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by tfourb 7mo ago
You mean like 27 Gwh of yearly installed capacity kind of scale? https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-e...
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by tfourb 7mo ago
You export more to Norway + Finnland than to Denmark + Germany: https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje... And my guess would be that it would be much more expensive for you to build out (and
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by tfourb 7mo ago
Wind and solar are not "dependent" on natural gas plants. You can observe this quite well by simply building a wind or solar plant, connect a battery and a load. It works and it works well. Many national grids do not have enough r
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by tfourb 7mo ago
> Strategic mix Nuclear doesn't vibe well with a grid that is supposed to be dominated by renewable electricity generation. You can't simply increase or decrease nuclear generation and even if you could, it would make the econo
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by tfourb 7mo ago
Depending on the public charging infrastructure in your area, it is already quite feasible to own an electric car without your own wall box. Modern BEVs can charge basically to full within 20 minutes. If your supermarket has a public charge
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by tfourb 7mo ago
But doesn't nuclear power present a complication when designing a power grid for renewable energy? It is basically very expensive caseload energy that needs permanent demand, when the entire proposition of a renewable-focused grid is t
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by tfourb 7mo ago
Why would you invest in nuclear power, which is several times more expensive per kwh than wind + battery in Denmark, which also has excellent links to reliable hydropower from Norway and Sweden? Especially when your greatest external securi
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by tfourb 7mo ago
Brick and mortar stores, as well as service oriented businesses do exist and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Tech is not the entirety of business.
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by tfourb 10mo ago
Wrong. First of all only 25% of the natural gas inserted into the reactor are converted (with the rest presumably resulting in emissions) and natural gas also produces emissions during exploration and exploitation
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by tfourb 10mo ago
I’ve literally transported dishwashers in a Renault Twingo. And the „small car + trailer“ combo will always carry more than a pickup. Pickups are pure lifestyle.
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by tfourb 10mo ago
Renewable energy is literally available everywhere and solar and wind are now cheaper than hydro in many places. „Economic development“ can mean many things and there is a scenario where it supports the concept of „well being“ rather than a
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by tfourb 10mo ago
My father’s decidedly non-nerdy logistics consulting business with roughly 20 employees ran (and runs) on Mac OS since the founding of the company in the mid 1990s with my mom being the „IT team“. There are some situations where companies r
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by tfourb 1y ago
This. Apples execs have choices on how to keep making profits. Enshitification is a choice, not a requirement by some force of nature. Tim Cook could just as well sell his shareholders on the idea that really good and user friendly products
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by tfourb 1y ago
What doesn't? You can check all of this with a simple web search.
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by tfourb 1y ago
For consumer spending and disposable income, as for gdp per capita, averages are irrelevant as they can (and are) skewed by high earners/spenders and tell us little about the experience of the other 70% of the population. Air condition
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by tfourb 1y ago
The average wholesale price for electricity in 2024 was close to 0.09 €/kwh. The consumer price is about 0.3 €/kwh currently, depending on the deals you are getting. The difference between wholesale and consumer price is made up o
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by tfourb 1y ago
You don’t need surveillance if you have relationships and trust. Bullying is intractable because traditional schooling is essentially and structurally exactly that: the bullying of kids by adults. It’s only logical that it results in the bu
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by tfourb 1y ago
80% of buildings in Gaza are destroyed. There are well documented cases of arbitrary killings of civilians and attacks on hospitals. IDF is routinely demanding entire cities to be evacuated, knowing that not all people can comply with such
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by tfourb 1y ago
What you are writing is demonstrably untrue and you would recognize that if you’d spend even a few minutes researching the actual facts. Rehabilitation works, if done according to established best practices.
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by tfourb 1y ago
You are committing the same fallacy that you are prescribing to others. If rehabilitation is taken seriously and provided the required resources, recidivism is a „statistical minority“. As with many social issues, the US happens to be very
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by tfourb 1y ago
Why? There are tons of reports of individuals getting stuck in detention for weeks for extremely minor or even no actual immigration offenses. I’ve traveled extensively across africa including some pretty shady countries and I now feel that
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by tfourb 1y ago
„There is no set of political body in the world with the capability to freeze consumption and lock billions of people into poverty.“ I don’t think this is actually necessary to manage climate change (see my point advice above about the deco
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by tfourb 1y ago
Ask and you shall receive: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 You will notice that the picture does not change radically if you include emissions from trade (which is what you were asking). Turns out while Chi
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by tfourb 1y ago
CO2 emissions are not the driving force behind economic development. Energy is. And energy generation has been decoupled from CO2 emissions in almost every major economy, including China. Heck, in many countries economic growth has been dec
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by tfourb 1y ago
"Yet you included privileges (like getting tax-funded things) in those liberties that would be affected. That's muddying the waters." Differentiating between abstract liberties and the economic means to actually make use of t
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by tfourb 1y ago
I'm not defining liberties as privileges, I'm merely pointing out that your right to liberty ends where it infringes on somebody else's (and vice versa). Reasonable people can debate where exactly that line can be drawn and w
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by tfourb 1y ago
I trust Tesla's data on this kind of stuff only as far as a Starship can travel on its return trip to Mars. Anything coming from Elon would have to be audited by an independent entity for me to give it an ounce of credence. Generally y
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by tfourb 1y ago
You misunderstand my point. The juxtaposition is not between "individual" and "collective" liberties. That's a bit of a separate argument. It is about "your" liberty vs. "mine". You might feel
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by tfourb 1y ago
That's actually categorically false. We also use sophisticated hearing, a well developed sense of inertia and movement, air pressure, impact, etc. And we can swivel our heads to increase our coverage of vision to near 360°, while using
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by tfourb 1y ago
You (like many people holding this viewpoint) have a very narrow view of "people's choices", which we could maybe also term "liberty". I'm personally in the very lucky position of being born to reasonably rich

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