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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I generally agree with everything you said. You tax on housing is interesting idea I haven't heard before.

I do think electricity is going to have much more profound affects that people realise. We are regularly seeing negative pricing all around the world and solar, wind and especially batteries continue to drop in price and increase in deployments each year. Also electrification.

Simply to cost of production is far far lower than anything that has ever come before and the amount of people that can supply energy to themselves and others have increased dramatically. The market is much more competitive that anything that has come before. Honestly think people are sleeping on this.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I doubt that. Spacex is miles ahead of the rest and they have bigger plans.

Sure they would rather have a monopoly on cheap rockets for as long as possible but they have always known people would be trying to catch them up

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it so.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

School was great. Short days, long lunch and breaks. Loads of holidays. Had an hour of exercise thrown in every few days. Loads of people to talk to. Different things to learn.

Hated certain classes and hated being a child at times.

Last couple of years of highschool was awesome. Dropped all the shit classes, people suddenly treated you better because you was a young adult had even more time off! Like fuck 3 hours of work a day was unreal. (Where is our reduced workforce efficiency gains!)

But I agree with the other guy uni was much better. More drinking, more fucking more independence. Uni was the dream.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I was using libre tube for a while and that broke.

What's the best link for revanced?

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The cost reduction for business needs to come into consumers. People don't actually need to earn more money to have more money. They can have more money by spending less.

In starting to think the solution is some big government intervention. The easiest thing is Land value tax which is happening in some countries but it's really enough.

The next solution would be forced purchase of land (bureaucracy needs to improved here) and then market driven bidding for manufacturing high density housing. The thing is the government doesnt need to aim to make a profit here. The loss of the building process can be gained back by taxes in growth in the economy elsewhere.

Energy and food are looking like they will get cheap soon with renewables and precision fermentation and lab grown meat. But taking land that has been horded by the rich, building high density and building railways will need government intervention.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was just about to say you are wrong. Lifestraws don't filter out things like lead.

Just learn new ones do though.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Germans should be critical of Israel then.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've started to enjoy my mornings (helps that it's summer).

But just chilling in the morning with a tea I have found is a great way to start the day. Being rushed and stressed first thing in the morning is a recipe for a shit day.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Big emitters have been dropping co2 emissions for decades.

India has way more solar potential. It's a joke they aren't doing better.

 

"In a statement, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the Royal Air Force (RAF) will repel "any airborne attacks within range" of operations in the region.

It is understood RAF jets have flown over Iraq and Syria, not Israel.

PM Rishi Sunak condemned Iran's "reckless attack", pledging the UK would "continue to stand up for Israel's security". "

 

A Labour government would aim to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP "as soon as resources allow", Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The Labour leader also told the i newspaper he would conduct a strategic review of defence and security "to be clear what the priorities are".

Sir Keir's aim matches that of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who has also said he wants defence spending to rise to 2.5%

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14084343

EU pushes to curb China’s green tech market lead

Brussels’ new probe into Chinese wind turbines comes as Beijing grabs dominance over global market for solar panels.

On paper, the EU sees China as a partner in the fight against climate change.

But the trade reality tells a different story. 

As Beijing responds to weak domestic demand with heavy state subsidies, it’s a perfect recipe for overcapacity — from electric vehicles to solar panels — just as the European Union puts the green transition at the top of its policy agenda.

On Tuesday, EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager will launch a new anti-subsidy investigation into China’s fast-growing and increasingly dominant wind turbine sector, as exclusively reported by POLITICO’s China Watcher.

Europe was once a leader in the renewable energy source, but China’s rapid development since 2018 has inflicted billions in losses on its leading wind power players, including Denmark’s Vestas and German-owned Siemens Gamesa, forcing them into drastic cost cuts.

The EU is keen to avoid a mistake it made over the past decade, when China’s solar panel-makers all but killed their European competitors. Today’s playbook on wind turbines is indeed “all too familiar” to European policymakers, said one EU diplomat, who was granted anonymity to discuss the imminent policy announcement.

 

"Signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, the IRA, along with the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) enacted in November 2021, are intended, amongst other things, to funnel billions of federal dollars into developing clean energy.

The aim is to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and incentivise private investment, to encourage the growth of green industries and jobs: a new foundation for the US economy.

With a 10-year lifespan, and a cost originally estimated at $391bn (£310bn) but now predicted to reach over $1tn - the final figure is unknown - the IRA offers new and juicer tax credits, as well as loans and loan guarantees for the deployment of emissions reducing technology."

 

Some analysts think that China’s coal emissions have already peaked – or will peak in the next few years. We’ll have to wait and see if they’re right. But the fact that they can even suggest that a peak in coal use is coming, while China is adding more coal plants, seems contradictory.

Both points can be true, though. China could build more plants while burning less coal. It just has to run them less often. Based on data over the last decade or two, that’s exactly what’s happening.

 

Solar panels — 80% of which are made in China — are so cheap that they're now being used to line garden fences in Germany and the Netherlands, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

 

Record-breaking renewable energy production signals ‘end to fossil age’, some researchers believe.

Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than gas in the UK this winter, according to new analysis.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/27893453

How Wolves Change Rivers

 

From July 2023 through summer 2024, battery cell pricing is expected to plummet by over 60% (and potentially more) due to a surge in EV adoption and grid expansion in China and the U.S.

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