>Easy eh. So why isn't it happening?
It is happening, that is my point. Look at the link I posted, what's being installed are 4 hours batteries on GW scale.
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It is happening, that is my point. Look at the link I posted, what's being installed are 4 hours batteries on GW scale.
I should have said:
The account is not suspended (anymore). Does someone knows how long it was suspended?
I don't think there will be wave the same amplitude saying that it has been restored short after.
They are already the cheapest in Australia, and at some point, grid-scale batteries are going to be cheaper than gas peakers everywhere.
To do baseload with solar it's easy: deploy enough PV and back that with 20 hours grid scale batteries.
Sources: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/australia-leads-globa...
Something like an alpha version.
Limited preview in their jargon.
So actually they are lagging: their 128k model is yet to be released while OpenAI released theirs some months ago.
Fighting to legalize cryptography on the internet. PGP was banned. Sending encrypted emails was illegal...
Cypherpunks won. Thanks to them.
Is chatGPT intelligent?
And when marginal cost is zero price goes to zero as well (unless there is scarcity or artificial scarcity thanks to a sort of monopoly or cartel)
This easy to understand: imagine that A and B have invested in capacity production. If A sells at x dollars, B will sells at x-0.1 dollars stealing the market to A. Etc... there is no bottom since the marginal cost is zero.
A no tech solution is better than a low tech solution.
In one case you expand agriculture which is the main cause of biodiversity loss and in the other you subsidize (zero carbon) technologies to help them start.
The agriculture lobby must be happy.
A another common unit for energy is kWh (kilowatt.hour)
A kilowatt generator can produce one kWh/h (by definition)
Thanks to the EV success, lithium batteries costs are falling exponentially. Coincidentally, photovoltaics costs are also falling exponentially.
Conclusion: regarding electricity production, fossil fuels are soon not going to be competitive, PV + batteries would be so much cheaper...
When? With the actual costs curves, in less than a decade.
In Europe, by law, each time you open a page you get a weird and annoying popup saying something like: "the website uses cookies, are you ok with that?". The extension just nix the nonsense popup.
This is no different than Google designing and manufacturing their own chips (TPU, tensor processing unit)
Long story short: Helion plans a net-electricity demo in 2024 and to start selling to the grid in 2028. The timeline seems too good to be true but no one says it's impossible. Many says they have not enough publications and that there are many scientific unknowns. Failure is a possibility, success also. Given the timeline we'll know soon.
Computer energy needs grow exponentially so at some point we will hit a wall. Hard to estimate when. Energy tech is also an evolving field and fusion might arrive some day
As I understand the growth of chatGPT (both in number of users and capabilities) is only possible with more servers.
I'm right now developing on top of openAI API and I wonder if it's a good idea after all.
- Thousands of solar farms have been successfully developed in the US with near identical EISes and ultimate findings of marginal impact, and yet every new development still has to endure the high cost and delays of yet another top-to-bottom regulatory process whose outcome everyone already knows is a foregone conclusion!
- Much of the current, and relatively modest array of green energy subsidies are wasted on the army of consultants who churn out permitting paperwork whose negative impact, in terms of trees felled to make paper, is probably higher than the project they’re describing!
Results are however not guaranteed.