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Use three programming languages for all I care. That's how I do it. I write some, and if I'm blocked, I'll sometimes work in another language for a while. That's what compilers are for.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
But effectively using renewable sources also means capturing the electricity at the moment it's produced and keeping it available for use when demand is high or because weather events like dunkelflaute, "dark doldrums," periods of cloud cover with little wind, mean that production is low. This requires energy storage, whether it's for hours, days, or even weeks.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
Crichton coined the term ***Gell-Mann amnesia effect*** to describe the phenomenon of experts reading articles within their fields of expertise and finding them to be error-ridden and full of misunderstanding, but seemingly forgetting those experiences when reading articles in the same publications written on topics outside of their fields of expertise, which they believe to be credible.
Michael Crichton - Wikipedia
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