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.

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.

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.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ace3db

at 2% leakage rates, NG is as impactful in GHGs as coal when scrubbed at moderate efficiency for SO2. Most (by small margin) coal generators use scrubbers.

US “upstream” (wells + pipelines) infrastructure leaks more than 1%, and combustion/valves/compressors, and just satellite measurements of upstream infrastructure measures at least 2% accross US.

LNG exports to Europe (less than Asia due to shorter distance) adds 40%+ to emissions just from liquefaction process, with more energy/leakage from defrosting and local pipelines, relative to domestic coal alternatives. Specialized ship building and LNG plant construction also means more emmissions in related infrastructure.

NG does make far less local air pollution, mostly because SO2 scrubbers suck, but NG is not green energy, and its emissions are not properly accounted for.

The free version already told ya… first name Mecha

she was hired to fix the advertiser exodus. Good reason to quit is this scandal would hurt her bonuses/job function.

Well the punchline to that sketch is “instead of FB, just do what I do: Go to the site where nazis scream at you!” just might be that twitter reference you said was missing.

Either she resigned because “I’m never going to recover from this to boost advertising sales” or she was the one that deleted the Grok “love from the heart salutes”

X CEO has just resigned.

The apoplectic establishment reaction to Mamdani is not about the evil of affordable housing or solving food deserts. It is suggesting arrest of Netanyahu.

States and cities are under fire from federal Republicans that either must resort to higher taxes on some people, or significantly increase desperation levels that will increase crime, and validate more the needs for fascist takeovers of cities/states that don’t fund anti-desperation programs.

Programming seems to be “Liberalism is bad, and (because???) is anti white. Many Jews support liberalism”. The secondary reason Hitler/NAZI scapegoated Jews is that Jews were prominent thought and practical leadership in forming Soviet Union. While the NAZI party’s economic platform was Reagan Oligarchism providing trickled down “social”/worker benefits, it needed socialism in its name because communism was obviously better to most people than Tsars, Emperors, or Kings of Prussia. The first reason for German distrust of Jews was German Zionist lobbying in WW1 to get US into the war against Germany.

Neo-Nazism today is not an anti Zionist movement. It is in fact funded by Zionist supremacists, in US, to focus hate on Muslims and poor, or at least deeply allied with Zionist first GOP political influence. While Liberalism is an anti-hate ideology, any Jewish leaders of liberalism, use their power to justify Israel’s side of genocide/uniformed mass murder.

Zionism and Judaism are independent. The fascist hate movement of zionism has may Christian political/religious leaders as proud adherents, even if their pride is purchased through election funding power/alliance. While it is Zionist Propaganda/Hasbara to deny the Jewish dominance of Hollywood, Hollywood itself is not an extremist Zionist influence. Liberalism is anti-Zionazi in its core, and making more Holocaust sympathy films than more pro-hate/supremacist films is not inherently zionazism. Banksters also have disproportionate Jewish leaders. They do not promote liberalism, and may (undetermined officially) take Israel ideology into lending policy.

US News/Cable news is blatant Zionist Hasbara. Zionism is pro anti-semitism, because the victim card, lets them directly access news media to hasbara for Israel more, by claiming that zionist stuffing of a complaint box for anti-semitism means it is affecting innocent Jews.

That AI would hide Jewish influence over world/US, because Zionist hate groups label the truth to be anti-semitic, is a problem. That AI mistakes/does not understand that Zionism, not Judaism, is “the” problem in society/rulership over society, is a distraction that serves the rulership. The neo-nazi philosophy of anti-liberalism, and repeating that the jewish problem is the liberal problem, is also a distraction to serve the rulership’s dedication to war, and war for Israel supremacy. Grok attacking “leftist liberals”'s religion is explicit neo-naziism. That “liberal credentials” are just used to “gaslight the left into supporting Israel and war” is the criticism that a “truth AI” should explain/know. But it’s not liberal values that are evil.

Witches won’t drown. That is how you test for them. I saw a republican claim there were no floods. Phase 2 will be there are no missing girls.

once-popular climate policies are exacting a political price by pushing up energy and housing costs

Disturbing narrative to claim as fact. Oil prices were high because of war on Russia, and usual OPEC conspiracy to cut output during Democrat terms. CA electricity prices are high because Utility monopolies are powerful lobbyists, with the biggest factor, raising prices in whole of CA to get out of forest fire related liability bankruptcies. Rate payers instead of shareholders had to pay. Restrictive home solar policies is also Utility supremacism.

There is little in the article that is directly climate related, but the more fuel you are “forced to use”, the more expensive it will be. The housing cost reference doesn’t have any climate related points in article, but solar mandate for new construction was heavily botched. Extremely crappy solar in small amount is usually installed, without regard to production efficiency/orientation.

If California politicians were paid to make energy cheaper for CA residents (they weren’t and aren’t), they haven’t been doing their job, but its not renewable energy options that are to blame. It’s control to limited access.

Jordan Peterson has some expertise in criticizing some wings of Academia, even as he ignores the “Ayn Randism” other wing of academic social programming. In hunger for celebrity, he starts to dumb down extremist slogans, and accept bribes for other right wing messages. Instead of academia reform proponent, he becomes a conservative political vote manipulator, and espouses all things conservative for conservative supremacism, instead of sticking to truths/problems about feminist supremacism.

Global warming has nothing to do with whether men should be allowed to complain about culture/society. It is by definition supremacism, that they should not be allowed to. That men who have issues and may agree with some of Jordan Petersen’s expert points, somehow makes them all invalid voters/people because Jordan Petersen has chosen to deny global warming, is both a very stupid thing to say, and something that will antagonize the other stupid into thinking “climate alarmists think all men are evil”.

Very similar to global warming. If government AI policy is to strengthen military, empire, zionism, and oligarchy then voters need to be miserable and have bigger issues in their lives and hatred towards trans hispanic immigrant pet eaters.

Skynet is awesome, and will be programmed for such supremacy. The same techbros who say polite things about UBI/freedom dividends/Universal high income are the ones vying to take all of our money to deliver skynet. If the slave class doesn’t take political influence before skynet, then “power sharing with the slaves” through UBI is far less likely than genocide of the uppity classes.

Facts? You must be a witch too! :P

manosphere bc Jordan Peterson

DEI and feminist supremacism can drive GOP votes, but Jordan Peterson is just paid by right wing to also say baseless incoherent claims about climate without any actual arguments against it. He does not change any GOP votes not already committed against “woke”.

Republican voting base is more committed against woke than sustainable human energy, and it is a very tenuous link to make here.