So, how would you solve the problem? Load shedding (cutting groups of customers off from the grid) is brutal, but was necessary, the whole Texas grid was 5 minutes away from complete shut-down (probably for several weeks). Unless some long-term solution to matching demand to an increasingly tempremental supply is found, then rolling blackouts will become the norm and the luxury of 24/7 electricity availability will become a happy memory.
It's hard enough just now matching supply to demand on the grid. Increasing the solar capacity (especially as a replacement for natural gas generation) inceases the difficulty. More needs done at the consumer end, things like smart meters and real-time pricing at the user level to more closely match demand to supply (to encourage things like charging batteries during mid-day)
Coronavirus sorted that out - passenger arilines are on the brink of bankruptcy now, In the future air travel will once again be the reserve of the rich and famous. (and further into the future this will also appy to car ownership)
The very fact that researchers effectively gave up on phoneme-level speech recognition and glossed over the issue by instead throwing gigabytes of training data at a neural net does'nt help matters.
60% of electricity generation in US is from coal and natural gas which have to go by 2050 for carbon neutrality, the last thing needed is a 25% increase in demand over that period.
Bear in mind that 2.4c/KWh can jump to $9/KWh if there is ever an electricity shortage (say for example if people started converting from ICE to EV en masse).
7000 homes is roughly the population growth of CA per year. The state would need to build one of these every year (along with maintaining the existing systems) just to provide for the new housing required.
"The technique still requires removing a small piece of skull, but unlike implanted electrodes that read neuronsâ(TM) electrical activity directly, it doesnâ(TM)t involve opening the brainâ(TM)s protective membrane"
Yea... nope. Still not great for casual use.
LOL, and this time around the drop in demand without a drop in supply meant the price of oil went negative for the first time in history.
$1.00 is conservative, during the last crisis the price spiked to the cap of $9.00 per KWh, could easily have gone higher otherwise. Lots of $$$ to be made in a similar situation.
Do they mean 100MW generation capacity or 100MWh storage capacity? Or Both? A typical house in USA runs at about 1KW electrical power, so 100MWh would power 20,000 homes for about 5 hours at best... hope the power is not out for any longer than that!
I'm wondering why anybody is messing around with such mature low-level code in the kernel that's been there since the start... 30 years old... why start messing with it now?
Scotland is introducing a deposit-return scheme next year for this - pay a bit extra for the bottle, get your deposit back when returned. Incentivised recycling.
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