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by tjansen 4y ago
> Storing hydrogen at scale seems insanely difficult Yes, it's difficult, but at least in Germany hydrogen is considered as the most likely carbon-free fuel for trucks. > desalinating water wouldn't let you use the energy la
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by tjansen 4y ago
That's pretty much the same issue you have with renewables, especially wind. Sometimes it will just produce more than you need. The solution is the same: use overproduction to produce hydrogen or for desalination plants. It's actu
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by tjansen 4y ago
> We absolutely need to do this anyway No. Only if we want to be the only major country in the civilised world that doesn't use nuclear power despite having not enough hydro power. > would take ten to fifteen years at best, This
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by tjansen 4y ago
All these things are not enough. In 2015, there was an hour when wind power only generated 0.2GW. Hydro and biomass will probably never exceed 10GW combined. Even if you radically reduce the electricity needs down to, let's say, 35GW,
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by tjansen 4y ago
You can't compare the price of a wind park with the price of a nuclear power plant, because the wind park does not offer base load. A wind park without base load is pretty useless. Base load is far more valuable. So if you say a power
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by tjansen 4y ago
Just a few comments: - the things you list are insanely expensive (just keep that in mind next time you say that nuclear power is expensive... you also need to figure these costs in when comparing to EE, because you wouldn't need to do
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by tjansen 4y ago
> I would of course not be in favor of nuclear power. Ok, let's say I could convince you that it is possible to store nuclear waste safely, and show you that building up wind power takes at least as long. Could I convince you then?
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by tjansen 4y ago
The article specifically includes public health.
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by tjansen 4y ago
> Because nuclear does not make sense. Assuming your three points would be solved, would you be in favour of nuclear power plants? Or what exactly would need to change?
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by tjansen 4y ago
> Install enough windmills across the entire coastal areas of Europe, That's completely unrealistic. There are times when in all of Europe there is little to no wind. Certainly not enough that one region can provide enough power for
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by tjansen 4y ago
Germany doesn't have much potential for pumped storage. It can work in a country like Norway, but not in Germany.
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by tjansen 4y ago
The amount of electricity generated over the course of a year is irrelevant without storage. We could generate 1000% of our energy needs and still not have enough, if we generate 2000% in summer and 0% in winter. We need to generate 100% of
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by tjansen 4y ago
> The Greens have not been in government for the last sixteen years. While this is true, they have always been in favour of shutting down nuclear power plants and now they would have the opportunity to reverse this course, but they don&#
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by tjansen 4y ago
The point of the article was that if you subscribe to all services at the same time, you pay as much as for a cable package. If you do not subscribe to all services simultaneously, but only a select few, it's still cheaper. At least as
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by tjansen 4y ago
The point of the article was that if you subscribe to all services at the same time, you pay as much as for a cable package. If you do not subscribe to all services simultaneously, but only a select few, it's still cheaper. At least as
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by tjansen 4y ago
...but lots of content providers with their own infrastructure, people sharing accounts and many people are subscribing only to a few content providers.
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by tjansen 4y ago
Wasn't it obvious that if you want all shows/services, you will still pay at least the same amount? The cost of producing content is not going down just because there are more content providers. As long as the same amount of conte
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by tjansen 4y ago
Completely agree about making the drivers license (except the 'social disadvantage' part, never really felt that). Made my drivers license at age 37, and regretted missing so much life in the years before. Found out that I actuall
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by tjansen 4y ago
I doubt that you'd be allowed to "encrypt your digital financial transactions" in China.
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by tjansen 4y ago
> Also as a European, less reliance on the US is a good thing. Maybe, but now we rely on Russia even more than we rely on the US. That's certainly not a good outcome.
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by tjansen 4y ago
If that's the case. shouldn't someone be able to find out which ingredients are harmful? It's unlikely all of them are.
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by tjansen 4y ago
I guess many people hate them, but subscribe without thinking about it and don't know how to unsubscribe. For the websites I would expect them to be quite useful, because they will get a lot of extra traffic and returning customers. Ev
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by tjansen 4y ago
> we are heading towards global recession Possibly, but I don't think it will last 20 years. Also, a recession could make people from worse affected areas move to those that are less affected. >completely out of touch with given
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by tjansen 4y ago
I think there are two trends missing: 1. Immigration. The global worker shortage will result in countries competing for workers. Many young people will move to the country that offers the best quality of life. Global wage discrepancies will
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by tjansen 4y ago
The ageing population only becomes an issue once the ageing population reaches retirement age and can't participate in the work force. Even though there is already a shortage of workers in Germany, it is expected to get worse in the ne
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by tjansen 4y ago
While this is true, I know several productive software developers who probably have no idea how text encoding works or what's the limit of integers.
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by tjansen 4y ago
Any discussion about wind power that does not discuss how electricity is generated when there is no wind is meaningless. Wind power alone won't power a data center, unless it can be turned off whenever there is no wind. And given the
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by tjansen 4y ago
You could create seizable assets if you find a way to create a legal framework that allows you to hold and transfer physical or intellectual property via NFTs. If you could own the copyright to an ape picture, instead of an NFT with the URL
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by tjansen 4y ago
I think DeFi was an interesting idea with some potential. It seems like nobody was able to come up with a solution that found widespread use, but with the right application it might have worked. But for now, it looks like that window of opp
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by tjansen 4y ago
Darker skin tones are very rare in most parts of Germany, especially in rural areas. There are lots of immigrant from Turkey, southern Europe, Asia and northern Africa, so it's not like everybody is pale white. But truly dark skin is s

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