The union rules say 6 hours per day, and if everybody stuck with it that it'll be fine. Unfortunately some parents don't stick with the plan and spoil it for everyone childless people are often left alone dining in a silent restaurant with no screaming children for company. That means that some of us parents have to spend ten hours a day just moving from restaurant to restaurant and looking for people trying to read quietly. No rest for the wicked, as they say.

It is regularly happening right now that England is generating electricity with gas at the same moment that Scotland is having to shut down wind turbines that have overproduction. Previous governments have just failed to invest where it was needed.

It really isn't. Firstly the simple fact is that all nuclear reactors take too long to set up, whilst wind or solar could be got running at decent rates this year. Secondly, you missed the bit about "modular" (small) reactors, which is basically talking about future technologies which they hypothetically hope in future will reduce the cost of nuclear, but where all tests so far have failed and every technology tried turned out to be worse than the bigger older, scaled for maximum engineering gain reactors.

Now is the point to simply keep building out renewables towards the scale that is possible and then later, as some of the nuclear reactors planned now come online, battery costs can begin to be optimized using them. Concentrating on very distributed wind and well connected grids is a part that cannot lose.

So, if you tried to do it one way and it didn't work out that way, you'd do exactly the same thing again? Right?

There is a serious interest for all of us. rug-pull-ware, where the developer starts off completely open, gets the community to test and validate their software everwhere and then close up once they begin to see commercial success is bad for everyone. It takes away from the community what it created. It slows down the creation of alternatives. It makes people less likely to contribute to other software. It encourages more rug-pulling.

Musk, has uh, his problems, but this is one we want him to win.

"cheap" is slightly the wrong question. The thing which produces the cheapest electricity is South facing solar panels. The problem with them is that they produce it at the time when all the other south facing solar panels are also producing lots of cheap electricity. If you face your Solar panels East and West, they produce a bit less electricity, but it comes at a time when it's more vauable so it helps more people and, if you have a variable input tariff which takes demand into account, you will actually get more money for that smaller output.

Offshore wind in Scotland produces enough electricity at times when other sources are not so easily available that it is helping to reduce prices on the grid. Likely some of the new large American farms would be able to do the same.

That's because we're paying the cost of nuclear and gas, not because of Wind. Hinkley point C, delivering just 3 GW just went up to £35 billion.

If that same money had been invested into a new super capacity transmission line from Scotland to England and increasing offshore Wind in Scotland, not only would prices fall vastly, but it would also already have been delivered.

The question you are really asking is "does wind energy create cheap electricity". The overall final answer, taking into account materials and land rental and everything is that wind energy has been one of the things vastly reducing the cost of energy in most of the places where it's been taken into heavy use. Yes, wind is cheaper than the alternatives, has been falling in price and continues to do so.

I think that's not just an Africa phenomenom. Having seen some former Eastern block countries, I realized that their corrupt politicians were so totally amateur that they do their corruption illegally and sometimes even get caught and arrested. That almost never happens in the West.

In the West, on the other hand, they do corruption by getting directorships and so on after the event. Even if there are totally obvious links between the purchases they made when they were ministers and the companies that they then go and work for there is nothing that anybody can do about it and they will even boast about it. This happens not just in the US, but also in the UK ("revolving door"). There are some good reasons such as getting company experience into government and getting government knowledge to help companies develop, but those are allowed to totally override any ideas of propriety.

In fact, Trump is a great case. Everybody knows that in his first term world leaders used to stay in Trump hotels or Mar-a-Lago in order to get access. The thing is, the law (as currently interpreted) doesn't cover that case and so he gets away with it fine. Insider trading appears to go on with stocks from people on all sides of the US house. When, in his second term, people complain that Trump's cryptocurrency is obviously a way to give him bribes, it seems all they are actually doing is providing him with advertising.

Pay, from Collins dictionary

1. verb A1
When you pay an amount of money to someone, you give it to them because you are buying something from them or because you owe it to them. When you pay something such as a bill or a debt, you pay the amount that you owe.

Yes, when you reimburse someone you do that by paying them money. You are doing that because, since you aren't giving them whatever it was you agreed to do for them, you now owe them money. Not difficult. Very very stupid indeed when they were going to do something important and valuable for you by providing cheap energy and you are now paying to increase your own long term costs.

You missed the burried lede.

Not only is he stopping them generating energy he could have already. He's also paying his friends for getting oil production licenses that otherwise he could have sold for money.

The oil and gas is not an extra source of energy that's being created here. It is a distraction.

I just tried to put this story up but perhaps Slashdot is censoring for the US govt? This is honestly the first energy crisis where countries that have gone green are benefiting majorly. Europe really isn't suffering that badly at all and likely won't (with a partial exception of the UK where all energy prices are based on gas for some stupid reason). China has a massive overcapacity of Solar Panel production right now and the lack of oil arriving all over the Pacific means they are suddenly able to shift a huge quantity of them at the same time as solving many people's problems.

This is not even just Trump damaging the US strategic / long term situation through stupidity and ignorance. He could have demanded that those wind turbines were accelerated and used the war powers act to make it possible. Merely the knowledge that some serious action was happening would reduce the price of oil futures and mean that people knew running down reserves to keep supply going during the war wasn't nearly as dangerous as if there was nothing more being done. This seems close to treasonous support for Iran in times of war.

Sun's profits were the Dotcom companies losses. A bit like Nvidea now, except perhaps Nvidea has a better lock in? Sensible DotComs - those that survived in the end in other words - were already using Linux. Using Sun in the Solaris / post SunOS era was normally a sign of either overengineering or cluelessness. Both were killers for a group of companies that often had slim chances of survival even if they were competent.

Very very happy with GraphenOS on an older phone right now. Some app incompatibility (so perhaps test if you have something you really need) but overall it just makes sense whether you decide to compromise by installing Google Play or not.

This has kind of already been done with Claude code. Crucially, don't use just any LLM. If you want to make a new derivative of Windows, use some properly protected instance of Microsoft Copilot to do it (likely, if you have access to a military version, that will have the right protections). When Microsoft then attempts to claim copyright violation you will find it much easier to use their own arguments that copilot is not a copyright violation against them.