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  • I guess we use "Making gold from straw" (German).

  • Theoretically, this kind of extreme surge pricing should help people make the decision to invest in solar panels..?

  • "Texas is so deregulated, it's basically Russia" is an interesting take but I approve.

  • You may want to re-read the thread. I think you have mixed up something in your head.

  • You're not wrong, and yet it's the name of a fairly popular porn series where actresses exchange a cab ride for sexual favors (that's the story idea at least).

    It's popular enough that there is a significant number of people (vulgo, "creeps") who put Fake Taxi stickers all over their cars.

  • She's a ginger. Just saying, not insinuating anything. /s

  • Well, thanks.

    Otoh, I withheld judgement on your opinion for a reason: I can think of at least one example of a German pro-nuclear pro-coal anti-renewables shill who has rather recently turned into a pro-nuclear anti-climate-change shill.

    [Addendum: In fact, in Germany, associations like Nuclearia (pro-nuclear), Eike (anti-renewables), Vernunftkraft (anti-wind power) are all linked, including in their financing through the Heartland Institute.]

    I understand that the situation might be a little different in other countries, but the whole worldwide civil nuclear field was born out of the military-industrial complex and is still very connected in governments, much more so than solar/wind energy companies are.

  • New reactors are expensive. New reactors are late. New reactors can basically only be built by nation states but not privately. Nuclear is not insurable. Nuclear produces waste with excessive half-life. Nuclear steals resources and mindshare from other options. Nuclear energy output can't be moderated well (basically for economic reasons, it runs full steam all the time and for safety reasons, you can only moderate output a little), so it does not effectively augment wind and solar, rather leading to wind/solar having to be turned off.

    Wind and solar meanwhile can be built cheaply, quickly, privately, locally, site sizes easily scale between kW or GW of output and they only produce a little regular waste at the end of their life. (Okay, granted, Neodymium mining does produce some nuclear waste too — but definitely nowhere what uranium mining produces.)

    Wind+solar+hydro+better national/continental grids+batteries+flexible demand is a much better combination.

  • Basically, Warl0k3 thinks Diplomjodler's argumentation is a conspiracy theory. In his comment, he ironically takes the position of a nuclear bro who finds out that his devious plan was discovered.

  • New nuclear reactors do not make sense as they routinely arrive late and massively over budget. They also steal away resources from cost-effective, realistic production with wind and solar. Also, CO2 is not the only environmental hazard there is: Humanity does not know how to safely store nuclear waste for hundred thousands of years.

  • Nature religions were right and we're all part of a single bigger organism of which every part can feel and communicate with every other part.

  • Historically, reactors were sized like modern SMR concepts once. The issue was that they were even harder to secure and ratio of effort/benefit was worse than with fewer, larger reactors. Just like all nuclear projects, SMR construction will run behind schedule and outside of cost estimates, we've already seen that with the cancelled NuScale reactors in the US.

    Governments need to stop throwing money at this deadbirth of a technology.

  • News websites often A/B test different headlines to see which one brings most clicks. In other words: Most online news articles have several different headlines associated with them.

  • Thanks, teamevil!

  • Bomfunk MC's Freestyler is the peak of musical creation. (Ok, prolly no but I love coming back to it.)

    (Fwiw, initially I read "triple !" (i.e. !!! or ChkChkChk) in your op comment and thought why?, that's a great band.)

  • Also an dieser Stelle liegt es vielleicht einfach auch daran, dass Özdemir sehr eingenommen von der Agrarindustrie scheint. Das hier halte ich für eine andere Geschichte als dass Gezerr ums Klimaschutzgesetz, wo wirklich Grüne und FDP aneinander geraten sind. Das sieht man wahrscheinlich auch an Zitaten von Martin Häusling, der den Parteikollegen offenbar auch nicht ganz versteht.

  • I didn't realize the Microsoft font was named after the painter rather than just being named "beer town" (which seemed rather ill-fitting anyway).

  • They look like the wading birds I liked seeing so much in Spanish rice paddies.