I wonder why this is hot news even. Identical deployments are found in multiple places around the world, with the one mentioned in the linked article from here in India, for example, being over a decade old.

Ref : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

They've also done this at scale, achieving identical objectives, and with great unit economics for the generated power. It also helps that many Indian irrigation canal systems are designed to pass through many villages along their run, so you don't really need to carry that generated power for very long before you can plug it into a grid point with load. The ground reality of the Indian solar project is quite different from way the linked article describes it, as being a failed project that bankrupted the company executing it. In fact, all the photographs used in the article are from the same Indian solar canal pilot... Go figure.

https://www.bbc.com/future/art...

https://groundreport.in/solar-...

The truth is, multiple projects have started being deployed post the initial pilot, and SunEdison's bankruptcy is all about aggressive M & A shenanigans in the US markets. Way to downplay an idea originating elsewhere as not really done... Until we do it.

But hey, nothing is really done right until it is done in the West, especially in THE US of A.... ðY"

P.s. : great job in the summary, projecting it as an innovation breakthrough, and not at all pointing out that it is an evolution, not a revolution.

When = With -- blame it on a keyboard spasm...;-)

Why dont the top 100 odd tech firms just get their boards together and buy out the entertainment industry, Fire all the old chaff, then figure out what do do with whats left. Even if they end up writing off the entire investment, the savings in reduced interference from a dying industry(Lawsuits, Trusted Computing, SOPA/PIPA etc.) will justify the few hundred billion. Plus, the innovation it will unleash when all those rent-seeking collaboration-killing laws become irrelevant will bring soo much new life into the dying(yes DYING!!) economies of the developed world.

Sadly, i dont have any hope that such a scenario will ever come to pass, especially when most tech firms behaving more like a pot of lobsters...

(sigh...)

Call it vain hope, but i keep expecting some company to finally get pissed with the army of gnats(i.e. NPE IP Trolls) and throw some serious cash behind reforming the system, making it better for everyone. But i guess they're more like a bunch of crabs, with all of the companies making sure that no-one climbs out of the cooking pot, getting communally boiled!

Seriously, does it need a economics professor to figure out that the patent system has not given any significant incentive to innovate for quite a while, and scrapping the whole system might be just the thing to kickstart the economy. Remember, the intent is to make the *Entire Economy* grow, not protect the future profits of the incumbents. If they want more money, let them innovate and then grow their riches. They're anyway starting with the advantage of piles of cash to spend on researching the Next-Big-Thing(tm).

All in all, most of the big companies appear so scared to take a stand on such lawsuits, they actually look like elephants running like mice :)

P.S. : It should tell you how crazy the situation has gotten when i can use such outlandish language, and still have it fit reality perfectly ;)

RkR

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Seriously even :D

Isnt it so much fun when the Industry shills get into policy positions? They make a lot of noise, and formulate some of the most arcane policies that just happen to fall right into the lap of the same industry groups that the policies are supposed to police :P can there be no end to the constant churn of people between lobbying groups and the lobbied groups?

P.S. - HTTPS on a wikipedia link! dont think i've seen that too often ;)

RkR

Hmmm.... now i wonder, if apple gets to count the apple provided and or sponsored apps at launch time, why dont we do the same for google? Obviously, outside apps wont be ready as fast as the google apps. Also, correct me if i am wrong, but isnt honeycomb still in the final stages before official release, and most manufacturers are able to get it onto devices only because the development is happening out in the open?

Just my 2 cents here....

RkR

Looks like the propaganda machine got a sore throat and lost it's voice... :)

Seriously, i think i'm mostly interested in finally seeing in detail what those "skyscraper" class capital ships are like :) That show focussed waay too much on the single firefly class ship. Or maybe that was it's charm.....

My turn.....