It's so weird how the whole "this tech is the inevitable future that we've all been building towards and any resistance to it is backwards, if not malignant" is being put out for AI but not solar tech, huh?
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FediThing
in reply to foundseed • • •"NFTs are here to stay, like it or not"
"Cryptocurrencies are here to stay, like it or not"
"3DTV is here to stay, like it or not"
"Google Plus is here to stay, like it or not"
etc.
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da_667
in reply to foundseed • • •its because renewables are dirt cheap, and always seem to be getting cheaper literally anywhere else on the planet except in the US. Solar isn't inevitable because its not another business to exploit the masses with.
Dudebros popping up datacenters, not giving a fuck about how that affects water and air quality of the towns around them.
Some of these motherfuckers really need the guillotine.
Glen T, heated, not stirred
in reply to foundseed • • •The inevitability of solar has been wholeheartedly embraced by Australians. "You mean at the hottest time of day my air conditioner runs for free?" is not a difficult sale.
Haven't done the sums of recent to know how many months, but the payback period on residential rooftop panels is under a year, not too long ago that was three years.
Now at the stage where new street lighting -- actually on power poles -- has solar cells and battery built in to limit mains usage.
María Arias de Reyna
in reply to Glen T, heated, not stirred • • •@glent As someone living in the South of Europe... well, yes but actually no.
Above a certain temperature, solar panels start to decrease efficiency.
It is still an easy deal to sell, but... yep.
foundseed
in reply to María Arias de Reyna • • •Bruno Nicoletti
in reply to María Arias de Reyna • • •Glen T, heated, not stirred
in reply to María Arias de Reyna • • •Sure they derate in the heat. My panels derated about 15% when the temperature was over 45C. So when we designed the system we added 20% more panels. Cost a few hundred Aussie dollars. Basically part of the overall cost of the system.
Solar panels are cheap enough that if there is any sort of access issue getting onto the roof then the correct answer is "Cover the whole thing whilst you are up there".
Unus Nemo
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Not weird at all. Solar power does not help the large corporations, they cannot efficiently monetize your use of it. Even with their forcing you to stay on the grid and sell them your excess power, to be sure you will in turn need theirs when you do not have enough to keep your batteries full.
First, I am not at all against AI it is a great resource. I just use local AI as I am against giving my money to a large corporation for something I can easily provide for myself. Not to mention my LLM and SD checkpoints get far better training than theirs do. So are far more reliable.
Who would have thought that if you just arbitrarily scrape all the information you can find, train an LLM with it that its education would suck and it would be very unreliable? Even training LLM on Open Source Code does not mean you gave it good code to learn on. The issue is that corporation do not care about you the way you care about you. Human intelligence is far from infallible.
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Not weird at all. Solar power does not help the large corporations, they cannot efficiently monetize your use of it. Even with their forcing you to stay on the grid and sell them your excess power, to be sure you will in turn need theirs when you do not have enough to keep your batteries full.
First, I am not at all against AI it is a great resource. I just use local AI as I am against giving my money to a large corporation for something I can easily provide for myself. Not to mention my LLM and SD checkpoints get far better training than theirs do. So are far more reliable.
Who would have thought that if you just arbitrarily scrape all the information you can find, train an LLM with it that its education would suck and it would be very unreliable? Even training LLM on Open Source Code does not mean you gave it good code to learn on. The issue is that corporation do not care about you the way you care about you. Human intelligence is far from infallible. So why would anyone believe AI (artificial intelligence) would be? Teach a human garbage, get garbage out. Teach an LLM garbage, get garbage out. It is almost like a pattern here ...