Yeesh! It’s crazy that gas is so much cheaper in a place with such abundant sunlight- any idea why? Are there lopsided grants/funding?

How much cheaper is gas? In the UK gas is 1/3 the cost of electricity per mw, but gas boilers are less than 1/3 as efficient so heat pumps are still cheaper to run.

Just want to chip in to say this depends a lot on geography. Places like Sweden with big hydro capacity can store huge amounts of energy easily, and release really fast.

This, 100% It’s like how people started saying “PC” because personal computer was too long for them, but now I exclusively hear people taking up to a minute on each letter! (peeeeeeee-seeeeeeee)

IMO sounds a bit stupid

Ok, fine I guesss? I’m not advocating for anything, I’m just telling you about something that exists.

So I’m surprised you claim it’s widespread.

This sounds a lot like you’re implying that I would make this up, I have no idea why you think this but DFS, balancing service, and the UK balancing mechanism are all UK markets that allow you to do this. The UK isn’t unique, but I’m not as familiar with other energy markets.

For a real world example, Octopus energy in the UK will do this with your EV charger if you are on certain tariffs.

Pretty likely that they might be. The logic works differently in a few different markets but essentially:

• You demonstrate your mean usage at a given time, say 2kw
• You trade 1kw
• You demonstrate that you used 1kw less than normal
• You get paid

(obviously only in certain markets, but these are fairly widespread)

Even this is only kind of true! There’s markets where you’re paid to discharge into the grid, but also most countries have “baselined” markets, where using less electricity than normal at that time is considered the same as an export. Which something lime a powerwall lets you do by being flexible on when you use it vs the grid. Situations like that are pretty much straight win win.

Ascii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.

Wait till you here about every ascii letter. . .

Thanks! Somehow missed that, but I still don’t really understand the details, like how and whyit incorporates generative AI, and if these are for Netflix or for Netflix ad customers.

I can’t tell from the article what the AI side of this is? Are Netflix offering to make adverts for customslrs using AI? Are they just showing adverts in general from customers, including AI generated ones?

I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, but I’ve read the article twice and still don’t know 😂

Can’t pretend I’d be sad to see them crash out completely, although it does make me feel a little uneasy for repairability of existing Teslas.

Nazi or no nazi, it isn’t gonna be good for the planet to have a whole bunch of cars deemed irrepairable, although my guess is a buy out would stop that happening.

Musk was courting democrats until he fell out with them over labour rights. I think his “republican phase” started due to pushing for less workers rights in the US, so that he can make cheaper cars.

That was obviously a long time ago, before X and DOGE, he’s clearly in a delusional hate bubble at this point and expecting rationally explainable actions is unfortunately too big an ask.

That’s awesome!

As a UK person working in battery energy I often take a look at the awesome https://grid.iamkate.com/ in a sunny and windy day to see how high renewables go. It’s not uncommon for.them to jump past 90% in the right conditions.

Yeah, I don’t understand (amongst many other things) why distinguish between 3,500% and 3,521%? What insane sum was used it generate that figure?

Also, at this point a part that costs $10 is now $362.10. Is there any point using tariffs here rather than just making them illegal?

Tbf, all these headlines miss that indexes like the S&P 500 are still far down from pre-tariff-mania. Investors are more or less updating their views for how screwed the markets are, rather than betting that everything is fine.

This is a genuinely interesting article about global politics, but I sorta get the impression there’s this underlying “Does Europe pick US or China as a trade partner?” question at the heart of it.

Seems like this pulls into very 1 dimensional view, and surely the answer is just, Europe should be sceptical of China and USA’s motives, trade wherever it’s beneficial, and push for the things it values (positive take would be workers rights, renewable energy etc).

Trump is trying push a whole pick sides narative on the world, that seems pretty ignorant to actual reality, and just ends up with everyone more fractured and weak.

I not sure what personal is, but I’m curious, are there stats on job losses for artists, translators or journalist since AI?

I would use AI for some tangential stuff, like translating a menu, but not sure how many would use AI in a place where they’d previously hired a translator.

Yeah, you’re right. Sorry! Although US have definitely been one of the highest GDP per capita for that time (but like you pointed out, not the top which is what I original said)