660 gigawatts of #solar #photovoltaic #energy installations expected in 02024 (dateline February 26) according to BloombergNEF’s “1Q 2024 Global PV Market Outlook”. #predictions “around 2,437,500 metric tonnes of polysilicon will be produced in 2024.” “Chinese producers will sell their polysilicon at US$6-7 per kilogram this year, while non-Chinese companies will sell at around US$22 per kilogram in early 2024.”
plot of #solar #energy #pricing as it moves down the learning curve with a 20.2% learning rate
narrative #history of #solar (#photovoltaic and other) #energy generation, with a number of linecharts and the World Bank’s solar resource map
Australia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Australia, Mexico, China, Mongolia, South Africa, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Namibia, Sudan, Chad, Angola, Botswana, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Israel, Yemen, Nepal, and the Southwestern US have pretty large #solar #energy resources
#solar #energy #predictions: “The global [#photovoltaic] cumulative capacity grew to 1.6 TW in 2023, up from 1.2 TW in 2022, with from 407.3 GW to 446 GW[1] of new PV systems commissioned – and [on] the order of an estimated 150 GW of modules in inventories across the world. After several years of tension on material and transport costs, module prices plummeted in a massively over-supplied market, maintaining the competitivity of PV even as electricity prices decreased after historical peaks in 2022.”
#photovoltaic #solar #energy report from this year with lots of data, covering the history of energy payback times (EPBT), irradiance, wafer thickness, efficiency history (including CIGS, CdTe, and perovskites), European fabs by manufacturing capacity, cumulative PV installation, percentage material composition of the modules (aluminum frame, glass, backsheet, adhesive, cells, junction box), experience curve, etc.
the Kessler Syndrome situation in Earth orbit #space
Jim Williams #appnote from 01991 on high-speed amplifier #electronics #hardware design
#Australia #solar #photovoltaic and other renewable #energy: “In 2024, we expect at least 3.1 GW of rooftop solar and 2.5 to 3.0 GW of large-scale renewables to be added. If the large-scale power stations under construction progress on schedule, the total renewable capacity added in 2024 could exceed 6 GW.”
“Marcelina S. Brayboy, 83, of Socorro. Was called to her eternal resting place on April 8, 2018. She was born on October 19, 1934 in Quemado, New Mexico. / Marcelina is preceded in death by her father Prodencio Padilla and mother Guadalupe Padilla and many brothers and sisters. / Marcelina is survived by her sister Carolyn of Socorro, her children Matilda Baca of El Paso, Pearl and husband Paul Johnson, of Socorro, Tammie Brayboy and David Standerfer, of Socorro, Tommy Brayboy and wife, Brenda Vivier, of Los Lunas[;] she is also survived by her grandchildren, Tabitha Dominguez, Felicia and husband Jeremy Chism, Tiffany and husband Michael Bennett, Tony Castillo, Jesus Castillo, Jason Vivier, Shailyn Vivier, Ashlyn Brayboy and also her great-grandchildren Talicia Bennett and Penlopee Napp and many nieces and nephews.”
#graphics with spherical harmonics for Lambertian lighting with light probes #math
a new #Gaussian-Splatting #paper analyzing it as Markov chain Monte Carlo #MCMC #graphics
#Godot #mouselook #tutorial in 3-D (references the “VOXEL 3d tutorial”)
