That requires a lot of batteries, and will take time to create and plug in. Storing large amounts of energy is difficult, and the excess must be handled immediately.

Wind and solar power fluctuate a lot. So when electricity production is high the price drops, and the producer has to choose between stopping production, which is difficult, or selling at a negative price.

This has led to negative prices for electricity generation becoming more common in the US and Europe. Negative electricity prices mean that energy producers pay money to supply the extra energy. But what we see here in the UK is that grid operators sometimes pay producers to turn off production, which is expensive.

What happens to consumers of negatively priced energy? Most, not all, consumers have fixed-price contracts and are not directly effected. In Northern Europe, many have contracts that reflect fluctuating production prices. Prices still are positive, and not free, due to other costs. But it should hopefully lead to better consumption habits, such as charging electric cars when prices are low.

It is not uncommon for the rich to help the poor. For the proportion of GNI given in foreign aid by the OECD to members, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The largest DAC donor, Luxembourg, gives 1.05% while the US gave a modest 0.22%, before stopping 90% of that.

China gives 0.36% and India 0.65%.

Expensive? Absolutely, it cost billions of euros, and they have been at it for 700 years.
And worldwide, 110 million people live under the sea level, protected only by walls, and about 10% lives near the sea. The sea level rise by 29-59 cm as predicted by the end of the century, will have serious effect on small islands and many coastal cities and areas.

About a quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level. Amsterdam is 1-2 m below sea level. Water is pumped to canals, which transports the water to the rivers and back to the sea.

I didn't claim it was all genetics.

About 400 scientist have investigated about a quarter million people and found 32 places in our DNA connected to obesity. Not everything is understood yet, but they expect to be able to create medicine against obesity, and maybe able to give advice to people concerning food and behavior after scanning their genes.

Obesity is partially, but not only genetics.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

True, but to be a little clearer:
Europe has a deregulated market for electricity, which flows over national borders. Both Norway and Sweden usually produce more than they consume, but sometime import. And while Norway produces most electricity from hydro, it also gets a bit from wind and Sweden produces about 40% from hydro and significant amounts from nuclear and wind.

The State of EV Charging in Europe 2025: Key Stats and Growth Forecasts https://koticharge.com/en/2025...

Charging stations are popping up everywhere, and in places I wouldn't have expected.

For those of you confused by this debate, Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, when the International Astronomical Union came up with three requirements for an object to be classified as a planet. Pluto did not meet the third criterion, but there has been debate among astronomers about that, with some arguing that geology should be taken into account. But as far as I know, the IAU still stands by the 2006 definition.

Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, and has about 1/6 of the Moon's mass.
I think there are five dwarf planets, and about seven candidates.

The United States has a sales tax, which is only added to sales at the end of the supply chain to end consumers.
European countries on the other hand have VAT (value-added tax), which is collected by all sellers in each stage of the supply chain, suppliers even of raw materials, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.

Almost all modern economic systems in the world today are mixed economies. It is a middle ground between pure capitalism and socialism, with parts of both market forces and government intervention. Countries with mixed economies include UK, France, USA, India, ... Even China has 20% of its economy as private enterprise.

I should be clearer. What was completed 2020 for Hybrit was just the pilot project.
The complete Hybrit should be completed 2026, and if successful could reduce Sweden's CO2 emissions by about 10 percent.

Work on H2 Green Steel has been ongoing a while in norther Sweden.

- https://stegra.com/news-and-st...

It is based on Hybrit, world’s first fossil-free steel production, completed in 2020. It used hydrogen, which is split from water in electrolysis.

"But he hasn't got anything on!" the whole town cried out at last.

A nude president. Now there is an image I don’t want in my head.