Onlymediumsteak

Onlymediumsteak t1_jc6xhk6 wrote

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

Who is in charge and what they consider good/evil can change very quickly, so be careful what powers you want to give to the state.

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Onlymediumsteak t1_j63n3je wrote

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Onlymediumsteak t1_j63kn48 wrote

I think people/artist should use AI as a tool, there is a massive difference between AI art directed by a beginner and a professional. When cameras arrived photography became an art too, while painters complained the same way artist do now.

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Onlymediumsteak t1_j55qp6n wrote

I seriously wonder how extremely cheap solar will change Australia and its economy. I envision the Sun Cable project with Singapore being replicated with countless other countries, powering the emerging economies of SEA. It will probably also move up the mining chain, smelting and refining all the ore they now just directly export.

In my opinion, Australia is predestined to become a future energy superpower, supplying Asia, where most of humanity lives, replacing imports from the Middle East.

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Onlymediumsteak t1_j1rsqcj wrote

To be honest, yes. Proper Journalism is an extremely complex field and probably the one most likely to suffer from bias, as there is no objective „truth“ and countless participants competing for public perception/opinion. It’s also the field that requires (one of) the most stringent factual accuracy, something current models lack. You could easily create opinion pieces and people are using those features already, but proper journalism and investigations by AI are still some years into the future. But AI will definitely help Journalist in analysing data and writing mundane articles about stock and sports news.

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Onlymediumsteak t1_iswgbib wrote

Then have an hole/holes and mirrors that redirect the light. A civilisation that builds Dyson spheres could probably light earth with its own Fusion reactors, I can’t see how this would be an insurmountable problem.

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Onlymediumsteak t1_issz979 wrote

Current top of the line lithium ion batteries achieve around 250 W/h per kg, top of the line ships like the tripple E class with a carrying capacity of 165.000t would translate to ((250 x 1000 x 165.000)/1000.000) 41.250 MW/h. Let’s be generous and say that the advances lead to 100.000 MW/h, which is most likely decades into the future, the sun power cable is supposed to provide 15% of Singapores electricity, their current production capacity is 12.000MW, so 1800MW. This means you would need about one ship at the current capacity and about 0.5 of the hypothetical one per day, just to cover 15% (!) of their electricity demand and those ships would require power too, block valuable port docks and be prone to accidents, which would be a huge issue as this is critical infrastructure. According to google it takes about a week for a container ship from northern Australia to Singapore, so you would need to maintain about 14 or hypothetical 7 (plus some for reserve/emergencies) ships to replace this one cable. According to the internet and some guy on Quora a kilometer of deep sea cable costs around 1 million $, their are 4200 km of cable according to the projects website, which checks out with the 20 billion $ price tag of the entire complex including the solar and battery storage. Which leads me to estimate that the cable will cost approximately 4.2 billion $, however the operational cost will be very low and its reliability much higher. Submarine power cables have an designed life expectancy of 25 years, so your ships need to have an levelized cost of less than 12 million $ (14 ships)/ 24 million $ (7 ships) per year. New 20.000 TEU container ships seem to cost around 200 million $ at the moment and have an life expectancy of about 10.5 years, so the build cost alone will already blow the budget even if you sell all the stell scraps afterwards, this also excludes the cost of the additional batteries required. So I would say it’s safe to assume that battery ships will not replace sub sea power lines connecting mayor economic areas, maybe it could be useful for very remote settlements/islands but even there it probably makes more sense, to just generate the energy locally via wind/solar/geothermal/wave/… as some local batteries would be required in both scenarios.

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Onlymediumsteak t1_issppr9 wrote

Australia should make this its number one priority project, if this works out they could become the main energy hub for Asia. Replacing countries like Saudi Arabia and getting rich in the process while also fighting climate change. Just the geopolitical aspect should be reason enough to do this.

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Onlymediumsteak t1_issoqud wrote

Very unlikely as those batteries would need to be light, dense and cheap. You basically combine the problems of mobile and stationary batteries into one and lose the benefits of both. It would need some serious breakthroughs on multiple levels of battery technology and even then it would be hard to compete with cables, who are comparatively cheap in capex and maintenance.

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