ZeroGravitas

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US Energy Data(usenergydata.org)
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by ZeroGravitas 3d ago
But that did actually happen. The oil corporations were publicly claiming to support carbon taxes, while also secretly fighting actual implementations of carbon taxes. All the communist/hippy stuff was done by people a couple of steps
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by ZeroGravitas 4d ago
I'd like to see more open discussion of blockading and bombing uncooperative country's fossil fuel supply chains once decarbonization is in full swing. And get wide global agreement that anyone geoengineering when they are still p
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
Germany has excess coal and gas capacity which they can turn on when needed. They, like most people import when it's cheaper than the local alternative. Interconnected nations all importing when cheap electricity is available lowers co
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
I do argue that every oil importing country should electrify. EU (collectively or independently) is distinct only in that it is ahead of the pack on many of these topics, hence why the Netherlands diesel price is higher than the US price, a
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
This came up a lot recently in regards to competition in the solar and EV spaces. And yet, the competition generated cheap power and transport that was clean and didn't rely on foreign actors. Making life easier for many Chinese people
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
Ok, but my specific comment applies to a large degree to every EU country individually and as a bloc, so you are splitting hairs pointlessly.
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
If you need a geofenced area, you don’t have real self-driving! -- some real jerk in 2019
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
Often the incentive to take a job would be better under Basic Income as there's so many cliff edge benefits that phase out quickly as you work/earn more in the current system.
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
The EU imports 97 percent of their crude oil, which is needed to refine diesel and still import a further 10% of their refined diesel. It is somewhat amazing that Europe hasn't embraced electrification even more but taxing diesel use t
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
Trump explicitly claimed that China sells wind turbines to other countries but doesn't use them for their own needs. That is of course a stupid lie. But it's amazing how many smart liars say something similar to "China contro
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
The government that keeps rejecting offshore wind for bogus security reasons is probably a bigger factor. Those wind farms would have connected into the zones with the highest prices. They've rejected an amount that would generate more
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by ZeroGravitas 5d ago
When Google was going hard on deploying renewables they stressed "additionality". They didn't want to just buy clean hydro that already existed, or renewables that were going to get built anyway without their money, they want
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by ZeroGravitas 6d ago
I wonder if Margaret Atwood was inspired by the framing device of this book for The Handmaid's Tale. Both are looking back on future dystopias from the further future beyond them. Also, Standard Ebooks has a modern ebooks edition: htt
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by ZeroGravitas 6d ago
The PV stuff was just pull forward to beat a subsidy change. As for cars, sales of ICE were down 40℅, BEV grew 1.7℅
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by ZeroGravitas 6d ago
R32 also got rated higher: GWP went from 675 -> 771
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by ZeroGravitas 6d ago
This specific model appears to be a split system that has an external unit to extract the heat from the outside air.
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by ZeroGravitas 8d ago
The steelman for carbon capture is that after the entire economy is electrified with clean generated electricity, and everyone eats a diet of lab grown meat and we have rewilded lots of former pastures then we'll still need carbon capt
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by ZeroGravitas 9d ago
Yes, it was originally written for those devices. It's now branching out to support similar devices from other manufacturers.
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by ZeroGravitas 9d ago
The crosspoint software lists a few different manufacturers devices: https://crosspointreader.com/devices
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by ZeroGravitas 10d ago
Maybe he's planning on producing a follow up tapestry when his pal Melei invades the Falkland islands?
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by ZeroGravitas 11d ago
A lot of the early Trump responses were incredulous about some insane thing Trump said to a rally crowd, but he was basically repeating whatever insanity they'd all heard on Fox News the night before.
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
Type of food still has sizeable impact even if the food miles issue has been misleading. Cutting red meat and dairy likely beats cycling for errands for example. The switch from an ICE car to an EV (and assuming a standard US amount of driv
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
Solar is only about 13% of China's power. They have hydro, wind, nuclear and gas too as well as coal. Their off peak prices have generally been overnight, ideal for truck charging, though they have started having them around noon too l
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
France has been offering lower prices at night to make the most of their nuclear since the 1960s. Australia used similar tech to make the most of baseload coal overnight since the 1950s. It's just a good idea, and should be used to get
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
I wonder if the parts of the IRA they were betting on remained in place when Trump gutted it. Grid Battery seemed to mostly survive but not sure if there's as much crossover there as with EVs.
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by ZeroGravitas 12d ago
Running trucks on a 50% coal grid like in China makes both economic and environmental sense. It makes more of both as the Chinese grid gets cleaner.
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by ZeroGravitas 13d ago
The emphasis on cotton tote bags seems weird. It's like the attacks on EVs that focus on cobalt or copper mining. You wonder if they realize that those materials are used for other things too. Or is their ire mysteriously specific in i
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by ZeroGravitas 13d ago
This undersells the weirdness of Musk. He is after all at this moment talking on Twitter about how he regularly tells people who say they are Jewish that they aren't Jewish and if they don't have DNA tests to prove it he doesn&#x2
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by ZeroGravitas 14d ago
This feels like very low quality propaganda. Like at one point it spends a whole paragraph on how landfills are better than just spreading trash around randomly. Is there someone out there seriously arguing that developing nations should ju

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