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China is eating everyone’s lunch on new(ish) sources of energy because it seems to have basically run out of old(er) ones. The insane amount of coal burning aside, there are e.g. basically as many hydroelectric plants in China as its enormous rivers can support, accompanied by the huge amounts of ecological and societal destruction that those always cause, and that’s still not enough. The buildup of both solar and nuclear energy infrastructure is not motivated by compassion for the environment or (pace George Carlin) the humans that have to live in it, it’s motivated by the cold, hard necessity of powering the industrial base. And if the project can partly fund itself by selling some of the production capacity to others, all the better.
None of this detracts from the quality of the engineering, but it’s important to keep the motivation in view (whether to filter out the propaganda or to try and reproduce something like this at home).
Original paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34459 (semi-paywalled, download counts are per IP address).
GitHub actually can natively mark a repo as a mirror (or could? I can’t find an example now, but they have always been rare). The book-with-bookmark icon before “user / repo” in the page header is replaced by a mirror-and-reflection-ish–looking thing, and the badge after it changes from “Public” to “Public mirror”. Unfortunately, forcing you into “social coding” (wait, is that no longer on the homepage?) takes priority, so that mark can only be given out by GitHub staff through manual intervention, and it doesn’t often happen.
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