luisgutz
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- Comment on Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK 15 hours ago:
Despite this U-turn the plan is still there, neither the scheme nor the giant price tag (1.8 billions pounds!) have gone away entirely. The government wants to introduce Digital IDs, and while they might not be mandatory at first, they could create a digital surveillance infrastructure that could fundamentally change how we live.
Once this system is in place, ‘mission creep’ is inevitable. We will be forced to use digital ID more and more in our daily lives. It will be used for profiling and surveillance, tracking our interactions with the State and more.
- Comment on Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn 6 days ago:
As the Germans say " the police is blind on the right eye"
- Comment on Cardiff set to impose SUV parking premium after council approval 2 months ago:
Not to mention that road degradation grows exponentially with the weight.
For instance, the damage caused by a 1 tom car is the equivalent of 160,000 cycle trips! And a 2 ton car will damage the road 16 times more than a 1 ton car.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 3 months ago:
Ah! Nice one… But no, it will be Oracle. They have paid Tony Blair about £250 in the last few to spew their nonsense, and Larry Ellison has spoken loudly about well behaved everyone will be once they can monitor everything we do.
Sounds like a police state paradise.
- Comment on UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain 3 months ago:
The problem with my nuclear when mixed with renewables is that they take too long to turn on and off (think 12-24h), so they are not great complement solar and wind.
They are also very expensive, and take years to build, and decades to recoup the investment. Renewables are a lot cheaper, and can be built straight away, making their investments a lot less risky. They are also evolving faster than nuclear, snd becoming cheaper.
They are, S of today the cheaper power source in most of planet. It is expected that in a couple of years they won’t just be the cheapest, but they will be so cheap it will make economic sense to dismantle other powers plants and build solar/wind+ battery than to keep gas running.
- Comment on Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment 7 months ago:
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Funny enough, the article mentions 54 billion of investment on the national grid is needed over the next 10 years, and hinkley point currently costs 31!
- Comment on Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment 7 months ago:
Also consider how much renewables that investment could buy; its not just 31billon of today money that will start to see some benefit 20 years after it was started.