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by oezi 3y ago
Since I have not gotten any emails from these services, it would be good if you share your present jurisdiction.
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by oezi 3y ago
Since the writing is on the wall that these power plants are mostly worthless in the foreseeable future most energy companies had to reduce the asset worth of the power plants already considerably. Who would want to buy such legacy tech? Ra
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by oezi 3y ago
It isn't really clear that fundamental and drastic changes to lifestyle is needed. It just needs considerable investment in climate friendly energy technologies. On the order of 100-200 trillion USD. Which is roughly 100-200% of global
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by oezi 3y ago
Those figures came up in various reports/studies. The one I studied in most detail was from Fraunhofer on the German energy transition. One good book regarding napkin math was the following (in German unfortunately): https:/&#x2F
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by oezi 3y ago
Most of these plants already exist. We just have to pay their upkeep and see how the future unfolds. It isn't necessary to build many additional plants. Cost estimates of attaining net zero are on the order of 100-200% of global GDP. T
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by oezi 3y ago
There are various studies from consultancies such as McKinsey, the IEA or national thinktanks (e.g. Fraunhofer in Germany) that have put out ballpark figures like these. Commonly the total is on the order of 100-300 trillion USD. Current gl
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by oezi 3y ago
The grid doesn't have to be carbon neutral all the time. It can use gas peakers for contingencies.
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by oezi 3y ago
Cost estimates of attaining net zero are on the order of 100-200% of global GDP. To get this done by 2050 we would need to spend 3-6% of global GDP on the energy transition. Not a small ask, but also not insane.
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by oezi 3y ago
Once they have a working prototype it is going to be 10 to 15 years for paperwork and building the first plant.
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by oezi 3y ago
If you need to utilize 2 weeks of storage as a worst case once or twice per year then it doesn't seem an issue to just burn fossils for those instances. The goal is to reduce Co2 emissions and replace fossil usage.
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by oezi 3y ago
This doesn't make any sense. Just use fossils when there are no renewables available. Gas peakers for short term unavailability and others for medium unavailability.
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by oezi 3y ago
The sources of the high energy cost are: - Ukraine conflict's impact on gas prices - Cost of renewables from over 10 years ago when Germany jumpstarted the solar industry using subsidies. - An ill-advised by highly popular switching of
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by oezi 3y ago
It is an article that nicely illustrates that it is at least 50 years away. We shouldn't pin any hopes to it or (for me at least) fund research on it any more than 10% of the funding we provide for solar research.
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by oezi 3y ago
I think it is obvious to anyone following the technology trajectory that solar is the dominant energy source of the future. No other energy source is on a similar path to become cheaper so quickly. We won't even focus on storing much o
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by oezi 3y ago
Wait, I thought the original mastermind rules contain position in the white/black pegs.
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by oezi 3y ago
Engineers wouldn't never be willing to do standups or interviews if given a chance.
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by oezi 3y ago
Product owners are not real customers. Extreme Programming got that part covered much better.
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by oezi 3y ago
> But I'm all out of ideas about how to change it. Instead of stand-ups let developers spend 15 minutes each day in a call with a customer who has a problem or feature request.
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by oezi 3y ago
Even worse IPv6 solves the NAT traversal problem in a way how people don't want it to be solved. People wanted a DynDNS kind of solution.
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by oezi 3y ago
The question is if it is true that retail investors can't guard against stockmarket downturns or if that is the point of the article to make them believe this because the hedge strategies wouldn't work without enough sheep.
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by oezi 3y ago
How about the VW Id Buzz?
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by oezi 3y ago
> We have limited resources I am always wondering why we constrain ourself in the case of fighting climate change. Yes, all spending will at some point have to be accounted for, but it is relatively easy for governments to borrow money i
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by oezi 3y ago
The market for gas cars will be dead in 10 years. It has all the signs of a technology transition and it will be absolutely brutal for all car makers which aren't ready. The range argument won't matter because people rarely drive
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by oezi 3y ago
But if you only now and then, getting a rental for this is much cheaper. Or just get delivery, even cheaper.
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by oezi 3y ago
Unless you are living on technologies edges, ChatGPT gets it right plenty of times and isn't a rude brick about it. If it gets it wrong it usually is pretty apparent quickly and normally gives enough hints for avenues to explore. At le
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by oezi 3y ago
Lots of old foundries are still producing old chips.
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by oezi 3y ago
Nuclear is too slow and expensive to make any change. Just embrace wind and solar and everything will be fine.
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by oezi 3y ago
Human population growth has stopped everywhere except some African countries.
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by oezi 3y ago
I think it wouldn't even require so much as a WW2 mobilization. It needs 3-6% of GDP (globally) to replace fossils fuels and get to net Zero.
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by oezi 3y ago
Adapting is actually a bad decision. If everyone invests into local counter measures such as ACs or flood walls rather than reducing emissions, we might take away resources spend on the cause of climate change. The estimated cost for net ze

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