How refreshing.

I’m really confused by this supposed EV slump. In the US maybe, because of Tesla being dominant and now falling out of favour with a lot of people, but that’s not the EU.

Data only goes up to 2023, but…

Further progress in the uptake of electric cars and vans was made in all 27 EU Member States in 2023. Electric vehicles accounted for 22.7% of new car registrations and 7.7% of new van registrations. In total, 2.4 million new electric cars were registered in 2023, up from 2 million in 2022. Registrations of new battery electric cars grew by 37%, while the number of newly registered plug-in hybrid cars fell by almost 4%. In 2023, a total of 91,000 new electric vans were registered, most of which were battery electric.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/new-registrations-of-electric-vehicles

That show BEVs steadily increasing and PHEVs flatlining, and I don’t see why 2024 would be particularly different.

“Extremely thin” is pretty low on my list of features I want.

If making it a bit thicker gives me ethernet and HDMI then make it thicker. A laptop moves from place to place, and not needing dongles / specialist cables makes it far easier to jump on anybodies desk and just plug in.

Investments in nuclear power are not taking money away from investments in solar.

This is interesting. Why do you think that?

I would disagree, because is see investment capital as finite. There are only so many investors able to operate at infrastructure scales. And therefore I see nuclear’s true cost as opportunity cost.

The land thing isn’t anywhere near enough of a concern for me, especially when dual uses of land are quite feasible.

24/7 is just about over commissioning and having storage. Build 10x as much and store what you generate. At those sorts of levels even an overcast day generates.

Storage. It’s all about storage. In exactly the same way that our water is handled. We have reservoirs to handle the times when natural water supply is low.

You’re using factors of less than 10 to argue against a factor of 100.

• Finland: 338,145 km² and 5.6 million people
• Germany: 357,596 km² and 82 million people

Where do you want to put your hazardous waste again?

Finland with it’s vast swathes of frozen tundra.

$60k per MW or $210M for a nuclear reactors worth (3.5GW). Sure… the reactor will go 24/7 (between maintenance and refuelling down times, and will use less land (1.75km² Vs ~40km²) but at 1% of the cost, why are we still talking about nuclear.

(I’m using the UKs Hinckley Point C power station as reference)

Trump said. “They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales.”

So it’s not dogs and cats this time. Ok.

Investors are interested in projects that start making money quickly, and wind is pretty good at that over other power infrastructure. Trump is going to be fighting the free markets that he holds so dear.