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Saragoldfarb

@Roxyrex said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@TimboJones said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@rdes said:
@jbiloh I was referring mainly to prices in Europe.

Despite the declines, there haven’t been any price reductions from providers like Hetzner, for example. On the other hand, there have been 3 or 4 increases in last years initially due to electricity costs, and subsequently due to the cost of components.

I don't think that's accurate. Electricity and gas are at a prime high (NL). Gas is going through the roof actually.

There's some dips, sure, but the overall tendency and expectations are not looking bright.

Must say I'm not following that closely as my home and office building are self sufficient.

The graph doesn't include 2026.

True... Its coming down a bit though. Was just over €2/m3 gas couple days ago, noticibly cheaper today. Oh well...

I think it's weird. We spend billions or maybe even trillions on energy transition, goodbye with fossils, but all it brings is prices to go up dramatically.

I blame AI.

You can blame Canada.

Not sure if tht would help though, but it's a classic.

Not sure why I would blame Canada cos they provide cheap energy but I take your word for it. In my experience it's always been because of people starting pointless wars to compensate for micro genitalia.

forest

@Saragoldfarb said: So far I'm doing good with solar and wind turbine. Need to hook up batteries obviously. Had to get a loan to get all shit installed but fuck it, I don't rely on profit chasing companies anymore. If the grid goes down, I'm still good. It's green and relatively cheap. Should break even in 7 years, after that power is free. Even sooner if prices continue rising.

Both of those require destroying a lot of land, and some of the elements in solar panels are hard to recycle and are sourced from unethical mines. Not that I'm against solar or wind, as both are infinitely better than fossil fuel power, but they're both inferior to nuclear in almost all situations. The only benefits of solar and wind that nuclear lacks is that they can be practical for small, off-grid villages, farms, or individual homes since they work as well at small scales as they do at large scales.

Statistically, nuclear is even safer than solar in terms of deaths-per-TWh (which includes everything from major disasters to workers falling in an accident to fires caused by a failed bypass diode between solar cells when one cell is under the shade).

NotFoundException

@forest said: Both of those require destroying a lot of land

Solar yes, but onshore wind actually is marginally the same as nuclear power, it's just the land in between, which it also doesn't destroy. Also there is offshore wind, which depending on how you look at it, doesn't really matter.

@forest said: Statistically, nuclear is even safer than solar in terms of deaths-per-TWh (which includes everything from major disasters to workers falling in an accident to fires caused by a failed bypass diode between solar cells when one cell is under the shade).

Uhm where do you get your statics from? The three are marginally the same.

see https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh and https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldwide-by-energy-source/?srsltid=AYCX9vKI37NzDZUVE8NqcWI1_pZrn_7q5lezftv6Nszf888P7ZgG-JjY

forest

@NotFoundException said: Uhm where do you get your statics from? The three are marginally the same.

I imagine that's only taking into account "power plants" and not all sources of power. Factoring in home solar and the like would surely increase the number of solar deaths. Not that the number would be high, mind you. It's still very safe.

Edit: Apparently an old number is 0.44 for rooftop solar which is outdated due to safer and more standardized installation techniques. I stand corrected.

TimboJones

@Roxyrex said:

@TimboJones said:

@Roxyrex said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@TimboJones said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@rdes said:
@jbiloh I was referring mainly to prices in Europe.

Despite the declines, there haven’t been any price reductions from providers like Hetzner, for example. On the other hand, there have been 3 or 4 increases in last years initially due to electricity costs, and subsequently due to the cost of components.

I don't think that's accurate. Electricity and gas are at a prime high (NL). Gas is going through the roof actually.

There's some dips, sure, but the overall tendency and expectations are not looking bright.

Must say I'm not following that closely as my home and office building are self sufficient.

The graph doesn't include 2026.

True... Its coming down a bit though. Was just over €2/m3 gas couple days ago, noticibly cheaper today. Oh well...

I think it's weird. We spend billions or maybe even trillions on energy transition, goodbye with fossils, but all it brings is prices to go up dramatically.

I blame AI.

You can blame Canada.

Not sure if tht would help though, but it's a classic.

Whenever our gas prices go up, it's from incompetence or maintenance at US refineries.

South Park narrative was different.

That wasn't for gas prices.