good time to plug the technology connections video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

I wouldn't say 'easily'. I live in a country with a so-called 'liberalized' electricity market, and although I'm enough of a software developer to have custom scripts to pull the daily market hourly prices, I still wouldn't call it easy to schedule around. And most people really don't have the kind of options my expertise grants me.

this right here is the only reason I'm still skeptical of pretty much everything

promoters of green and nuclear energy can't get their damn act together and create proper articles that aren't half-assed crap with no sources. They just claim shit from thin air.

Bitch, I WANT to believe you! Give me something to bloody believe that we really have no reason to use fossil fuels anymore.

I still kinda believe it. But CONVINCE ME ALREADY...

In Yankee places "gas" means "gasoline" so I'd blame the infographic for saying "gas imports" instead of "natural gas imports" if it's supposed to target the country that uses the most natural gas

Europe is currently over $15/mmbtu. Your prices are not for LNG which is what Europe or Asia is faced with importing.

It's probably just AI generated bs.

Generally, solar takes 10+ years to break even in a residential situation, I can't see how things would be 10x cheaper at the TWh scale.

The issue with solar is, that the owner can be a simple home owner putting the panels on their roof. When you add batteries to that, it is entirly possible that they never need to buy electricity from the grid ever again. However we are still talking about some middle class person here, who is not going to be able to afford a lobbyist.

There are other ways well below lobbyist level as well, such a solar and wind cooperatives or some farmer setting up a few installations on his property. They do have more money, but still probably are well below lobbyist levels of money.

Right, so before we see solar take hold, it needs to be illegal for a property owner to own the panels, and the power company has the right to put them anywhere they like.

In sweden its set up so that the owners of household solar cannot ever make money, only save on cost

Right. There's not as much money in renewables, so there's less lobbying.

Look at basically any country, and installed, in use solar capacity is substantially higher than it was 10, or even 5 years ago. Solar has driven the cost of fossil fuels lower and lower. The next hurdle is utility scale batteries, which may have already exceeded 1,000 new installations per year.

Australians to get 3 hours of free electricity in the middle of the day because solar power is so cheap.

Their argument is per unit of cost. But natgas and electricity is not fungible. Even electricity from renewable generation is not fungible with dispatchable generation.

Well the argument was about energy cost. 1.5 TWh is 1.5 TWh, however you choose to spread it out.

You seem to be worrying about power, which is a fair but separate issue to be concerned about.

20k EUR would get me a Dolphin Surf over here, Dolphin is over 30k. We also have tariffs because the EU has an auto industry to protect from cars being sold under cost of manufacturing too. Dacia Spring can be had for like 15k.

It's not a bad deal for the average person looking at a vehicle they don't have to work on, but 2k for a used Audi gets me a significantly more comfortable car that's also more powerful and has twice as much cargo space. I don't even like Audi, it was just the cheapest 6 cylinder diesel wagon around with isofix at the time. Also the list price might've been 2k, I actually paid less because it was ugly as sin (in terms of paintwork, not the model itself).

The economics don't work the same if you're incapable of maintaining a 20 year old German executive car at home (which most people aren't), but for some of us, ICE vehicles are DIRT cheap because you can get a 20 year old one that really has 90% of the tech you'd want in a car, and is missing all the stuff you don't, parts are cheap, and doing your own work on a car is as much therapeutic as it is work. And the reason I specifically go for these vehicles is that they're cheap because people are afraid of the complexity and unreliability, but I'm familiar with them and know how to keep them on the road indefinitely without going bankrupt.

So part of me wishes I had an EV, but the other part of me says I'd be paying 10-20X as much for a vehicle with inferior driving characteristics (I don't mean acceleration, I mean the suspension setup in budget EVs, I have well-designed multi-link front and rear, adaptive dampers and it's all on air springs) and less space. I'd gain a fancy touch screen, but that actively repels me.

Now I did test drive an Audi E-Tron as those are available for cheap (for a big EV SUV), but I was very disappointed with the comfort in that. Literally not comparable to my 20 year old A6 Allroad, which isn't even most comfortable car I've owned. But as EVs have undergone rapid development in the last 5 or 6 years, I think that there's finally stuff available that I'd actually like to own. In 5 more years when they're depreciated to hell and the powertrain and battery warranty starts running out.

But cities would be much quieter

No they wouldn't. Most ICE cars make a "whoosh" sound, because most of their noise comes from air resistance - which EVs also have. And tires, of course.

Cities wouldn't stink as much, though.