[wholien]

for another POV on Uruguay, here's Doomberg's recent article on Uruguay: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia

[kranke155]

I used to read him but soon find it tiring. His perspective is always "im right and everyone else is wrong".

[RALaBarge]

Sounds like he is one of us then!

[gruppe_sechs]

As opposed to other writers whose perspective is "I'm wrong"?

[subtra3t]

Some writers acknowledge the possibility that they may be wrong and others are right, or that both views can be considered to be right.

[culi]

"I'm right" doesn't have to imply "everyone else is wrong"

[pydry]

The article asks for money at exactly the point where it was going to tell you what the problems were.

I have some suspicions.

[locallost]

I don't who that is, but looking around there is an obvious bias that also is not based in reality.

[kieranmaine]

I'm going to comment on the post the doomberg article links to:

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-2-8-we-must-de...

It states:

> Jacobson goes on with endless mumbo jumbo about how his fantasy system can deliver electricity at low cost. Excerpt:

> When combined with electricity storage, heat storage, cold storage and hydrogen storage; techniques to encourage people to shift the time of their electricity use (demand response); a well-interconnected electrical transmission system; and nifty and efficient electrical appliances, such as heat pumps, induction cooktops, electric vehicles and electric furnaces for industry, WWS can solve the ginormous problems associated with climate change at low cost worldwide.

> Is there any such thing as a demonstration project on any scale — small, medium, or large — to vindicate these claims that such a future system would be “low cost”? Absolutely not.

I can't speak about anything except:

"techniques to encourage people to shift the time of their electricity use (demand response)"

This is happening in the UK and is lowering the cost of EV charging. The following tariff will control when your EV is charged for the price of 7p/kWh (see https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime).

I just got a quote from Octopus energy (UK energy supplier) and the day rate is 35.37p/kWh and night rate is 14.84p /kWh.

[rs_rs_rs_rs_rs]

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