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by yodelshady 3y ago
It's such an easy, relevant question to ask that it boggles the mind that investors don't have their own engineers to ask it. I know you're money people not tech, but how do you know you're not being ripped off if you ca
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by yodelshady 4y ago
We've spent in excess of 900 euros per MWh this year on fossil sources to back up renewables this last year, Europe-wide, because there IS NO OPTION to sacrifice reliable power - if there is shortfall, society collapses, quickly. There
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Any chart that misses 2022 in Germany's consumption is just mendacious.
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Poland isn't a rich country LARPing as environmental saviour whilst increasing its coal consumption in 2022, after decades of being warned about reliance on Russian gas. Germany does not get on iota of good faith on that. They knew.
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by yodelshady 4y ago
That's just a lie.
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by yodelshady 4y ago
England has ~25,000 sqft per person. That's the simple inverse of population density. Everything has to come out of that budget.
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Dockerfile would be a really good idea. Followed instructions to letter, got : main.go:7:5: no required module provides package github.com/jepson-io/maelstrom/demo/go $GOPATH is correctly set, I can see the package there
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Someone absolutely did, and wrote controls for it, down to the calibration of the torque wrench. Just as they thought of the failure modes of: - cold fluoropolymers in rocket boosters - graphite moderated water cooled reactors - l
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by yodelshady 4y ago
> So the basic solutions are to massively overbuild renewables, And who the fuck is doing that? Because they're not god-damned cheap if you do that! I do not care if you can sell your product for cheap if I have to buy a much
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by yodelshady 4y ago
No, they can be cheaper. Sod off with this, I've seen someone literally hospitalised because of an army of private sector contractors we've had to deal with finding ingenious efficiency savings, powered by ideologues like you.
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by yodelshady 4y ago
I would very happily have one in my neighbourhood, so kindly stop slandering me. Here's the deal: I get that, and am connected to the grid, you don't, and no fossil back up for either. Virtue signalling over a gas grid is killing
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by yodelshady 4y ago
To add context, the described plant was a weapons programme that predates any civilian nuclear energy. In fact it also predates the hydrogen bomb, so that war planners vastly overestimated the amount of plutonium needed.
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by yodelshady 4y ago
"The unit... generates round-the-clock energy... producing energy in all weather conditions." Can someone explain to me how, whenever wind energy is mentioned, any sort of of scepticism, and I don't mean "snarky intern
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by yodelshady 4y ago
The forests near mine and just about everywhere else on the entire planet have elevated levels of BEING ON GODDAMNED FIRE thanks to coal-burners. No there's not history. There's not emotions. There's god-damned stupidity and
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by yodelshady 4y ago
This still brings up one of my bugbears for factorio - the inability to write comments/documentation. I want to be able to make blueprints with complex, but well-defined and documented, input / output structures that I can look at
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Europe's crisis is wholly self-induced; a deliberate decision to switch off in favour of coal (Germany), or defund (France), or delay replacement of (UK) nuclear power stations in a region with cold dark winters and not the almost e
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Honest question for renewables advocates: Where would you rank US-west in terms of "industrialised places where its easiest to phase out fossils or nuclear for renewables"? Because for my money, it may be the best-suited place in
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Indeed. Airlines do well, and they're heavily regulated. But they don't have armies of engineers doing nothing whilst court cases are worked out. The flip side of that is monopoly. The only recent aviation accidents that have
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Also Germany: repoens , I believe approx. 8 GW, coal plants. https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliecoleman/2022/07/08/germany... I'm sorry, but this is hearfelt: the German greens are climate cri
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by yodelshady 4y ago
I genuinely think this is part of the reason for cycling-as-hobby, aka Middle Aged Men In Lycra. I want a hobby vehicle to present some sort of challenge. Now maybe you shouldn't ever be "challenging" yourself on a public
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by yodelshady 4y ago
> The most common angle of attack is territorial: "get off _my_ road". Yeah, but why do you think it's your road when in a car, especially when the same attitude exists in places without the tax, or with drivers cars that
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by yodelshady 4y ago
To be fair, bicycles probably did lead to more marriage breakups. Certainly in the UK they're considered a key part of emancipation. No longer, as a woman, is your dating pool limited entirely to the boys in your village. And if the
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by yodelshady 4y ago
I read the original report, which still includes figures of >$100 per kWh for storage, projected for multiple decades (if not in this report, in others). For a higher-latitude nation, we need TWh , probably tens of, for even a sma
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by yodelshady 4y ago
> 5GW of solar [in Finland] Okay I'm afraid that's it for me. Being on a discussion board that has to debate "is deploying solar in Finland a good idea?" is not worth it. Incidentally, yes, it took Finland 10 years to
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by yodelshady 4y ago
For the record, tabloids in Britain are the equivalent of Fox news / MSNBC, they are gossip because they are for-profit organs responding do demand. It seems... not wrong, but a little odd, to open with that as a criticism of insuffi
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Ukraine hadn't applied, until recently arguably didn't meet the military requirements, and - even before this year - had a border dispute in Donbas. The latter is important, NATO is not a hired gun. Finland does have a stable bord
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Did you misspell "world" as "US" ? Or are you dishonestly using non-representative figures? The US has a much smaller proportion of the developed world's men, women and children than it does the land, and those men,
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by yodelshady 4y ago
Agreed, absolutely not true of Australia.
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by yodelshady 4y ago
> I’m sure they’ve grown, but it’s still a big world out there people. I No, it just isn't. Humans have transformed seventy per cent of the land on Earth[1]. Including the deserts. Suburbs are the second most land intensive thing
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by yodelshady 4y ago
2. sounds an awful lot like "renewables are not a viable form of energy and require gas". One gas replacement - nuclear - needs no backup. The other - renewables - needs backup of a scale that exists only on paper. I've asked

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