That is honestly insane.

In NZ the sticker price is what you pay, if the price on the sticker doesn’t include tax, it is false advertising and you pay what is on the sticker.

It is entirely up to the retailer to ensure that the price is correct. The only exception to this, is if the price is obviously wrong e.g. $5.00 rather than $500.

Search on DDG, maybe “Candling”

Candling : The process of illuminating an egg with a bright light to examine its contents.

Random ass-memory; donkey walks past and remembers something random.

Unfortunately a union after the fact does nothing to help the workers.

Unions are great for ensuring that the profit from their labour; is fairly distributed.

If the company is unprofitable; forming a union to squeeze blood from a stone is not helpful. It will just hasten the demise. These tariffs, as others have pointed out are probably making their fixed term contracts into money losers…We don’t have all the data, but it is quite likely.

And from a personal point of view, smaller companies tend to care more than big ones…I’ve worked in both. Being 1 of 5 is great, being 1 of 15,000 not so much.

Another take:

The happy rider, is a conspiracy theory enjoyer. Happy in the “knowledge” that someone (anyone) is at the controls of the world, it gives comfort in a perverse way. Even though they know that the “controllers” are doing bad things.
The sad rider, is a realist. Can see that they are stuck on a trolley that is currently plowing through people, their personal actions mean nothing in the aggregate of all other actions in the world. They saw that the person at the leaver chose to keep themselves pure, rather than reduce the suffering in the world and taint themselves in the process.

How would that make him a non-billionare?

He paid $44B for Twitter, even if it completely failed and he could realize no value from any of the assets. $44B is a small portion of his wealth.

This is also how tire balancing works for cars. Except they have a machine that does the calculations for position and weight.

BricsCAD has a native Linux client

Of course, it will be equal and opposite to the hit action.

Weird pic to post in spring.

Agreed thieves are terrible.

Not many better options if you are getting robbed though.

Pretty much; then get the police to deal with it.

The solar isn’t the goal; the energy is enabling the value in other parts of the economy.

In fact; energy supply is so important to the reasonable functioning of the economy. It should be taken out of the profit driven cycle of business.

Look at what happened with WPI in Ohakune and PanPack when energy prices sky rocketed a few months back.

Nuclear has few advantages over solar.

Solar + batteries.

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~$1000/kW vs $6 - 10,000/kW in 2018, it is cheaper today; projected costs to drop to as low as $560/kW in 2050.

Add in the ~$150/kWh of grid scale storage with the associated switchgear to connect it to the grid.

For a 10MW + 20MWh solar system; you are looking at approx $13,000,000 + install costs of probably $2-3,000,000.

CCS would be much better than bitcoin; even though CCS is very inefficient; if the power price is effectively -ve; that means that you are only paying maintenance costs to run your CCS

To be fair; this is a valid use case.

If you are a solar power producer; rather than offering your energy at -ve rates; run a crypto farm when the output is too high. This is far better than running the same farm on coal.

But it would be better going into something useful.

The “problem” of negative energy costs is easy to solve, but quite costly.

Build water desalination/carbon capture and storage/hydrogen generation plants that only run when the price goes below 0; even though these are very energy intensive, they would help stabilize the grid.

Then build more solar; you want to try to have the daytime price stay in the negative as often as possible.

It still costs real money to maintain the infrastructure; so even if the power was always free; you would still have to pay something to cover the maintenance costs.

This is a solved problem.

DC-AC conversion is pretty well understood, as is electrical protection, grid frequency matching inverters are available “off the shelf” for small units and are made to order in the MW range.

In NZ we have a DC link between the islands, there have been equipment failures over the years disabling the link, but grid frequency events are not an issue. The link has been in place for almost 60 years.

Also the distributed nature of generation makes cascade failure extremely unlikely. If you have an issue in one solar farm; another solar farm a few km away is extremely unlikely to have the same issue.

Agreed.

And the causes are probably broadly similar; lack of education about how to cook, lack of time to cook, lack of education on healthy food, too much food advertising, ultra-processed foods are too common, healthy foods are expensive…