You are kinda correct. Some countries have gigantic dummy loads to burn off excess power. Slovakia burns off power when solar panels flood the grid around midday and actually asked that people stop installing more home roof panels since it is not helpful.

Slovakia just stores it on site, just like coal stations store their ash on site. The difference is a few small containers in a hole vs a mountain of ash. It is best to store waste on site, so that the people who understand it can walk past and look at it every day.

What more context do you want? It is simply the true current state of affairs. There are exactly four wind gennies in Slovakia and they will not build more - so about zero percent. Eighty percent of the electricity is nuclear and the rest is hydro. There are two ancient small coal stations which are also about zero percent and these will be decommissioned when another nuke comes online. Meanwhile Germany turned all its nukes off, so they have mainly dirty power and some wind. The lecce rates are public - you can look it up per country.

Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows the burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway!?

Germans pay 38c a kWh for wind and coal power, while Slovaks pay 13c for nuclear and hydro.

Ayup - lots of people speak like three languages and understand five or more.

W0t? Just after I finally managed the get the stupid fish in my ear in the HHGG game, now I don't need it anymore? https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/h...

Blaming tech companies for Russia's evasion of sanctions seems foolish. You'd have to prove that said companies conspired with the Russian Federation to evade sanctions.

Russia is destroying itself. Anyone who cares for the future of the Russian people would halt the war in Ukraine immediately.

HBO went well out of their way to pull in Sesame Street/Sesame Workshop and take their programming off PBS, leaving PBS with rerun scraps. Several years later, that plan is dead and Sesame Workshop is out on the streets.

Take shots at whomever you please. The results are the same.

I was a CWA member throughout grad school. It may be that they just put a lot more effort into the larger companies where their members were employed (think Verizon as one great example) but we didn't see much help from them as grad students. I remember one meeting my first year where we were reminded we could always ask for a union rep anytime we were talking with our PI, and that was about it.

There's nothing stopping the State of Arkansas from licensing individual programs from PBS and/or the associated production companies, either. They can pick and choose what they want, including older stuff that no longer airs.

Even HBO wants nothing to do with Big Bird anymore:

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17...

Sneak and peak? No the Alpine peaks are down south in Austria.

It more sinister than that: It is not what you know, or who you know, but what you know about who you know...