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by kragen 11mo ago
Billions, mostly.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Does that mean Norway is making a huge amount of money exporting electricity over those interconnections?
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by kragen 11mo ago
("Shanghai Metals Market" is reportedly a consultancy which provides price data, not a market.)
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by kragen 11mo ago
I have attempted to make sense of your comment several times, but I cannot figure out what the intended meaning is of most of it.
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by kragen 11mo ago
In the US it's typically about a quarter.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Sure, but you don't need to go fully off-grid to have an off-grid balcony solar panel. You can connect it to just your freezer, or just a storage heater, or to the batteries you run your homelab off of.
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by kragen 11mo ago
That's a start, but you might be able to do better than that; for example, you ought to be able to show that the floating-point rounding error is unbiased.
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by kragen 11mo ago
No, it wasn't because the surrounding weather was slightly different. The surrounding weather was exactly the same. The air currents were slightly different because a warm rock in Karnataka thermally emitted a photon 13 years earlier
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by kragen 11mo ago
We haven't found anything in nature that resembles reverse-mode automatic differentiation, either in evolution or in neuroscience.
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by kragen 11mo ago
That only applies if you connect it to the grid in each of those places, I believe.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Catlover76 asks in a [dead]ed comment, "And China, right?" It's a reasonable question. It's debatable whether the infrastructure of the parts of China I didn't mention was built by state capitalism or by a straigh
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by kragen 11mo ago
So would I!
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by kragen 11mo ago
A twenty-foot container, I imagine? Retail for onesies seems to be about 4× that. Typically panels account for about a third of the cost of a turnkey solar power system, but that's largely because of historical design features that ar
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by kragen 11mo ago
In our timeline, the Cunctator, having provoked the Second Punic War through diplomatic maneuverings in his old age, held Hannibal at bay in Italy for over a decade while weakening him, until Scipio forced Hannibal to return to Africa, wher
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by kragen 11mo ago
Maybe! In that case there would be no contingent universe, only the necessary one. You can see how this would appeal to theists like old Kurt. A buddy of his had a saying about dice...
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by kragen 11mo ago
I'm thankful humans aren't extinct yet!
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by kragen 11mo ago
Oh, that's just trivia about the contingent universe. You wouldn't say it was impossible for Carthage to have conquered Rome, would you? It just didn't, by chance, happen.
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by kragen 11mo ago
That isn't the efficiency, which is a number somewhere under 23%, dividing the number of joules of light into the panel by the number of joules of electrical power out of it. Maybe you mean that at peak he gets 91% of the advertised 6
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by kragen 11mo ago
But neebz may not be in Pakistan either. Oh, they are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622584
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by kragen 11mo ago
Sounds better than human extinction from bioweapons.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Thanks for the link!
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by kragen 11mo ago
Yeah, Dynomight suggested that in the article.
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by kragen 11mo ago
pvXchange, but they're €23 because you fucked up the math: https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis... €12 would be 44× cheaper (7000/6000/(12/450) ≈ 44). Maybe in a couple of years.
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by kragen 11mo ago
That's a 7% yearly ROI, which is a pretty decent number, better than you'd do on average in the stock market and more predictable. If he had a little storage so he didn't have to sell any, it would improve further. But also
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by kragen 11mo ago
(Accusation removed from parent.)
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by kragen 11mo ago
Yeah! Screw you, cobalt-60! And I'm sure glad I'm not two-dimensional, but maybe I could poop through my mouth like a sea anemone.
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by kragen 11mo ago
I think it demonstrates the increased variance of central planning. The Congo Free State was also centrally planned, and so was the Holocaust, the Holodomor, the Armenian Genocide, Suharto's mass murder of suspected PKI sympathizers,
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by kragen 11mo ago
HN accounts don't require payment.
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Mexico could start producing synfuels with abundant solar energy and exporting them to the US, but that is far from the course plotted by President Sheinbaum, even though (or perhaps because) her doctorate is in the use of energy. Instead
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Lahore doesn't really have a winter as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore#Climate Air conditioning is, however, life-changing. Thermal energy storage can potentially power air conditioning, but it isn&#x27

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