The average uptime for a coal power plant is between 70% and 90%. Your example should be closer to 8 TWh/year. That means that you would need about 80 of them to provide the same power as Wind and Solar.

PS. assuming the Trump effect won't kick in for the US over 2025.

The second derivative on emissions has been negative for a while.

China had massive surpluses of PV to get rid off internally, I could see that compensating for India in 2025 and everyone else relevant is flat or declining.

Just because they need the fossil plants for 100% uptime doesn't tell you how often they run.

There is a problem with your argument. The article is about worldwide sales. Of those, U.S. subsidies only affect a small part, which we can safely ignore as a rounding error.

But EV sales did not tank. That's the whole point of the article. Your premise is wrong.

You can build nuclear if you want, But all I see right now is nuclear construction happening in China, and in China only. All new nuclear plants built in the west were to replace older ones or are upgrade of them.

Even France, which never had a problem with nuclear, basically stopped building them in the 1990ies, and the only new plant coming online since then is the Flamanville EPR. It was always easy for electrical companies to stop nuclear projects and blame the Left and regulations, when in fact, the projects simply became too expensive compared to the alternatives. It's similar to the turbine car from Chrysler, where environmental regulation were cited why it stopped, when in fact, turbines still suck in partial-load situations, which is what most cars are in most of the time.

I don't think nuclear will have a great future. It might exist for some niche applications, but in most cases, it's just fricking expensive.

While Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas, it is also one which gets removed rather quickly from the atmosphere, because it gets destroyed by the sunlight and turned into water and Carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide on the other hand is stable, and if not actively extracted from the atmosphere, will stay there indefinitely for billions of years.

Ultimately net zero is a political decision, so a prediction of the trajectory has to predict politics ... and Trump just got elected.

Calcium silicate can make concrete. Hydrogen for ammonia and (e-)fuel can come from electrolysis and thus nuclear or renewable electricity.

Switching to non emitting processes, while letting emitting processes die a natural death, is far cheaper than sequestration.

Mozilla did this....and unfortunately, it's worse than useless.

Strictly speaking, Toyota's privacy policy is pretty liberal in terms of what is involved, and has been for years...and that's what their rating is based on. And, credit to Toyota, their "we can do whatever we want and you can't sue us" policy goes pretty far back, so Mozilla ranked my 1999 Camry as pretty not-privacy-centric. That's useless, because it got the same ranking as a 2024 Tesla Model S.

Now, regardless of what the paperwork says, the practical difference between the two could not be more different. The 1999 Camry had an ODB2 port, which meant it *did* do some tracking...but it kept it on the computer, and Toyota only got their hands on it if I brought it to their shop and they dumped the memory. A 2024 Tesla sends audio and video data, driving data, mapping data, and remote lock/unlock/disable commends to Tesla, in real-time.

Any list that puts these two things on the same level is worse than useless. 1999 Toyota's data is as opt-in as data sharing could possibly be. Tesla's data sharing requires lots of skill to implement, and functionality tradeoffs as a consequence. The paperwork may reflect that Toyota can share their data dumps if they get them, but Tesla's data collection is not just a default, it's a warranty-voiding engineering problem.

So, yes, I would *love* such a list...but when the privacy advocates are as useless as the privacy violators, the only list that *might* make some traction is an ad-hoc, opt-in list that either manufacturers or users create for vehicles where the owners enumerate the intrusiveness.

One of my tenants gave notice on the house he was renting from me because he was fired from his job the day after the Brexit vote.

Streaming resp. IPTV has this curious side effect to be a few seconds late. In my apartment block, it's funny to listen to the different flats cheering at slightly different times when watching the same game.

Yep I read it: It's advertisements all-the-way down.

"...1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to methods, systems and computer programs for adding content to streamed media, and more particularly, methods, systems and computer programs for embedding advertising within television programming. ..."

You are cherry-picking the  human effects of AGW;  one persons thorn is anothers blackberry. Areas like northern USA,  Canada and Russian Siberia are headed for a climate golden age.  Global food production should rise not fall. You DO know I imagine that African dessert regions are cyclic, and  "green" savannah will return as  earths precession changes independent of temps.  China and India do get hammered -- both have been long over-populated --  but the borderland region continues to elevate due to plate movement; so each will get a bit more high-forest regions.  Leave Australia to the death-adders & crocs. Also too bad about those pesky Polynesians; great opportunity for some massive earth-moving by resort owners and pearl farmers ; call  lawyers to make deals.