I can't say I've worked it out properly, but I'd guess the underlying economics probably favour solar because the amount of energy per hectare is just so much higher. Though the actual economics might favour biofuels because of biofuel obligations, or the cost of solar planning etc.
Thanks!
Having now covered every car park, every building, and everything that could one day be a building with solar panels, we’ve pretty much exhausted our supply of surface area that isn’t farmland or wilderness, and yet we’re still 420km² short of our 1,650km² target. I think this is pretty conclusive. Even though I’ve been insanely generous, and included a lot of solar panels that would spend their lives sitting in shade, producing almost no power, we’re still nowhere near where we need to be.
I did some calculations on Argument 1 a while ago, and the result did not look good for Argument 1 onodi.co/solar-farms/
Yeah that does! "Fuck this, I'll get a job in the City" is less of an option.
"Leftwing politicians across the democratic world are more likely to die of old age than retire compared to rightwing ones in the same country" but... why?
Aaargh! I thought the Met had binary search explained to them but they are STILL using this excuse!!! onodi.co/bisect/
It feels like ai-2027.com has a really remarkably good record so far for predicting how AI will progress.
feel like as millennials we kept being told that sure, the economy was bad but at least we'd never had to spend any time in a world where it felt like major, global, maybe even nuclear conflict could erupt at any moment and well well well: who's laughing now
New blog post: Book Review: Superintelligence - Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom ★★★★⯪
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When I finally invent time-travel, the first thing I'll do is go back in time and give …
Yeah, I wouldn’t know where to start. But it’s probably time OWID sidelined the global development stuff and made this a priority
I’d love to see some data on the rise and fall (assuming there’s actually been one)
I don’t think so, I think the cords are just there to stop the pin being lost when you pull them out… I think the pin is kept in by the ring bit. But I’m not 100%
They hold the bonnet down on race cars that don’t have a normal latch… and on road cars that want to look like race cars.
We don’t have to go that far. You can create it in a D-T fusion reactor and get free power too*!
* in 25 years time
"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".
I guess for people who are into that sort of thing, writing a fan fic has a much better effort:fun ratio
Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math
Like the bat in Wuhan
My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table
Release greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere to melt the poles and raise sea levels until a new strait opens up somewhere
It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".
Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.
Claude has quite consistently had a rep as the best programming model for a while now.
Though I've heard at least one person who knows what they're talking about say ChatGPT is particularly good at research simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/r...
2,100kW charging is ~2,800hp, or roughly the power output of 2.8 Formula 1 cars running at full tilt going through the charging cable (or in this case two charging cables)
Never say never. If energy cost nothing, we could strip carbon from air and hydrogen from water and make our own feedstocks. And renewable energy is trending towards free.
Lol, I thought it was just me
Lol, yes sorry
That doesn’t help Khomeini though right? Who’s presumably calling the shots still
It's probably this and everyone should read it.
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