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@64bithero @stux Mastodon cleverly avoids overload by having more servers than users.

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org @petergleick@fediscience.org Is that really a bad sign? Given the cost advantage of larger scale PV compared to rooftop PV, it's not not obviously great when rooftop PV is financially attractive. It implies that either the large scale PV is bottlenecked, or rooftop solar benefits from some pricing loophole

@bodil It does seem to work though? A lot of users think that their product is good, or even the best, and that it keeps improving. It may be built from bubblegum and clotheshangers, but apparently that works just as well as good engineering. At least in short run. It may give them headaches in the long run. But a company like anthropic will be ecstatically happy if they make it to the long run at all.

@androcat @futurebird @lienrag It might not be an accident that this is the first trick in the video. You have to get the timing quite right to intercept the circle, might take a lot of tries

@stux@mstdn.social As panels are getting cheap, the support structure becomes a serious part of the cost (and even of the embedded energy). You need a lot more steel and foundations for such elevated panels. Not sure about now, but not too long ago parking lots were money-losing PR projects(look us being green), while the field ones were serious. Once we have enough PV to saturate summer peaks, every next panel produces less useful power. So lower cost is critical

@ariaflame@masto.ai @stux@mstdn.social Yes, no doubt about that. AFAICT , we will need every cost reduction we can get to push the transition faster - including on batteries.

@stux@mstdn.social I am seriously worried that we will kill off large-scale PV in the same way that we have now almost killed land-based wind. Keep adding well-intentioned restrictions until nothing gets built anymore

@ariaflame@masto.ai @stux@mstdn.social Yes, but that costs serious money as well. Cheaper PV means more installed PV for the same money, means more hours that you can run mostly on the sun before you need batteries or other costly alternatives and complications. That's why I am nervous about anything that drives up cost. We have not yet fixed that climate thing, and it becomess harder as the low hanging fruit gets done.