This AI has a good taste for books. From the AI proposed books I highly recommend "Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes, published in 1986. It's a history book but reads much like a novel.
All solar inventors connected to public electric grid have to detect this state and disconnect. You are not allowed to connect arbitrary inventors to electric grid, they have to be compliant with IEEE 1547, UL 1741.
The sky is not falling in Germany, buildings are not crumbling and the grid is sometimes overpowered with solar electricity when the weather is sunny, there is not enough demand and grid operators can't remotely curtail small solar systems. Like during Easter Monday
Germany has to invest more in smart electric meters, which could project negative electricity prices to individual households.
And more investments in energy storage systems. (Even through I think that lithium batteries would better help decarbonization in EVs than in electric grid storage systems).
Totally agree, the current state of the German grid is not ideal. But I have the naive gut feeling that storage prices will also come down and we will see a similar non-political quiet revolution here as well. I.e. people and companies will simply install more and more storage because it is economically viable, not because of ideology. We'll see.
Germany’s Federal Network Agency is aware of stability issues of the German electric grid on days like Easter Monday and insufficient deployment of smart meters.
It depends on the kind of software you are programming.
If you are programming regular commercial software (office applications, web apps, games) with customers tolerating occasional bug and lot of pressure deliver fast, you can gain lot from Claude. Facebook motto: Move fast and break things
If you are programming software for industrial applications, critical software, most of the time you spend is not on writing software but writing tests, documenting, doing multiple rounds of reviews and for really critical applications doing formal verification. In this case AI can be also counterproductive, because if you absolutely have to understand every single line of code, manual coding helps to understand the code.
Example of cutting costs in programming of critical software
That’s most of my work(embedded sensor and control networks) and I’m sure that informs my methodology. I honestly don’t know much about how AI can inform standards SAAS but I have seen what happens when you just turn it loose, and in my experience it hasn’t been pretty; it works, but then when you need to change something it all crumbles like a badly engineered sandcastle.
OTOH for single purpose pipelines and simple tools. Claude can oneshot small miracles in 5 minutes that would take me 2 hours to build.
An example is the local agent framework that I had Claude spinup to do JTAG testing. I used to spend hours running tests over JTAG, now I have a local model run tests that Claude and I specify in the test catalog and it just runs them every time we add features. It took Claude minimal guidance and about 3 hours to build that tool along with a complete RAG system for document ingestion and datasheet comprehension, running locally on my laptop (I know it has a fan now lol) that only reaches out to the cloud when it runs into difficult problems. I don’t care if that is a bit of a mess, as long as it works, and it seems to , so far so good.
The testing is where Claude is basically magic, but it’s because we specify everything before we build and change the specs when we change the IRL code that it works. English is code, too, if you build structured documentation… and the docs keep the code accountable if you track the coherence.
The containment building of new nuclear power plant has to withstand impact of large, commercial aircraft used for long distance flights, with aviation fuel loading typically used in such flights.
Containment buildings for nuclear reactors are the strongest non-military buildings ever build. You need something much stronger than a small airplane, or simple drone, missile to breach it. Even a 155mm artillery granite or a anti-tank missile is not enough. You would probably need specialize bunker buster munition, or nuclear explosion.
The Russian army will not directly attack nuclear power plants in Ukraine. They could not gain much from release of radioactive material as the radioactive material would also migrate to Russia. The Russian army is attacking the infrastructure connecting power plants to the grid, to deny the electricity production. (And is attacking must power infrastructure in Ukraine).
Maybe this will help to revitalize the US solar manufacturing. In Europe there is almost no solar manufacturing, just importing solar manufactured in China.
For comparison the Bhopal disaster (which is much less known in the West) that occurred on 3 December 1984 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India caused deaths in the range 3928 to 16000.
A government affidavit in 2006 stated the leak caused 558,125 injuries including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.
I think it's an error that International Atomic Energy Agency classified both Fukushima nuclear accident and Chernobyl nuclear accident on International Nuclear Event Scale Level 7 (major accident).
In both the amount of released radionuclides and health effects of the accidents, Chernobyl accident was much, much bigger than Fukushima.
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