Efficiency is less important than economy. And the economy is going to improve at least by a factor of several even in conservative predictions. By the time that happens, there won't be any competition for it.
First, decreased capacity factor is quite rarely due to curtailment. Second, not surprisingly, wear accumulates for renewable generators, too, acting against the loss. Third, so what if the US has twice the solar capacity factor of my country. Our prices are still much less than half of yours. Considering that the capacity factor is fixed, the decisions are rather straightforward.
Capacity factor has no strong connection to LCOE. Even if achieving a higher capacity factor improves ROI, such improvements pale in comparison with technological improvements. Or, to put it more plainly, solar hasn't dropped in price by a factor of one hundred in the last forty years because we've improved capacity factors by said one hundred. It dropped in price by a factor of one hundred in the last forty years because we've learned to manufacture the equipment massively more cheaply.
Uhhhh...since when? 1 MW is something like 3500 ordinary solar panels. One weighs about twenty kilograms. Where do 460 extra kilograms of steel per panel step in?
You mean the scientists and engineers predicting $0.01/kWh solar electricity in ten years or less? I'm pretty sure they're not exactly disagreeing with him.
Thermodynamically, yes. Economically, there's no clear limit since the panels have no moving parts and are basically pieces of rocks with electrodes attached. As long as the electrodes don't corrode due to degraded packaging and humidity ingress, they'll keep working.
But the capacity factor is low and the O&M cost is not free. The land required is not free. The capital cost is not free. The owners cost is not free. The cost of T&D is not free. Levelized cost means renewables still cannot compete with natural gas.
No, I didn't in fact. An income of $32500 per year in the US puts you above 99% of the world population. An income of $325000 puts you above 99.97% of the world population.
I fail to see the connection between the Americans deciding they don't want to import some stuff, or import less of it, and the Chinese upgrading or not upgrading their own country's stuff. What prevents them from doing so?
If you multiply their qualities by the relative impact of their country to get the impact of their presidency on the world? I'm pretty sure they'd have to try really hard to screw up as badly as Trump is in the position to.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Yes, photographers and videographers didn't create the things that they are capturing but they did create photos and videos. People on Youtube are video content creators. They're mostly not video game content creators, though, although some are.
I have found such developers who call themselves old school and do all this stuff, are just less likely to learn something new.
That will probably be important once "something new" appears. So far the software industry at large is catching up with computing infrastructure research of the 1980s.
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Chemicals used in production are certainly dangerous and quite nasty.
They always are. You can go back into the jungle if you don't like our civilization.
Panels have limited life
Indeed they do...oh, wait...
Efficiency is less important than economy. And the economy is going to improve at least by a factor of several even in conservative predictions. By the time that happens, there won't be any competition for it.
First, decreased capacity factor is quite rarely due to curtailment. Second, not surprisingly, wear accumulates for renewable generators, too, acting against the loss. Third, so what if the US has twice the solar capacity factor of my country. Our prices are still much less than half of yours. Considering that the capacity factor is fixed, the decisions are rather straightforward.
Capacity factor has no strong connection to LCOE. Even if achieving a higher capacity factor improves ROI, such improvements pale in comparison with technological improvements. Or, to put it more plainly, solar hasn't dropped in price by a factor of one hundred in the last forty years because we've improved capacity factors by said one hundred. It dropped in price by a factor of one hundred in the last forty years because we've learned to manufacture the equipment massively more cheaply.
"Solar needs 1,600 tons of steel per MW,
Uhhhh...since when? 1 MW is something like 3500 ordinary solar panels. One weighs about twenty kilograms. Where do 460 extra kilograms of steel per panel step in?
Scientists and engineers disagree with you.
You mean the scientists and engineers predicting $0.01/kWh solar electricity in ten years or less? I'm pretty sure they're not exactly disagreeing with him.
Thermodynamically, yes. Economically, there's no clear limit since the panels have no moving parts and are basically pieces of rocks with electrodes attached. As long as the electrodes don't corrode due to degraded packaging and humidity ingress, they'll keep working.
That's not an argument, it's a simple statement of fact.
But the capacity factor is low and the O&M cost is not free. The land required is not free. The capital cost is not free. The owners cost is not free. The cost of T&D is not free. Levelized cost means renewables still cannot compete with natural gas.
Capacity factor is irrelevant for levelized cost, O&M is significantly lower for newly built renewables than for most other sources, and there's no shortage of unused land in the world.
You will be using fossil fuel your entire lives. Get over it.
If you're sixty or more, then maybe. Otherwise...nope.
And the teenager was selling something to people?
Was this the first Uberfall for Uber?
Also, embedding a scripted programming language in a different document format is an abomination.
I agree, it should have been Lisp all the way down.
Where would they get the remaining 37 participants?
Hillary WILL vim in 2020
FTFY?
Nowhere does it state that CFC-11 is a greenhouse gas
They don't even need to, it should be common knowledge.
No, I didn't in fact. An income of $32500 per year in the US puts you above 99% of the world population. An income of $325000 puts you above 99.97% of the world population.
...and "web stuff" in no way requires Java.
I have a good job.
I'm technically not in the 1%. Maybe the 5%?
You have to be below $32500 to not be in the top 1%. You have an American job below $32500 and call it "good"?
I fail to see the connection between the Americans deciding they don't want to import some stuff, or import less of it, and the Chinese upgrading or not upgrading their own country's stuff. What prevents them from doing so?
If you multiply their qualities by the relative impact of their country to get the impact of their presidency on the world? I'm pretty sure they'd have to try really hard to screw up as badly as Trump is in the position to.
That's a rather elaborate language gymnastics on your part.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Yes, photographers and videographers didn't create the things that they are capturing but they did create photos and videos. People on Youtube are video content creators. They're mostly not video game content creators, though, although some are.
Also the fact that these vehicles are heavier then others, and cause more wear and tear on the highways.
What, cars? The Model 3 is apparently considered to be a standard weight vehicle in the US.
I have found such developers who call themselves old school and do all this stuff, are just less likely to learn something new.
That will probably be important once "something new" appears. So far the software industry at large is catching up with computing infrastructure research of the 1980s.
Replace "Java" with "Oberon" and you'll make me quite happy.