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by tfourb 3y ago
Possibly the worst idea for what you can do with excess power.
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by tfourb 3y ago
China has no environmental regulations to worry about when building out nuclear and has great incentives to do so, but their goal for 2035 is a meagre 7.7% of electricity generation from nuclear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by tfourb 3y ago
This type of environmental mitigation is pretty common here in Germany. I'm currently working with a local organization that wants to revitalize an old water mill barn from the 1700s (I think). It's currently in a really bad shape
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by tfourb 3y ago
In that case you'd also need to model how the cost changes if you combine solar with wind and other renewables. Wind and solar are to some extend complementary (there is statistically more wind when there is little sun and vice versa).
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by tfourb 3y ago
I doubt that. A couple of reasons: 1) just based on real world observation. The country with the most ambitious nuclear power buildout program is China. It has the perfect combination of incentives: nuclear power is needed to maintain statu
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by tfourb 3y ago
Like wind turbines? ;-)
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by tfourb 3y ago
Not really. I’ve done academic fieldwork before but not specifically this type of environmental impact study.
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by tfourb 3y ago
Here is a great comparison of land use for different power sources, based on power output: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source Solar is roughly on par with coal, depending on the exact type of solar techno
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by tfourb 3y ago
Not sure how it went in that specific case but yes, these type of impact studies are usually hands on, you go out into the field with a bunch of people and comb an area completely. In case of a chip factory currently developed by Intel in G
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by tfourb 3y ago
that's not really a contradiction to what I wrote above. The point of having one central negotiator is that this negotiator has a lot more leverage, because they control the demand of an entire market. If I tell a drug company, that th
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by tfourb 3y ago
The "actual real solution" with the regard to the topic in this thread is demonstrated well by a number of countries around the globe: force everyone in a country to be part of a public health insurance system, financed mostly by
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by tfourb 3y ago
Stock price and profits are not the same thing. The stock price are a bet on future developments, mostly on revenue/profit growth. Profits are actual money in the bank. Pfizer's annual net income has been around $10 Billion contin
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by tfourb 3y ago
Health systems in other (comparable) countries, where drug prices are centrally negotiated or outright set by government committees are vastly more efficient in terms of cost and generally produce better results in terms of health outcomes.
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by tfourb 3y ago
I think the difference is the extend of the profit. Big Pharma is incredibly profitable, while grocery stores are operating on very thin margins. Few people have a problem with a company doing business based on government expenditure, but s
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by tfourb 3y ago
The latter, as these companies were perfectly profitable even if they wouldn't charge inflated prices in the US. Not quite as profitable as currently, but still not going bankrupt.
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by tfourb 3y ago
You could quite simply legislate permissible compensation structures to make sure that long-term sustainability (however you want to define that) is incentivized. I.e. mandate that above a certain threshold, c-suite and board compensation i
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by tfourb 3y ago
Not sure why you insist on this, but you are counting wrong: "Comissioners are nominated by member states". That's it. Yes, the commission president is the one that presents the list of commissioners to the EU parliament, but
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by tfourb 3y ago
The parent was talking about a weekly task, not daily. For me that would fit the description of "occasional". And a trailer the size of a pick-up truck bed would be quite easy to fit through a drive thru made for giant pickups and
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by tfourb 3y ago
Public transportation is hardly an "inferior option". If done well it can be cheaper, more convenient and quicker than using your own car. It all depends on the willingness to invest the capital needed to build a system people act
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by tfourb 3y ago
I'd like to see a source for someone who actually bought a "30-40 year old Volvo for $1-2k" and put it through another few decades of "hard use" while doing only "basic maintenance" for "a few hundred
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by tfourb 3y ago
Not sure how much hay we are talking, but why not buy a smaller used car with a tow hitch and a trailer? Trailers cost a fraction of what you pay in markup on a pickup over a small car and most cars are more than capable of towing a small t
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by tfourb 3y ago
"Commissioners are nominated by member states in consultation with the commission president, who then selects a team of commissioners. This team of nominees are then subject to hearings at the European Parliament, which questions them
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by tfourb 3y ago
EU représentatives are literally elected by the population under the same rules as national legislators. EU commissars are appointed directly by the elected governments of EU member states, similar to ministers/secretaries on the natio
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by tfourb 3y ago
I honestly do not understand, why regulators have not mandated limits on front dead angles (space occluded from view by the hood) and max vehicle hood hight by now. Well, I understand why it hasn't happened in the U.S. (how could any r
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by tfourb 3y ago
At least in Germany we have "sectoral bargaining" enshrined in law. The relevant union and the coalition of employers negotiate a deal (sometimes this process involves strike actions, if common ground can not be found initially).
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by tfourb 3y ago
There is no „as it should be“ in voting systems. The exact same system can be a good fit for one situation/country/institution and be a catastrophe for another. You are annoyed by Dutch politics, not European politics, so kindly s
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by tfourb 3y ago
Unions in Europe are not on the height of their strength but still a force to be reckoned with. If Musk thinks he can handle them the same way he does in the U.S. he is in for a rude awakening. There are many companies in Europe who have bu
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by tfourb 3y ago
So you don't understand how it actually works. There are no "European Parties" at least not how one generally understands the term in national politics. Candidates for the EU parliamentary election are elected on the ticket o
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by tfourb 3y ago
Literally every EU institution is legitimized just like National governments: - EU Parliament is elected by citizens - EU commission is selected by national governments and approved by the EU parliament - EU council are the heads of governm
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by tfourb 3y ago
Arguably this is currently more of a bug instead of a feature given it’s used primarily for crime and scams. Government regulation over money flows has legitimate purposes and is not pure repression.

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