You nailed it. The us defence pact has always been a protection racket but one that everyone profited from to a lesser or greater extent. To fail to recognise the economics of your own countrys business model is mind-boggling.

You don't give out free info for claims you make? Here's some free info, they last about thirty years according to windexchange.energy.gov/end-of-servi... but this paper claims the standard design lifetime is 20-25 years www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... let's use the lower estimate, not bad.

Crazy, and yet all of my family believe another ring road out to Barna will fix it. The S-bahn I get to work in Hamburg transports ~150k people per day each way, but it has to get built to prove that it works, or people have to believe expert reports that it will...

Is Galway the 10th?

Really? We have plenty of wind farms onshore in Germany and Denmark, and I've never seen a maintenance engineer once. Of course they do have moving parts, and need to be checked, repaired etc. Any info I can read on that?

Base load, heavy industry, sun does not shine 24/7, insufficient storage. Batteries prices have fallen similarly though

Terrifying

round(math.inf)
>Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>OverflowError: cannot convert float infinity to integer
ahh python my old friend, hey PHP?
$a = INF;
echo round(INF);
>INF // wrong but still better than java

I'm Irish, Neeson is someone we can collectively dislike. He's been in that category for a while now purely through his own unhinged actions

😒 a visionary project to promote eco-tourism? Crush it like a bug.

Die kosten werden deutlich sinken, aber ohne Fahrer werden Probleme mit Müll etc steigen, wie bei e-scooter, im ÖPNV. Stau wird nicht dadurch reduziert, es sei denn wir bauen weniger Infrastruktur für Fußgänger. #notjustbikes hat ein Video dazu.

And after sleeping? If there's no footpath, there'll be no pedestrians, no cycle lane, no cyclists. You have to encourage active transport modes with appealing infrastructure. The benefits are fitter, happier people, less pollution, more local business.