Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoif 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?