It feels odd hearing messages like this. The assumption seems to be that we can have a world exactly as we do today except that energy needs are met by renewables rather than fossil fuels which seems unlikely.
Incredibly expensive (estimated 11 billion €) and years delayed (18 year construction; testing began in 2021). Yet brings down electricity prices by 75 %.
How does that make sense? It can't make economic sense to the constructor and operator.
Maybe you could say French companies and citizens essentially subsidized Finland through contracted building at a huge loss?
Now that it's built better operate it and gain something out of it?
Its LCOE would probably let us forget it forever. Just think about this: I bet you hear more rumors about non-existant fusion nuclear plants than about olkilioto. Let's focus on renewables.
Olkiluoto 3, Finland's own Sagrada Família and Star Citizen. It was really frustrating to read news about the plant getting delayed year by year. Especially during winter it felt like moving the goalposts, there always were some kind of "technical problems" with getting the plant deployed. I'm glad that it's over, and so is getting gas from Russia.
Well, if you socialize all the costs around it (insurance, waste disposal for the next couple of hundred thousand years, etc.) it's really cheap. If you calculate the true costs, it's pretty much the most expensive way to generate electricity. And it's not renewable either.
The idea to install them in a vertical position (on the facades of buildings for example) is to take into consideration: it must start to be atrending topic
If they can't adapt, then the market will relegate them to the dustbin of history. Only forests that meet the needs of the ever changing market will survive, and that's good for society. /s
the guy is a carnist, the videos may be (and probably are, he has a masters in climate policy iirc so eh) perfectly valid, but i just can't stand observing him unironically just consuming animal products while talking about the danger of climate change, guy is a clown
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