One thing you forget about with LEDs and (somewhat with CFLs) is constantly replacing bulbs. It’s literally an event now it happens so infrequently.

Actually its far larger than 15%, which I believe is the emissions from operating them.

The biggest cost of ICE is the carbon heating the atmosphere.  Being able to freely pollute without cleaning up the output is a major cost not being paid by ICE users.  Like I said, it's not the sticker cost (of car or fuel)

That $7000 tax credit is a down payment on not having to rebuild cities in the Southeast after hurricanes.  We *should* be heavily subsidizing them, but politics doesn’t give way to science unfortunately.

Environmental absorption would be a factor but I think the biggest losses are just the physics of distance, inverse square law etc.

A very good point. Probably is even less than net zero.

The issue I see people bring up is simply the efficiency loss. There was a Japanese experiment that used microwaves to send power over a 10km distance and had 1% efficiency.

If your early on in your working life, always go Roth whether IRA or 401k.

End *private* backed insurance anyway. It’s a game they pack up and go home from when it gets hard as this article describes.

If you don't need PRO version I think the Home one can literally be installed for free.  Minor limitations like no custom desktop if you don't register and possibly a small water mark on screen.  But it doesn't get disabled at a set point.  Or at least was that way with 10 I think 

Your question:

Problems can be surmountable and still unnecessarily expensive and dangerous. The consuming reactor types produce far more dangerous outputs, so that’s not exactly a positive step even if the volume is reduced.

You asked “how many solar farms would we need to replace every nuclear reactor currently in use?”

more like :facecurb:

They will quickly get out of sync in any event.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

The problem is uranium/plutonium fission nuclear is it’s simply dangerous by default. Required high pressure, runaway chances should something go wrong (Murphy has some insight here). It simply must have extensive regulation and redundancy that make it unsustainable beyond pretty specific use cases. The fact that the…

The cognitive dissonance to claim that renewables cost too much and so we should use nuclear is truly staggering.

No Dice without more Cow Bell

5th Gear: a $60K *loss* on every EV sold by Ford? There better be a whole lotta upfront platform engineering in that figure. Tesla can *make* money doing this and Ford *loses* more than they’re selling some of them for? Not just a loss but the individual loss is higher than the *price*?