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Nuclear is good for the last 10% (and very contextually - it maybe makes a lot of sense in Alaska but far less sense in Arizona, for example), but mostly we should be building more…

Electric trains can ship overland cheaper than diesel trucks. If we'd put half the money we put into free/subsidised highways into rail instead, the problem would already be solved…

Plus he can hail you a cab.

Skylights are usually terrible because they heat the most at midday (when it's already the most hot) whereas conventional windows heat the most at dawn/dusk when it's colder. Skyli…

I'm pretty sure the subtext of that comment was that the benefit of electric motors in retro cars is the emission reduction (and possibly cost and maintenance reduction), and not i…

Renewables are very predictable, they're just intermittent.

Facebook/etc aren't a free-for-all, they're much worse than that - they selectively provide a stream of news designed to drive "engagement", of which angry obsession is one type. S…

Housing is also really weird: - the main input (land) is also an output, so when the price of the output goes up, so does the value of the input. - economies of scale don't really …

So you want all parents to be helicopter parents?

A CD is 100% technologically capable of having the duration and physical size of a vinyl.

I don't dispute your own personal motives, but if it's never been a goal for most people , then CC0 would be more popular than the BSD or MIT license - it's simpler and much more l…

PACs.

Certification isn't a moat; either the software is certified as safe/bug-free or it isn't. If it's safe, that just makes it more valuable to pirates.

Okay, but you don't have to - and "efficient" coders won't bother, thus starving the commons.

>They are largely concerned about employment (and more generally economic stability) and to that end seek measures intended to protect workers. Pffft no. Most of us think that AI i…

That would be insane for aerospace software, where you might spend most of that time getting the code certified (required to break the $0 revenue threshold), let alone paying back …

Lots of people who don't read the HN Guidelines, apparently: In Comments Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get mor…

Chinese state govt is building them in response to poorly thought out federal govt incentives. That plus backup plans (since China had plenty of coal but needs to import gas, so it…

Now ask it whether it produces more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined. BREAKING NEWS: China is big.

There's at least as much battery production of batteries in Ireland as there are viable coal mine sites.

Indonesia would be the obvious replacement - Indonesia is a pacific island nation (the islandiest) which exports a ton of coal.

Nuclear also relies on sea imports - nuclear fuel still needs to be imported, unless Taiwan has a uranium mine on the island. So nuclear doesn't solve the problem, it just kicks th…

>Snarky response deleted. We appreciate your restraint.