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Comment Re:Just fund Solar (Score 1) 101

"I don't need any studies, I know a guy" is such a quintessential answer from someone taking your position.
Also chef's kiss is that you are now comparing production at winter *solstice* with summer *solstice* whereas you previously claimed the 10x multiple for the entire six "summer" months vs the entire six "winter" months.

Comment Re:It's culture war. Smash the poor is their solut (Score 1) 322

What are you *talking* about? People who want action on climate change absolutely talk about power generation the whole fucking time, you moron. There are endless discussions about retiring coal from power generation. There's literally trackers for it, like this one:
https://beyondfossilfuels.org/...

You people are just so endlessly *stupid*.

As for the poor: poor people in most of the world, including in the US, are disproportionately less likely to have cars. investing in public transport both cuts carbon emissions and helps them get around. In many countries, there are means-tested scrappage and subsidy schemes to help poor people move to low carbon technologies. And most pertinently, the spread of small-scale residential solar & BESS is one of the most significant boosts to human development in Africa that there has been in decades, and has provided literally millions of families with their first ever access to clean lighting, a fridge, power for a laptop, etc.

Comment Re:Synergy (Score 1) 135

We went from "Reusable rockets? That's Nuts!" to "who can stop Elon" in about 10 years.

Rocket reuse wasn't a real thing until Falcon did it in 2017, Starlink came in 2018. It was a chicken egg problem, people just don't realize how close the rocket reuse was to the first Starlink.

Getting stuff into orbit is one thing, rocket reuse is another. Lots of people are still trying to get reuse, and SpaceX is slowly retiring Falcon 9 for the Next Big Thing, reuse of two stages of rockets. Three years ago, that idea was still considered nuts. V3 Starlink can't ride on Falcon 9. They (Starship/V3 Starlink) are tandem projects.

Comment Re:Synergy (Score 1) 135

Light is light.

Starlink V3 is not using radio, it's using Lasers. The coherent beam is the key to Terabit speeds. Which they already have. Multipath Terabit Low Latency World Wide Network? Nobody has that right now. Earth bound pathways are limited, especially across the huge H20 Holding tanks between land masses. Space offers nearly unlimited pathways, redundancies unimaginable using earth based fiber.

Here's an article explaining some of the problem: https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

"What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak" - Agent Smith

Comment Re:Voting is over (Score 1) 222

Oh, you're an anarchist. I respect anarchy as a thought-through political position, although I disagree profoundly with it. A bit like how I feel about hard left positions. You will do as you wish (especially if you're an anarchist!) but I think it would be better to make the positive case for political anarchism than the negative case.

Comment Re: Deal with it? (Score 4, Informative) 95

Long Term thinking isn't profitable in the short term. And it is much riskier to bet long term than short term.

The correct view a blend of aggressive short term with long term values.

Comcast could have taken the aggressive short term and built out before anyone else, AND THEN CHARGED MORE while they were still a monopoly. They still have cable in my house, and I've replaced it with faster fiber for less. They simply dropped the ball.

Comment Re: Fuck Trump (Score 1) 322

My god, you don’t even know what mitigation is. Mitigation is not decarbonisation (“reduction of emissions”), you plonker. Mitigation is reduction of the negative impacts of climate change, like sea and flood defences, etc. And as it happens, we are decarbonising a lot, it’s just there’s a lot more to do.

Globally, we spend $1.5 trillion dollars a year on fossil fuel extraction, ie on drilling, mines, wells, production platforms, equipment, labour, maintenance and the energy to operate them, but not including the fuels themselves. We’ve been spending at this level for literally 80 or more years, and most of that investment is now pointless because wells and fields run dry. By comparison, we still only spend $0.85 trillion a year on renewables today, and have only spent at this kind of level for about 5 years, and already we are at the point where that’s providing something like 20 to 25% of global useful energy, and those assets will continue to be useful for decades without depleting and without requiring large opex because there’s no fuel to extract, transport and combust. In other words, each dollar invested in building renewable capacity can displace future fuel extraction costs for decades.

Comment Re: Fuck Trump (Score 1) 322

We need to do both things, decarbonise and mitigate. And our efforts at decarbonising are not as fast as they should be, but are undoubtedly much better than not trying at all. We are unquestionably moving to a world of electrification of most transport and low temp heat, lots of high temp heat, and a fair number of industrial processes. Plus also a world of enormously expanding electrification too, as people in the developing world leapfrog unreliable and pricey grids and go to solar & BESS & EV two and three wheelers.

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