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- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 5 days ago:
And a weird way of saying that intermittence is solved…
- Comment on It took 68 years for the world to reach 1 terawatt of solar PV capacity. It took just two years to double it | RenewEconomy 2 months ago:
- Comment on Cry Harder, Kid 2 months ago:
If you have never seen a scallop run away, google it.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 months ago:
Personally I find it weird that we do generalities about a this population as it is very likely that they had all different cultures on the tribe level.
- Comment on Amateur Entomologists 2 months ago:
Nah the game is about friendship and time travels. The boss is kinda irrelevant.
- Comment on Amateur Entomologists 2 months ago:
The court was one of the best moments!
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 2 months ago:
PENGUINS! IM TALKING ABOUT PENGUINS!
- Comment on Amateur Entomologists 2 months ago:
Chrono Trigger is fun!
- Comment on Amateur Entomologists 2 months ago:
In DnD I believe it is called a Tarrasaque
- Comment on DNA Horror Movies 2 months ago:
I’d roll my eyes over the last one but instead I just spinned them.
- Comment on Womp womp 2 months ago:
Yes, they get confused with us evil engineers.
- Comment on Why solar will soon dominate & what that means for the world 3 months ago:
Hopefully we will get to the time where atmospheric carbon scrubbing will be acceptable to discuss.
- Comment on smart engineering 3 months ago:
That’s not the history of that thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
- Comment on IS THIS REAL CHAT?? 3 months ago:
THANK GOD YES! Imaginary matrices are a pain to multiply!
- Comment on Why solar will soon dominate & what that means for the world 3 months ago:
I think the first place that will switch seriously to solar will attract a lot of energy-heavy industries that can have intermittent production but I suspect it will just be a bonus for the first country to do it.
- Comment on Why solar will soon dominate & what that means for the world 3 months ago:
To me that mostly means free or cheaper than zero electricity during peak time. That’s going to cause a total shift of mentalities as many “too inefficient” things will become a possibility.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 3 months ago:
Is this a bad thing? I always heard that here in France we have increasing forest coverage.
- Comment on Ahoy me hearties 3 months ago:
Alexandra Elbakyan deserves a Nobel and a presidential pardon. I doubt any other person alive now has made more for science.
- Comment on Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. 3 months ago:
But… but… these are my maths shoes!
- Comment on Publishers Always Innovating 3 months ago:
Yes, PDFs are much more permissive and may not have any semantic information at all. Hell, some old publications are just scanned images!
PDF -> semantic seems to be a hard problem that basically requires OCR, like these people are doing
- Comment on Publishers Always Innovating 3 months ago:
I love that PDFs are so difficult to transform into HTML, too
FYI, if that’s relevant to your field, every new article published on arxiv.org now has a HTML render as well.
And on many older publications, transforming “arxiv.org” into “ar5iv.org” leads to an HTML rendering that is a best-effort experiments they ran for a while.
- Comment on Publishers Always Innovating 3 months ago:
You are welcome.
- Comment on Hmmmm 3 months ago:
Me as an intern in a lab, being asked among others to review a draft
Hey, can you explain to me equation 3.1? I am not sure what N and Q refers to?
Oh that one I just copied from another paper, it is not really important to the argument.
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 4 months ago:
Sorry I don’t have it handy, just read it, probably on /r/askscience a while ago. A quick search indicate that maybe this is not as true as I thought. That seems to be the case mostly for coal and for some forms of oil, but not all of it.
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 4 months ago:
Not really IIRC. Modern bacteria are more efficient at breaking down organic materials and forests buried today won’t make oil anymore.
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 4 months ago:
It is renewable in the sense that given infinite time, you can use it to grow infinite energy (for the nitpickers: assuming an eternal sun).
It is not infinite though and the amount of power you can extract from it is limited but that’s true for every renewable sources: you have a limited amount of places where you can put dams, where you can put windmills or even solar panels.
What is important is that it is not power generation that consumes a scarce good (as fossil power does) but that it is increases in power generation that consumes it, in a reversible way.
- Comment on What Will We Do With Our Free Power? 5 months ago:
At one point hopefully it gets banned.
- Comment on Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? 5 months ago:
ITER does not aim at being a power plant. Its heat is directed at cooling towers with no turbines. The first fusion power plant is supposed to be DEMO which is supposed to start producing electricity by 2050.
- Comment on San Francisco has seen the most dramatic drop in solar adoption across California 7 months ago:
Does it mean that production reached the level where intermittence becomes problematic?
- Comment on World’s 1st high-temperature superconducting tokamak built in China 7 months ago:
I know. But we know it is “just” an engineering problem which can be solved at a high cost.