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France announces winners of world’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind auction | WindEurope ( windeurope.org )

"Yesterday France announced the winners of the 250 MW South Brittany floating offshore wind auction, the world’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind auction. This is a major milestone for floating offshore wind technology. So far Europe has only built small pilot and demonstrator projects. With yesterday’s...

Wanderer ,

Good way to cause expansion renewables and batteries.

Wanderer ,

I actually meant grid level expansion. But that too.

All they have done is free market supply and demanded the grid. That's why Texas has more solar than any other state, the market is working. Though it does have some downsides.

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"Last year, Texas overtook California in large-scale solar power capacity. When huge amounts of solar power rush onto the grid, batteries tend to follow. Now, Texas is building more grid batteries than California, the longtime undisputed leader in clean energy storage."

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/texas-will-add-more-grid-batteries-than-any-other-state-in-2024

Wanderer ,

Its just free market capitalism.

They also have more than double the wind power of any other state.

Wanderer ,

It's not a cartel risk. It's a supply and demand equation. More supply means lower prices.

It's just market prices.

Wanderer ,

Isn't it tonnes of different people, farmers and such. Too many for a cartel to form. Reducing supply is just going to mean to make less money.

Batteries are making the grid a lot more elastic.

Wanderer ,

Its wholesale prices, it's what they do. Same in Europe same in Australia.

Texas looks fairly middle of the pack with decreasing prices. Compare it to another state with high levels of renewable and California is second highest after some islands and has increasing prices.

https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/electricity-rates-by-state/

Wanderer ,

Some people ideas of capitalism are so warped.

If there is an energy cartel report them.

Wanderer ,

Well done. Don't forgot to attach your evidence.

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Europe really needs to get a handle on this. The left don't care and act like it is not an issue, the centre is profiting off it because they own the land and the businesses. The longer this goes on there becomes two options. Europe becomes a third world country or Europeans vote for someone that will actually do something. I would love a left party to actually act on all these immigrants but they won't and their parties are hemorrhaging voters. Going to be an interesting decade for politics.

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I lot of people look at this and say its just too much material for it to have happened.

But we know of projects that have used more man power. The London to Birmingham railway line took 5 years to build and moved more material than the great pyramid and we know exactly how that was done. The size of individual pieces does add complication, but the absolute quantity and manpower is not unexplainable.

Turkey simply relabels Russian oil products and exports them to Europe, research indicates ( www.intellinews.com )

More evidence that Turkey simply relabels Russian oil products and re-exports them to Europe as Turkish emerges from a new study by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD)....

Wanderer ,

Literally just because of the Bosphorus.

Wanderer ,

Not exactly what you want but I heard about people in the military practising things and they learn. "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."

By doing that it makes you quicker. Sometimes when I'm late and start rushing I end up forgetting things or knocking things over or dropping. So I take a breath and say slow is fast. Also my career history is big on "right first time" doing something twice is a huge waste.

Also I remember Adam Savage said he got close to death (or was getting close to being rescued from death) then he told himself "Calm people live. Tense people die." and he managed to free himself.

Taking a moment might not just save you time or money it might save your life.

Wanderer ,

The renewables movement will be won on finances and nothing else.

It is anticipated that the project will yield an internal rate of return on capital of about 16.38%, with a payback period of around 7.1 years.

That sounds really promising.

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I heard a big one is location. If your mate just came back from Asia and talks to you about it and you then see ads for holidays to Asia. It's because if the location proximity to him, not the conversation. They just assume you would talk about it

Wanderer ,

You know what is better than crying and taking mind altering drugs? Not needing either.

I know this is a joke post (at least I really hope it is) but why are some women so against men being happy? Like they want do to everything in their power to take away "guy stuff" it's not enough that they don't have to go. But the fact they don't like it means that no one else should and men are wrong because they do something women don't.

I strongly believe that men's mental health is positively impacted by male groups. But women don't want men to have male groups. Women can obviously! That goes without saying. But men. No, not allowed they should be ashamed of themselves.

I think it's a really issue in society and you never ever hear women criticise women's role in negatively impacting men. But somehow I bet this is all the patriarchy's fault

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Where I come from men's clubs are illegal. So yes, like it or not it's already been proven to have happened.

I like how you think know what all women have ever done though. My housemates was telling that what me and the members of our rugby club get up to at our own private bar, singing, drinking and fucking about with each other isn't okay. That although we are all their voluntarily and they we all very much enjoy it, and its good for our mental health, it shouldn't be allowed. In fact she said if it was up to her a lot of sport would be banned.

Here's a genuine question. Why do you, my housemates, other women think they know absolutely what is best for mental mental health when it goes against what men even say?

I've got a lot more support from men than I have from women. And I've seen guys get a lot more hurtful abuse from women than I have from men. But that goes against the narrative that all issues in the world are caused by the patriarchy and that women can do no wrong.

If the suicide rate is so high for men maybe we should start by asking men what they need? How would having women telling them everything that they have done wrong a good thing?

What women cannot understand is men are different to women. We act in a different way to you and that's perfectly okay. What is not okay is women telling men how they need to act.

Also if you want to do a bit of reading go find all the questions on the internet to the effect of "why don't you open up to your girlfriend" and you can hear all the horrific ways women use men's vulnerability against them. You can see the general consensus being that more often than not opening up to women makes things worse because of how women react to a vulnerable man and that if you need to talk about problems do it with men.

But again that goes against the feminist argument that men's issues are only to do with toxic masculinity and the patriarchy. But lol what do men know about their issues own issues? Nothing.

Wanderer ,

Of course they are. The point is it is normalised and that's the issue.

Women telling men what they should do, what they shouldn't do, how everything in their life is other men's fault and no one else's. All perfectly acceptable.

If we want men to be happier mentally we should start by asking men what they need. What we shouldn't do is get women to tell then what they need. Also women need to take responsibility for the negative things they do, why should they get a free pass to mistreat people? Just because they aren't "part of the patriarchy"?

Like I seen this the other day. Some guy talking about what makes him happy and he gets told he's sad for doing it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/ZwELEUQKcwkpvdVc/?mibextid=xCPwDs

Wanderer ,

Great. Hopefully we get some good comedies.

Wanderer ,

It is working. Did you not read the article?

Chinese police were allowed into Australia to speak with a woman. They breached protocol and escorted her back to China ( www.abc.net.au )

Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....

Wanderer ,

In the UK there was a peaceful protester and the Chinese dragged him into the embassy grounds and beat him in front of the public. They have diplomatic immunity.

Nothing was done obviously.

No wonder China and Russia shit over us and act like we are weak. We are. We proved it multiple times.

Fuck the West is shadow of what it once was.

Wanderer ,

WW2 was about containing the USSR. Even before Germany fell Churchill was warning about Russia. He wanted to free Eastern Europe before the Soviets got there. But the Americans cared more about glory and wanted to capture Berlin so Eastern Europe was abandoned.

Even after WW2 there was talk of invading Russia.

Wanderer ,

Challenger happened because the engineers said they shouldn't launch because it was cold and the politicians said just do it anyway.

Wanderer ,

Silence of opposing views should never be allowed especially when they it is a significant democratic voice. Otherwise there is no way to stop it from happening to you.

If the right were doing this to the left people would be screaming fascism.

Wanderer ,

If I can put you on a factory line and get you doing the job in less than 10 minutes how is that not unskilled work?

Wanderer ,

Obviously someone that hasn't spent much time in a factory and don't know what they are talking about.

Sure you got to go through all the safety requirements but that's not a skill.

I've seen job were people load material into a machine and people box finished good, or people destroying WIP, or people moving material, or picking up WIP.

You are just confidently incorrect. A skilled job is something where you are trained and/or have experience in and it takes a long time to teach and learn. Unskilled is were you can grab people from the street and get them working within a day.

Surely you can see why based on supply and demand and cost of training both for the person and the business that unskilled pays less. Why should they be paid the sane as skilled work? It doesn't make sense.

Wanderer ,

Well if you change the definitions of things then anything can mean anything.

I don't know what you expect. The fundamental reason unskilled labour is paid less is because basically anyone can do it. You can call it whatever you want but it won't pay the same amount as skilled labour, or whatever you want to call that.

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Not everyone no, some people have severe mental and physical disabilities.

Everyone that showed up could do the job in that amount of time from what I understand. Some people left because they didn't like it and some people had issues with authority or we lazy and wasn't asked back. But there was a revolving door or temps coming through and no one seemed to struggle.

Wanderer ,

Where's that 4chan post where all the BLM rioters tried to set up a new community in Seattle or something. Then they had everyone give there skills and what that want to do in the new world, everyone was saying they can grow food. Then there was the crappest plot of veggies I have ever seen.

Wanderer ,

There was definitely a crappier looking photo than that.

It looks like an abandoned building plot, a small one.

Wanderer ,

There is a whole thing about land use rights and energy and sustainability. But just because one guy was right on that doesn't mean the whole movement wasn't a complete disaster from the start.

As much as this website hates capitalism I'm still pro capitalist. But even I admit a lot needs to be changed. Land is one of the big things I have been contemplating lately. Having said that, there wont be any meaningful food production in cities for anything but mental health reasons.

Wanderer ,

Lettuce and tomatoes are surprisingly good value. I'd put them top tier.

Not sure what else is really good. Beans are easy but you never get enough.

Wanderer ,

I wasn't saying it for the good of the army I was saying it for the good of the people.

The army will get the best out of them that they can. Sounds like they could do with it more than most.

Wanderer ,

Starship troopers style. Interesting.

Also with conscripts they don't normally see fighting they are just normally ready. They tend to just be trained reserves.

Wanderer ,

Same reason we don't let kids decide if they want to go to school or not. Not everyone is going to make the right choice. People do things for their and societies good. You really don't think most people are currently doing that can you?

Wanderer ,

You don't know how low the bar is.

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I think your right.

As much as the fat kids and the kids that have no will power and blame their lack of drive on others could benefit from structure, teamwork and exercise.

You're right, ultimately it is too late and it just trying to fixing a failing of the state. We need to give these people more attention in school and turn them into better people than what we turn out of schools currently.

Wanderer ,

I didn't say that. I say conscription would help these overweight people and it would help in other ways.

Then I also said that getting to that point is a failing of the state.

You don't know where I stand on any of those points because we weren't talking about it.

I don't really care what the US military spends per second.

Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says ( www.cbsnews.com )

Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....

Wanderer ,

Anything where you can get a burger bun that doesn't taste like it full of sugar is worth it over anything else.

The bread quality in america is the lowest of the low.

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Wanderer ,

How much supply does Russia have and how much is being disrupted?

I think during WW2 for example bombing of German factories was surprisingly ineffective. So I'll be interested to know what this is doing.

Wanderer ,

The only thing you can really do is have new experiences.

For too many people the decades look the same. No wonder time flies when you do the same thing day in day out because you don't remember anything about them.

Memories make time seem long.

Wanderer ,

Yes. But I don't really know how to make the most of it or how to lean.

Also I'm not sure I could use it in a timely manner.

Wanderer ,

They are a fucking nightmare to recycle. You'll be lucky if they get burnt and I mean that.

Wanderer ,

"if oil didn't exist, we'd have to invent it"

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