Aren't in late stage techno consumerist demographic collapse that many others (Germany, China, yeesh, South Korea) aren't going to suffer from to an even worse degree?
I guess one could point to various policies, especially with pseudo- protectionist benefits given to the Japanese mega conglomerates, which like in Korea are kind of just an extension of the government.
But I wonder if such economic policy fumbling is in an evil outgrowth as people try to deal with the underlying collapse.
That's a great desk top but the industrial appearance of it looks like it belongs in a garage rather than a fancy midcentury modern home office of a guy with a Leica M11 and Vitsoe shelving.
There are various materials to choose from, personally I like the linoleum version. If USM furniture is good value for money is another question everyone has to answer for themselves.
My level of authority: I watch multiple youtubes on Ukraine every night. So.... not an idiot but there are smarter people. But anyway:
I have noticed a fundamental shift since the $90 billion was approved by Europe, and while Iran may have been temporarily good for Russia's oil revenue, the Iran drone attacks on neighboring countries have secured a long term economic market for Ukrainian drone weaponry and systems.
The sanctions and economic infrastructure strikes in Russia are steadily degrading their economy, so I sense that Ukrainian upswing in financing and drone production on the upswing has equalized or even passed the downswing of Russian ability to wage the war.
IMO I think Ukraine is in the coming months:
- going to tremendously compromise the Russian ability to stage troops 100 miles from the "front"
- are going to clear out virtually all Russian presence from a corridor to the sea between Mariupol/Melitopol. UKR drones have established "drone superiority" already to the sea and are destroying land supply trucks on the road that are supposed to go to Crimea. The drone superiority will probably be followed by new UKR ground drone forces to clear out the Russian pockets
- will escalate losses further to the Russians across the entire front beyond the already unsustainable levels
- will escalate deep-strike raids on Russian economic infrastructure and remind Russian civilians daily of the war, placing further top political pressure on Putin
While it is unlikely a dramatic collapse of the Russian line will dramatically occur, and I'm not sure all of the Eastern front can be recaptured, I think Crimea may fall in the next year and its recapture would make Ukraine the winner of this war. If they capture Crimea, the remaining Russian "gains" in the East can be ceded in negotiation as a buffer zone.
Crimea cannot be supplied by sea, air, by the Kerch bridge, and now cannot be supplied by the land route. If UKR reaches te sea somewhere on the Melitopol/Mariupol corridor and isolates Crimea, then Crimea's fate is sealed.
I have seen a theory that Russia may view its Western / Ukrainian Eastern front as a maginot line, and might use its comparably superior drone weaponry to attack NATO through the Baltics and into Poland, to try to force Europe from funding Ukraine.
I don't think attacking the Baltics would stop Europe funding Ukraine. If anything it would make them get more involved. But at least Putin could say he was defeated by NATO rather than defeated by a peaceful agricultural country a quarter the size of Russia.
The current situation must be a bit of an embarassment.
Although I hate Tesla, think the greater issue is that since we're probably going to have to move a lot of material sourcing and industrial plant capacity back to the United States in the coming decades...
The US is probably going to need to make another pass at how we're going to do that without creating polluted wastelands and super fund sites.
Rooftop solar should be more heavily incentivized.
From a disaster situation/civil defense perspective, it provides offgrid durability to communities, and it could be life or death in cold waves or heat waves.
For all the utility companies complaining about EV and alt energy infrastructure adaptation... well, fine, then let consumer PV do a large part of the work. Oh wait, did someone say consumer choice? The utility companies shut up real fast.
So it also counterbalances the political power of utility companies, who are no longer a monopoly, and provides economic competition so utilities can't jack rates if corporate/industrial/(ahem, AI) starts increasing demand and prices.
IMHO there should be extra incentives for BIPV just to the amount that would offset the classic shingles underneath because not just doing a simple barn roof (single gable, two pitch) or triangle roof (single pitch) with the slope entirely covered by solar glass of usual 400~800 Wp size modules is where a big part of the excess wasted cost is from.
Just make sure to allow structures that allow module-sized parts of the grid to be replaced with human occupancy windows in a nice and simple way.
This needs a small asterisk that many systems are deliberately not "islanding" capable. Mine isn't, but in the ten years I've had my panels I've only ever had a couple of power cuts, one of which was at night.
I'm having solar installed next month and I specifically had to ask for islanding capability. This added about £1500 to the cost of the system, which I can see many people not opting for.
Ive seen Battery + islanding sold as a deal sweetener with fed funding part of it. If you live in a grid stable place its kind of expensive for what it is… and no arbitrage wont make the money back in 99% of the places
I can think of dozens. But this is the solution that allows the state to close the noose on freedom and democracy, and that's the one that you are defending with false choice argumentation.
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