That would be cheap redox flow batteries, like the EWE project I linked you to.
One thing, I take it you don't see lithium scaling. Why is that? There is enough of it.
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One thing, I take it you don't see lithium scaling. Why is that? There is enough of it.
>"Why are you called Matrix?"
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>"We are called Matrix because we provide a structure in which all communication can be matrixed together."
>"No, it’s nothing to do with the film (although you could go and build virtual worlds on top of Matrix if you wanted :)"
Am kind of surprised there is no mention of William Gibson there.
You could question if it is accurate for sure, but from this comment it appears that you have not even read the very first paragraph of the article.
Pigeon controls missile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
Horse drives car - https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/videos/news-videos/buttersco...
Goldfish controls robot - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/26/robot_goldfish_tank...
edit to add one more as I realised that one of my favorite 'most worrying tech developments' fits right in...
Rat neurons cultured on silicon substrate control robot - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401756/rat-brained-robot/
Hang on, so, you want fuel cells but dismiss someone building the world's largest battery using redox flow technology?
I take it that you don't know that redox flow batteries are a type of reversible fuel cell? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery#Redox
There isn't a simple road between the two positions you gave, there is an entire territory.
edit - if you have no idea what I am on about, buy this immediately - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12067.Good_Omens
...
Formerly to amuse myself at court I would burn orchid incense;
Now to enter the Zen life I burn my own face.
The four seasons pass by naturally like this,
But I don't know who I am amidst the change.
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In this living world
the body I give up and burn
would be wretched
if I thought of myself as
anything but firewood.
- Ryōnen Gensō
Killing for a dogma is the issue. And those who claim that religion is responsible for all misery are precious few philosophical steps away from doing exactly that.
edit - for some perspective, here's Tony Benn on the many links between socialist ideologies and christianity. - https://jacobinmag.com/2018/12/tony-benn-christianity-social...
edit2 - For another perspective, while the crackdown on christianity is harsh, the crackdown on muslims is next level. Which is odd on the face of it as muslims tend to be more left wing in practice than christians.
The best description of this I have heard is Charles Fort's, adapted by the science fiction community into an idea called 'Steam Engine Time'.
>"There’s an idea in the science-fiction community called steam-engine time, which is what people call it when suddenly twenty or thirty different writers produce stories about the same idea. It’s called steam-engine time because nobody knows why the steam engine happened when it did. Ptolemy demonstrated the mechanics of the steam engine, and there was nothing technically stopping the Romans from building big steam engines. They had little toy steam engines, and they had enough metalworking skill to build big steam tractors. It just never occurred to them to do it. When I came up with my cyberspace idea, I thought, I bet it’s steam-engine time for this one, because I can’t be the only person noticing these various things. And I wasn’t. I was just the first person who put it together in that particular way, and I had a logo for it, I had my neologism."
William Gibson, 'The Art of Fiction' - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/william-gibso...
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>"If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree can not find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time. For whatever is supposed to be meant by progress, there is no need in human minds for standards of their own: this is in the sense that no part of a growing plant needs guidance of its own devising, nor special knowledge of its own as to how to become a leaf or a root. It needs no base of its own, because the relative wholeness of the plant is relative baseness to its parts. At the same time, in the midst of this theory of submergence, I do not accept that human minds are absolute nonentities, just as I do not accept that a leaf, or a root, of a plant, though so dependent upon a main body, and so clearly only a part, is absolutely without something of an individualizing touch of its own."
Charles Fort, 'Lo!' Chapter 4 - http://www.resologist.net/lo104.htm
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Tesla to build world's biggest battery
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/07/tesla-buil...
Tesla mega-battery in Australia activated
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-42190358
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Hyundai Plans World’s Largest Grid Storage Battery In Korea
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/12/05/hyundai-plans-worlds-la...
Hyundai Electric completes world's largest ESS
http://komec.kr/eng/Board.asp?menucode=0503010000&mode=2&no=...
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I don't think Korea Zinc or the people of Adelaide are storing their power using public relations. I think, in reality, they had a battery delivered.
With that all said however, the interpretation you are putting forward (which it would only be reasonable to take as the correct interpretation of your words, as it is you describing what you meant to say), still doesn't support the notion that you are "all for renewables", now does it?
>"The domestication of cats took a different trajectory. Wildcats are improbable candidates for domestication (see Table 3). Like all felids, wildcats are obligate carnivores, meaning they have a limited metabolic ability to digest anything except proteins (33). Cats live a solitary existence and defend exclusive territories (making them more attached to places than to people). Furthermore, cats do not perform directed tasks and their actual utility is debatable, even as mousers (34). [In this latter role, terrier dogs and the ferret (a domesticated polecat) are more suitable.] Accordingly, there is little reason to believe an early agricultural community would have actively sought out and selected the wildcat as a house pet. Rather, the best inference is that wildcats exploiting human environments were simply tolerated by people and, over time and space, they gradually diverged from their “wild” relatives (35, 36). Thus, whereas adaptation in barnyard animals and dogs to human dominion was largely driven by artificial selection, the original domestic cat was a product of natural selection."
- From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication
pjc50 said: This is very much the "true communism has never been tried" argument, isn't it? Unless you know a way of building it without people?
Then you said: "No its not at all the same cause thats not what i mean. I mean that people are ignorant to the dangers not that its dangerous. Has nothing to do with communism, wind and solar on the other hand do."
The way this reads it is as though you have skipped the reference and have started talking about communism itself as opposed to the "true communism has never been tried" argument. Now this may have been unintentional on your part due to poor English, but if I have misunderstood it was not due to me trying to conflate your words in any way. You did the conflation for me.
You have stated elsewhere that you think wind and solar are to do with communism. I am not sure exactly where you were going with that as an argument, but I really don't believe that you meant it in a 'yayy, communism' kind of a way.
You do know this, right?