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by ragebol 10mo ago
Many in design, a few under construction, 2 in operation, by China & Russia. My point being still: the economics aren't clear yet.
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by ragebol 10mo ago
Yep, was just lookin up their recent news on this: https://www.allseas.com/en/who-we-are/news-and-media/allseas...
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by ragebol 10mo ago
You can carry more cargo if you don't need all those batteries. If that difference makes economic sense is not yet known of course, as there are no containerized nuclear reactions that I know of.
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by ragebol 10mo ago
And recently went off a cliff. Have you heard about the 737 MAX, with not one but 2 crashes due to problems with it's control system?
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by ragebol 10mo ago
Ah, I've been doing this for ages but apparently this practice has a name
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by ragebol 10mo ago
Competitiveness at the cost of everything else is right wing. Competitiveness in balance with other interests (like the environment, human rights, ...) is not right wing IMO. No one wants to be noncompetitive.
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by ragebol 10mo ago
Pushing for competitiveness is one thing, but why so devious? Secretly pushing for a more right wing crap. Pisses me right off
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by ragebol 10mo ago
There's a proposal (IDK the current status actually, coming into law in a few years?) in the Netherlands to tax cars based on the area they occupy, not on weight like they are currently taxed. Govt wants to incentivize going electric,
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by ragebol 10mo ago
Sounds very interesting, but one more counter-points I'd like to see counter-countered: These random people will have to rely on experts a lot for knowledge they lack on any topic, because the world is complex. Now, these experts can b
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by ragebol 11mo ago
Makes all the difference indeed. No place nor patience for such nuance nor precise definitions in the news unfortunately.
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by ragebol 11mo ago
They should be clearer: "storms that were once in a 100 years in the 'old' climate". But how do you fit in nuance and statistics into news headlines etc?
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by ragebol 11mo ago
Yup.. Happens to align somewhat with climate goals too, luckily for the rest of us. Once solar+batteries becomes the cheapest form of generation, the coal usage should also drop, if that isn't already the case
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by ragebol 11mo ago
China is simply betting on all horses: solar, wind, thorium, batteries, coal even, anything to not buy foreign oil and be as independent, self-sufficient as possible. Seems like it's working too
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by ragebol 11mo ago
Here goes the "I have nothing to hide" argument. They'll find new stuff that'll make you suspicious.
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by ragebol 11mo ago
Why not also require a permit for gathering the data in the first place? Tied to a very specific purpose of what to do with the data obtained?
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by ragebol 11mo ago
You trust it more than your government. Which stands to reason at the moment if you are in the US. But there are competent, more trustworthy governments in other parts of the world. And other companies people might trust more than Meta. D
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by ragebol 11mo ago
Would there have been cookie banners if DNT was respected?
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by ragebol 11mo ago
> Best known for its long-range weather predictions I wonder if a changing climate makes the predictions in the almanac less useful too
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by ragebol 1y ago
Only when I scrolled all the way down did I grasp how big this puzzle really is, huge!
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by ragebol 1y ago
> There is usually no noise or evidence of struggle from [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIDS So, 24/7 kinda, yeah... Realistically, the risk is relatively low I'd say, so to still stay a functioning par
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by ragebol 1y ago
Going up or down: there is more supply, so prices go down wrt. a situation without wind turbines, at least momentarily until the wind drops down indeed when we go back to a system w/o wind. If you can store the energy, your energy cost
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by ragebol 1y ago
There are plug-in batteries these days. Charge it in one home, then chuck an extension cord over the fence to discharge to another home (ignoring safety concerns...)
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by ragebol 1y ago
I've only heard about this, but do I understand correctly that: - Norwegian hydro-electricity is normally quite cheap - 'They' built a cable from Norway to the rest of Europe to couple the markets - Since the markets are coup
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by ragebol 1y ago
To add, so called 'dynamic energy contracts' are getting more and more popular, at least in my native Netherlands. The European day-ahead electricity market switched to 15-minute price blocks this month, to more accurately follow
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by ragebol 1y ago
They're not nationalizing though
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by ragebol 1y ago
'brittle' here, I interpret as: not simple to restore, the knowledge to get them stood up again is brittle. A bus factor of one, to get back in SWE parlance. If that factory burns down or a forklift crashes into the machine, it mi
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by ragebol 1y ago
Well understood!
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by ragebol 1y ago
Even if we are, if there are trillionaires (on the long scale) or quadrillionaires, there will still be vast (problematic[1]) inequality. [1] Problematic in the sense that the persons holding such vast wealth seem to go bonkers AND for the
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by ragebol 1y ago
Interesting, the Simplifier dude. Curious when he and John Plant of Primitive Technology will meet with their content. The tech tree both of these people have under their belt are huge, but the work Primitive Technology has to put in to get

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