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I'd argue that the decreased usage of oil has -to some degree- already started, e.g. Chinas crude imports have dropped the last two years in a row and yet they're still adding ever more EVs at a spectacular rate. There's prac
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With PV being the absolutely cheapest form to get energy in most regions of the world already or soon-ish (and even highly useful electric energy at that), I fully expect our capital machines to pour ever more resources into its deployment.
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There‘s also the Awa Maru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Awa_Maru
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I, too, started parsing this as RL=real life and that’s why I found the headline interesting
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One weekend Russia attacks Russia, next weekend Twitter attacks Twitter.
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I’d assume that hedging buy prices or long term buy contracts are not the same as gambling.
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But wouldn’t it be better if the volume at least is shown on open exchanges?
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Isn’t that argument somewhat strange or dishonest? To paraphrase you: I‘d rather have naked shorting and the associated manipulation and problems with it than better price discovery for stockholders. In your example, the stockholder isn’t
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And here I was, reading the headline and thinking this would be an article about the EU, sanctions and Russian gas.
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So let's pick this apart: - "The authoritarian infrastructure will be built" I'd argue it already has been built, by Google, NSA et al. Also, I fail to see why these "high levels of government regulation" would
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If talking about costs, wouldn't LCOE be a better indicator? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
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Oops, my calculation was way off (missed a kilo-prefix somewhere), we'd need to cut and store about the entire rainforest per year. So, this is obviously not possible as an all-around solution but might help with some Gigatonnes..
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Because other wavelengths were probably already taken. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis (Black is not a wavelength but rather the absence of visible light, e. g. it has all been absorbed)
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Optimistic perhaps, but maybe not impossible ;) I've done some further googling and found some studies on the topic, though on-land: https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0... and some mo
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Hi, do you have some source or paper on this approach? I don’t mean to dispute this but have never heard of it before and a quick query didn’t turn up any results, rather the opposite (decay processes happening on the sea floor, not sure wh
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They recently received 65M funding. You can supposedly buy that stuff.
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Have you read the article? "Aluminum, discovered in minute quantities in a lab in the eighteen-twenties, was hailed as a wonder substance, with qualities never before seen in a metal: it was lightweight, shiny, resistant to rust, and h
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There are plenty already, by all sorts of players. However the issue is search - which is probably one major aspect of the "friction" mentioned in the parent post: 1. Patents are often not exactly written to easily give their secr
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Also http://www.bluepatent.com/en
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Highscore 188.23, that wall at the end just proves too high..
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One of you talks about absolute numbers, the other about % change. I don't have any numbers easily at hand but you might both be correct.
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Have you considered buying stock?
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So what I'm always wondering is: are there actually many (or at least some) succesful businesses that started out as a business model canvas? How about the YC companies, do they come with this in hand?
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I can't believe this shit flies here.
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I guess we'll have to see how this holds up: Usually the problems arise not from one's own folder structure (most people know their way around what they've created) but when working together in someone else's structure. Does this approach s
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So maybe they've filed the application but have not received the patent/disclosed the invention yet? In the US, you have to prove that you were the first to invent something, not the first to file something (as in Europe), so the secrecy wo
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I find it highly ironic that the "firm’s writers are screened on the basis of their educational achievements" and are supposed to have degrees. What would that matter?