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by konschubert 5mo ago
The rest of the world seems to be doing exactly that, though: Sticking solar panels everywhere.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
Typically BESS storage discharges half the capacity per hour nowadays.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
This deal is huge. 60 GWh of storage typically means 20 to 30 GW of power. It looks like sodium batteries are having their breakthrough moment. Right now, sodium isn’t really cheaper than LFP, because LFP has massive scale. Sodium needs sca
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CATL secures 60 GWh sodium-ion battery order with Hyperstrong(pv-magazine.com)
10 points by konschubert 5mo ago|3 comments
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by konschubert 5mo ago
Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
I was very clear, even before the edit. I wrote "reduce the gas bills". Not "cut the gas line".
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by konschubert 5mo ago
https://has-electricity-decoupled-yet.strommarktberatung.de Germany has a lot of solar. It's suppressing prices below the electricity price you would get with pure gas power generation.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
You will always use gas for cloudy days or maybe in winter. I didn’t claim solar should be the sole source of power.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
4GWh of power in what time frame? Either way, in winter you’ll need the gas turbines, I didn’t claim otherwise.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
Batteries are good to cover evening peaks or maybe a while night. Not multiple days of low solar, that’s not economical.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
Nobody is suggesting to use solar as the sole source of electricity. That would obviously be insane and then leads to silly numbers like the ones you gave. A MWh of solar is about 30 Euro/MWh if you levelize the capital costs.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
A big AI data center uses about 1 GWh of power each night. A large battery storage site is about 500MWh. So this is totally doable and it’s also going to be economical as soon as the US has built enough LNG export capacity.
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by konschubert 5mo ago
Abilene, Texas is also a great place to build a solar power plant with some batteries and reduce the gas bills for these datacenters. EDIT: I am not suggesting that they don’t build gas turbines or go off grid. I’m saying they can save fuel
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by konschubert 6mo ago
I didn’t say that Waymo will be a commercial success or that there won’t be copycats more successful. But waymo created the category by showing it is possible.
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by konschubert 6mo ago
> In the ~2010-2022 timeframe, tech companies poured all this money into speculative bets that never went anywhere I think it is hard to overstate the effect that Waymo will have.
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by konschubert 6mo ago
When I was building the layouts for my e-paper calendars , I needed pixel fonts due to the lack of grayscale on the display. It was surprisingly hard to find them - especially with customers asking for Cyrillic characters.
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by konschubert 6mo ago
I don’t think the GRU is running Mythos on their servers, for example
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by konschubert 6mo ago
People say that but then they don’t buy the phones. There is a difference between revealed and stated preference.
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by konschubert 6mo ago
This won’t do much for the environment. Even today, phone batteries get replaced until the phone is no longer able to run today’s software.
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by konschubert 6mo ago
I am willing to bet against that
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by konschubert 6mo ago
> The argument is that, given the skill, you could pull it off. Obviously true for any iPhone battery.
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by konschubert 6mo ago
Then the 99% have to pay extra to subsidise the compliance phone for the 1%...
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by konschubert 6mo ago
Aren't today's phone batteries already replaceable with commercially available tools? I can walk into a non-apple store with my iPhone and walk out with a replaced battery 20 minutes later. This isn't even what drives obsoles
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by konschubert 6mo ago
> those wars that are widely understood to be about resources (oil, land) The Ukraine war was started because Putin wanted it to be his heritage that Ukraine is part of Russia. The Donbas has some mines but nothing that cannot be found e
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by konschubert 6mo ago
Ukraine: Personal Grandeur by Mr Putin. Iran: Security, hate, personal Grandeur
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by konschubert 6mo ago
You can claim that and it's a comfortable thing to believe but that does not make it true. If you want to convince somebody who actually seeks truth, you have to make an argument how any country who has started a war recently has had a
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by konschubert 6mo ago
Yes and? They are not about natural resources.
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by konschubert 6mo ago
These are distribution problems. Usually intentional. There is enough food to feed everybody.
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by konschubert 6mo ago
Important to remember that we as humans no longer compete for resources. We have more than enough resources to go around for 10 billion people. The limiting factor is in intelligence and dexterity. In other words, we get richer when we are
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by konschubert 6mo ago
I sleep badly when I try really hard to sleep and I sleep well when I don’t. I haven’t found anything else that influences it.

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