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Show me an example where this is being used in the real word, at scale, in a cost effective manner. It’s not even a good idea. Water has a greater capacity to store heat than rocks…

That is an article about a prediction, not actual data about a drop in price. An article from a month and a half in the past. Still waiting.

> General consumer prices went down What now? Where in Australia have consumer prices gone down? > because of a reduction in peak electricity use driving up retail costs I don’t un…

> Or lifting a really heavy thing and letting it fall slowly. I challenge you to run the numbers on this. Or at least read or watch someone who has. Whenever you’re certain you kno…

Show me anywhere that is recycling wind tubing blades. Or solar panels. Steel is infinitely recyclable and valuable enough as scrap to largely be recycled at a high rate. Solar pan…

True true. The old housing stock is poorly insulated. I mean: not at all insulated, and retro fitting insulation is painfully expensive. Sure, insulation in ceilings is relatively …

Modern coal fired power plants are much cleaner than those that contributed to acid rain. You seriously believe coal fired power hasn’t evolved in the last 40 years? You’re saying …

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Does your 18 full reactors count name plate capacity only, or does it take in to consideration that wind needs to be massively over built or also come with gas peaked plants? This …

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Geothermal works in enough areas (geographies) for it to be an entertaining talking point in niche forums like this one. But not much else. Earth is an incredibly poor heat conduct…

The people who need heat pumps the most don’t have $6000+ to blow on heat pumps. So now we’re back to government subsidies, which routinely prove to drive up the price of whatever …

And you’d still need five or six split systems to properly heat a home. Kitchen, dining, bathroom, three or four bedrooms. I’ve never seen a split system in a bathroom, but I’ve de…

> and we definitely need to be careful that we handle the transition without screwing people over. Well we’re certifiably not going that . No need to wait decades to look at the re…

At what cost? Doesn’t Germany now have some of the most costly electricity in the OECD? For a while there we kept hearing about plug in balcony solar in Germany. Electricity genera…

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Sure. But at the scale of a city or state one home uses close enough to zero power that it being a net user or net producer of electricity is irrelevant. Scale up to tens of thousa…

Modern medicine is dominated by very new ideas and technologies. Gene therapies, targeted cancer treatments, blood pressure medication, antibiotics, surgery, joint replacements, st…

Dams are subject to silt buildup up, which requires maintenance. They’re so destructive to local ecosystems that environmental groups have blocked any new hydroelectric dams being …

But it’s not $1.2 billion people to do the thing . It’s only $1.2 billion to not do the thing . To do the thing would require paying the original contracted amount. Whatever that m…

Day time . And what of the night? Freeze in the dark.

Provide one example where solar and / or wind generation have penetrated a market to a level worth mentioning and electricity prices have come down or remained stable adjusted for …

Pegasus installed via zero click 0 day exploit. Completely owned.

One would have to literally have one’s head in the sand to not know what’s going wrong in London. Or Melbourne. Or Los Angeles or New York.