FreedomAdvocate

Sure, but we’re not doing net zero, and never were.

Ummm that's literally what most countries and governments are specifically saying is their goal.

Solar/renewables are active, alive, they can be done now even imperfectly, by small groups.

No they can't lol. You need giant corporations manufacturing them lol.

Saying the panels would end up in landfills is absolutely misinformation.

It absolutely isn't, because that's literally where they already end up.

Like 95% of a solar panel is glass, aluminum, or silicon. I terms of recycling, those are some of the most recyclable materials.

Fantastic! They still end up in landfill though, because like I said, economically it's not viable to recycle them. It costs more money to recycle a solar panel than it does to buy a new one.

its theoretically possible to reach a point where all new panels and batteries are produced from materials recycled out of old panels and batteries.

It's definitely not, even theoretically. Batteries definitely aren't infinitely recyclable.

If your goal is net zero than solar and batteries is it

Nope, the only real way to go net zero is nuclear.

Hard to say how it will go

It really isn't. This thing needed to be cheap if it was going to gain any traction. It needed to undercut everything comparable on the market, significantly. Valve needed to aggressively subsidize it since they make money hand over fist from every game that it can play. Instead it's going to be even worse than the last time they released steam machines, only this time it will be much more damaging to them since they're making it themselves.

Sure the PC Master Race types won’t want this, but I think that’s a very small group of people.

The number of people that want a low powered, non-upgradeable, outdated by about 10 years gaming PC that will struggle to play anything other than 2D indies at 4K60, and also can't play any of the big AAA games like GTA6, COD, Apex, Battlefield, etc at all is infinitely smaller than the PC Master Race types lol.

I'm not sure what your point is. I'm saying that even if it was $400, like many people are/were expecting it to be, it's still severely underpowered. At the actual realistic price point of well over $1000, it's DOA because it's less powerful than even a PS5, which is closer to $400 than $1000.

Speculative/rumored prices are similar to what you could get for a similar spec mini PC.

The difference being that those mini-PCs will be able to play games like GTA6, Fortnite, PUBG, COD, Apex, etc, while the Steam Machine cannot, and you can also upgrade those mini PCs, unlike the Steam Machine. The SOC in it dooms it.

Handhelds and consoles are different though. Consoles/PCs don't have screens or controllers built in, or a battery. Most of the cost of handhelds is in making them handheld.

I will answer for you. It is 100% possible to live entirely off solar you own as many people do it day to day and have no grid connection at all. It doesn’t even take that much solar if you don’t waste a shit ton of power like most people in the west do.

No, you can't just live off solar - you need batteries, and a LOT of them. I have 42kWh of batteries to go with my solar, and that would last me a day and a half off grid, max, unless my solar was absolutely cranking every day. At the moment in Winter I'd have to triple my solar panels to be able to go off grid even if the sun shined every single day and they worked at their maximum efficiency, which is not how the weather works.

Can I slow cook a roast or turn on a gaming PC with a big beefy GPU? Can I power my AC? No. That doesn’t make what I can do any less valuable.

It means that they have you by the balls though. It means that you're not even remotely close to being off grid. Living like a homeless person by candlelight every night isn't what people mean when they say they want to go off grid.

I can survive just fine with the power grid cut off.

I don't want to just "survive", and I'm not alone in that.

This is a good argument for utilities and natural monopolies to all be state owned and operated.

I agree wholeheartedly, basic utilities should all be publicly owned.

Ok so again, you either didn't read my comment or don't have the capacity to understand it.

It wasn't a racist joke. Even if it was, it's just a joke. It can't hurt you.

The joke was aimed at IDENTITY POLITICS. It was about SELF ID. It was about how people are self ID-ing into things that they clearly aren't, and then just act out the stereotypes of the thing they're self-identifying as and think it actually makes them that thing. These stereotypes are often racist, sexist, etc, but the left overlook and embrace them because of their ideology.

Do you understand yet?

We have plenty of available dwellings

We don't though, not in the areas that people want/need to live. Most people can't just pack up their life and move 5 hours away because there are a lot more empty shitbox houses out in the sticks.

How does CGT on shares and non housing investments affect renters?

Are you asking me, or was that your attempt to explain how it does?

I was talking about industrial usage, the main usage of electricity.

But that has nothing to do with what happens when the sun goes down. People need power at home at night. Got nothing to do with industrial usage lol.

Do you live in a paper box or something? If I cool my house it stays cool for up to two days.

I'm guessing you live in a shoebox, and not in a climate where it wildly shifts from 35+ degrees c to low single digits in a single day.