schimmy_changa

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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
Agrivoltaics are far more expensive, and farmers have to change their behavior significantly. Floating solar doesn't require any of that partnership and ongoing behavioral change, just slightly more expensive up-front costs. Also - in
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
really, the competition against cheap desert land is what makes the difference - that is why it really makes sense in places with limited land (Japan, South Korea, eastern China, coastal California, etc)
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
There are not significant limitations to scale other than the usual economic reasons. There are competing uses of many reservoirs, however - likely recreational boaters would strongly oppose taking over large sections of reservoirs, so floa
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
you can walk on the floats between the panels, see: https://www.dynamicslr.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/floati...
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
It's an area of open research, but especially if it doesn't cover 100% of the water body it's fairly benign: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403212... For instance, birds
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
It's an area of open research, but especially if it doesn't cover 100% of the water body it's fairly benign: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403212... For instance, birds
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
It's an area of open research, but especially if it doesn't cover 100% of the water body it's fairly benign: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403212... For instance, birds
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
It's likely well-suited for that, but in general hydro + floating solar could be ideal as the power infrastructure is already in place. Pumped hydro is not 100% ideal as the drastic changes in water level can cause some problems with d
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
Yes! Check out the Healdsburg project: https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/news/healdsb... "It was a desire to shade the recycled wastewater, not capture the sun’s energy, that first led city offi
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
If anyone is interested, I just completed a Master's thesis on a feasibility study for floating solar on a specific reservoir in southern California: https://bren.ucsb.edu/projects/exploring-feasibility-floatin...
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
It's probably cost-effective, either compared to buying utility energy or especially compared to backup diesel generators. It could simply be a financial decision with some nice co-benefits...
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
I did a skills exchange with a salesperson at my company- I taught him how to code, and he taught me how to sell. We’d meet up over coffee every week for a few hours. It was actually pretty fun!
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
Especially because they came so close so early with Google Wave! That was it , I think, but Google didn't have the confidence at the time to stick with it, and it was just too unpolished to keep out in the public at a time when ever
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by schimmy_changa 4y ago
I think the idea here is that snapchat is trying to solve that user issue drones have. If they can make using a drone as simple as TikTok made posting a short edited video, then they succeed here. There are lots of people who want to take d
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
I've experienced both styles (studied abroad from the US to the UK) and the final exam counting as everything in the course tended to encourage cramming and a lack of learning during the rest of the course. Learning happens well when y
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
Nestle specifically, yes, but Agriculture overall, no- check out PPIC for reports on this. The equivalent price that farmers pay for water is about 25 cents… you’d pay more for a shower as an individual I think!
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
Ha - those examples are all environmental nightmares that were dealt with because of “songs” that accurately explained the danger we were in as a society. See: Y2K as a non-environmental example. Agree that it’s the same song and somehow
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
Huh- I hope someone at google looking for a 20% time project is looking at this thread… with their traffic data this wouldn’t be too hard! The “open” part might be the hardest part for that engineer to achieve though. I guess it’s not unpre
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
A big piece of this is that 30-year mortgages in the USA are strongly subsidized and encouraged (see, mortgage interest tax deduction, loan guarantees, flood insurance, sewer and road system subsidies, etc). So for a middle-class person, th
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
"Mostly fertile land"?? I don't think either are worthless (I love deserts for their own sake), but to describe that triangle as fertile is ... not very close to accurate!
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
Agree that e-bikes probably are better than no e-bikes because most people won't actually buy their own e-bike anyways. Another piece not really discussed: shared e-bikes are a gateway drug for buying your own e-bike. You discover th
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
So let's say that's 10 cars and 200 bikes (being generous, usually cars have only one person in them, and also bikes esp. with children in biking-heavy countries have more than one person carried by them). If they are evenly space
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
Yes, but the term 'Peak Oil' implies the catastrophic and sudden crash in the availability of oil, not in the slow decrease in production due to alternatives. (Don't get me wrong, I'd like production to decline much fast
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by schimmy_changa 5y ago
This is asinine - why do we need to spend billions and billions of dollars for more missiles for theoretical hot wars with Russia and China? Isn't a hot war what nuclear deterrence is supposed to prevent? The tone of the article is &qu
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by schimmy_changa 6y ago
"Outside of third world countries, nobody dies from coal. It's not even a health problem." is not true, see this DOE report: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/01/f34/E
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by schimmy_changa 6y ago
Completely agree - when trying to use a map to understand things about the world that humans care about (the normal use-case of world maps!), it helps to have the places-where-things-that-humans-care-about easily visible and differentiable.
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by schimmy_changa 6y ago
I thought a bit about this, y'all might find this interesting: https://twitter.com/schimmy_changa/status/131500175166618828... Basically, companies have an obligation to 'do the right thing' when it
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by schimmy_changa 6y ago
These... actually worked for me. I've been getting fed up with Google getting worse and had been intending to set my default search to DDG, and seeing the billboard was enough of a nudge to make the switch on my phone. I had tried out
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by schimmy_changa 6y ago
It's really hard to tell (this is very confusing: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/senate-vote-fisa-aut... ) but it looks like the amendment by a pro-privacy senator (Wyden, D-OR) failed, no
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Distributed Queries in a Microservice Architecture(medium.com)
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