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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Geothermal works in enough areas (geographies) for it to be an entertaining talking point in niche forums like this one. But not much else. Earth is an incredibly poor heat conductor, as evidenced by the fact that you don’t have to dig very
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
The people who need heat pumps the most don’t have $6000+ to blow on heat pumps. So now we’re back to government subsidies, which routinely prove to drive up the price of whatever is being subsidised, especially at the scale of residentia
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
And you’d still need five or six split systems to properly heat a home. Kitchen, dining, bathroom, three or four bedrooms. I’ve never seen a split system in a bathroom, but I’ve definitely seen freezing cold bathrooms, or bathrooms with a r
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
> and we definitely need to be careful that we handle the transition without screwing people over. Well we’re certifiably not going that . No need to wait decades to look at the recent data. London can’t even work out how to properly ve
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
At what cost? Doesn’t Germany now have some of the most costly electricity in the OECD? For a while there we kept hearing about plug in balcony solar in Germany. Electricity generation used to be a solved problem, now it’s so bad people wan
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Sure. But at the scale of a city or state one home uses close enough to zero power that it being a net user or net producer of electricity is irrelevant. Scale up to tens of thousands of homes and suddenly you need an organising body approx
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Modern medicine is dominated by very new ideas and technologies. Gene therapies, targeted cancer treatments, blood pressure medication, antibiotics, surgery, joint replacements, sterile practices, vaccines, hormone replacement therapies.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Dams are subject to silt buildup up, which requires maintenance. They’re so destructive to local ecosystems that environmental groups have blocked any new hydroelectric dams being built in Australia for over 40 years. All modern concrete ev
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
But it’s not $1.2 billion people to do the thing . It’s only $1.2 billion to not do the thing . To do the thing would require paying the original contracted amount. Whatever that might have been. Melbourne, well Victoria the whole state
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Day time . And what of the night? Freeze in the dark.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Provide one example where solar and / or wind generation have penetrated a market to a level worth mentioning and electricity prices have come down or remained stable adjusted for inflation.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Pegasus installed via zero click 0 day exploit. Completely owned.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
One would have to literally have one’s head in the sand to not know what’s going wrong in London. Or Melbourne. Or Los Angeles or New York.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Our nearest star, Sol, will grow cold well before then. But even that is estimated to take trillions of years after it runs out of hydrogen for fusion.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Why would the sun’s energy be taken away?
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
> The subject has been very qualitative What does this mean?
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
I don’t understand why entry of a large consumer of electric in to an area should result in higher residential electricity prices. The new large-consumer can pay for the electricity it uses all by itself. If new generating capacity is requi
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Seen what a tree can do to a sidewalk? You can step over or walk around cracked and buckled concrete. Trains don’t appreciate having their rail ballast disturbed.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
They were certainly a novel way of causing a reasonable amount of death and destruction. Fortunately the novelty wore off fair swiftly.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
We’ve gone from proof-of-work to proof-of-no-work.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Sure. 70,000 dying in a flash certainly puts an end to their suffering.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Well it appears to be the cheapest method known to produce at least some metal alloys.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
> but they pay income tax for their employee That’s definitely not what I said, nor how it works. If you’re going to mischaracterise something as simple as that, what faith should one place in any part of your comment being an accurat
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
Women, the world over, are, on average, shorter than men. Therefore women will, on average, select mates who are taller than them. Cultural relativism has fallen out of fashion, universal truths are back in.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
There is nowhere in the known universe where the average woman is taller than the average man. Therefore, women will tend to select mates who are taller than themselves. It’s not a cultural phenomenon, it’s universal.
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
You don’t instantly notice how tall someone is?
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
> Everything I've been able to find suggests that renewables, since they have a ~zero marginal energy cost, displace the most expensive dispatchable alternatives Renewables aren’t dispatchable, so the two aren’t comparable. Any incr
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
There are counties that have zero percent corporate profits tax. Be like them and the corporations won’t have a need to offshore their profit. The alternative is One World Government, which, in its lesser form, empire, has a nasty habit rap
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
This is increasingly, and worryingly, becoming an ideology people are being swept up by. It doesn’t help that there are Card Carrying Socialist activists in our public school system in Australia, indoctrinating kids in to a politically and
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by perpetuallunch 2mo ago
The only sane argument to be made against this practice is that governments should make their tax systems more favourable to companies operating in their jurisdiction so they have no reason to move their profits to a more favourable jurisdi

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