This article never speaks to costs, as always with green energy, it's only green because the government funds it. How many years can a coal power plant last? How many years do these batteries last. What are the mineral inputs into these batteries? What are the inputs, costs and "renewable" properties of "green" energy? There are none. The batteries end up in toxic waste dumps. All the solar panels end up in the garage.
Stop chasing vanity and use common sense for utilities. How has this impacted their key metrics like reliability, what happens if there is ash in the air for a month and no solar can be provided? They took a proven, reliable production system and turned it into the latest JavaScript framework. Good luck.
Stop making up non-sense that have zero basis in reality.
The costs are fairly well captured in LCOE of these various sources of electricity. Questions like "How many year it lasts" is especially well captured.
> How many years do these batteries last.
For grid storage? Probably 1-3 decades. They'll have excellent battery management systems, chemistries that are optimized for longevity rather than energy density, they won't be fast charging/discharging, they'll probably never be discharged to 0%, mostly above 20% probably, which is also very gentle for batteries.
My EV battery is on its 8th year now with very little degradation. That's with primitive cooling (air cooling), older battery chemistry and fairly many charge/discharge cycles, including many deep discharges, since the EV battery is tiny (27kwH).
> The batteries end up in toxic waste dumps.
Completely false. Battery recycling is already happening at massive commercial scale, and reaching near 100% recycling. From consumer products like Apple iPhones to car and grid batteries. Car and grid batteries are particularly easy to recycle since you get huge bulk of identical cells.
Think about how insane it is to even consider this a disadvantage for batteries. How insanely many tonnes of coal will a coal power plant have burned in a decade? All that mining is gone forever. With battery materials mining, we'll eventually have enough materials for all the batteries we could ever need.
> All the solar panels end up in the garage.
Solar panels are a bit trickier, but that's also starting to ramp up at a commercial scale.
EU is already well ahead with regulations targeting recycling of these things. And given what's already demonstrated commercially, there's no reason to think 100% efficient recycling won't be the reality in a decade or so.
> what happens if there is ash in the air for a month and no solar can be provided?
Over a whole continent?
In France several of the supposedly reliable nuclear reactors went down at the same time a little while back. Huge amount of power went offline. They got by just fine with the help of their UK and German neighbors.
This. Stop thinking about work by not working. Stop any development on your own side projects - nothing dev related.
Take time. Life is not a grind. North American culture is really bad at promoting this. Fully disconnect is the only real way to recharge, change your perspective and future plans.
My reflection is this is a symptom of North American work culture. In the end, it manifests stress, lost time to decompress and a significant impact on your health.
After traveling to LaTam, we have it all backwards. Focus on happiness, family and health are where energy needs to be invested, before anywhere else.
Correct! When I moved out to a certain part of Europe and saw how life is much more than a hustle, it filled me with a renewed energy and perspective towards life.
Yes, except we want a shared resource for an index so we aren't all crawling sites in excess.
Eg, here's the latest central or distributed DB, the site in your personal list is on it so we don't need to send the crawler there because it has already been indexed and is crawled by someone else.
Malware scanner for anything uploaded to web servers. Was pretty cool at the time learning and identifying things in the wild then creating custom rulesets.
Cbdc is the last thing we need. Trust of these central governments and banks is clearly lost yet making a new system for them, that no one voted for (cbdc) or was asked about, that gives them complete control over our money is better? No thanks. This is why Bitcoin was created. There is already a solution and the central banks see it as a threat to their power. They are no longer needed.
What makes you say that? There's so much research that flies in the face of this sentiment. Solar on rooftops alone has the potential to supply a fourth of the current US energy consumption [1]. Other studies estimate that solar could grow to supply between 30-50% of our energy consumption in the future [2]. Solar represents a near limitless supply of energy, and can be harvested in a decentralized fashion (allowing homes to directly power themselves).
Furthermore, EVs have shown that advancements in tech can mitigate concerns around material availability and sustainability (while also increasing efficiency).
Do you have active hobbies and things your interested in that are not computer related?
Sometimes energy comes from recharging outside work with hobbies and passion projects, experiences with family and friends.