that’s antisemitic. you should be ashamed, you want to kill all jews /s

i don’t really get why nobody besides me seems to freak out about how amazing it is that the “fire & water” dualism can be found in our households

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) 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.

why bail out the companies and not the people?

(/s, i was joking, of course in US companies value more than human life)

fair game IMHO. if you look at china as one big agent, then they can indeed act like that.

Is it really antisemitic if a billionaire does it? /s

The article is well-written. I wonder how many employees will still be needed in 10+ years from now.

In case you haven’t heard about it, the labor market is regulated by supply and demand. That means, if there’s less demand, but supply stays equal, wages decline. That’s what people experience for the last decades. If this trend continues, demand for human labor might become very weak. That’s why people for one can no longer rely only on the incomes through the labor (wages), but need good safety nets (Universal Basic Income, UBI).

And also, demand for labor is another way of saying “how much are humans needed to perform tasks”. What if humans aren’t needed? Will people be ok with that?

It’s not so much that your spine is old at 30. it’s more that our body is not really adjusted to our fucking modern lifestyle. and also it seems to me, a lot of backpain is psychological. i.e., anxiety and stuff leads to lower back pain and such.

yeah at a certain point it becomes a trade-off between “no geopolitical dependence on uranium” and “no geopolitical dependence on something that is currently produced in china, but could be produced anywhere if we tried hard enough”

it’s a trade-off. the average generation curve depends on the inclination; each has its pros and cons

power is the best thing in the world to work in right now, it touches sooo many aspects of humanity and is changing so fast!

100%

But think about the economy, if trump can’t crash the economy, how are billionaires gonna extract that sweet juice from society?

I don’t think everybody who makes a bad claim is a troll. A lot of people just are that stupid.

truly the antidote to happiness

though entertaining :3

Actually, stop telling people to “learn” linux. Linux is either supposed to be easily navigable without the Command Line, or it’s not the right thing for most people.

Either dumb it down, or don’t expect people to learn it.

Probably the closest space any guy could get is AA or NA meetings.

what do these abbreviations stand for?

Would you mind giving the community a name where it can easily be found? Such as /c/mental-health-men or sth.