kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

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

"Over the past five and a half years, a total of 426 targeting incidents have occurred. Almost three-quarters of them (314 out of 426; 74%) have resulted in some form of sanction."

https://www.thefire.org/research/publications/miscellaneous-publications/scholars-under-fire/scholars-under-fire-full-text/

Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (МЧС) Evgeny Zinichev died in the town of Norilsk, apparently during shots of a training film above a cliff - a cameraman slipped, Zinichev grabbed him, unfortunately they both fell down. This is sad news, Russian МЧС did everything related to rescue, including mountain and cave rescue, and they did that professionally and impartially.

https://www.vedomosti.ru/society/articles/2021/09/08/885726-glava-mchs-zinichev-pogib

The fact that "energy-saving improvements such as installing double-glazing" is still discussed as some kind of luxury in the UK 🇬🇧 never stops to amaze me 🤦‍♂️ I can imagine British stag party goers in Poland boasting to girls in a pub about the ultimate superiority of Great Britain: "hey sweetie, can you believe, me house even has double-glazed windows and an in-door toilet". 😂

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/69ec5550-1015-11ec-86b8-9dcf48a101ba

Fortunately, Western environmentalists won't be affected - they can continue arguing about the need for a transition to organic-only farming while sipping their organic kombucha made by what is left of Sri-Lankan tea industry - which they can afford thanks to welfare created in their countries by cheap food from modern agriculture 🤷

"At the root of this economic catastrophe is a bizarre overnight flip by Rajapaksa’s government on 29 April to ban the import of chemical fertilisers and any other agrochemicals to make the Indian Ocean nation the first in the world to practice organic-only agriculture. The result: prices of daily food items like sugar, rice and onions have soared over twice, with sugar even touching record Rs 200/kg"

https://theprint.in/world/how-sri-lankas-overnight-flip-to-total-organic-farming-has-led-to-an-economic-disaster/728414/

#organic

This research shows that design of modern social networks creates feedback for outrage expressions.

Emotional tweets receive more “likes” and retweets. It makes people with moderate views become more radical.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe5641

“The Government correctly believes that the ugliness of new development is one major reason why people oppose it” 🇬🇧

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/britains-newbuilds-ugly/