Years ago, renewables opponents kept making baseless claims that no grid would be stable with large amounts of renewables. It's now end of 2022 and for this year we've seen on multiple occasions power grids running perfectly fine on very large amounts of renewables with very little gas.
Doesn't seem to be a difference. UK just has better access to gas, for now I presume.
Without a baseload power source a modern economy just can't function. That is why intermittent sources like wind and solar must be a minority of the energy supply.
In Germany they don't have access to hydro and have chosen to dispense with their nuclear capacity. That leaves gas. Without Russia that is becoming hard and expensive. That leaves coal. Germany had enormous deposits of coal.
Apparently the reason the price of eggs is so high is because A LOT of chickens had to be destroyed this year due to avian flu. We're talking millions of birds. Fewer chickens, less eggs, higher prices.
I mean that the published answer. There is another narrative where due to weak central governments that aren't interested in protecting consumers, companies have realized there is quite a bit more meat on the bone when it comes to margin if consumers have no real choice.
Companies see the federal line that we're in an inflationary environment and raise prices re-actively.
The commodity business is usually intensely competitive. Single firms don't have the market power to set prices. If firms are colluding they are breaking the law and I guess might have to pay a fine in 5 years or something.
I'm interested in this data center mode, has anyone ever gotten hold of the supplementary dash executable? Or was it gated in some way or not available?
