The number of hours of sunlight varies a lot with latitude.
Today, northern Norway (and northern Alaska) has 24 hours of sunlight, the Netherlands 16:23 and New York 14:51.
And for the upcoming New Year's Eve, northern Norway has 0 hours of sunlight, the Netherlands 7:45 and New York 9:16 hours of sunlight.

In studies on mammals, effects on the liver, immune system and reproduction are common.
They are long-lived and therefore remain in the environment for a long time and are therefore spread far, via air and water.
This makes them a global problem, including Antarctica.

There are also seasonal variations for solar energy.

reasonable question

This is a dispute between PriceRunner and Google, and PriceRunner is Swedish.
The EU Commission has already ruled that damage has occurred in the Nordic countries and the UK.
PriceRunner was acquired by Klarna, which is also Swedish but active in 17 countries.

You might also want to check a list of the 2026 UN expectancy values.
https://www.worldometers.info/...

Monaco comes out on top with 86.73
And of the larger countries with high rank Japan is in fourth place with 85.15

Yes, but it is a myth that AI can replace jobs, that AI companies make to the market and investors. AI can help people do their job but not replace them.
Reality is messy and complex and LLMs can't even play chess well.

We have companies betting huge amounts of money on these AI machines being smart in ways that they are not, and will not be in the near future.
The bubble will burst.

Whatever happened to Watson?

Congratulations to the US on reaching 30% renewable energy. By comparison, the EU reached 48% by 2025.
Wind power is relatively cheap and quick to build, but is intermittent with no electricity when there is no wind.
Sure, battery energy storage can help to some extent and Europe is investing too,
but it is expensive technology, has limited capacity and a lifespan of 5 to 15 years.
Europe still uses mostly pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES) for storage.
Maybe research can give us better hydrogen storage?

Baseload is the minimum level of energy required and hardly varies over time, i.e. during a 24-hour period.
But both wind and solar are intermittent energy sources and are generated only when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining.
The US gets 51% of its electricity from gas and 17% from coal.
That generates carbon dioxide emissions and it would be great if they could be replaced by nuclear power plants.

Wind and solar is great and cheap, but vanish at night, during calm periods, or under clouds.

That is probably correct, traditionally.
But nuclear power can and is used to balance the electricity grid.
If wind power delivers too little, nuclear power can compensate and increase production.
This is done in Germany and France, but not everywhere.
It can also be used to keep the frequency at 50 Hz.

I'll refrain from insults.

See

https://fdehydro.com/base-load...
-> Base Load = The minimum power a grid needs at all times, delivered at a steady, constant rate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
-> Capacity factor = The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given
period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period.

And check the Wikipedia curve for different energy sources.

Nuclear power is dispatchable to some extent, meaning it can adapt to varying requests, but renewables are not.
A nuclear generator can generate electricity at any time of the day regardless of the weather or season
and typically has a capacity factor of 85-95 percent, meaning it delivers electricity almost all the time.
This makes nuclear power a reliable baseload power source.
Whereas for wind power that is only 25-40 percent.