Warzone 2100 (you can download for free as it is an old PC game that went GPL)
gets more on the nose by the day
Well the first question is what software you NEED to run, then we can figure out hardware.
Yes in a scenario, which you are in a cold climate which it is always cold outside. Then yes, thermal energy storage would be an extremely efficient option.
It doesn't apply to most living humans but I grant you that special case.
yes, I did look at your link and noted all of sites are those near mountain ranges; which I certainly grant you is near (within 100 miles of) most human population centers.
storage is only a problem if the global distribution grid is not created. The sun is always shining somewhere, especially if you realize we can leverage space to extend our collection.
cranes are just stupid energy storage (the F=ma bit basically makes this a non-starter) . Water in pumped storage only works out in huge scale (where you have mountains to provide a massive storage pool).
compressed air storage misses the point, use just a little more energy and you can use that energy to thermally separate CO2 from air. (This is a productive use of energy but bad efficiency for storage)
hydrogen production from water is a productive use if we want to remove hydrocarbons from some chemical processes but it is not an efficient battery.
Thermal storage of energy is very inefficient and not a good idea unless you are willing to waste a good deal of available energy.
And flywheels are not even mentioned and very wrong information about Tesla power walls.
Really looking forward to seeing this packaged in Guix
in every sense of the word.
Full source code control, nothing included that you don't ask for, substitutes for those wanting to reduce energy requirements as a collective group.
Oh and can be productively used on a system powered exclusively by a $5 solar panel.
in software these days it is: good, cheap or fast; pick one (if you are lucky [usually things are just bad, expensive and slow as f&*k])
depends extremely heavily on the efficiency of the panels.
You would need to exceed 84% solar to electricity conversion efficiency to make that conversion pay off.
As chlorophyll has an approximate 90% maximum interception of 400nm to 740nm light and your panels would be getting the extra energy from frequencies outside of that range. The energy of a photon is determined by hc/λ, with the result that the energy of a blue photon (400 nm) is 75% greater than that of a red photon (700 nm).
Anything less than that would be a net loss unless there is a significant increase of ultraviolet light in the near future.
They may wish to look into Gnu Guix (and possibly nonguix channels depending on their needs)
well if it was a 1:1 replacement with zero growth it will be fine;
The problem is the goal economy is structured around a 10% per year (compounding) growth rate in energy use; which means we have a rather short doubling time. And it only takes 120 doubling before we exceed the total energy of the sun and long before that the Earth would be hotter than the surface of the Sun. (Even if we removed 100% of all green house gases and blocked out the Sun entirely and distributed pure electricity only)
That being said if we build a Dyson Sphere and do some Star lifting to convert it to a white dwarf star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzuHxL5FD5U
and cut our growth rate significantly, we might be able to have a civilization of growth for about a billion years.
greengnu
joined 2 years ago
ssh -X ${hostname} works better than both even on ancient hardware (pre 1990)
If you are going to self-host please embrace a shell (bash, powershell, fish, zsh, etc) any shell; then you'll be fast and productive even at 300 Baud.