AI may hold the secret to solving renewable energy’s problems
Coal is cheaper, cry the nay-sayers, but machine learning programs, such as Google’s DeepMind, claims a 20% improvement in efficiency by using predictive algorithms at wind farms
11 July 2019 - 11:40
Launceton — One of humankind’s most enduring weaknesses is to assume that the way things are now will somehow persist into the future, and that current trends are inexorable.
This thinking is behind the often repeated view that renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, cannot replace thermal electricity generation, such as coal and natural gas...
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