Thanks. I don't know much about the project, so I didn't pick the best performance ratio. It might end up being over 90%. It also could end up much worse, with either shadowing, module mismatch, inverter mismatch or soiling. I've seen big projects where almost a dozen inverters (out of many hundred) were either out of order or even not connected at all without anyone noticing for over a year.
Your calculation is a just bit too simple and optimistic.
Madurai (about 50km away from the power plant) has an average global horizontal irradiance of 224W/m**2. At 9 degree latitude North, the optimum tilt angle is pretty close to horizontal : 10 degree tilt only brings 2% more irradiance over the year
Total insolation is year * average irradiance ~ 1960kWh The performance ratio of such a power plant could be around 85%, with cable losses, inverter losses and automated cleaning. The nominal power of the installation is 648MWp, tested under an irradiance of 1000W/m**2. So your expected yield is : 1960kWh/(m**2*year)*85%*648MW/(1000W/m**2) ~ 1.1 TWh/year
compared to your result of 1.9 TWh/year.
The plant should pay for itself in less than 8 years, and your calculation wasn't too far off.
That article from David Heinemeier Hansson wasn't that bad, actually. The title was truncated in the summary to make it more trollish. He just said that he doesn't seek 100% unit tests coverage any more, and uses a mixture of unit and system tests. It works fine in my experience.
It's pretty easy to understand why Obama didn't close Guantanamo : There are many innocent people there. If they weren't terrorists before entering there, they sure would be now after 15 years of inhuman treatments. No country wants them, so they'll rot there for eternity without ever facing a trial.
Obama learned the lesson, and just gave the chairforce orders to use more drones.
Let Google do the same : * Your credit card number is 5500 4567 3436 7804 * You spent $3754.17 on Amazon in 2016 * Your coordinates are 39.2904 N, 76.6122 W * Your dad has undiagnosed cancer since may 2016. * Your wife cheated on you yesterday. Twice! At 39.166537, -76.624614 and 39.204198, -76.655321, with Google users #5465487874 and #497987544
Is it the same German police who said last month "How could we know that Jabr al-Bakr (who was planning a suicide bombing) was suicidal?".
Fun fact: It was a fake article in Postillon (a german The Onion, http://www.der-postillon.com/2...), but the real police said exactly the same thing in Spiegel (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/jaber-albakr-terrorverdaechtiger-sprach-nur-einmal-einen-dolmetscher-a-1116457.html) afer the suicide bomber commited suicide in his cell .
PS: If you find a MP5 laying around in Germany, please be kind and send it back to the police (http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/leipzig-polizist-muss-verlorene-waffe-wohl-bezahlen-a-1116633.html) Thanks in advance!
Indeed, Al Gore only got 543895 votes more than Bush, so Bush would have had to compromise only a few machines to switch 275000 votes in order to win. Wait a minute! Your electoral system is fricking retarded, so Bush didn't have to change anything!
Keep on dreaming. The second law of thermodynamics is a bitch. We *should* change our behavior. We probably won't, at least not at a global scale. I'm really afraid that the "solution" is to party hard right now, because a massive hangover is coming anyway.
+1. I was a witness once, never again. The police took a picture of me and send it to the victim, just to make sure I wasn't the culprit. She said "maybe", so I spent a night in a cell. You don't want to be falsely accused of something just because the local police station wants to improve the stats and you're the only person they could find who was near the crime scene. ACAB.
Exactly. Only assholes buy cars that cost as much as a decent flat and have engines big enough to keep 20 single family houses warm in winter. It makes perfect sense they would use any available low-born pedestrian as an external air-bag.
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Interesting blog, BTW.
Thanks. I don't know much about the project, so I didn't pick the best performance ratio.
It might end up being over 90%. It also could end up much worse, with either shadowing, module mismatch, inverter mismatch or soiling.
I've seen big projects where almost a dozen inverters (out of many hundred) were either out of order or even not connected at all without anyone noticing for over a year.
Your calculation is a just bit too simple and optimistic.
Madurai (about 50km away from the power plant) has an average global horizontal irradiance of 224W/m**2.
At 9 degree latitude North, the optimum tilt angle is pretty close to horizontal : 10 degree tilt only brings 2% more irradiance over the year
Total insolation is year * average irradiance ~ 1960kWh
The performance ratio of such a power plant could be around 85%, with cable losses, inverter losses and automated cleaning.
The nominal power of the installation is 648MWp, tested under an irradiance of 1000W/m**2.
So your expected yield is :
1960kWh/(m**2*year)*85%*648MW/(1000W/m**2) ~ 1.1 TWh/year
compared to your result of 1.9 TWh/year.
The plant should pay for itself in less than 8 years, and your calculation wasn't too far off.
That article from David Heinemeier Hansson wasn't that bad, actually. The title was truncated in the summary to make it more trollish.
He just said that he doesn't seek 100% unit tests coverage any more, and uses a mixture of unit and system tests.
It works fine in my experience.
It's pretty easy to understand why Obama didn't close Guantanamo :
There are many innocent people there. If they weren't terrorists before entering there, they sure would be now after 15 years of inhuman treatments.
No country wants them, so they'll rot there for eternity without ever facing a trial.
Obama learned the lesson, and just gave the chairforce orders to use more drones.
Let Google do the same :
* Your credit card number is 5500 4567 3436 7804
* You spent $3754.17 on Amazon in 2016
* Your coordinates are 39.2904 N, 76.6122 W
* Your dad has undiagnosed cancer since may 2016.
* Your wife cheated on you yesterday. Twice! At 39.166537, -76.624614 and 39.204198, -76.655321, with Google users #5465487874 and #497987544
Have a nice day, and remember : "don't be evil"!
My grandmother relied exclusively on anecdotal evidence, and she lived to be 103!
Is it the same German police who said last month "How could we know that Jabr al-Bakr (who was planning a suicide bombing) was suicidal?".
Fun fact: It was a fake article in Postillon (a german The Onion, http://www.der-postillon.com/2...), but the real police said exactly the same thing in Spiegel (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/jaber-albakr-terrorverdaechtiger-sprach-nur-einmal-einen-dolmetscher-a-1116457.html) afer the suicide bomber commited suicide in his cell .
PS: If you find a MP5 laying around in Germany, please be kind and send it back to the police (http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/leipzig-polizist-muss-verlorene-waffe-wohl-bezahlen-a-1116633.html) Thanks in advance!
So let's call it 'The United SWING STATES of America'
That was a reference to the false hope that "technology will save us".
Indeed, Al Gore only got 543895 votes more than Bush, so Bush would have had to compromise only a few machines to switch 275000 votes in order to win.
Wait a minute! Your electoral system is fricking retarded, so Bush didn't have to change anything!
Keep on dreaming.
The second law of thermodynamics is a bitch.
We *should* change our behavior. We probably won't, at least not at a global scale.
I'm really afraid that the "solution" is to party hard right now, because a massive hangover is coming anyway.
+1.
I was a witness once, never again. The police took a picture of me and send it to the victim, just to make sure I wasn't the culprit. She said "maybe", so I spent a night in a cell. You don't want to be falsely accused of something just because the local police station wants to improve the stats and you're the only person they could find who was near the crime scene.
ACAB.
Li-ion batteries still suck, but lead acid suck at least 10 times as much!
So. Do you think this MacBook Pro is a pro laptop?
In 10 years : WalmartGoogleExxonAppleGoldman buys AT&TimeWarnerGeneralElectricsVerizon for $85T
Oh. They're literally invisible.
I thought you meant that they're so fast that you cannot see them on the video.
Crazy stuff.
Well, no.
Pedestrian makes a mistake : pedestrian is dead.
Driver makes a mistake : pedestrian is dead.
Notice something?
Exactly. Only assholes buy cars that cost as much as a decent flat and have engines big enough to keep 20 single family houses warm in winter.
It makes perfect sense they would use any available low-born pedestrian as an external air-bag.
Sigh. You're right.
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
This sucks. Systemd, no codec in ISO...
Congrats, Amy Winehouse.
5 years sober!
So, Debian?
The latest versions. You mean, the last 22 ones or so?
Hasn't it been Linux Mint for a while?