Category Archives: Solar

Added some great new material to my Overbuild page

Hi all, I finally got around to adding some new material to my Overbuild page – and tidying up some of the writing there. Some of the updates:-

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Simon Michaux to respond to Collapse Reddit “Ask Me Anything”!

I don’t have great hopes for some kind of breakthrough. As in – any hopes of a breakthrough. But I did my best trying to explain the context to these concepts before asking the question. Reddit’s post size limit meant … Continue reading

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Wind and solar are going exponential – so how are so many analysts getting it wrong?

The speed of change is astonishing. A few decades of German subsidies and then Chinese build outs finally brought the costs of solar and wind down cheap enough to do the job – a few years ago. Now they’re getting … Continue reading

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I might have been tempted to vote Liberal over this alone!

I still support nuclear. But it’s nuanced. I see it as mainly for those colder countries with long snowy winters. Countries without huge hydro reserves. Countries that need to go it alone – and do not trust their local regional … Continue reading

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Physix – or how Stasse re-purposes a great youtube channel to his own doomer ends

So Stasse’s at it again. Making bombastic, circular arguments without even presenting valid alternative data to treat his readers as adults able to make up their own minds. He has now tried to bend Sabine Hossenfelder’s science channel to his … Continue reading

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