probablypower

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by probablypower 4mo ago
every solution engineers a greater problem. Solving horse poop with cars -> Climate change
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by probablypower 6mo ago
This study doesn't correct for baseline exponential decay due to inflation, to better highlight the meaningful variations. By comparing based on 1914 dollars it also causes old variations to be relatively more extreme and newer inflati
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by probablypower 9mo ago
First guess (may be wrong) is to manage thermal expansion/contraction constantly on a micro-scale.
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by probablypower 10mo ago
60 MWh continuously means inf MW.
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by probablypower 11mo ago
It is not a mistake, it is just being cheeky.
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by probablypower 1y ago
> Remind me again why we need investors to fund bad ideas? A lot of good ideas only look bad in hindsight. It costs time and money to determine goodness, and that deserves funding.
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by probablypower 1y ago
The penultimate final frontier, adverts directly in front of your eyeballs 24/7, and tracking not just your position but your attention. Only step beyond this is neural implants putting purchasing decisions directly into your grey matt
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by probablypower 1y ago
There are a lot of posts here pushing batteries. Batteries are an expensive solution that doesn't scale well at the grid level. It is useful for grid stability (fast frequency response) but simply a non-starter when you're dealing
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by probablypower 1y ago
Please look at: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/CN/72h/hourly China is heavily reliant on coal. The US Grid is presently less carbon intensive than the Chinese grid.
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by probablypower 1y ago
This is an insane suggestion if you had a concept for how expensive batteries are and the scale of flexibility issues on the european grid. It also does nothing to help transmission grid frequency stability and control.
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by probablypower 1y ago
Batteries don't provide meaningful flexibility on a continental scale. They're useful in localised frequency control or microgrid flexibility. An exercise to the reader, calculate the space and materials required to replace the av
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by probablypower 1y ago
This is confidently incorrect. Gas power generation is a necessary evil to balance out the variability of intermittent energy generation (i.e. wind and solar). Hydropower isn't a feasible alternative because the easy resources have bee
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by probablypower 1y ago
Is 2 a number? Is 4 a number? Is 4/2 a number? Is 3 a number? Is 3/2 a number? etc... All of these symbols represent precise points on the numberline. Pi also represents a precise point on the numberline, so is it not a number?
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by probablypower 1y ago
This is well written and an interesting read but, embedding notebooks into your data pipelines smells horrible.
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by probablypower 1y ago
I'm sorry, but this blogvertisement is so far up its own jargon hole that it is impossible to read it as anything more than: "we are inventing a problem that you can pay us to solve".
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by probablypower 1y ago
> The storage tech exists and is in practice right now, no advancements needed. The existence of the tech isn't the issue, it is the logistics, cost and practicality of building it at grid scale. If you try to calculate how many bat
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by probablypower 1y ago
You can google "system inertia" as a starting point.
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by probablypower 2y ago
The article didn't do enough literature review, this isn't a new idea: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014811...
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by probablypower 2y ago
Should be any of: - They had long tongues that they used to catch bugs. - They have long tongues that they use to catch bugs. - They had long tongues, which they used to catch bugs. - They have long tongues, which they use to catch bugs.
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by probablypower 2y ago
you'll have trouble simulating the grid, but for energy data you might want to look at (or get in touch with) these people: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map They're a cool little team based in Copenhagen. Would
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by probablypower 2y ago
I came to the exact same solution. My feel for this type of puzzle is that there is a 'gravity' from the higher to lower value integers. So you want to help integers flow from the 7 to the 3. The state of the list then represents
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by probablypower 3y ago
Publications often take a long time. Particularly novel topics that are difficult to review due to a lack of comparative material or willing expertise. The fact that it took 3 years is a positive, as it means multiple parties rigorously rev
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by probablypower 3y ago
Cool toy, but this is a basic simulation of energy markets. You can't talk about future power systems without addressing system inertia, unless you dont care about being realistic.
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by probablypower 3y ago
This post means literally nothing. Please put in more effort, or refrain from contributing to discussions where you have no value to provide.
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by probablypower 3y ago
This is great, thank you (not OP). Is it more reasonable to understand this as: a. Private Equity is running out of cheap sources of money, so it is resorting to risky high interest sources. b. Private Equity sees a lot of present opportuni
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by probablypower 3y ago
This seems like a lazy, sensationalist article. If it is going to entertain the zoo hypothesis, it should also entertain the dark forest hypothesis among others. It is a false dichotomy to say "zoo or nothing".
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by probablypower 3y ago
If this is making coffee, I don't want to live in this android future.
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by probablypower 3y ago
It is a pretty fundamental flaw in market implementation if producers can bid significantly more than they can physically provide. We (other European country grid operator) run checks on every submitted market order to ensure it is both phy
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by probablypower 3y ago
No, it is not remote in the 4g sense, but in that they can control the machines remotely via the national control room. that scada network is secure and air gapped.
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by probablypower 3y ago
>there’s going to be less demand from offices and industry if a significant portion of the nearby population are making emergency plans and preparations Not the case in Iceland. Only 15% of the demand is non industrial, and people still

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