Comment Re:No big deal (Score 1) 332
"We need sodium batteries for grid storage"
Japanese utilities were using NaS (sodium-sulfur) batteries decades ago.
Why didn't they catch on?
"We need sodium batteries for grid storage"
Japanese utilities were using NaS (sodium-sulfur) batteries decades ago.
Why didn't they catch on?
"Which would make things like Tesla power walls incredibly profitable"
V2G would be enormously helpful; I'm still surprised it's not a feature of every EV
"Long-distance HVDC to sell the surplus to other states"
It's been about a dozen years since I 1st heard about the proposed Tres Amigas SuperStation which, for a little while, showed promise of breaking ground.
At one point I even tweeted to Elon Musk & Tesla that they should get in on it but....well....they had other priorities.
he lied about not wanting to annex Crimea, he lied about the "polite people" aka the "Little Green Men" & the purpose of his bullshit "special military operation"
He did it wrong. He burnt rich people's money to get a normal person money. You're supposed to burn normal people's futures to get rich people money.
Exactly right
" Intel say they will be recycling basically 100% of the water they use at their Arizona sites by the end of the decade"
how much have they been recycling up to now?
considering he also posted this comment a couple months ago : https://slashdot.org/comments.... , you can be sure he's not going to read any of those papers
"On the bright side, plants love CO2 and we've been able to feed the world at the current PPM"
ah, the old CO2 is plant food argument
https://apnews.com/article/fac...
“Carbon dioxide is plant food. But they’re missing all the nuance,” said Kristie Ebi, a co-author of the Lancet study and a professor of global health at the University of Washington’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.
The key point of the study was that while a higher concentration of carbon dioxide did increase plant growth in 85% of plants, it ultimately lowered their nutritional value, which is not a worthwhile trade-off for the planet, Ebi said. “There’s about 830 million people in the world who are food insecure. There’s about 2 billion that are micronutrient deficient,” said Ebi.
Undersea cables have optical repeaters to regenerate the signal every 100km or so. I would think these would need to be upgraded to work with the additional bands.
That sounds costly & time consuming; laying new cable may not raise the cost of upgrading by much, in that case
Ah you beat me to it; I didn't see your comment until after I submitted mine.
the closing line of that video is terrific: "We're McKinsey: Capable of anything & culpable for nothing"
"Capable of anything; culpable for nothing"
Not a real Nigerian?? Next you'll be telling me he's not a real prince!
Of course he is! If you would respond to his messages & advance him the very reasonable amounts to unlock his frozen assets that he'll share with you, he would be coming to America!
"some political games the democrats are better at"
which? for quite a long time I've been saying that no one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like a Democrat.
It's been obvious since Casey that the GOP would stop at nothing to overturn Roe yet the idiot Dems could only stand by & wring their hands as the Radical Right eroded abortion rights & protections in as many states as possible & stacked the courts with Jeebus freaks
And there's nothing as temporary as a permanent solution. There's no better way than spending man-years to ensure the extensibility and modularity of a project to guarantee that it will all be discarded in a few years.
In what year was ZFS discarded?
Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!
