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- Comment on What do you create? 1 day ago:
Same industry as what?
- Comment on What do you create? 1 day ago:
Data lake, activate.
- Comment on What do you create? 1 day ago:
People in manufacturing and r&d quite like the question, I’d reckon. I wouldn’t relate it to social status.
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Bad guess by me :)
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 1 day ago:
“We’re a tech company now!” logo
- Comment on What do you create? 2 days ago:
doesn’t have the best intentions for humanity (or profit strangely enough)
Reverse filantropy. Quite remarkable indeed!
- Comment on What do you create? 2 days ago:
(Laser?) Machines for semiconductor fab. Given the time of day, I’d wager ASML, cause there’s not much else happening in that branche in Europe.
- Comment on Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so? 2 days ago:
A few years back there was a gang of criminals that used explosives to breach ATMs in the area I live.
- Comment on What do you create? 2 days ago:
Machines that put cameras in the right place and lighting. Then identifies things.
Mostly agriculture and/or pharma related.
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MS office software engineer?
- Comment on What do you create? 2 days ago:
Seeing machines, mostly
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
it’s already way too expensive.
If you don’t account for the storage problem, renewables look like a cheap solution, indeed. And you end up with renewables + huge reliance on fossil fuel.
This is an ideal scenario for the fossil industry.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
We’re like five years into an energy revolution
Exactly, after working on it for over 30.
It seems like theyre not even planning on going fossil free.
That quote, again, not mentioning stored energy. How do they not understand that storage needs to be specified in both power and energy?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
what makes steel
Vs
What makes iron
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
Hydrogen, in one form or another, is the answer to all of those things
No it isn’t? What makes steel steel is the carbon inbetween Fe.
Green hydrogen has been promised to me my whole life. Sad to day I now understand your point of view. Natural gas wins.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
Already happening, on a small (but industrial) scale.
I mean, isn’t that the problem with all storage technologies?
Is the goal of renewables to do 90% of the year with renewables, and 10% of the year with fossil fuel?
Hopefully one day, the last 10% is “green hydrogen”, “syngas”, “synpetrol”? That’s how the intermittancy problem is “solved”?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Gas can be synthesised
When’s that going to happen? Right after the green hydrogen revolution?
They’ve been saying that for decades. It isn’t happening.
It’s not technology it’s physics
Sorry, I didn’t think someone would deny the existance of dunkelflautes. It’s currently happening in Germany. (1).
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
I don’t think lithium ion is the only storage technology. I was using it for scale.
The most cost effective storage is pumped storage. But even that wouldn’t reach the scale necessary.
6 MWh pumped storage proof-of-concept won’t l, either.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
is what gas is for
Wouldn’t it be better to go fossil free. Given, you know, climate change?
That’s physically impossible for a place the size of Germany, much less Europe.
Unless we use a different technology, that is not renewables + storage?
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I hadn’t made that connection. Thank you
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How many fingers do you have?
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upscaled green hydrogen market
That’s been the talk in town for 40 years now. Green hydrogen has never gotten beyond proof-of-concept.
The fact that we seem to constantly discuss nuclear vs. renewables is proof that it’s mostly lobbying bullshit.
Sadly, it’s because the political green parties available to are anti-nuclear.
It’s either renewables+short-term storage+long-term-term storage or renewables+nuclear+long-term storage.
Why is nuclear+short term storage not an option, according to you?
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What would 130% grid uptime even look like? 475 days a year without blackout?
I think we’re talking about different things.
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Storage is a solvable problem
I’m not convinced it is. Storage technologies exist for sure, but the general public seems to grossly underestimate the scale of storage required to match grid demand and renewables only production.
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As long as you don’t care when the electricity is produced
- Comment on I chose the penguin 5 days ago:
Who needs children when there’s copilot.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
I’m saying you can get to 90% yes.
But, as often happens, the last 10% is as hard or harder as the first 90%. The law of diminishing returns.
There are lots of answers to steady-state that are green and won’t take 15 years
I’m aware of and have studied them. But general public seems to greatly underestimate the scale of storage that’s needed.
Pumped storage, if geology allows for it, seems like the only possible technology for sufficient storage.
Demand side reduction is possible as well, but that’s simply a controlled gray out. The implications for a society are huge. Ask any cuban or south african.
Others, like lithium ion batteries, green hydrogen, salt batteries, ammonium generation, … have been promised for decades now. Whilst the theory is there, they do store power, it simply does not scale to grid scaled needs.
The sad part is that it sets a trap, like we in EU have fallen into. You get far along the way, but as you can’t bridge the last gap, your reliance on fossil fuels, and total emissions, increases.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
That means the battery array would charge in 7-8hrs of sun, and provide nearly 16hrs of output at 1Gwh
How many days a year does that occur? How much additional storage and production do you need add, to be able to bridge dunkelflautes, as is currently happening in germany, for example (1)?
That’s why I mentioned the 90%, 99%, etc. If you want a balanced grid, you don’t need to just build for the average day (in production and consumption), you need to build for the worst case in both production and consumption.
The worst case production in case for renewables, is close to zero for days on end. Meaning you need to size storage appropriatelly.
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I look at the headway various countries in the eurozone have made on topics from socialized medicine, to universal basic income, to free postsecondary education, to the protection of personal data, and even to forcing Apple to change its charging cable
I think the socialized medicine and socialized postsecondary education are the biggest advantages indeed.
This comes at the cost of way lower middle class wages. An educated engineer’s take home pay is maybe 1.2 times that of a factory working. Resulting in very little people actually persuing STEM.
Combine that with the deindustrialization that’s going on in the EU, we will have to see how long it lasts.
It’s a trade-off, on which I can understand your point of view, as to how it benefits individuals in the short and mid-long term.
Universal basic income does, to my knowledge, not exist in the EU.
from anti-vaxx and anti-mask movements
Those were/are popular here, too.
There’s likely a “grass is greener” going on, for the both of us :)