MrMakabar
@MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
Yes we are. In a mortgage the bank gives you the money today, for the promise of payments in the future. So for a bank far out payments are nearly worthless today. So they will not give you better conditions for a 50year mortgage compared to a 25year one.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 days ago:
The further in the future profits are, the less they are worth today. As in getting $1000 today is better, then getting a promise of being paid $1000 in a decade. After all if you got the $1000 today you could have invested it and got a return on it. So lets say you know you can get a return of a rate of 5%. The $1000 today invested over a decade would be $1000 * 1.0510 = $1628.89 in a decade. You can also use it the other way around, to estimate what the $1000 is worth in the future. As in X * 1.0510 = $1000 -> X =$613.91 That rate of return is called the discount rate.
The issue with getting money in 50 years is that it ends up being nearly nothing today. So it is just a horrible idea.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 days ago:
Anybody who believes a 50 year mortgage is a good idea, does not understand discount rates…
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 weeks ago:
Reading his Wiki page, he does sound rather reasonable. Support for Occupy Wallstreet, running as a UK Labour candidate, openly calling not to elect Trump and also calling the US Libertarian Party “lunatics”.
- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 5 weeks ago:
Insults a form of violence. Emotional violence that is. If I wanted to, I could rather easily insult you. Therefore I am capable of violence. However I did not default to it, because the situation does not call for it.
You could have replied in whatever way possible to my comment. I did not insult you at all. You however defaulted to insulting me. So unlike me you are not just capable of violence, you default to it.
That is the difference between being capable of and defaulting to. Hope you get it.
- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 5 weeks ago:
Being capable of violence and men being masculine are really hardcore deal breakers /s
- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 5 weeks ago:
Gigachads like Elon Musk attract all the ladies. They all want to kill him with arrows…
- Comment on Interesting and certainly worth a try 1 month ago:
Also tram tracks and bike wheels are a bad combination.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
America is never going to change that. Whoever controls energy controls the world. The US has turned into an energy exporter and by controlling the Middle East, they control most of the worlds oil supply. China tries to compete with them, but has very little oil, so they go for green technology. Biden tried to compete using the Inflation Reduction Act, but the American people have choosen to go for Trump and his fossil fuel strategy. So the US tries to keep everybody hooked on especially oil and gas, with its allies in the Middle East. They try to destroy competition from countries like Iran, Russia and Venezuela, but also need low oil prices to keep green tech out. So subsidies are just a good idea for them.
Just to state the obvious. Trump is destroying any sort of chance the US had to go green and remain a super power by destroying the little wind, solar, EV and battery industry the US has. They also try to hook other countries on their supply, but there are options. If you do not want your country dependent on US fascists, then you need to push to go green.
- Comment on Court rules Europe can call nuclear and natural gas sustainable investments for its green transition 1 month ago:
This is basically to allow projects to use fossil gas for a bit, until hydrogen or bio methane is available for the project. It takes years to built something like this and 2035 is only a decade away. That is very different from fossil gas is green period.
- Comment on Court rules Europe can call nuclear and natural gas sustainable investments for its green transition 1 month ago:
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That is the clear difference to close source. YouTube, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Twitter, PowerPoint or Word are amazing names…
- Submitted 2 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 2 comments
- Comment on Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere 2 months ago:
That also explains why he is so against offshore wind as well. That would hurt the twinned place of his golf course.
Offical looking sign saying: “Trump International Golf twinned with Epstein Island”
- Comment on How the U.S. Just Handed the Renewable Future to China 2 months ago:
Trump destroying the US green tech sector does not mean that China is going to take up all of it. For example in the EV space there are a lot of large non US or Chinese manufacturers like VW, Hyundai or BMW, for wind turbines the market outside China is dominated by European manufacturers, batteries are done pretty well by South Koreans as well and so forth.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 2 months ago:
We need a 500% tariff on US vehicles.
- Comment on The UK Grid is currently 80% renewable energy (and 10% nuclear) 2 months ago:
Looks real, but it was a snapshot. Mostly it is worse.
- Comment on The UK Grid is currently 80% renewable energy (and 10% nuclear) 2 months ago:
Cars, heating(homes and industry), steel production and so much more.
- Comment on mentoring 3 months ago:
The netherlands are pumped dry anyway…
- Comment on Global South calls for Strategic Energy Transition Amidst SDG Target Slowdowns 3 months ago:
In Jordan, two-thirds of new cars sold last year were electric.
Wow. That is impressive!
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 3 months ago:
We are talking about 128million non White Americans and that is not including white Latinos. Just to put it into context the Holocaust killed 6million Jews, the Partition of India moved 12-20million people and created a lot of suffering doing so and somewhat similar numbers in displaced people in Europe after WW2(moving borders and the like). Those are some of the darkest chapters of human history and this would be an order of magnitude large then those.
First of all, doing that would create a massive reaction. We are talking 38% of the US population being deported, so a civil war is very much an option.
The honest answer is that a lot of Americans are very well educated and rather rich. So if they would be allowed to leave, then they would be welcomed by other countries. However we are talking about numbers here, which would compeletly change the housing and job markets here. The locals will not like that and close their countries off. Still a good number would make it. At that point the US has two options: Wage a war to take some land for them or kill them. Taking land would lead to hatred of the Americans including the deported. We are also talking about a massive country here and probably a lot of death. Obviously killing everybody would be even worse. There is also the option of pushing them into say Alaska and make that independent. However that is unlikely.
The US economy would be absolutly destroyed by this. If you deport them quickly, it would lead to shortages. Most certainly shortage of workers, which would indeed push up wages. Housing would end up being cheap and people would move to the best cities of the country. On the international stage the US would be widely hated and probably be hit with sanctions(they deport a lot of people and that causes huge problems for other countries). So long term it might actually be good for white workers. However the rich would hate it, due to it destroying their cheap workforce. Short term the US would have massive shortages and suffer a lot.
Even just deporting a larger part of the non-white population would cause a lot of problems.
- Comment on Foldable solar panels 3 months ago:
They have different size on the website, but it really depends on how large your bicycle battery is. The largest one is 60W and ways 1.7kg. A small bicycle like that might have 300Wh or so. Since you probably just lay them on the ground and they are not 100% efficent anyway with charging you need 10 solar panels or so to charge your bicycle up within an hour.
If you want it for a cycle trip, then you are probably better of having a fixed panel on a trailer. That way you can charge during the trip and non flexible panels are much more efficent. You end up with something like these.
- Comment on Foldable solar panels 3 months ago:
- Comment on Netanyahu slams army over delay in building Gaza concentration camp 3 months ago:
Alligator Auschwitz costs $450million per year to run for only 5000 prisoners. That is $90,000 per prisoner.
- Comment on Netanyahu slams army over delay in building Gaza concentration camp 3 months ago:
Mainly supplying weapons parts to Israel, cracking down on protests and blocking EU sanctions. It is not even close to as bad as what the US is doing, but still not a good look.
- Comment on Netanyahu slams army over delay in building Gaza concentration camp 3 months ago:
Israeli officials estimate that building a so-called “humanitarian city” in Rafah could cost between $2.7bn and $4bn
How? It is for half a million people. That is at most $8000 per person.
- Comment on The World Has a Serious Coal Problem 3 months ago:
Thats from 2010 btw. Oil got even worse with fracking and solar and wind way better. Wikipedia has a bunch of examples.
- Comment on 4 rich Africans reportedly wealthier than half the continent 4 months ago:
Leon Schreiber is as the Minister for Home Affairs responsible for matters of citizenship in South Africa. That is why I quoted him. No idea why him being white changes any of that.
- Comment on Solar is EU’s biggest power source for the first time ever | Ember 4 months ago:
In the EU wind is stronger in winter. So you really want both.
- Comment on Solar is EU’s biggest power source for the first time ever | Ember 4 months ago:
The site also has the EU and all member countries, but:
