So if that is the case. The guys that stays as engineers because they valued doing the real work that now suddenly ASML values, but didn't get the promotion have been screwed for years right? Without any real chance of getting this corrected.
This is great, so long as the country cares more about becoming electric than tax income. I can assure you that in the Netherlands this is not the case.
As opposed to the Netherlands, Norway has an abundance of hydro electric power to fuel the cars and significant oil and gas income that can easily finance these policies.
Most countries aren't close to a level of electric car penetration where that would really be a problem. Even in Norway this is new car sales. The actual percentage of cars on the road that are fully electric is 32%.
Plus most people charge cars overnight when there's a surplus of power.
Oil and gas income I will give you though... I don't think most countries could afford this.
Hydro doesn’t really care if it’s used day or night, they can just open or close the gates as needed. It would be more of a thing if they used nuclear or coal, which is hard to ramp up and down.
Yes, but Norway controls the sluice gates and has an idea of when demand is high or low. I guess you could argue that their generation capacity is limited and during peak they simply can't offer anymore, but other than that, Norway can totally ramp down production at night.
The demand for electricity in Europe is so high that Norway could sell every watt-hour if the DC links and HV AC backbone had enough capacity. Essentially the only thing preventing Norwegian electricity prices rising to European levels is the lack of capacity in the backbone HV system not the ability to control the generators.
Yeah, to be fair I would be hesitant to have anything to do with any program called prism as well. Hard to imagine that no one brought this up when they were thinking of a name.
So are you saying that there are not new positions open for engineers that were actually doing engineering and that instead some managers that were not doing engineering will now suddenly have to pick up the thread again and start doing engineer?
That would be disappointing for engineers that were actually doing engineering, as yet again their grade increases would be taken by management types.
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