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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Russia has a habit of pushing people out of windows who disagree with them. They have poisoned opposition leaders on foreign soil. They used chemical weapons in Syria. And they sent a few hundred mercenaries to attack a military base knowi
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
In the videos I saw, the cars were marked with the "Z". So at least for those particular vehicles, dirty tricks may be out of the question. One other possible advantage is that Ukraine soldiers might be reluctant to fire anti-tank
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
We are talking about a handful of hobbyists and tinkerers making DIY systems. If they substitute a weekend road trip with a weekend of tinkering with DIY power generation at home, the fuel savings would more than offset the embodied energy
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
I have a philosophical issue with the embodied energy critiques. Primarily, it is that individuals who are trying to push the world in a carbon free direction would also likely prefer that the goods that they consume also be manufactured us
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
I read that Russias manufacturing capabilities were already suffering before the war (possibly due to the covid supply chain issues, not sure), and that they are likely a few months out from being able to get manufacturing capacity to a lev
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
This is a bad analogy. First of all, we have nukes. Why would we care if Russian troops showed up on the border. If they cross that line, their country gets wiped off the map. The same dynamic exists with Ukraine and Russia. Also, you analo
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
But they are responsible for large portion of the quality of life issues impacting local residents. I feel like the homeless issue is a case of two sides talking past each other. Homeless advocates (and the "industry") are doing t
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
If I am not mistaken, I think the capability to effectively destroy an entire country with non-nuclear weapons already exists. So the idea is, MAD as a strategy would still be present. You can maintain a non-nuclear arsenal to enforce MAD.
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Better yet, Ukraine should build some well fortified military bases on top of/next to the pipelines. It seems like Russia's only advantage in this war right now is artillery. But if an errant shell could shut down one of the last
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Your Haiti analogy greatly oversimplifies the complexity of the situation. Europe and the West have been bending over backwards to help integrate Russia into the international economy. The entire point of those efforts were to build trade r
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Pretty much everywhere[1]. "Far right" is more accurate than "right wing". But tldr, Putin and Russia have been building ties with far right and evangelical parties and groups across the west for the past decade or two.
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
I think he is gambling that he can "Shock and Awe" his way across Ukraine in a few days with minimal casualties. And then quickly install a new government or declare Ukraine a Russian territory. This is probably why he gave such a
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Alternative headline: "Lockdowns allowed for parents to keep a closer eye on their kids, as a result more suicide attempts were discovered during the pandemic. Actual suicides (and thus attempts) did not increase significantly." A
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
I am genuinely curious. Did she not trust Biden's warnings? Or did she think the media was overblowing it? The "media" gets a bad rap, but I think we have reached a particularly bad place if the general public is so distrustf
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
I did justify my statement, but I will say it again. Solar project development is an exercise in value capture. As long as solar is cheap enough to compete in energy markets (which is currently the case), when some development costs go down
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
> If your value increases linearly with education I am not assuming that at all. The requirements to get a diploma are more than just learning in class. It involves navigating a complex bureaucracy, long term planning, and a certain leve
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Predicting the future is hard. You are asking a question that pretty much no one has a good answer to (at least no one who is being honest). Are permitting fees an irreducible input? Probably not. Are lawyers fees an irreducible input? Mayb
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
I think the term "negative signal" muddies the water here. Caplan is walking on a bit of a tightrope. He is arguing that colleges provide minimal education benefits, and that its primary value is in the signaling provided by the d
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
I am digging through his book and it reads to me like a healthy dose of ideology littered with references to sociology papers that would likely not survive replication. Additionally, I am reading a back and forth between Bryan and Noah Smit
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Solar is already dirt cheap, and there is not much more juice left to squeeze. We might get a little bit more cost reduction over the next decade, maybe somewhere in the 10-50% range, but this isn't much compared the multiple hundreds
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Fortunately no one is suggesting we go 100% wind. Wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, hydro, storage. Plus some nuclear if it is already built. That is what folks are recommending. If new build nuclear can compete, then great. But right no
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I did consider it, I work in the energy industry after all. But even your equation over simplifies things considerably. Things like cost over time (batteries are likely to get much cheaper in the future, whereas solar and nuclear are not l
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
And digging even further. The biggest "incentive" that renewables received was in the "Tax Policy" category. This money is likely the tax incentives that are available to newly built projects. This money is not a govern
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Did you read the report or did you just read the headline? Your source is a report created by the nuclear energy lobby. This is quite literally the most biased source available. And even then, literally from their own data it shows that in
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
Energy storage is expensive. Nuclear is expensive. Solar and wind are cheap. If we are going to need energy storage regardless (we will), then why not combine it with the cheapest sources rather than the most expensive?
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You are literally making this comment on an article about how the nuclear industry needs a massive taxpayer funded bailout to stay cost competitive. The "evil solar lobby" has been saying for quite some time that solar is much che
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
The founder is pretty active on hn[1]. And coincidentally, his most recent comment is about why it makes sense to work at an energy company as part of market research. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=diafygi
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
It really just comes down to interest rates. The fed tried raising them around 2018 but got spooked. This time around inflation might force them to stick it out. In an ideal world, we would have taken our medicine back then and try to slowl
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The panels are dirt cheap compared to the other costs (installation, permitting, inverters, etc...). I suspect that the installation costs and any permit modifications required during the expansion would greatly extend the ROI timeline vs j
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by qqqwerty 5y ago
You are being overly cynical. Single use plastics are a pollution problem. I spend many hours a year volunteering at beach cleanups to try and help keep these things out of the ocean. It is absolutely absurd that we use single use disposabl

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