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by xxgreg 7y ago
> over the course of a century carbon dioxide is far worse. Note that the methane molecule isn't removed from the atmosphere after it's "residency time", it oxidises into CO2 and water vapour. i.e. a Methane molecule
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by xxgreg 7y ago
Or perhaps China would build more wind and solar instead. China generates more electricity from both wind and solar than nuclear, and the annual installation rates continue to increase.
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by xxgreg 7y ago
It's worth noting that none of Germany's reactors were ever run in load following mode (1). So the nuclear reactors also didn't/don't contribute to stabilising the German grid. Also note a 1GW nuclear plant also nee
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by xxgreg 7y ago
Phasing out coal in Germany is a political battle against a large entrenched century old industry. The phase-out looks to be gaining traction in recent years. Deals are being made to retrain coal miners and fund economic redevelopment of he
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by xxgreg 7y ago
Fixed that for you: "Because they have strong ties to the Chinese government. So they refuse to build backdoors for the NSA".
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by xxgreg 8y ago
In the conclusion of a recent Spectre paper published by a number of Google security researchers they write: "The community has assumed for decades that programming language security enforced with static and dynamic checks could guaran
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by xxgreg 8y ago
> Seattle sits right next to the only temperate rainforest in the world, though See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_rainforest You might be interested in the section "Global distribution".
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by xxgreg 8y ago
> as safely as multiple sites can coexist in Chrome tabs Chrome tabs usually run in different processes. It sounds like Cloudflare is using JS isolates within the same process to run many customers. This sounds scary to me. For security,
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by xxgreg 8y ago
> Germany cannot procure gas from anywhere but Russia "In 2015, 35 percent of gas imports came from Russia, 34 percent from Norway and 29 percent from the Netherlands." https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Closed the very last __hard coal__ mine. Unfortunately lignite (brown coal) mining continues.
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Hard coal plants do a lot of load following in Germany, especially when it's windy. For example the black in these charts is hard coal and the green is wind. https://www.energy-charts.de/power_de.htm?source=all-sources.
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by xxgreg 8y ago
The usual answer is "because Fukushima shut down the nuclear industry, duh". But this is obviously wrong as when looking at the data. Much of the increase was between 2000-2010. I wonder if it's due to the monopoly structures
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Coal isn't just used for electricity generation. If you look at the 2017 BP energy report numbers the US is still about 20% above Germany in coal consumption per capita. (Not sure when 2018 numbers come out.) I'm glad to see the U
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by xxgreg 8y ago
The phase-out plan was designed and signed off by a committee which involves unions, environmental organisations, and power/mining companies. Future governments can use this fact to hold the power companies to account.
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by xxgreg 8y ago
What I find even more absurd is the United States, despite producing a huge amount of natural gas, consumes more coal per-capita than Germany. https://www.statista.com/statistics/604946/per-capita-coal-c... Edit:
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by xxgreg 8y ago
"Germany have been build coal plants in the past decade as they were phasing out nuclear." Note that no coal plants have started construction since the events at Fukushima. (But perhaps you're referring to the original phase-
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Getting the big power plant and mine operators to agree to a 2038 deadline is meaningful. They were involved in the process for coming up with the phase-out path. I can't imagine Peabody or Koch signing off on a 2038 deadline in the US
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by xxgreg 8y ago
A commission has been set up to plan for the phase-out of coal in Germany. Seems like all agree coal will be phased out, the debate is more around the timescale, and compensation for those affected. https://www.cleanenergywire.or
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Given the number of times I've seen pjmlp complain about Flutter choosing Dart. I think he/she could have learned the language in less time than writing all of those comments.
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Hummingbird: Building Flutter for the Web(medium.com)
7 points by xxgreg 8y ago|0 comments
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by xxgreg 8y ago
The project originally started with JS. It wasn't possible to make it run fast enough on iOS. iOS requires AOT, or a byte code interpreter. JS isn't very suitable for AOT, and JS byte code interpreters tend to be pretty slow too.
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Thanks for the links. Had a bit of a google for Helias. Looks like the Wendelstein team are exploring using something called a "Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Blanket", which was designed for ITER. To me it looks like a closed loop heat
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Do you have any links to a high level description of how this would be hooked up to a powerplant? Would this be used to heat water as per a typical fission plant?
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by xxgreg 8y ago
So seems similar to GWT which also saw little adoption outside of Google, and was used by the AdWords team. But here we are in 2018 and GWT is still ticking along with regular commits. I guess that means Dart is here to stay too. And now Fl
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Back to where this started: "is there any feature of Dart that is required by Flutter?" This is me paraphrasing why the Flutter team think Dart is a good fit: It's a familiar language for developers who have written JS, Java,
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Hopefully Flutter's popularity will bump the priorities of the other VM developers to improve code reloading.
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Haven't used Eiffel. Seems to compile to C and CIL, also GPL and likely even less popular than Dart. Jrebel dicontinued android support. Does hotswapagent support android? Cool watching Fuchsia evolve. It will definitely support Andr
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by xxgreg 8y ago
Well for the mainstream VMs: Hotswap on the JVM is very limited, likewise with edit and continue on the CLR. Xamarin has live XAML updates, only for markup though. V8 is better at hot reloading, but then suffers on the performance front, si
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by xxgreg 8y ago
So much arm chair theorising, lol. Meanwhile someone has picked up the Dart tool chain and built a compelling framework with it. There is nothing "theoretically" special about this, but it is special in the "practical" s
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by xxgreg 8y ago
"is there any feature of Dart that is required by Flutter?" The Dart platform provides the following features: - Subsecond hot reload - AOT to ARM - Bytecode interpreter for debug mode on IOS - JIT for debug mode on Android - GC t

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