humanspiral @ humanspiral @lemmy.ca

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You're right about US. seems half uses tracking. No numbers on China which is 30x larger market. Economics still only make sense at consumer level of $1/watt panel prices, to me, but I guess there are reasons I don't understand.

OP is the one that made comparison. Terrorism gets more attention if victim is oligarch.

It's viable as edge of day high power boost in east/west direction, and simply any extra power that is cheap and easy to install, that adds privacy or keeps the controlled beings inside.

3000 killed and $1T property damage/rescue expenses in a day doesn't need to be matched by drones to make an impact. A single, Luigi style, untraceable, car or house impact, would make the oligarchy apoplectic. Though car bombs and hand grenades/molotovs have existed for a long time.

The cells are super expensive but super small. They need cooling for efficiency, but if the heat moving is useful, can ignore the energy cost.

I think their approach with module is 20-50x concentration instead of 500x, with cooling permitted to be module wide on air gap, as well as usual bottom cooling.

wouldn’t diffuse light be what it’s going to be best at? While it’d be worse on a sunny day when there is an optimal single direction for the light to come in?

No. Concentrated solar requires perfect alignment, dual axis tracking, to the sun. diffuse light does not concentrate.

A reasonable alternative design would be cheap ordinary PV cells with outward bubbles instead of inverted parabolas that would capture off axis light better on a fixed tilt.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10938951

This is 36% MODULE efficiency with expensive cooling. 30% actual year long efficiency without it. Requires dual axis tracking. Seems heavy as its very tall/deep.

Headline of cost reduction is very unlikely. Especially on a per acre/fairly large area basis. Dual axis tracking requires more spacing than fixed orientation rows, and loses benefits under cloudy conditions. While power at 7am and 5pm is more valuable when competing against high penetration solar, batteries are now more competitive than tracking, and can serve edge of day and night power needs. Tracking solar tends not to be built anymore, due to low cost of panels. The cooling infrastructure is also not as useful as it is on rooftops because the heat capture has useful benefits for homes.

It is also unclear how this has advantage over parabolic mirror.

Agri PV is a real use case, where more free land means more land use, even if most of it gets more shade, except around noon.

Bernie always has terrible solutions to his valid criticisms of oligarchism. It should be illegal to work 5 days? Or more hours no matter the pay?

UBI is only empowering of people solution to US empire/oligarchism. Work as much as you want, with the power to say fuck you if conditions are not good enough for you. Cheer on AI/Robot productivity gains as it increases your UBI.

Holy hilarious nerve hitting, Batman. Superman is the American way/might that simplistically pretends to side with truth and justice.

Superman is American empire. He has a distracting debate with Lois about the supremacy of Superman, but Superman decides he has supremacy in the end. The only case for Borovia being Israel instead of Serbia (in 90s) is that it has the US arms exporters (whether US State Dept is official conduit or not, US is not forbidding them) control Boravia. Russian like language in eastern Europe opressing muslims makes other case. The Superman = American empire propaganda is that the conflict is clear simplistic evil invading innocent good, and America/Superman "doing good after exploring all other alternatives." in imposing its will while US is free of all repercussions due to Superman's protection.

Superman movie has only real country mentioned, the USA. Superman serving US, always right, supremacism is normalized. Superman making sure America never faces repercussions for its policies. If anything, US support for Israel is glamorized, because if it were evil, a US superman (or the justice gang, if Superman distracted) would come to prevent it.

We all see and hear what goes on over there

First, the ROK unfiltered propaganda on DPRK is as believable as Ukrainian propaganda. We all know "the pure unvarnished truth" as the complete trust in that propaganda.

The US's unjustified war on Korea was to overthrow a democratic unification election in which the less corrupt North party won. Ever since, an oligarchist duopoly has been propped up by the US, and standard of living is determined by the isolationism imposed by US/ROK alliance.

DPRK is aligned with winning future alliance, and ROK is being canibalized, like other colonies, by its master. DPRK has always been the stronger military side, by necessity, and the future is likely better for them. In your example, "why not do something about the US for actual verified first hand threats to citizens not cheering enough for Trump"?

If we are moving to the higher and higher levels of defence spending because that’s necessary, then we will have to make considerations about what less the federal government can do in certain cases, and how…we’re going to pay for it.” And while Trump appears unappeasable—yet again threatening elevated tariffs on Canada this week—the weapons and corporate lobbies in this country are cheering.

1. the ONLY military threat to Canada is from the US. Every other suggestion is a treasonous thief stealing our prosperity for US colonial warmongering force amplification. Unacceptable evil, but unanimous party unanimity on the issue.
2. The "necessity" is following Trump orders to buy US weapons, at a self destructive pace. Canada's only response to US demands to jump has always been "I can go higher than this if you give us time to gaslight our slaves". This servitude has only increased after Trump's war declaration on Canada. The reward for servitude has been increasing levels of extortion placed on Canada.
3. Military servitude is 100% part of any overall trade relationship with US. It is fact, Canada's only real bargaining chip. The US does not defend Canada in any way whatsoever, because it is Canada's only threat. NORAD defends the US, and only defends Canada in the sense that Canada adopts the same demonic propaganda evil as the US to make enemies with who the US tells us to.

By far the most inept betrayal of Canada in trade negotiations is our rulership continuing to support US military policy, including Ukraine aid, and now, actively destroying Canada, AS A NECESSITY, to pay for absurd bankrupting US weapons purchases. Canada's alliances must include Asia and Europe, and MUST EXCLUDE the US. Instead, both Canada and EU are increasing military subservience to US, and getting abused harder for the favour.

The free version already told ya... first name Mecha

It would be colossally stupid to put out a press release that tells the other players what cards you’re holding

There are public commitments that indicate betrayal of Canadians, though:

• Defense pact with Philippines is direct support for US war on China.
• G7 statement on "Iran must not have nuclear weapons", while a platitude, is direct support for all Israel hasbara (weeks/months away since 1980s) and war on Iran. By extention, support for US and their strikes.
• Ukraine aid is simple continuation of US proxy war on Russia, even as US "forces" colonies to pay for it, including most recent proposal of NATO buying US patriot missiles to gift to Ukraine. Dividing EU from Russia is US policy. Gaslighting people that US is a better ally than Russia is US domination of NATO.
• Fortress Can Am and banning Chinese investment is further tying/subjugating Ontario/Canada to US without alternatives, and resulting in punishments instead of enthusiasm for the subservience.

When Trump negotiates publicly with lies and public punishment based on those lies, the private negotiations seem not just pointless, as something Trump won't listen/abide with, but more than likely a US trick to pacify us, while we get destroyed with full complicity.

Doug Ford is a US agent, gaslighting us into US subservience and destruction of Canadian auto sector. "Fortress Can Am" is treason, and has no "Am" partner/supporter.

Future is EVs. Ontario/Canada can either decide to support more USMCA compliant auto manufacturing or threaten nationalization of US subsidiaries that don't invest more, or cut investment.

Development of rare earths, lithium, other metals in Canada is possible through Chinese investment. Investment in processing plants where Canadian companies naturally get all of the supply they can sell more affordably than through US reliance. Modern auto plants use giga presses for outer body. Motor and battery manufacturing also highly automated. Chinese investment should include manufacturing of automation in Canada for Canadian and international markets.

Article talks about affordable EVs. These can be made in NA and Canada especially through Chinese technology and our cheap access to materials. Just the motors and batteries. GM equinox is a good value car. Could be made at same price in Canada as in MX, with cheaper access to materials/components.

When Do-FF(Fossil Fuel or Fat Fuck)-Fo supports increasing dependence on Alberta and FFs, he supports energy insecurity. Solar and EVs, reduce our refining demand. Another area to cooperate with Chinese investment.

Sun, afaiu, was part of a large committee on js without any particular leadership. They got the committee to agree to giving it trademark by complaining/threatening that the name was too close to java. Sun got trademark 4 years after Netscape started support for js. ECMAscript was mostly the same committee without SUN ownership/trademark.

Saving the economy will need more spending, even if some efficiencies in government is fine. Don't hear about anything about economic boosting other than dead ender energy pipelines.

They ended up with Javascript trademark (afaik, because the name was too close to Java) too. Sued node.js over something related.