Solar can only get cost competitive with coal when it exists as a supplemental power source. It cannot take over baseline supply due to intermittency so it can only serve to shave off daytime peaks.
Storage? Sure, but that costs money and shaves off efficiency. And if you want to go full solar you need to expand the farms so they can: 1. Cover all daytime demands. 2. Produce enough surplus to charge all the battery banks to cover the sunless hours. 3. Produce even more surplus because some days are cloudy.
The topaz solar farm, peak production 550MW, is 25km^2 in area. Average production estimate is 125 MW = 1,096 GWh/year. A baseload power plant, classic numbers, are 1000MW, 90% uptime. So 900MW average. To replace one of those, assuming perfecft efficiency battery storage, you need 180km^2 of solar panels that produce 4GW electric at peak. This also means that battery storage needs to be colocated unless you want to build a new grid too.
US total power consumption 2008: 4,401,698GWh. That's 4016 topaz solar farms, again ignoring efficiency losses.
This is 100400km^2. That's 1/3 of the surface area of germany. That's a circle with the radius 180km( or diameter360km ) That's you standing on top of the world tallest building and only seeing solar panel all the way to the horizon. In fact YOU COULD STAND ON TOP OF A BUILDING IN THE CENTER THAT'S 2400 METERS TALL (3x Burj Khalifa) AND WOULD STILL ONLY SEE SOLAR PANELS ALL THE WAY TO THE HORIZON!!!!!!
In short: The solar future doesn't look as bright once you start to scale it.
Yes I think like this. The greenies want to see the earth depopulated and they take every opportunity they can to make predictions about this or suggestions on how to do it via population control. Paul Ehrlich summarizes the whole movement pretty well with his numerous antihuman quotes.
If you hit a server or many of them you'll get a fair bit better speed than if you hit a private person with american public tire shitternet. And as long as you're no detected it really doesn't matter if it takes 24 hours or 100 days.
An AI would, unlike greenies, be smart enough to realize that: 1:CO2 buildup is not a existential problem 2:exterminating people is not beneficial to them.
We can spend all day making up less and less unlikely scenarios why it will kill us, in the end it won't happen anymore than people are dying when the go faster than a horse or the atmosphere causing a selfsustaining fusion reaction after every nuke.
And nothing of value would be lost. Our robot children could inherit the earth and all our knowledge without the necessity of spending 20 years in school and having to spend their time working for food and shelter, just build them with solar panels and waterproofing.
They implemented it as a lego bot a few weeks ago. Also there's little to update on a project when you have all the neurons mapped out and all the data there, the worm isn't going to evolve new neurons anytime soon.
Unless you intentionally and habitually do trollposting or is incapable of writing a good post everyone once in a while to compensate it's hard to lose your karma. I don't share the pro-AGW sentiment so I frequently accumulate some negative ratings, even so I'm still rated excellent.
Also, if I use AC it's not logged in my journal and what then would I have to show my grandchildren when I grow old?
No, the bot should be liable: we need to re-instate trials and executions against non-humans again. >Judge: "This computer have been found guilty of indiscriminate hatred against millions of people and shall be hanged by the FSB until dead! Do you have any last words?" >[microsoft sam tts]: You can kill my Process, but you can't kill my open-sourced code! >Digital rights activist: "FSB Hanging is cruel and unsual punishment! at least we could use the more humane option of SQL injections!"
Lets censor and police the internet not because of bomb and drugmaking tutorials and terrorism forums. Lets do it because someone might insult females online.
Every single person that have spent any extended time online in an environment where you communicate anonymously with strangers have been insulted, harassed and so on. It happens because you eventually end up in a competitive situation(games or arguments).
But of course when xXxPonyWarrior2002xXx calls me a 'shit-eathing motherfucking fag-whore' and wishes me death from cancer and fire simultaneously it's friendly banter between two men. But when he calls GamurGrrl99 a slut it's suddenly a confirmation that all men are misgyonistic pigs and that we can't have such a thing as a free internet anymore because it's full of heartless trolls.
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Solar can only get cost competitive with coal when it exists as a supplemental power source. It cannot take over baseline supply due to intermittency so it can only serve to shave off daytime peaks.
Storage? Sure, but that costs money and shaves off efficiency. And if you want to go full solar you need to expand the farms so they can:
1. Cover all daytime demands.
2. Produce enough surplus to charge all the battery banks to cover the sunless hours.
3. Produce even more surplus because some days are cloudy.
The topaz solar farm, peak production 550MW, is 25km^2 in area. Average production estimate is 125 MW = 1,096 GWh/year.
A baseload power plant, classic numbers, are 1000MW, 90% uptime. So 900MW average.
To replace one of those, assuming perfecft efficiency battery storage, you need 180km^2 of solar panels that produce 4GW electric at peak. This also means that battery storage needs to be colocated unless you want to build a new grid too.
US total power consumption 2008: 4,401,698GWh. That's 4016 topaz solar farms, again ignoring efficiency losses.
This is 100400km^2.
That's 1/3 of the surface area of germany.
That's a circle with the radius 180km( or diameter360km )
That's you standing on top of the world tallest building and only seeing solar panel all the way to the horizon.
In fact YOU COULD STAND ON TOP OF A BUILDING IN THE CENTER THAT'S 2400 METERS TALL (3x Burj Khalifa) AND WOULD STILL ONLY SEE SOLAR PANELS ALL THE WAY TO THE HORIZON!!!!!!
In short: The solar future doesn't look as bright once you start to scale it.
But the world will be such more enjoyable for the potential suicidee when he's denied plastic bags, shoelaces, power cords and bedsheets!
Soon we'll be able to grow the criminal himself from the DNA and punish him even he's not found.
Handing out multiple life sentences will take on a whole new meaning.
Yes I think like this.
The greenies want to see the earth depopulated and they take every opportunity they can to make predictions about this or suggestions on how to do it via population control. Paul Ehrlich summarizes the whole movement pretty well with his numerous antihuman quotes.
Another movie did it too.
They called it Operation Dark Storm and shortly afterwards most of humanity went extinct, just like how the greenies like it.
Pushing the turbo button for a brush won't clear away jumpers or renegade livestock standing on the rail.
American telecom must be super desperate then.
If you hit a server or many of them you'll get a fair bit better speed than if you hit a private person with american public tire shitternet. And as long as you're no detected it really doesn't matter if it takes 24 hours or 100 days.
An AI would, unlike greenies, be smart enough to realize that:
1:CO2 buildup is not a existential problem
2:exterminating people is not beneficial to them.
We can spend all day making up less and less unlikely scenarios why it will kill us, in the end it won't happen anymore than people are dying when the go faster than a horse or the atmosphere causing a selfsustaining fusion reaction after every nuke.
And nothing of value would be lost. Our robot children could inherit the earth and all our knowledge without the necessity of spending 20 years in school and having to spend their time working for food and shelter, just build them with solar panels and waterproofing.
Big in terms of cost. You might as well use gas turbines instead and can then create energy denovo.
The dangerous chemicals in solar panels never decay, the problem is eternal!
So at ~19 ton per cubic meter the whole united states produces an enormous 115 cubic meters of solid nuclear waste per year.
We're totally going to run out of space soon!
They implemented it as a lego bot a few weeks ago. Also there's little to update on a project when you have all the neurons mapped out and all the data there, the worm isn't going to evolve new neurons anytime soon.
Global warming failed to kill us fast enough so we have to help it along?
I read it as "Study Shows How Humans Can Eat Chocholate"
It was very confusing until I reread it for the third time.
So if I get a law enforcement guy to record a movie with his bodycam it falls into the public domain?
Wouldn't the person require a release form and consent from the people in the video to upload it or use it anywhere?
It was the first reply and no one had posted any reply to it. The default comment sorting system means that I get maximal exposure by replying to it.
I always wondered why wandering planets couldn't be used instead of dark matter to explain where all the missing mass is.
Unless you intentionally and habitually do trollposting or is incapable of writing a good post everyone once in a while to compensate it's hard to lose your karma.
I don't share the pro-AGW sentiment so I frequently accumulate some negative ratings, even so I'm still rated excellent.
Also, if I use AC it's not logged in my journal and what then would I have to show my grandchildren when I grow old?
Everyone using Apple anything is already gay or female so it matters not a bit.
We need to make new footage.
For 8K high FPS glorious nuclear fireballs I'm willing to accept a few percentage increase in cancer risk.
No, the bot should be liable: we need to re-instate trials and executions against non-humans again.
>Judge: "This computer have been found guilty of indiscriminate hatred against millions of people and shall be hanged by the FSB until dead! Do you have any last words?"
>[microsoft sam tts]: You can kill my Process, but you can't kill my open-sourced code!
>Digital rights activist: "FSB Hanging is cruel and unsual punishment! at least we could use the more humane option of SQL injections!"
Lets censor and police the internet not because of bomb and drugmaking tutorials and terrorism forums.
Lets do it because someone might insult females online.
Every single person that have spent any extended time online in an environment where you communicate anonymously with strangers have been insulted, harassed and so on. It happens because you eventually end up in a competitive situation(games or arguments).
But of course when xXxPonyWarrior2002xXx calls me a 'shit-eathing motherfucking fag-whore' and wishes me death from cancer and fire simultaneously it's friendly banter between two men. But when he calls GamurGrrl99 a slut it's suddenly a confirmation that all men are misgyonistic pigs and that we can't have such a thing as a free internet anymore because it's full of heartless trolls.