tmikaeld

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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   > 'follow the money' https://www.politico.eu/article/chinese-wind-farm-investment...
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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   The steel plant isn’t built along the south coast though, where the wind turbines will be, it’s built in the opposite end of Sweden (boden).
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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   It is very much fixable, but the Swedish ruling party don't want to do the recommended upgrades, even though they themselves commissioned the investigations into the infrastructure..
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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   Thanks for pointing it out, I can't edit the comments any more.
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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   Awesome, hoping to see this in Cloudflare Workers as soon as V8 has it! (Currently using day.js)
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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   I've seen similar by Salt-X, they use molten salt. Glad science is being done on this, but it seems hard, the salt causes korrosion issues, so it doesn't last long.
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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   Thanks a lot for the clarification, I was unsure if the claims where as bad as they seemed. It IS a problem in Sweden though, since we transport large amounts electricity over an under-dimensioned grid from the far north to south.
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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   How you complement something doesn't matter if the total capacity isn't there and if multiple countries are all consuming their energy, which is currently happening (this driving prices waaay up), you're looking at potential
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   by tmikaeld 5y ago

   It's not that easy, if you consider the environmental issues with digging down large power cables, creating power converters for every single unit, maintenance and replacing after 20 years, employment and network balancing - compared t
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    Yes, it is connected, which means that when multiple countries are at a loss, then other can help out - but when all countries area at a loss or when the frequency don't match, which is currently happening, prices sky-rocket, electrici
11. 671.▲
    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    My point was that, if you stop and start frequently, the balance of the network will be extremely hard to maintain so you'll get blackouts that can span wide areas or even the whole net. Even if that wasn't the case, I'm not
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    It's blackouts that Sweden is dangerously close to, because the majority of power is consumed in the south but it's produced in the north. There's not only a production issue, but also a transport issue.
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    That's if you can assume that peak usage can be supplied, if it can't, there will be a loss of frequency (<50hz). When that happens, entire regions have to be forcefully shutdown, meaning there's no electricity to use even
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    Yes, because I couldn't find the Energikommissionen official publications any more, same goes for net stability documents being removed from government sites (from 2013).
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    According to "Energikommissionen"s research, Swedish hydro could be greatly built out with minimal effects on the environment. [0] (2015 article) https://www.nyteknik.se/opinion/dags-att-bygga-ut-vattenkraf...
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    Units where unclear, it's been corrected. Numbers are correct though, see the sources.
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    I'm sorry, the units where wrong, it's been corrected. It should, of course be 1GW = 1000 MW, to be clearer I changed it to MW.
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    Yeah, I changed the units to be clearer.
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    There's an estimate 10 000MW additional requirement of power for Swedish Industry (3000MW surplus in the north): - The Swedish fossil-free steel (& Direct-Reduced Iron) manufacture (9000 MW) - Amazon/google/microsoft data
20. 680.▲
    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    Sorry, it should be "I hope my message WASN'T deterring", auto-correct :-D
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    I hope my message was deterring, it would be awesome if you succeeded, but it would also be horrible if the effort was wasted and you became bankrupt at the same time. Your plan sounds very doable, especially if you source within EU countri
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    There’s two options: 1. they found the breach and patched it, lies about it to save face. 2. there was no breach Even if it’s option two, would you want to gamble on it?
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    I've seen and worked with a fare share of projects that base the mass production in China in the past 20+ years, this is what you can expect: - Sourcing of electronic components vary from day-to-day currently, expect quotes to go from
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    I had the same reaction, however, there are a lot of review-videos of the production units on their Kickstarter and it looks like it's already in mass-production. I'm not going to back this one though, I'd rather wait for Val
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    Looks like there's more competition in the portable headset sphere now, this [0] micro-oled VR headset is already on kickstarter. With that kind of resolution (5120x2560) and lightness (200g), I'd be VERY interested in trying it a
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    But you want to be able to use electricity when you need it, right?
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    Do you only use electricity only some hours a day? No it’s usage need to be constant, or you'll get black-outs in regions where the grids 50hz frequency cannot be kept - which a lot of communals in Sweden are dangerously close to. And
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    Lot's of what-if-s in this write-up - a bit of a tinkerers ball - would have loved more benchmarks with graphs to show the differences. Interesting to see a 20% performance increase due to blocksize being 16k instead of 8k.
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    I guess native GPU drivers are the biggest thing that's missing to enable gaming.
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    by tmikaeld 5y ago

    No, you're right, I missed that feature.