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The thought of future archaeologists being thoroughly confused by Roman terracotta tiles that apparently generates electricity amuses me.
The thought of future archaeologists being thoroughly confused by Roman terracotta tiles that apparently generates electricity amuses me.
It seems unlikely that the pyramids were power plants and obelisks energy receivers [1], but maybe power plants of the future will look like the pyramids and energy receivers like obelisks.
The pyramids seem to have been built in the 26th century BCE rather than 100th, but an advanced ur-civilization may have developed the means and will that "they actually got out with whisk brooms, scoop shovels and little spoons and cleared out every single trace of their daily lives, their utensils, their pottery, their wood, their tools and so on" [2].
1. https://medium.com/understanding-reality/were-the-pyramids-p...
2. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/howold2.html
Here's the product datasheet: https://www.dyaqua.it/invisiblesolar/_en/documents/rooftile-... An independent research center lists the efficiency as 0.111: https://integratedpv.eurac.edu/en/products/modules/invisible... Anybody know how that compares to an average panel on the market today? From a quick search it seems like the best you can actually buy is 0.22 efficiency. Edit: The best available on this site is 0.2…
I have worked in the solar industry. As a reference, the average efficiency of "normal" solar panels is around 16% today.
Here's the product datasheet: https://www.dyaqua.it/invisiblesolar/_en/documents/rooftile-... An independent research center lists the efficiency as 0.111: https://integratedpv.eurac.edu/en/products/modules/invisible... Anybody know how that compares to an average panel on the market today? From a quick search it seems like the best you can actually buy is 0.22 efficiency. Edit: The best available on this site is 0.2…
The thought of future archaeologists being thoroughly confused by Roman terracotta tiles that apparently generates electricity amuses me.
Future archaeologists will probably have access to the HackerNews archive. Archaeology is not as fun in the future as it is today.
The thought of future archaeologists being thoroughly confused by Roman terracotta tiles that apparently generates electricity amuses me.
Future archaeologists will probably have access to the HackerNews archive. Archaeology is not as fun in the future as it is today.
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1. I did some nice integration of TeX and friends into the VMS CLI setup so that, e.g., one could access iniTeX by doing TEX/INIT or set a number of parameters via command line prompts.
2. I completed ports of some of the fringe TeX-related apps like MFT and also wrote a DVI previewer which could display a preview of TeX output for people connected to their VM/CMS system via the Kermit terminal software which supported Tektronics graphics. A developer in Germany contributed GDDM support for IBM’s graphics terminals.
The company that makes them: https://www.dyaqua.it/invisiblesolar/_en/
> Inside the module there are incorporated standard monocrystalline silicon cells. The surface, that is opaque at the sight but translucent to sun rays, allows the light to enter and feed the cells. When they talk about "sun rays", do they mean the UV portion of sunlight? Because if the material were transparent to visible light, it would be, well, transparent, wouldn't it?
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The answer for traditional solar panels is about 2 months IIRC. The answer for these should be significantly less, because you should only count the delta between solar tiles and non-solar tiles rather than the entire footprint.
> The answer for traditional solar panels is about 2 months IIRC. Do you have a citation for that? A quick Google said normal panels take three years.
They look cool and all, but how much does this cut down on efficiency?
Artisanal production - nope nope nope nope nope Give me a lights-out factory without a single human being churning out a gazillion units per day with 100% test coverage please. Anything else will have all kinds of quality control and reliability problems when trying to produce a bunch of nominally-identical widgets.