For sure growth at renewables is great. However the overall percentages you gave are all-year averages. It goes down to single digit % on dark windstill winter days.
Considering this and the fact that nuclear energy (Fukushima), coal (climate change) and now gas (Putin) are effectively „banned“, it’s really quite a mess.
Semi-related: Since few months I am digging into tinkering and electronics. It’s really great to learn about modern era solutions which enable cool projects with low entry barrier.
However, I happen to learn about new solutions (new sensors, actors, boards, ICs) more randomly than systematically. I tried to google for databases, blogs or news outlets, but couldn’t find anything suited for my consumerish needs. Going through hundreds of pages for similar products on online shops also didn’t yield any good output. Do you guys know any such source? How do you keep yourself updated on interesting new products on the market?
Usually if you have accounts at the major distributors(Arrow, Digi-Key, Newark, etc.), you'll get occasional updates passed on from some of the manufacturers whose parts they sell. But those are typically not the hobbyist/consumer items you may be looking for.
Perhaps sign up for a SparkFun account? I get a lot of OSHW and new module information from them.
(total noob) I like looking at the components adadruit builds in-house. For most of them they have open-sourced the schematics, and you can then look up the building blocks on sites like DigiKey.
Absolutely, but I find them more valuable because of that. I don't know enough to pick the ideal component, but I know if I get what they use it'll be good enough.
...or of how much or little "Black Friday" is a global thing. (It sure is being marketed in Europe now, even if my country-fellows in the Netherlands don't celebrate (American) Thanksgiving.)
Here in Norway the stores have been running Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for years at least. And recently more and more of them have Black Week, which is like Black Friday but it lasts the whole week.
Once I discovered a (for me) new feature in the iOS Google Maps app, showing recently uploaded videos and images for places in my vicinity. I was randomly browsing through it until I found a video of a woman on a car‘s passenger seat trying to pee out of the side window. Wasn’t expecting her to succeed…
Anyhow, reported it and went on, but couldn’t find it later when I wanted to show to friends.
I wonder if smartphone vendors couldn’t provide a test mode which doesn’t require the unlock code for the phone. E.g. if I get my phone display replaced nobody needs access to my full personal data to test of the basics are working.
There could be a special mode accessible which allows testing of standard use cases.
Android already has a boot menu. It would be useful even for consumers to have an option "Self-Test" added to that list. I think the only real concern would be the storage space required if the test suite was large.
What I couldnt find out so far is what the chip manufacturers are producing instead of automotive chips then? There must be another industry which has a significantly increased need or will get a lot of chips earlier than planned. Wondering which industry that will be.
Basically everything we use? Many many things have electronics inside that is chips and as demand have moved from services to things there is more things bought, thus more demand. Then add to this some distortions... These are chips in question, not that there is not also demand on high-end. But that is also makers learning that it's better for them to constrain supply. RAM for example was at one point very cheap.
AMD growth is gone through the roof in general computing, and they're the sole supplier for both PS5 and Xbox's CPU and GPU chips. Unlike Intel who have their own fabs, AMD is locked into TSMC - and when auto manufacturers relinquished slots, they went in.
Nvidia ships a boatload of chips for Nintendo Switch plus GPUs for almost all altcoin miners that can be mined with GPUs and everyday regular gamers.
Car manufacturers released all of their slots at the beginning of 2020 so those were sold to the entertainment industry instead. Turns out there is a price on not dying and it's "a car instead of public transportation".
Considering this and the fact that nuclear energy (Fukushima), coal (climate change) and now gas (Putin) are effectively „banned“, it’s really quite a mess.