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Comment Re:Well cult followers (Score 1) 328

It is a well reported problem Finland faced a recent unusually long period of 'Dunkelflaute'.
What you guys need is transmission lines to equalize the power over longer distances.
Also, Finland and neighboring countries are very thinly populated giving hem plenty of space to build wind farms without 'destroying' much of their countryside.

Comment Re:Well cult followers (Score 1) 328

Your life is simple :)
Yes there are moments wind and solar are locallynot giving us what we need but when they work they are great ways of lowering our CO2 output.
I was just looking at the present electricity costs in The Netherlands and Denmark, two countries with a lot of offshore wind power and these costs are extremely low due to a storm over the North Sea.
On regular days the wind farms get their money from producing electricity for common use, during this storm they don't make any money but the consumers have a great time.
What we need is more storage for the still days like part of the Danish surplus is send to Norway where it is used to pump up reservoirs.
And the plans are to at least double the amount of wind and solar, all to lower our CO2 output.
In a world suffering more and more of global warming using oil and gas for the base load is so stupid.

The US being a large country should also invest more in long distance transmission lines to equalize the power between different zones.

Comment Re:Duh! (Score 1) 102

Similar is and has happened in many EU countries, the cost of checking who does have a TV (or radio) was not worth it.
But contrary to the USA we still have pretty good public and commercial stations and the majority of the population still pays for the network instead of going streaming only.
Btw, the detector vans were a scam and with a modern TV there is no oscillator anyway.

Comment Re:Curious looking with these wide mirror stalks (Score 1) 179

My Nissan of nearly 4 y/o has a camera and regular mirror.
I must say the camera works fine, even a night, newer cameras might even be better.
The only 'problem' is my eyes need to adjust from distant to nearby but that's a minor issue, you get used to it.
Not surprising for me that US states have their own legislation but that does not make it useful, all following the same rules would be better.
A curious US regulation is that a rear view mirror is not allowed to give a wider view, in the rest of the world that's how it works.
With a camera this might be made adjustable.

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