Of course. Like I said, we know how to do it, but it’s still an engineering feat to get it done.
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This gets posted regularly on Lemmy, and while the economic take is tone-deaf at best, there’s a real issue with generating more power than you can use. You can’t just dump grid power — it needs to go somewhere. The grid needs to consume as much as it generates at all times or else bad things happen.
There are of course solutions, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an engineering challenge to implement.
Figuring out what to do with kilowatts is easy, but figuring out what to do with megawatts, at the drop of a hat, is substantially harder.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•The Electric Lexus ES Is Officially On Sale, With 307 Miles Of Range
2·24 days agoThe all-wheel-drive ES 500e returns up to 276 miles of range.
For those who want AWD, range will be somewhat reduced.
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4·25 days agoIs this for a single person?
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Achievers ( moved to !achievers@piefed.social )@lebowski.social•Achievers lives on at PIEFED.SOCIALEnglish
20·25 days agoYou want an instance? I can get you an instance, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you an instance by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with Achievers. These fucking amateurs…
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL you can easily create a QR Code inside LibreOfficeEnglish
4·26 days agoI have a keyboard hotkey to take the copy/paste buffer and display a QR code on screen. Straightforward to implement on macOS, and presumably Linux too.
macOS:
pbpaste | qrencode -t ANSI
Maybe not what you want, but have you considered VPN’ing at your router? Doesn’t help if you travel, so maybe worthless…
You can/could also find Coffee HOWTO in your distro’s HOWTO package. (I found a reference back to v0.5 of the document in 1998.)
Has simple schematics to get you started for the hardware, using the parallel port to toggle relays.
It’s a very neat little document, and inspired me to write a simple kernel module so I could
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/whatever/coffee0to turn pin 0 high on the parallel port. (This is silly, and it’s much easier to just do things in user space!)
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Linux@programming.dev•Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions
27·28 days ago…and regular old murder for ReiserFS.
Not sure what it is about filesystem maintainers…
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Deaf woman removed from Frontier flight for "not listening"English
9·28 days agoOh durr, yep, agree…not the flying experience I’d want.
Humans weren’t meant to live with zero autonomy.
Not every parent removes all autonomy from their child. Sorry that happened to you, sounds like it sucked.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Deaf woman removed from Frontier flight for "not listening"English
32·28 days agoPretty sure I’d get up and walk off the plane. Not sure I wanna be on that flight with that flight crew.
IANAL but it might be better for the future lawsuit to be forced off.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•When the Linux user hears an iOS user say they hate Windows
3·28 days agoNot just UNIX-like, but actual UNIX.
IIRC there were some UNIX-certified Linux distros out there too, not sure if they’re still around.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•When the Linux user hears an iOS user say they hate Windows
51·28 days agoOnly one of them is UNIX.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address?English
2·28 days agoCool, I recommend it!
I have my public facing reverse proxy point to my public services, and I also have it set up as a “roadwarrior” VPN to my home. So, I can connect my phone via WireGuard to my VPS, and a local DNS resolves my private services to the private IP addresses in my home network (so, I also run a reverse proxy on my server, for internal services).
I also have an off-site backup using this — just a raspberry pi and an HDD at family’s, that rsyncs+snapshots over the WireGuard network.
I’m sure I’m not following all the best practices here, but so far so good.
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World News@quokk.au•Ruthenium prices hit record high as AI boom squeezes supply
3·28 days agoThis is the element Ru (not some whacky AI backed cryptocurrency).
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World News@quokk.au•Researchers uncover iPhone spyware capable of penetrating millions of devices
5·28 days agoGoogle blog post has technical details: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address?English
7·28 days agoVPS with a public ip (which just takes all the fun out of selfhosting)
Why do you say this? My VPS only runs a reverse proxy and WireGuard, with all services hosted on my computers at home.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Extraordinary, climate change-fueled heat wave envelops the US West with mounting consequences1·29 days agoMarch in San Francisco is feeling like August in LA.







Oh they absolutely do! My only point is that grid supply must equal grid demand. There are many ways to achieve this, as folks here have pointed out.
Throttling power generation (turning off/disconnecting PV from grid for example), and storage (chemical, heat, or hydro battery) are all established technologies, they just need to be implemented properly to avoid supply/demand mismatch.