Capacity factor relates to cost of production; you can't sell your capacity if demand can be met by cheaper sources (or sources more favored by regulatory measures). This is what is hitting some of the older plants whose economics and thermodynamics necessitate minimal starts and stops.
Logically/economically, could your solar-thermal plant provide 100% of its output at night? If so, it is what was traditionally base-load. If its output more closely tracks a PV/Battery system, it will need to compete on similar economics.
I will agree that "base load" is more of an arbitrary designation, but traditionally I see it as something that runs a minimum of 48 consecutive hours at full output, and normally over 30 days at full output.
All of which has nothing to do with capacity factor: annual production / installed capacity.
What we need to start getting is the kWh generated on an annual basis of various sources; this provides more useful environmental data than kW.
What batteries do that makes them great is eliminate the need for late afternoon and evening operation of peaker plants. What they might not do is provide sufficient energy diversity for the grid.
Capacity factor for solar is fundamentally limited to somewhere around 20-30% on an annual basis depending on weather; wind is similarly limited by well understood factors.
Other sources you mention used to be considered “base load” though, with capacity factors over 85%. Solar is what cut those capacity factors in half. So, a natural gas peaker plant built today might only have a 30% capacity factor. Battery storage will cut further into that over time.
Which is why you also have ultrasonic and radar sensor input to "vote" on an issue. You also have sufficient cameras and angles that the vision logic can vote as well among the different perspectives... and you have a lot more time as a computer than as a human, as your processing loop should take nowhere near a second to converge.
If you can't do this, it isn't autonomous, and never will be.
When approaching stopped car at high velocity, do not hit car. Hopefully they can expand that feature to cover other stationary objects as well, but I can see how that might be a "2.0” kind of thing.
I tend to agree; while anything is possible in terms of scale, the economics implications are interesting. Living in remote locations of “developing” countries though, my experiences were always big shipments coming in on a week or so. Is this just more of a play on consumerism?
I rarely take a windows seat (I like to pee), but I was on a plane a couple weeks ago with the high partitions between business class seats and it really becomes depressing not having any light or views. I would also worry for people with anxiety or claustrophobia. (On said flight, the "flight map" on the IFE wasn't working either, so no real sense of where you are or what is happening around you-- a little uncomfortable when you can sleep and the movies are awful.)
Third generation reboots constantly when in use. We have two hooked up to one tv so we could switch to the backup as the first crashes. Happened primarily with Netflix. After a weekend where they both rebooted at the same time I gave up and bought a Roku. Still use them occasionally, but just for iTunes content. Switched primarily to Amazon.
This used to work, but not any more for the egregious offenders. It only hurts the "legitimate" call centers trying to renew your paper subscription or some other menial task.
The robocallers have bots on the other end, and drop most of the calls they make anyway.
Yeah... even as an Apple fan, I have trouble wondering who really gives a crap. I have several previous-generation boxes, and their reliability (or lack there of) will keep me on alternatives from now on. Still isn’t compelling for me.
History. I remember this little company called Apple Computer back 10-12+ years ago. It was the same shit then, and it gave an opportunity to make money as a bull or bear because of the manipulation.
Tesla’s bull case is Elon Musk. Period. Their bear case is Ford. If you just think they are a car manufacturer, shorting makes sense. Me, I’m long Tesla (and Musk).
Couple years older... and yesterday I answered the phone politely and couldn't get the person to actually get to the point in a clear and concise manner, so I just hung up, despite it potentially being useful information.
But this isn't a functional defense for business; I get calls from people on their cell phones-- maybe a journeyman electrician on a project whom I have never met, calling on behalf of the foreman whose only number I have is his office number. Making matters more fun, the phone is registered to the guy's wife. Oh, and Metropolitan LA has 14 different area codes all of which are reasonable for someone to be using.
Something has to give, or the value of a phone number is going to be shot.
While large corporations are in a different class, small employers are unlikely to target more than one paid platform... and are less likely to keep job postings on the website 100% current (rather than strategic hire positions that are "always open"). Does this put them at risk in your opinion?
It all depends on how you are doing it; if you specifically filter on age (or likely high school/college graduation date or other probable indicators of age), then you will get in trouble.
We use Toaster or some other random named job board system that is popular with the young'uns and colleges these days. Most of the candidates have 0.5-2.5 years of experience in our field, which is something we are targeting for some positions.
Other positions we want 10-30 years of experience. Our average age is well over 40, although median is closer to 35 I would guess-- so we aren't likely candidates to have job bias complaints. Once our two 78+ employees retire we might take a closer look though...
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Capacity factor relates to cost of production; you can't sell your capacity if demand can be met by cheaper sources (or sources more favored by regulatory measures). This is what is hitting some of the older plants whose economics and thermodynamics necessitate minimal starts and stops.
Logically/economically, could your solar-thermal plant provide 100% of its output at night? If so, it is what was traditionally base-load. If its output more closely tracks a PV/Battery system, it will need to compete on similar economics.
I will agree that "base load" is more of an arbitrary designation, but traditionally I see it as something that runs a minimum of 48 consecutive hours at full output, and normally over 30 days at full output.
All of which has nothing to do with capacity factor: annual production / installed capacity.
What we need to start getting is the kWh generated on an annual basis of various sources; this provides more useful environmental data than kW.
What batteries do that makes them great is eliminate the need for late afternoon and evening operation of peaker plants. What they might not do is provide sufficient energy diversity for the grid.
Capacity factor for solar is fundamentally limited to somewhere around 20-30% on an annual basis depending on weather; wind is similarly limited by well understood factors.
Other sources you mention used to be considered “base load” though, with capacity factors over 85%. Solar is what cut those capacity factors in half. So, a natural gas peaker plant built today might only have a 30% capacity factor. Battery storage will cut further into that over time.
Which is why you also have ultrasonic and radar sensor input to "vote" on an issue. You also have sufficient cameras and angles that the vision logic can vote as well among the different perspectives... and you have a lot more time as a computer than as a human, as your processing loop should take nowhere near a second to converge.
If you can't do this, it isn't autonomous, and never will be.
When approaching stopped car at high velocity, do not hit car. Hopefully they can expand that feature to cover other stationary objects as well, but I can see how that might be a "2.0” kind of thing.
I tend to agree; while anything is possible in terms of scale, the economics implications are interesting. Living in remote locations of “developing” countries though, my experiences were always big shipments coming in on a week or so. Is this just more of a play on consumerism?
I rarely take a windows seat (I like to pee), but I was on a plane a couple weeks ago with the high partitions between business class seats and it really becomes depressing not having any light or views. I would also worry for people with anxiety or claustrophobia. (On said flight, the "flight map" on the IFE wasn't working either, so no real sense of where you are or what is happening around you-- a little uncomfortable when you can sleep and the movies are awful.)
But the control yoke on a 777 doesn't have direct control of surfaces; it just has a reactive force motor that you work against, no?
Nobody honors the do not call list anymore. This on my cell phone as well.
Third generation reboots constantly when in use. We have two hooked up to one tv so we could switch to the backup as the first crashes. Happened primarily with Netflix. After a weekend where they both rebooted at the same time I gave up and bought a Roku. Still use them occasionally, but just for iTunes content. Switched primarily to Amazon.
This used to work, but not any more for the egregious offenders. It only hurts the "legitimate" call centers trying to renew your paper subscription or some other menial task.
The robocallers have bots on the other end, and drop most of the calls they make anyway.
Yeah... even as an Apple fan, I have trouble wondering who really gives a crap. I have several previous-generation boxes, and their reliability (or lack there of) will keep me on alternatives from now on. Still isn’t compelling for me.
My guess is they break their MFI program parameters with it.
That is a much less trivial attack though, and not 100% reliable-- the secure enclave should be able to limit the effectiveness.
History. I remember this little company called Apple Computer back 10-12+ years ago. It was the same shit then, and it gave an opportunity to make money as a bull or bear because of the manipulation.
Tesla’s bull case is Elon Musk. Period. Their bear case is Ford. If you just think they are a car manufacturer, shorting makes sense. Me, I’m long Tesla (and Musk).
For all the (justifiable) hate on the company, I still feel a little sad for Edgar M Queeny’s legacy to disappear.
Well, since nobody ever answers any more SIP is the problem!
Couple years older... and yesterday I answered the phone politely and couldn't get the person to actually get to the point in a clear and concise manner, so I just hung up, despite it potentially being useful information.
But this isn't a functional defense for business; I get calls from people on their cell phones-- maybe a journeyman electrician on a project whom I have never met, calling on behalf of the foreman whose only number I have is his office number. Making matters more fun, the phone is registered to the guy's wife. Oh, and Metropolitan LA has 14 different area codes all of which are reasonable for someone to be using.
Something has to give, or the value of a phone number is going to be shot.
I was surprised too, but it isn't the pressure wave it is the actual audible noise from what research I have had access to.
While large corporations are in a different class, small employers are unlikely to target more than one paid platform... and are less likely to keep job postings on the website 100% current (rather than strategic hire positions that are "always open"). Does this put them at risk in your opinion?
Well, still no safety net, but the independent contractor/self-employed route can be equally lucrative.
It all depends on how you are doing it; if you specifically filter on age (or likely high school/college graduation date or other probable indicators of age), then you will get in trouble.
We use Toaster or some other random named job board system that is popular with the young'uns and colleges these days. Most of the candidates have 0.5-2.5 years of experience in our field, which is something we are targeting for some positions.
Other positions we want 10-30 years of experience. Our average age is well over 40, although median is closer to 35 I would guess-- so we aren't likely candidates to have job bias complaints. Once our two 78+ employees retire we might take a closer look though...
Efficacy vs efficiency. $/units of "great."