Renewable efficiency is close to the theoretical limit. Solar cell have a limit just over 33% and current models have efficiency of around 25%.
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reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
have datacenters get their power only from renewables and limit the amount of area they have to build them and watch renewable efficiency skyrocket as they either have to develop them or be without power.
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Renewable efficiency is close to the theoretical limit.
There’s still plenty of juice to squeeze in terms of cost to manufacturer, deploy, and maintain. This isn’t purely a question of cell efficiency.
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
That’s cost, not efficiency…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s Cost Efficiency, which is a vital calculation in any business enterprise.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
if the component is at its limit, then you can come up with ways to use that component more efficiently. Also reducing the size of the whole thing also increases efficiency singe you can stuff more of them in same area
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Tha area is given by the suns light. The sun gives us around 1000w per m2. The theoretical limit is 330w converted to electrical power. Current panels achieve 250w.
This is not a GPU, making things smaller doesn’t give you any gains.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
wouldnt it be better to get 250w from smaller area than bigger?
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are you trying to trick tech companies into being useful? That’ll upset them.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Someone tell Silicon Valley: They should put datacenters on trains so no one knows where they are. gonna need HSR for it to work properly tho.
4am@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
We’d have renewable-powered trains that have trackside turbines to recoup some of the wing generated by the train’s drag, and send also have the fastest WiFi the world has ever seen
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One hundred kilobit per second is my final offer
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Making a data center profitable would be bad for the economy and the jobs