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by marmarama 5y ago
No. I live near a large onshore wind farm with 2.5MW wind turbines and go walking near them regularly. They are inaudible from more than 200m away.
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by marmarama 5y ago
If you've got the land area and the sunshine, solar PVs are cheaper than wind, it's that simple. Wind is a better fit for Europe where there are far fewer sunshine hours but fairly constant wind due to macro-scale atmospheric weat
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by marmarama 5y ago
Viable storage is already here. It's called green hydrogen or hydrogen-from-seawater, and pilot plants are coming online or being built right now. The storage is limited only by tank size, and we already know how to store and use large
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by marmarama 5y ago
The .net stack is pretty unexciting, but way better than it used to be and there are plenty of jobs using it. Just mostly not at startups. Azure is huge and increasing market share. AWS is reaching some limits to its growth and some of its
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by marmarama 5y ago
Even if I did believe that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered, which I am open-minded about but unconvinced by the evidence for, making an international incident out of it in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century is a terrible idea. Imagine
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by marmarama 5y ago
Siemens is currently building a pilot offshore wind-to-hydrogen plant, with an estimated in-service date of 2024. They're not the first to get a plant into service, but that's a lot quicker than a new nuclear plant. Is Siemens Ge
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by marmarama 5y ago
There is, however, plenty of hydrogen in seawater.
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by marmarama 5y ago
Nuclear energy is expensive and unnecessary. A mix of renewables, coupled with battery and hydrogen-from-seawater energy storage technologies, will be cheaper, less capital-intensive, easier to maintain, and far easier to sell politically.