benjhm

Well, in most countries wind and solar are rapidly growing compared to hydro. A more critical question for India is what else could replace the melting Himalayan glaciers and reducing snow cover, as a storage of water for the dry season?

Well written!

Indeed that's strange, and the flat slope in 2060 seems inconsistent with declared net-zero policies of China and even India. Russia has no such policy, but still strange to assume continuation of current government concepts there until 2060. (you can see the regional breakdown in supplem Fig 1. )

Regarding the map - an annual average cost is not so meaningful - in higher latitudes solar is not enough in winter - especially where it’s mostly cloudy during the first half of winter. Wind helps the balance but not everywhere, always. Of course, the sophisticated models behind the article know all that, the issue is simplistic presentation. I note "we assume hydrogen is used for seasonal storage" - this may be rather optimistic - how many dark months can that cover?

for info - lemmy even has its own beaver community - [email protected]
(and plenty beavers thriving here by the Meuse in .be)

Clearly there's a big gap between greenwash rhetoric and practical reality, but that's not unusual all over the world. The big question here is not the design of the central buildings, but whether it makes sense, as long-term sustainable development, to relocate the capital, and it seems to me there are arguments both ways. Jakarta is low-lying, literally sinking into the rising sea, and the island of Java is overcrowded - so something had to change. The new capital will lead to some deforestation on Borneo, on the other hand by bringing elites nearby they may re-evaluate the value of the jungle, it could be harder to hide destruction. The new location has potential for sea transport, but may lead to an over-dependence on air-transport.
Maybe useful to compare with other countries that moved their capital for geographical balance, and to avoid rising sea-level and overcrowding, for example Lagos to Abuja, or the new egyptian constructions SE of Cairo.

Tu as raison, ce ne sont pas des bonnes exemples, mais qu'est-ce que tu penses serait meilleur comme politique ? (c'est facile critiquer, mais le gouvernement d'espagne, dans ce cas, cherche améliorer un peu l'equilibre, il pourrait devenir pire )

C'est possible. Mais au moins, s'ils voyagent de façon légale pour passer telle expérience (un rêve partagé par nombreux, avant qu'il se reveille), ils auraient un peu meilleur chance défendre des droits d'emploi, et leurs familles payeraient moins aux trafiquants ?

Note - that's about as many as all homes north of the Tay - so it's for export, if the cables are ready ...
I'm not opposed, on a european scale northern wind should help help balance supply of southern solar, so long as the islands benefit too.
There's also potential wave power, and tidal streams around Orkney.
Wonder what the skuas think (as I recall they're tough up there)? And whether they have yet inspired any fiddle tunes?

Also the global impact would likely be much greater, due to the co-operation factor.
On the other hand, there is a time-lag to policy impact, also exogenous surprises (superimposing past presidents on that plot may be revealing).

Scala-js is working on it - as its compiler design may facilitate this.
I haven't yet tried (on todo list) and am not an expert, but bookmarked in passing:
recent github implementation, some history, following older discussion

This update working well for me.
So now a good moment to sort out those ±1200 tabs in ±300 stacks spread out over ±100 (mostly old) workspaces synced over 3 devices !
Since hibernating works this wasn't a drag on the system, only it’s tough to admit that I'm never going to revisit some of those hard-dug rabbit-holes ...