I love how you can have a really complicated problem and it can be solved with such a simple premise.

It’s just such a basic idea that’s obvious in hindsight.

Tempted to send a message to the BBC and everyone from the UK should also.

See how they respond

I dunno maybe my friends were too stupid to manage it.

But I got told you couldn’t get it on there and you couldn’t get it off their.

I didn’t see the point. Didn’t seem like owning it, seemed like apple owned it.

Not always. Consumers given choice they should go for the product that is best. That way companies have to make the best product. That’s competition working.

Like when ps3 offered free online but xbox didn’t. That killed the xbox market as everyone could choose a similar product that was cheaper.

Or when apple forced everyone to use their products people went to the Samsung because you could do what you want. That killed apple.

Or when some companies offered subscription model like Microsoft Office, everyone went to alternatives and that killed Microsoft Office.

Honestly I blame people. We had all the information and just laughed in the face of reason. We are choosing to spend more for a shittier product.

I honestly don’t get why people use apple. People have explained it to me and I think I just don’t get the reasoning.

People would tell me on the age of illegally downloaded or someone legally bought mp3s apple was better because you can’t play your mp3s you have to buy them again off apple. Or that apple is better because you can’t use something and instead have to use apples device which isn’t as good and more expensive but it’s white! Like I can’t get a fucking white one.

The walled garden is shit. Apple makes me angry.

At this level it’s not that much of a problem. As pointed out it’s capacity not production.

China has built huge numbers of HVDC power lines to move electricity around the country. Presumably their hydro is somewhat flexible. All their new coal plants are variable that’s somewhat of the reason why they are continuing to build new ones because they need the fast stop start. It’s basically what the rest of the world use gas for, but China use dirty coal instead.

People also look at renewables as if it is traditional power. It is absolutely not. Renewable power will be wasted at times and that’s okay, it’s actually most financially stable way of operating.

First you reduce fossil fuels plants/hydro to absorb the energy. Then you turn off fossil fuel plants for some time. Then you turn off renewables for a while. This is where somewhere like california/UK/Southern Australia is. At this point you still have expensive electricity at parts of the day but also really cheap (sometimes negative) electricity for significant parts of the year. Only then does it make sense to install batteries.

2024 is going to be huge for battery storage. Especially if the sodium ion batteries work as expected which they are expected to. But even with batteries not all energy will be stored.

I bet most people couldn’t name a prime minister under Victoria or the prime minister during WW1.

I’m pretty certain there has never been a black person as important as those in British history.

It’s not whitewashing if your entire country was white for almost all its history.

Most non whites came over after ww2. It’s not racist to say their just really wasn’t that many historical black people. Forcing a narrative is stupid. This is why so many people have issues with wokeness.

Our kids don’t know enough about history anyway. That could be solved. But it doesn’t mean they should know about some random black guy that did almost nothing of note just because he is black. Plenty of people did almost nothing of note and we don’t know about them.

Sell off all the HS2 land for a loss maybe?

Cab industry is the scum of the world.

Cars can do one.

Depends how you calculate profit.

At some point it has to be wasted. No one is going to built something that will use the last 1 hour of energy in a year that isn’t assigned to anything.

Most factories have a stable running value. I.e. when they run they run at 100%. Capital is wasted when that investment isn’t making money. So to have something that can absorb all excess is very difficult.

There will be some projects that ramp up and down. But it would be low capital cost high energy cost and I’m not sure what they would be. There might be some projects that also run for 6 months of the year. But even then I still see some waste happening

Tell people you’re Protestant. It’s not about being white, they’ve killed whites.

What almost everyone seems to miss is it’s absolutely optimal situation to overbuild and waste electricity. Sometimes it’s just not worth storing, until demand exceeds a lot it’s not really worth storing large amounts.

Also HVDC currents.

Society peaked.

Absolute foresight from the matrix to say 1999 was as good as it gets.

Send me back.

This is a growing problem worldwide with increasing productivity and automation.

Now don’t get me wrong I’m not a luddite. I’m all for more investment in productivity and automation but it doesn’t mean there aren’t issues.

Lots of things need to be done and their aren’t really any easy answers. Unfortunately those with a lot and those with power have more votes, so it doesn’t look like much is going to change.

“We can do better” or worse “X do better” is more cringe.

It’s just everyone judging everyone like they are worthless. Maybe people want to be part of the group maybe they have an identity with hardcore gamers. They don’t need to do better that’s their right.

Yea what the Russians are doing is fucked. People just trying to live their lives and they come in and start killing and controlling.

Obviously not read starship troopers thet make it very clear that anyone can serve and will be accommodated. And they make it very clear that being in the military isn’t the only way to serve.

It’s just above providing for your country and earning the right to vote.

I’m on about the book.

It’s militaristic but it isn’t fascism.