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Heat pumps done right! 😍
Decarbonization should be profitable to the customer 💸
Don't spend your life savings on a heat pump. Instead, use a heat pump to make savings on your energy bills 😌
My report and recommendation after 3 years 👇
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Even with the article you cite, nuclear is still a significant CO2 reduction vs fossil power
But if you read the article in detail, most of the emissions come from building and dismantling, which means that closing nukes early increases the average CO2/kWh
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I have no idea what's going on in Kursk, but if Ukraine wanted to capture Russian territory to use during negotiations, that's a 100% legitimate and legal strategy
And it does not constitute an escalation, since Russia has already used this strategy in this war
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So, basically, Tesla has won the price war?
When EV prices were high, competitors probably thought that they could sell EVs at a loss which was smaller than the value they would bring in (avoided purchases of) regulator credits 1/6
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Tesla promised to deliver a $35k Model 3 in 2017, when average new car prices were $35k
They failed
But today they're delivering a $38k Model 3, when average new car prices are $48k
And the current Model 3 is higher quality in every way than the one promised back then
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Billionaires pay income tax like everyone else.
Of course you could close the other tax loopholes, but that would make multimillionaires like Ron Wyden have to pay their fair share, so we can't have that now can we
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Nope. This is a popular myth that's destroying lives. Kids need their fathers.
I don't know whether mom only or dad only is better, but I know that both mom and dad is what is required.
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Mark Cuban's cost+ medicine store seemed too good to be true when it was launched, but it seems to be working and it's legit
This is the solution that the US needed. People can handle non-free healthcare if it is simply cheap.
Please help us spread the word. We WONT SPEND A NICKEL ON MARKETING. WE COMPLETELY RELY ON WORD OF MOUTH This allows us to price at such low prices. So all help is welcome from everyone and anyone !
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The lesson here, especially from people's reactions, is that companies shouldn't donate any of their services or they'll be expected to donate them forever.
No good deed goes unpunished.
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All tax loopholes used by billionaires become viable at a net worth of $1m or less
Why do you think people like Ron Wyden talk of "billionaire tax" instead of talking about fixing the tax code? Because they benefit millions from the loopholes.
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Stop calling a loan a "bailout", it literally means something else
wtf do government contacts have to do with anything? The gov gotta buy their shit from someone, was it better when they were contracting the Kremlin instead of SpaceX? tf
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A Javelin that hits a Russian tank is 10 times more valuable to US security than a Javelin sitting in a warehouse
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Ah, I see you're not deep into Musk lore
He said 90% of his tweets are sent from the toilet. Yeah, I wish I didn't know this fact either.
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Mates, wtf is with the takes on this topic. Biden wants to crack down on tax evasion. Do I need to explain why this is a good thing?
Forcing lawbreakers to pay what they owe is a superior collection strategy compared to adding more taxes for already honest taxpayers
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I've defended AOC directly at least twice on Twitter and I never got any "she's not gonna fuck you" replies
But I can't even talk about Tesla's corporate tax rates without getting replies about billionaire boots
The fact is, liberals right now are extremely toxic.
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A reminder that Russians killed 115,000 people in Mariupol without accounting for the corpses that nobody was allowed to collect before the buildings got demolished, and they did this not as casualties of combat, but simply because the Russians wanted to kill.
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Germany is nowhere near pulling its weight on refugees. 372 refugees per 100k population vs Moldova's 15508. They're doing less than 3% of what Moldova - the poorest country in Europe - is doing
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Build a trio of them at different heights and have the wedges at the top align
(sry for crap graphic)
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Not only was this never going to happen, even if it did happen, we still hate Russia enough to spend a winter in the cold.
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Emerald mine story is completely false
PayPal was hard work, not lottery
He didn't push anyone out
He has a degree in physics
Literally everyone knows these BS stories. They're the only thing most people "know" about Elon
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For all the hype, the Chinese can't compete either. NIO cars are too expensive to gain volume, Li makes hybrids, Huawei too, we'll see about Xpeng and Xiaomi, but my feeling is that only BYD actually has a business model that works
The market remains a Tesla/BYD duopoly 4/6
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We can check this claim and it doesn't hold, most climate models have been good at predicting the future.
The comparison with stocks is ridiculous since stocks include sentiment. Also, the stock market as a whole is famously easier to predict than any individual stock
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This is good in principle, but ethanol production consumes fertilizers which might soon become scarce. They have to be watched in parallel
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If you were to cut off the part that isn't lifting, do you reckon the entirety of the floaty half would float?
AKA is this semi-float thing a purity issue?
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Meanwhile, Tesla still makes a large profit on their EVs, keeps cutting costs, and actually might accelerate cost cutting significantly, and collects regulatory credits, leaving competitors even further behind 3/6
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The average number of times that an electric vehicle battery needs replacement during the lifetime of the car is 0.
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As of right now, I can't tell what the competitors' end game is
Even the hybrids strategy is coming under fire in Europe, possibly with other geographies to follow
Meanwhile, Tesla is not slowing down. The new Model 3 Performance is insane value, 5/6
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And they'll provide even more value with future products
And none of this is terribly easy to copy, either 6/6
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And they probably thought that this could bridge their gap to actual profitability
Now that prices are lower, and having dropped much faster than they could drop costs, they've decided that just buying regulatory credits is cheaper 2/6
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OK, let's run the numbers
A heat pump will use 500W tops, so 0.5kWh/h
On a third of a battery, or 26kWh, that'll run you 52 hours, or 2 days and 4 hours, significantly longer than a gas car
So death count = 0
It's hard to describe how basic this information is.
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Windfall profit tax without windfall loss subsidy is de facto like a ban on future investment
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Nuclear power plants are expensive to build and almost free to fuel.
It's financially irresponsible to close them early.
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I don't entirely buy Elon's interest rate whining, but walmart proves little. People don't finance their Walmart purchases
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Unless it's the Russians or the Chinese doing it, in which case it's all cool with Israel
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Every other product and service used in the war is bought, but for some reason SpaceX should offer it free?
Anyway it's the EU that should be picking up the tab, since we're not contributing enough anyway. Pentagon's job should be to force SpaceX to offer it in Crimea too.
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We looking at the same footage?
This is supposed to be a city of 1M. This crowd is underwhelming even for a fringe movement
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Most of the pro trump posts on Twitter are from overseas as well
USA politics is our reality show
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Mental health advocate btw. But let me bully a dude about his relationship status cause I can't make a point without clowning myself 🤡
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Flint's water has been safe for years
And what is your point anyway, that African Americans can't fix their water?
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The war will slow down once Russia is back to its 1991 borders.
Russia won't ever end the war, neither at its borders nor if it had reached Ukraine's western borders.
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Day barely started and you already got the dumbest take.
1. Demand for EVs will be 90% of natural car demand by 2025 and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. They're simply a better product.
2. EVs today aren't luxury products, Teslas start at the average new vehicle price
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For some reason, Russian media keeps posting videos of natural gas exploding in Uzbekistan and calling it electric vehicles
This would be the 3rd time I've seen it
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"Get your info from scientists" means listening to a person with a title and appealing to their authority
"Research my own data" means looking at the literature, scrutinizing the models, assumptions, data etc yourself
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Insane that people still try to get away with that "battery needs replacement" shit
There are 10s of millions of EVs on the road, it's not a matter of calculations and theory, they literally don't need replacements in practice
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The US has gross tax loopholes that nullify fair and just taxes like capital gains tax and estate tax
Why not close the loopholes instead of introducing the nonsensical and unjust tax that Biden is proposing?
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Russian rockets killing people on Polish soil should lead to a minimum 1 order of magnitude increase in lethal aid to Ukraine, but the big countries won't agree. Probably will be 1.2x or something 1/2
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And just 100 or so more stations would be enough to complete geographical coverage for low density areas
If this is the new plan, I agree with it 6/6
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Poland has literally the highest extra-EU immigration rate of any member state, and this has been the case for years and years
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This is my counter-argument to @Noahpinion 's take that small self-moderated communities are superior to cluster dumpsters like Twitter
They always end up like Reddit, with toxic mods and half the members walking on eggshells. I'll take the comment section of 9gag over those
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Estonia's aid to Ukraine is 220M euros. Normalized by GDP, Germany should be giving 27 Billion euros, but the EU as a whole (!) is giving only 1 Billion. So Germany would be doing less than 4% of its fair share even if it was covering all of that.
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No amount of shells is sufficient, but "they were complaining for 2 months and now they aren't complaining" is directionally consistent with the vibe I'm seeing on Twitter, and with the Ru losses numbers
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And when I point out that Germany is being Russia's Trojan horse I'm being told that my claims are sowing distrust or whatever
Germany didn't set up any special cheme for Russians wanting to leave on moral grounds, but now they're setting up one exclusively for military men
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I think it doesn't matter because whatever the number, the strategy of intercepting them with air defense and Ukrainian civilians is ridiculous and Ukraine should be given 9000km range weapons to hit every production line and associated infrastructure anywhere in Russia
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People living in houses charge at home. Overnight.
Let's get all Americans who live in houses driving electric first and THEN worry about charging network.
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If you just had like 5 fewer stations in pic 1, and 5 more in pic 2, pic 1 would not feel their absence, while pic 2 would be all covered 4/6
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It's not 10%, it's $16
You could have transferred a trillion, the fee is independent of the sum
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Tesla is honestly flexing their cost control at this point
The new Model 3 is absolutely on point with materials quality and fit&finish, has great efficiency and power, and they're making thousands of dollars of profit on it, while competitor EVs suck and lose $50k per unit
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So how about this:
Pic 1 needs more connectors because of high population density, and before today, Tesla was addressing that by adding more stations
Going forward, they'll try to address that by adding more connectors at existing stations. This would make sense 5/6
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The energy figure is misleading. It's not a fixed value per transaction, it's determined by the cost of energy, price of Bitcoin and the block reward. Could just as well be 0.1kWh or 1TWh under different conditions
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HYBRIDS DO NOT SERVE OUR ENERGY SECURITY INTERESTS
THEY'RE NOT EVEN A HALF MEASURE, THEY A 1/5th MEASURE
EUROPEAN REGULATORS EXPOSED THE LIE, NOW IT'S TIME TO ACT ON THE DATA 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
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All street parking should eventually become a charging spot. You're already parked next to street lights anyway
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The cycle of Cybertruck content:
Owner: I bought the thing!
Hater: That thing is useless!
Owner: Yeah? Well here's me using it like a normal truck!
Hater: Yeah? Well any truck can do that!
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I've been trying to find a non-insane-sounding way to express this idea for 2 years. I'm not good with words. But now I have it
Thanks, Noah
Putin's invasion of Ukraine has given us a moment of moral clarity. We can no longer afford to indulge the illusions we spun for our own consumption during the Long Peace.
noahpinion.substack.com/p/a-…
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Or do you subscribe to a story like "Russia won't attack NATO", brought to you by "Russia only wants Donbas in addition to Crimea" brought to you by "Russia only wants Crimea" brought to you by "Russia recognizes Crimea as part of Ukraine" brought to you by...
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By my calculation, closing down Diablo Canyon will generate about 1 Falcon 9's worth of emissions per hour
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"no one asked for but now so many depend on"
🤨
If DoD have a better option, they can just go with that, nobody is forcing them to use SpaceX. Fuck it, ask for a refund on the terminals too.
But the reality is, there is no equal alternative.
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Now look at these numbers 2/6
Yeah, the pace was crazy. Better to focus on the hotspots. I never waited for a Supercharger to become available after tens of thousands of long distance road trips. This suggests that SCs were oversupplied, at least in my case. Sure you have tonnes of data to optimise buildout and match it more closely with the BEV fleet's real SC demand.
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Legalize the current migrants + give conservatives their border infrastructure they obsess over + increase legal immigration, all in one bill
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CT is not XXL. It's slightly smaller than an F-150.
I live in Eastern Europe and see F150s and other F150-sized trucks all the time. I see them about 20x as often as I see Model 3 and Y
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When I say that every dead Russian soldier is one fewer beaten wife, I'm only like 10% joking
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