>>483874>Framing any opposition to uncontrolled mass immigration as "xenophobic hatred" shows you are already on the wrong side of this issue.No, that is not what i said, and you're being unreasonable to insinuate that I did. There are people who oppose immigration for rational reasons, that is not in question. However xenophobic hatred exists too. There are people who seek to gain some kind of position of status on the basis of that hate.
Basically it will be correct to say:
<I oppose immigration because it goes against my interestsbut it will not be correct to say:
<I oppose immigration because these xenos are monsters from the beyondThe latter is political-code for wanting immigrants as pseudo-slave-labor
>Has the global private sector not poured billions of ESG investment into exactly that already?They are not trying to make the lowest cost batteries. There is a maximum amount of energy we want to store in batteries, which is influenced by how much energy we can produce and how much of that we want to use up immediately versus how much we want to store for later. This results in a sealing of how many kWh of electricity we want to store in batteries, and the private sector is trying to reach that ceiling while making the most amount of money. That will be the most expensive battery that just out-competes the other competitors.
>Why do you think the German public sector will succeed? Their interest will be to make the cheapest input for their car industry, that will be the lowest cost batteries. Look at China, they had state-directed battery research and it's driving down battery costs. The first thing they did was look for cheaper minerals to put into batteries for example.
>Do you think people work harder after you remove the profit motive.That is not the point I'm making, but it is true as well. Monetary incentives have been investigated, increasing the monetary incentives improves motivation, but it is not linear, after a certain point more monetary incentives decrease motivation. If you keep increasing monetary incentives further eventually you reach a point where people stop doing what you payed them for altogether and they start focusing all their efforts on manipulating the incentive mechanism.
>Over the last 10 years Germany has shut all their nuclear power stations because something-something green energy and now electricity cost is almost double that of France.There is another way of looking at this, almost all of the nuclear power-plants that have been build were public sector projects. The private sector could have invested into nuclear power, it could have lobbied for reasonable nuclear regulations, but it didn't. The strongest force in private sector energy production has been the fossil fuel industry and they lobbied for regulations that make nuclear power extremely difficult, and they funded a bunch of pseudo environmentalist groups, that never attack stuff from the fossil fuel industry but always show up when it comes to opposing nuclear. There are privately funded nuclear power research projects, but they're not lobbying for a nuclear power-revival, they should be trying to undermine their fossil-fuel competitors in some way, you know play the capitalist game, but nope.
>You can't support the bougie green energy agenda and the working class at the same time. You have to pick a side.I want lots of nuclear to generate massive amounts of power to supply the primary industry that converts raw-materials into refined production-ready-inputs. But i also want the type of energy-production like solar-panels, wind-collectors, municipal geo-thermal or what-ever-collectors because I think that's the ticket for making energy-self-sufficient homes, in the sense that they are detached from things like fluctuating oil-prices. I don't want a situation where people are forced to look at something that is called "the global oil markets" hoping that the numbers are low enough that they can afford to heat their house. Or be worried that some Geo-political bullshit can affect their lives.
>And how would that help exactly? The point is to re-start the industrial processes.
>energy is too expensive The energy problem is solvable.
Right now restore the energy source that was destroyed by Geo-political nonsense.
In the near term build bog standard budget solid-fuel light-water nuclear reactors, to buy 20 years time until it gets cheap and easy to build liquid-fuel-salt nuclear reactors.
>consumers don't want EVs or hybrids as much as the economic central planners want them to.Not many people really care about what makes their transportation-machine go. People dislike EVs because:
they're too expensive, and suck in the second hand market,
because they're designed to be hard to repair or modify,
because they have massive privacy problems and might potentially be hacked or backdoored.
It boils down to high cost and insufficient user controle.
I did some back on the napkin calculations and i think it's possible to build a very basic 5 seat hatchback car with a one cylinder 25 horsepower petrol engine that charges a small commuter-range battery. It'll cost 30% less than the famous 10-15 grand BYD EV that everybody is raving about while having like more than double the range. You get the low operating costs for daily commutes by recharging from a household electrical plug and good range for the occasional long distance travel by using petrol. VW could make this. They have done this in the past: build good value cars to a price-point. But that is a high-volume low-margin product, the car industry wants to make low-volume high-margin products, for some reason.