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Part media, part the previous party not being great at economics while also being pretty arrogant about staying in power, and a dirty, barely working alliance between the left, the liberals and the center populists against it. Besides, while farmers are somewhat influential voting block, they...

It's true to a degree, title is clickbaity, so i'd say true but exaggerated in scale. Also the green crap was never particularly popular in Poland, especially with the farmers.

It's worse than that. They can't fix it because either the solutions would mean splitting their way with a leftist lobby of some sort with massive political consequences, or end a crisis that they have set up to get some other concession. The green anti-nuclear stance being a cover for commie...

Yeah, in the end a lot of green policy is more about catering to certain useful idiot's pseudoreligious beliefs and filling the pockets of "energy business" scammers. Like this, and the common hostility of green movement to nuclear power, not to mention not giving much of a shit about third...

Theoretically possible. In practice most coal power plants are in less than optimal locations for it and have less than optimal generators for it, while the really expensive part, the nuclear stuff, has to be built anyway. In a way it would be like shopping for a new car specifically so that you...

>a professor at the Economics of Innovation and Public Value Center at University College London Makes sense, watermelonry is strong in UK and London in particular.

This sort of stuff may be the least bad option for some extreme environments like Mars, undersea or even far north. But i don't see a reason why would people pick this when cheaper and more comfortable options exist (which greens and shitty city real estate lobby hate existing).

Weather forecasts have limited reliability. With further secondary effect grown with increasing share of renewables in the grid. It's going to be cold and cloudy? Well, not only people will want power for heating, but solar will produce less, so you need to compensate for that too. There is a...

Yes. Meanwhile a peaker plant needs to do it in minutes. It's also not economically efficient to do it. See the problem? The clever solution would be to overbuild nuclear, and then plug it into a chemical plant making hydrogen or other energy intensive fuel synthesis. Shut it down when the...

Nuclear is technically unsuitable for peaker plants of all things.

Look at it another way, it's also yet another socialist scheme to eliminate the middle class. If you can afford an expensive ass cars, preferably hybrid or electric, all the parking and congestion related taxes even for those cars, and so on, you can in fact use a car there. If not, you belong...

Filthy, yes, but they are more used to it, and they probably don't have criminals with a sense of impunity (or no sense of anything coz drugs) roaming around it or hobos camping in it.

Because the "walkable cities" come with their advantage advertisement in the name, but no one wants to weight the disadvantages, because that concept absolutely does have them, and many (especially greens) want to handwave them away, or even make them sound like necessities. I obviously mean...

New Singapore? In California? It's not gonna be run anything like Singapore, that's for sure. They might get Singapoopre at most.

The problem is that there's nothing really that can extinguish it in the sense of cutting off oxygen. Once the batteries reach a certain temperature, they go full chain reaction, and if the runaway battery reaction even needs oxygen, the byproducts at least in some can include... oxygen, which...

All depends on battery tech. A price or longevity revolution there is necessary. Until then, they are stuck in the current niche.

Resources aside, this is extremely nasty to the used car market. The batteries are often over half the car's price, and they die in 5-10 years. There you go, no more cheap used cars. Might be one more reason why the greens who push this the hardest are often the same people who hated private car...

Congratulations, now everyone knows you are equally qualified to talk about nuclear technology as the average Greenpeace activist.

Yet the odd thing is how if you look at them, they are mostly middle class city slickers. It's not that they want to live like Amish, they want everyone else to live like Amish in a collective farm while they are the regional party leader. Because of course they are universally socialists. And...

Yes, it's more complicated than household finance rules. Some things can be handwaved away, sometimes for a time, sometimes for good, sometimes it depends, but it's also possible to fuck it up in ways impossible with household rules. Only if handled correctly. If socialists would get to play...