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Yup, love the adrenaline rush, the simple "get up with this heavy shit on you" on it. After running for a decade without any spectacular performance to speak of and constant weight…

Batteries cost > $100 / kWh, the industry still considers that a target to brag about: https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/lithium-ion-... This is WHOLESALE BOM price, …

Levelised Cost of Energy is the highest, in the entire developed world , in the UK, which has enough wind and solar installed to entirely meet needs today. It is NOT cheap, it is c…

They're absolutely dual use, which is why the greens have always been against them. But that's like trying to prevent cow rearing by outlawing mince. You don't rear a cow for mince…

Regulations are paper. Who enforces the behaviour , of whether to take off or not, on a windy night in central Italy? Of course the pilots are the backstop, and the unions are thei…

They are doing seasonal storage - i.e. on a timescale of a year! So no, they are not doing 5000 f*king cycles! This is systematic fraud by the renewables industry and should be cal…

More efficient, but much more expensive. I'm sick of people handwaving $100 per kWh . That is two orders of magnitude off where it needs to be to do anything more than virtue signa…

I've received the same PIN from an entirely different gym chain, albeit one using the same door system. As you say, a massive red flag indicating it's not using a lot of sources of…

I'll name and shame - Fruit of the Loom. They may never have been amazing, but that's the point - they were a representative, middle-of-road brand and you could just assume their c…

Aspiration for 20 GW of power by 2040, or in 15 years time. In the period 1980-1990, I repeat in a 50% shorter period commencing forty years ago , France installed 34 GW of nuclear…

If there's a single watt demanded by the grid and NOT supplied by gas, or coal or nuclear, because there sure as shit aren't batteries within three orders of magnitude of competiti…

It certainly leads to less sex. Seems a lot of vaguely-defined experts (economists/demographers/??) are very concerned we're not having enough, so more impulse-regulating drugs see…

> What do you mean by "metals don't actually withstand temperature"? As in the raw metal would melt were it not for the cooling vanes? They creep. Have you seen, for instance, Blu-…

And that's why Georgism exists! You can't offshore a plot of land. If you've really managed to generate trillions in profit without using any, including indirectly (mining, showroo…

No it doesn't and it isn't. If you're working for a grid operator tell me how many TWh you need to sustain a 1-in-20 - A 1-in-goddamn-20 - dunkelflaute in a single large European n…

Yes, I have some numbers. Wholesale electricity costs since 2020 have repeatedly exceeded 700 - SEVEN HUNDRED - Euros per MWh (1). Because it was dark and still, a condition every …

The most valuable company in Europe is Louis Vitton. Forgive me, I don't think Putin's quaking in his boots about when they'll weigh in. GDP was a good war metric for an industrial…

Those transmission components are expected to cost the taxpayer at least £54 bn ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62085297 ). Transmission, of course, doesn't solve storage, wh…

Not the OP but I was on that side - They do work . My best analogy is it's like working at TSA except there are three terrorist attacks per week. As far as privacy goes, by the sam…

Nobody cares. bryanlarsen has it correct, you need to satisfy demand . Germany is exporting because it produces useless renewable power. It is useless because it does not satisfy t…

People use facebook of their own free will. Assuming they're at least a good a judge of what makes them happy as you are, how is this resource not being used for whatever "humanita…

Interesting, "the Office of Rail and Road ... issued Network Rail with an improvement notice" For the benefit of readers not versed with UK regulation, an improvement notice is a f…

Right, I think the industry is too self-critical at times. I onboarded a new client recently, and within five minutes of guessing a Wi-Fi password I had sensitive financial data us…

That's a lovely saying, although the main issue currently seems to be that, in the West, we are currently not good at making more humans. See various demographic crises.

There's always the chance of some idiot who thinks they're going to take down society with nmap and metasploit. The hotel's safe, but I'd be worried about some other legitimate cus…