Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/10/24 3:19 PM, D wrote:

  On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 09/12/2024 20:51, D wrote:

  On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

If they had simply taxed carbon fuels  we would be all nuclear by now...and be making synthetic diesel

 Is electricity the primary cost driver of synthetic diesel?
 

I think it would be, yes.
  Lets say you can get to a 30% conversion ration of whatever energy drives the synthesis, to the final diesl.
 Diesel and natural gas is around (UK money) 50p a litre or 5p /kWh
 Expected renewable electricity is 3-4 times that
Historic nuclear is a bit less - say 4p /kWh
 That puts synthetic diesel at a minimum of around 12p/kWh Which is what we pay at the pumps but that is all tax.

 Ahh, yet another thing we don't have to worry about then. =)
 

Germany managed to help the extreme left and the extreme right with their ridiculous nuclear policy. Given their history, I'm surprised they didn't see it coming. ;)

 The trouble with Germany is that the Greens got into coalition, and the price of that was Germany's energy policy.
The problem seems to be that the broad political choice is between neo Marxists and pro Russian  Neo Nazis.

 Yes!

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 Germany seems SCREWED - all ideology, no common sense.
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 Alas it's a HUGE economy .....
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 For now.

Massive organizations can do a lot wrong, and still survive a long time. My fear is that they are repeating the errors that led up to ww2. They are crushing the middle class with taxes and eco-fascist policies and inflation.
A far-right agitator will popup (hello AfD!) and say, vote for me and all will be well. Since there's literally no other alternative, the middle class will do it, and then it could become dangerous.