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New comment by dalyons in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

dalyons — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:07:12 +0000

I feel for you deeply. I’m equally fearful of this for my children, but one small blessing of my kids being very young is at least the ambiguity will probably be over by the time they have to decide. I don’t expect there to be good choices, but at least it will be clear?

New comment by dalyons in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

dalyons — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:58:25 +0000

They’ll still lose their job to AI, whether they’re paying attention or not.

New comment by dalyons in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

dalyons — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:59:39 +0000

83 renewable isn’t right, but it’s up to 67% clean in 2025, which is still pretty impressive

New comment by dalyons in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

dalyons — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:44:08 +0000

Supply costs have surprisingly not that much to do with Californias silly electric rates. They load into the retail rates all kinds of disaster recovery costs, environmental blah blah costs, distribution upgrades, social programs, the list goes on. Plus straight old fashioned corruption in a state sponsored monopoly.

You can get some idea of the BS that gets loaded in by comparing some rates from municipal grids like SMUD vs pg&e. Same supply, fraction of the end user rate.

Anyway, that is to say theres very little useful to draw on here in comparing nuke to renewable cost.

New comment by dalyons in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

dalyons — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:50:26 +0000

California is a huge success story at a massive scale. Looking at Casio right now it’s 92% clean energy. For a state of 39 million people! And batteries keep getting deployed faster and faster

2022 - 48% gas power on grid

2025 - 25% gas power on grid

What insane progress.

New comment by dalyons in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

dalyons — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:41:47 +0000

Worse, the summary article makes claims using 2022 data which is so out of date to be useless

New comment by dalyons in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

dalyons — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:37:54 +0000

I mean, who cares? Fire up the gas plants in the one week a year you have weather anomalies. We’d still be 90+% carbon free which would be incredible. The last gap can be solved at a later point as technology evolves

New comment by dalyons in "BYD's luxury EV with 5-min fast charging and 500 miles range is headed overseas"

dalyons — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:04:38 +0000

It’s in every discussion here on EVs. Thread after thread of PHEVs lauded as the “obvious practical choice” despite being already essentially obsolete

New comment by dalyons in "BYD's luxury EV with 5-min fast charging and 500 miles range is headed overseas"

dalyons — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:34:22 +0000

Is 5min charge and 500mile range enough to finally stop the usual procession of objections to EVs? I know this is a luxury model and the charging stations will take awhile to roll out, but the trajectory is crystal clear and the momentum fast.

Where’s the usual comments claiming that hybrids are the true way forward?

New comment by dalyons in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

dalyons — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:37:47 +0000

Tell that to the 100k+ people he killed by abruptly and illegally halting usaid

New comment by dalyons in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

dalyons — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:19:13 +0000

this should be the top comment, it neatly captures almost everything important about this moment.

New comment by dalyons in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

dalyons — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:11:53 +0000

actually nuclear is terrible in a grid increasingly full of nearly-free variable sources (solar&wind). The nukes need to stay at 100% all the time selling their power at a high fixed price to have any remote chance of being economical. Cheap variables push nuke's expensive power off the grid during the day, and increasingly into the evenings with batteries. This is deadly to the economics of nuclear.

New comment by dalyons in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

dalyons — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:29:29 +0000

but much less dependent. Its way easier to stockpile a big buffer supply of LNG if its only 20% of your supply, for example. Its way easier to trim some 20% demand and still keep the country largely running, for example.

"much less dependent" is still a huge win. Sure 100% independent is better. Isnt this obvious? i dont understand the point.

New comment by dalyons in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

dalyons — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:01:24 +0000

Why do you have to go to absolutes? If 90% of countries can be 80+% self sufficient, that’s still an amazing thing

New comment by dalyons in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

dalyons — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:54:06 +0000

Because in every thread about EVs someone has to chime in with their niche gas only use case, as if that somehow matters to the overall needs of the vast majority of drivers. Cool, you area niche need. Don’t buy an ev for 10 years or so.

New comment by dalyons in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

dalyons — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:51:30 +0000

Cars and electriciy are the overwhelming majority of all fossil fuel use. Let’s just focusing on tranistioning them first, and we’ll be in so much of a better place. The rest can wait

New comment by dalyons in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

dalyons — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:16:21 +0000

It causes massive inflation of goods and food prices, as farming and supply chains are heavily dependent on fuel prices. How is runaway inflation “massively winning in every other way” for regular americans?

New comment by dalyons in "Honda is killing its EVs"

dalyons — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:12:53 +0000

> That means they can run 80% of the time as an EV

they dont though. Real world data shows it indeed makes them terrible.

https://electrek.co/2026/02/19/biggest-study-yet-shows-plug-...

https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/year-end-surge-electric...

New comment by dalyons in "Honda is killing its EVs"

dalyons — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:16:43 +0000

It’s also because most PHEVs sold are terrible EVs. Weak, short range, cut to gas all the time. Impractical to use as a pure ev. This style of phev is greenwashing and should be sold as a gas car for emissions rules.

EREVs are a different story, and have a place in the transition for awhile.

New comment by dalyons in "Honda is killing its EVs"

dalyons — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:23:10 +0000

sadly thats not true at all. In practice, on average as a category, PHEVs barely save any real world emissions over gas (~20%).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-...

https://electrek.co/2026/02/19/biggest-study-yet-shows-plug-...