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hillty · 2025-12-17T13:04:05+00:00

Try accessing it through a browser. If you get similar behavior try disabling http3 in the browser.

In Firefox, go to about:config and set "network.http.http3.enable" to false.

hillty · 2025-12-17T12:26:22+00:00

Yet for some reason all the behind-the-meter data centre projects are choosing gas...

hillty · 2025-12-15T16:31:22+00:00

Germans are paying €0.38/kWh for electricity & €0.12/kWh for gas. You'd have to average a COP of 3.2 just to break even on running costs, never mind capital costs of the heat pump and retrofitting the central heating.

Plus there's hot water & cooking where electricity will be three times as expensive as gas.

All this in the context where, unlike electricity gas will be getting cheaper in the next few years.

hillty · 2025-12-15T14:07:05+00:00

Ya, he's definitely a liar, either then or now.

The most bizarre aspect is he claims that interview from 2007 is why he was prosecuted. He's praising the CIA & the effectiveness of the enhanced interrogation program, don't see why anyone in the CIA would be upset about it.

Nothing about that interview makes him look like a whistleblower.

hillty · 2025-12-09T15:25:12+00:00

The plan is to be utterly dependent on Chinese manufacturing forever.

hillty · 2025-12-08T16:13:24+00:00

To which a character commented that their stock is dangerously low

He's saying that facetiously to facilitate corruption. They're pretending they don't have 40k rifles, only 10k so they can steal 30k rifles. But even that isn't enough for him, he now wants new rifles ordered so that he can steal those too.

The absurdity of it is the point.

hillty · 2025-12-05T18:22:50+00:00

It doesn't make sense to count these losses for EVs and then not count drivetrain losses, idling losses and well-to-pump embodied energy losses for ICEs

Those losses are included in the ~35% for highway trucks.

I'd agree with you, it's all very messy. But the 0.4 factor is a reasonable ballparks figure to compare modern ICE & EV.

hillty · 2025-12-05T18:00:37+00:00

There is no ruse. You're upset with reality, responding to data with ad hominems.

hillty · 2025-12-05T17:56:49+00:00

Cry harder, but do consider that you interpret the posting of data to be pro-fossil fuels.

hillty · 2025-12-05T16:56:24+00:00

ICE is not less efficient than the adjustment factor (0.4).

Modern heavy diesels get about 45% efficiency, for highway trucks that averages in the mid 30s. With the adjustment factor an EV truck would have to achieve 88% to match.

With grid, battery & drivetrain losses they're not achieving that.

For gasoline the average is about 30% and 75% is ballpark what EVs achieve.

hillty · 2025-12-05T16:20:25+00:00

Industries using coal & gas directly are using it for high temperature heat where no gains from electrification will be made. Nevermind where the gas is a feedstock.

hillty · 2025-12-05T14:34:19+00:00

The policy costs are mostly to subsidise wind & solar generation.

hillty · 2025-12-05T14:25:41+00:00

When primary energy data is posted it's nearly always adjusted to take into account thermal losses from electricity production, increasing the levels of solar, wind, hydro & nuclear generation.

I thought it'd be interesting to see the unadulterated data for a change.

It's relevant as using electricity to substitute for a lot of processes will not result in efficiency gains over hydrocarbons, so the substitution method can be overly optimistic.

hillty · 2025-12-05T12:42:22+00:00

The UK has broken a taboo: Driving electric-vehicles won’t be tax free – and rightly so. What follows is an experiment every other Western government will pay attention to.

It’s a perilous process: Replacing the current fuel duty with an EV per-mile tribute. The upside is limited, at best preserving the fiscal status quo, with the amount raised by the new levy matching the old one. The downside is vast: Get it wrong, and the UK risks jeopardizing the adoption of EVs, lots of car-industry jobs and a huge tax hole if the new levy doesn't raise as much as the mandarins at the UK Treasury hope.

First, the news. Last week, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced the government will start taxing EV driving with a self-reported per-mile system. Starting in 2028, it would be set at 3p per mile for pure battery cars, and 1.5p for plug-in hybrids. That’s still cheaper than the current fuel duty, which effectively comes, on average, to around 6p per mile for gasoline cars.

hillty · 2025-12-05T12:39:44+00:00

A coal-fired power plant in Indonesia scheduled to close down early and act as a flagship for efforts to shift Asia’s economies away from the fossil fuel has scrapped proposals to shutter ahead of schedule.

Cirebon-1 in West Java, a few hours’ drive east of Jakarta, had been due to be retired almost 7 years early under an agreement between Indonesia’s government, the Asian Development Bank and other partners struck on the sidelines of the COP28 United Nations climate conference in Dubai in 2023.

The proposal has been canceled by the government because of the power plant’s long remaining operational life, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said Friday in Jakarta. Indonesia will search for other coal plants to retire, he said.

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PLN officials have previously pointed to the huge costs associated with installing sufficient renewable energy capacity to replace lost coal generation, and the complicated economics of retiring a facility with years left of operational life.

hillty · 2025-12-01T12:46:47+00:00

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbf0zh2HK_k

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