alexey_denisov

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by alexey_denisov 9y ago
I agree that this thought could be presented better. On the other hand it is the first time that I see an important long-term idea came to the top of Hacker News. (Not staying long though.)
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by alexey_denisov 9y ago
The tragedy of Peak Oil movement is its inability to capture collective imagination. Engineering devoted to efficiency faces reduced returns on effort. Let us look at aviation, past certain limit you are restricted by physics and cannot mak
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by alexey_denisov 9y ago
Let us imagine a world, that is powered by solar panels. The only source of energy that we have is electricity from solar panels. So it would be a world poered by electricity. How would you make vehicles? I mean you need to melt metal, prod
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by alexey_denisov 9y ago
Well, you need to try to look beyound economy. There are such concepts as Energy return on Investment, when you start to thi9nk in pure energy terms. Horisontal drilling is much more energetically expensive. So you lower your return from 20
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by alexey_denisov 9y ago
Well, I have Ph.D. in Physics, and what he says makes a lot of sense to me. And I did experiements and know that managing reality is much harder than thinking about it.
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by alexey_denisov 9y ago
"Can easily replace" - you can easily become the president of the US, it is political problem, etc... It is better to rephrase it difeerently: "At the moment we cannot replace fossil fuels with nuclear energy, and we do not k
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by alexey_denisov 9y ago
Seems that you don't understand the problem. I try to simplify it for you. Point out a single energy extraction working technology, that pays its cost. Aka: "constructing wind electricity generator using only energy outputs from t
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by alexey_denisov 9y ago
It is interesting that idea of overshot and resource-limitations managed to get to the top og Hacker News. Though from reading comments another problem is clearly seen, it is difficult for believers in religion of Progress to objectively ev
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Can deep learning be succefully applied to physics?(symmetrymagazine.org)
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