Grace 💙

New Trump-Epstein Statue Appears in D.C. as DOJ Hides Key Files The American public hasn’t forgotten about the Epstein files just yet.

"The tragic love story between Jack and Rose was built on luxurious travel, raucous parties, and secret nude sketches. This monument honors the bond between Donald Trump & Jeffrey Epstein, a friendship seemingly built on luxurious travel, raucous parties, & secret nude sketches'

👏👏 to these artists

Best scenario,
Trump gets rid of the Iranian regime and Iran gets rid of Trump and Bibi.

Irish coins of different sizes, showing a horse, salmon, bull, hare, hound, hen, pig and woodcock

In 1926, as a member of the Irish Senate, W.B. Yeats enthusiastically took charge of the committee designing new coinage for the Irish Free State. Yeats decided the different denominations should be symbolised by different animals (was he consciously thinking of this as the “tails” side?) 1/2

Then we agree.

Here is what I wrote earlier: "Yes subsidies are necessary to create a market and displace long established technologies benefiting from scale effect and decades of technical improvement."

It's like helping mammals compete with dinosaurs before the K-T transition. It's justifiable.

Don't say "No" when you don't contradict anything I wrote.

Yes German subsidies started the GERMAN market (ONLY) on the DEMAND side.

But China addressed the GLOBAL market starting in the 2000s.
They became significantly cheaper than German ones because of their own Chinese COMPETITIVE market.

There *is* competition.
You can see it on wholesale markets such as EPEX.
It's enabled by entso-e's grid.

At the national level, competition is enforced by the Merit Order Model and Marginal Pricing (taking the most expensive of the least costly power generation sources in a given forecast period).

Competition is ALWAYS good. It's a universal truth.

Examples abound, in linguistics, in evolutionary biology, and economics.

It is the mechanism by which existing entities adapt to changing environments.

DNA mutations are not the result of elections but of selections.

You're shooting yourself in the foot here.
PV is cheap thanks to China, and Chinese PV is cheap because of competition.
Yes subsidies are necessary to create a market and displace long established technologies benefiting from scale effect and decades of technical improvement.
But that's demand side.

True. Residential PV solar power generation is a good incentive to improve the grid.
Developing economies benefit from this trend by skipping the old heavily hierarchical grid model built for the centralized NPP model.
Smoothing demand peaks, reduced transmission losses and lowering grid stress.

"availability" ?

bsky.app/profile/grac...

"The new EPR has been very successful for a new unit"

Examples?
- Flamanville III?
- Hinkley Point C?
- Olkiluoto 3?

Are these "successes" in your book?

And do you work in sales?
Do you tell your clients "don't buy my stuff"?

Germany has > 100 GW installed capacity (utility) and PV is not a good solution for Europe?

Also, believe it or not, randomness is good.
It is an opportunity to pivot to the Green H2 society and address *ALL* GHG emissions.

Because nuke is too expensive, takes decades to plug into the grid. Because its wastes last for millennia. Because its way too complex. Because only developed countries can afford it. Because it needs a hierarchical unidirectional grid. Because its a single point of failure.
Among other things.

Correct. You can't blink when you're dead.

Is it abandoned or is it with nanny?

It can't be both.

tl;dr: US SUN = SHIT TABLOID

Solar works well in winter too.
You just need more surface area. That's all.
And there is more wind.

Same for the day. There is more wind at night.

So, try harder, nuke bro.

So in your world, there is no wind in winter?

Check again.

Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical.

China is betting on storage today. By the time Europe roll out their first SMR, cheap storage solutions will be mainstream.

Trivia: the higher the number of nuclear reactors, the higher the probability of mishap.

blog.ucs.org/edwin-lyman/...

How boring!

You are at level 0 of understanding the energy market.
- Large NPP (>1GW) need 10y at least to become operational.
- SMRs are twice as costly at least (per GW) than already costly classic EPRs.

So, back to the drawing board.
Because in 10y time, storage and green H2 will be mainstream.

Looks familiar...

Crash amplifier.

I stopped making puns with the names of the other children at school when I was 12.

When all the reserve is gone, when all missiles are fired, it's difficult to see how China will let the opportunity go to take over Taiwan.

You know, like Harold Godwinson defeating Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge and jumping into the battle of Hastings with exhausted housecarls.

Biden was so powerful that he made gas prices go up on the whole planet, apparently.

Or maybe that was the end of covid lockdown.

Covid didn't finish the job actually. So many old assholes still around.

Psychopaths. No empathy. Would probably enrol in the SS in another era (purify race).
Thiel's philanthropy aims at nurturing smaller sharks.
Musk's philanthropy (<0.1% worth) largely self-serving and used to secure tax benefits. In Musk's terms: his "companies themselves are a form of philanthropy".

Thiel and Musk look so much alike.

The irony......the irony....

Tells you they can't lay mines. Otherwise they will blow their own tankers up.

Everybody in the IT business knows that Oracle $ORCL is a big no-no.

As supplier, as consultant, as cloud provider.
Always behind in tech, always ahead in overcharging.

Makes sense.

Private credits take the risk banks are unwilling to take... with loans from these banks.