proper nouns will

thanks for the detailed analysis!

i’m curious though, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor#List_of_reactor_designs says the design with the largest output is just 940 MWe and the second-largest output 600 MWe, are you sure they should be at least 1 GWe or am i reading something wrong?

is this not cost? https://github.com/ryanjenkinson/data-centre-modelling/blob/main/notebooks/costs_2020.csv

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36360469/read-nc-netcdf-files-using-python. and regardless, is a single file you don’t understand that is clearly read by the notebooks as input solar data enough for you to evaluate competence‽

wdym the github is complete crap? it has everything you mentioned you wanted to look at. and wouldn’t a too-low estimate for nuclear costs give extra validity to the claim that microgrids are much cheaper?

i’m far from the top comment

well why sabotage your own visibility by replying to my unrelated comment lol

the studied location is the UK

where was i anti-nuclear

“net zero” just means you don’t elect for the far more environmentally destructive method of burning fossil fuels

also, it seems the jury’s still out on offshore turbines’ environmental impact. some say it creates artificial reefs while some say its tons of noise disrupt marine life

thanks, that doesn’t have anything to do with the concern mentioned you replied to tho

where does it say 20%

on review this doesn’t appear to be entirely true; see my other comment: https://lemmy.world/post/36518843/19617823. still no specification behind the 43.4% stat, tho

Actual paper (not calling this a study since this appears to be non–peer-reviewed and only self-published): https://microgridai.centrefornetzero.org/ Be advised that this website relies on some Chromium-only trickery.

renewable microgrids […] compared to nuclear small modular reactors

A 95% renewable microgrid with 5% gas backup - in line with the UK’s Clean Power 2030 target - was modelled at almost a third (31.7%) lower cost than scenario 1 in today’s prices. In this model, the gas is restricted to just under 80MW (2/3rds the size of the data centre) and the model correspondingly chooses a larger battery for storage, and increases the size of wind and solar technologies.

I’m confused; how does 5% equal 2/3 the size of the data center modeled?

(Edit: Someone else suggested this: “I think the gas can supply 2/3 of the power that the data centre requires for situations when there is no sun or wind but only makes up 5% of the total energy used over a year.”)

They include a link to the model: https://github.com/ryanjenkinson/data-centre-modelling

a commenter:

They claim to compare the cost of powering a 120MW data centre from a dedicated 470MW RR SMR compared to powering it from an 80MW gas turbine plus some unspecified number of wind, solar, and battery installations. For a study supposedly promoting wind, solar and battery technology, you would think they would tell us how many, what size, and what model of wind turbines they are modelling. But no, that’s left to vague hand waving.

Omarchy mentioned!!

To be precise, : means bring up commands, w means save, q means exit, and ! means force

Here in Tarzania we hold the superior and elusive ! key

Jon Sneyers, one of the developers of FLIF, since combined it with ideas from various lossy compression formats to create a successor called the Free Universal Image Format (FUIF), which itself was combined with Google’s PIK format to create JPEG XL. As a consequence, FLIF is no longer being developed.[1]

The format was initially announced publicly in September 2015,[6] with the first alpha release occurring about a month later, in October 2015.[2] The first stable version of FLIF was released in September 2016.[7]

So, not new and seemingly no longer developed separately from JXL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QOI_(image_format) seems interesting, though.

I agree that the comments in question seem like nothing to count as defamation, but actual defamation of virtual bands should count as defamation IMO. They’re as fictional as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz is—every character is one-to-one to their real-life voice actors. Though I guess in that case you might be defaming the voice actor behind the character instead.

wdym “terrible quality loss”; for one their lossless beats PNG