The US market was easier to access.
EU was second easiest.

Now the the EU market is easiest, and US is ranked far below the EU.

There's still good margin, but it's amazing how quickly costs inflate.

And it is 90% depending on the oil price. As it adds a significant amount on each step.

Yeah, the stupid Chinese haters do not realize that.
Just as if a company is rich enough to run two production lines: one for cheap crap and one for expensive top notch stuff. And two supply lines and there are gabs out there that only produce trash for the cheap trash above ...

Look at those myths that Chines cars would not meet European safety standards.
Well, I really wonder how they can be here in Frankfurt all over the place.

I guess they are only rebranded Teslas or something ... Makes sense, right?

This "junk market" is driven by the customers.
They want that stuff, so the providers fill that market.

And what exactly is wrong with that?
White imperialist christian colonial rapist and plunderer?
Asshole very much? You asshole can rule the planet and the dipshits have to eat dust?

Strange, they are sold everywhere.
Even with the stupid tariffs, they meet your price limit.

Oh, you are living in the USA, where the battery myth/lie is very strong?

Which turbine?
The steam turbine or the gas turbine?
The gas turbine is synched to the grid in 30seconds or less and on full output in 90sec.

The current price explosions for reactors under construction says otherwise.
And for what exactly would punny 40GW be of wny use?

Not even to question where to build them and how to prevent riots and turmoil?

The people don't want nuclear power. How fucking stupid are your?

Nuclear is not clean.
Hence we exited.

Of course they pay for the grid.
It is just not a seperate Item in the bill.

The electricity price for German households ist easy to Google. So why invent absurd numbers?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenergie.check24.de%2Ferg...

The cheapest price ist below 30cents. The price ist high because the Power companies can get away with it. That ist all.

Power in your country is likely highly subsidized ...

The percentage of renewables was 64% in 2025, not 56%.

And?

The "summary" - which probably includes the entire blog post ...

You know, assumptions are a tricky thing to base your reasoning on. But, as a hint, CF blog posts tend to be on the longer side, with interesting technical details, so it's kind of sad to see that TFS does not include a link to the source - although it aligns with the tradition of not RTFA around here, so maybe-ok job EditorDavid? Anyway, for your reading pleasure, this appears to be the missing link.

And btw, this:

I'm a little surprised that replacing a bunch of old disparate software that's basically hacked together with a scripting language (obligatory xkcd [xkcd.com]) with a new custom compiled job only resulted in a 25% speed-up.

appears to be ... inexact.

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.