Re: Diversity - good or bad ?

On 12/01/2025 18:36, D wrote:

  On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 11/01/2025 23:44, D wrote:

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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 You REALLY hate solar, don't you ?

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I personally am a huge fan of solar for my offgrid fortress of solitude during
8-9 months of the year.
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That is fine. If youtr usage is low and there is plenty of sun - My sister oin Cape Town relies on it to keep the house going during the planed powercuts that characterise an ANC destroyed power grid.

 That country is very messed up. I think they need more peace, love and understanding, and spiritual dialogue between whites and negros. Only then will peace reign supreme! ;)
 

What is happening is that the populist communist corrupt ANC are being called out by the rising affluent black middle class.
And of course, the Indians who run EVERYTHING.

Bit it doesnt work very well in wintertime, and the batteries are expsenive

 This is the truth! Impossible at a realistic cost in northern europe.
 

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For the rest of the time, I wonder if small 2-3 meter wind turbines might be a
thing?
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Absolutely not.  You might get a few hundred watts at best If you build it talle ebough
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For heating I would use a wood stove or a pellets burner.
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How not very green of you!

 I wipe my ass with green toilet paper! ;)
 

Well that's a start. I am wearing a green fleece

Last time I was trying to calculate the cost of battery storage for a 100% solar
it came out at 600k USD or so, that is... madness.
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Now multiply it by the whole of california...

 This is the woke dream of paradise. Until we make massive gains in energy storage technology, it will remain a dream.

And we simply do not know how to make those gains. The green fantasy is that like Tinkerbelle, if we believe in Green solutions, they will magically appear.
35 years later, we are still waiting...
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"Nature does not give up the winter because people dislike the cold."
― Confucius