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RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116686096160169413
And the entire budget (€17 million) was snapped up within an hour. That’s 2,000 old petrol cars off the road, and 2,000 additional batteries on wheels ready to harness Irish wind power.
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JinkoSolar just locked in a massive deal with Masdar: 2GW of solar modules for Abu Dhabi's groundbreaking round-the-clock renewable energy project.
This isn't your typical solar farm. It pairs a 5.2GW solar plant with a 19GW-hour battery system to deliver continuous clean power—solving renewables' biggest challenge: intermittency.

JinkoSolar, Masdar sign 2GW PV module supply agreement
JinkoSolar and Masdar have signed a supply agreement covering 2GW of Tiger Neo PV modules for Abu Dhabi’s RTC renewable energy project.

Sonnet 126 - CXXVI
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
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Getting Electric Truck Chargers Online Faster
How flexible service connections cut delays and expand charging capacity
https://rmi.org/resources/getting-electric-truck-chargers-online-faster/

In summary then, it is indeed quite like being at school. Half hour lessons on things that probably won't ever actually be useful to know in your particular job of varying levels of interest. Mostly pretty low interest honestly. Bumping into colleagues between lessons.
Learned the names of a couple of tools I might try. One google search would have gotten me those but I guess it's a question of thinking to look for them.
If you can judge the mood of an industry from a random selection of talks from a single conference then the industry is very optimistic that they can make AI write a lot of software.
It seems to think this is likely to mean fewer programmers rather than there being more software meaning more workers.
It wasn't as AI heavy as I thought when I first glanced at the program. Managed to mostly be not-ai I think.
Nobody talking about the ethical implications or suggesting joining a union and only one talk about the environment issue at all, it not really noting how much power the industry is about to take.
Liked having a few meals in amserdam with colleagues I never usually see (mostly remote workers, including me). The boss is pretty good at picking people really.
Get a day or so of holiday now too.
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