u/Redjard — redjard

Scale? There have been a lot of tesla cars driving for years. Last I heard, electric cars in general, and also teslas specifically, are a lot less likely to burn.

Without some usable numbers the counts above seem worthless to me.

thx.

* Belarus (2015; gas, nuclear)

* Belgium (2016; green, gas, nuclear)

* Austria (2020; green, bit of gas)

* Sweden (2020; green, nuclear)

* Portugal (2021; green, gas)

* UK (2024; green, gas)

* Slovakia (2024; nuclear, green, gas)

* Ireland (2025; green gas)

Most of the nations seem to use renewables and use gas to balance the load spikes. Few have the storage to get by without a source of balancing, nuclear is a common supplement but shouldn't be capable of balancing since it's so slow.

Some use so much gas it's probably not just for balancing, namely the uk.

Sweden is probably using hydro to balance, they don't seem to have any storage but also don't use gas.

I would discard Slovakia. They still have installed coal capacity, and import significantly from poland which is mainly on coal.

would be interesting to see the respective major power sources

It's probably purposeful obscurity, a marketing move for gold and jewelry.

Other alloys are described as ratios of elements.

At least I am starting to see carat fall out of use as a unit of weight, maybe from diamond manufacturing slowly making diamonds more of a commodity product.

It'll probably take until we stop obsessing over gold before we can get rid of karat.

It's 18 karat, not 24, so 75% gold and 25% probably silver.

That makes it a significantly harder alloy than pure gold.

biggest attack since Kyiv’s daring drone assault

Didn't that literally just happen?

This has »"We haven't seen each other since last year" in the first week of January« vibes.

Fossil gas was a minor energy source for germany and the eu. It was costly to replace 2 years ago but at this point the cost has been paid and the energy is sourced from other fuels.

The german car industry was bound to fall ever since they refused to research electric cars decades ago. Even before then they had been outsourcing but now they simply don't own the profitable part of electric cars - the battery and power-train.

With or without the war in ukraine they would be disappearing.

The overall german economy is fine, there is increasingly unequal distribution of wealth like many western nations in recent decades, but the economy is ok.

Ps: I don't recall the numbers for germany, but pre 2022 the EU generated less than 20% of their *energy* with fossil gas, and less than 14% of their electricity. Germany had a higher ratio, but definitely less than a third.