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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago

Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?

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Clean and cheap energy ... but at what cost?!?

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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago
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  • godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    the CHINESE WIND TURBINES are FLOODING into our country. INVADING our PURE BRITISH waters

    i just love how they have to use language like this to scare people into thinking getting cheap renewable energy is bad

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      To be fair I don’t blame them for this view, the British have baby brains and can’t just not buy Chinese; The Chinese are normal, rational adults and should not take advantage of baby brained British people who clearly don’t know how to just not buy Chinese.

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    at what cost

    It says it right in the screenshot, less than $420 per kilowatt.

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      stalin-smokin

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    Wind turbines to flood British waters

    Obligatory “that’s not how windmills work”

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Also perhaps a flood might clean out the river Thames for once and make it less gross than their beloved jellied eels

      • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        it cleaned out a little during lockdown

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    My favorite thing about China is their ethics. Sure, they could revenge the million humiliations the west did to them under colonialism, and yet they just give them access to cheaper cleaner energy. They just followed the Puyi routine: "No you don’t own us anymore, now you just clean shit. "

    • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I remember some Chinese government spokesman being interviewed by the BBC and he was basically like “the world order is changing, you’ll never be a superpower again but if you accept multipolarity and start dealing with us instead of America we’ll all benefit and you can make your country better” and then the presenter started literally having a meltdown about the Uyghurs and cut the interview short, so fucking embarrassing.

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        NGL, multipolarity is the most ethical revenge there is.

        You don’t need to just colonize Britain and just do fascism in reverse: multipolarity will be a net positive for every Brit with a brain and will be utterly humiliating for CHUDs who want to genocide the global south so they can feel like they have a big PP.

        Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing.

        • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Well put, yeah. It’s definitely satisfying seeing weird Sinophobes crashing out as it gets increasingly hard to pretend they’re secretly a failed state while normal people are just buying reliable, cheaper Chinese products.

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            Exactly and it’s a self-reinforcing cycle. The country crashing out and rejecting those cheaper Chinese products will only put itself at a competitive disadvantage against countries that don’t reject those products, which only expedites the shift in power.

        • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          Turns out mom was right when she told me that living well was the best revenge

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        linky?

        • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          I wish I had one but unfortunately I saw it on broadcast TV while making dinner like 2 or 3 years ago

          • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            no worries, might this be it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJilqC8gXb8 ?

            • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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              “Do you think you will look like Britain with a Democraticly elected leader” … PRC Democratically elected government UK monarch

              No I dont think the PRC will go monarchy any time soon

              • Enjoyer_of_Games [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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                here’s how Puyi can still win

                • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                  now that’s a wild fucking hoi4 event… lich puyi coming back

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              I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

              • yewtu.be
              • inv.nadeko.net
              • yt.artemislena.eu
              • piped.video
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            deleted by creator

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    China

    Peril

    visible-disgust

    frothingfash LET ME SAY YELLOW TOO!

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    Well perhaps the UK could subsidize their renewables to compete? Or is that cheating since it’s not oil and gas?

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    Market mindset issue. The Government can set the price at $420/kW if it wants to by nationalizing the entire industry. Then you get Chinese imports and your own local production.

    Any socialist (or even a social democratic) country would love to have another country accept their own currency for real goods because it’s basically a resource transfer.

    But yeah under “free” market, China wins and your country can suffer deindustrialization.

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      I long for the day where market absolutism is seen as cute childish naïveté and things done outside the profit motive is paraded as realpolitik.

      Thank you for saving the world, China. china

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    420 quid, it looks like

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    Gladly you did Brexit and don’t need to care about continental europe’s industries well being, right?

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    I didn’t realize the blades were that big, damn! wowee

    • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The offshore ones are absolutely massive, China’s biggest one (last I checked) has a 200m (600ish? ft) long blade

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        Yup, last time I saw a blade that big, a tall English guy was using it to slay eclipse demons in the middle ages

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      I think that’s gotta be the tower (split in half), not the blades. I could be extremely wrong, but that’s what it looks like to me!

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        It looks tapered and bent like a blade to me. Note how flat and wide it is at the far end.

        Here’s a blade from a different factory for comparison.

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      If you haven’t seen them, I recommend checking out videos/pictures of them being transported! There are some pretty wild tractor-trailer combos and maneuvering

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        niko-wonderous

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          “Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide right turn”

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