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811.
by rapsey 4y ago
It takes 10 years to build
812.
by rapsey 4y ago
I don't understand how it makes sense to make these decisions one-sided. I have no opinion if demolition is right or not, but should it not make sense to also in the same bill fund a project to replace the lost power? Same goes for the
813.
by rapsey 4y ago
Mastodon is the linux desktop of social networks.
814.
by rapsey 4y ago
Not OP but I use podcasts, books and following intelligent people (not from the media) on twitter.
815.
by rapsey 4y ago
If I get something in a restaurant (in EU) that has "truffles" in it the taste is exactly like described in the article. Kind of gross and very pungent. I don't exactly go to high end restaurants often.
816.
by rapsey 4y ago
Huh? Mathemathical proof is not a social construct. This makes no sense.
817.
by rapsey 4y ago
That is quite optimistic.
818.
by rapsey 4y ago
Where are they going to get the batteries?
819.
by rapsey 4y ago
You are putting words in my mouth. Pressure can be as simple as a deadline.
820.
by rapsey 4y ago
The vast majority of open source done in peoples free time is unfinished and at best of limited use. The serious projects very often have payed developers. The good ones done by unpaid developers have some pressure in terms of expectations
821.
by rapsey 4y ago
To produce great work you also need some pressure. Otherwise people will get real lazy very quickly.
822.
by rapsey 4y ago
Retail has no profits. AWS is the profit center.
823.
by rapsey 4y ago
It is more public now but Elon has always operated this way. A book about paypal: The Founders, describes their constant war to survive and he obviously thrives in that environment. Which is why the Elon Twitter doomsayers are not likely to
824.
by rapsey 4y ago
How about cost and availability.
825.
by rapsey 4y ago
70%-80% electrolysis efficiency is unbelievably terrible? There are many factors such as cost, time to market and availability. Batteries require lots of mining of materials and have a limited lifespan.
826.
by rapsey 4y ago
Sure but how many of these locations are there? You don't just need a hill, you need large amounts of water available. Not to mention the construction is definitely not cheap or fast. I mean there is a shit ton of land available in say
827.
by rapsey 4y ago
Efficiency is not the only factor. There is also cost and availability. You can't build pumped hydro just anywhere. I have no idea what the cost is compared to lithium batteries though.
828.
by rapsey 4y ago
Cars require a large infrastructure to be in place. EVs use the power grid. Much faster and cost efficient to build large Solar+hydrogen power plants and drive EVs.
829.
by rapsey 4y ago
What this article does not address is however the solar problem of producing too much in the summer and too little in the winter. Using the solar energy from summer to produce hydrogen to use in the winter or at night sounds like a complete
830.
by rapsey 4y ago
Kia, Hyundai, Peugeot, Citroen, Honda have some pretty unique looking cars on the market.
831.
by rapsey 4y ago
Eventually absolutely yes.
832.
by rapsey 4y ago
Nothing better than a legal moat around your business model.
833.
by rapsey 4y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What you consider credible is not the same as what others would.
834.
by rapsey 4y ago
Both. It follows it observably and the reason it does is because with low interest rates there is an excess of capital. Money is too cheap so it flows into speculative asset classes like stocks and crypto.
835.
by rapsey 4y ago
Crypto very much follows the stock market. Interest rates are inversely correlated to stock market performance. After 2008 the stock market went into the longest bull run in history which has now reversed this year. Stock market is down and
836.
by rapsey 4y ago
crypto.com, kucoin and others are way likelier. All the exchanges that passed ETH around to "demonstrate" their reserves.
837.
by rapsey 4y ago
Crypto has really only lived in a zero interest rate policy world and it is shitting the bed majorly now when rates are going up. It is likely far from the bottom.
838.
by rapsey 4y ago
I don't know where you are from but from my EU country I would pay whatever the tax is and not much else. Still vastly cheaper than anything local.
839.
by rapsey 4y ago
Why not just Zenni?
840.
by rapsey 4y ago
It would take some highly drastic changes to the entire social system to make a serious dent. Modern life is simply an anathema to having lots of children. The cost in time and money to the parents is too high.

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