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- Comment on Solar PV Installations Will Reach Up To 660 Gigawatts In 2024 - CleanTechnica 1 week ago:
Yup, typically I just mentally multiply by 1000 (nice round numbers). But obviously a 100MW farm in the Sahara is going to produce more in a year than the same 100MW farm in Germany. It’d be cool to see a list on a global scale that showed a table and maybe generation vs demand curves for the area they serve. Maybe I’ll put it on my “projects I’ll never get to” list.
- Comment on Solar PV Installations Will Reach Up To 660 Gigawatts In 2024 - CleanTechnica 1 week ago:
Like capacity x capacity factor, e.g. if your 100MW site produces power 50% of the time (because of nighttime, clouds, etc) then it would produce, over the course of a year 100,000,000 x 24 x 365 x 0.5 = 438 GWh annually (very simplified).
- Comment on Solar PV Installations Will Reach Up To 660 Gigawatts In 2024 - CleanTechnica 1 week ago:
Does anyone know of a site that tracks the typical GWh of these big installations?
- Submitted 1 month ago to earthscience@mander.xyz | 2 comments
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
Investors who don’t bother reading past the letters A and I in the prospectus.
- Comment on Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme 1 month ago:
How is Worldcoin still a thing?
- Comment on evangelism 2 months ago:
This is so terrible it physically pains me.
- Comment on shoebills 2 months ago:
They’re dinosaurs.
- Comment on mmm space chocolate 2 months ago:
“Aerospace chocolatiers” would be a great name for an experimental, new-age music troupe.
- Comment on Advanced solar sail mission prepares to catch the wind in the void of space 2 months ago:
The interesting part of the article:
The new flexible polymer and carbon composite boom is coupled with a twelve-unit (12U) CubeSat built by NanoAvionics. After the mission launches atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand, the spacecraft will go into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 600 miles (~1,000 km) and the sail will deploy in about 25 minutes to cover an area of 860 ft² (80 m²) with the boom unfolding from the size of a hand to 23 ft (7 m) long. Once deployed, the sail will adjust the vehicle’s orbit by angling itself in relation to the solar wind.
- Comment on This Raspberry Pi volumetric display is a new spin on LED 3D animations 4 months ago:
One of the video clips has Doom Guy shooting at a Baron of Hell :)
- Comment on Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services 4 months ago:
Are there any self-hosted twitter front ends? Something that would still use your account credentials (or maybe shared credentials) but would cut out all of the cruft, kinda like piped for YT?
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Article suggests that 1 million ML specialists will be needed in 2027. What do you think of that? 4 months ago:
Fair enough. ML ⊆ AI then. But these days when everyone talking breathlessly about AI taking away jobs they’re almost always taking about LLMs. This article is about ML in particular which is a different discipline with different applications.
- Comment on Article suggests that 1 million ML specialists will be needed in 2027. What do you think of that? 4 months ago:
ML =/= AI. There are legit uses for ML that don’t have anything to do with LLMs and the cloud. I worked on an ML project 3 or 4 years ago to listen for fan noise that might indicate that it was about to fail soon. We trained a tiny GAN on good and bad noises. It runs on a tiny CPU, locally. Highly specialized work, and I have to imagine there are and will continue to be lots of similar opportunities to bring efficiencies by getting computers to make good observations and decisions - even if only about “simple” things like “does this thing seem like it’s about to break?”
- Comment on Half-Earth Socialism: A Planetary Crisis Planning Game 4 months ago:
I read about 25% of the book this is based on before giving up (too manifesto-y for me, and needed a different/better editor), but the thought of coupling a book with a game like this is pretty interesting — get the point of your argument across to people who might otherwise never engage with it (if not for the title, anyway)
- Comment on Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech 4 months ago:
I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more of a push for B Corp style corporate governance in tech considering how many tech leaders claim to be working for the greater good. There are plenty of options for doing well and doing good at the same time.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 75 comments
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- Comment on U.S. Will Pay to Add Solar Panels to Hospitals, Schools After Disasters 5 months ago:
Paywall removed: archive.ph/Nfmrd
- Comment on The lithium revolution has arrived at California's Salton Sea | Controlled Thermal Resources is ready to start building a lithium extraction and geothermal power plant at the Salton Sea 5 months ago:
The Salton Sea is already halfway to being a Superfund site. May as well finish the job.
- Comment on China’s New Solar Test Is Finding Enough Grid Space for Rooftop Panels 5 months ago:
Wait till you hear about our windstorm (ie hurricane) insurance premiums for anything strapped to your roof…