These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft

Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by mtts on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:12AM (#35409740)

The agricultural lobby puts this out a lot, but it’s not true. The pig farmers and the dairy farmers that are causing the most problems require vast imports of fodder grown elsewhere. The efficiency of a lot of greenhouse agriculture is questionable as well (which was made obvious when a not insignificant chunk of its production was wound down when supplies of cheap Russian gas dried up.

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Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by spiderfarmer on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:36AM (#35419832)

So energy prices increasing by 300%, eating away profits, on top of record inflation is proof that the whole business is inefficient? Lol, no. Even if a financial shockwave told you anything about the efficiency of green houses (it does not) you can’t base your argument on a war induced fluke.

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Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by mtts on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:50AM (#35422636)

If a business can only exist if energy prices are unrealistically low, then, yes, it is inefficient.

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Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by spiderfarmer on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:47AM (#35435594)

So the only time energy is priced realistically is during wartime. Noted.

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Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by shjake on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:58AM (#35436476)

Were they unrealistically low though? Wind/solar/hydro are supposed to be much cheaper than fossil fuels longterm..

And gas prices are more or less back to where they were before the invasion.

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