Sun Sets
Republicans: Huddle nervously in the darkness uncertain if the magic sky fire will ever return.
Solar
Sunset
If those kids could read meme
Sometimes I wonder if my whole worldview is incorrect. Perhaps I am in an insulated echo chamber. Maybe these people who I have vilified have reasonable positions that I cannot comprehend.
Then I see the the Department of Energy lamenting how solar panels failed because they don’t work at night.
Anything can be true when words have no meaning.
I’m wondering how that 1% remained operating?
Moonlight
138 MW generated from moonlight is insane to me.
I’m investing in lunar power now
Had to rely on Google AI for this (downvote all you want but good luck trying to find this without it), but it says dusk/dawn can produce 0.1% to 0.01% capacity. But inverters for DC to AC have a minimum threshold so it’s nothing.
Thank God we had you here to tell us what the slop machine sharted out.
You’re welcome!
It was sarcasm. Next time keep that shit to yourself.
It was?!?!? Rudeness from ml?!? Well I never!
Firstly: I’m not the downvoter.
Secondly: you didn’t have to - you chose to.
And as most chatbots list sources, you can always check them out yourself and cut out the middleman. Most of academia - some 45% do that. Another 45% don’t even bother. A lone 10% still do things the old fashioned way. In any case, you’re not alone in relying on AI to find obscure information.
With search engines becoming increasingly infested with low-quality and obvious-slop sites, relying on the same methods as the slopmasters isn’t even a big stain on your morality. Because of it was, the slopmasters would be drowning in the ink required, and billionaires would already have caused another biblical flood of it.
Did you know that 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
60% of the time it works every time
49% of us think we’re not divided.
Half the population can’t read statistics and the other third choose not to.
Best guess, sunset is being defined as a specific time. Sunset isn’t necessarily the point at which all sunlight is gone, and even then, the time the sun goes down varies depending on where you are within a given time zone. If they just used an arbitrary time or an almanac listing for twilight for each day, they could easily end up including slivers of daylight in their post sunset data.
Which is really pointless since this is just the same old “BuT sOlAr DoEsN’t WoRk At NiGhT” argument that idiots have been making for decades. But I suppose you gotta at least pretend to use real world data to make it look sciencey.
Lowering the bar? Put it wherever you want so long as i can drink at it
Please tell me this isn’t a real thing someone published. It really needs to be a joke. My opinion of humanity is so very low, and I don’t think I can handle lowering it any further.
This does not appear to be real I cannot find any other references to this graphic nor can I find the graphic itself anywhere else
Well shit
There is no humanity. Just ~20L bags of very dirty water. Fluid dynamics is the only thing that applies.
Seems like the official DoE account on LinkedIn posted it;
Remember when the DoE used to be all boring engineers and physicists, not adeptus mechanicus?
I’m sorry, buddy. It’s real.
Damn it. I think that was the last little bit of faith in humanity I had left.
I should buy a bulldozer
By sunset, despite still high temps, 99% of solar power also failed.
They think high temps is what generates the electricity.
For some of them it actually is, not all are photoelectric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower
They have trade offs, like every power solution. One perk is that they generally cleaner to produce, since shiny metal is simpler than modern complex solar panels.
That being said, I have little faith in any report issued under the current administration.
That still requires sunlight to work…
It requires sunlight to charge, not to produce electricity. Because liquid salt doesn’t cool the moment it goes dark the plant can continue to use it to boil water to spin a turbine for a fair bit of time without sunlight. I believe one implementation only produces power at night, and spends the day collecting heat.
But yes, solar power does require sunlight at some point.It’s kinda moot however, because having now read the original post I was correct to assume they (the doe) was being disingenuous. The heat they seemed to be referring to was “the weather”. As in “despite the high temperature, the sun still went down causing solar generation to ebb in a predictable fashion that grid operators were unsurprised by. This is why it’s good we forced them to keep 150 year old coal plants burning”.
This is probably what explains that 1% generated by solar during the night.
Oh jeez, that somehow feels even dumber than what I thought it meant which is “it got so hot that solar panels stopped working after dark”. Like they were blaming the “extreme heat”… So by their understanding, Solar should work all summer long day or night because it’s hot, but not work at all in winter because it’s cold?
Maybe that’s why they’re allowing that company to build space mirrors; so they can point the sun at the solar panels 24/7.
~/s in case it’s not obvious.~
I know you aren’t serious, but I am now curious how much night time solar relaying it would take to pay off launching one of those satellites. I need to find numbers…
Wow, that’s awesome. I look forward to your math update (but I would understand if it doesn’t happen).
As an aside, I thought your comment deserved to be acknowledged on the !theydidthemath@mander.xyz community.
~If you don’t like it, you could always cover my house with extra midnight sunlight as punishment. 🤭~
Eärendil-1
Will these people ever stop taking their product names from The Lord of The Rings? J.R.R. Tolkien’s corpse could probably be set up to generate power from all the spinning he’s presumably doing in his grave at this point.
Holy shit.
At this point I feel ashamed admitting I find this astonishing. Everyone come point and laugh because I’m somehow still not jaded enough.
Usually before I write something stupid I go back and proof read it. Apparently the DOE doesn’t do that.
Wait until they hear about my car when it has no gas.
99% of cars fail without gas in the tank. Obviously the car must be the problem.
not gonna have to wait long the way things are going in the Gulf
New profile picture?
yeah :)
If you kill all the Nazis this will stop being a problem.
Is this real? Is this really as dumb as it seems?
yup it’s real and it’s exactly as dumb as it looks
It’s not. The tweet may be real but the image is fabulation.
Incidentally, this is why I’m heavily invested in battery technology.
Wow California has a lot of renewable energy. Even if all of it’s imports are fossil fuels that’s still pretty good.
Iirc the imports are mostly hydro from Washington State and BC hydro
I was surprised to learn the US actually is 43% renewable+nuclear. Plus almost all new generation is renewable.
China gets a lot of attention because they’re still building out their grid, but the US hasn’t been doing bad at transitioning. Our biggest issue is slow adoption of electric cars, but I largely blame Trump for that.
Kinda looks like a sunrise 🌅
Any companies in particular?
Generac is the big one. They’ve got a mix of retail units and industrial grade.
I’ve also got some money in Dragonfly, which has primarily focused on truck battery alternatives, but it’s moving into larger scale products.
Then there’s a big lithium mine being constructed in Thacker Pass, Nevada, which trades under LAC.
Right on. Ill take a look at these. Thanks!
They’re currently all in the god’s damned toilet. But… hope springs eternal.
Buy low, sell high
That’s what they keep telling me
Growing up in the American education system I met a number of intelligent and decent people. None of them that stayed in this country are doing particularly well professionally. I also met a number of trust fund brats and amoral monsters. They are doing quite well for themselves. This is America.
The lack of morality is a feature.
