They are building massive pumped hydro storage too. A lot of closed-loop PHS is being built by China. Closed loop PHS doesn't have same ecological issues as traditional dams, but is not as trendy as batteries and has almost same political issues as traditional dams in west. So, it is generally ignored.
> Sure, if you handwave the unsolved-at-scale technical problems with grid energy storage and make a series of generous assumptions about future technology
Grid storage technology is already there with pumped hydro storage(PHS). As 90% of built and newly building grid storage is already PHS. It is political problems and inertia that's holding it back. To be clear, I'm referring to off the river closed-loop PHS, which doesn't need a huge river check dam, flood zone, huge population relocation or ecological issues. All it needs is two places with area of 1sqkm each some hundred meter elevation apart. There is ANU study that claims we have enough of such sites for needed storage. Look at how fast China is building PHS recently. I think PHS approvals, even for closed-loop, in US are as hard to get as nuclear, which is holding it back.
India was under nuclear sanctions until recently and had to build and design everything from scratch. Every component is made in India for PHWR which adds a lot of cost, due to r&d and economies of scale. Also, India is still not a member of NSG, due to repeatedly being blocked by China.
Can anyone compare this to new EPR nuclear plant being built in France, that project also ballooned to almost twice the estimated price and a decade late. Do they use cost+profit accounting too?
I used to hold the same opinion that reducing carbon without going nuclear wasn't possible. But, with increasing cost of nuclear power US, EU not categorising nuclear as green and not funding it, India seeing huge delay in their construction of nuclear plants in fleet mode, I came to conclusion that nuclear is not going to be built at scale needed at least in this decade. China is having success in their build out, but China's approach without huge bureaucracy/political overhead is not possible elsewhere. The time for nuclear was 2 decades ago, missing that a decade ago, if there was huge govt investments into it in US or EU. I am hopeful energy storage prices would come down similar to solar in coming years with multiple pilot projects of sodium, flow, thermal batteries expected to come up in few years. Energy storage with offshore wind, solar and solar CSP might be the only option at least for a decade.
There are small phones with decent battery performance in Android too. Zenfone 8 from last year is an example. But new small phones is a dying breed going forward with big players not interested in making them at all anymore. Only less known brands dab in making them or some budget phones.
Last time I checked, there was a limit of 1MB or so for deployment wasm in cloudfare workers. Is that limit raised? Go binaries easily run on tens of MB with the default http library.
China already did that decades ago. They initially choose MIPS with their LoongSon processors in 2000s, and pivoted to arm processors with the mobile chips wave later with Allwinner and Unisoc. They had supercomputers running with their own MIPS cpus too.
Aren't log files processed a line at a time? Last time I had to deal with some structured log, I streamed lines concurrently into json parser and it went pretty fast.
Gas cars lose energy to heat loss and timing/efficiency of combustion cycle, that due to air drag. So even though you could gain little more mileage driving at 65mph, the relative difference is less compared to electric cars.
Solar is only cheap when sun is shining bright. Just batteries needed for cloudy days or nights is multiple times more expensive than burning coal. solar+storage might become cheaper than coal by the end of this decade.
EU upcoming mandatory safety feature list includes driver attention monitoring system. These kind of features might be included in all cars going forward.
In an ideal world, one would expect nuclear tech or financing be addressed in global forums, like say cop26. But, from leaked reports, India was complaining that the cop report is demonizing nuclear and wants nuclear included in the solutions to climate change. Highly doubt India would get any traction on that.
Solar is cheaper than coal only when sun shines brightest in the noon, while the peak demand is generally around sunset. Solar energy generation is anywhere from 30-50% of nameplate capacity depending on location. This necessitates, additional solar equivalent capacity installation of peaker plants, or base load plants to cater to sunlight unavailable hours.
Newer storage tech is needed to address the situation like batteries, hydro or concentrated solar etc. Almost all of them are costlier than straight up burning coal or gas now.
If you construct reactors in fleet mode, a few will come online every year, first reactor comes online. Like China and India are doing. Bigger problem is nuclear fear in west and unavailability of finance in the rest. India could not avail loans from any banks for their new nuclear plants and had to fork out entire capex from govt budget.
Media and threshold of evidence? You need suspension of belief if you even want to consider it for a moment. The case of 5g causing corona being covered recently, without instant ban like lableak theory, is a case in point.
10^10 Joules converted to TNT directly is 2 ton TNT. All the energy should be released at the time of impact in a short period of time. Even assuming >50% energy loss due to atmospheric interference, 1ton TNT should be left.
You're being downvoted, but, last 3 ISP's I used didn't support ipv6. First one didn't support ipv6 at all, second supported it, but was incompatible with my router. And I didn't care about it after that. Hardware incompatibility is a huge roadblock for ipv6.
But, they are working toward Go2. Generics, which are the biggest talking point whenever Go is discussed, is already added in a branch and is supposed to come in a year or so. It'll be interesting to see how it'll affect the trends data after that.
The next big destination many people have with respect to internet penetration is Africa. And CCP is ahead of west in capturing African market by working best with dictators and being competitive. For example they sold their telecom towers very cheap, and they work best with only chinese phones. With this cycle, china owns major share of African mobile business in just a few years. It would be easier to to get their IP in there.
I guess the general attitude of FAANG and microsoft towards open source is that if they could make money with it, it's good. Once, companies saw you could make money with opensource, other concerns evaporated. This reminds me of all those ads that IBM spent promoting linux, but, ultimately didn't end up as winner with opensource.
Couldn't open the article, not clear why it could be removed entirely from Play Store, not just US? Play store has country specific apps and they removed tiktok only from Indian store after the Indian ban. So, what is different this time?