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Comment Standard Playbook (Score 1) 45

That's the standard playbook. America, Japan, Korea and China all widely copied technologies from the previously dominant countries before they became innovative themselves. India is now doing step 1 in this process. It's not guaranteed they will get beyond the first step, but they've taken the correct first step.

Comment Re:Not reverse: slowing down (Score 4, Informative) 104

They're not shutting down their coal plants, they're reducing the duty cycle of their coal plants. They have more coal capacity in 2025 than they did in 2024; they're just using them less. So they're not going to have base load and reliability problems.

They can continue on this path forever. One can certainly imagine a scenario where they maintain a coal plant for emergency purposes but never hit the emergency situation that needs the plant. They can have 0% coal usage yet still have significant coal capacity and no base load / reliability problems.

Right now the coal plants run at night. They're adding batteries that will take over those duties, so the coal plants will eventually just run when they have N days without sun & wind, with that N increasing over time until N hits a number that is highly statistically unlikely.

Comment Average without variance is meaningless (Score 5, Interesting) 44

The averages are comparable, but the variances are wildly different, so the two numbers aren't comparable.

Pretty much everybody who kept their job has a roughly equivalent salary this year as last.

OTOH, many of the people who switched jobs have a very different salary. Some people doubled their salary. Some people who lost a high paying job are flipping burgers to keep food on the table.

People *voluntarily* switching jobs got a good pay jump. People *involuntarily* switching jobs didn't.

Comment Re:Get Rid of Conventional Power Generating Right (Score 1) 135

It is very much their problem, and well illustrated by the article. When the wind is blowing, the price is negative and the wind power generators lose money. When the wind isn't blowing they can't generate electricity and they make no money. The people who are making the money are the ones who are generating power when the wind isn't blowing.

Comment Re: Take it a step further please (Score 1) 284

You can't please everybody and there's no need to try. But you should try to avoid words that a reasonable number of people feel offensive. Reasonable people accommodate a reasonable amount and reasonable people can tell the difference between somebody who was accidentally offensive and somebody who was deliberately offensive.

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