Seems like they did not include the damage to infrastructure in the surrounding countries and the economic losses worldwide. This reads more like military expenditure to me. The actual cost of this war is MUCH higher.
$500M/day would represent roughly 1000 megawatts of solar farm, per day. Depending on where said farms are located that could power at least 250,000 homes. For the next 25 years. Per day.
A steady demand and generation would eventually drive down the costs (unless there's a resource scarcity), generating jobs, related industries and r&d.
In addition, it would also drive down power costs and with it make power-intensive production cheaper, which might retrofit into solar generation costs.
And the longer I think of this make-believe magical world where politicians do sensible things that help us, the angrier I get on our shitty reality.
Good thing battery costs are dropping at over 10% per year (for lithium ion), and tons of other options exist for grid scale stationary applications, like iron-air, sodium, vanadium flow, gravity, pumped water, compressed air, kinetic…)
And that doesn't even include the cost of a caring for a new cohort of traumatized service members with inadequate counseling support and fewer resources for jobs and housing back home
Cost of residential solar install in CA is 30k.
$500M/$30k= 16,666 solar installs on homes a day.
Around 60,000 people a day.
Getting free energy for the next 20 years.
It was all planned for Jared Kushner to leech off of the infrastructure development and repair contracts in Israel and the land they just stole from Palestine and Lebanon.
There’s some estimates that are considerably higher. Some of the official estimates calculate the cost of the object at the cost at the time of acquisition ie in 2010 a tomahawk cost $10 million but today it will cost $20 million (numbers only for example). Or they used v1 bombs at $100k but they retired them and will replace them with v2 at $400k.
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Hubi@feddit.org · 87 pts · 125d
Seems like they did not include the damage to infrastructure in the surrounding countries and the economic losses worldwide. This reads more like military expenditure to me. The actual cost of this war is MUCH higher.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 48 pts · 125d
$500M/day would represent roughly 1000 megawatts of solar farm, per day. Depending on where said farms are located that could power at least 250,000 homes. For the next 25 years. Per day.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 16 pts · 125d
A steady demand and generation would eventually drive down the costs (unless there's a resource scarcity), generating jobs, related industries and r&d.
In addition, it would also drive down power costs and with it make power-intensive production cheaper, which might retrofit into solar generation costs.
And the longer I think of this make-believe magical world where politicians do sensible things that help us, the angrier I get on our shitty reality.
andallthat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 124d
Or a whole medium-sized AI datacenter!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 124d
The batteries to support them unfortunately cost an order of magnitude more and you kinda need to smooth out all that generation.
Would still be a hell of an investment into energy security, not just sustainability.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev · 2 pts · 124d
So instead of 1000 farms, setup 91 farms and 91 battery backups (equal to 910 farms). That still a lot of investment into the future
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 124d
Good thing battery costs are dropping at over 10% per year (for lithium ion), and tons of other options exist for grid scale stationary applications, like iron-air, sodium, vanadium flow, gravity, pumped water, compressed air, kinetic…)
wirebeads@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 125d
lol @american healthcare.
classic@fedia.io · 23 pts · 125d
I don't need healthcare. A shareholder somewhere getting wealtḧier is its own reward thankyouverymuch
krashmo@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 125d
If we can only comprehend war in economic terms then we have already lost everything that makes a society worth preserving.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 20 pts · 125d
And that doesn't even include the cost of a caring for a new cohort of traumatized service members with inadequate counseling support and fewer resources for jobs and housing back home
Jhex@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 125d
or the next generations of terrorist going against Americans around the world
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 125d
medals are cheap. I think the plan is to hand our servicemen those and then boot them onto the street.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 125d
That's not going to happen, point blank.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 125d
they usually arnt, they will try to get rid of you from the services before that.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 125d
And thats why they need to cut NASA's science budget next year, so they can fund a few weeks of war with Iran.
Science is great and all, but have you heard of bombing people for no reason?
Tja@programming.dev · 18 pts · 125d
Does that include losses (1 AWACS, at least 5 F15)?
frongt@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 125d
The article answers that question.
Tja@programming.dev · 19 pts · 125d
I guess I'll never know, then...
Hello_there@fedia.io · 13 pts · 125d
Cost of residential solar install in CA is 30k.
$500M/$30k= 16,666 solar installs on homes a day. Around 60,000 people a day. Getting free energy for the next 20 years.
homes@piefed.world · 13 pts · 125d
This could fund so much daycare and healthcare and food and housing assistance…
FatVegan@leminal.space · 0 pts · 124d
Americans crave bombing brown people tho
kreskin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 125d
And thats not even counting the reparations trump agreed to-- to rebuild everything trump and Israel have blown up.
Dholi@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 124d
It was all planned for Jared Kushner to leech off of the infrastructure development and repair contracts in Israel and the land they just stole from Palestine and Lebanon.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 124d
Oh but I’m sure that will be offset by the tiny fraction of the straight of Hormuz tolls Iran collects that we are
beggingnegotiating for.OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 125d
Good thing we all just filed our taxes
atropa@piefed.social · 8 pts · 125d
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 125d
There’s some estimates that are considerably higher. Some of the official estimates calculate the cost of the object at the cost at the time of acquisition ie in 2010 a tomahawk cost $10 million but today it will cost $20 million (numbers only for example). Or they used v1 bombs at $100k but they retired them and will replace them with v2 at $400k.
The math is wobbly, to say the least.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 125d
Stablest genius.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 125d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 125d
cool. I think im no longer eleigible for snap.
Eheran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
At over 1 trillion per year, we get about 3 billion poet day. So only 1/6 of regular, planned spending.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
null@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 125d
But Kamala laughs.