Here's the list: 1 Fable 5.1 38.8% 2 GPT-6 Astra 33.8% 3 Gemini 3.8 Flash 31.2% 4 GLM 5.3 28.8% 5 Grok 4.6 23.8% 5 Muse Spark 1.3 23.8% 7 Kimi K3 18.8% 8 GPT-5.6 Sol 16.2% See number 4, 5 and 7.
The US produces light oil that's easier to refine and hence more profitable to export since it has many buyers. The US refines heavy oil that's harder to refine and hence more profitable to import since it has few…
China's economy is one of the least dependent on oil and gas. Electricity is mostly coal, renewables and nuclear. Transport is increasingly electric (including trucks). Chemicals are moving from oil and gas to coal. If…
No, gas has always been the most expensive source of electricity. Take a look at the German merit order from 2018: https://www.ffe.de/en/publications/merit-order-shifts-and-th... Nuclear is cheapest, then lignite, then…
If you study the heat pump adoption in various European countries, you will quickly notice that it's connected to the price ratio between electricity and gas. The EU has a carbon tax on electricity but not gas. This…
Germany became a net electricity importer after shutting down its final nuclear power plants in 2023. On top of that, heating still runs mostly on gas, which won't be fun this winter. Due to the inefficiency of gas…
You certainly could use an alternative to gas heating during the upcoming winter. It doesn't look like Qatar will be able to deliver.
The EU has a large problem with carbon leakage from electricity generation to oil and gas use. For example, gas heating is exempt from the EU carbon trade, so people are encouraged to use that rather than electric…
If it costs only €1 billion to extend the lifespan by 20 years, then nothing else can compete with it. The capacity is 1 GW.
Did Germany plan to increase electricity consumption? Gas heating is still king there, and Germany famously promotes hydrogen (mostly from gas) over battery vehicles.
With hindsight, it wasn't a very good idea to shut down 6 of 12 nuclear reactors. Still much better than the situation in Germany, but that's a very low bar. It will be interesting to see how the Rolls-Royce SMR project…
Yeah, I blundered a knight and still managed to win.
It's not unprecedented given that GLM 5.3 Flash was better and cheaper than GLM 5.2.
The main reason why electricity is expensive in Germany is because it's taxed to oblivion. Even when wholesale prices are negative, electricity costs about three times as much as gas. Now you might ask why electricity…
If that's the case, then why do all European cars have AC? There's an anti-electricity sentiment, but that's a very different thing. It's why most of those anti-AC places use gas heating.
>Of course, it's only that simple to replace one heat source with another, why wouldn't anyone do it already? In most European countries, electricity is taxed much higher than gas. Those taxes eat a large chuck of the…
> But let's not forget that energy is also on average a lot more expensive in Europe than in the US. The cost plus environmental concerns, which seem to fair less high in the public conscience on the other side of the…
The problem with monopolies is that they can hike prices at will. This has certainly happened with district heating in Sweden. You can't do that with AC and solar.
It's a little bit more complicated than that. In a hypothetical EU without political intervention, Chinese EVs would be available without tariffs, and those would probably sell very well without any mandates.
Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/12/head-of-iea-roasts-euro... Here are some specific numbers: https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/06/many-building-r... The…
No, those are caps on the interchange fees paid to the issuing bank. Card transactions have other fees as well.
Cursor got bought for $60B. This is simply how AI companies are valued.
Regarding air conditioning in Europe, I suspect that there are other interests at play given that there has been zero pushback against air conditioning in cars. Air conditioning in buildings is likely viewed as a threat…
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India is literally following China's "anything but oil and gas", which encourages renewables, nuclear and coal. In fact, the Chinese coal lobby is partially responsible for the push for electric trucks. The alternatives…
Here's the list: 1 Fable 5.1 38.8% 2 GPT-6 Astra 33.8% 3 Gemini 3.8 Flash 31.2% 4 GLM 5.3 28.8% 5 Grok 4.6 23.8% 5 Muse Spark 1.3 23.8% 7 Kimi K3 18.8% 8 GPT-5.6 Sol 16.2% See number 4, 5 and 7.
The US produces light oil that's easier to refine and hence more profitable to export since it has many buyers. The US refines heavy oil that's harder to refine and hence more profitable to import since it has few…
China's economy is one of the least dependent on oil and gas. Electricity is mostly coal, renewables and nuclear. Transport is increasingly electric (including trucks). Chemicals are moving from oil and gas to coal. If…
No, gas has always been the most expensive source of electricity. Take a look at the German merit order from 2018: https://www.ffe.de/en/publications/merit-order-shifts-and-th... Nuclear is cheapest, then lignite, then…
If you study the heat pump adoption in various European countries, you will quickly notice that it's connected to the price ratio between electricity and gas. The EU has a carbon tax on electricity but not gas. This…
Germany became a net electricity importer after shutting down its final nuclear power plants in 2023. On top of that, heating still runs mostly on gas, which won't be fun this winter. Due to the inefficiency of gas…
You certainly could use an alternative to gas heating during the upcoming winter. It doesn't look like Qatar will be able to deliver.
The EU has a large problem with carbon leakage from electricity generation to oil and gas use. For example, gas heating is exempt from the EU carbon trade, so people are encouraged to use that rather than electric…
If it costs only €1 billion to extend the lifespan by 20 years, then nothing else can compete with it. The capacity is 1 GW.
Did Germany plan to increase electricity consumption? Gas heating is still king there, and Germany famously promotes hydrogen (mostly from gas) over battery vehicles.
With hindsight, it wasn't a very good idea to shut down 6 of 12 nuclear reactors. Still much better than the situation in Germany, but that's a very low bar. It will be interesting to see how the Rolls-Royce SMR project…
Yeah, I blundered a knight and still managed to win.
It's not unprecedented given that GLM 5.3 Flash was better and cheaper than GLM 5.2.
The main reason why electricity is expensive in Germany is because it's taxed to oblivion. Even when wholesale prices are negative, electricity costs about three times as much as gas. Now you might ask why electricity…
If that's the case, then why do all European cars have AC? There's an anti-electricity sentiment, but that's a very different thing. It's why most of those anti-AC places use gas heating.
>Of course, it's only that simple to replace one heat source with another, why wouldn't anyone do it already? In most European countries, electricity is taxed much higher than gas. Those taxes eat a large chuck of the…
> But let's not forget that energy is also on average a lot more expensive in Europe than in the US. The cost plus environmental concerns, which seem to fair less high in the public conscience on the other side of the…
The problem with monopolies is that they can hike prices at will. This has certainly happened with district heating in Sweden. You can't do that with AC and solar.
It's a little bit more complicated than that. In a hypothetical EU without political intervention, Chinese EVs would be available without tariffs, and those would probably sell very well without any mandates.
Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/12/head-of-iea-roasts-euro... Here are some specific numbers: https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/06/many-building-r... The…
No, those are caps on the interchange fees paid to the issuing bank. Card transactions have other fees as well.
Cursor got bought for $60B. This is simply how AI companies are valued.
Regarding air conditioning in Europe, I suspect that there are other interests at play given that there has been zero pushback against air conditioning in cars. Air conditioning in buildings is likely viewed as a threat…
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India is literally following China's "anything but oil and gas", which encourages renewables, nuclear and coal. In fact, the Chinese coal lobby is partially responsible for the push for electric trucks. The alternatives…