Germany has a very binary view on class supremacism. It’s not supremacism is good vs bad. It’s a pendulum of who is above criticism. Russophobic nazi supremacism still kosher though.

This is BS. Noise is extremely minimal. Wind reduction can help small boats like jagadas. When wind is low, there is no reduction. When wind is high, it might make fishing safer.

Wind turbines will attract sea life from moorings.

Policy for abundance and competition matters a lot for China success. It starts with abundant raw material and processing. Steel and construction materials matters to factory building costs in addition to new energy production costs. It’s unclear how much of abundance outcomes is the result of direct incentives to material producers/refiners vs “build it and they will come” attitudes that includes confidence in supporting clean energy/vehicles downstream.

In the west, oil oligarchy protectionism drives policy. History of oil companies patting themselves on the back with PR on clean energy while doing nothing. Funding massive disinformation and politicians for climate terrorism, and the solutions/progress that is made outside of oil companies is just extremely slow. Meant for PR and scarcity, and the hopes that high scarcity profits can be dressed up as rewarding national champions doing a little bit against global warming. Most of the IRA is not about creating US abundance, but rather setting up US monopolies in US supply chain, that have caused projects to stall because they are not competitive by US ROI standards, and the lack of confidence in usurping oil oligarchy for US only market.

Article starts off with “do we need domestic industry?” before not making any conclusions about it later. If Aliens came to earth to trade us cheap stuff, US oligarchy would insist on losing a war against the Aliens instead. Cheap energy and materials further makes jobs. Solar especially has up to 90% of its costs as local deployment spending. Cheap energy and materials is core to competitive manufacturing, and low consumer cost of living. The political reaction to go to war with competitive goods to protect domestic oligarchy profits, and pretend to support uncompetitive domestic upstarts with subsidies, is a net social loss. We end up with a high subsidy per job level, where UBI (full society redistribution) would enable more affordability of better products instead.

European Solar Manufacturing Council

There was a smear posted yesterday, from US sources, on un-named equipment having surreptitious communications equipment. Smelled like BS as much as this does.

Huawei specific geopolitical smears are fairly worthless in 5G world, because all of the vendors manufacture in China.

5G Security Toolbox.

security can come from hardware audits, and a EU owned rebadging firm responsible for monitoring/communications and firmware updates. Logging of communications links can confirm hacking, and trace wrongdoing.

Anyway, foreign tech dependence can create a security risk if you intend to be an asshole, or the foreign country (US) is inherently an asshole. These decisions are not to come from protectionist BSers.

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think 8 bytes???

Their emissions are lower. It’s not just slower growth in emissions.

The reduction in China’s first-quarter CO2 emissions in 2025 was due to a 5.8% drop in the power sector. While power demand grew by 2.5% overall, there was a 4.7% drop in thermal power generation – mainly coal and gas.

This is catching up to Europe’s FF use declines (10%+ in 2024) in power sector. The overall reduction in emissions isn’t that big because China is doing something pretty crazy and highly emittive. It is making liquid fuels from coal. Geopolitics forces it to for independence.

Disappointing to see adoption of CPC/PP platform cluelessness policy priority. Canada needs to spend on industrial policy to fight US, and prepare for hardships. His first BS of offering US empire more weapons purchases for more force multiplier warmongering was embarassing enough. Head in the sand “negotiations” is not going to go well.

Priority needs to be to destroy US economy, to save Canada’s. If plan is to do nothing, we can do without an auto industry too, but waiting until the crisis evolves is just negligent.

destroy HOV lanes entirely by making everybody able to use them

In Texas, God intended for you to use the most gas possible, and sharing a ride is communism.

4 seat cars can now advertise as seating 36… 4 octomoms

There is a lot of room for abuse. Old salary $20/hour. New salary $8 + $12 overtime. For every “real hour” worked, you get 1 hour of “standy overtime pay”. Employer still gets to deduct $20/hour expense, you get taxed on just $8/hour pay? Or maybe it is $16/hour, with $4/hour tax free. This scheme can replace a raise. Employees could get screwed if the “overtime gift” gets cancelled later.

Very sad. I get that the grid does need backup/resilience power and someone needs to pay for it, but adding a new FF plant of equal capacity is going well beyond backup needs. A simpler solution would be to tax renewable power in wholesale market such that it funds “payments for backup readiness” as needed, and tax goes down as less of it is needed.

I just said something obvious. Some American asshole took a shit on some European sidewalk. Garbage you wish to be true, would have more substantive credibility if the accusation were specific and verifiable.

Propaganda is too easy, when you’re this gullible.

This is an easy smear to make if no one can verify anything, because no product is mentioned.

Frank’s is cayenne pepper based. That is generally my favorite pepper, but it is also easily found in powdered form, and overall can easily add scoville with cayenne taste to any other sauce. Chili powder and Pepperoncini are also widely available in dry form, and layer taste to other sauces/spice without necessarily going over 9000.

The process itself must serve evil. As a process, single issue bills permit a clear stand on good/evil with debate on the issue to convince/justify vote. Multi issue bills permit a horse trade of my evil interests to be included for your evil interest to also be included.

It can backfire though. Too big a deal can get some to leave the corruption consensus over 1 provision included. Everyone is given more power to grandstand against evil.

Providing power at night is much more reasonable than forcing an equal/backup gas plant.

Requiring solar to have 2-4 hours battery backup power is a great way to expand grid while still keeping existing plants around. Peaker/backup plants have always had a business model based on high rates. If the law says a solar project must buy into a legacy plant and promise to keep it ready for backup, it’s not totally crazy, as long as it can charge extortionist rates when it is needed. It doesn’t reduce benefit of battery storage, paired with larger solar array.

inventive new ways to store energy.

100 hour storage, like iron air batteries, is cheap but not as economic as mature battery technologies for power arbitrage. Still, if there is a regulation to have 18-48 hours of power reserves, then it is an ok solution. The problem with long term storage with solar is that if you get 6 hours of sun in a day, half to charge, half to sell directly, you only add 6 hours, even if most days you wouldn’t draw down 6 hours at night due to lower demand.

Hydrogen electrolysis is another solution to monetizing overproduction. It can be done more cheaply with methane than water, and still be zero emissions, zero capture and sequestration, with marketable carbon black solid as byproduct. Keeping a bit of H2 onsite, with a fuel cell as backup, or NG electric plant, can be profitable, but all depends on how much you have to pay for backup, and how much profit from use.

Introducing V2G service that pays EV owners to be “the backup” in addition to battery arbitrage revenue is another path, that will happen soon enough, but where some kind of regulatory obligation to have it, makes it happen with more commitment.

The bill that makes it illegal for precautions is snuck inside megabill with 100 other bad provisions so no debate occurs on it.

FYI, the US empire is evil. Like media, AI must be used to protect the Empire’s evil.

Business/Insurance is a great reason to have federal climate reporting. There is no good reason to have it duplicated at every state, insurance, farm level. It is a massive savings/benefit to have it centralized.

we’re focused on skin applications

Seems weird for ultra strong wood, but another property is that it is pretty.