Thanks, buttpilgrim.

It’s so weird to see them collab. Completely unthinkable in 2005, Kraftklub would have just made fun of them then. And why are they promoting a Soviet car?

Well that’s your problem. I keep pictures of Heidi Klum and fka Twigs there.

You’re right in that the whole drill-baby-drill thing is utter self-destruction which may still work passably over the course of the next four years but not beyond. The IRA right now is solid industrial policy and I wish us Europeans were competing. (Wild guess though, the repeal of the IRA will go much like the repeal of the ACA last time around.)

However, my point is that China is in a phase where it’s doing more with more, and its motivation is such that that will stay that way. The only reason Chinese emissions are stagnating right now is that their economy is faltering. At this point, the Jevons paradox is simply eating their renewable power/electric car/… gains. Granted, that is preferable to them continuing to buy ever more fossil-fueled cars.

The motivation for producing this technology will, to a degree, determine the outcome: Solar panels off Temu, delivered to your doorstep using a fossil-fueled plane are a thing that exists.

What happens when the importing blocs (US and EU) rethink their climate policy (because right-wing morons think that’s a good idea)? Chinese products will adapt quickly.

Chinese policy doesn’t give a shit about climate change. In fact, Xi is banking on a Northern passageway to Europe permanently unthawing to avoid the partly US-controlled South China Sea.

Xi cares about staying in power until he drops in the 2030s, for that he neess to keep the country stable and the people quiet. So what he really wants is industrial power and rising welfare. He’s found that one of the best ways to gain an edge that is to spur useful innovation that wealthier nations will want to adopt.

What this means is that we’ll see a lot of climate-friendly technology coming out of China, but the country may not care much about cleaning up its footprint.

English-language media reports on this too: The Hague will become first city to ban fossil fuel ads by law

In my entire life, I’ve never had the urge to Wumf anything, especially not with a military-style half-automatic club.

Doomerism is fun and all but what’s the end game? Just making everything worse than it has to be?

You would, if you don’t give a shit, yes.

But if you’re actually fighting for a green transition, this is definitely not what you buy. Especially if you have the kind of money available to you that she has. Putting your money where your mouth is incredibly important. I don’t even know why I am repeating this — the article put it quite succinctly.

Surely, if you’re the Green party leader, you would simply not invest in that particular index fund, and probably would not invest at Vanguard either. When people say you should “divest from fossil fuels”, it obviously also means taking your money out of these index funds.

Always a bad sign when the heli pad is on the lowest floor of a building.

It’s Harris or Trump. If you’re spreading content designed to demotivate potential Harris voters days before the election, congratulations, you’re doing Trump’s bidding. I hope you’re at least getting paid.

If you find the time in the midst of your 5-hour podcast, I could really use some manliness-affirming tiger testicle pills, to cure my depression.

the narrative spinning the fight between red and blue.

The fight is between Red and Blue. FPTP election systems don’t really allow new parties to become relevant — and if a new party did gain relevance, it would fully replace one of the existing parties within very few election cycles.

The point is: You need a Democratic or Republican majority to reform the election system first before the Greens or any other party can become a relevant factor. The US democratic system is older than the democratic systems of most other countries. And it shows.

Obnoxious, but fwiw, “ð” is used in Icelandic for “th”.

I know it’s a bit of an ask because in terms of taste it’s nowhere near an exact replacement for meat or cheese, but tofu is both cheap(ish) and healthy. Unless you have a soy allergy, do incorporate that rather than Impossible et al.s bleeding, complicated protein remixes powered by VC money. (I don’t have a hardline stance against vegan meat replacements but when they are too pricey for you there’s no reason to buy animal meat.)

Green electricity is both cheaper and much more available. Green H2 is inherently at a price disadvantage compared to green electricity. Unless absolutely unavoidable (as with steel or fertilizer production), why would you use it for anything?

Maybe I am looking at this from too much of a European perspective, i.e. on average, the grid is stronger here than e.g. in the US – but I don’t see going off-grid as a major factor either. If you can, you generally avoid going off-grid intentionally, because it’s just extremely expensive. Even if you’re planning for natural disasters, I see going with grid-connected, off-grid-capable solar as a much better idea, at least for most of the year.

The global project pipeline is long though, so we should get there.

Quite honestly, I don’t see how we will get there with green hydrogen, at least in the next decade. Portable hydrogen tanks are a good thing, but they won’t solve all that many real-life issues.

6 billionaire families financing the Heritage Foundation is proof that most ordinary Americans hate the IRA. (Am I don’t this right?)

Grist’s version is this article was already posted here a few days ago: https://slrpnk.net/post/14524183