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931.
by pyrale 2y ago
> That's not what the graphs show The graphs you provided show that coal and usage are still growing in absolute numbers. They're only going down in perentages. So, aside from oil (which is mostly still there), nothing was disp
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by pyrale 2y ago
The implication would likely be that the share of population that can't afford it won't be able to pay for the grid alone either. We have examples of this kind of situation in poor countries where the grid wasn't developed in
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by pyrale 2y ago
It really depends on your definition of "natural". But in the 13th century, all of European land had been managed by humans for millenia [1]. To consider rural England from the 13th century more natural, you would rely on a defini
934.
by pyrale 2y ago
More rural areas yes, but England has been shaped by human activities for a very long time. Rural areas are not more "natural" (as in free from human influence) than cities.
935.
by pyrale 2y ago
Non-US corporations are held to the same standard. US court making frivolous jurisdiction claims is nothing new.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> which is a human trait. Many animals share that trait.
937.
by pyrale 2y ago
You get relevant notifications without polling or needing to sub, and you don’t have to be strict about message versioning.
938.
by pyrale 2y ago
Data consumers in unknown teams is a nightmare regardless of the architecture. Events sent for readership you can’t control are ideally of the type «x changed», and the consumer must then fetch data on the relevant endpoint. That or the com
939.
by pyrale 2y ago
> now with events that are harder to trace than function calls Same issue as microservices: there are people who want to use the paradigm but not do the investment in monitoring/tooling.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Is this a multiplayer implementation?
941.
by pyrale 2y ago
I didn't really read the article, because/but I spent a minute or two playing with the cat. Nice little animation.
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by pyrale 2y ago
The alternative would be that public performance/management/grant writing/office politics are handled by someone who has absolutely no clue about what science is. It doesn't take very long to find corporate examples of t
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by pyrale 2y ago
The combination of SREC and net-metering feels insane. I would like to see the evolution of electricity bills for people who can't afford to have solar panels since these laws were enacted.
944.
by pyrale 2y ago
Honestly I don't have that much knowledge in industrial sites, but from what I understand, many industries are interested in directly getting triphased because that's what turning machines need in the end. I guess if you need 11KV
945.
by pyrale 2y ago
You can safely ignore capex once the plant is built, though. Because nobody is going to give you the money back. And so, after the plant is built, the only relevant optimization parameter left is marginal cost.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Same reason you don't repurpose a train into an airplane, the two have different benefits and drawbacks, and are used for different purposes.
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by pyrale 2y ago
HVDC is needed when you build between two non-synchronous areas like France and UK. Also if you don't have the option to build pylons and need to go underground/underseas, AC lines will suffer from capacitive load. the longer the
948.
by pyrale 2y ago
Any reason there are 3 pylons for one line? I think it's the first time I see each phase having their own pylon.
949.
by pyrale 2y ago
Getting permit is hard, but not costly. That being said, if the issue is really just red tape, you make a good point.
950.
by pyrale 2y ago
I get it, I'm just baffled with the hint the article gives that the stuff needed now wasn't planned 10 years ago. I guess this is yet another "US infrastructure disaster" article, but with a positive outlook.
951.
by pyrale 2y ago
This article is about power transit, not about fixing production peaks. V2G is not a solution here.
952.
by pyrale 2y ago
Here is the thing: planning a grid is always done with cost in mind, we do not build golden pylons for the sake of it. But on the other hand, reasonable grid planning is done a decade ahead, more for some equipment. Money spent in a hurry i
953.
by pyrale 2y ago
You don’t, but you can schedule work on nearby lines at this time for instance.
954.
by pyrale 2y ago
These ‘grid enhancing technologies’ look like cheap fixes that can only buy some time before real work is needed. Sure, with better monitoring and some overload management systems you may work closer to some limits, but that’s not a solutio
955.
by pyrale 2y ago
Seeing how many here are having fun with the choice of units, here's a puzzle: Assuming the Moore's law holds, how long will we have to wait before there are more transistors in a chip the size of a 8086 processor than moles of wa
956.
by pyrale 2y ago
My unit of choice here is teaspoons.
957.
by pyrale 2y ago
> are associated with an appearance of the Burger King himself explicitly asking for a shrine in the location ...According to the guy trying to sell you a big mac or whatever they are called there.
958.
by pyrale 2y ago
Ethics aside, there are many thing that move people, and it's not always money. For instance, selling the vulnerability means the author wouldn't have been able to tell their story.
959.
by pyrale 2y ago
Is my data processed by a separate service? Are the execs at gmail-for-paid-clients different? Do I have any recourse if they decide to update some policy document like they did in the past in their other business lines? Frankly, it's
960.
by pyrale 2y ago
Company promises are temporary, data is forever. And gmail is an ad service, having some paid clients doesn’t change that.

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