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by masta 4y ago
Wow, the site wants write access to my mastodon account, without even telling me who they are?
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by masta 4y ago
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 built when demand is rising, infrastructure always has to c
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by masta 4y ago
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 at
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by masta 4y ago
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 won't break as fast as some petrolheads predicted, the
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by masta 4y ago
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 driven by speculative assets .... Wonder where I've hea
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by masta 5y ago
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 makes a huge difference.
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by masta 5y ago
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 bills. Use at least 50% of that money to pay off any short term
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by masta 5y ago
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. Methane is easy to store, has rather flexible uses and woul
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by masta 5y ago
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 large corporations with lobby groups just as big as your fr
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by masta 5y ago
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 renewable generation, especially from wind. Also there have been
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by masta 5y ago
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 run dry if we require less fossil fuels in the future.
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by masta 5y ago
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 produce at which marginal price (Renewables = 0c/kWh, Nucl
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by masta 5y ago
It's not, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373722
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by masta 5y ago
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 called "Beitragsbemessungsgrenze" which caps
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by masta 5y ago
Page is in German: https://taz.de/Kosten-der-Atomkraft-in-Frankreich/!5101723/
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by masta 5y ago
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, directly and indirectly. [1] https://bit.ly&#x2
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by masta 5y ago
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 has a large amount of energy exchanged with France, thats a
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by masta 5y ago
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 harsh winters and warm summers,
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by masta 6y ago
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 fossil fuels?
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by masta 6y ago
Ah, my bad, yes obviously it creates ~1ton of CO2, not Carbon. :)
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by masta 6y ago
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. How exactly do you plan on storing that? How do you
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by masta 6y ago
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 perspective.
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by masta 6y ago
With Nvidia buying ARM, RISC-V might get a big push and investments from parties who preferred the independence of the former ARM Ltd.
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by masta 7y ago
Efficiency is everything. Transporting fuels is even more cumbersome than transporting electricity. At only 10% or even 20% efficiency, you'll have a tough time to recoup the energy it took to built the plant creating the synthetic fue
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by masta 7y ago
The efficiency of the whole chain is pretty abysmal. Capturing free-air CO2 in large quantities is expensive, you better just store that in the ground and keep it there. I would not expect an efficiency above 20-30% for the synth-fuel gener
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by masta 7y ago
> Would like to know who's paying this guy. Well, the Manhattan Institute, which owns City Journal, is a big proponent of the Oil and Gas business. They have a track record of denying man-made climate change. So this just fits their
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by masta 7y ago
There is no evidence of a significant effect. Especially compared to the effects of the added CO2 in the atmosphere.
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by masta 7y ago
The whole solar cycle argument has been well studied and understood, it's effects are minimal on the climate. But still, this is used by anthroposophic climate change deniers over and over again.
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by masta 9y ago
Architecture, Architecture, Architecture. The easiness to develop a single service makes many engineers loose focus on the big picture. Without an proper architecture and governance in place, larger microservice projects tend to fail pretty
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by masta 9y ago
It's amazing how many things the guy in the video gets wrong. ;)

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