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Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: There are about 1.47 million individual solar panel installations in the US. That number comes courtesy of an artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at Stanford University. The system is outlined in a study released Wednesday that describes how the AI setup analyzed satellite photos to figure out how widespread solar panel usage is. The report, called "DeepSolar: A Machine Learning Framework to Efficiently Construct a Solar Deployment Database in the United States" and published in the journal Joule, showed there are more solar panels out there than previously thought. The group plans to update the database annually and add other countries and regions in the future, the study says.
... count the increase in ISIS members after Trump's premature withdrawal ... you know, like Trump said Obama did and stuff.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
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We might need someone to start making solar panels that donâ(TM)t t look solar panels so they won't come around and tax you for having power. Also would probably look nicer.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
Australia surpassed 1.5 million cumulative installs in 2016, Germany was at 1.7 million in 2017
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
You don't need solar panels when you have subsidized oil, coal, and nuclear power. Tax the middle class to support a welfare state for industrialists and energy moguls.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
So I guess the first question is why? It is stupid. Why not burn the CPU cycles on maybe......CANCER or a fucking cure?
I don't understand, how could they do this without BlockChain? Or Augmented Reality? To really kick it up a notch, you'd use an augmented reality by blockchaining internets of things into quantum computing platforms. Synergistically.
Have gnu, will travel.
According to the upcoming 2019 USA edition of Homeless Workers' CoOp Manifesto, 'Eat the Rich' chapter; this is how you find them. Maps of residential solar panels, swimming pools, private tennis courts and inaccessible ocean beaches. Members are encouraged to map their own locale via drones for inclusion in future editions. Don't forget that they are nicely fattened during the holiday season!
...omphaloskepsis often...
A city might be interested to find out who has a permit for that "work" done? :) ... and is totally lacking all kinds of gov permits?
Was the permit for a size of solar generation but a lot more was added later? Its full gov inspection time.
An energy company might like to shape state and city "energy" production laws?
To find out how much solar exists on and off the grid and how much energy could be pushed back into "their" grid should laws get changed? Different federal US law enfacement experts might like to know who is buying and placing so much "hidden" energy production "off grid" for what "reason"
Who has a "bunker" with a well hidden solar system set up
Who is living in a tent city with a solar panel set up? A RV "parked" with solar on the RV roof?
Its energy tax time and the gov is counting everyone to tax in new ways.
A city and state want people who can "afford" solar to pay more tax?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
They are in my garage
Folks eventually start to believe it.
The media throws around the term " AI " like its commonplace in society.
If and when a true AI is ever created, it will be truly terrifying in comparison to what passes as AI today.
I say terrifying because we, as a species, are used to being top of the food chain here.
Once we lose that distinction, quite a few folks aren't going to deal with that realization well.
I was wondering how many false positives they might get from this - a local restaurant has decorative steel panels outside that look kind of like solar panels (including the angle) but are not...
Also, what do they really mean by "Solar Panel". My mom technically has a solar panel on her roof - but it's only for heating water, it does not provide power. I know at least a few other people with solar water heating panels as well, are they included in the tally yet being thought of as providing power?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Nearmap can do this and more
They make regular flights to capture info and have all these stats
New title :
Researchers reinvent the wheel again and claim it's new!!
Germany wins hands down.
per person US uses twice the CO2 as Europe.
WTF are you smoking?
To fund clean coal energy!
If law is the gub'mnt gunbarrel and data the trigger then ..... tax tax tax ... them solar cells ! No white man should have the privilege of using his superior intelligence and foresight to benefit more than a coal-burning Bantu savage.