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Wow, the site wants write access to my mastodon account, without even telling me who they are?

Same when we went from horse carriages to gasoline powered cars. There was no infrastructure in place to buy hydrocarbons for otto-engines, other than in pharmacies. Industries are…

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/30/fact... "Windmill blades can be recycled," Karl Englund, CTO of Global Fiberglass Solutions and associate research professor…

They can be, and there are demonstration plants doing this already. With more EVs on the road it is even going to make economical sense at some point. But those darn batteries just…

I hate to break it to you, but the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic ended around 1923 and the Republic prospered afterwards. Till the Great Depression, which was in big parts …

In the end it's mainly about developing an habit to check your expenses. This can easily get to 100-150$ recouped per month. Which, when going into settling high interest debts mak…

Open a second account and move 10-20% of your salary to that account on the beginning of the month, or whenever you receive your salary. Pay yourself first, before you pay the bill…

Not to mention that it requires capturing and probably liquifying the CO2 first, which is also energy intense. If we do CO2 Hydrogenation, it will be for Methane gases, not liquid.…

Look up how the energy market works, thats one of the main culprits here, because it has been designed to shovel money towards large fossil baseload powerplants. Which are owned by…

Reality is a lot more complex. Conservative parties rule the majority of german states. Over time they added more and more rules to local law, which implicitly prevented more renew…

It does not have anything to do with the European Green Deal, and you probably even know that. Putin is putting pressure on Europe, because his only lifeline for money is going to …

One of the main problems is the market design for electricity in Europe. It uses a merit order based pricing model. Simplified version: - Everyone lists how much power they can pro…

It's not, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373722

Sorry, but that's just wrong, the maximum you're paying for public health insurance (as an employee) in Germany is around 7.5% of your pre-taxed income. BUT, there is a limit calle…

Page is in German: https://taz.de/Kosten-der-Atomkraft-in-Frankreich/!5101723/

What the site does not seem to talk about is that an internal commission in 2011 found[1] that the real cost per kWh is around 50-56c. Nuclear power in France is heavily subsidized…

I would prefer if you could provide sources. One typical trap I see people fall into is mistaking physical flow for trading. With Germany being in the center of Europe, it always h…

Sorry to burst your bubble, but for years, Germany sold more power to france than it bought from there. https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=... Also, during…

Tulips anyone?

Please take an Econ 101 course, thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq_E3HquRJY

One of the biggest end-user of CO2 is the fossil fuel industry, blowing CO2 into well to extract more fossil fuel .... Will OP make sure their product is not used to extract more f…

Ah, my bad, yes obviously it creates ~1ton of CO2, not Carbon. :)

I'll be blunt. This sounds very fishy to me. Diesel creates about 2.6kg of CO2 per litre burned. So for a typical 500 litre tank of a Semi truck, you'll create 1.3tons of carbon. H…

Thats why there is a need for a global Carbon Tax/Pricing System. This would internalise the cost of pollution and make engineering solution more important from a market perspectiv…

With Nvidia buying ARM, RISC-V might get a big push and investments from parties who preferred the independence of the former ARM Ltd.