No, I'm glad it's dead because it killed Nokia.

So, it's like Internet Explorer now?

I just watch YT via youtube-dl or directly via mpv (which uses youtube-dl hook). Their new UI is too retardedly slow to even look at it.

One can see that this report is complete bullshit, as it does not address the aspect of storage.

Nuclear power produces constant load. Coal and gas power plants can produce on demand. Together they require only a minimum storage capacity to balance daily consumption patterns. Solar and Wind power however are produced with enormous random fluctuations and can only exist if there is capacity to regulate and/or store electricity is large amounts.

This capacity does not exist, and considering how long does it take to plan and resolve all legal issues for large pump storage facilities, it will never be built in any significant amounts. The article does not calculate this cost at all, therefore it's ripe for garbage bin.

World HAS listened decades ago, and wanted to get away from coal and oil. This is why the world started building nuclear power plants.
But then there too many idiots appeared who opposed that and now we're going back to coal and oil/gas.

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> The renewable energy surcharge is expected to decrease in the future as the old inefficient solar plants will stop getting a guaranteed feed-in tariff at some point in time. And newer ones build now get a much smaller feed-in tariff due.
The tariff is guaranteed for 20 years since registration. We are still paying 99 ct/kWh to some operators that registered their solar panels in the 90's. The tariffs are only slowly decreasing, but only for NEW registrations - when are they supposed to reaching the level of conventional pricing (3-4 ct/kWh+own storage capacity) - in 40-50 years maybe? Pathetic!

> What kind of interventions are you talking about? Anyway, it works nicely. The grid is stable.
The grid is stable BECAUSE of interventions. Switching extremely expensive emergency capacities to keep it stable. The day they won't find enough capacity we will see blackouts all over the place. Right now it's just translated into electricity price.

>> It is expected that the grid will be separated into north and south regions to improve stability in a few years.
> This is nonsense. The plan is to build power lines from north to south.
That's what I'm talking about. Separation into zones.

> At the same time, the CO2 production keeps increasing.
> CO2 production for generation of electricity is falling (3% in 2016).
CO2 is still CO2. The fact is that production of CO2 in Germany is increasing, hence all the efforts to prevent so called "climate change" have been for nothing so far, but they COST.

> And we haven't even starting shutting down major nuclear plants yet.
> We have already shut down eight in 2011 and one in 2015.
Small, old, and mostly incapacitated ones. The 8 remaining are all in 1.3-1.4GW range. The 8 reactors and 14GW capacity being disabled within just 5 years. How is this supposed to be compensated?

>> Anyone want to tell how it's "working" ?
> Can you tell me how you are able to survive while ignoring reality?
It's the green shitheads like you who's ignoring reality. Expect no mercy from the reality when it comes for you.

Electricity costs ~30 eurocents per kWh in Germany now, with prices expected to continue to grow.
The number of interventions to balance the grid skyrockets. It is expected that the grid will be separated into north and south regions to improve stability in a few years.
At the same time, the CO2 production keeps increasing.
And we haven't even starting shutting down major nuclear plants yet.
Anyone want to tell how it's "working" ?

It's not the so-called "alt-right" who's responsible for the discrediting the "fact-checking" sites, but those sites themselves. They went overboard with their lies, trying to torpedo Trump's campaign, but instead torpedoes themselves. All "alt-right" did was to expose these lies by using hard evidence.

What happens right now - right after Soros' puppet lost the election, they summoned an emergency meeting to decide how to deal with their growing problem of people falling out of line of their carefully set up lying press. Right after that the press started pushing the "fake news" narrative. After all what happened during the election campaign, you've got to be blind not to see what's going on. They want to introduce heavy censorship to block any attempts to expose the lying press and create a monopoly to report the news. If we allow that, only Jew-controlled media will be allowed to distribute information on the net.

The muslim population in Europe has been growing rapidly, both through unrestricted immigration and high fertility rate. Meanwhile 40% children under 5 in Germany have migratory background. Since there are no mechanism to stop this process the outcome is obvious. Remember - SJWs like you will the first victims of islamisation. While they will be cutting off your head you will have enough time to assure yourself it isn't happening.

Simple - they will hire Chuck Norris for the job.

A 1 MWh battery however costs around 1 million dollars, and not 10000. Whole two orders of magnitude more than the figure you claimed

countries in the tropics are usually too damn poor to buy these batteries (or a Tesla car)

Do you realize that the cost would be then in the range of 100 trillion? And that's just for USA. Doubling shit every year isn't something that comes for free? Is there even that much lithium on this planet?

Too bad in order to go 100% renewable and be able to iron out daily and seasonal input fluctuation, we need an estimated 0.2-1 MWh capacity per person. What Tesla is planning to do this year covers maybe ONE MILLIONTH of what USA would need. Does that sound like a solid plan?

Spending 44 million dollars for capacity of approximately 3500 dollars worth of electricity, with maybe 15-20 years of lifetime with good care? Sounds like a damn good plan (to siphon tax money).