Now we will get people that are incapable of brushing their teeth competently. Nice.

I see you have no clue how that actually works. No, a Nuke cannot "idle". "Idling" in a thermal power generator refers to keeping steam pressure up, decoupling generators and removing heat input. Gas and coal can do that. All Nuclear can do to reduce power output is an emergency shutdown, possibly damaging the reactor and likely requiring months after to come up again. Hence a Nuke has no choice but finding something that uses its power and that causes negative electricity prices. All other forms of power generation can simply stop producing power and may have to pay for somebody taking their power for a few minutes at best.

Nukes are the only real reason for negative electricity prices on grid-level. Of course the nuclear fans are too clueless to understand that. Your "explanation" is totally bogus.

I never made that transition. But keep flattering your ego. Not conductive to seeing actual reality, though. And as a secondary remark, attack code can be completely crappy, insecure and unreliable and still do its job, quite unlike production code. And that is the reason why LLMs can write it fast. Which is something I have been saying for a long time, you are just incapable of reading or remembering.

Incidentally, the software engineer is far from dead. It is just that many people that think they are one do not actually qualify. Regulation, liability and ever raising costs from insecure crap will make that very clear. What we will get is both massive unemployment among "coders" and very high paying actual software engineering jobs. And it is quite possible that LLMs will not play much of a role in their work.

And all with an unproven, high-risk technology that has numerous known problems already. Cool.

We will get liability, like all established engineering disciplines have. There is no other way and, for example, the EU is hard at work with the CRA (which is just a first step). And, guess what, engineering liability is _personal_. As in the person that made the bad decision while being non-qualified, grossly negligent or a greedy asshole becomes personally liable, up to, and including going to prison. And then things will look a bit different.

While I agree, this is not a problem on the Engineering sciences side. All these things could be addressed competently and effectively by just using what we know. (For AI this will be simply "do not use cutting edge tech with unknown characteristics and long-term impact for production systems".) This is a practice of engineering failure, it is a failure to hire competent people and it is a failure to make the right engineering decisions. This comes down to greed, stupidity, arrogance, and a "I will be elsewhere when it all comes crashing down" mind-set.

The root-cause is, obviously, the still missing liability in the IT field. We will get that. The EU CRA is a first step and there will be more. And then executives that screw up this badly may go to prison even much later and will become personally liable due to gross negligence or worse.

And that is what the claim actually says. Since you seem to need a long form to understand the blatantly obvious, here it goes: "... but for the past 200 years, people have not paid attention to this material sciences effect". Clear now? Or still a mystery to you?

Nope. Stop pushing political lies. You are doing evil.

You can get 15 minute pricing in the UK. With your own solar and battery you can do quite well out of it.

I see you have absolutely no clue how an energy grid works. Negative prices are paid because the tech you use cannot be shut down fast enough. This primary affects nuclear power. If a nuclear reactor is at a certain power level, that energy needs to be used. It cannot idle. It would blow up if it did. And hence its operators need to pay for somebody using their electricity while they slowly reduce power output.

I see you are only interested in posturing. I will terminate this now.

Those are total rip off prices. The components for a 1200W kit are under £300 if you buy them separately, although of course they are not certified. There is no enforcement and many people have been running them for years already. In Germany the kits are under £300.

Maybe when one of the German supermarkets (Lidl or Aldi) comes out with a kit we will get some reasonable prices.

It really depends. You can have overall negative bills with a decent solar array, battery, and feed-in tariff.

The problem in the UK is that the price of electricity is set by the most expensive source that is required at the time, which is almost always gas. On top of that we have to pay over the odds for nuclear power, if it is needed or not.

500W panels will be around $125-150 each, so let's say 4.5k for those. 15kWh battery should be around $2000. The inverter itself doesn't cost much, a few hundred, but you will have some additional labour costs if you want it to do off-grid, i.e. whole house UPS. Some cable and mounting hardware. The rest will be labour.

Yeah, shingles, roof tiles, whatever you want to call them. Rather than those you can have panels that are the surface of the roof: https://www.wienerberger.co.uk...

So you don't need to buy shingles or tiles for those areas, or have them fitted. No need for bird fences to keep them out either, as they can't get underneath.