[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

heat up anyone enough, and they will glow in visible spectrum.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Scandinavia south of Paris.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Arguments were well laid out even if there are few plans to implement it. Sea transport between the countries can avoid US fees even before this year's tariffs. For Mexican autosector, Metal manufacturing from Canada could see finishing in Mexico. Video says batteries from MX, but China would be a better partner by far.

Chevy Equinox and their electric van are good value, but costs would go down in Canada with Canada/MX partnership on them. Produce would probably need air shipping, though.

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Not posted here was a Carney-Sheibaum meeting this week that had general headlines on this theme.

Significant US economic activity was generated from Canada-Mexico trade and NAFTA/USMCA from fuel and transit taxes.

I can't confirm how solid these plans are, but this is an obvious step that Canadian politicians could highlight to disprove incompetence and slave gaslighting.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Only the rare Blue hydrogen is renewable

Green Hydrogen is made by electrolysis of water = use electricity, get Hydrogen. No emissions. Green. This technology is mature enough to be deployed at mass scale, and produce localized stored energy that can be transported/exported. Costs are $2/kg when using "near surplus" solar at 2c/kwh input cost. For a FC vehicle, this is equivalent to $1/gallon gasoline in range.

Blue H2 is not green or renewable. While the process gas reaction can be separated to capture/split the CO2 gas produced, that CO2 needs to be transported and pumped underground, and the heat required for the reaction generally is produce by NG combustion that needs a chimney, and produces emissions.

H2 is not a dead end technology. It is ahead of its time, as solar penetration to provide enough energy every day is solar that produces surpluses on most days, and is not yet here, or even in China yet. Ever more solar does require a monetization path past electrical saturation, and green H2 is the best path for its chemical applications, transportation, energy backup, and rocket fuel.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Base jumping off an EUC obviously safer.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

replied to wrong post, but if Canada is not subservient to CIA/US empire for Ukrainian war funding, it does have its democracy corrupted by the descendants of genocidal volunteer nazis fleeing USSR war crimes that our parliament gives standing ovations to.

Back to the topic of UBI, instead of corrupt fascism that steals my money for demonic nazi support, you are free to use your UBI/other money for any nazi/geopolitical purpose you want, instead of improving your personal life and prospects. The other benefit of UBI is the end of divisiveness that occurs from fascist governance that never does what its campaigning suggests.

"we need slavery, because otherwise, how would single issue Ukrainian Canadians help diminish Russia to the last Ukrainian" is a very weak argument against UBI. You will be empowered to use your own money to have Ukrainian rulership kill all Ukrainians.

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This is great for me... because I have a fuck Delta, or will pay extra to avoid, pricing maximum in mind.

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Canada would need to make almost $100 billion more in revenue every year just to cover UBI, and that does not include anything else Federal revenue is used for.

UBI means a net tax reduction, with clear quality of life improvements, as long as the obvious social spending programs are eliminated. The higher the UBI, the more programs are obvious elimination candidates. UBI is simply tax credits offsetting tax debits. As obvious examples, the basic tax exemption means rates above the exemption need to be higher to raise the same revenue as if there were no basic exemption. When investment income gets tax breaks and no payroll taxes, employment and business income needs to be taxed higher for same revenue. Lower business income tax rate? = higher employment taxes.

UBI always costs 0. Just net credits and debits that equal 0. Drastic discretionary budget savings means net tax cuts.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

To be fair, if pedestrians existed on those roads, they might want to cross it.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48084474

AI datacenter boom is going to significantly raise prices for other/competing electricity consumers.

Only solution is solar+battery DC power supplies to datacenters. OP doesn't distinguish between large and small transformers, but the US domestic sourcing requirement on federal projects is for the larger transformers.

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AI datacenter boom is going to significantly raise prices for other/competing electricity consumers.

Only solution is solar+battery DC power supplies to datacenters. OP doesn't distinguish between large and small transformers, but the US domestic sourcing requirement on federal projects is for the larger transformers.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Not sure that is specific Project 2025 item, though it is a consequence of Trump trade policy. US$ value is a function of total trade with US. A $ is not destroyed when it is sent abroad, and there is general appeal to use it to buy US assets to ensure the wealth to purchase more imports. Unjustifiable extortion is resulting in less capital inflows to US treasuries even as the colonies rulerships seemingly submit to the extortion.

As OP's charts show, China saved the US in GFC aftermath legitimizing their extreme QE and bailouts.

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Article criticizes those who push for peace like Putin and Orban in the same bucket as Hitler/Trump. But that Trump playbook does rhyme Hitler's.

Piece starts with an economics lesson that is mostly true: Investing in people can offset a financialization focus instead of a production focus. The missing truth is that your wealth is the ease to pick up a cheap axe from box store, regardless of where it was made. High wages with overall high cost of living, still provides access to more cheap goods.

Author still loves US militarist colonialism, and so it breaks down his WW3 fears, when extorting allies into harsher colonialism may be needed to push Russia/China into more defense spending, so that the US can (is forced to) spend on more offense. This means a slight delay to ww3, but its not as though the ignorant aren't cheering for one of the bipartisan sides for end of times.

WW3 is entirely up to the colonies response to US extortion in forcing their suicide. Even with colonies, the US loses badly, and it is defense budget extortion on world that is objective rather than actual war, but colonies can band together to prevent such extortion and accelerate US collapse instead of begging for their own collapse to prop up US.

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Pentagon will resume massive arms shipments totaling up to $10 billion. The deliveries will include Patriot air defense systems and long-range missiles capable of striking Moscow and other major Russian cities.

Rumours that WH denied, encouraging Zelensky to strike deep into Russia, are obviously true in that long range missiles purpose is to do so.

Not highlighted in article is NATO members sycophancy in paying for it all.

Russia striking US bases in Europe is a possible escalation. Putin seems to moderate to do so, but patience won't be infinite.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10938951

This is 36% MODULE efficiency with expensive cooling. 30% actual year long efficiency without it. Requires dual axis tracking. Seems heavy as its very tall/deep.

Headline of cost reduction is very unlikely. Especially on a per acre/fairly large area basis. Dual axis tracking requires more spacing than fixed orientation rows, and loses benefits under cloudy conditions. While power at 7am and 5pm is more valuable when competing against high penetration solar, batteries are now more competitive than tracking, and can serve edge of day and night power needs. Tracking solar tends not to be built anymore, due to low cost of panels. The cooling infrastructure is also not as useful as it is on rooftops because the heat capture has useful benefits for homes.

It is also unclear how this has advantage over parabolic mirror.

Agri PV is a real use case, where more free land means more land use, even if most of it gets more shade, except around noon.

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Pathethic bullied loser level of colonies is above 9000. Reward is likely to be even higher unjustified tariffs.

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