But that is nothing unusual. I goes on houses, factories and other spaces everywhere. I am sometimes wondering what is the hold up with going on every supermarket parking lot, but oh well.
So why is there so much in the Netherlands? Despite the weather?
So why is there so much installed solar in the Netherlands? The profitability should arguable less great in the Netherlands than some other place. Less space, less sun especially in winter when needed.
Most parts of Australia have the luck that electricity is need for cooling in summer not winter.
Not sure what you are trying to say here? Looks like The Netherlands and Australia has a very similar amount of solar W per capita?
What does the p mean in Wp?
Also I guess 1kW of panels in the Netherland probably produce less than 1kW in Australia - of course depending on the location in Australia.
And I am saying that while watching the morning sun producing 2kW of electricity at 8:30 am, where about 1kW is used by a heat pump to reheat the water from my shower.
I am not sure how a plot of renewable energy use justifies that using gas to fire heat pumps is better than replacing gas.
Nobody says don't use heat pumps. Indeed I suggest using heat pumps is so obviously good that it's getting boring.
But we need to replace gas.
He does not suggest we should not strive to get more heat pumps.
Instead, he suggests if we have a limited amount of effort, this would be better spend on decarbonizing the electricity production in winter.
How true, depends on how efficient heat pumps are in winter, not overall.
Por Qué No Los Dos?
Hehe, in reaction to Pete Hegseth's advertising for Anthropic, and being frustrated with OpenAI getting dumber by the minute, I gave #Claude a try.
Not for coding, but for other stuff.
It's actually good. It seemed much more deep thinking than Gemeni or OpenAI, less dumping same old text stuff.
Sorry, people are getting killed in ridiculous numbers.
And what people care about is the oil price and it's consequences?
Get a grip, accelerate ways to live with less oil.
Fast, it's better for the environment anyway.
WTF?
A collaborator submitted a manuscript to a Wiley Journal.
When liking my ORCID account, the first thing #Wiley asked me, is what gender I identify, what ethics I belong to and so on.
WTF.
NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!
#mood
That early part of the year where you feel if you just had a new, really nice pen that it would make all the difference and bring much success
How needs a plan B when you are doing plan Omega?
Naja, auch nach dem geänderten Gesetz dürfen Verbraucher Wärmepumpen installieren.
Sollten installieren wie ich meine.
Aber es stimmt schon, die Sturheit und Nostalgie stirbt zuletzt und die Attitüde "Ja nix neues, Glühbirnen, Gas und Benzin sind besser als LED, Wärmepumpen und E-Autos"
ist ??
With the disruption in oil trade and supply, maybe it would be time to think harder about using less oil? This would make us more independent, right?
Just a random thought.
My estimation goes as this. V1 surface is between 2000 and 5000 mm2. (I can give a lot of citations for that). Thickness is about 2.5mm, hence 5000 to 12500 mm3. Density is about 79.000 neurons per mm3. (Garcia-Marin et al., 2024). I know a few assumptions in there.
*The latter is my own estimate - looks like there is no estimate by anyone else that is reasonable. If you know one, please give me a citation.
Snapple fact of the day:
The entire mouse cortex has approximately 13.7 M neurons (Herculano-Houzel et al., 2013), human cortical area V1 has approximately 400 to 900 million neurons *.
I completely agree that the shift away from combustion is paramount. I think it’s also true that changing regulations creates uncertainty. I am not sure about the details of the changes, but in general I think incentives should be as little intrusive as possible, minimize bureaucracy.
God forbid they would use this moment to reflect and acknowledge the mind boggling stupidity.
This is just one of many examples how idiocy hurts productivity and ruins the economy.
If only the political alternatives were not unfathomably evil.
I don’t want Australia to go to shit like …
I think the point that irks me the most is the attitude of secrecy under the mantel of "confidentiality".
While it may be entirely legit and ethical, it makes it reek of foul play.
This is antithetical of "above board".
Duh.
No shit Sherlock.
Unless of course the conclusions drawn where not aligned with the experiment.
True, but it does hint towards those things. Often strongly.
Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.
I am not sure I follow the nonexisting argument.
"installing a heat pump in every home is impossible".
Why?
Also, installing a gas heater and a gas pipe into every home is possible?
I can only encourage the rest of the world to do the same.
This clip is great. The fact that this view isn't the default amongst scientists is so depressing.
The ARC’s processes are back to being farcical, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social
You advocated for a streamlined, efficient, faster ARC, but all that progress has been undone.
How can they claim to fund “innovation” with more than a year between initial proposal & outcomes? It should be 6 months, not 16!
Totally niche, I don'f follow. What is a New Year's resolution?
It is not a dream at all. I have a zero bill home. Actually, I have a negative bill home.
"What we didn’t seem to learn much about was the brain. It is unclear in what sense the foundation model ... tells us anything about how the visual system of rodents works. Instead, one suspects that in creating a “foundation model” they’ve just rediscovered reservoir computing"
Indeed 🤔
