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Air conditioning is not the only power consumer.

If your production goes from 100% to 0%, it's not just air conditioning that will be affected.

It only pencils out when you don't have to worry where your power is coming from at night or on a cloudy day.

So now:

- Elon is running around handing out free blue checkmarks to people he's afraid if losing on the platform (pretending he's doing it as a joke). And this resulted in predictable backlash from those people

- Removal of legacy verification also removed verification from news agencies, alongside with "state-sponsored" labels. Russian propagandists have already thanked Elon for that

It's all fine

When you put it that way, yes.

On the other hand, I, too, want to live in a house with a green space of my own, and would complain loudly if I was forced to change

You've described literally every platform and physical store under the sun except desktop OSes.

As a tangent, Andy Bell and Heydon Pickering have the following, and you absolutely must check them out:

- Every Layout https://every-layout.dev/

- Inclusive Components: The Book https://book.inclusive-components.design/

- A mdoern CSS reset (slightly outdated): https://andy-bell.co.uk/a-modern-css-reset/

- My favorite 3 lines of CSS https://andy-bell.co.uk/my-favourite-3-lines-of-css/

Butcoin's main use case was HODL. You know, in the ancient times of just a few years ago.

And now you'd need an electron microscope to find its use cases as money.

That is exactly what they did. Instead of asking people who know their shit they went ahead with populism, emotions, and scare tactics.

> It's not only high level long-live which has to be stored deep and safe. Your source shows it pretty good, and therefore it's not "just" 0,2% but 9% + an unknown amount of VLLW.

See, again you're bunching very different types of waste together as if they were the same thing.

VLLW is "Very Low Level Waste". Disposal: Existing surface disposal. And yet, you're bunching it up with high-level waste.

So, to correct my calculations. Deep geological disposal is required for: High-Level Waste (HLW) and Intermediate-Level Long-Lived waste. Combined they are 3.1% of all waste.

Disposal for Low Level Long Lived Waste (LLW-LL) is in development, will be near-sruface disposal, 5.9% of waste.

Literally everything else, that is 91% of all waste, can be safely disposed of using existing surface disposal. 5.9% will be near-surface disposal. Only 3% will be buried deep.

But sure, do keep on spreadin FUD on how OMG THERE'S HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TONS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE WE DON'T HOW TO DEAL WITH.

What was that original FUD you were talking about? Oh, right: "Germany will have 300.000m³ of waste which needs to disappear for a long time in hope that nobody will ever get the idea of digging it out again."

Reality check: (conidering that the scary volume isn't made up) 9 000 cubic meters of that is something to be stored deep in the ground (and even if we don't have that storage, nuclear waste as it's stored is very safe, and can be stored for about a hundred years above ground).

> However, the best thing about this "report" is what's not in there: DECOMISSIONING

Oh look. Goalposts are wooshing by.

> The proof is in the pudding -- data beats predictions.

Tell me, using data, on a quiet night, where does Germany's electricity come from, and where it will come from this wondrous future of 2030?

> Market cap is by definition people using it.

You and I have very different dictionaries it seems

> They’ve exchanged their money for it.

A thousand people trading magical tokens they pretend cost trillions of dollars doesn't make it: a) worth trillions of dollars and b) any significant usage

It's a useless metric if no one is using it. It's a magical purely speculative number.

Basically all of crypto passes Howey test for securities:

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an instrument qualifies as an "investment contract" for the purposes of the Securities Act: "a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise and is led to expect profits solely from the efforts of the promoter or a third party."

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> So it matters when wind is providing 20%, but it doesn't matter when it's providing 100%.

Of course. Because when there's no electricity, there's no electricity.

> even though coal use is at a historic low, it's actually increasing

You pretend this is a contradiction when it's not. Germany has just shut down its last reactors. So yes, the usage of coal will increase because when renewable generation is low you still need to provide electricity. Guess what provides that electricity.

In France, for example, only 0.2% of nuclear waste is high level long-live waste and needs to be disposed of somewhere deep and safe.

The absolute vast majority is low-level waste that we have not trouble with. See report on nuclear inventory: https://international.andra.fr/sites/international/files/202... page 14

The FUD around nuclear waste is FUD and politics

> I’d put money on others launching similar things.

WeChat has had this for years (and other messengers in South Wast Asia).

I have no idea why in-chat apps were never successfully implemented in the "West". There were minimal attempts by bot Apple and Facebook to add apps to their chats, but at best it's "let's add stickers"

The cores of the cities, yes. And those cores are tiny.

There are a few exceptions like London (7 million in the 19th century, 9 million now), but most cities are not London.

None of those are resilient to politics.

See for solar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35661918

Same for everything else. Green Party in Britain is campaigning against literally everything including offshore wind: https://twitter.com/stuarthammond14/status/16486453145621217...

> dispatchable electricity sources is fully tapped to balance renewables across Europe. We will see very high prices during mornings and evenings and whenever it's cold and dark

It's already a problem in Sweden. It exports electricity to Germany when demand is high... which leaves nothing to Sweden, and the prices skyrocket. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-12/swedish-m...

> those that benefit the most from the subsidies that support their life styles will have the most to complain about.

What

At all? Often? If I fly once a year over a distance of over a thousand kilometers, is it fine or not?

What can I, and individual, do to fix the issue that it takes three trains with a high chance of failures and delays, to get to a destination within my country on what is a direct route from city to city?

etc.

Stop shifting blame to individuals

That is the same level of advice as "humans need to learn how to fly".

You not only have to change planning, you also need to change all the existing cities to accomodate that planning

> Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now

What more power beyond, say, recycling and using public transportation can an individual person have? Note how this narrative is literally shifting the blame from corporations, industries, and governments to individual people. "It's your fault you're not doing enough".

Meanwhile, Germany alone, thanks to the actions of its government, is responsible for more carbon emissions on a single night than I can even theoretically reduce over a milion lifetimes.

They shut down their nuclear reactors, and right now even on a windy night they burn coal and gas to make up for the difference: https://imgur.com/a/3bYudyd

And yet power plant closures were entirely due to politics, not the cost.

Now the price of energy in Sweden quintuples depending on demand: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1271491/sweden-monthly-w... I am just so glad that the expensive energy is out of the picture. (That was sarcasm, I chose to pay for electricity coming from nuclear, and it's not meanigfully more expensive than other types)

Again: total numbers mean absolutely nothing on a night when there's zero production from renewables.

That "shill" is showing data. Just the fact that you don't like this data doesn't make it invalid.

Right now it's night in Germany, and even though the wind is blowing, it's only at 40% generation. And look, there's coal, supplying 22%, and gas supplying another 9%: https://imgur.com/a/3bYudyd

> On what day it happened is independent of how often this happens, for how long, with what demand and the amount of other electricity supplies..

This was a regular sping night in a nation of 80 million people in the middle of Europe. Which means that for a lot of the rest of Europe it was also a quite night.

> It sounds cute, but essentially it is pessimistic and anti-technology.

No. It's realistic. Every time you show problems with intermittent generation by renewables, the answer is "sometime in unknown future we will surely build enough, and enough grid storage to boot".

> The 'new' finnish reactor is 8 billion Euros more expensive than planned

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Almost three-quarters of hydropower, water, coal and nuclear infrastructure projects were over budget by 49% on average,

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2016/12/02/offshore-wind-projec...

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Cost overruns are not unique to nuclear. Especially considering how underinvested nuclera has been for the past 20-30 people who keep spreading FUD.

When there's political will, there are results. Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in China: 6.1 GW nameplate capacity. Built over 14 years at 1 reactor per 6 years. Operational. Estimated cost 16 bln USD.

> We also currently have not the wind dependence. In the future this will change.

I shudder to think about the future where we depend on whether or not the wind will blow at night.

> it has to do with investments into technology

There are also laws of physics and reality.

Too bad numbers don't work when it's a quiet night, and you have to burn gas, caol, and biomass to make up for those nuclear reactors you've shut down: https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1647799729734971396

They replaced it with coal, gas and biofuel (that is, burning more stuff): https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1647799729734971396

I'll believe it when I see it. It's a lot of could should would. A lot of tech "revolutions" sizzled away into nothingness after initial round of celebratory press.