Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

Re:Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of a... by vixen99 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @05:48AM (#33213303)

Maybe in your part of the world. But grant me that it would be dumb to pay twice as much for electricity as for gas to heat my home to the same temperature which is the case. Heat pumps? For huge numbers of poor people across the world this a Marie Antoinette-esque gesture. I'm aware that there's no evidence she ever said words to the effect 'let them eat cakes' (people had no bread) but we all understand the metaphor.

Let's not forget that much of the cost of electricity is down to the massive costs involved in its distribution.

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Re:Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of a... by TulliusCicero on Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:46PM (#33220624)

> Heat pumps? For huge numbers of poor people across the world this a Marie Antoinette-esque gesture.

We were specifically talking about Europe. And there, lots of people even in relatively wealthy countries like Germany still use gas for heating. The government could definitely be encouraging/subsidizing the use of heat pumps instead.

Obviously the idea is for transitioning where it's economically feasible, not demanding that poor people freeze to death, jesus christ.

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Re:Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of a... by pas on Sunday October 16, 2022 @01:20AM (#33221233)

running gas pipes isn't free either.

and the current price is not the total cost, which should include externalities like this. (yes, electricity generation currently is also mostly a GHG emitting travesty, but not fundamentally, like nat.gas.)

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