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by throwaway473825 5d ago
That's a de facto ban since nobody has achieved a capture rate of 90 percent, and not for lack of trying: https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-does-the-world-need-carbon-ca...
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
My point is that there's no party in the UK that wants to drill as much as possible as well as burn as little as possible. It's either one or the other, never both like in Norway.
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
It's really sad comparing the UK with Norway. The latter did "drill baby drill" before it was cool, but almost exclusively for exports. Some of that money has been invested in rapid electrification - so that Norway can export
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
There's a difference between electricity and energy. Last year, fossil fuel usage fell for power generation, but not as a whole. This year, oil and gas are projected to fall as a whole, although coal is still expected to grow: https:&
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by throwaway473825 8d ago
Isn't it better to allow a few luxury cars that are taxed to oblivion? As long as there aren't too many cars, the city can be pleasant, and it's a nice source of revenue.
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by throwaway473825 9d ago
While this isn't the best way to address the issue, the US is way too dependent on gasoline/diesel for transportation. It's not sustainable.
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by throwaway473825 13d ago
Here's the list: 1 Fable 5.1 38.8% 2 GPT-6 Astra 33.8% 3 Gemini 3.8 Flash 31.2% 4 GLM 5.3 28.8% 5 Grok 4.6 23.8% 5 Muse Spark 1.3 23.8% 7 Kimi K3 18.8% 8 GPT-5.6 Sol 16.2% See number 4, 5 and 7.
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
The US produces light oil that's easier to refine and hence more profitable to export since it has many buyers. The US refines heavy oil that's harder to refine and hence more profitable to import since it has few buyers.
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
China's economy is one of the least dependent on oil and gas. Electricity is mostly coal, renewables and nuclear. Transport is increasingly electric (including trucks). Chemicals are moving from oil and gas to coal. If global oil and g
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
No, gas has always been the most expensive source of electricity. Take a look at the German merit order from 2018: https://www.ffe.de/en/publications/merit-order-shifts-and-th... Nuclear is cheapest, then lignite,
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
If you study the heat pump adoption in various European countries, you will quickly notice that it's connected to the price ratio between electricity and gas. The EU has a carbon tax on electricity but not gas. This pushes people towar
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
Germany became a net electricity importer after shutting down its final nuclear power plants in 2023. On top of that, heating still runs mostly on gas, which won't be fun this winter. Due to the inefficiency of gas heating, there will
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
You certainly could use an alternative to gas heating during the upcoming winter. It doesn't look like Qatar will be able to deliver.
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
The EU has a large problem with carbon leakage from electricity generation to oil and gas use. For example, gas heating is exempt from the EU carbon trade, so people are encouraged to use that rather than electric heating. In countries like
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
If it costs only €1 billion to extend the lifespan by 20 years, then nothing else can compete with it. The capacity is 1 GW.
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
Did Germany plan to increase electricity consumption? Gas heating is still king there, and Germany famously promotes hydrogen (mostly from gas) over battery vehicles.
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by throwaway473825 15d ago
With hindsight, it wasn't a very good idea to shut down 6 of 12 nuclear reactors. Still much better than the situation in Germany, but that's a very low bar. It will be interesting to see how the Rolls-Royce SMR project works out.
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by throwaway473825 16d ago
Yeah, I blundered a knight and still managed to win.
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by throwaway473825 17d ago
It's not unprecedented given that GLM 5.3 Flash was better and cheaper than GLM 5.2.
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by throwaway473825 22d ago
The main reason why electricity is expensive in Germany is because it's taxed to oblivion. Even when wholesale prices are negative, electricity costs about three times as much as gas. Now you might ask why electricity is taxed to obliv
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
If that's the case, then why do all European cars have AC? There's an anti-electricity sentiment, but that's a very different thing. It's why most of those anti-AC places use gas heating.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
>Of course, it's only that simple to replace one heat source with another, why wouldn't anyone do it already? In most European countries, electricity is taxed much higher than gas. Those taxes eat a large chuck of the efficienc
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
> But let's not forget that energy is also on average a lot more expensive in Europe than in the US. The cost plus environmental concerns, which seem to fair less high in the public conscience on the other side of the Atlantic, have
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
The problem with monopolies is that they can hike prices at will. This has certainly happened with district heating in Sweden. You can't do that with AC and solar.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
It's a little bit more complicated than that. In a hypothetical EU without political intervention, Chinese EVs would be available without tariffs, and those would probably sell very well without any mandates.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
> But this is also why the EU is aggressively pursuing and building up alternatives Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/12/head-of-iea-roasts-euro.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
No, those are caps on the interchange fees paid to the issuing bank. Card transactions have other fees as well.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
Cursor got bought for $60B. This is simply how AI companies are valued.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
Regarding air conditioning in Europe, I suspect that there are other interests at play given that there has been zero pushback against air conditioning in cars. Air conditioning in buildings is likely viewed as a threat to gas providers as
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
India is literally following China's "anything but oil and gas", which encourages renewables, nuclear and coal. In fact, the Chinese coal lobby is partially responsible for the push for electric trucks. The alternatives are d

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