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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There are ones we could use for small projects, but not at scale really. Solar scales better than most other things we've found. From here the big win is better battery technology to store the excess solar power we CAN produce currently.
@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?! -
A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber There is political push in Denmark to make it mandatory to install solar panels on larger buildings of state and local government.
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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 here in za people are installing rooftop solar faster than our national power supplier is losing generation capacity. it's great
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@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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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber it does rule. Solar works everywhere you have a sun, it’s amazing in its simplicity.
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@cwebber and here in za people are installing rooftop solar faster than our national power supplier is losing generation capacity. it's great
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@marion_grau @cwebber it's been very strange over the last 2 years how the loadshedding seems to have vanished. and i keep expecting to pop up again
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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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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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Not downplaying just how awful those administrations fucked us over, but modern solar and batteries are generations of tech better than what we had back then. We didn't hit the "cheaper than gas" point until just the last few years.
@darwinwoodka @juliehuz @cwebber@JessTheUnstill @darwinwoodka @juliehuz @cwebber That was probably in considerable part because less effort was put into the matter than there otherwise would've been.
