I don't think it's a coincidence that China has developed batteries that neuter the advantage that gas had over coal, but I can't stop wondering if we'd already have solved long-term storage if China hated coal as much…
There's no 3.8 Pro. However, there's a 3.8 Flash that's only available with Pro or Ultra subscription.
As opposed to Trump, who actually won an election after an attempted coup?
I'll give you credits for emphasizing electricity, because Europe isn't against air conditioning. Basically all cars sold in Europe, or made by European companies and sold elsewhere, have air conditioning - but they're…
As I said, coal makes electricity cheaper if it can eliminate gas, like in China and India. Poland uses a lot of coal, but it doesn't help because it also uses a lot of gas nowadays. Of course, there are geopolitical…
Just for your information, the AfD doesn't want to have cheap energy either. Nobody in Germany does, and that's the problem. While the AfD wants to keep German lignite (half as cheap as any imported gas), it also wants…
> We do, after all, also want to rapidly shift a few hundred gigawatts of power supply (mostly for heating and transport, but also electricity) away from fossil fuels and towards something less prone to global…
Iran is actually fair game since it doesn't want to be part of the ICC. The same was true for Iraq and Afghanistan. There are no rights without obligations. However, this isn't the case with Palestine, which is why…
Yes, but in an indirect way. Direct carbon capture (DAC) is so energy intensive that it's only viable in places with 100% clean electricity, like Iceland. It's a non-starter in most countries. However, places that have…
I both agree and disagree. The EU isn't worse than others. For example, it's basically the only place that's willing to replace coal with imported gas, which is a major economical sacrifice. On the other hand, with the…
Europe's strategy has indeed been stupid, but not for the reasons you write. Some parts of the energy transition are profitable, like EVs and heat pumps. This is where Europe dropped the ball. Other parts are…
It's not particularly surprising. China wants people to use electricity. Germany wants people to use gas/oil. The rate of electrification in respective country reflects that choice.
How do you explain that basically all European countries tax electricity much higher than fossil gas? Countries like Germany and the UK make the US look good when it comes to heat pump adoption. More ironically, air…
If there's little left, why does it need to be banned? This is like the German argument against nuclear - it's supposedly expensive, and yet it needs to be banned because otherwise there would be plenty of it.
You'd have a point if those countries had followed Europe in replacing coal with imported gas, but few countries outside of Europe have done that. Without imported gas, electricity is generally cheap.
The countries with the cheapest electricity in the EU all have nuclear: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/price_average_map/char... Furthermore, old nuclear is already paid for, and hence often the cheapest option…
Note that you didn't mention any such country, and for good reason - there is none. You'd need a dictatorship where people's voices don't matter, but then there's no right of ownership either.
The places that have outdated buses also have outdated cars. This isn't the case in the US. The outdated buses have to compete with modern cars.
I don't think so. American buses are ridiculously outdated, while having to compete with some of the most well-equipped cars in the world. If Europe had such buses, they wouldn't be popular either.
That's not true. For example, France is rapidly automating its metros. The US is quite unique in viewing public transport as a jobs program rather than a public service.
That's a feature, not a bug. Public transport is viewed as a jobs program in the US. Buy America Act makes buses roughly three times more expensive, and then they use decades-old technology due to a lack of competition.…
There is a reason why the US is special - Buy America Act. New Flyer and Gillig would collapse almost immediately if they were exposed to global competition.
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...
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.
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…
I don't think it's a coincidence that China has developed batteries that neuter the advantage that gas had over coal, but I can't stop wondering if we'd already have solved long-term storage if China hated coal as much…
There's no 3.8 Pro. However, there's a 3.8 Flash that's only available with Pro or Ultra subscription.
As opposed to Trump, who actually won an election after an attempted coup?
I'll give you credits for emphasizing electricity, because Europe isn't against air conditioning. Basically all cars sold in Europe, or made by European companies and sold elsewhere, have air conditioning - but they're…
As I said, coal makes electricity cheaper if it can eliminate gas, like in China and India. Poland uses a lot of coal, but it doesn't help because it also uses a lot of gas nowadays. Of course, there are geopolitical…
Just for your information, the AfD doesn't want to have cheap energy either. Nobody in Germany does, and that's the problem. While the AfD wants to keep German lignite (half as cheap as any imported gas), it also wants…
> We do, after all, also want to rapidly shift a few hundred gigawatts of power supply (mostly for heating and transport, but also electricity) away from fossil fuels and towards something less prone to global…
Iran is actually fair game since it doesn't want to be part of the ICC. The same was true for Iraq and Afghanistan. There are no rights without obligations. However, this isn't the case with Palestine, which is why…
Yes, but in an indirect way. Direct carbon capture (DAC) is so energy intensive that it's only viable in places with 100% clean electricity, like Iceland. It's a non-starter in most countries. However, places that have…
I both agree and disagree. The EU isn't worse than others. For example, it's basically the only place that's willing to replace coal with imported gas, which is a major economical sacrifice. On the other hand, with the…
Europe's strategy has indeed been stupid, but not for the reasons you write. Some parts of the energy transition are profitable, like EVs and heat pumps. This is where Europe dropped the ball. Other parts are…
It's not particularly surprising. China wants people to use electricity. Germany wants people to use gas/oil. The rate of electrification in respective country reflects that choice.
How do you explain that basically all European countries tax electricity much higher than fossil gas? Countries like Germany and the UK make the US look good when it comes to heat pump adoption. More ironically, air…
If there's little left, why does it need to be banned? This is like the German argument against nuclear - it's supposedly expensive, and yet it needs to be banned because otherwise there would be plenty of it.
You'd have a point if those countries had followed Europe in replacing coal with imported gas, but few countries outside of Europe have done that. Without imported gas, electricity is generally cheap.
The countries with the cheapest electricity in the EU all have nuclear: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/price_average_map/char... Furthermore, old nuclear is already paid for, and hence often the cheapest option…
Note that you didn't mention any such country, and for good reason - there is none. You'd need a dictatorship where people's voices don't matter, but then there's no right of ownership either.
The places that have outdated buses also have outdated cars. This isn't the case in the US. The outdated buses have to compete with modern cars.
I don't think so. American buses are ridiculously outdated, while having to compete with some of the most well-equipped cars in the world. If Europe had such buses, they wouldn't be popular either.
That's not true. For example, France is rapidly automating its metros. The US is quite unique in viewing public transport as a jobs program rather than a public service.
That's a feature, not a bug. Public transport is viewed as a jobs program in the US. Buy America Act makes buses roughly three times more expensive, and then they use decades-old technology due to a lack of competition.…
There is a reason why the US is special - Buy America Act. New Flyer and Gillig would collapse almost immediately if they were exposed to global competition.
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...
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.
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…