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And due to weird nuclear fetishism, people seem unaware that solar lines up really well with when people need power.

Both on daily cycles and seasonally for anywhere that uses airconditioning. It's a good fit for 2/3rds of the global population.

Some people live nearer the poles and wind lines up better with their heating needs. And of course you can combine them because they anti-correlate.

If it is so cheap why does your source say it was subsidized?

> Despite being faced with a “wave of disinformation”, heat pumps were also found to have saved €20 billion in 2025,

Well, if you reverse that it makes more sense:

Gas sales down by tens of billions inspires gas providers to fund a lot of misinformation and corruption.

> After 9/11, there's no world in which any attack on the US homeland, however small or local, is met with anything other than overwhelming retribution.

Yes remember when they invaded Saudi Arabia? That taught everyone an important lesson on the consequences of terrorism on American soil.

Ironic that a business with such a Game of Thrones sounding name would later have its buildings used to film interior sets for Game of Thrones.

Not a good sign that the first person they quote, Merz, is so anti wind turbines that his right-wing business supporters had to tell him to shut up about it.

His new position is that they are "temporary" and will be replaced with fusion.

I guess the whole Whales killed by wind turbines thing turned out to be concern trolling then. What a surprise!

> Fact-checking Donald Trump's claim that wind turbines kill whales

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66928305

It only works to a certain extent as it's more like shaving (or padding) the cell and for Monaspace in particular seems to have weird impacts on the context healing if you take it too far.

But I find it (and some vertical padding) helps get closer to the Victor Mono proportions I was used to as long as you don't go too far. It's maybe more like reducing letterspacing which Victor Mono also had less of.

Kitty has options to shrink the fonts:

   modify_font cell_width 95%

But yes it seems weird that their variable font doesn't go narrower.

A few people thought this, there's a GitHub ticket for it which they closed after they added a variant in v1.2 for a standard i and a loopy l that you can opt in to use.

Can't quickly find a screenshot though you can use web dev tools to add

   font-feature-settings: "cv10" 1;

To the interactive demo on https://monaspace.githubnext.com

Enough planning for the Secretary of War to buy defense stocks and the son of the president to own a drone manufacturing company.

Just not planning for anything that might help "make America great again".

You can install the complete text of Wikipedia locally too.

They've usually been intended for ereader/off-grid/post-zombie-apocalypse situations but I'd guess someone is working on an llm friendly way to install it already.

Be interesting to know the tradeoffs. The Tienammen square example suggests why you'd maybe want the knowledge facts to come from a separate source.

It feels like you'll soon need a local llm to intermediate with the remote llm, like an ad blocker for browsers to stop them injecting ads or remind you not to send corporate IP out onto the Internet.

It doesn't really matter if the individual companies make money.

Is the society better off with EVs?

For any nation that need to import the fuel, the obvious answer is yes.

Cheaper, more efficient transport that causes less pollution and reduces reliance on fickle energy supliers is a step up the civilizational ladder.

For nations that sell the fuel it's more complicated but I think the game theory works out in the end as EVs being better for them too.

Are the benefits from the oil sales being broadly distributed? If so you're likely to see EV uptake. Is it hoarded by oligarchs? Maybe they'll slow walk the EV transition in areas they control.

The latest WSJ reporting is that Trump is considering sending troops into steal Iran's uranium because a Fox News host said it was a good idea.

Which neatly confirms both the "other people can put ideas into Trump's head" and the "Trump is a fucking idiot" sides of this discussion.

Claude will add itself as a contributor to a PR, which I consider an ad.

Europe can and should do more but it also leads per capita solar installs.

Solar has progressed so fast that only the most insanely optimistic predictions were accurate in the end.

I'd guess batteries are also at that stage.

Googling it seems that is correct eg:

> In 2017, U.S. grid storage developers promised they could deliver 35 gigawatts by 2025. They beat their target and made batteries a key power-sector player.

> That goal sounded improbable even to some who believed that storage was on a growth trajectory. A smattering of independent developers and utilities had managed to install just 500 megawatts of batteries nationwide, equivalent to one good-size gas-fired power plant. Building 35 gigawatts would entail 70-fold growth in just eight years.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/grid-sto...

In a race metaphor I'd say it is a car that has a higher top speed, is already travelling faster than competitors but is still accelerating. However it is still laps behind some competitors that had a head start.

Is that "winning"? I'd say no, but is it going to win? Yes, obviously.

Recent Bloomberg opinion pice about factories there and in nearby countries shifting to renewables:

Asia’s Industrial Revolution Is Switching Off Gas

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-22/asia-s...

> The Chief Financial Officer of Pakistan’s Fauji Cement Co. installed its first solar array in 2019 at Jhang Bhatar, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the capital Islamabad. There are now 69 megawatts of panels across the company’s five main sites, at least twice what Tesla Inc. appears to have on the rooftops of its gigafactories in Nevada and Texas.1 They contribute about 23% of the company’s electricity, with a further 35% coming from recovering waste heat from its coal-fired clinker kilns.

Collated sales data for many countries:

https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

You are comparing against a free ICE car? And it still works out financially after just a few years for the average driver?

And you think this reflects badly on the EV transition?

Renewables (and nuclear) have high up front costs and comparitively low marginal cost. Comparing it against something that burns expensive fuel can be misleading (if you want it to be).

One system is taking the money and turning round and handing it to their fuel suppliers, the other is turning round and handing it to the people who loaned them money to build a giant complex structure that would take a decade or more of risk and uncertainty to pay itself back.

Gas bids high because it literally makes no business sense for them to operate for less than the gas input costs. They'd rather sit it out when electricity prices are lower. Renewables will take almost any price once built because wind and sun is free, but won't build in the first place without a path to paying off their investment over a certain timespan.

(This is why more solar has been built in places with good low risk finance than where the sunlight resource is strongest)

CfDs are a competitive bidding process and so give a market price for what developers need their price to be over 15 years or more for it to make a standard return on investment. Developers outside this process need to guess what electricity prices will be, at the times they generate for years to come.

It is literally written into regulations in many places that renewables aren't allowed to go above certain percentages even for short periods e.g in Ireland they are raising the cap by 5% every so often with an aim to get to 95% by 2035, it's currently 75% and was 50% when they brought in that particular rule.

In Australia they keep reducing the number of synchronous generators that are required to be connected as they gain more experience.

Renewables started as fringe tech and are now a trillion dollar industry. But they faced skepticsims at every stage along the way.

Hinckley Point C has a Contract for Difference that basically means they know what they will be paid in advance.

Any savings they make constructing or overruns don't affect that.

So if anyone is grifting they are grifting the French taxpayer via EDF.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/16/edf-hinkley-...

> Ed Milliband's net zero targets...

These net zero targets were actually introduced by the right wing Conservative party in 2019 under Teresa May and passed with broad support across parties.

Now the same party has collapsed in support (for reasons unrelated to this target, which remains broadly popular with voters) and attacks the targets they introduced.

It was a widely considered impossible to have more than single digit percentage of renewables even for instantaneous figures. That "limit" has been raised again and again as the world gets more experience with it.

It's great that we've made so much progress that people can say "it's just 90% renewable for 30 mins" but that's a result of decades of hard work.

Ember has predictions of future EU cross border electricity flows in 2030 and 2040 and it shows the UK becoming a net exporter:

https://ember-energy.org/data/europe-electricity-interconnec...

Coal is generally more expensive than nuclear if you factor in health and carbon, which you should.

This is a very one sided take, to the point of being a press release from what are effectively professional scam artists and my respect for Ars Technica reporting has been decreased a notch for posting this.