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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
Well not really as these days powerplants also come from China as they are cheaper.
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Renewable Energy Is Shaping Up to End Decades of Energy Colonialism(ryanhansson.substack.com)
6 points by xbmcuser 2mo ago|4 comments
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
This is nothing new Israel has been doing this for years. It's just that people have started waking up to their lies.
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
its simple demand and supply if you have 100 buyers for 99 the price will shoot up but if you have 100 seller and 99 buyers sellers will drop price so. Previously gas turbines were charging through the nose when sudden demand spikes but now
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2027 Is Genuinely Looking Apocalyptic [video](youtube.com)
3 points by xbmcuser 2mo ago|0 comments
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
They benefit from a strong captive market because Chinese firms cannot use Nvidia chips and are legally barred from processing data abroad, forcing them to rely on domestic infrastructure.
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
okay but anyway for electric commercial aviation 1000-1200w/kg would be enough to replace 70-80% of all flights.
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
This was claimed by CATL chief battery scientist recently or at least that's what the press claimed could be mistranslation from Chinese to English.
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
Lithium air batteries theoretically can reach 10000-12000w/kg though they have only reached 1200w in labs so far. Gasoline is 13000w/kg. We don't need to match gasoline as it is inefficient. CATL just got it's 500w&#x2F
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
90% of the tech worker population does not work for themselves they work for someone that pays them 1000s in salary for those paying those tech worker spending $40-50k on a server that helps them not pay for 2-3 tech workers is not that big
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
well this just shows how good the AI is at programming
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
That is the problem currently the subscription plans are being subsidized by VC money and token buyers. When Open weight get good enough token buyers build their own servers instead of buying tokens then no one to subsidize the subscription
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
Did you guys read the fine print they plan to increase prices significantly in the future
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World oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, IEA says after U.S. pressure(cbc.ca)
2 points by xbmcuser 2mo ago|1 comments
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The End of Hand Welding (I Saw the Proof) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by xbmcuser 2mo ago|0 comments
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2008 vs. 2026: The Same Dominoes Are Falling [video](youtube.com)
3 points by xbmcuser 2mo ago|0 comments
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
I disagree the worth of software will become a lot less as LLM take hold and more people outside software devs know how to use them properly. I am the default IT manager for our small office as I am the guy most interested in tech and in th
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
Deepseek is open weight/source ie it will be running on US servers in the US maybe by on each companies own servers.
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Anthropic AI Mandatory Employee Stock Trading Plans for IPO – This Will Not Go W [video](youtube.com)
1 points by xbmcuser 2mo ago|0 comments
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
Well its one way to solve the range anxiety. How long before they become modular so people only attach them to cars when going on long trips and leave them at home for daily driving.
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In China gas engine became a "marketing decoration" for customer's reassurance(carnewschina.com)
3 points by xbmcuser 2mo ago|1 comments
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
We will see such power and price now only when AI market crashes or China reaches node parity and goes after market share as currently the way they are buying out most of the latest node production the consumer prices will only be palatable
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
LTT has created true spec cables with the actual spec mentioned on the cables but they can not keep up with demand despite being expensive get sold out as soon as new stock comes in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfovjw7Ts
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
It is not completely but part of the reason Japan wants to defend it's currency is inflation because of increase in energy prices.
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
Today, building new solar, wind, and batteries is cheaper than building new coal or gas plants, let alone the fuel costs. Building new coal and gas would actually be stupid. Running older plants without caring about pollution might be cheap
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
it is the same as the balcony solar though so what is the difference the batteries would be doing the same exact thing?
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
Yes payback period batteries as at those prices payback period falls below 5 years with just 4-5c arbitrage so even if you don't have solar like most apartments it is still useful. And the price is low enough that it can be made mandat
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
The new sodium batteries are a lot safer than the lithium chemistries. And we already do have type of home batteries they are just called UPS systems. The real game changer will be when 3-5kwh plugin batteries fall below $150-200pkwh as at
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
its an open source model if it is important enough that you have to worry about a new version breaking something then why the fuck was that not running on your own servers this is not an Anthropic or OpenAI closed model that you only have a
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by xbmcuser 2mo ago
Who cares if it is programming correctly I would be more worried about it not doing things like find security bugs because US or Chinese government does not want to. Which LLM is more likely to do that?

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