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Instead of adding batteries, and thus weight, the train supplies power back to the grid when it breaks. Thus, the cheaper source of energy described here can be achieved without the carbon capture, and consequently, we can use that power to power other things, reducing energy generation overall and reduce CO2 emissions.
Thus, it seems like the primary benefit here is using the train's motion to replace the fans required for carbon capture and thus piggybacking on the energy already expended by the train to move. That seems logical, though it could be deployed irrespective of regenerative breaking. Basically we should do regenerative breaking regardless as it is just more energy efficient. Regenerative breaking can primarily be deployed in electric trains anyway as you use the existing motors to break the train, and in so doing, generate electricity from those motors. Adding electric motors and a battery to diesel trains JUST for carbon capture seems foolish.
One question I had: how does this carbon capture change the aerodynamics of the train and thus its efficiency?
[1] https://www.ctc-n.org/technologies/regenerative-braking-trai....
The state of things leave little wiggle room for iterating on and disposing of one experiment after another
Reducing consumption and industrial activity is a sure fire way to reduce carbon in the air
But I expect we’ll avoid intentional figurative death for adults today and chuck the risk over the fence into the future as usual, given how people behaved when lockdown meant “no haircuts”.
It could be issuing a command in the same way you do the first, but probably most lights just support switching them on/off right now, and won't take a delay argument.
So, if you can't just do the same you were doing, how do you do it? If there's some kind of local support, you can issue a delay command to some device in the network that will switch the lights on, but you still need to be able to control that action as the user might want to cancel or adjust the delay too.
If the execution need to happen remotely because there's no local support, then you don't even know that you'll be able to reach the device in 5 minutes (Internet down, router not letting random connections in). And keeping this request queued needs some infra in the server side too together with the necessary APIs to allow adjusting and cancelling requests.
Where is the hard part?
Those iterations suck. I'm not worried for my colleagues and I.
That being said! Many, MANY clients have questionable taste, and I can, indeed, see many who aren't sensitive to visuals to be more than happy with these Dall-E turd octopus logo iterations. Most people don't know and don't care what makes good graphic design.
For one thing, that final logo can't scale. For another, the colors lack nuance & harmony. The logo is more like a children's book illustration, and not something that is simple, bold, smart, and can be plastered on any and all mediums.
Just my 2 cents.
I bet in another 10-15 years, though, things might get a bit dicier for fellow graphic designers/ artists/ illustrators, though, as all this tech gets more advanced.
The thing you’re missing is AI generated content can be refined by AI. If Disney promised their meh looking movie would improve on its own over time, people would be line to it because it’s new, not just streamlined copy-pasted design we see all over media now
Painting the Titanic wasn’t the hard part. The hard part was organizing the process that produced its structure. That’s were AI content is now.
We’re generating the bulk structure pretty competently at this point. Refining the emotional touches will come faster.
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It doesn’t give a shit about UX, but generating piles of data for PhDs to generate statistics from.
Sundar bailed on the moonshots, but it’s hiring culture was already established and he’s not been able to turn the focus to interesting things relying on statisticians and leetcoders seeking the so called prestige of churning out nothing.
It’s funny how big corps LARP changing our world but the careless resource waste, rent seeking, gaming agency through corporate propaganda all smell like traditional political correctness to me.