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by throwaway473825 4d ago
Here's the list: 1 Fable 5.1 38.8% 2 GPT-6 Astra 33.8% 3 Gemini 3.8 Flash 31.2% 4 GLM 5.3 28.8% 5 Grok 4.6 23.8% 5 Muse Spark 1.3 23.8% 7 Kimi K3 18.8% 8 GPT-5.6 Sol 16.2% See number 4, 5 and 7.
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
The US produces light oil that's easier to refine and hence more profitable to export since it has many buyers. The US refines heavy oil that's harder to refine and hence more profitable to import since it has few buyers.
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
China's economy is one of the least dependent on oil and gas. Electricity is mostly coal, renewables and nuclear. Transport is increasingly electric (including trucks). Chemicals are moving from oil and gas to coal. If global oil and g
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
No, gas has always been the most expensive source of electricity. Take a look at the German merit order from 2018: https://www.ffe.de/en/publications/merit-order-shifts-and-th... Nuclear is cheapest, then lignite,
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
If you study the heat pump adoption in various European countries, you will quickly notice that it's connected to the price ratio between electricity and gas. The EU has a carbon tax on electricity but not gas. This pushes people towar
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
Germany became a net electricity importer after shutting down its final nuclear power plants in 2023. On top of that, heating still runs mostly on gas, which won't be fun this winter. Due to the inefficiency of gas heating, there will
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
You certainly could use an alternative to gas heating during the upcoming winter. It doesn't look like Qatar will be able to deliver.
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
The EU has a large problem with carbon leakage from electricity generation to oil and gas use. For example, gas heating is exempt from the EU carbon trade, so people are encouraged to use that rather than electric heating. In countries like
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
If it costs only €1 billion to extend the lifespan by 20 years, then nothing else can compete with it. The capacity is 1 GW.
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by throwaway473825 5d ago
Did Germany plan to increase electricity consumption? Gas heating is still king there, and Germany famously promotes hydrogen (mostly from gas) over battery vehicles.
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by throwaway473825 6d ago
With hindsight, it wasn't a very good idea to shut down 6 of 12 nuclear reactors. Still much better than the situation in Germany, but that's a very low bar. It will be interesting to see how the Rolls-Royce SMR project works out.
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by throwaway473825 6d ago
Yeah, I blundered a knight and still managed to win.
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by throwaway473825 7d ago
It's not unprecedented given that GLM 5.3 Flash was better and cheaper than GLM 5.2.
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by throwaway473825 12d ago
The main reason why electricity is expensive in Germany is because it's taxed to oblivion. Even when wholesale prices are negative, electricity costs about three times as much as gas. Now you might ask why electricity is taxed to obliv
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by throwaway473825 20d ago
If that's the case, then why do all European cars have AC? There's an anti-electricity sentiment, but that's a very different thing. It's why most of those anti-AC places use gas heating.
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by throwaway473825 20d ago
>Of course, it's only that simple to replace one heat source with another, why wouldn't anyone do it already? In most European countries, electricity is taxed much higher than gas. Those taxes eat a large chuck of the efficienc
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by throwaway473825 20d ago
> But let's not forget that energy is also on average a lot more expensive in Europe than in the US. The cost plus environmental concerns, which seem to fair less high in the public conscience on the other side of the Atlantic, have
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by throwaway473825 20d ago
The problem with monopolies is that they can hike prices at will. This has certainly happened with district heating in Sweden. You can't do that with AC and solar.
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by throwaway473825 22d ago
It's a little bit more complicated than that. In a hypothetical EU without political intervention, Chinese EVs would be available without tariffs, and those would probably sell very well without any mandates.
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by throwaway473825 25d ago
> But this is also why the EU is aggressively pursuing and building up alternatives Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/12/head-of-iea-roasts-euro.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
No, those are caps on the interchange fees paid to the issuing bank. Card transactions have other fees as well.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
Cursor got bought for $60B. This is simply how AI companies are valued.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
Regarding air conditioning in Europe, I suspect that there are other interests at play given that there has been zero pushback against air conditioning in cars. Air conditioning in buildings is likely viewed as a threat to gas providers as
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
India is literally following China's "anything but oil and gas", which encourages renewables, nuclear and coal. In fact, the Chinese coal lobby is partially responsible for the push for electric trucks. The alternatives are d
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
There's no reason to separate cars from trucks and buses. Everything is getting electrified. In jurisdictions where Buy America Act doesn't apply (i.e. the world outside the US), electric buses are already the default. Moreover, i
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
While a good point, it also creates lock-in effects. If you look at the top EV adopters, they barely use gas power. This likely isn't a coincidence. Now you will have the AI lobby pushing against EVs (so that oil drilling can create ga
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
Natural gas can be replaced with coal gasification, and Germany has an endless amount of coal. It would probably even be cheaper, although much dirtier. China is already doing this.
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
One side being worse isn't an excuse for the other being bad. Regarding EVs, the US started to fall behind in 2019, and the gap has only continued to widen, regardless of administration: https://ourworldindata.org/graph
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
Building gas power plants that run only a few weeks per year is very expensive. Just compare prices in Germany (gas) with China (coal) or Finland (nuclear). A more economical way would be to build nuclear power plants that power electrolyze
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by throwaway473825 1mo ago
EVs aren't popular in the US due to the Republicans being beholden to oil and gas interests and the Democrats to unions. The grid was just an excuse.

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