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Melio commented on Germany commits €100B to defense spending dw.com/en/germany-commits... · Posted by u/pythux

Ralfp · 4 years ago

What are those reserves? How are they supposed to work? Can you store enough reserves to power the town?

Melio · 4 years ago

Oil and gas reserves.

They are tanks.

If you use solar heat to support your oil or gas, you will be able to reduce your fossil fuel consumption noticable

Melio commented on Germany commits €100B to defense spending dw.com/en/germany-commits... · Posted by u/pythux

sto_hristo · 4 years ago

Power density of the atom is unmatched by anything currently by a wide margin. It's a pure fact of measurable and confirmed science. Arguing against that is arguing against objective reality itself and that makes you medically insane.

The cheapness of renewable is due to its guaranteed prices by law. Once these subsidies end and the free market prices take over, you lose everything. Reason will take over sooner or later - bubbles can't be inflated forever.

Melio · 4 years ago

? Sry?

Nuclear power costs a lot of money and is highly subsidiest.

A nuclear power plant needs tons of protection mechanism: has to withstand air plane attack, security clearance for all employees, tons of regulation.

Do you know what happens in Germany when a castor transport happens?

Do you know how expensive Tschernobyl still is?

And then you have the waste.

Melio commented on Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/G... · Posted by u/hhs

spir · 4 years ago

Please see my other answer to a sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30490897

Melio · 4 years ago

Any insight why it was postponed?

Melio commented on Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/G... · Posted by u/hhs

spir · 4 years ago

Note that Ethereum is switching to proof of stake this year, almost surely before Q4. It's true that this upgrade has been coming for years, and it's also true that it's actually arriving this year (if interested, see https://eth2.news).

After Ethereum switches to proof of stake, global demand for GPUs will plummet as GPUs are uncompetitive for BTC mining, and beyond BTC, ETH is by far the largest remaining proof of work coin.

Melio · 4 years ago

What's the difference this time?

Melio commented on Germany commits €100B to defense spending dw.com/en/germany-commits... · Posted by u/pythux

lvl100 · 4 years ago

I am sorry it came across that way but this is how wars start. Countries first have excuses to build up arms. Same reason why I would never want Japan to build up arms. It is NOT different this time. And Russia has shown that. It’s never the people. It takes just ONE bad apple to start it all back up.

And by the way, I did educate myself. Educated myself quite a bit on WWI and WWII.

Melio · 4 years ago

My comment regarding education was for current Germany.

Modern Germany.

The country who helps tremendously around the globe with stable politics.

The country which did not hide it's past. We all learn in school about ww2.

Melio commented on Germany commits €100B to defense spending dw.com/en/germany-commits... · Posted by u/pythux

Ralfp · 4 years ago

I am yet to see systemic renewable power source that is available to country like Germany (or Poland where we also have discussion about going nuclear).

All renewables available to us are considered supplementary (they generate power when conditions are favorable, eg. wind blows, sun is shining). But this means they can’t be used to maintain power grid.

Ofc you can try hydro or geothermal, but those depend on your river network, underground warm waters availability, as well as population density around country. Those work for country like Norway but in practice German increasingly relies on French nuclear power as systemic source to maintain their grid, and Poland (sadly) sticks to coal and gas.

Melio · 4 years ago

Renewable most of the time allows to keep reserves and use them when necessary.

Also the renewable story is not just solar and wind but also short term energy storage.

The dependency to Russian gas is only 30%. Adding more thermal solar energy on roofs and bigger heat water storage is relatively easy to achieve.

Of course Germany should have pushed renewable even further and we did not. It's frustrating to see so little solar panels in cities.

Melio commented on Germany commits €100B to defense spending dw.com/en/germany-commits... · Posted by u/pythux

bluecalm · 4 years ago

That's too naive. How can you try be logical and diplomatic when you know you're building dependent relationship with a dictator who already had several wars under his belt. I mean, it was opportunistic, cheap gas is nice and Germany is far away from Russian border, some countries are closer but you know, you can always build a pipeline or two around those. Not your problem afterall.

I just can't believe anyone could eat the diplomatic and logical narrative up.

Melio · 4 years ago

There is nothing to 'eat up'.

Germany is not stupid.

Melio commented on Germany commits €100B to defense spending dw.com/en/germany-commits... · Posted by u/pythux

basisword · 4 years ago

It’s politically complicated of course. But I don’t think our Western European governments have ever looked weaker. We can barely all agree on the right economic sanctions.

1. It may be a few days old but we stood by as Russia took Crimea years ago. We shouldn’t have allowed that in the first place.

2. Many counties have nukes. Ukraine had them and gave them up in exchange for security assurances from UK/US/Russia.

3. The UK gov is now saying if British citizens want to go and fight in Ukraine they support them. Maybe we should send some of the soldiers we’ve spent lots of taxpayer money training instead?

Melio · 4 years ago

1. I agree we should have not allowed that.

But otherwise let's see how it plays out.

Currently the sanction level is not low. It's already surprising high. Totally different to Crimea.

Melio commented on Germany commits €100B to defense spending dw.com/en/germany-commits... · Posted by u/pythux

rad_gruchalski · 4 years ago

He definitely has an agenda but what is he doing? He does talk a lot, that’s true. Right now he’s only achieved rising energy prices (before the Russian invasion, through co2 tax increases) and stopping KfW-Bauförderung.

Melio · 4 years ago

He has his position for how long?

Exactly.

He already mentioned his timeline.

Let's start critisis him when the time is right and not just a few month after the election.

And yes corona and Ukraine conflict adds additional burden on everyone.