[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Wolf K]

On 2018-01-09 09:59, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <Zp45C.102622$CO6.88578 at fx15.iad>, Wolf K
> <wolfmac at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> There's research projects attempting to build an artificial leaf: use 
>> enzymes plus light to do what the leaf does. Within the last couple of 
>> years, New Scientist reported a proof-of-concept trial that was about 
>> twice as efficient as a natural leaf. But scaling it up is a serious 
>> problem. Always is with biochemistry.
> 
>>  OTOH, highly efficient solar panels and artificial leaves would be 
>> serious competition to traditional power companies. Wide-spread 
>> feed-in systems would become feasible: excess power produced on your 
>> roof would reduce the need for (and highly profitable) power 
>> generation. That means political and PR efforts to slow the 
>> development of solar. Which is what's happening.
> 
> Solar doesn't work at night or in winter at high latitudes.

Of course. So what's your point?

> A blocking
> high over northern Europe with freezing fog would more or less kill it
> altogether. See:
> 
>    <http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk>
> 
> for how pitiful the UK's solar fleet is even as I type.

So what's your point?

Your facts only imply "Don't do only solar".

Which is obvious even before the calculations are done.

-- 
Wolf K
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