they way i handle this with my teams: any bugs caught by the QA team go against the developers. any bugs caught after QA green lights the go live go against the QA team. (Of course, discounting any bugs that are deemed acceptable for go live by the PM).
What if we do vertical bi-facial panels, mounted on a rotating circle that rotates to align the panels with the sun (north-south or east-east or in between) depending on the time of the year. Wouldn't that be the best of all worlds right now?
Depending on where you live a system that allows to manually change the tilt of your pannels once per month could be nice. You get a free 5-15% boost, where I am in Europe the optimal yearly tilt is ~40 degrees, in peak winter the optimal tilt of ~70 degrees would shed snow much more easily.
You're right on motorized trackers though, way too complex and expensive to make sense for most people
> Depending on where you live a system that allows to manually change the tilt of your pannels once per month could be nice. You get a free 5-15% boost, where I am in Europe the optimal yearly tilt is ~40 degrees, in peak winter the optimal tilt of ~70 degrees would shed snow much more easily.
Yup, that's what I was referring to as a tilting mount in the original comment, a pivot and tracks to tilt the panels up/down to set them at whatever's optimal for your latitude and time period, or completely vertical if you're in a snow-heavy region.
The necessary engineering might not be worth it anyway, given current panel prices, unless space is a bit of a premium.
Moving parts? We're talking about something like a pipe that's a hotdog down hallway slip fit onto another pipe here. With zero maintenance that will still have a service life that exceeds several generations of panel.
Plus at least one motor plus sun tracking controller. All of that has to operate 24/7, all year.
Depending on your local climate, that has to be sun and rain proof. (Most Nema 7 "3D printer" motors are not waterproof... Ask me now I know )
Nothing a quick hack job can't solve for you, but if you want to sell it (and make sure your customers will be satisfied for decades) it quickly adds up in price.
You don't need a motor. You need a recurring calendar reminder to send someone out there to spin them all 2x per year at whatever day you determine to be the ideal crossover point where you want to switch between NS and EW.
The panels can be stayed in their correct positions by a trash tire or whatever buried in the ground with two chains poking out to clip to the panel corner.
None of this is rocket science. This is all stuff that has been proven out over the past 200yr of fence and gate construction.
Similar could be used for changing between tilted and vertical though you'd need more material.
On a theoretical basis yes but a tracking array gets a lot more expensive, and a lot less reliable. The rotating circle also takes a huge amount of ground space.
If you put the panels in a diagonal (NW - SE), and you rotate each panel on its vertical axis, the need for space would be limited to a series of circles the diameter of the panel width.
No expert on the topic but surely a manually rotated system achieves the benefits of tracking without the overhead of installation and maintenance for an automatic system. As long as the panels are easily reverted to default position when no one can go and rotate them through the day (thinking domestic setup in the garden).
Plenty of people have gardens and land that is tended to multiple times through the day anyway (for gardening, animals, workshop activity etc).
So, I recommend seeing it in 3 passes. 1st pass, see the right 1/3rd area of the video. It shows the 2 sides moving. Then see the middle 1/3rd area of the video. It shows both the movement and the rupture in the ground. Then see the left 1/3rd area of the video. It shows the rupture on the ground clearly.
I have noticed searching for topics that interest me, ends up showing more content related to that search term in my feed. At least for some time. Just putting it out there incase someone wants to manually tweak their timeline using the search workaround.
You talk about morals, but did you consider that they are releasing the model as open source, and given that OpenAI and others do the same, Zuck is really the only current option to have a reasonably comparable open source model? Also, did you consider that it might be more moral to create an AI model than to uphold copyright law, which actually many on this site deem immoral?
I would recommend for him to visit a poor country and see how the people live and survive. He will find (I am assuming) find purpose. Maybe he will make his life mission to build and install water wells, or sponsor underprivileged kids education or something along those lines.
This is easy. Bitcoin reaches it's high between Jun and Oct. This is based on historical 4 year trends.
Then falls. Falls around 70%. Again, this is based on historical trends.
And yes, while past performance is not indicative of future performance, the bitcoin cycle has been following this, and when everyone expects this, it ends up happening by the virtue of everyone's expectation.
70% is not the end of the world for a single company stock. Plenty have done similar and come out on top (Apple, Meta, Carvana, Netflix, etc.).
BTC market cap is lower than nVidia, Apple or MS. But that is not important, what it should really be compared to is gold and compared to that it is an upstart at current price levels.
BTC has no utility other than being digital gold. Other crypto currencies have no utility either.
>> Crypto has a major correction; bitcoin finishes the year well under $100k.
This is easy. Bitcoin reaches it's high between Jun and Oct. This is based on historical 4 year trends.
Then falls. Falls around 70%. Again, this is based on historical trends.
And yes, while past performance is not indicative of future performance, the bitcoin cycle has been following this, and when everyone expects this, it ends up happening by the virtue of everyone's expectation.
> Then falls. Falls around 70%. Again, this is based on historical trends.
A semi-joke-y observation about a monkey wrench that may be thrown into the mix:
> The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.
If you assume that BTC's market cap increases 5x-10x per $1 in inflow it receives, if it does another $100b in inflows next year, it'll be between $120k-$130k
