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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
As a rule of thumb, greenhouse gas emissions are roughly equally split between electricity production, transportation, heating, agriculture and industry, about 20% each. Transportation is electrifying rather quickly in Europe, heating at a
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This triggers some PTSD with Google Maps navigation in Finland We have two official languages - Finnish and Swedish, neither of them big enough to warrant any Google effort for proper text-to-speech. Hence, the voice navigation first pronou
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I'm cautiously optimistic about SPARC, but I don't believe it's going to be more than a footnote in the overall energy storage At a fundamental level, our lowest cost energy options are really simple - wind blows and makes st
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The silver lining here is that it make energy storage economical without any subsidies. Looking at local Finnish spot prices - one could charge for 30e/MWh and discharge at 500e/MWh. Companies like GridScale tout 60% round-trip ef
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This is where the narrative about personal responsibility falls apart - when it comes to electricity and energy, everything is better at scale, and it's not even close. All the meaningful action is to be done on state, corporate and
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And industry. And transportation. And commercial or public buildings. Taking into account only personal electricity consumption and disregarding all the rest that makes society work is deeply myopic As a rule of thumb - electricity consum
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Physics will always heavily favor the attacker here. It's like a difference between throwing a stone at a target vs. throwing a stone to hit a flying stone mid-air with enough momentum to meaningfully change the trajectory. The second
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That's how urban warfare goes. Either prolonged Sarajevo-style siege waiting for surrender, or brutal block by block demolition until there's no place where defenders can fire from. The logic of urban warfare hasn't really ch
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Propaganda mostly works by highlighting the convenient facts and omitting the inconvenient. Reading western media, one would get the impression Ukraine is a country inhabited by nothing but immaculate saints and heroes, who would never hurt
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Average temperature in Oslo is colder than 90% of the planet - but average winter temperature in Oslo is a fairly normal winter temperature for nearly half the planet, especially for the more affluent parts of it. The hottest large city o
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I'm a supporter of nuclear, but this trope is overplayed. This winter Germany derived 5-10% of their electricity from natural gas - and even that is mostly due to cogeneration of heating, not for electricity needs. This cogeneration ru
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Not sure about South Korea, but Taiwan's democracy is kind of a joke. Since the end of the WW2, the grand total of the number of parties holding power is...two - DPP and KMT. There are no differences between them in foreign affairs. Bo
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Russia in the 90s wasn't a true democracy either. US press liked to depict Yeltsin as a democrat because he was weak and subservient, but his methods of power were deeply autocratic. Yeltsin ordered artillery shelling of the parliament
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It's on the way to Kiev, the exclusion zone means there are no large urban settlements to fight over, and it's also using the West's weaknesses against itself - reality: topsoil has somewhat elevated levels of radiation compa
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Yeah, most people don't have a proper mental model of radiation - it tends to be discussed either as a virus, or as a poison. It's neither - it doesn't multiply, it is not transmissible, dilution works perfectly well; and as
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Chernobyl sarcophagus is a massive pile of concrete - basically indestructible. Buildings made of concrete are ridiculously resilient to explosions - remember the Beirut explosion? That grain silo right next to the epicenter was still stand
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Because money, in the end, is just a proxy for labor, energy, land and raw materials. One can print money, but cannot print factors of production
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The ferocity, speed and coordination of the invasion suggest it's not just Putin - this is exactly how a unanimous agreement of all political and military elites look like. Judging from history - we won't hear about the true reaso
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Kosovo is a more apt comparison. There's no way of condemning annexation of the breakaway regions, while defending doing the same with Kosovo - without coming out as a hypocrite who bends the facts to fit his needs
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Sanctions barely work on small countries. They're but a nuisance for mid-sized countries and do approximately nothing to big countries. Russian economy is mostly autarkic - consuming overwhelmingly goods and services produced within Ru
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> insufficient gas buffers during the uptick of the economy after Corona this is true > Russia closing part of its huge gas supply to Europe this isn't, afaik. Russia doesn't sell on spot market, they prefer long term future
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We fire up coal/gas/biomass plants. Nature doesn't care about the ideological purity of the electricity grid - all that matters is total cumulative emissions People treat this question with religious mindset, as if burning
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This was also the case in eastern Europe during the Cold war - some countries came quite close to being classless societies, but people there nevertheless made up a bunch of status symbols out of fairly ordinary items - like jeans. Young pe
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Book of Ecclesiastes (part of the books of wisdom of the Hebrew bible) ancient era existentialism written in poetic form. Unlike the other suggestions here, it can be accessed for free and takes only ~20 minutes to read
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US minimum wage reached $1/hour in 1956, or $10.25/h in 2021 dollars Since 1956, inflation adjusted GDP per capita increased by +218% All things equal, this would mean ~$66k / year for a 9-to-5 job paying minimum wage
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> spread radioactive particles over most of Europe and Russia making them uninhabitable JFC, this is the perfect capture of the level of debate surrounding nuclear If it was true, don't you think every single country in the world wo
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The problem with this line of argument is that there's no single "price for electricity". Either it's dirt-cheap when oversupplied, or eye-wateringly expensive when undersupplied. Within the past two months, spot price r
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There are also some "physics" reasons for this - the source of electric current in an ICE car is usually a 1kWh lead-acid battery - obviously not always at 100% state of charge. Even if the designers wanted to put an awesome infot
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It's a manifestation of a much more sinister pattern - prioritizing first impressions over long-term considerations
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To add heaps of salt to the injury - automotive functions like seat heaters, defroster, wipers, energy usage, etc. - those cannot be pinned to the quick access bar. Only apps like Spotify, Netflix, browser,... It's a CAR, ffs! Tesla, p

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