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Batteries are probably going to kill long-range transmission lines and open up remote generation at a scale never thought possible. Desert solar, remote hydro, etc etc. As the price continues to fall and the density continues to rise the economics of transmission completely change and will decouple the location of power generation from the use of that power dramatically. This decoupling of location and use will drastically reshape energy production. Right now is likely the time to buy sunny land in the middle of nowhere but near train tracks.
I think long range transmission remains a thing anywhere having a local grid remains a thing (which will be most places for other reasons).
Load-balancing the area having a cloudy few days and the area having a sunny days and the area having a windy few days and so on will remain extremely valuable. It lets you install a lot less batteries and isn't that much infrastructure given that the last mile problems are dealt with already.
Here are some numbers: January 2025, the output of solar was ~1500 GWh, it peaked in June at 10500 GWh. So the lowest output was about 15% of the maximum, this year.
https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...
https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...
Looking at wind, the ratio between min and max per week is about 1:5 (~1200 vs ~6000 GWh). Just as there is always some solar power generation, there is never no wind, though looking at those charts there were 4 weeks in the late summer of 2023 when production was low consecutively, between 700 and 1000 GWh.
> it peaked in June at 10500 GWh
And 8280 GWh the previous June for those wondering roughly how much of this was due to more solar panels being deployed.
Ok now shift summer sun into winter.
Just build more solar. You generate excess electricity in summer and enough in winter. This isn't a problem.
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gpm commented on Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud 0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi... · Posted by u/stv0g
How did we survive the last 3.5 billion years?
We didn't have access to modern technology... like ultrasonic speakers?
Also we died at a young age. Everyone dying at 40 isn't incompatible with the species surviving but it's what advice like that is usually trying to avoid (and even less extreme outcomes).
gpm commented on Microservices should form a polytree bytesauna.com/post/micros... · Posted by u/mapehe
I don’t understand why you would have a logging microservice vs just having a library that provides logging that is used wherever you need logging.
Logs need to go somewhere to be collected, viewed, etc. You might outsource that, but if you don't it's a service of it's own (probably actually a collection of microservices, ingestion, a web server to view them, etc)
It's still a young tool, it's not surprising that tutorials are a bit lacking (honestly there are surprisingly many for its age). Maybe be the change you want to see in the world and make one? (Which would be an... interesting... way to learn the tool for sure).