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by tfourb 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words. All the best for you, too.
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by tfourb 4y ago
I'm conscious of that. But my son literally can't speak for himself so if I (or my partner) don't speak in his interest, who will? And while other people with disabilities can speak for themselves better than I could ever hop
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by tfourb 4y ago
Why the fck shouldn't I fight for the rights of my disabled son/grandparents/friend? Just because something does not impact me personally (yet), it's ok to just ignore it? What you are really saying is that you don'
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by tfourb 4y ago
you are right, thanks for pointing it out.
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by tfourb 4y ago
There is no nuclear industry in Germany. There are no domestic companies capable of or interested in building a new reactor. Of course there are plenty of physicists, but actual industry experts are getting old, as you yourself noted and I&
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by tfourb 4y ago
tl;dr: A country like Germany could expand its current electricity production by about 50% while simultaneously phasing out nuclear and fossil fuels at a whole sale price for electricity below current market rates and with current technolog
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by tfourb 4y ago
Little thought experiment: - Offshore wind costs about 3 Million USD/MW to install - Germany currently has 218,000 MW installed capacity, about 130,000 MW of this is already renewable energy, but let's ignore that for the moment -
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by tfourb 4y ago
There are already grid scale chemical batteries being built, i.e. in Australia. Hydro has been used as a grid scale buffer for decades.
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by tfourb 4y ago
There are plenty of places where people live in hotter/more humid conditions. US dwellings and lifestyles are simply very badly adapted at natural conditions and the gap is made up for by expending energy.
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by tfourb 4y ago
The German government relied heavily on the theory that gas power plants could facilitate the turn to renewable energies. In and off itself this was not a bad idea. But combined with getting 50% of all natural gas imports from a single (hos
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by tfourb 4y ago
Up to a point. Long term the idea is to get rid of fossil fuels entirely and there are good indications that this is achievable.
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There is currently no evidence whatsoever that the US was involved in the attack on the pipeline in any way. To the best of my knowledge, the current best lead is a group of allegedly Ukrainian nationals who hired a private boat and were in
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by tfourb 4y ago
Even if you are a connoisseur of conspiracy theories, this comment is bullshit. The pipelines in question actually did not carry any natural gas at the time of the explosion. Both pipelines of Nord Stream 1 were destroyed but deliveries by
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by tfourb 4y ago
I don't think I provided any judgement whatsoever, I just described how it works and the effects it had in this specific situation. Both are correct as I described them, to the best of my knowledge. If you are interested in my opinion,
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by tfourb 4y ago
If you are asking yourself why prices in Germany are so high: It's mostly the price surge of natural gas after Russia cut off deliveries in retaliation to sanctions in the wake of the war against Ukraine. About 50% of the price per kw&
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by tfourb 4y ago
The EEG (surcharge on the electricity bill to subsidize the installation of both commercial and private wind and solar generation) has been phased out as of 1. July 2022. According to [1], about 75% of the price per kw/h in Germany is
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by tfourb 4y ago
Why not have both low carbon emissions and enough food for everyone? We have the technology.
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by tfourb 4y ago
That's just dump. If you really want to over simplify human history, we are Savanna creatures, and Savannas contain plenty of trees and other perennial plants. I also don't get why you are bringing elephants into this, especially
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by tfourb 4y ago
Currently less than 1% of the population in many industrialized countries are working in agriculture. That is laughably few people and there is no reason why it couldn't be a greater share of the population. Guess what: many people are
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by tfourb 4y ago
Also, it is already a problem for billions of people every year and we haven't found a fix except emitting less CO2.
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by tfourb 4y ago
It really depends on what you define as "usable". I am currently looking out of a window in the Bavarian Forest and see nice lush green meadows which would be perfectly productive under many different types of crops, but which are
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by tfourb 4y ago
Well-designed food forests and agroforestry systems can exceed the calorie production per acre of heavily mechanized and fertilized annual crops like corn, while providing tons more actual nutrition and additional services like wood, good q
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by tfourb 4y ago
Perennial plants are much more effective at extracting nutrients because of more established root systems. Not tilling the field also allows for complex plant/fungi communities to develop which will increase moisture and nutrient level
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by tfourb 4y ago
Perennial plants are much more effective at extracting nutrients because of more established root systems. Not tilling the field also allows for complex plant/fungi communities to develop which will increase moisture and nutrient level
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by tfourb 4y ago
Admittedly it has been a while since I've been in Paris but as far as I know the city does not have an above average problem with homelessness or mental health, particularly in its metro system. I know it's a huge problem in the U
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by tfourb 4y ago
If you need a warmer temperature at night to feel comfortable, I would strongly recommend trying out a waterbed. It is more expensive than a normal mattress but if correctly fitted to your body it is infinitely more comfortable and always t
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by tfourb 4y ago
actually it was on par with most other recent winters: https://www.statista.com/statistics/982807/average-winter-te...
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by tfourb 4y ago
I know that this is a very personal preference and also dependent on the house you live in, but 23°C would feel uncomfortably warm for me, even in a t-shirt. We set the thermostat to 19°C this winter and mostly wore sweaters and were fine.
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by tfourb 4y ago
It wasn't even close to the warmest winter in a long time, only the third warmest of the last four years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/982807/average-winter-te...
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by tfourb 4y ago
I have been a renter for most of my adult life and I own several apartments that I would argue are "reasonably managed" and I am not aware that a landlord (in Germany) can prevent tenants from "leeching" heat from neighb

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