The technology did exist. There is no fundamental difference in solar cells at that time to ours... same for wind mills. Around that time actually around the place I went to school people started to set up wind mills. They are still running and plenty of more, bigger ones, got added.
It would be great if solar could in fact be cheaper than coal in 20 years or so but I've already been told for 20 years that solar will be cheaper than coal in 20 years. I stopped believing these claims a long time ago. Wind and solar is cheaper than coal since 5 years or more. No idea what there is to believe, just look at a newspaper.
Solar has a lot of issues Care to point out such an issue?
And that means huge losses storing and retrieving the energy. So you are complaining about losses you don't have because you don't have the means of producing what you lose?
We also must have a very different understanding what the word "huge" actually means.
Did you ever look up the numbers about losses? Likely not... idiot!
It seems odd that an article that wants to sing the praises of how wind and solar are going to power the world It is actually not odd, as the article is about wind/solar being cheaper than coal. Why do you expect them to talk about nuclear power? Who cares about nuclear power (except you ofc)? Wind and solar is cheaper than nuclear power since decades...
not even mention that nuclear power already powers a good sized portion of it, more than what wind and solar do now, Worldwide? I doubt that. There are some niche countries with a big nuclear installation, notable France.
What is your point anyway when basically the whole world is ditching nuclear power for wind and solar and only China and India are investing a "little bit" into nuclear power?
Your post makes no sense... oh, you want to have more nuclear power plants? Then you are in disagreement with a huge deal of the planets population.
What do you mean with "predict"? Assuming what you say is true, that they simply saw effects from global warming that they could not predict then I have to wonder what else they got wrong. Stuff like that are known consequences since decades. No reason to "predict" them. To have ice like this in late spring, you need special geographic conditions (and probably certain wind conditions over an extended period of time), or do you 'believe' now that the whole arctic area is covered with 'unpredicted' fast moving ice?
Next time you see an ice berg floating in front of New York, better think where it came from instead if panicking and thinking NY is freezing all over.
If I have 8hues or longer so much wind, that I have to shut down a nuclear plant, it takes days to spin it up again. And ion those days I lose more money than selling the wind power for a negative price for 8h... go figure.
They are only cracking down on the privacy and free speech of muslims. Actually they/we are not. What has fingerprinting to do with privacy and free speach?
You are an idiot.... They are in such denial about the Nazi time that they don't teach it in school.... Germans learn in history classes in school: 25% greek roman stuff, 25% Napoleon, and 50% world war II/third reich/Hitler. And there are "weiÃY Gott" plenty of things that are equaly or more important history things to learn in school.
Not everything can be stored in a 64 or 128-bit integer, because that would mean a lot of wasted space. Let me put that into a perspective for you: suppose my ints are 4 bytes and my longs are 8 bytes, you merely save 4 bytes for your puny little int. How can that be a huge waste of space? (Considering that in C you have to chose either 8 or 4 and can not essily have 5 or 6 or 7) On the other hand if you had millions of those ints/longs you could save proportionally more bytes in the millions of bytes. Luckily my machine has enough memory that even thousands times of more ints/longs would fit into the memory... Yes, your Y2K quote is half right, but basically repeating only a false internet mem. They never used 2 digits for YY to save space. They did it because everyone in RL only used two digits! And on top of that, no one expected software written in the late 50s, oops 1950s (in case you are confused) to still be runnin in 2010 (yeah, did not want to make the pun in writing 10:) ) Btw. nearly no software I'm aware of changed date fields from YY to YYYY to fix the problem. Mostly a technique called 'windowing' was used.
Lucky you are not 'coding' for different target architectures. I suggest to read the C/C++ standard(s) and pay very close attention to the section where the size 'relationsips' between short, int, long, long long etc. are described. Hint: what you wrote above is utterly and seriously wrong.
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The technology did exist. ... same for wind mills.
There is no fundamental difference in solar cells at that time to ours
Around that time actually around the place I went to school people started to set up wind mills. They are still running and plenty of more, bigger ones, got added.
It would be great if solar could in fact be cheaper than coal in 20 years or so but I've already been told for 20 years that solar will be cheaper than coal in 20 years. I stopped believing these claims a long time ago.
Wind and solar is cheaper than coal since 5 years or more.
No idea what there is to believe, just look at a newspaper.
Solar has a lot of issues
Care to point out such an issue?
And that means huge losses storing and retrieving the energy.
So you are complaining about losses you don't have because you don't have the means of producing what you lose?
We also must have a very different understanding what the word "huge" actually means.
Did you ever look up the numbers about losses? Likely not ... idiot!
and no, we won't have world-spanning transmission lines either
Actually we have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A hill is easy made. ...
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No they have not.
Just because it is attached to the grid it is now "grid scale".
I expect form a storage that is "grid scale" to deliver some MWs of power and have at least a few 100 MW/h as storage.
No one is building or installing Li ion batteries that big. Why would they? Makes no sense!
It seems odd that an article that wants to sing the praises of how wind and solar are going to power the world ...
It is actually not odd, as the article is about wind/solar being cheaper than coal. Why do you expect them to talk about nuclear power? Who cares about nuclear power (except you ofc)?
Wind and solar is cheaper than nuclear power since decades
not even mention that nuclear power already powers a good sized portion of it, more than what wind and solar do now,
Worldwide? I doubt that. There are some niche countries with a big nuclear installation, notable France.
What is your point anyway when basically the whole world is ditching nuclear power for wind and solar and only China and India are investing a "little bit" into nuclear power?
Your post makes no sense ... oh, you want to have more nuclear power plants? Then you are in disagreement with a huge deal of the planets population.
And what is wrong with that?
Face recognition and fingerprints are already (thanx to the USA) on all passports in the EU and most other nations.
What bar codes on the neck have to do with that is escaping me ...
What do you mean with "predict"?
Assuming what you say is true, that they simply saw effects from global warming that they could not predict then I have to wonder what else they got wrong.
Stuff like that are known consequences since decades. No reason to "predict" them.
To have ice like this in late spring, you need special geographic conditions (and probably certain wind conditions over an extended period of time), or do you 'believe' now that the whole arctic area is covered with 'unpredicted' fast moving ice?
Next time you see an ice berg floating in front of New York, better think where it came from instead if panicking and thinking NY is freezing all over.
Yes, I have to ask this. As I don't see any connection to real life.
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That actually really saved quite some space.
If I have 8hues or longer so much wind, that I have to shut down a nuclear plant, it takes days to spin it up again. And ion those days I lose more money than selling the wind power for a negative price for 8h ... go figure.
You do an oil change after 30,000km - 60,000km or after about 3 (to 5) years, what ever comes more early.
They are only cracking down on the privacy and free speech of muslims.
Actually they/we are not.
What has fingerprinting to do with privacy and free speach?
You are an idiot. ... They are in such denial about the Nazi time that they don't teach it in school....
Germans learn in history classes in school: 25% greek roman stuff, 25% Napoleon, and 50% world war II/third reich/Hitler.
And there are "weiÃY Gott" plenty of things that are equaly or more important history things to learn in school.
You are bloody damn stupid idiot.
And on which legal and moral basis should he do that?
Kill them at the border? Or hunt them down after they sneaked through the border?
You are an idiot.
Because of the US after 9/11 all of Europe is issuing passports only with biometric info, aka fingerprints.
What exactly is your point?
Indentation would not change the double semicolon error.
Erm, "I'll take your word for it", you are confusing me! A single word? A double word? A long word? ;D
I guess that was meant to teach their humble readers a lesson?
Not everything can be stored in a 64 or 128-bit integer, because that would mean a lot of wasted space. ... :) )
Let me put that into a perspective for you: suppose my ints are 4 bytes and my longs are 8 bytes, you merely save 4 bytes for your puny little int. How can that be a huge waste of space? (Considering that in C you have to chose either 8 or 4 and can not essily have 5 or 6 or 7)
On the other hand if you had millions of those ints/longs you could save proportionally more bytes in the millions of bytes.
Luckily my machine has enough memory that even thousands times of more ints/longs would fit into the memory
Yes, your Y2K quote is half right, but basically repeating only a false internet mem.
They never used 2 digits for YY to save space.
They did it because everyone in RL only used two digits! And on top of that, no one expected software written in the late 50s, oops 1950s (in case you are confused) to still be runnin in 2010 (yeah, did not want to make the pun in writing 10
Btw. nearly no software I'm aware of changed date fields from YY to YYYY to fix the problem. Mostly a technique called 'windowing' was used.
Lucky you are not 'coding' for different target architectures.
I suggest to read the C/C++ standard(s) and pay very close attention to the section where the size 'relationsips' between short, int, long, long long etc. are described.
Hint: what you wrote above is utterly and seriously wrong.
Sure ... I worked on those systems. And in my town we have thee or four driving since a decade.
Good post, I try to keep it in mind it one asks me again what DevOps are actually doing.
My DevOps were restricted to providing infrastructure to the developers and testers, not for production.