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Half-coal powered electrification is cleaner, greener, cheaper and smarter than sticking to ICE cars and gas heating for homes and industry.
China has gone from 10% of final energy being electricity to 30% this century while US and Europe went from around 20% to just above 20%
a) because veganism seems as exotic to me as someone doing CrossFit
b) the very obvious parallels of a more intelligent creature torturing and killing large numbers of other creatures for relatively little benefit.
For most flights today though, if you only count the CO2 produced you're understanding the climate damage by about half.
> Recent estimates show that contrails cause about the same amount of warming each year as all the CO₂ emitted by all flights from 1940 to 2018.
It made them feel much better, so now they need to desperately avoid learning anything about either renewables or nuclear power because their ego will collapse if confronted with reality.
HN link for last month's:
> energy groups in some [Australian] states are having to literally give away excess power generated during the middle of the day.
And yet they needed to be forced to offer this by government and most responded by upping grid connection fees and rates at other times, actively undermining a move that would be to the benefit of the entire nation. Curious that they weren't more keen to get rid of that horrible solar energy that's threatening their grid balance if it meant they had to reduce the price to raise demand.
And that comparison was made for a JPEG-XL focused site, and uses quite large images that are then scaled down dramatically (at least on mobile) for display which is probably not an ideal visual test anyway (but possibly necessary for there to be enough time to see any difference)
When future supreme court judges are writing their manifesto to business interests on how to stop Ivy League graduates from caring about the environmental impacts of capitalism in the 70s, le funny memes were not mentioned.
On Hillary specifically, she was the subject of the the movie that the Citizens United court case was about!
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citi...
Trump and Cambridge Anlytica are just unpleasant, cancerous symptoms of this.
> As a 1984 R.J. Reynolds report stated:1819
> “Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers… If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.”
The oil corporations were publicly claiming to support carbon taxes, while also secretly fighting actual implementations of carbon taxes.
All the communist/hippy stuff was done by people a couple of steps removed from the actual companies with obscure money trails. The official statements were much more sophisticated propaganda that if you weren't paying attention to who they were paying in the background would make them seem reasonable stewards of the climate transition.
And get wide global agreement that anyone geoengineering when they are still pumping oil is effectively declaring war on other countries and so attacks on their pipelines or ports are considered a counter strike.
Interconnected nations all importing when cheap electricity is available lowers costs for everyone.
Looking up the numbers Germany sells high and buys low when it's net importing
EU (collectively or independently) is distinct only in that it is ahead of the pack on many of these topics, hence why the Netherlands diesel price is higher than the US price, as noted by the comment I replied to.
But EU countries could and should still go further.
And yet, the competition generated cheap power and transport that was clean and didn't rely on foreign actors. Making life easier for many Chinese people.
It felt like the manufacturers had learned too much from western corporate media which is always moaning about competition and horrified at the thought of things getting cheaper if that would affect the sacred next quarter profits.
It is somewhat amazing that Europe hasn't embraced electrification even more but taxing diesel use to encourage using it wisely is a smart geopolitical play given their situation.
That is of course a stupid lie.
But it's amazing how many smart liars say something similar to "China controls 70℅ of the global wind market" without clarifying that they install nearly all of that in China because they installed 73% of new wind capacity in 2025.
Those wind farms would have connected into the zones with the highest prices.
They've rejected an amount that would generate more than the entire grid usage. Or way more than double what the cheap zones generate from their 2/3rds hydro and 1/3rd wind.
They didn't want to just buy clean hydro that already existed, or renewables that were going to get built anyway without their money, they wanted to be sure that their investment was growing the amount of clean energy available.
I'm hoping they have some justification like this for buying existing nuclear. They appear to be claiming that it would shut if they didn't pay in advance.
A similar deal by Amazon got shot down in America because the regulators realised it was shifting costs onto other grid users.
You'd assume that Finnish regulators are better than American regulators, but I’d like to see some evidence of that.
Both are looking back on future dystopias from the further future beyond them.
Also, Standard Ebooks has a modern ebooks edition:
As for cars, sales of ICE were down 40℅, BEV grew 1.7℅