I would say theater is an even bigger indicator. People want to see people do amazing things.

Nintendo went from ~0 to +1.

They raised prices to negate the tariffs and keeping profits relatively the same. Now with them getting a tariff refund, they’re getting +1.

Meanwhile customers are -1. Since Nintendo raised prices, we know consumers paid at least some fraction of the tariffs.

Yeah, if you look at the history of Hezbollah, it looks a lot like an occupying force backed by Iran. It’s obviously more complicated than that, but Lebanon has gotten the shaft from all sides on this and has very little self autonomy.

I mean, he was killed by Hezbollah. Might as well ask them to stop occupying Lebanon too, but I doubt either will happen.

If I cover up the solar panels it’ll produce zero energy all the time. That doesn’t make it a good point.

Energy generation must be economical for it to be adopted, my point is that for winter months it is harder to get energy from solar panels making them less economical. It’s possible they’re still good enough but I suspect that it actually means many places will need alternatives to meet energy production needs in the winter months.

No, you can’t.

For an extreme example, Anchorage Alaska will see 5-6 hours of sunlight in the peak of winter vs 19-20 in the summer.

Here is a good site that breaks down the averages across each state and talks about the highs and lows - https://www.thegreenwatt.com/average-peak-sun-hours-by-state/

Yeah, exactly. Right now people’s electricity usage drops during the winter because they use oil and gas. But my electricity usage is actually higher in the winter because we have electric heating.

I haven’t looked at wind powers efficacy, but I suspect wind and solar isn’t enough for generation in many places (or at least not economical yet). So there needs to be something else.

Not saying renewable aren’t the future, just calling out that there is still some things to figure out.

Solars power generation almost halves during winter in any semi-northern/southern region (compared to peak in summer). If wind isn’t plentiful in those areas then you do run into a generation issue.

Solar is great, but I do suspect that there will need to be something else beyond just solar and batteries to make renewable work.

Yeah, and have had zero effect on anything. It’s such a waste of money and resources. Just having these people pick up garbage would be a better use of their time.

I mean, the origination of the story is a mess to begin with so of course it’s going to misrepresent things, this comment kinda goes into the details a bit - https://lemmy.world/comment/23310329

Not sure if you’ve followed it, but there is a somewhat similar project in Wyoming by TerraPower - Source

I believe it counts as an smr and is breaking ground this year (if not already).

Basically thinking with a clear head. The idea is that people sometimes do stupid things when they’re horny, whether to impress a girl or to get off or whatever, so “post nut” you’ve “gained a sense of clarity”