>With Capex of $125/kWh for BESS, 8 GWh of battery backup would cost about a bilion USD. [..] At this scale there just few projects in the pipeline Worth noting there is that Google (alone, and they are one of several)…
>currently they are still very expensive for quantities necessary for large grid stabilization in Europe. They are at about 100 euros per KWh now, which is small potatoes for the hyperscalers building AI-centers for 10s…
>China still produced only 11% of electricity from solar, Germany 18%, so in this metric Germany is better I think it's more interesting to compare actual production in this case. Here is a truly mindblowing statistic:…
>Cheap solar, yes you can now buy PV quite cheap. This is what matters. >How much of this costs (research, developmemt, building large factories in China) was payed by German EEG money and different subsidies? This…
You're absolutely correct that oil and gas extraction activities need to be properly decommissioned, and that is expensive. But that's a separate activity from shutting down electric power plants. Oil rigs will continue…
We have developed cheap glass that can be mass produced and sucks electricity from sunshine, can be placed on already occupied surfaces to produce 100x more electricity than we are currently consuming. It requires…
>Nuclear power plant after removal of nuclear fuel and decontamination is inert as abandoned fossil plant. The site itself sure, but the "removal" just moves the remaining cost somewhere else, it doesn't /re/move it.…
True enough but there's an order of magnitude difference in those costs. For nuclear the costs extend beyond out ability to predict the future, and they simply can't be ignored whatever they amount to. A fossil plant…
That chart needs a companion chart showing “amount of effort needed to prevent deaths”. Since that is missing lots of people think nuclear is safe when it’s actually by far the most dangerous.
> Solar and wind are fine but they’re not usable as a replacement for nuclear without huge battery installations which make the cost worse than nuclear. I don’t think that’s been true for some time now, batteries have…
Remarkably they are planning even higher electricity use from centers in Sweden, up to 3.5GW. They also have significant centers in Norway. They are going to consume a significant fraction of Scandinavia's total…
>Fifty, maybe a hundred violinists in the entire world do earn a pure living. This has to be off by at least two orders of magnitude. The Reykjavik symphonic orchestra in Iceland alone employs some 30 full time…
If you think the buffalo hat guy was a coup attempt, fine - I have no interest in defending Trump. I just wanted to highlight a common bubble-truth that turned out to not be as true as many think. You may be convinced…
>For the actual reality, Harris was a public prosecutor - essentially a police officer's best friend. That's not helpful though, as she also made multiple public expressions of support for the defund movement, the…
>nothing was "faked", the footage shown was of things Trump actually said Of course he said the words, but not together as the sentence the BBC reported. The meaning was faked. What the BBC did here was literally…
>despite literally attempting a putsch To me it never made any sense. The buffalo hat guys clearly had no greater plan, and the BBC actually had to apologize for faking a clip to make it seem Trump ordered it.…
>We will not trust the US again any time soon That's a high horse you're sitting on there! When your nation voted poorly last time you picked a homicidal maniac who killed people in death factories. Americans helped you…
All the things you mention also apply if the company is Norwegian, and then you can also tax the profit. So there is no benefit here, only downsides. By having this policy, the country not only loses all the money they…
>why is Omarchy getting funding that's more in line with a distro that already has its own infrastructure? A few reasons spring to mind but I'll focus on the one I care about: It's damn good. I've used Linux for over 20…
It's unethical to make a million by controlling a drug someone needs to survive or bribing politicians. But it's not unethical to make a billion by writing a popular app, website, book, movie or performing songs. So the…
>Now no one has to worry about those people using their money to command Norway's significant resources to implement their stupid ideas It doesn't though. It only prevents people who actually live in Norway from…
That again forces someone to get rid of their creation when it gets successful, which I can't get behind. I like the idea of taxing personal loans where shares are used as security. That seems to be the main loophole…
This is what can happen: You start a co and have a million shares. Some guy buys a share for a thousand bucks, which means you get classified as a billionaire. Then the state says "Hey pay us ten million of that…
>Perhaps by realizing a portion of the gains and handing over the resulting wealth? That means the state forces you to sell your company if people start to believe in it. Why can't they instead tax you once you do…
Magazines all over the world talk about the wealth of business owners as if it is equivalent to the wealth of say sports stars or musicians, who get paid millions to their bank accounts. Forbes and other finance…
>With Capex of $125/kWh for BESS, 8 GWh of battery backup would cost about a bilion USD. [..] At this scale there just few projects in the pipeline Worth noting there is that Google (alone, and they are one of several)…
>currently they are still very expensive for quantities necessary for large grid stabilization in Europe. They are at about 100 euros per KWh now, which is small potatoes for the hyperscalers building AI-centers for 10s…
>China still produced only 11% of electricity from solar, Germany 18%, so in this metric Germany is better I think it's more interesting to compare actual production in this case. Here is a truly mindblowing statistic:…
>Cheap solar, yes you can now buy PV quite cheap. This is what matters. >How much of this costs (research, developmemt, building large factories in China) was payed by German EEG money and different subsidies? This…
You're absolutely correct that oil and gas extraction activities need to be properly decommissioned, and that is expensive. But that's a separate activity from shutting down electric power plants. Oil rigs will continue…
We have developed cheap glass that can be mass produced and sucks electricity from sunshine, can be placed on already occupied surfaces to produce 100x more electricity than we are currently consuming. It requires…
>Nuclear power plant after removal of nuclear fuel and decontamination is inert as abandoned fossil plant. The site itself sure, but the "removal" just moves the remaining cost somewhere else, it doesn't /re/move it.…
True enough but there's an order of magnitude difference in those costs. For nuclear the costs extend beyond out ability to predict the future, and they simply can't be ignored whatever they amount to. A fossil plant…
That chart needs a companion chart showing “amount of effort needed to prevent deaths”. Since that is missing lots of people think nuclear is safe when it’s actually by far the most dangerous.
> Solar and wind are fine but they’re not usable as a replacement for nuclear without huge battery installations which make the cost worse than nuclear. I don’t think that’s been true for some time now, batteries have…
Remarkably they are planning even higher electricity use from centers in Sweden, up to 3.5GW. They also have significant centers in Norway. They are going to consume a significant fraction of Scandinavia's total…
>Fifty, maybe a hundred violinists in the entire world do earn a pure living. This has to be off by at least two orders of magnitude. The Reykjavik symphonic orchestra in Iceland alone employs some 30 full time…
If you think the buffalo hat guy was a coup attempt, fine - I have no interest in defending Trump. I just wanted to highlight a common bubble-truth that turned out to not be as true as many think. You may be convinced…
>For the actual reality, Harris was a public prosecutor - essentially a police officer's best friend. That's not helpful though, as she also made multiple public expressions of support for the defund movement, the…
>nothing was "faked", the footage shown was of things Trump actually said Of course he said the words, but not together as the sentence the BBC reported. The meaning was faked. What the BBC did here was literally…
>despite literally attempting a putsch To me it never made any sense. The buffalo hat guys clearly had no greater plan, and the BBC actually had to apologize for faking a clip to make it seem Trump ordered it.…
>We will not trust the US again any time soon That's a high horse you're sitting on there! When your nation voted poorly last time you picked a homicidal maniac who killed people in death factories. Americans helped you…
All the things you mention also apply if the company is Norwegian, and then you can also tax the profit. So there is no benefit here, only downsides. By having this policy, the country not only loses all the money they…
>why is Omarchy getting funding that's more in line with a distro that already has its own infrastructure? A few reasons spring to mind but I'll focus on the one I care about: It's damn good. I've used Linux for over 20…
It's unethical to make a million by controlling a drug someone needs to survive or bribing politicians. But it's not unethical to make a billion by writing a popular app, website, book, movie or performing songs. So the…
>Now no one has to worry about those people using their money to command Norway's significant resources to implement their stupid ideas It doesn't though. It only prevents people who actually live in Norway from…
That again forces someone to get rid of their creation when it gets successful, which I can't get behind. I like the idea of taxing personal loans where shares are used as security. That seems to be the main loophole…
This is what can happen: You start a co and have a million shares. Some guy buys a share for a thousand bucks, which means you get classified as a billionaire. Then the state says "Hey pay us ten million of that…
>Perhaps by realizing a portion of the gains and handing over the resulting wealth? That means the state forces you to sell your company if people start to believe in it. Why can't they instead tax you once you do…
Magazines all over the world talk about the wealth of business owners as if it is equivalent to the wealth of say sports stars or musicians, who get paid millions to their bank accounts. Forbes and other finance…