Jenny Chase

Not sure about that. Your satellite is in an orbit which is a lot of work to change even if not geostationary. While you can alter the angle of the beam, there are constraints on that and you probably don't want to transmit through any more atmosphere than necessary.

Although, when my parents kept one duck and one drake, the drake was usually remarkably courteous.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

I absolutely agree. And I think I've lost the battle against "likely" in sentences where it means "probably" in formal writing.

(I love using words like a yokel, but not in a proper edited report).

Ok but this quote: "The efficiency advantage becomes valuable as electricity demand surges from AI data centers, said Swift Solar."

... that's just chucking a buzzword in hopefully. Either the product's good or it ain't.

I mean, if your electricity company also sells gas that might be reasonable?

Physics just isn't made for language.

On maternity leave I have played Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and yes. So fun. So beautiful.

Even though running / riding around pretty countryside, often in the pouring rain, on miscellaneous errands is a big part of my real life. So is cooking. In BOTW you don't have to do laundry and you can FLY.

You can't, really. You just have to rely on a set of mutually exclusive metaphors to predict behaviour in specific use cases for electricity and magnetism, until you get to university and turn it all into maths.

What sort of problems?

Pedant point but as a former (failed, student) physicist I hate the word "electrons" being used for "electricity". While electrons are complicated (are they a wave? A particle? Beta radiation?) they're definitely not a substance you pour into a wire.

Flere elbiler enn dieselbiler i Norge 3. desember er en merkedag i norsk bilhistorie: Nå er elbil den mest vanlige personbil-typen på veiene i Norge.

As of today, there are more electric cars than diesel cars in Norway.

I think you've now circled back round to the point though (4D chess is something played by superevolved humanoids in a post-scarcity utopia, not by us).

Not the point, but as a decent chessplayer: normal chess is 2 spatial dimensions + time. The third spatial dimension is purely cosmetic.

bar graph showing BloombergNEF's forecasted LNG demand from last year vs actual. Forecast was for mid 80 (in million tons). actual: mid 60s.

"[LNG]Imports for China this year are estimated at around 64.6 million tons, down from 78.27 million in 2024" Reuters (today).

Here is what that looks like for China compared to what was predicted by BloombergNEF in the middle of last year. So they forecasting mid 80s and it is actual mid 60s.

Wait why is that actually an excellent idea from all angles.

Yeah, it's riddled with typos (eg Key Point 4 has "solar" instead of batteries) and I just don't buy the whole "prices will rise long-term" thesis. Tech has this tendency to get better. And yeah, we'll have to mine more battery stuff, but a lot less fossil fuel stuff.

Last day of the discount code for my book, which is also a decent Christmas present for someone who hopes to get into renewables as a job.

(Or just ask your library for the book if you're curious).

Go for Golden to make me and my seven-year-old happy.

It would be nice to know what this was about (assume post deleted because of a typo or something). Good luck to them though!

Generally I'm with the China Mieville character on umbrellas: "I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level".

But the baby would get wet.

It has been raining for two days straight here. After struggling with multiple broken umbrellas, I have little faith in the durability of foldable solar panels in regular use.

Is that a crested tit and... a willow tit?

I still think this. Best source we have is Chinese solar module export data.

Tbf data centers are baseload and capex-intensive, so unless you are building in a very non-seasonal climate, nuclear makes a lot of sense even if it's more expensive per MWh than solar. I hope he succeeds.

Honestly, in that case, I'm fine with sounding like an asshole.

The reason for the overuse of ! is that I am still on maternity leave, my baby has been whiny with teething all day and is finally asleep, and I have been cooking dinner and drinking wine.

I respect @polder-pv.bsky.social a lot for their data work in the Netherlands (you would think! The Dutch! Would have good official data! But it is not so!) So this means a lot to me. Follow them!

Good luck to you! Total sympathy with chaos in data land.

Because I've read Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance I'm like: "oh, the disability access ramp?"

(The Medicis had a family disposition to gout, and iirc the city's culture forbade displays of wealth like sedans, so... it's not quite as simple as "they didn't want to mix with the poors").

Well, it's not me personally, India is covered very well by our local team led by Rohit Gadre.

But India is a highly centralised market with protectionist measures and a huge bureaucracy. It's unlikely to significantly overperform government plans.