kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
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@glynmoody What alternatives are you considering? I'm with Three and had precisely the same thoughts...
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Three Becomes Latest UK Mobile Operator to Bring Back EU Roaming Charges - https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/09/three-brings-back-eu-roaming-charges/ well done, @ThreeUK, my main reason for sticking with you has gone. I will probably switch to a rival now...
Polish border force 🇵🇱 published a video where military vehicles on the Belarussian 🇧🇾 side of the border bring groups of migrants and instruct them to go in specific directions.
https://twitter.com/Straz_Graniczna/status/1435917326533156868?s=20
How one foil-wrapped home survived the Caldor Fire as everything around it burned
Actually, film director Alexander Melnik who died along with Zinichev, made a pretty good adventure/crime film which I saw a few years ago - "Territoriya" (2015) about team of geologists surveying gold reserves in Siberia.
Then, on Twitter, Kevin Rothrock (Meduza) joins blaming Simonyan... but he forgot that literally every media outlet, including Meduza, uncritically quoted her on this, because you know - clicks, engagements! can't wait!
"The Online Media will sell us the Views with which we will hang them" (V. I. Lenin)
Kashin discusses the context of the death of Russian Emergency Minister Zinichev. He also points out that the "heroic" version of his deaths (the second one) was probably invented by Margarita Simonyan, known liar and bootlicker.
100% agreed about the lack of fact-based approach to energy generation technologies.
As for hydro, it's clearly one of the cleanest in terms of CO2 and other operational emissions, as seen in Norway for example.
Primary disadvantage is geography - small, flat or densely populated countries are a no-go for hydro unfortunately.
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@kravietz Unfortunately, the reality that industrial scale energy generation is always going to have some negative effect on the planet isn't understood by most people, so it's relatively easy to manipulate them into hating sustainable energy sources with less impact over decades and centuries. Hydroelectric is my favorite example of this, where it's been producing power for over 100 years in some areas but it's been so demonized nobody wants to touch it.
Unfortunately, a bunch of snake-oil salesmen are trying to sell us the idea of environmentalism instead of providing solutions to the power needs around the world and a bunch of us are buying it because a fantasy of magic boxes that can defy the laws of thermodynamics on a macro scale will always be more attractive than the reality that you're always choosing between a bunch of bad options.
Unfortunately, a bunch of snake-oil salesmen are trying to sell us the idea of environmentalism instead of providing solutions to the power needs around the world and a bunch of us are buying it because a fantasy of magic boxes that can defy the laws of thermodynamics on a macro scale will always be more attractive than the reality that you're always choosing between a bunch of bad options.
Sure:
For prices https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data
For CO2 intensity https://www.electricitymap.org/map
Of course, coal has massive *external* costs, namely pollution, waste, CO2, that are not captured in the spot price.
Meanwhile France 🇫🇷 has the same 130 EUR/MWh price as Germany 🇩🇪 but 7x (seven times) lower emissions - it burns no coal and barely any gas. It's nuclear fleet is on the other hand running at 70% capacity right now:
Now, Poland 🇵🇱 is running quite relaxed at 94 GBP/MWh and... 679 gCO2eq/kWh...
Hard to argue that coal still is not the cheapest fuel with rather stable prices, while gas is simply highly volatile, and right now it's very expensive.
This completely contradicts the LCOE estimates published by Lazard etc who present coal as 2x more expensive than gas. Of course, if you cherry-pick data during cheap gas period you can get that result...
Meanwhile, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 CO2 emissions is around 300 gCO2eq/kWh and the baseload price is at 279.94 GBP/MWh - but overnight it reached 800 GBP! The primary difference seems to be larger share of fossil gas, as UK has closed most (all?) of its coal power plants.
Energy prices from www.epexspot.com
CO2 intensitty from www.electricitymap.org
Germany 🇩🇪 electricity generation today 🤷 #Energiewende #co2
@EdwardTorvalds In such case any school-level chemistry textbook is your friend.
Haha, as an alpinist, I was making my first money in early 90's by putting bitumic filler into holes of multi-family blocks as people literally had wind rushing through spaces between the prefabricated elements 😁
Soviet era housing, including walls and windows, had one fundamental issue — very low quality of both manufacturing and installation.
Windows were indeed double-glazed, but on wooden frame, with massive gaps.
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