I wish I had modpoints to downvote your lies.

1. The power plants were perfectly operable at a reasonable cost for decades. Just like the ones in neighboring countries.
2. The current trajectory of Germany is an ecocide. It's one of the worst CO2 offender in the EU w.r.t. energy production and Germany is still destroying vast areas of land to extract coal in open pit mines.

Not true at all. Agrivoltaics is a well studied field of research by now, and recent results show that you can sometimes even increase the yields of your crops by having (spaced) solar panels on top because it regulates microclimatic parameters. It's not as simple as "block sun so plant no grow".

See e.g., https://link.springer.com/arti...

Good old car analogy: Porsche has a niche market but sells 300k cars per year, which makes for about 30 billion euros of sales revenue and 7 billion euros profit. You wouldn't believe how many people are rich enough and care enough to buy high end graphic cards.

Being born in East-Germany, I know that very well! I'm glad he didn't order the Russian troops stationed in GDR to open fire, for sure! But let's not make him the hero of democracy he never was. Gorbi wasn't a democrat, he was a bureaucrat overwhelmed with events happening at a speed he could not comprehend. Did he let everything happen with minimal killing because he was a pacifist or was it because he was too slow to order the massive killing? I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but that's it. Nothing more.

Well he did. He did in Chernobyl by having people stay there to show that it wasn't dangerous. He also did have the military shoot when people started to demonstrate during the fall of the USSR. He had opponents deported, in pure soviet tradition. Granted, he didn't kill many by Russian standards and it's difficult to know what was his decision and what was the KGB and the military decision that he could not act against.

200kW is the peak power. Your link mentions 50kW as a more likely operating point, and the original article of the summary mentions 40kW.

(https://kingisland.tas.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/DA-2019-18-Wave-Energy-Converter-Grassy-Harbour.pdf, page 4)

(https://newatlas.com/energy/blowhole-wave-energy-generator/)

So it's more something like 2km of coastline for ~2000 inhabitants, which does not really scale that well. It's nice to turn seawalls into something that serves 2 purposes, but it's not going to solve any energy problem. As a comparison, in the Netherlands the coastal protection system length is ~350km long, so this system would provide electricity for ~350 000 Dutch people (although they may use less energy than Australians), or 2% of the population. Nice, but not game changing.

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Sorry, I had to...

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If you expect some sort of dramatic event, with the sky darkening and demons rushing out to the sound of trumpets, it's not going to be like that.

What's going to happen, is that the world is going to get shittier a little bit every year. A few more days of unbearable hot in the summer. A storm a little bit more violent than the previous one. Crops failing a little more than the previous year, etc. Nothing dramatic, nothing radically changing in an instant, nothing you would say "oh, that's not normal" because it'll be small enough that you'll think it's just bad luck. Little by little, slowly turning this place into hell. And over the course of a hundred years, it'll be exactly hell.

The actions that we should take are not really to prevent a dramatic change from paradise into hell over the course of 6 months. It's to prevent the total amount of shittiness that's going to happen in the coming century, with the speed of change remaining more or less constant. We do nothing? The total amount of shit in 100 years is going to be enormous. We do something before that 3 years deadline? The total amount of shit in 100 years is reasonable.

So yeah, if you're over 50, you basically don't give a shit. Nothing is going to happen quick enough to bother you. And even if it does, you already had 50 years of cool stuff. I can get you're on the "so long, suckers!" mentality.

It's like taking a credit in the name of someone else. You get the stuff, and someone else has to pay back. There's got to be careless people with a system like that... Well, that's exactly what happened with climate and the environment. One generation getting the stuff and letting the following ones paying back.

You know why? Because it shows that we are just machines, albeit complex ones. No soul, no dis-incarnated mind, and certainly no eternal bliss after we die or other bullshit like that. Nothing special. We're just a bunch of mechanical parts that jiggle in a complex movement amidst other bunch of mechanical parts that jiggle, and we don't like that.

Rob has been developing this sort of tech for years. He made several other web based viewers that are also super nice when looking for details in such images. I'll chime in if I can recall the links.

This is the most murican comment I've seen in a long time, to the point of being comical.

You do understand that if you're complaining on paying a premium on electric cars and bikes or using less air conditioner on summer, you are in the 20% biggest dirty emitters that have to make the biggest reduction yet? You do, right?

It's not PC, it's a display of power.

Ever wondered why history has no recollection of someone ever laughing at Louis XIV for wearing tights and high heels? Well it's the same with anything silly China does at the moment.

is that what was before happening only in schoolyards is now for everyone to see. Not that it changes much about if you should care or not, though.