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  1. olofscience
    Anything that anyone has ever written on the internet can be evidence to him...as long as he agrees with it. Opinion pieces, AI-generated articles, whatever. Even random blogs run by unhinged deniers (one of which who came here with hilarious results). But respected journals like Nature? Lefty, commie rags. The IEA? Same, except when they report things he likes about coal. Then suddenly they're a respected authority.
  2. olofscience
    When you have Ranked Choice voting, you don't really need to take this extra step. It works out mathematically:
  3. olofscience
    For someone who claims to be an "independent thinker" don't you have anything other than regurgitating what the other rightwing trolls have been doing here for a while? You're not really adding anything new...just the zombie-like repetition of the usual right-wing lines.
  4. olofscience
    I used the driving example because my comment was before January 6th...
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    Like throwing away a perfectly fine ICE car to buy a new electric car, I think switching when you don't need to yet will result in a higher carbon footprint anyway. New build houses in the UK are usually all-electric (no more gas heating) but you should really only switch older houses when their gas boilers reach the end of their service life.
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    With quite a bit higher failure rate and higher maintenance costs than electric infrastructure. You can pipe electricity to every room, in every house and building in the country. It's scalable. Imagine if all our devices like TVs ran on tiny gas engines and instead of electric sockets, every room in a house had a little gas tap...
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    To move fossil fuels you'll need tankers, pipes, pumps, valves etc. To transport electricity, you just need a piece of metal.
  8. olofscience
    When will those be finished? Because according to this, China currently has 379GW in solar under construction, and on course to add another 371GW of wind capacity before 2025.
  9. olofscience
    This guy has never seen Alberta's oil sands, or a refinery, for that matter. And many EVs don't use any cobalt at all.
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    Yeah, you should have invented, certified, and flown electric aircraft instead. Yeah, shame on you for just living your life and using the technology of the day to...just live your life. Well like the aircraft, you should have invented them then. Or bought them as soon as they were available even if you didn't need one! What were you doing all those years? /s Seriously, I don't blame anyone who has benefited from fossil fuels or who lives their life using fossil fuels - we don't have that much control over that. It's like saying, "HA! The hospital you were born in used diesel generators, you HYPOCRITE!" Brent is just moving goalposts to somewhere outside people's control so he can accuse people of hypocrisy. Does that count as setting things up for personal attacks?
  11. olofscience
    Do you also believe any wars we wage shouldn't be taxpayer-funded at all, but rather organised, supplied, and fought by those ordinary citizens who believe in that particular war's cause?
  12. olofscience
    Well according to Slim, Russia - famous for its coffee plantations - isn't experiencing the same prices for coffee as the rest of the world. Because of those Russian coffee plantations. Or something... Or maybe he just wishes Putin would pay for his Walmart coffee...
  13. olofscience
    Damn, Putin really needs to pay you better...
  14. olofscience
    New York, Texas and California alone have economies bigger than Russia's. California in particular has a GDP double of Russia. Put together, the USA has a GDP 14 times bigger than Russia's. Putin can't even pay you enough to get your car off finance...
  15. olofscience
    Well I do have an advanced degree, but it's why it's good I cite reputable sources and show my working in maths right? Hey that's a bit extreme, I *have* graduated university, those lefty brainwashing factories right? And I restrict myself to mostly these topics. I don't really understand the long and complex history about Israel and what's happening there now. But tech and climate change I do understand, and it's going to affect me for quite a long time so I speak up when there's blatant misinformation going around.
  16. olofscience
    Maybe because I still have many years to spend in the sport and would prefer what I say here to not interfere with my enjoyment of my hobby. I'm a nobody anyway, so even if you knew who I was it wouldn't really make much difference. Experience and a track record usually commands more respect - which is the case for many people here, but I simply haven't had as much time to build up mine, so I'd be at an disadvantage for that too. Because yes, that bus photo was from before I had my first driving license. Make of that as you will...
  17. olofscience
    That wasn't a public bus.
  18. olofscience
    Haha, you wish.
  19. olofscience
    Well you posted them in support of your arguments, and you haven't admitted they're wrong yet, so until then they're your claims too.
  20. olofscience
    Oh wow, just looked it up, I stand corrected. I revealed my age a bit unintentionally there, damn I'm glad it's being phased out in favour of stainless. Cadmium is highly toxic and carcinogenic. (and also not used in most solar cells despite Brent's claims)
  21. olofscience
    That would be chromium, not cadmium. Lead acid batteries are huge, heavy, and pretty easy to isolate for disposal and they usually don't spread lead contamination everywhere.
  22. olofscience
    It doesn't matter where it's from, it's wrong. Again, you're pretty crap at chemistry.
  23. olofscience
    Looks like you're just repeating fake news and FUD. SiCl4 is NOT a byproduct, it's an intermediate product. It gets used up to make silicon. That the Chinese are spilling it around their manufacturing sites is just carelessness. This is very outdated, even it mentions 2016 as being in the future. Photovoltaics don't use cadmium or lead. So not only does Brent fail maths, he also fails chemistry.
  24. olofscience
    But you didn't say that. You didn't say "they should have subsidies proportional to the amount of energy they produce". You just said, and I quote: When I pointed out fossil fuels have MORE dollars being wasted on them, you moved the goalpost. You also don't get that renewable subsidies are investments in increasing generation capacity rather than just reducing the per-MWh cost like how fossil fuels get. No, you didn't do any analysis at all. Not that you can...
  25. olofscience
    He'll be moving goalposts so often that he won't remember where they are. Brent was so convinced that the Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia had subsidies and wouldn't survive even though it had none (and was very profitable). He didn't have to check. It was built by Tesla. It used lithium batteries. That was enough to get him to attack it.