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  • That has started to come under question, though. With vertical east-west facing panels the same effect can be achieved, although the effect might not be as drastic. That doesn't put a limit to machine height, although care must be taken to find an optimal distance between the panels.

  • I don't know how we define "enough" in this scenario, but as you allude to: in the end the USA is just some 400 million people buying things from overseas. Absolutely those who buy the most, and that is what drives the economy in many countries. It is what has picked up countries in SE Asia from poverty to industrialization.

    Problem is that now when everything is more expensive in the US, the same people will stop spending. They might have spent the same money on products made in America, but those are precious few and just increased in price. So in effect everyone in America can now buy less for the same money and the industry capacity to produce what's demanded doesn't exist in short term. And in real estate, short term is 3-10 years.

    The rest of the world? Well, most of the world just lost their biggest market. Of course, the demand that can't be produced domestically in the US will still be seen, but at a reduced rate, which will reduce the economic development world wide, until new markers are found. China still needs to sell, but the market for the high margin stuff is reduced.

    In the end? I wouldn't be surprised if this stunt reduces world trade to such a degree it might be viewed as a notable side effect that carbon use went down. Trump might have managed to stop overconsumption like nobody else and with it energy demand. So despite doing the oil industries bidding and go against renewables, the shipping industry stand to loose enough trade that it might affect oil use world wide.

  • Inflation is defined as the increase of prices over a set period of time. It is in itself nothing, doesn't do anything and its singular purpose is to be able to say how much something costs today compared to yesteryear. If the price difference depends on a supply chock (something that affects the ability to produce, like a shortage), or a demand chock (suddenly everbody rejects Tesla) is all the same, it results in a price change and can therefore be compared using the measure inflation.

  • The internet as we know it is dead, we just need a few more years to realise it. And I'm afraid that telecommunications will be going the same way, when no-one can trust that anyone is who they say anymore.

  • I think the IEA chart looks into where the energy began, not what it was used for. The 50% number rings true to me, at least for the heating in cold winters. As for summers, cooling is a heat issue as well, so that's where much of the energy is spent.

  • Which has yet to be realised. Of it is that fast and easy to set up I'm we will see loads of them going up in notime. Specially now in the US, given how the mindset of the current administration.

    Not to mention China which invests heavily in anything able to produce a watt.

    Nothing to hinder advancing nuclear in the world's 2 biggest economies! Problem solved.

  • Oh, by all means. Build nuclear to your heart's delight, but in the meantime we need to build wind, solar and water as well.

    The part that annoys me the most are the ones that think that it is either or. It's not. It's as much as possible as fast as possible to replace as much fossil in total volume as possible.