jonne

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[–] jonne 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, definitely not liking the dynamic in that conversation. How are you 'too busy' to go into the store?

[–] jonne 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)

It's so bad they I just start adding 'by the IDF' to any headline that doesn't mention a cause or perpetrator in my mind automatically.

[–] jonne 53 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He's wanted one ever since he was invited to the French défilé by Macron during his first term. For whatever reason dictators love this shit (I'm not saying Macron is one, just that it made a huge impression on Trump).

[–] jonne 16 points 4 months ago

I doubt Trump would care about those people, especially if they're dual citizens.

[–] jonne 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't believe they're that worried about it. A lot of people made a lot of money buying up 'distressed' assets after the GFC with the cheap credit available. If you're wealthy enough, you make money when things are going well, and you buy up anything that's on the market when there's a downturn (preferably with subsidies/cheap credit provided by the government).

If you don't need to have the income from a job to live off, the business cycle doesn't really affect you, it's all play money where you can be on any side of a trade.

[–] jonne 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Solar has an EROI of between 1/5 and 1/10 (and improving), not 1/3. Wind is between 1/10 and 1/15. By excess solar, I mean the energy that is generated during the day that otherwise isn't used and is sometimes curtailed by the grid. It's definitely better to charge batteries with that, but you could use it for other things as well if all the batteries are full.

And yes, carbon capture is a PR exercise by the fossil fuel industry, you'll get way better returns doing anything else.

Edit: and gas has an EROI of 30/1, what has 1000/1?

[–] jonne 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, investing in batteries on the grid would definitely be a better use of capital.

[–] jonne 4 points 4 months ago (18 children)

In theory you could run it on excess solar and turn it off the rest of the time, but of course if you're running it only part of the time it'll take you longer to capture CO2, and not every process can actually be easily turned off and on.

[–] jonne 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Probably revenge for calling him X Æ A-Xii.

[–] jonne 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] jonne 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't work out for Michael Jackson and Prince. Eventually it'll spiral out of control.

[–] jonne 46 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Wait until they bring back scrip under the guise of a company crypto token.

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