I mean such a good source and cheap and yet it produces mostly problems in the grid, destroy environment and is so "cheap" that any place where "renewables" are a significant portion of the mix has very high energy prices. There are "math" geniuses here who can juggle the statistics w/o effort and who claim that the "renewables" are cheaper than anything else. This may or not be but they still cannot explain the fact that the actual electricity price where the "renewables" are a significant part of the mix is higher than anywhere else. So simple minds like mine say that the juggling of stats does not help. It is not cheap.

Nuclear is usually cheaper than anything else - if you calculate all the costs. This is difficult for "renewables" because they for some reason do not have to pay for system costs of them being connected to the network. They also do not have to pay into recovery founds - when the wind turbine and its mast gets to the end of their life they should be removed - in Germany some corrupt officials declare them historical monuments. Alternatively the the community i.e. the state may do it.

This has been tried elsewhere and the result is - if you have a peak of solar (and/or wind) you usually have to pay the other grid (abroad) owners to take the electricity you produced. The reason is the grid stability. The prices go up when in winter there is no sun and no wind - you pay up huge cap over normal price because again - a lot of "renewables" in a grid means that that it requires complete backup in "normal production". This is the reason that makes "renewable" expensive for all besides the owners of the solar panels and wind parks. The gov keeps the system working by introducing laws forcing the grid owners to use this and supporting them with subsidies when it feels good. This whole system is not sustainable and to make it worse it is not only environmentally damaging but also has wrong impact on local temperatures as lower wind speeds cause rising temp. of the surface. The only thing this is good for is backup in times of blackout - for this you need to have an island solution and converter that can run on its own w/o the alternating current in the network (you can provide it with a battery run inverter too - these are usually able to produce alternating current on their own). This whole mess is caused by the unholy collaboration of ignorant Karens, highly educated and equally ignorant people (like the ones frequenting this site) that want to save planet and quite a few corrupt government officials and entrepreneurs. How big luck we have that such people exist in abundance.

Not sure about the study. However if this statement:

were true, then we would not have a problem with reproducing the results of the scientific studies. What you show is closed to scientism and I kind of understand why there is a term associated with this attitude. This statement:

is also funny - the higher education purpose was producing educated people. That was true when (20-30)% of the population got to have that and even then the higher education was not a guarantee that person can produce arguments based on facts and is able to retrospect on own statements to withdraw them if found to be incorrect. This ability is not common in modern "science" and is even less common within the folk advocating "science" to be the alpha and omega. Another side of this is that there are people that do not have formal higher education and were/are/will be scientists. As to climate science - I think we know very little and most of us know close to nothing to make a proper informed statement about it. Especially telling is a problem with the models that do not predict much and thus show how little we know. I may not be a scientist, may not have a clue about the climate but I read enough about the models used to study it (it is actually enough to look at IPCC report to say this much) - they are not worthless but they are useless for the purpose of predicting climate changes in the future. Note: I consciously avoided making statements about what I think about climate change. My point is - we know very little about it.

You have really no clue, do you?

1. this seems to be a tongue in cheek statement
2. if they have to produce, store and use ammonia then the its smell is inevitable around such installations
3. the efficiency of such schemes is ridiculous. Not only any device using hydrogen has a serious leakage problem which is of concern as the hydrogen is explosive in almost any concentration in the air, but also the ammonia is made of natural gas I actually should end here but let us assume that it is not a nonsense to jump this many hops instead of using gas directly - the production of "clean" hydrogen from water is expensive energy-wise, then you have to make ammonia and then you have to make hydrogen from it and then power the machine with it. On each this transitions there is a huge loss of energy. You can have what 20% of originally produced energy out of the wind electricity?

That is all so silly that I do not know what to say. I came to /. after a longer while away and I must say I am shocked with silliness that prevails here now. All woke/green propaganda and idiocy as far as the eye can see. My conclusion to this whole story is: in any case you will need a gov. subsidy to make it work. It will not do any other way. In other words you need some warlocks to make stuff for eloi. Try not to anger warlocks in a process or you get eaten.

This is what the glorious wikipedia (this time probably correct for a change) has to say about the sun exposure of Cyprus comparing with the rest of Europe:

In winter, Cyprus receives an average of 5–6 hours of sunlight per day, half of the 12–13 hours experienced at the height of summer. This is about double that of cities in the northern half of Europe; for comparison, London has 1,461 hours. However, in winter there can be more than four times more sunshine; for comparison, London has 37 hours[5] while coastal locations in Cyprus have around 180 hours of sunshine in December (that is, as much as in May in London).

Guardian has deteriorated significantly over the last few decades. It used to be lefty but it had some quality controls. The quoted article is I am afraid typical garbage spit by woke/green propagandists these day. Sad sad story for Guardian.

I am an electrician, from what they told me at school (and they had good arguments for that too) the demand and supply must always match - this means that that you produce more than you need and have to either sell outside (if you have to the price may be negative) or switch off the source. OTOH they talk 30 days but in the article they say max 6h which points to the problem with this whole nonsense - the och so cheap renewable energy requires not so cheap backups. If on the other hand they invested in say nuclear this would not be necessary. Take the newest concepts and you may even stop needing the storage for million of years as you may burn all fuel and you only have a need for medium term (200-300y) storage. But hey - pharaohs built pyramids that made no sense other than to show who has the longest d.k too, right?

The only current event in the quoted article is from Florida. From what I read about bleaching the Australian reef went on and off with it and is doing quite well apparently. Maybe I read the wrong news tho. The facts are nazi anyway. How did the reef survive the times when the earth was much warmer than now, I wonder? Must be aliens.

In your analogy the greens are a cult and I think it is a fair description. I can see that with my neighbors here in Germany. The problem is not the extinction rebellion or the likes of them but the people that actually made it to the government. Whether they are believers or just opportunists is not really very relevant - there is a cost to backing off too - as their followers will not understand when they are told this was all a lie. So we need a genius mind to pull off this reversing of the course. Currently there is more and more Putin blaming coming out of media so, we do not change the course tho - this is the path we are going then. At least that is what I see here in Germany: the 3 last nuclear power plants are still going off the grid at the end of the year.

for making munition and weaponry to replace what has been sent to Ukraine?

I think the so called poor countries do not need the advise from /. to not to follow the green policy. I suspect that battery is good in some applications but the way they are now it is just a technical monster that only the rich can afford (especially if it burns together with your house). If it succeeds then mostly with nuclear power not with so called renwables. If you have nuclear you can use that to produce syntetic fuels from CO2 if you are so inclined. That is expensive but doable and has advantage that it uses existing infra and you can power with it big engines too. H2 is not really an option for this sort of battery replacement scheme as it is difficult to operate and has low energy density. But that all is against the holy religion of the green elite. We shall see what will happen. 2030 that is only 8 lockdowns from now. I live in Germany I guess Zelensky and my own government will "decarbonize" my energy consumption this winter already.

I still jerk off manually.

They just wen to over the top with it. If they did not exaggerate this would not have happened. After all people want news. But I guess that was impossible and I see alternative channels have the same problem just with different bias. I guess not even bias is a problem if they do not exaggerate to the point of calling burning cities and indulging in street battles with the police a peaceful protest. But they did.

I also recall that my occasional contact with CNN (when there was nothing else available) was disappointing because these uneducated gits provided false information out of principle just because they were being ignorant.

So how any of your points differ here and in the general population? The alg determines who is o moderate just as here it does. The whiners are everywhere. Having a serious discussion on social media is indeed difficult but not pointless. Sometimes you learn something. Not often and not everybody does. People are assholes. Online and offline. With online assholes being much easier and more satisfying while also on average less dangerous. Bike shedding is a term I have never heard but educated myself. yes this all may happen.

Most of the media I have known over the years have either moderation system that works like heavy handed censorship office, have closed the forums altogether or still have forums usually w/ points system but no meaningful moderation and usually no meaningful filtering. The ./ system would be an improvement even if it did not fix most of the problems. Already the sorting system would improve the situation. Not because all arseholes are then filtered but because there would be tagging sorting available in the first place.

Yes of course. However It is not NATO that stopped anything but Ukrainians plus massive material support plus USA intelligence and training from the Brits. Like in Kosovo but bigger. It would have happened with or without NATO. Whether Putin wanted to roll over Europe is questionable. You may believe it however, if that make you feel better.