A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
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@cwebber All these planned huge AI datacenters should build their own solar farms them. Ought to be cheaper than buying power from existing grids in the long run. Unless govt tax exceptions benefit them from stressing existing grids and providers for even cheaper, that is.
@raulinbonn they'd need (concentrated) solar (thermal) power stations (CSP) with thermal storage, and those occupy large areas and might not even produce enough energy for the AI datacentres (and they take longer to build than datacentres). We don't need more AI datacentres, even AI companies are reaching that conclusion.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber Wish we were allowed to out here..
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber I specifically remember reading articles in my childhood in a pop science mag bemoaning the way that solar panels were expensive and not very efficient and expressing longing for the imagined future where they were cheap and worked well.
Here you go, Focus columnist, this is the future you were dreaming of
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There is still hope in this dying world
@cwebber Michael Kosta (Daily show) rightfully awarded Trump with this beautiful trophee yesterday
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@darwinwoodka @cwebber true however, my intention was small scale i.e home to village level roughly 30 homes.
Can anything other than biowaste, solar and hydro electricity be used?!@kernelvoid @darwinwoodka @cwebber that needs just solar at winter level plus batteries
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber And, outside the US, the world is actually doing rather well with it, investing, subsidizing, supporting.
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There is still hope in this dying world
@cwebber still hoping, but certain some billionaires fuck it all up even more.
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@cwebber The irony of our “drill baby drill” prez doing more to drive renewables than just about anything else recently
@FurryBeta @cwebber Feels pretty silly to be fighting over petroleum in these circumstances.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber @bert_hubert if only our energy market wasn't so irredeemably broken so that we still pay based on the price of the most expensive unit on the grid no matter the actual mean price of generation
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
Myth: Solar energy is safe and harmless.
Fact: If the sun explodes, it will kill all life on Earth.
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@FurryBeta @cwebber Feels pretty silly to be fighting over petroleum in these circumstances.
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@darwinwoodka @cwebber true however, my intention was small scale i.e home to village level roughly 30 homes.
Can anything other than biowaste, solar and hydro electricity be used?!@kernelvoid @darwinwoodka @cwebber wind? if the village is somewhere windy.
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