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technicalbard
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
I used elm before pine, on a terminal hooked to a Bull-Honeywell machine running Multics...
technicalbard
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Except it won't work. The intermittency problem of renewables doesn't make them cheaper - there is no low-cost solution to that. The intermittency makes energy more expensive. Further, their population is already shrinking. Labor costs will start to rise quite rapidly in Chain, making things more expensive.

Renewable penetration hasn't made energy cheaper anywhere where it is a significant portion of the supply grid.
technicalbard
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
The very first nuclear reactor went from idea to operating in 2 years. In the middle of WW2.

The only reason nuclear projects take longer than other industrial projects is regulatory capture.
technicalbard
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
Wrong. Storage has opex, because it has energy losses. Not all the energy that goes in can come out. 2nd Law and all that. On top of that, there will be maintenance and operating staff costs.
technicalbard
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
Wind would need to guarantee dispatchability on demand to fix a price. Offering low prices when it can is not the same as reliable on-demand sources.
technicalbard
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
technicalbard
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
technicalbard
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
Nor does it talk about what the COST would be.
technicalbard
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
In a country with 3.3 TIMES as many people as 1918-19. So the death rate is still about 1/3 that of the Spanish Flu (to date).