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> Why would Biden, Macron bother with this company, and not others?

Yes I agree, Biden is also very tough on corruption[1], historically so in fact.

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...


Obviously we are to trust whitehouse.gov on how tough on corruption the administration is.


> Barely went to Biden in 2020, yes, but Gov and Legislature are GOP dominated, and have been for some time.

But this is only because of Trump's lies and Fox news collusion with Trump. If they gave Biden and honest wrap and told their viewers how historic a Biden presidency would be and how Biden would fight like hell to bring the prices of kitchen table issues down then he would have won Arizona in a landslide.


> Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne

They can't be very smart, Joe Biden is the least corrupt president ever and has committed to total transparency: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-briefing-idUSKB...


>pledges

A pledge has the same value as good intentions.


It is not just a pledge as so far he has not broken it https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-prom...


> If you rush and do what you are saying without finding an efficient way to store a surplus of energy then you will have blackouts come winter.

But this is only a problem while the economy is still in transition[1], once the transition has completed this will not be a problem.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...


Transition to what exactly? The link in your comment doesn't seem relevant.


To a carbon negative anti-racist economy that values LBGTIQ+ lives and the rights of birthing people.


I want to live in a positive society. "Anti-racist" "Carbon-negative" are both unattractive to me.

Without racism should be a property, not an identity. (I would go further: without bigotry). Ditto carbon.

Valuing lives is important. New ones. Black ones. Old ones. Gay ones. Etcetera. (All lives [will] matter [when ** lives matter])....


Are you joking?



That is not trolling. It is having and expressing an opinion.


What do you think now that you see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048756? Note that the paper they linked, which seems to be in earnest, doesn't mention trans rights.


Now they have been banned for trolling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32049186


Poe's Law can make it hard to tell, but to me it looks like someone satirizing the extremes of anti-capitalist ideology. Surely there is someone somewhere who agrees that some LGTBTQI+ issue constitutes a real argument against grid-scale energy storage, but if they were the person who is commenting here, probably they would have tried to explain what the relationship is instead of just appending keyword salad.


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The Collective is entitled to all the emotional labour you can provide comrade


Well this is not true because Biden has already started transitioning the US off fossil fuels without any long-duration energy storage and he is doing it in a historically inclusive manner[1].

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...


We will need it later, you can't go 100% 0 carbon without it. Just running peaker generators, figuring out how to heat/cool houses, charge EVs when there is surplus, ... are all cheaper alternatives to storage, but won't cover everything


> We will need it later, you can't go 100% 0 carbon without it.

I think this is just what capitalist is trying to make people believe, the economy will adapt and jobs are already booming as the unemployment in US is at a historic low which shows just how historically strong the economy is [1].

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...


You are insufferably dense. This has nothing to do with economy, inclusivity or any other BS from the POTUS website. Energy production has to be ramped up and down to match utilization in order to keep the grid stable. That is much more difficult to do with renewables. You can't just turn up the wind speed to make turbines spin faster. I know this may be surprising, but when the grid voltage drops too much and fries everybody's electronics, people tend to get very pissed (in a very universally inclusive manner).


They're not arguing it's an economic harm to decarbonize, they're pointing out that it cannot physically be done, at all, without some way of storing energy.

This is needed because otherwise you'd only get energy when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining. This is especially true if you do not classify nuclear energy as green energy, but even with nuclear providing baseload generation you would want energy storage to truly take advantage of the energy that renewable sources can provide.


> They're not arguing it's an economic harm to decarbonize, they're pointing out that it cannot physically be done, at all, without some way of storing energy.

If this was true why is the US economy doing so well in the transition off carbon based fuels while being the most inclusive in history[1]?

> This is especially true if you do not classify nuclear energy as green energy

But nuclear is not green [2], and labelling it as such is just green washing.

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/01/20/...

[2]: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/06/world/eu-votes-natural-ga...


> If this was true why is the US economy doing so well in the transition off carbon based fuels while being the most inclusive in history[1]?

Because we have not gotten to the point where storage, and particularly long term storage, would make sense to build. I mean, why synthesize a chemical fuel when we're still burning so much natural fuel?

Long term storage is a last 10-20% thing.


I honestly do not understand this push to have 'inclusive energy policy'. WTF. The point is a net carbon reduction. If poor people need dirty energy while rich people subsidize the technology development WHO CARES.


> The guy is pretty contemptuous of legal authority; he thinks he is above the law and he might be right

Of all the funny things I have read this week this takes the cake, Biden will not allow him to get away with it, not a joke.


I think it is just a typo.


Maybe you linked to the wrong article, that article mentions "Duque’s spraying campaign" - fairly sure that Duque is not US.

Also Biden is the most progressive president in history, and I think with Colombia's track record when it comes to black and trans bodies you should maybe look in the mirror before pointing fingers.


That is some word salad of a title, makes it sound like some accident. This was an assassination. Shinzo Abe was assassinated.


> Look at the price of Yen to USD.

The instantaneous exchange rate between two currencies does not give any information about the strength or weakness of the economies that operate on those currencies.


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