I agree carbon capture and sequestration is important but I haven't seen anything that looks good at scale yet.
And there won't be unless we motivate research into it.
When there is a decent solution it would be ideal at times of surplus generation when power is otherwise unable to be used
Indeed! This is an ideal use for overprovisioned capacity.
At the small scale I have an issue where in summer my solar surplus is more that my rural grid connection can handle so when my hot water is heated and the house and car are charged I end up with the solar inverters derating
Wow. I generate way more than I use in the summer, but my (also rural) grid connection can absolutely take it just fine. I have 200A service with a 150A breaker (so, about 37 kW), but my generation peaks at about 20 kW. My bigger problem is that if I try to charge my house batteries (20 kW) and my car (12kW) and run my AC (4 kW) and the steam generator (9 kW) and run basic house loads (2 kW) and run my welder (10 kW) that's 57 kW or about 235A. In practice I don't ever do all of those things at the same time (and rarely charge batteries from the grid), so I've never actually tripped the main breaker, but I could do it easily if I tried. I imagine it will happen someday. I could swap the breaker, but the wiring from the main panel isn't big enough to have the proper safety margin at 200A. Running new wiring would be... a big project, likely involving tearing up and replacing a big chunk of my driveway. So, 150A will have to do.
I have not found a good use for such surplus power yet, but carbon capture would be ideal.
Me neither. I ran the math on doing some BTC mining (I think BTC is a scourge on the planet, but I'm happy to take money) but it didn't pencil out. Free power is great for mining, but the cost of the rigs is high enough that you really need to keep them humming 24x7, and I don't have enough battery capacity for that.
I agree carbon capture and sequestration is important but I haven't seen anything that looks good at scale yet.
And there won't be unless we motivate research into it.
When there is a decent solution it would be ideal at times of surplus generation when power is otherwise unable to be used
Indeed! This is an ideal use for overprovisioned capacity.
At the small scale I have an issue where in summer my solar surplus is more that my rural grid connection can handle so when my hot water is heated and the house and car are charged I end up with the solar inverters derating
Wow. I generate way more than I use in the summer, but my (also rural) grid connection can absolutely take it just fine. I have 200A service with a 150A breaker (so, about 37 kW), but my generation peaks at about 20 kW. My bigger problem is that if I try to charge my house batteries (20 kW) and my car (12kW) and run my AC (4 kW) and the steam generator (9 kW) and run basic house loads (2 kW) and run my welder (10 kW) that's 57 kW or about 235A. In practice I don't ever do all of those things at the same time (and rarely charge batteries from the grid), so I've never actually tripped the main breaker, but I could do it easily if I tried. I imagine it will happen someday.
I could swap the breaker, but the wiring from the main panel isn't big enough to have the proper safety margin at 200A. Running new wiring would be... a big project, likely involving tearing up and replacing a big chunk of my driveway. So, 150A will have to do.
I have not found a good use for such surplus power yet, but carbon capture would be ideal.
Me neither. I ran the math on doing some BTC mining (I think BTC is a scourge on the planet, but I'm happy to take money) but it didn't pencil out. Free power is great for mining, but the cost of the rigs is high enough that you really need to keep them humming 24x7, and I don't have enough battery capacity for that.
Everyone involved including ASML has made it clear that will not result in China holding working equipment.
If drivers would actually stop at the solid line way before the crosswalk instead of ignoring that line hanging their bumper over the crosswalk, maybe they would see someone in the crosswalk.
No, they wouldn't, not if that someone is an average child.
But that's a small problem compared to the distracted driving car designs (infotainment screen) and young adults not looking both ways.
It is the driver's responsibility not to kill people in crosswalks whether they are paying attention or not. How many people have you driven over?
That's not going to make China catch up to "the US" because it's not China vs the US. It's China vs. the world. Literally no country wants China to be in charge of chip production except maybe Russia, and even then only because 1) they have absolutely no hope of being competitive themselves, ever, given the way they run their country; and 2) China is still happy to do business with Russia since no one can afford to sanction them for it.
we will see a number of really spectacular enterprise deaths and falls to irrelevance in the next few years, most with a clear trace to LLM use.
Probably, but no US automaker will be among those. The US won't let them fail because they are defense contractors. If we have a war we need them to make vehicles. The bulk of units will be drones, but we will still need tanks and whatnot.
Anthropic appears unconvinced, however, that Alibaba isn't working with the Chinese government.
No fucking shit. All the AI companies are working "with" their respective governments. So what?
Apparently lower hoods meant more collisions and deaths.
Apparent to who, crack smokers? A lot more has changed since 1970 than just the hood lines. If you don't understand that then you're fundamentally underequipped to participate in this conversation.
I'm asking you to back up a claim. I don't see how that's unreasonable.
I'm asking you to come up to speed on your own without expecting everyone else to do the work for you, like an adult would. Pretend you are one.
Really? So, the worst and bloodiest war we ever fought just didn't happen.
No one said that. Stop making shit up.
We slaughtered ourselves to end slavery.
No, we did not. We know that's not why we did it because we did not end slavery. We only made it the sole privilege of the state. If you could read, and read the amendments to the constitution, you'd know this.
Don't f-k around.
Fuck off, illiterate.
Pricing and costs are only slightly related. Infotainment in particular is grossly overpriced.
Learn to Internet, troll
Perhaps they could take a clue from software from 40+ years ago and make top-posting a configurable option.
But Microsoft has pretty much completely given up on making their software configurable for user preferences.
Hey, I resemble that remark.
It is masked but always present. I don't know who built to it. It came before the first kernel.
