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Sad but interesting.

When the infrastructure for big power plants exists, it’s usually more convenient and profitable to use them. But when they don’t, solar panels make so much sense. It is nice to see that it’s more about solar panel than diesel generators.

Really weird title. TL;dr: ESG-conscious banks fail to account for the impact of mining in their accounting.

I see this kind of articles as a good thing: mining is a polluting process that can be much cleaner but lacks incentives to do it. The only incentive right now is to be the cheapest. If some actors start accepting to pay an extra for ethically and environmentally friendly mining, the industry can change.

Oh I think we will get there quicker than people believe and it comes with so much advantage in terms of noise, mechanical complexity, energy efficiency, waste heat, vibrations, ease of danger, maintenance, that I think electrification is now largely a matter of cost and that energy density will be worked around as soon as the rest is affordable.

Solar panels dont produce fuel for thermal engines and are intermittent. In the longer term we want electric vehicles and batterie to absorb intermittence but in the short term it has its uses

And a weird way of saying that intermittence is solved…