Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer

Btw this is a big problem with grid level statistics, at least in Germany, but probably elsewhere too. Self-consumption is not part of the reported share of solar power. So the real share of national power generation is practically always higher than official figures might have you think.

Which should tell us that it was a mistake to base morality on the rememberance of crimes done by people who will inevitably be dead and forgotten.

It's still an ugly argument, to be sure. But even he saw that there is something about slavery that should be avoided altogether, if alternatives exist. (Reality, of course, is that people sought excuses not to use them as soon as they existed. *But* they weren't terribly successful long term.)

It's weird how this caveat was never really discussed when Aristotle's stance on slavery is coming up. Even though it's very near the beginning of his discussion of politics and both self-playing musical instruments and weaving machines have been around for centuries by now.

Aristotle (Politics, Book I)

They copied the 2024 figure for October and hoped nobody would notice?

Chinese PV Industry Brief: DK Electronic starts copper paste production DK Electronic Materials has launched mass production of high-copper paste, with full gigawatt-scale manufacturing lines to be operational by the fourth quarter.

It’s be interesting to see how fast the high price of silver solves itself:

‘told investors…high-copper paste products have entered volume production…Full GW-scale production lines expected in operation Q4’25…said advances made demonstrating compatibility/scalability wTOPCon high-efficiency cells’

LMFAOOOO alright now 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

A grand display of US weakness to deal even with countries of 1/10th its population and less than 100th of its GDP in any other way.

Yeah. It's weird how people forget that the Allies had about 200 aircraft carriers in WWII. Not twelve.

Things get even worse when you take seasonal variability into account. Because it's possible to optimize solar for winter by choice of proper locations and angles. So then you have to credit those for avoiding the need for seasonal storage, lowering winter prices and summer generation peaks.

Arme länder brauchen finanzielle Mittel um nicht mehr arm zu sein. Der Rest ist dann im Grunde verdammt einfach.

Stimmt. Also ohne den Teil mit den Anlagen. Aber trotzdem ein wir-würden-ja-recyclen-wir-haben-nur-nix-zum-recyclen.

(Not a compliment to either company)

In other words: Just like Nvidia.

Ist also (etwas überspitzt) wie bei den Akkus. Riesige Anlagen die mangels Material darauf warten recyceln zu dürfen, während die Bevölkerung glaubt, es fände kein Recycling statt.

Das größte Problem ist auch weniger der Abbau, als die anschließende Verarbeitung der Erze, weil niemand mehr etwas mit Thorium und anderen radioaktiven Elementen darin anfangen will, wenn sie einmal abgetrennt sind.

Und sie trotzdem lieber verwenden würden, als einfach Motoren ohne seltene Erden zu bauen, die gerade in EVs auch nicht viel größer oder schwerer sind. (Ja, es gibt andere Anwendungen. Aber auch da gibt es Alternativen und die Mengen sind sehr viel kleiner.)

Schon aus Eigeninteresse (weil klar ist, wie sowas gesellschaflich aufgenommen wird) eher nicht.

In seven years we’ve gone from the first $1 trillion company to the first $5 trillion company (a MASSIVE leap) and most normal people feel less well off than they did seven years ago.

Something is broken.

And that also doesn't mean that CO2 has no negative effects or only positive effects. It also doesn't mean that CO2 doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter *that* much.

We also do things to make our lives better, without trying to stop the coming of the end of the world. There are other motivations.

Do we have to stop using fossil fuels? Yes. Environmental damage, scalability, availability and low cost alternatives are perfectly sufficient reasons.

CO2 is a good reason too. But preventing the end of life on earth, climate collapse and other such narratives are not. Because they are not true.

Our planet is extremely different from the planet of the past. CO2 is not climate, it's just one factor in a system that varies with temperature and the chemistry of the soil and water on earths surface. Dinosaurs didn't have the rocks of the Himalayas, Alps, Andes and Rocky Mountains to absorb CO2.

If you want to have jurassic climate on earth, you need to do more than releasing CO2 into the atmosphere that gets washed out in a century. You need to shift continents. Allow ocean currents to transport more heat around the globe - get Africa and India away from Asia and divide the Americas again.

But ice only forms below a critical temperature. So when the planet is cold, the system is much more sensitive to small changes. Once there is little ice around the north pole, the feedback to further warming is much smaller, because the extreme pole region gets too little solar energy to matter.

The big problem with low temperatures is ice forming and reflecting sunlight, as well as deserts forming which also reflect more light. This is much stronger feedback mechanism than the greenhouse effect of CO2. (Again: Otherwise CO2 wouldn't perfectly follow temperature and astronomy.)

Earth is not Venus. Venus has 100x as much atmosphere and about 20.000x as much CO2.

Just because there is some positive feedback doesn't mean it overwhelms all negative feedback. That's not even true on Venus, or else its temperature wouldn't have stopped rising at 400 degree Celsius.

Please note that increasing/decreasing the temperature increases/decreases the CO2 equilibrium point (and CO2 itself itself changes temperature). But it's perfectly sub-critical without runaway. Otherwise CO2 couldn't possibly follow temperature during the ice ages as closely as it does.

(Yes. That's the guy who was involved in an email scandal in the early 2000s, where he was talking about applying tricks to data. He was quietly let go by NASA afterwards and judging from what he is saying these days, that was not their worst decision.)

Instead we see people trying to gain money, influence or power by promoting the fear and driving the narrative into an ever more apocalyptic direction that they will not be able to control.

The IPCC is now seen as liars hiding the real climate change by extremists like James Hansen. Gonna be fun.