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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-26/power-prices-fall-in-... > Power prices to fall for most customers, with bigger drops for businesses > What is driving [lower prices] is a re…

It feels like you're moving the goalposts to wanting EV trucks, charged at remote sites with a 100% clean minigrid just so you can be disappointed. That's a great goal, but every s…

I'm commenting on your first paragraph in which EVs not being the majority of a mining truck fleet is taken as failure or hype. While for example Norway only has 30% fleet EVs desp…

I generally wouldn't trust big mining corporations to do the right thing but that's some extremely negative framing. For standard EV cars in Australia only 20% of new sales are EV,…

I think it's also a YC startup called Yoshi from 2016, I wonder how often those two overlap?

Texas burns more coal than any other state and has hundreds of premature deaths a year caused by its coal plants.

Electrification roughly halves total energy use in an economy. Fossil fuels are very inefficient compared with alternatives like EVs and heat pumps and renewables.

Slightly less than half now as of the most recent figures. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-generates-less... > That [coal] share was well down from 65.5% in 2016, pre…

It's a cliche now to say we're past that as in Idiocracy they listened to the smartest person to solve their problem. We're now onto Captain Planet baddies. Ridiculously childish c…

> One time we invited Richard Hanania to a prediction market conference. There were five or six news articles about it, and I can’t remember whether any of them mentioned the word …

Weirdly, one of the arguments Musk advanced was that is was all a front for the CIA, which I'd guess is closer to hard power that he was dismantling. Not something you'd expect to …

In part because the communist government actively targeted former South Vietnamese military personnel, civil servants, and anyone who had collaborated with the United States. It wa…

> Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not cl…

Isn't this the guy that double counted everything? Because he counted when something got bought and then counted the subsidy used to buy and added then together?

You've learned well from Smil how to make problems seem insurmountable by intentionally not approaching them with an engineering mindset. We know how to do 80% of electricity, 80% …

They are saying economics is the primary weakness i.e. nuclear costs more than renewables even if you don't have fancy cooling methods that would increase the cost further.

Yes but by a weird coincidence most of that heat can be provided by heat pumps at a similar 3-5x ratio.

The Capitalists Will [outsource the manufacturing of] the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them -- original quote attributed to various famous communists https://quoteinvestigator.com/…

Also promoting German language and culture (I think technically an independant charity but I guess there's a lot of government financial support): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goe…

China mostly builds them on the coast to use sea water cooling. The desert one you refer to is an experimental prototype I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1

I think both nuclear steam and car engines are affected by high ambient temp, gas and coal engines too. That is after all why they bring in water or air to car radiators, to cool t…

I'd love to see an engineering writeup of the full end to end charging times from a user perspective. There's been multiple times in software engineering history where just logging…

Matt Ridley the coal-mine owning climate-change denier? I guess disasters might be his area of expertise since he once crashed a bank and led the official pro-Brexit campaign, but …

Everyday people are generally more pro-renewables and climate action. The politicians can be targeted with bribes by anyone affected by the transition. A classic collective action …

The propaganda has done it's job here, because your base assumption is that dealing with climate change is a cost. But all the research suggests dealing with climate change is the …