It's not just a political problem. It's also a legal one due to the property rights involved.
Can't the US govt buy back any land they want for infrastructure? I mean forcibly buy back.
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s1k3s commented on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine axios.com/2024/06/28/supr... · Posted by u/wumeow
Yes, that's exactly how it works. The US Supreme Court can rule a law unconstitutional, and that's that.
So basically it's the same as here, the supreme court (which is appointed, not elected) has power over elected officials?
(Because they can decide what is constitutional or not)
Edit: I have more questions but for some reason I can't reply to your replies :(
s1k3s commented on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine axios.com/2024/06/28/supr... · Posted by u/wumeow
Congress can actually legislate the right of agencies to interpret the gaps in the laws back into effect - by passing a law that explicitly gives agencies this power.
Just like congress can legislate abortion laws rather than leaving it to judicial precedence.
Fundamentally there’s nothing wrong with the position of supreme court to push the responsibility of lawmaking back on congress.
Where I'm from, our "supreme court" can overthrow congress legislation for not following the constitution. Is this the case here AND is this the case in the US (generally speaking)?
s1k3s commented on ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress arcprize.org/blog/launch... · Posted by u/mikeknoop
Is this open as in "OpenAI" or what are we doing here?
:)
s1k3s commented on The largest solar farm just came online in China electrek.co/2024/06/04/wo... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
You talk about intelligence but then act like a zealot. Don't get me wrong, I have solar panels myself in Spain, but is not Utopia.
Solar panels use a lot of space that could be used for other things like growing food. They make the earth extremely hot as they absorb so much heat from the sun. The political zealots talk about climate change but avoid to talk about that.
It is not excuses, there is very intelligent people working on those problems. Natural gas makes a lot of sense combined with solar and wind because solar only works when the sun is above and wind when the wind blows. You need something for winter and nights. Energy storage is very expensive, and also require lots of energy and raw materials for manufacturing.
For wind mills to make sense you need wind. Lots of countries do not have wind, and also produce heat an noise and kill birds.
In Spain, when the price of the panels and inverters go down, if you have users nearby, it makes sense. In Germany, with half the insolation, it does not.
There is no "free" anything. Everything has its ups and downs.
We need less politicians, lawyers without knowledge of science and engineering.
Of course there's an impact, but the question is "what is impacting us more?"
https://www.energysage.com/about-clean-energy/solar/solar-en...
s1k3s commented on The largest solar farm just came online in China electrek.co/2024/06/04/wo... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
If you have a better source of energy then build it. If it's better than the other ones will cease to exist. The "mental model" is entirely immaterial to the "market reality."
The energy sector is heavily subsidized by governments because it's important. "Market reality" doesn't work here.
s1k3s commented on The largest solar farm just came online in China electrek.co/2024/06/04/wo... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
> both US and EU have an insane amount of politicians who support backing down on green energy and going back to coal mining, oil drilling and the like.
What is an "insane amount?" Is there a spreadsheet or scorecard somewhere that quantifies this?
Kind of. According to polls there are 52% of Americans supporting this. In the EU we have elections this weekend so there's no reason to come up with polls, just follow the results!
s1k3s commented on The largest solar farm just came online in China electrek.co/2024/06/04/wo... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
What transition plans do you recommend for coal producing counties? The issue is that these coal counties get fucked (for a lack of a better words) with coal and without coal. With coal every family suffer generational health problems. But atleast they get to eat and live. Without coal they do not have an economic system to make a living out of it. During the colonial times (here we go) the Bri'ish forced Bengal farmers [0] to cultivate indigo which caused literal famines. They could not produce food crops and colonialist didn't bother to compensate the farmer obviously. Then the farmers got "fucked" over again, when industrial revolution resulted in creation of artificial indigo and farmers struggled to make a transition to another crop. Now, your average WV native is far from a Bengal peasant but idea of policy based restrictions on making a living can be compared. My argument is that broad sweeping policies about establishing how people in particular regions make a living needs to carefully evaluated. Now, I am not for or against coal at all. Coal producing counties are always marginalized and politicians rarely care about them except for election times. For/against coal does very little in terms of coming up with a solution. If you are against coal present a solution on how these counties can transition to making a living without being relocated.
This is a great argument and perhaps the best argument to support the idea of going back to coal. I don't know how to answer this because I'm not an economist, but I'd suggest subsidizing such people from taxation until we reach a green energy goal. Sadly though, politicians don't address this at all.