I would like to here more about AI. It sounds like it has a lot of good use for us, but has a very very very bad usage for it if not used for the good.
I would like to hear more about two topics: 1) Options beyond lighting for keeping devices DC in a solar/battery home. 2) Home Assistant in the context of energy efficiency and assistive living (Mobility and monitoring of elderly/disabled)
Personally I don't know of too many common devices designed for DC input unless it has a battery. However, nearly all circuit boards for televisions, computers, etc technically run on DC. If you know a techy electrician who has the right equipment, they could convert many devices to accept DC input. In many cases it involves removing more parts than those that get replaced.(transformers, rectifiers etc).
And the savings from eliminating micro-inverters, inverters and optimizers, ac power adapters. Tesla is going to a 48V battery, meaning less copper cabling and the same would apply to new housing. DC air conditioning, DC fridges and other appliances.
7:50 Could you talk about the speed at which solar prices have fallen? I mean using "way back machine" and looking at the price curve over time. I think the fall to those basement prices has been slowed down or even stalled by governments to make domestic producers more profitable. If your familiar with the format wars you know the same thing happened to VHS.
The one technology I’m interested in that seems to be overlooked is advances in computing efficiency potentially lowering the energy costs in many sectors.
With AI becoming more prevalent, there may be a peak of interest, as it uses a lot of computing power. Good thing the Open Source community jumps at any chance to optimize the code.
Left a comment at Undecided about how Perovskite solar cells might currently be used. AI is very interesting. I can see a use for my personal use research. But finding basic use info (not the hype and infomercial stuff which I'm not interested in) is not that simple. For me, Google is like a huge library with no card catalog and no easy way to find a focus for my information gathering on a subject that I'm interested in pursuing. I wouldn't be outputting a video, just getting better understanding. GPT4 is what I'm aiming at, but it's only up to Nov, 2021. Took me a while to just understand the difference between GPT4 and ChatGPT as I was wading through the 'make pile of money' videos that have hit the internet, But what angle Matt could take I'm not sure. I would think that Matt and you Sean would probably find it useful in shortening hours of research on any area that you normally research and creating images and graphs etc. Yes, your videos have brought a sense of hope in what has been going on in technology, engineering, science and is mostly being ignored by big name media. I appreciate the sense of energy and optimism that I have gotten.
If (big IF) these panels are considerably cheaper than traditional panels, we could get into a situation like with AA batteries, where there even though Alkaline batteries exist, there's still a market for zinc-carbon batteries, even though it might have 1/10th the life while only being like 1/2 the price, (not exact numbers) some people only see the up-front price.
There is an interesting discussion on TNT training process for ai... Ie chat gpt eats it's own tail my competing with its food. Ie chat gpt is completing with companies like stacked overflow... And if it goes away chat gpt will not get new training data
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Matt, your comments starting at ~20:10 are why I love watching your channel!
I would like to here more about AI. It sounds like it has a lot of good use for us, but has a very very very bad usage for it if not used for the good.
I would like to hear more about two topics:
1) Options beyond lighting for keeping devices DC in a solar/battery home.
2) Home Assistant in the context of energy efficiency and assistive living (Mobility and monitoring of elderly/disabled)
Personally I don't know of too many common devices designed for DC input unless it has a battery.
However, nearly all circuit boards for televisions, computers, etc technically run on DC.
If you know a techy electrician who has the right equipment, they could convert many devices to accept DC input.
In many cases it involves removing more parts than those that get replaced.(transformers, rectifiers etc).
Matt, I would like a deep dive in to home DC lighting. Being able to go from solar panel to battery to light, would make the most scene to me.
And the savings from eliminating micro-inverters, inverters and optimizers, ac power adapters. Tesla is going to a 48V battery, meaning less copper cabling and the same would apply to new housing. DC air conditioning, DC fridges and other appliances.
7:50 Could you talk about the speed at which solar prices have fallen? I mean using "way back machine" and looking at the price curve over time. I think the fall to those basement prices has been slowed down or even stalled by governments to make domestic producers more profitable. If your familiar with the format wars you know the same thing happened to VHS.
The one technology I’m interested in that seems to be overlooked is advances in computing efficiency potentially lowering the energy costs in many sectors.
With AI becoming more prevalent, there may be a peak of interest, as it uses a lot of computing power.
Good thing the Open Source community jumps at any chance to optimize the code.
Left a comment at Undecided about how Perovskite solar cells might currently be used.
AI is very interesting. I can see a use for my personal use research. But finding basic use info (not the hype and infomercial stuff which I'm not interested in) is not that simple. For me, Google is like a huge library with no card catalog and no easy way to find a focus for my information gathering on a subject that I'm interested in pursuing. I wouldn't be outputting a video, just getting better understanding. GPT4 is what I'm aiming at, but it's only up to Nov, 2021. Took me a while to just understand the difference between GPT4 and ChatGPT as I was wading through the 'make pile of money' videos that have hit the internet,
But what angle Matt could take I'm not sure. I would think that Matt and you Sean would probably find it useful in shortening hours of research on any area that you normally research and creating images and graphs etc.
Yes, your videos have brought a sense of hope in what has been going on in technology, engineering, science and is mostly being ignored by big name media. I appreciate the sense of energy and optimism that I have gotten.
If (big IF) these panels are considerably cheaper than traditional panels, we could get into a situation like with AA batteries, where there even though Alkaline batteries exist, there's still a market for zinc-carbon batteries, even though it might have 1/10th the life while only being like 1/2 the price, (not exact numbers) some people only see the up-front price.
There is an interesting discussion on TNT training process for ai... Ie chat gpt eats it's own tail my competing with its food.
Ie chat gpt is completing with companies like stacked overflow... And if it goes away chat gpt will not get new training data
perovskites are the 8th wonder of the world
I thought Matt was an AI doppelganger of Sean. Or the other way around.