Comment Re: Obvious motivation (Score 1) 155
Renewables are cheaper for everybody but fossil
is more profitable for a few vested interests.
Comment Why not save energy on desktops too? (Score 2) 49
A pity this is for laptops only. Why not save some energy on desktops too. It does not sound as if this would cost a lot of user experience and it would save some money and electricity.
Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 181
wow, impressed! 1 hour and a couple of minutes per day according to this statistic. Does it include meals together?
Comment is this the same guy who.... (Score 1) 181
Is this the same guy who said that all these investments in sustainable energy, EV's and so on are just a waste of money.....
What kind of world does he see as best?
Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 181
yes, and don't forget: the average time a US dad spends together with is kids is 20 minutes per day. Included meals, watching TV, not to mention 'quality time' together: helping with homework, watching the kid doing sports or theatre, making music together or whatever.
Wow, what a nice 'lifestyle', but yes, GREAT GDP!
Comment Re: I don't blame them (Score 1) 244
Lets redo the calculations, taking subsidies into the fossil industry into accountâ¦.
Comment Re: EVs don't help at all anyway with (Score 0) 244
Stopped reading at âoesmog is made of tire particlesâ
Comment Apple (Score 1) 67
Apple m4 will be the chips off course
Comment Re:Lip service (Score 1) 81
maybe big subsidies not big profits. Nuclear is just too expensive.
Comment they are just protecting their stranded assets (Score 0, Troll) 81
As these banks are heavily invested in fossil assets, they know that if they support the nuclear dream they will sustain our reliance on fossil. At least for another 20-30 years. As the building of nuclear power plants is so slow and usually gets delayed by more than 200% (read Flyvberg's book how big things get done) the banks know they can hold on to their fossil assets.
Now, if we move to renewables, batteries included, the movement from fossil going to happen must faster. The US is a bit slow but in many other countries the growth of EV is replacing oil consumption already quickly. In order that not to happen, these banks want to pour (our not their) money into slowly built nuclear power plants and delay the energy transition. That is what they are promoting.
Let's see if that is going to work. Nuclear power can not compete with the cheap and yearly getting cheaper solar, wind and batteries.
Submission + - China is installing renewables equivalent of five large nuclear plants per week
AmiMoJo writes: New figures show the pace of China's clean energy transition is roughly the equivalent of installing five large-scale nuclear power plants worth of renewables every week. A report by Sydney-based think tank Climate Energy Finance (CEF) said China was installing renewables so rapidly it would meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month — or 6.5 years early. It's installing at least 10 gigawatts of wind and solar generation capacity every fortnight.
Because its large cities of the eastern seaboard are dominated by apartment buildings, China hasn't seen an uptake of rooftop solar like in other countries. To find space for all the solar panels and wind turbines required for the nation's energy needs, the planners of China's energy transition have looked west, to areas like the Gobi Desert. The world's largest solar and wind farms are being built on the western edge of the country and connected to the east via the world's longest high-voltage transmission lines.
Because its large cities of the eastern seaboard are dominated by apartment buildings, China hasn't seen an uptake of rooftop solar like in other countries. To find space for all the solar panels and wind turbines required for the nation's energy needs, the planners of China's energy transition have looked west, to areas like the Gobi Desert. The world's largest solar and wind farms are being built on the western edge of the country and connected to the east via the world's longest high-voltage transmission lines.
Comment Re:title should be: Germany is producing cheap ele (Score 1) 305
nah, then the title should be: solar is so effectively replacing coal (etc) that there is even room for storage.
Comment title should be: Germany is producing cheap electr (Score 1) 305
The title is wrong: Germany Has Too Many Solar Panels, and It's Pushed Energy Prices Negative
should be:
Germany is effectively pushing Energy Prices lower
Comment I have a betamax videorecorder, I am going to sue! (Score 1) 159
I did buy betamax videorecorder back in the days, so I am going to sue Sony for this for sure!
Comment pravda (Score 1) 229
Didn't the communist have a news-channel back in their days called Pravda ("truth")?
