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Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
23·20 hours agoThank you for putting it this way. I hope it helps others.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
13·21 hours agoThere’s more than solar and batteries or nuclear. We need cheap reliable energy. And thankfully there’s plenty.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
13·21 hours agoHaving enrichment facilities doesn’t mean controlling the entire nuclear fuel cycle:
France still imports Russian enriched uranium and relies on Russia to convert and enrich recycled uranium. Longstanding contracts and missing European processing capacity explain why. Energy independence is clearly more complicated than owning uranium deposits.
A reactor needs an industrial fuel supply chain, while wind and solar need no fuel imports once installed. Nobody can embargo the breeze. If energy independence is the goal, why treat fuel free generation as an afterthought?
eicker@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
123·21 hours agoNobody’s asking us to bet on miracle batteries: Wind and solar paired with storage are already cheaper than building new nuclear. Reusing a coal plant’s grid connection doesn’t magically make a reactor cheap or quick to build. If speed and CO2 matter, follow the numbers, not the nostalgia.
eicker@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
23·21 hours agoYou may import turbines or panels, but no foreign government can turn off your wind or sunshine. Equipment supply chains can be diversified: imported fuel remains a recurring dependency. That’s a pretty important difference.
eicker@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
63·21 hours agoDo you realize how heavily Europe still depends on fossil fuels today? And that some of its nuclear reactors still use fuel supplied by Russia? If your big argument is avoiding dependence on hostile suppliers, swapping Russian gas for Russian nuclear fuel is a pretty spectacular blind spot.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
245·22 hours agoNo, in my world tomorrow’s grid uses whatever delivers reliable electricity at the lowest total cost: solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, storage, and yes, nuclear if it can compete. This isn’t a religion with approved energy sources. It’s an engineering problem with a price tag, and nobody gets bonus points for glowing in the dark.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
509·22 hours agoBatteries would like a word. They’re already storing solar power, getting cheaper, and improving at a pace nuclear construction schedules can only dream of. For longer gaps, pumped hydro and thermal storage can pitch in. Turns out the answer isn’t one magical box, but a bunch of technologies that actually exist.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
256·22 hours agoNuclear’s big selling point is that the sun goes down. Batteries have apparently missed that memo: they keep getting cheaper, better, and more efficient. Storage won’t solve every grid problem overnight, but pretending today’s limitations are permanent is a strange way to plan tomorrow’s energy system.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
1412·22 hours agoIn the end, the cheapest reliable kilowatt hour wins. Not the technology with the loudest fan club, the best nostalgia, or the most impressive lobbying budget. Energy markets don’t award participation trophies for expensive electricity.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."English
606·22 hours agoTurns out the sun has a few competitive advantages over nuclear: free fuel, no radioactive waste, and it doesn’t need a decade of permits before it starts shining. The real bottleneck now is grids and storage. Imagine losing the energy race to a giant fusion reactor 93 million miles away. 😎
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Technology@lemmy.world•“No human at the helm”: Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses. Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for “reckless” AI, US Rep. Comer says.English
1164·23 hours agoWe’ve finally automated the one thing executives wanted most: plausible deniability. Profits go to the human owners, bad decisions go to the algorithm, and victims get to sue a corporate shell with a chatbot for a CEO. Delaware isn’t building the future of business. It’s building the ultimate accountability escape room.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Data center gear is being hijacked in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions — grand-theft-GPU thieves hack accounts, perform hit-and-runs, spoof GPS signals, and funnel hardware to China.English
14015·1 day agoTurns out the most profitable AI business model is stealing the hardware before anyone can spend billions teaching it to hallucinate. Wall Street calls that an asset light strategy. Nvidia calls it demand. The thieves call it same day delivery.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Nintendo Loves You: No Plans To Abandon Physical Media Because 'Fans Enjoy It'. "We have no plans to abandon physical media. We know how much fans enjoy it."English
381·2 days agoNintendo: We respect your love of owning physical games. Also Nintendo: Here’s a cartridge containing approximately zero game, just a tiny plastic permission slip for our servers. It’s like selling someone a book where every page says »please connect to the library.« Still, apparently that counts as consumer friendly now.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI models cost more when you don’t use English: Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.English
13·2 days agoSilicon Valley built a universal intelligence that apparently charges extra for speaking most of the world’s languages. And the surcharge doesn’t even buy better answers: it buys slower responses and less context. Truly revolutionary: exporting the English only customer service experience to the entire planet.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech: "There are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth."English
421·2 days agoThe AI revolution has achieved something truly unprecedented: billions in spending, endless executive keynotes, and no measurable payoff for most businesses. Apparently the killer app was convincing CEOs to transfer their budgets to seven tech companies: »Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493.«
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Technology@lemmy.world•Americans Are Officially More Scared of AI Than a Loved One Getting Cancer: "We expect concerns about AI to remain a significant part of the national conversation in the years ahead."English
1·2 days agoWhen a disease threatens a loved one, at least nobody insists it’s an exciting opportunity to disrupt the family. With AI, billionaires are actively funding the risks, lobbying against safeguards, and asking us to applaud their vision. Apparently »move fast and break things« hits differently when the thing is society.
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Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users: system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything.English
1·3 days agoThis is the kind of AI success story that never makes the investor decks: Your setup sounds like the future they can’t easily monetize. 💪😎✌️
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Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users: system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything.English
0·3 days agoExactly. The real promise of AI isn’t having a corporate assistant that remembers your life so it can monetize you. It’s having a tool you control, running on hardware you own, helping you create things you actually want. Local AI turns personalization into empowerment rather than surveillance. Which is probably why Big Tech would prefer to rent you your own brain by the month. How does your setting look like? What hardware, harness, agent, modell are you running locally?




















Apparently Google AI Mode can tell you who won the 2020 US election, but only if you ask from another country. In America, Biden’s victory is apparently classified as a dangerous opinion. Incredible achievement: building a machine that knows the answer and has been trained to pretend it doesn’t.