What percentile? Wealth lets you find a comfy niche in most places ... or in the case of NY, gives you the political power to ram the poor people off the roads which rightly are for you and yours.

Any disease can do that too.

Biology is just a shitty way to run a conscious mind.

A metropolitan area of 10 million is not much more productive per capita than 1 million ... but it's a whole lot worse to live in. People don't want to live in the larger metropolitan area, they are forced to due to lack of an alternative. The economy does not optimise quality of living.

As for the environment, keep the total population lower and let the rest live a nicer life, not in Megacities.

I live in the Netherlands and even though it has traffic problems, it pales in comparison to the amount of time you lose in public transport, including for our largest cities (which are small in a global sense). I can get to a job in Amsterdam in 20 minutes in rush hour, yet I can walk to the supermarket in a large village.

Of course this situation is a complete accident which grew out of a combination of initial agricultural dispersion and the way post WW2 rebuilding intentionally spread industry around the country ... but it has worked out nicely.

The problem is not cars, the problem is overly high population metropolitan areas ... they are economically efficient, but they aren't nice to live in.

Only the housing is low density, the business density is still high.

They need a lot of serfs.

I'd prefer a progressive tax on business property based on max population density in an area. Get rid of large cities, get rid of most traffic problems.

The perverse incentive is that government could be incentivised to further limit healthcare spending, because doctors can use maid and their position of authority and influence as a wartime triage method to cover up some of the consequences. The relatively clean death of some, to provide more effective healthcare for others.

Getting doctors involved creates all kinds of perverse incentives and even ignoring that, is a dick move ... if you had the balls, you'd be dead, so you are forcing the decision on them.

Unless they're paraplegic, it should be people's own responsibility. We need legalised suicide aids, not assisted suicide. Time for suicide booths.

It's as big as you want it to be. They build a demonstration house in Spain with its own renewable powered hydrogen generation and seasonal hydrogen storage.

Microgrids with their own hydrogen generators and seasonal hydrogen storage would be a pretty robust way to handle electricity. It could work.

Techbros with off-grid getaways will all have a hydrogen system in a couple of years. It will be affordable and provide the greatest autonomy. You won't need to be Zuckerberg to afford it, under 100k will be easily doable.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pv-magazine.com%2F20...

Even though they keep talking about voltages rising, the most important point is this :
"Sánchez said that until that point “we cannot speak of overvoltages,” noting that voltage levels remained within regulatory limits."

It's completely impossible for a grid with so much power which will appear/reappear in milliseconds at nominal +10% to create overvoltage safety trips at the grid forming power plants and switch gear, because those trip higher than that. All the trips were due to phase/frequency effects, it's common sense.

Coal plants are being replaced by gas plants, those would be an option for conversion.

Spinning reserve can provide inertia, but it has to be at operating temperature so it is not very efficient for just that. That said, hybrid conversion services are also on the market, so that's an option too. Then it can be both, efficiently.

Pushing AC in Spain grid wide above nominal plus 10% when the sun shines is almost impossible. Solar was providing nearly 20 GW and will modulate down to zero in ms AND reconnect if the overvoltage doesn't last too long or oscillates way way too high.

Unlike solar, the power plants don't nearly instantly lower output at nominal plus 10%. So how exactly would a pure voltage issue cause their shutdown?

There was not a shortage of power, there was a shortage of grid forming. You don't need active power for that.

They need to install grid forming statcoms or if available convert some mothballed power plants to synchronous condensers.