A contrarian view although I do dislike contracting with foreign companies for roughly similar reasons: Palantir's technology looks good and I think it probably works. Most things don't work.

The NHS is a huge organisation (~2 million employees alone) with enormous problems along these lines - they should pay 10x if it delivers.

But they'll pay even if it doesn't deliver.

AND they're putting private information at risk by working with Panantir

Isn’t this true for any project ever attempted? The only reason this project exists is because millions have already been wasted on trying to do this in house

as often the case with eternal consultants it probably won't deliver, plus the NHS will be perpetually on the hook for maintenance

this isn't a "delivery" product, it should be an institutional pillar of the system

You have to massively overprovision some renewables

This is correct in the sense that, if you were to build a zero emissions energy system from scratch with today's technology, your conclusion would be that you'd eventually have to do this.

But in much of the world, setting up PV is economically sound simply because it displaces a certain amount of kWh generated over the course of a year from other sources that are more polluting and more expensive.

In this regime, the dynamics of production over time don't matter yet.

At some point, when renewable generation has very high penetration, you'll reach a point where building more is uneconomical, and to then displace the remaining other power sources you'll need to overpay (ignoring externalities).

However, that's assuming no technological change on the way there, which is a whole separate topic.

So massively overprovision them. It’s still cheaper than fossil fuels, especially if you price in all the externalities. Seems like all these hungry datacenters we’re building can soak up any excess capacity anyway.

What does cheap mean? You aren't paying for the same thing - a ccgt plant is super fast and works independent of the weather.

I'm in favour of having it but the reason why you need to over provision is because of the intermittency. This can also push out proper base load (e.g. nuclear) although it's not simple.

You have to think about the portfolio.

In Britain at least there is also a bit of a sleight of hand where the marginal costs are reported but not the CFD strike prices used to incentivise the buildout.

So one slightly fascinating bit of number station / espionage radio lore is "RAFTER" an MI5 scheme cooked up by Peter Wright to detect the _receiver_ of the radio using emissions from the internals of the radio set (superhet mixing iirc)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_RAFTER

You don't tell them why.

This was done extensively during ww2 iirc

There is obviously truth to it but it does not confirm the whig interpretation i.e. it was supposedly _removed_ rather than never present

This might be the first casual reference I've seen to whig history, is that memeplex picking up steam?

Surely started because of Israel. Maybe there was more back and forth but it really seems like the clique around trump are specifically in Bibi's pocket

> are specifically in Bibi's pocket

Being in his pocket means they owe him something. They don't. They make their own decisions, meant to be representative of the constiutents that did and did not vote for them. If they go against their consitutents wishes, that was their own decision to make. They are to blame.

> Being in his pocket means they owe him something. They don't.

What makes you think that?

That's how I know the idiom. How did you interpret it?

I mean, Bibi's wanted to do something along these lines for decades. Trump is the one who said yes to it, and thus it is Trump's fault.

This is a very "Dr Dr it hurts when I do this" "Don't do that" one it must be said.

I know nothing about palantir in particular but typically these software stacks have a bunch of random crap in them to deal with fetching data from other system's the customer has.