Isn't the big picture here that solar+wind+battery is comfortably cheapest for a 95% solution, and that model gives such an excess at peak production that we don't really have to worry abou… (View Post)

The maddening thing being that there's no intrinsic reason for houses to be as expensive as they are. We've just collectively voted for policies that make them so. And that has meant that t… (View Post)

More importantly, we have been for decades. And more subtly, we treated short-term windfalls as long-term entitlements. And all those bills have finally turned inescapably red. (View Post)

The thing about 'clever + idle = great leader' is that it depends on self-awareness of why you are being idle and knowing when to throw that saved energy into an essay crisis all-nighter. A… (View Post)

Sunak. Was never going to be great, excellent General Staff, hopelessly undercooked for the top job. (That he couldn't tame the job is the job's fault, not his. Ditto May, ditto Starmer.) F… (View Post)