Let's put it like this: I live in a village (less than 10,000 inhabitants) directly neighboring a small city (130,000 inhabitants). In my village, we have seven bus lines, one train stop with trains running every 30 mins, and a tramway line (and a second one, which is technically not on village territory, but from my place, it's a 5 min walk).

Just in the Alpine region, where for instance Homo neanderthalensis lived, we had

1. Biber Complex (2.6 mio to 1.9 mio years ago)
2. Danube glaciation (1.8 mio years ago)
3. Gunz complex (800 tsd to 600 tsd years ago)
4. Mindel glaciation (475 tsd to 370 tsd years ago)
5. Riss glaciation (300 tsd to 120 tsd years ago)
6. Würm glaciation (115 tsd to 10 tsd years ago)

Well I *meant* to post as AC. I'll have to apply those mod points elsewhere :( ... and ironically Slashdot is throttling me, for reasons unrelated to whether my ISP uses CGNAT.

Can you elaborate on #2? In principle, an IPv6 firewall / stateful router can protect devices on the LAN by essentially using NAT logic except for rewriting addresses, right? Assuming that a more naive approach of blocking incoming SYN packets by default isn't good enough, at least.

(Posting as AC so I can moderate up some deserving comments below.)

Humanity has survived several ice ages already.

It is about the effect of ending benefits on car sales. Norway did this, and it had the reported effect.

If you want to throw a moral hissy fit anyway, be my guest.

In all countries, where tax credits ended or were reduced, we saw the same pattern: people wanting an EV will buy early to qualify for the expiring tax credit, creating a short boom, and then there will be a period, when only a few people will buy EVs, and then it will normalize again. We had the same in Norway 10 years ago, we had it in Germany two years ago, it will be a short break and then pick up again.

My kettle (completely offline) boils within a minute. There is no need to have water sitting around for hours just to boil it remotely. This is about the time I need to prepare my cup and teapot anyway.

I have two offline clocks, which synchronize automatically with a local LF time signal bacon. Check if you can receive WWVB (or whatever your national equivalent is, in my case, it's DCF77)! A device to build into a standard wall clock is available for ~$15 in your friendly local online shop (ironic, I know).

My TV set is completely offline. I don't know if it is available for you, but it's a DYON Enter, and it works perfectly well. If I want smart features, I have to fire up the BlueRay player, which works, but I barely use it.

That's why the U.S. has about 10 times the number of lawyers per capita than any other country.

The problem in this case, as usual, was lazy government rather than big government. A government with high capacity to get things done is not necessarily bad, but usually government turns into a power trip or a mire of reasons that things cannot be done -- and big or effective government is bad in both of those cases.

I tooked the area of the Flamanville Block 3, France nuclear plant as an example. It's a 1.6 GW plant covering an area of about 1.4 square kilometers. I was rounding it for better calculation.

Again, I was using the Flamanville nuclear plant as an example. Total construction cost was 13 billion Euros.

Please, tell me again, what you believe to know differently.

What point do I want to make?

The point I was to make was that the only thing that speaks for Nuclear is its compact size, and this is a moot point, because I can use areas of land for Solar, which I would otherwise not being able to use (roofs), or which I can continue to use otherwise (farming around wind turbines).

I always like to compare the electricity you could generate from the same piece of land. A nuclear facility usually covers something like 1 square kilometer of land and produces about 1 GW of electricity. The price to build it would be $10 billion. Covering the square kilometer with solar panels will give you about 800 Wp per square meter or 800 MWp, resulting in about 80 MW on average. I can currently buy solar panels for ~$200/sqm. To cover the whole square kilometer would cost me $200 mio. I also could put up 100 wind turbines, giving me about 600 MWp or about 100 MW on average, which would cost me the same $200 mio dollars.

The only thing that speaks for a nuclear reactor is the smaller area footprint. On the other hand, I can't put a nuclear reactor on a roof, nor can I farm the land between the nuclear facilities, which makes the area footprint point moot.