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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
7d ago“When you can see a wind turbine or power line from your window, does that change what you think we all owe each other?”
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Can the economy grow forever on a finite planet?: Cornucopians
The check In 1980, Ehrlich chose five metals and bet they would get scarcer. In 1990, every single one was cheaper. He mailed Simon a check for $576.07 and spent the next three decades explaining why he was still right despite being completely wrong.... - UnicornBlues...
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What would I do with that? I would like to believe that I could end suffering, at least in some area of life, but realistically, it would be a task that couldn't be fulfilled. I wouldn't know how to do this but this would be my goal.... Why did Europe reject nuclear, and was it worth it?: Sovereignty analysts
The leash September 2022. Someone detonated explosives on Nord Stream 1 and 2 at the bottom of the Baltic. The methane plume was visible from space. Berlin discovered what the security establishment had been saying since 2008: a pipeline is not a market instrument.... - Shera JoyCry...
Wow the green section so far (behind time) was ridiculously short in the debate. Seems like Vance is looking at specifically energy policy. So frustrating that there is never a mention of the bigger picture.... - Terry387...
Greece and Turkey can easily resolve their differences, if Mr.Erdogan stops threatening Greece with war. There is the issue of the continental shelf, oil and natural gas deposits in the mediterranean, Turkish airforce jets flying into Greek airspace, the unresolved Cyprus issue,... - tjones47...
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Rules for Thee No Power for Me The Mayors Heat Wave Disaster
Warmth of Collectivism Feels Like 110 Degrees With No Electricity They forced everyone toward electric buses and cars while shutting down real power plants. When the heat hit over 100 degrees and felt like 110 the system collapsed. Thousands lost power mostly in the Bronx.... Why did Europe reject nuclear, and was it worth it?: Industrial pragmatists
The invoice BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, announced in 2022 it would permanently downsize operations in Ludwigshafen — its hometown, its founding site — and shift investment to China. The reason was not labor costs, not regulation, not taxes.... Why did Europe reject nuclear, and was it worth it?: Green transition
The milk April 26, 1986, 1:23 AM. Reactor four at Chernobyl exploded. The plume drifted northwest across Scandinavia, west across Germany, south into Italy. In Bavaria, mothers were told not to let children play outside. Milk was dumped. Sandboxes were covered.... Why did Europe reject nuclear, and was it worth it?: Nuclear advocates
The meter in France France, 2019. Seventy percent of electricity from nuclear. Carbon per kilowatt-hour: one-tenth of Germany’s. Household prices: sixty percent of Germany’s.... Why did Europe reject nuclear, and was it worth it?: The Story
The shutdown April 15, 2023. Germany disconnected its last three reactors — Isar 2, Emsland, Neckarwestheim 2 — on a weekend its coal plants were running near their highest capacity in six years.... Should AI data centers get their own power plants?: Grid realists
The queue Right now, more than a thousand gigawatts of power projects sit in interconnection queues, waiting years for permission to plug into the grid — more capacity stuck in line than parts of the country currently generate.... Should AI data centers get their own power plants?: Nuclear renaissance
The plant that found a customer For years the story of American nuclear power was subtraction: plants closing early, projects cancelled, a workforce aging out.... Should AI data centers get their own power plants?: Ratepayer advocates
Eight dollars and fifty-one cents That’s how much more a typical Dominion customer in Virginia will pay each month under the utility’s first base-rate hike since 1992. Ask why, and the honest answer runs through a fleet of data centers that did not exist five years ago.... Should AI data centers get their own power plants?: Abundance builders
The master variable For two centuries, every leap in human welfare rode on cheaper energy: the steam engine, the electric grid, the Haber-Bosch process that now feeds half the planet. Energy isn’t one input among many — it’s the one the others are made of.... Should AI data centers get their own power plants?: The Story
A country called the cloud By 2026 the world’s data centers are on track to pull roughly 1,050 terawatt-hours of electricity a year. Draw a border around them and call it a country, and it would be the fifth-largest power consumer on Earth, wedged between Japan and Russia.... - JUSTBOB...
Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: Nordhaus economics
The most consequential number Nordhaus shared the 2018 Nobel for work he had been doing since the 1970s: integrating climate science with growth to calculate the optimal cost of decarbonization. His central finding: the most important variable is not the temperature target....