections for user-generated content
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I don't think you fully understand the scope of what section 230 protects against. Even running an email server could put people at risk of being held liable for crimes, if users were to use that server to coordinate criminal acts. Rev
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Why would adding more units to the housing supply displace anyone? Who is displaced when 60 new apartment units open open up on a new building? Your question is a vacuously true: everyone who is displaced will be able to afford a new unit,
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> Because it will displace communities while the housing is built and there's no guarantee the tenants can move back. Increasing the supply of housing displaces no one. What do you mean "no guarantee that tenants can move back&
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How is increasing the supply of housing going to increase gentrification? The housing shortage has resulted in high housing prices, which is the main driver of gentrification.
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Technology hasn't regressed. Nuclear plants get built cheaper and faster on a per unit basis when they're built as part of a series of production. France built dozens of copies of the same four reactor designs. By comparison, many
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Bury it underground. The amount of waste generated by nuclear power is a fraction of 1% of all the toxic waste generated by heavy industry. The entirety of the United States' nuclear waste from electricity generation occupies a volume
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France managed to bring its nuclear generation from close to 0% to over 75% in 15 years.
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Nuclear, slow as it may be to build, is still the fastest option to actually eliminate fossil fuel usage. The other plans involving intermittent sources require immense amounts of energy storage. To put this in perspective, the US consumes
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The daily fluctuations in demand aren't as large as this comment makes it seem. Usually, demand changes by ~25% between peak demand and minimum demand [1]. Excess energy produced during non-peak demand can be used for carbon sequestrat
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by manfredo 7y ago
Nuclear is renewable through seawater extraction: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s... If we want to get pedantic, there's a finite amount of fissile material. But th
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Over 99% of Norway's electricity is from hydroelectric plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Norway
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Uranium seawater extraction makes fission fuel effectively limitless [1], on the order of billions of years of supply. If you want to get pedantic, it is limited but so is the hydrogen in the sun. 1. https://www.forbes.com/s
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Excess energy is an easy problem to solve: use it to desalinate water, produce hydrogen fuel to power ships, or any of several other uses.
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The main premise of this article is that suburbanization led to increased long-term infrastructure costs (because sparse populations require more per-capita spending to deliver power, plumbing, roads, etc.), but failed to generate a commens
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RTS games tend to be more skill based and thus less accessible for new players. For games that strive to have large audiences, it's important for games to have a significant level of chance so that worse players can still sometimes win
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It applies not to one, but to four: > No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees... So it's not just coercion, it's prohibiting influence (as well as attempts at either). And
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> This is becoming ad nauseum. You're missing the point about how the law applies differently to company policy and actions Where are you getting this idea that this law only applies to company "policy". Reread the protect
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You don't need to suspect, fathers were polled as well. 72% preferred work full time, 12% part time, and 16% not working.
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> The law is to prevent employers from extorting all employees into taking political action under threat of termination. Not incorrect, but an incomplete description of these worker protections. It is also prevents employers from threate
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This frames the decision to dedicate more time towards childcare than work as a something thrust onto women by societal expectation when women would rather work. Studies indicate that only 20% of women would prefer to work full time after h
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So by "blocking" they mean, "if I don't buy ands and my competitors do, then people will see my competitors' brands before mine". Isn't this fundamental to how advertisement works?

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