u/JohnDClay

Sources? Anyway, to get a good sized grid to smooth out intermittency, you'll need to connect all Europe or more. I think there's already some of that, but the longer distances you go, the more loss. I agree pumped hydro is a good option, but the promising sites tend to be quite limited when you try to scale up to a full grid. Plus the ecological concerns that come with dams need to be weighed too.

Finite resource goes for battery minerals even more so, and solar production capacity is also limited.

Agree on offshore wind, but it's also got intermittency.

You can save money with solar and batteries, but only after about 30 years. That's a much longer payback time than any other forms like nuclear. Plus you wouldn't have representative grid loads overnight.

The costs you cited are just for the panel electricity, not taking into account any storage.

Right now it costs about $400/kwh. You'll need about 12 hours storage to cover over night, which means about $50k/kw. If the lifespan is 20 years, (which is generous) that means the added cost is 28 cents per kwh just for the storage. I'm sure the batteries will get more efficient, but they will also be in more demand, so that price could go up or down.

Do you have better numbers showing 100% solar is cheaper than nuclear? Why is nuclear bad? It's less deaths than even wind energy and is a proven technology to minimize emissions. Why limit yourself?

I'll need substantiation on the cheaper. Batteries are expensive! And transmission loses get excessive after very long to distances.

Batteries plus solar to equal a constant output power is much more expensive than nuclear. It's when you have other sources that you can have less storage that solar gets cheaper.

It's still to be determined if at a 90% renewable grid whether adding nuclear or wind/solar will be cheaper. You'll need a whole lot more energy storage the closer you get to 100% intermittent renewable, so having some reliable base load with nuclear is likely cheaper.

There's no hope of zero warning. There's hope that we can minimize the warming to that 6C or lower. And hope that we can help ecosystem adapt to new climates. There are corals that are adapting, we need to make sure they survive and spread. We might even need to engineer in heat tolerance. Warming is coming, if they only need to deal with it, they might be able to adapt. But when you stack an half a dozen other significant stressors, it becomes much less likely to survive. So reducing those stressors helps, even if global warming is going to be bad.

Yeah, the defeatist view is really dangerous. But as the video addresses, by limiting other stressors, reefs can recover even at higher temperatures.

Hank Green video on what we can do. Reefs can actually recover from bleaching, which I didn't know.

https://youtu.be/hxZDyV-E5WY

Prior to Ukraine the stockpile was good. Then it started disappearing.

Covert Cobal has been classifying in mainly 4 categories. Abysmal is the lowest one, and are often missing such minor accessories as the turet, tracks, engines, and wheels. Not to mention having sat outdoors for upwards of 50 years. Those conditions are mostly what they're down to. It might allow for slightly higher throughout on production to start on these rusted husks rather than from raw steel, but it'd definitely be harder and more expensive to make these usable than to build a new tank from scratch.

https://youtube.com/@covertcabal

Yup. Not because they were out of more modern tanks yet at that point, but because the more modern tanks took longer to refurbish. But now they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It's seriously astonishing that they managed to wear though the entire massive Soviet stockpile.

Covert Cobal has great tank and apv counting vids, documenting the ever worsening condition of the vehicles remaining.

https://youtube.com/@covertcabal

Interestingly, the US has forward positioned B2s to Diego Garcia to be within easier striking range, along with support aircraft and crew. So they could drop the entire stock of MOABs to dig into hardened buried facilities pretty quickly if they decided to.

Alex Hollings Sandboxx vid

https://youtu.be/XgLNZ1Rgbfw

>Mid-day should be the middle of the day.

Mid-night should be the middle of the night.

You'd need new clocks, those times drift every day, so 12:00 midday would need to change automatically.

For reference, he bought it for $44B.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk

Maybe if the US is kicking Ukraine out of its sphere of influence, China thinks they can get it into theirs? I wonder how that'd effect their relationship with Russia, since they've been benefiting from cheap oil.

It's a self reported survey.

>Our happiness ranking is based on a single life evaluation question called the Cantril Ladder:

Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top.

The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you.

On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?

>This question is both democratic and universal. Rather than constructing an index from multiple metrics, the Cantril Ladder empowers people to make their own judgements about what matters most, regardless of their culture and background.

>The question does not mention concepts like happiness, wellbeing, or satisfaction, so it can be easily translated and understood in many different languages.

Looks like the US is 24 out of 147. It'd be interesting to see the correlation with median income, I'd bet the US is even more behind where a nation of it's wealth would tend to be be.

>Moscow repeated that any settlement must address “the root causes of the crisis”

Agreed, we need to get rid of Putin, the root cause.

Ukraine's infrastructure strikes have been some of their most cost educative, whereas it's baffling why Russia is investing so many missiles into infrastructure attacks with so little result. Russia would need to offer concessions to induce a mutual infrastructure attack pause, not the other way around. Makes me think it's a ploy to look like they're offering something without actually offering anything.