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by ocschwar 7y ago
> Cost: 1.4 billion Euros Lifetime: 20 years Power: 350 MW Max. capacity: 0.4 (40%) Price at the electricity stock exchange Leipzig: 36 Euro/MWh Because wind farms have 0 fuel costs, they will operate at any price above a few euroce
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Completely independent of storage. And that said, if you go offshore, you don't really need a lot of storage.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
According to the Lazard estimate of levelized cost of energy, spending the same money on nuclear fission would produce one third of the power.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
And offshore winds are steady, reliable, and really conveniently timed: early evening is the peak, right after solar is done.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Really? I'd expect the water in the Arctic to still over around 32F and for the phytoplankton to be blooming.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
All of these metrics have subtleties regarding the methodology, which makes the long term relative shifts more important than the absolute values.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Because if you're not the customer you're the product. For-profit publishers have abused the reader-pays model into disrepute, but author-pays and sponsor-pays is an awful way to run a journal.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
In the Netherlands? You can. But it then sinks into the polders.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
No bones, no story.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
And we can negotiate those compromises by calling on Youtube to change how they run their site.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
So why have the government's scientists not changed their tune in 2016? Why were the saying the same things during the Bush years that they said during the Obama years?
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Do you know just how many users here are also tagged with the scarlet 'A'?
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by ocschwar 7y ago
It's spreading.(They're also doing this to crack on fly by night meth cooks)
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Next time you check in to a hotel, notice that the little hanging sign on the door no longer has a side that says "do not disturb."
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Hackers live on planet earth.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
It's not a contest.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
As someone with an autistic kid, I'm in awe of her parents.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Germany, meanwhile, just voted to increase the size of the Green party in the EU parliament. And even the CDU is caucusing with the Greens now. Macron's yellow vest capitulation was what, 4 months ago?
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Or as we commonly call it: politics.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
There's nothing stopping countries from lowering other taxes along with raising a CO2 tax.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> I guess I'm just not sure what her work is that isn't already being done by others. Making politicians uncomfortable about their careers. Lots of other people have tried and failed. She's succeeding.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
I haven't logged into Twitter for years now. And at this point the only Twitter posts I read are Ms. Thunberg's. Much healthier this way.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
MIT is probably the only land grant campus that has no agriculture department. That much is understandable, since ag-schools need to do actual literal field work on test plots, and that kind of acreage is hard to come by anywhere near Cambr
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by ocschwar 7y ago
What we're really paying for is the armies of data entry and clerical workers that have to back up every doctor in this country because they are in a constant arms race with the insurers about getting every claim paid. Compare any medi
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by ocschwar 7y ago
That solar "debacle" was ONE company failing out of over a dozen. The program itself turned a profit for Uncle Sam.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
He won it BEFORE green lighting the Afghanistan surge.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Is she really related to him ? Her dad shares the same first name, Svante, but the connection to Arrhenius I've only found mentioned on troll sites. [EDIT] I stand corrected. There is afamily link.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Your comment is the #5 Google suggestion for "CTCP FINGER"
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by ocschwar 7y ago
That is such a disappointment. The MIT ethic is all about proving yourself by doing worthwhile things, not by flashing wealth around. Cool people eat ramen and advance the world's knowledge. Losers drop out of that and work in hedge fu
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by ocschwar 7y ago
He can keep on coding and submitting PRs.

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