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by thinkcontext 6mo ago
You are wrong, the article discusses this in detail.
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by thinkcontext 6mo ago
I won't disagree that Germany's energy transition has been badly managed. However, after many years of needing subsidies in the last few years the economic case for solar + storage has changed. The most vivid example I've see
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by thinkcontext 6mo ago
The amount of power that can be generated from the surface area of a car is pretty small compared to how much a car consumes. And the cost hasn't been low enough compared to the value of the electricity it could produce. Maybe someday
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by thinkcontext 6mo ago
I'm reminded of during the Iraq occupation how Dick Cheney scolded the media for not saying how great things were going and said how much he liked Fox's coverage. And how not long after it was no longer possible to deny that thin
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
If I was a SpaceX investor I'd be considering litigation. Saying the core product has to be rebuilt right after it gets bought by SpaceX?! Maybe the SpaceX investors would have liked some diligence about that before purchase but look
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
Yes, the white genocide and mechahitler episodes have suppressed adoption.
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
Wow, so many failures of the legal system. While the incompetent/malicious/lazy investigators that used the facial recognition and only that are obviously at major fault, I'd actually put larger blame on the judge that signe
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
Texas is an interesting example because they allowed true unregulated rates for residential consumers. Consumers liked getting lower rates until that winter storm a few years ago had bills for some in the $thousands. Then they didn't l
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
Agreed, it's a big sovereignty issue. Once a solar panel is installed it keeps working for 20+ years. It doesn't get cut off if there's a political problem that interrupts supply.
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
> Blame fully the people who saw all this and voted for him twice Thrice actually
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
I wonder if the current war will significantly accelerate the roll out of non-fossil energy. If the Strait of Hormuz stays closed for a few more weeks there's going to be significant pain, not just for energy but things like fertilize
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
The $130B is only part of the economic costs of the tariffs. Many companies and people changed their buying behavior, either paying more to a domestic company or maybe a company in a country with a lower tariff rate or changed their behavi
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Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX(apnews.com)
59 points by thinkcontext 7mo ago|58 comments
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
How do you explain the reports of Robotaxis running into fixed objects? If what you are saying is true that shouldn't be able to happen. https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...
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by thinkcontext 7mo ago
> and the fact that FSD works so well without it proves that it isn't required The reports that Tesla submits on Austin Robotaxis include several of them hitting fixed objects. This is the same behavior that has been reported on fo
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
Probably $Bs. Around 100 flights per day from there, so there would be dozens of planes on the ground.
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South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in Bitcoin to users(cnbc.com)
1 points by thinkcontext 8mo ago|0 comments
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
The problem you are encountering is how you are discussing superconductors. If you want to convince people that they are relevant you should explain how they would be used. You haven't done that at all, you just keep repeating "
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
A puzzling statement, could you explain? Most of their revenue now comes Starlink which is mostly private clients. Also it's trivial to look at their launch history and see they have plenty of private clients. For sure the USG is their
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
There's reason to suspect that the one's leaving are more likely to be top performers. First, top performers are the most likely to be able to find another job easily so they would take the voluntary buyout or just leave when thi
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
I admit I thought the fiascos that the 2 AP1000 projects were would forever kill the design in the US. But it now looks like the AI craze will give it another shot.
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
The largest such effort is China's South - North Water Transfer Project, look into that if you are interested in the subject. Its unbelievably gigantic in scale, yet the amount of water moved is relatively modest compared to the amoun
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
Nuscale certainly hasn't covered themselves in glory.
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
Isn't the inland ban due to water scarcity? I thought the plan was to deploy Gen IV helium cooled reactors which don't need that amount of water.
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
More than 50% of cars sold in China now come with a plug, on top of the most of the buses and 2 wheelers. Most analysts say they have plateaued and will begin declining in the next few years. They also are beginning to ramp up EV exports
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
Even in China the case for nuclear isn't overwhelming. They are building a lot of nuclear relative to the rest of the world but its not that much compared to how much wind and solar they are deploying.
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
The US gave the nuclear industry a chance for a nuclear renaissance with the subsidies they asked for towards the AP1000. The industry whiffed big time. Looks like nuclear will get another chance with the increased subsidies begun under B
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
> Corn is used as a tool in the crop rotation to enable growing foods for humans to eat. As we learned before ethanol's time in the sun, farmers are going to grow it anyway to support their rotations. The only question is if it is b
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by thinkcontext 8mo ago
The US produces an unbelievably enormous calorie surplus way beyond what is needed for the health of the country and in fact its detrimental. The biggest is not even used as food, over half of corn acreage is used for ethanol. That's
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by thinkcontext 9mo ago
> a better option still is to use the vehicle you already have for as long as reasonable I've gone back and forth on this. When you buy an EV your old ICE vehicle is not destroyed, it continues it's lifecycle when it goes to so

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