Interesting Links for 08-04-2026

[andrewducker]

1. If you're wondering when the oil shortages are going to bite, ths map on this page is very helpful

(tags:oil trade shipping iran doom )

2. German rollout of renewables is decoupling the price from that of gas.

(tags:germany renewables GoodNews )

3. Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026

(tags:uk renewables GoodNews solarpower windpower electricity )

4. Native Americans had dice and games of probability before other cultures (about 12,000 years ago)

(tags:dice America prehistory )

5. Longwell Green Women's Institute closes after 62 years because of transgender ban

(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake women UK )

6. The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki

(tags:ghibli art history )

7. Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others

(tags:Intelligence )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

#7 must be obvious (Dunning and Krueger told us so)
#2 strangely sounds like a good news (but if they had nuclear power stations, like France...)

[andrewducker]

UK is currently building new nuclear. Estimated cost is £133/kWh.

Compared to solar+storage, which starts at half that, and even at the expensive end only matches it (and is getting cheaper all the time).

If we didn't have solar+wind+storage then I'd agree that we needed nuclear.

[channelpenguin]

Wow. I mean if the famously not sunny and pretty far north UK finds solar+storage cheaper than nuclear, anywhere further south or sunny saves even more.

Though I did read this week that researchers are working on solar panels that also can generate power from rain (but small, for street signs, street cameras etc)

[andrewducker]

I think it's mostly that nuclear is so incredibly expensive. And storage has been getting massively cheaper over time. Fingers crossed those trends continue!

[channelpenguin]

indeed

[calimac]

4) "The dig was funded by the Institute of Harmful Stereotypes" - SNL Weekend Update.