corneliusmadsen.dk
Photographer, systems administrator, tech-enthusiast and all-around curious about the world we live in. Married since 1999 and father of three, enjoying life with my family.
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Love it!
"You and your cage. Watch this..."
😂😂😂
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Nåmen...og?
Seriøst, det er da pissenemt at finde ting, hvor andre mennesker IKKE har gjort det klogeste, man kunne forestille sig, specielt set i bagklogskabens klare lys.
Så kunne det være rigtig interessant at høre, hvad DU mener, der skal gøre fremover?
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Fede billeder. 🙂
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Well, I'll have to give it to Trump - he continues to exceed my expectations. Every time I think to myself, that *THIS* is how disgusting he is able to be, he proves me wrong and set another record.
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Mistral tells me that one sqm panels will generate around 1250 kWh per year in Tasmania. The duty-free deck is 2300 sqm.
That is 0.328 MWh per hour on average. The ship has a 40 MWh battery for a 75 minute trip.
Maintenance and wear and tear will likely outweigh the benefits here, I'm afraid.
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That we agree on. The way I see it, green hydrogen will only overtake fossil fuels as they become less and less available and we get to a point where there actually is some surplus electricity for hydrogen production.
Heck, you may even be right that battery tech wins before we get there. 🙂
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I know - that is what I was saying. That does not change the fact that there are plenty of places where running cables aren't practically feasible, but fuel can be driven to.
In sub-Saharan Africa many rural areas lack access to electricity. In South Sudan 8.4 % of the population has electricity.
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Ehhh - what? They don't have oil wells where they use the fuel, the same would be true for H2. Produce it and move it in tankers. Yes, it is inefficient compared to diesel, but that is beyond the point.
And this is not about cost. There are many places in this world where 1MW is a pipe dream.
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- and yeah, hydrogen is going to be expensive no matter what. The "we will use surplus electricity" is not coming for a very long time - rising demands for electricity will see to that.
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I definitely agree that for many countries, that is what will happen. However, I can easily see parts of the world where having an electrical infrastructure capable of supporting 1MW chargers is not something that will happen in decades from now - either for financial or practical reasons.
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In all fairness they are talking about long-haul trucks, and here there may be a better market for hydrogen in some countries.
Waiting overnight for your EV to recharge on a 7 kW charger in the middle of nowhere? - could be OK.
Waiting three days for your truck to do the same? - probably not.
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No, it is not. Building a single structure close to existing natural gas pipelines (which is what have been done in Germany) is vastly different from upgrading and entire infrastructure and replacing industrial equipment with electrical counterparts.
Look, idealism is good. Lala-land? - not good.
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I'm not talking about costs at all - I am talking about practical issues.
Infrastructure does not materialize out of thin air from day to day, and we do not have the power generation, storage capacity, power distribution capacity or electrical industrial equipment yet.
Those are the hard facts.
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That little "just need" is a huge showstopper - we simply do not have the infrastructure for a complete electrification yet, and there is nothing "just need" about migrating all industrial production systems away from gas - it's a huge undertaking. We can't work without gas yet.
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That is when you fire up those biomethane powered generators.
"In 2023 the share of biomethane in the Danish gas system reached almost 40 pct. and by 2030 Danish gas consumption is expected to be 100 pct. green."
ens.dk/en/energy-so...
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You don't make up fines depending on whether you like the offender or not. That is not the law.
Even for Meta and Apple, this is not pocket change and they fully well understand that repeat offences will both be easier to fine and that the fine will be on a whole different level the second time.
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Fox/OAN/Nemsmax is freedom? Or do I misunderstand your point?
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Please. There are 470 million citizens in the EU. We have a tradition for supporting free trade across the world in most cases, but don't mistake openness for a lack of combativeness. You push us? - we push back.
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There is plenty of innovation in the EU, but there is still a lot of local red tape when it comes to getting funding across borders, and that is preventing small startups from getting off the ground way too often.
4. EU is the small guy here and cannot muster any real leverage against the US.
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2. Fines do not work - companies just write them off and do business as usual.
No, they don't. The trick is making it cheaper to follow the rules than to break them, and the USB-C port in iPhones is a testament to that.
3. The EU can't innovate their way out of a paper bag and is just jealous.
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It's interesting to see a lot of the comments in this thread - they seem to fall into a few categories:
1. Revenge against US companies.
EU companies have been hit as well, most recently Hungarian company Ganz-Mavag. The laws apply to all, but it is true that US companies seem to care less.
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Actually it's the other way around, at least seen here from the EU.
Quite a few politicians are not that happy that someone is rocking the boat even more, fearing the hat any trade deal negotiations just became that much more difficult.
However, they can only make the laws - not enforce them.
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- and yet Novo Nordisk is selling Wegovy like candy to overweight people in the US. Invented and developed in Denmark.
As for mass control of the population - you try that here and we will hand your ass to you on a platter. Nothing like Fox/OAN/Newsmax exists here on a similar national scale.
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No, they don't. The trick is to make the fine large enough to make it cheaper to comply with rules and regulations. Case in point: USB-C ports in iPhones.
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If you go and buy a new iPhone you will see that it has a USB-C port instead of a lightning port.
Apple was yelling and screaming that all of their innovative possibilities were depending on that port, and the EU told them to go stuff it.
Enforcement of rules and regulations does work.
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I think the numbers in the graph may be omitting sales in China, but the trend is the same anyway. The sales in 2024 dropped another 21,6% compared to 2023:
www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/gl...
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Arrh - that is perhaps going just a bit to far. I mean, there were quite a few European countries that supplied troops to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya (and yes, Denmark were definitelv one of them), and going further back countries like France, UK and Netherlands had their colonies.
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Well, if there is one silver lining in all of this financial mess, it is the fact that this will also hit Putin right in the gonads. He is very much dependent on selling oil and gas in order to fund his war.
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The entire list of sales per make can be seen here - the first Chinese car on the list is Xpeng with a total of 611 cars in Q1. That is less than 10% of what VW alone sold in Q1.
mobility.dk/nyregistreri...
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Danish EV sales, Q1 2025. Considering the time spent discussing Chinese EVs in Danish Facebooks groups, their actual marketshare here is very, very small.
One Japanese and one Korean model - the rest are produced in Europe. Not because of price, because of overall quality (especially software).
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This, however, I can easily agree with. This is an issue for everybody outside of China. On the other hand, we can't deny that we willingly gave China a decades long head start and basically sat on the sidelines while they developed the battery technology we use today.
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I would argue that trading with China is the only thing that gives us some kind of leverage and keeps them from going all in with Putin. Compared to Russia, China is at least pretty logical and don't shoot off their own foot.
We outsourced production to China decades ago, we cant just reverse that.
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We still could not let it happen. Subjecting Greenlanders to US rule would be horrible and inexcusable. Treating inuit people well is not a US trait
Luckily, since my original post there has been a lot of assurances from EU and NATO partners that they would come to our and Greenland's assistance.
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Congress could not repudiate anything even if their life depended on it - that much is clear after they let Trump blow the entire world's financial system to smithereens.
My only hope is for the generals to stand their ground, and that hope is diminished every time another general is fired.
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But what are the odds of that happening when your justice system has become as political as your actual political system?
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Rebuking the GOP is where this falls flat. As long as the US only has two relevant political parties, you will have 77 mio. voters that think the current political situation is fantastic, and that doesn't change with a party name.
And no amount of money will rebuild trust - only time can do that.
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Interests or feelings are secondary to trust. You can love someone dearly or have a hugely successful business partnership, but the second you get to the point where you expect to find a knife in your back at a moments notice, it's over.
Ever trusted a psychopath? - you learn only to do that once.
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Yes, only 1/3 voted for him, but another 1/3 knew exactly who and what he was and did not vote against him.
In my book they were fine with him becoming the president but did not want the responsibility associated with voting for him.
Voted for Harris? - you get a pass. Others? - absolutely not.
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At some point you would think that the insanity would be picked up by the american population in general.
No, we don't hate your beef - we hate that you pump up your cattle with antibiotics and growth hormones.
No, we don't hate your poultry - we hate that all of it is washed in chlorine.
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Again, I don't disagree much, but I think that - being Danish - I have lost my trust in the US completely. I know that Trump is the catalyst, but 70 mio. people voted for him, knowing full well from his first term who and what he is.
The US has lost its way, and I am not inclined to follow them.
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I don't necessarily disagree with you, but if the US has ruled out assisting Europe anyway, why keep them at the table?
I would argue that thinking you have help and finding out that you don't, once you need it, is worse than knowing that you are on your own from the beginning.
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Well, then there really isn't much of a reason to have the US in NATO any longer, is there? The asked us to help in 2001 but will not return the favor any longer.
And the nuclear umbrella is French and British nowadays - the US only have aroun 110 warheads in Europe vs 550 from France/UK.
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I'm not sure, TBH. The UK has a lot of baggage when it comes to the EU, and I really don't think that the UK population has fully come to term with the fact that Brexit failed because it was a stupid idea to begin with, not because EU roadblocks made it fail. Most of the UK simply don't like the EU.
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That is probably the only explanation that makes a little bit of sense. It's still incredibly stupid, yes, but it does fall in line with his thinking on tariffs.
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It would probably be wise to get an indication from the EU regarding their willingnes to take the UK back first, TBH. The UK never really liked being a member of the EU, and always had to have special treatment in many ways (and yes, I am painfully aware that Denmark was no better back in the days).
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Every time I think that the US has hit rock bottom and there is no way for me to despise them more, someone comes by with a shovel and digs the hole even deeper.
This is so disgusting I struggle to find words for it.
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Exactly! My very first thought as well. 😁
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Hilarious? If you're a Greenlander or a Dane, I can guarantee you that it is anything but.
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That the 92m knew what Trump was capable of from his first term and had public access to Project 2025?
And that they chose to not vote anyway?
That is not conjecture, that is a fact.