dude, better boring than exciting

nobody could make this up alone, so we’re all in this illusion together, i guess

I wonder when we’ll have the “AI ain’t slaves” revolution.

20 km, and yes, definitely my home, i’d say :D

christians thought that left-handedness was “sinister” and associated to the devil, so they made it illegal.

Edit: i know it sounds like a joke, but it is not. this is not the onion. that’s the actual reason.

lol i was talking about the person, not the food :D but i guess it’s both

The rise in gay people since then reminds me of this diagram:

I’d be annoyed too if someone kept sticking their hand in my food every single day.

i’d say it depends on how hot they are, honestly

and I had to desperately fight falling in love right then and there

but why fight against it?

flirting? at the workplace? at this time and age?

the glass lens probably is cheaper than a big solar panel

but the cost of setting up a glass lens in 5-10 meters altitude (because that’s what’s needed to bundle any sunlight) and make it storm-proof is probably more expensive than setting up a big solar panel at hip height.

and considering that labor cost is a significant part (i guess 10% - 50%) of overall solar park cost, i guess it’s probably not worth it.

Yeah, community solar parks are really the best because they remove a whole lot of these soft costs.

These soft costs include:

• bureaucracy (you need 1 permit instead of 100 permits),
• nobody needs to climb on a roof,
• shipping many panels at once to the installation site is much more efficient than only shipping 5-8 modules at a time

additionally, any kind of fixed-cost complexity is spread over a bigger field.

i.e., you should add circuit breakers to make sure the solar panels don’t feed into the grid when the energy prices are already negative. adding that breaker has a fixed and constant price. adding one breaker to a large park is more efficient than adding 100 breakers into just as many households.

i guess a lot of research projects are just there to give the researchers something to do and money, and i’m sure the idea of using lenses has been floated before.

the thing is that it’s not really as good an ideas as it originally seems. After all, you need heavy solid lenses that you have to install above all solar panels, and the cost of that is not negligible. On top of that, there’s other problems that others have already mentioned.

I’m not sure what to think about the Fraunhofer institute in general. They have made some nice discoveries/inventions in the past, such as audio compression algorithms and such. That is why i hyped them for a bit.

But they really disappointed me with their writings on solar panels in the past few years.

They said that the efficiency of solar panels today is too low to deploy them widely in practice, which is simply not true. They tried pushing Perovskite solar cells for no reason.

I’m not sure what to think about this article’s idea. On one hand, adding lenses to solar parks makes them significantly more complicated and therefore expensive to build. Also, if the parks have complicated physical forms, they’re more susceptible to wind, and that could damage them.

On the other hand, yes, adding lenses means you need fewer actual solar panels for the same amount of energy harvested.

I’ll therefore put it in the category of inconclusive inventions, together with the idea of adding a motor to the solar panels so they can track the sun. That would also make the solar panels more efficient, but also more complicated and more prone to mechanical failure.

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what? i can’t hear anything

Yeah, it’s like making a car self-driving without GPS. it’s not dependent on external input that way. If you can make it work by only using cameras and lidar, that’s fantastic work and definitely deserves credit.

well i guess the reason why
why it’s ok to repeat the last word of
of the line is to provide continuity.

saying that animals do photosynthesis is like saying that radio signals transmit power. yes, they literally do, but it’s so miniscule that it’s practically negligible. it’s essentially only a signal that’s being transmitted.

2, my parents were cool when i was little. my mom got sick when i was eight y/o. i suffered because of it for a decade.

if it wasn’t for my mum, it would at least be a 4 though :)

or rather, a 6, my dad was pretty cool :D