Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

• 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.

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s cost, not efficiency…

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s Cost Efficiency, which is a vital calculation in any business enterprise.

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• 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

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  • 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.

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      wouldnt it be better to get 250w from smaller area than bigger?

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