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by mrtksn 1y ago
Very interesting, never heard of these. Thank you.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Having a credit card requires some amount of trustworthiness. Anyone can get a debit card, they even sell it in supermarkets.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Even without internet connection? Edit: OK maybe there's different level of trust and some take a leap of faith :) In my experience debit didn't work but it appears that its not the same everywhere.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
It's not about paying by cash but paying by card offline. How is this going to be implemented I wonder. On planes they often accept credit cards even when there's no internet. I assume this is a trust in-credit-based system becaus
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by mrtksn 1y ago
What is the EU digital ID fiasco?
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by mrtksn 1y ago
That how you build up a case for transferring control. First its "lol, 5m is a pocket change" and it becomes argument of politicians for tighter control over Meta. Then Zuck says they are trying to make the world a better place bu
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Nuclear is expensive AF and takes decades to commission. You put outrageous amount of money in for 10 years then you have free electricity for 40 years. With renewables you get the free electricity much more quickly at lower price. There&#x
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Still domestic politics. You should resolve your grievances with these countries really, I have nothing else to say.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
It's just Germany that shut down a few reactors, their internal politics and has nothing to do with EU or people who want renewables due to climate, ecology or political reasons.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
> what good is that if fossil fuel power generation scales at the same rate It doesn't scale at the same rate though. Renewables are accelerating which means in China especially you see a trend of moving from fossil fuels to renewab
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Its not durable demand for oil, its a demand for energy and shows how bad idea is to rely on suppliers you don't control. Build enough renewable energy infrastructure and the demand for oil goes away.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Global oil numbers went horribly wrong when Russia invaded Ukraine. Prices multiplied and EU was left paying for an invasive force because it was still not %100 renewable. Considering the damage done by the oil supplier war machine, fossil
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by mrtksn 1y ago
EU did not shut down most of their reactors, Germany shut down a few.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Europe hit its peak oil some time ago and the peak wasn't that high. Anyway, electricity is inherently more efficient and less problematic than the chemical alternatives. I guess you can bet on chemical energy if you have plenty of it.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
AFAIK its more complex than that. It requires high capEx at first, it needs the grid to match it and affects previous investments. The solar got cheap fast, wind didn't as much but it has its own advantages like it works when solar doe
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Look at the absolute values, your kettle doesn't run of fractions it runs on absolute power and EU&US are about the same. USA has fractionally lower renewables because they have very large fossil production. EU is making up for its
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Yes, its because it is still short of %100 renewables and EU is importing its fossil fuels. When Russia invaded Ukraine it caused a spike in prices, now its coming down. Prices will go down as renewables proliferate, probably we will pay so
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by mrtksn 1y ago
If you're not the fastest, it means that you're not doing good enough.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Yes that's what nuclear and storage helps with
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Then you store that energy or find a way to use it. Melt ore when its abundant, then make metal when it is abundant, then dig holes when it is abundant, then use the metal to turn the hole into a reservoir when it is abundant and eventually
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Look at the absolute values, china added 4X the clean energy as EU. Once the manufacturing of panels is in place they can keep doing it without further investment. That's not diminishing returns, that's actual power every time. Ca
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by mrtksn 1y ago
No need to obsess with solar if it doesn't work for you, its just that solar is so good. It uses manufactured devices that you just point to the sky and makes your machine run. For stability of course you need something like nuclear o
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by mrtksn 1y ago
They are also very fast at electrifying everything. Especially for transportation, they built large high speed train network(runs on electricity) and are far ahead in electrifying the public transport like busses which also resulted in Chin
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by mrtksn 1y ago
From the dropdowns you can filter by source and type. China's fossils increase linearly and clean energy geometrically, which mean the energy mix is quickly becoming renewable heavy. Also, due to the nature of solar this increase is ac
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by mrtksn 1y ago
The growth is still slow compared to China and the evolution of the international order though. Had EU already switched to renewables 4 years ago there wouldn't be any disruption by the war Russia started in Ukraine. I love exploring t
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by mrtksn 1y ago
You know what, I hope it works out. However Hamas gets a "trust me bro", Netanyahu gets a "Behave!", Palestinians in general get "You poor thing :( " so its not really a resolution, there are no guarantees tha
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Yes, that's the only way for EU to have a tech industry. That's also how any non-US tech industry exists.
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by mrtksn 1y ago
Electricity bureaucracy, whatever doesn't matter. Huge money is invested into making programmers obsolete and they are claiming that it already happens. If the tech is real, Europeans can just tell it to make them all these apps that
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by mrtksn 1y ago
> Then EU will be forced to make its own chat app, UX will be terrible, Why? EU can just tell an LLM to build an alternative app, they can just tell it to make it user friendly and make no mistakes. That's the primary use case of Tr
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by mrtksn 1y ago
So the pattern is, raise the tax on imports(tariffs) then pick champions that will not pay those taxes? This is going to end horribly bad. The level of government interference is at European levels but the shady kind - Turkish levels. No w

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