For a first try at an electric vehicle conversion we’re guessing that most would pick a small city car as a base vehicle, or perhaps a Kei van. Not [LiamTronix], who instead chose to do it with an old Ferguson tractor. It might not be the most promising of EV platforms, but as you can see in the video below, it results in a surprisingly practical agricultural vehicle.
A 1950s or 1960s tractor like the Ferguson usually has its engine as a structural member with the bellhousing taking the full strength of the machine and the front axle attached to the front of the block. Thus after he’s extracted the machine from its barn we see him parting engine and gearbox with plenty of support, as it’s a surprisingly hazardous process. These conversions rely upon making a precise plate to mount the motor perfectly in line with the input shaft. We see this process, plus that of making the splined coupler using the center of the old clutch plate. It’s been a while since we last did a clutch alignment, and seeing him using a 3D printed alignment tool we wish we’d had our printer back then.
The motor is surprisingly a DC unit, which he first tests with a 12 V car battery. We see the building of a hefty steel frame to take the place of the engine block in the structure, and then a battery pack that’s beautifully built. The final tractor at the end of the video still has a few additions before it’s finished, but it’s a usable machine we wouldn’t be ashamed to have for small round-the-farm tasks.
Surprisingly there haven’t been as many electric tractors on these pages as you’d expect, though we’ve seen some commercial ones.
While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and lightweight enough to run off a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk, as demonstrated in a recent video by [Michael]. Screenshot of the KolibriOS desktop on first boot with default wallpaper. As a fork of 32-bit MenuetOS back in 2004, KolibriOS has since followed its own course, sticking to the x86 codebase and requiring only a modest system with an i586-compatible CPU, 8 MB of RAM and VESA-compatible videocard. Unlike MenuetOS’ proprietary x86_64 version, there’s no 64-bit in KolibriOS, but at this level you probably won’t miss it.
In the video by [Michael], the OS boots incredibly fast off both a 3.5″ floppy and a CD-ROM, with the CD-ROM version having the advantage of more software being provided with it, including shareware versions of DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D.
Although web browsers (e.g. Netsurf) are also provided, [Michael] did not get Ethernet working, though he doesn’t say whether he checked the hardware compatibility list. Quite a few common 3Com, Intel and Realtek NICs are supported out of the box.
For audio it was a similar story, with the hardware compatibility left unverified after audio was found to be not working. Despite this, the OS was fast, stable, runs DOOM smoothly and overall seems to be a great small OS for x86 platforms that could give an old system a new lease on life.
From the 60s to perhaps the mid-00s, the path to musical stardom was essentially straight with very few forks. As a teenager you’d round up a drummer and a few guitar players and start jamming out of a garage, hoping to build to bigger and bigger venues. Few people made it for plenty of reasons, not least of which was because putting together a band like this is expensive. It wasn’t until capable electronic devices became mainstream and accepted in popular culture in the last decade or two that a few different paths for success finally opened up, and this groovebox shows just how much music can be created this way with a few straightforward electronic tools.
The groovebox is based on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and includes enough storage for 16 tracks with a sequencer for each track, along with a set of 16 scenes. Audio plays through PCM5102A DAC module, with a 160×128 TFT display and a touch-sensitive pad for user inputs. It’s not just a device for looping stored audio, though. There’s also a drum machine built in which can record and loop beats with varying sounds and pitches, as well as a sample slicer and a pattern generator and also as the ability to copy and paste clips.
There are a few limitations to using a device this small though. Because of memory size it outputs a 22 kHz mono signal, and its on-board storage is not particularly large either, but it does have an SD card slot for expansion. But it’s hard to beat the bang-for-the-buck qualities of a device like this, regardless, not to mention the portability. Especially when compared with the cost of multiple guitars, a drum set and a bunch of other analog equipment, it’s easy to see how musicians wielding these instruments have risen in popularity recently. This 12-button MIDI instrument could expand one’s digital musical capabilities even further.
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Il caso della Equalize sta riempiendo le prime pagine della stampa nazionale e si sta allargando a macchia d’olio. Sui social se ne parla in chiave molto tecnica rischiando, però, […] L'articolo La cultura della gestione dei dati proviene da Edoardo Limone.
L'articolo proviene dal blog dell'esperto di #Cybersecurity Edoardo
Microsoft ha rilasciato un comunicato in cui denuncia le recenti tattiche di Google per screditarla, in particolare attraverso la creazione di un gruppo di lobbying “astroturf”, volto a influenzare l’opinione pubblica e le autorità regolatrici. Microsoft sottolinea che Google ha intenzionalmente nascosto il proprio coinvolgimento, usando provider cloud europei come portavoce di una nuova organizzazione il cui obiettivo è attaccare Microsoft. Google, secondo Microsoft, punta a distogliere l’attenzione dalle molteplici indagini antitrust in corso a suo carico in diversi mercati globali.
Microsoft dichiara che, oltre a fondare gruppi di lobbying, Google ha anche finanziato commentatori e accademici per promuovere narrazioni negative verso la società. Viene sottolineato come Google, nonostante sia un colosso del cloud con una capacità operativa di 3.500 MW e un investimento di 13 miliardi di dollari, tenti di ottenere un trattamento speciale da parte delle autorità regolatorie, definendosi “non hyperscale”.
Nel comunicato, Microsoft espone anche il rifiuto dei membri del CISPE (un’organizzazione di provider cloud) a una proposta di Google che offriva loro 500 milioni di dollari per opporsi a un accordo con Microsoft. Di fronte a tale proposta, i membri hanno preferito approvare la risoluzione proposta da Microsoft.
Infine, Microsoft si difende spiegando di essere sempre disponibile ad ascoltare e adattarsi ai feedback di clienti, partner e autorità. Le recenti modifiche, come l’introduzione di versioni dei suoi software senza Teams per ampliare la scelta, sono state implementate non per ammettere errori, ma per rispondere in modo proattivo alle esigenze del mercato.
The Fediverse Schema Observatory helps to improve interoperability, the botsin.space server will shut down, and more.
The News
The Fediverse Schema Observatory is a new project by Darius Kazemi, who runs the Hometown fork of Mastodon as well as co-wrote to Fediverse Governance paper this year with Erin Kissane. The Observatory collects data structures from the fediverse; it looks how different fediverse softwares use and implement ActivityPub. It explicitly does not gather any personal data or posts; instead it looks at how the data is formatted in ActivityPub. ActivityPub and the fediverse has a long-standing problem in that the selling point is interoperability between different software, but every software has their own, slightly different implementation of ActivityPub, making good interoperability difficult to pull off. Kazemi has posted about the Observatory as a Request for Comments. The Observatory is explicitly not a scraper, but considering how sensitive the subject can be in the fediverse community, Kazemi has taken a careful approach of informing the community in detail beforehand about the proposed project, and how it deals with data. The easiest way to see and understand how the Observatory is works is with this demo video.
The botsin.space Mastodon server for bots will shut down in December. The botsin.space server is a server dedicated to running bots, with a few thousand active bots running. The server is a valued part of the community, with the wild variety of bots running on the server contributing to the Mastodon in both useful and silly ways. The admin states that over time running the servers has become too expensive over time, and that is was not feasible to keep the project going. The shutdown of botsin.space showcases an ongoing struggle in the fediverse, running a server is expensive and time-consuming, and every time a server shuts down the fediverse loses a block of its history.
Sub.club is a way to add monetization options to fediverse posts. Sub.club started with being able to add paywalls to Mastodon posts, recently expanded to long-form writing with support for Write.as, and now has added support for WordPress blogs as well. Sub.club has posted a tutorial on how to add the plugin to WordPress, making it an easy system to set up.
Bridgy Fed, the bridge between ActivityPub and ATproto has gotten some updates, with the main new feature is that you can now set custom domain handles on Bluesky for fediverse accounts that get bridged into Bluesky. This brings the interoperability between the networks closer to native accounts, and makes having a bridged account more attractive.
Upcoming fediverse platform for short-form video, Loops, got some press by The Verge and TechCrunch. Creator Daniel Supernault said that there are now 5k people on the waiting list, and that a TestFlight link will go out soon for the first 100 people. An Android APK will be made available at some point as well.
GoToSocial is working on the ability to for servers to subscribe to allowlists and denylists. This makes it easier to create clusters of servers with a shared allowlist, such as the Website League. As I recently wrote about Website League, it is a cluster of federating servers that uses ActivityPub but exists separately from the rest of the fediverse, and it is started by people who build a new shared space after Cohost shut down. Website League servers predominantly use GoToSocial or Akkoma, and have been actively working on tuning the software to meet their needs.
The Links
Flipboard is now federating accounts of publishers in Brazil, Canada, Germany and the UK.
A long read on Content Warnings, that extensively touches on the culture on using Content Warnings in Mastodon and the Website League as well.
Ghost’s weekly update on their project to implement ActivityPub, mentioning that they have bridged their ActivityPub-based Ghost account to Bluesky as well.
Some big news for Bluesky this week, as they raise $15M in their series A. Another new option to import your old tweets into Bluesky, and more.
Bluesky announces series A
Bluesky has announced their series A funding round, raising $15M, using the announcement to give a first look at some of their monetisation plans as well. The series A funding round is lead by Venture Capital firm Blockchain Capital. In summer 2023 Bluesky had an $8M seed round, and various investors of the seed round also returned for the series A. Kinjal Shah, a Partner at Blockchain Capital, will join the board of Bluesky.
The seed round already had investors from the crypto world, but this drew much more attention with the series A, as the headline of Blockchain Capital as a lead investor made the connection loud and clear. Bluesky is aware of the negative connotations that many people have regarding blockchains and crypto, explicitly stating that “the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.).”
Bluesky also announced two avenues they will start to explore for monetisation; a subscription model and payment processing. For the subscription model Bluesky will explore various additional features that do not touch on the core experience, such as higher quality video uploads, or profile customisations. Bluesky will also start working on payment services to support creators. Not much information is known yet on this, and Bluesky says they will share more information as it becomes available.
Kinjal Shah wrote the investment thesis for Blockchain Capital, which gives good insight in the vision of what Blockchain Capital hopes to get out of the investment. She writes: “With this investment, we’re investing in more than a product but rather a vision of what social infrastructure could be. A future where users own their identity and data, developers can innovate freely, and networks are as diverse as we are.” The reason for Blockchain Capital to invest into a social infrastructure is the new opportunities that an open developer ecosystem brings for (other) developers to build new products, which is also stated here by Bluesky developer Why.
On Enshittification
A common response to the news of Bluesky’s series A being lead by a VC firm called Blockchain Capital is that “the enshittification has started”. This response was dominant on the fediverse, and less so but still present on Bluesky. It’s been such a common response that I think it deserves a closer look at ‘enshittification’ and how it relates to Bluesky taking money from a blockchain VC firm. The meaning of the term enshittification has shifted over time, and both meanings provide an interesting lens to look at the news.
When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification in 2022, he used it to describe a process of platform decay. A platforms subsidises growth by operating at a loss, and places themselves in between the suppliers and customers on a two-sided marketplace. Once suppliers and customers are locked in on the platform and cannot easily leave, the enshittification cycle happens: the platform uses their control of the marketplace to take an ever increasing part of the value while while making the experience on the platform worse, for both suppliers and consumers.
What is interesting here is that in earlierinterviews, Jay Graber has mentioned the idea of building marketplaces on Bluesky as a way to make money. If enshittification is used to describe platform decay, it stands out that a marketplace is not present in the Series A announcement as a way for Bluesky to monetise. For a platform to become enshittified in this meaning of platform decay, a platform needs to have exclusive control of a marketplace on the platform. However, Bluesky is currently not taking the direction of a marketplace for monetisation, instead opting for subscriptions and payment processing. This is still open to change at a later point, as Graber has expressed interest in it before.
Doctorow also mentions two principles to combat platform enshittification. Platforms should be interoperable, allowing users can switch to a different provider. Users should also have the ability to control the content they see, and not be dependent on an opaque algorithm owned by the platform. As both of these principles are deeply embedded in the design of ATProto, Bluesky is an interesting case study if the principles that Doctorow mentioned are indeed good enough to stave off enshittification.
The meaning of the term enshittification has drifted and expanded over time. Enshittification is now commonly used to refer to any business practice that makes the company or product, well, shit. There is a fairly widespread negative attitude towards both venture capital as well as blockchains and crypto. People perceive that these systems have not brought benefits they promised, and enriched a small elite instead, all the while degrading the experience of using the internet. This is not a newsletter to deconstruct blockchains or VC (I’m sure you can find your own sources for that), but I do want to point out that public perception of both venture capital and blockchains matter here. Bluesky is in an active growth phase, and part of the sales pitch to get people to join the network is that Bluesky is a ‘better’ place, for various interpretations of ‘better’.
Getting people to join Bluesky while also being associated with technologies and organisations that many people perceive as ‘not better’ is much harder. People want to join a new network because they hope that the new network is a better experience for them. Judging from the outside if a network is a suitable place is hard, so people tend to fall back to simple heuristics to determine if a network is a good place for them. BlockChain Capital might provide valuable support to Bluesky, but this hard to see as an outsider that is considering joining Bluesky. Instead, it is more likely that they will fall back on their preexisting opinions about startups that take VC money or affiliated with blockchains.
The News
Porto is a new free tool that allows you to import your Twitter archive into Bluesky. The tool asks you to download your tweets from X as an archive, and upload the folder with your archive into the tool, via a browser extension.
Bridgy Fed, the bridge between ActivityPub and ATproto has gotten some updates, with the main new feature is that you can now set custom domain handles on Bluesky for fediverse accounts that get bridged into Bluesky. This brings the interoperability between the networks closer to native accounts, and makes having a bridged account more attractive. As such, you can now follow my fediverse account on Bluesky at @fediversereport.com.
Last week I wrote that the “new wave has a higher retention rate than other waves”. Another week later and this effect still holds.
ProtoScript is a tool that lets you publish Javascript code directly to your PDS, and then view and execute code from any user directly in your browser. Conceptually it is similar to ATFile, which lets you store arbitrary files on your PDS, but this time with Javascript code instead. Both ProtoScript and ATFile are exploring the idea that the PDS is a website, and it seems like there is still a lot of design space left to explore here.
The ATProto Tech Talks is back, with a new event November 7th. This event will feature various ways people build blogs on ATProto, including by Bluesky developers Samuel and Hailey. Smoke Signal event to register is available here.
Tracking how the space of labelers for self-identification is evolving:
The Games Industry Labeler now is now automated via DMs, where a chat interface walks a user through setting their labels.
The permissionless nature of ATProto allows people to backdate posts. This feature allows people to import their Twitter archive to the original date of posting, but can also create confusion. The Backdated Labeler labels posts that have a different timestamp than the time they first become visible on the network.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to receive the weekly updates directly in your inbox below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online.
Welcome back to ATProtocol Tech Talks! For the November 7th edition, we'll be hearing from a number of builders who are creating on top of ATProtocol. 3 blogs and a client!
Si è conclusa la XIII edizione di #ExpoTraining! Due giornate dedicate all'orientamento, alla formazione e alla sicurezza sul lavoro.
Qui il video racconto integrale dell'evento ▶️ https://youtu.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale La CGIL e la Uil hanno proclamato uno sciopero generale di otto ore per la giornata di venerdì 29 novembre, una mobilitazione indetta per chiedere al governo di Giorgia Meloni e alla maggioranza di
🏆 #Scuola, oggi è stato conferito il Premio “Alfieri del Lavoro” dal Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella, presso il Quirinale, a 25 studenti e studentesse da tutta Italia.
🏆 #Scuola, oggi è stato conferito il Premio “Alfieri del Lavoro” dal Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella, presso il Quirinale, a 25 studenti e studentesse da tutta Italia.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Lucia Aleotti del Gruppo Menarini nominata Cavaliere del Lavoro Lucia Aleotti, azionista e membro del Board del Gruppo Menarini, è stata nominata Cavaliere del Lavoro dal Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella, su proposta del Ministro delle Imprese e
DALLA SVEZIA: L' INVESTIMENTO EOLICO PORTA ALLA BANCAROTTA. CONVIENE A CINA E USA. SOLO DANNI PER L'UE - Ifanews - News Magazine ifanews.it/dalla-svezia-l-inve…
One is that Sweden does not appear to have our system of constraint payments:
Second is the fact that low winds mean high market prices, and vice versa. Obviously wind farms make their money when the wind blows, so low prices at those times drastically impact earnings.
In the UK, the CfD subsidy protects wind farms from these fluctuations, whilst ROC subsidies are generous enough to offset low market prices.
And thirdly, the article rightly notes that wind farms don’t have to pay for grid adaption and other wider system costs.
Le immagini di Valencia ci confermano che questo è un Pianeta sovrappopolato, inquinato e preda di cambiamenti climatici che solo i mentecatti, gli opportunisti e i disonesti si ostinano a negare.
E in Usa stanno per rieleggere il comandante in capo dei mentecatti, degli opportunisti e dei disonesti.
Un delinquente ricco, golpista e razzista, il rappresentante della peggio umanità possibile, il disonesto in capo, un negazionista fanatico e violento. Il solo fatto che un simile individuo sia in lizza, è una sconfitta per il genere umano. Finirà malissimo, per tutti, anche per i 4 dementi che tifano che sarà meglio così, anche, e soprattutto, per i poveri che si illudono di trovare la soluzione magica votando un criminale simile o, in generale, votando la peggior destra reazionaria. Andrà male alla democrazia che sarà fatta a pezzi in America, subito seguito dai suoi emuli in Europa e Italia che non attendono altro, e ci consegnerà al criminale di Mosca, suo degno compare. Il baratro mondiale è ad un passo. Andrà bene solo per i ricchissimi, che infatti stanno con lui. Preparatevi al peggio.
The latest expansion of an Elon Musk-funded super PAC; how New York's largest hospital system is using AI; and how Epic Games' control over the 3D model market could "destroy" cultural heritage.
The latest expansion of an Elon Musk-funded super PAC; how New Yorkx27;s largest hospital system is using AI; and how Epic Gamesx27; control over the 3D model market could "destroy" cultural heritage.#Podcast
The latest expansion of an Elon Musk-funded super PAC; how New York's largest hospital system is using AI; and how Epic Games' control over the 3D model market could "destroy" cultural heritage.
se ti incazzi con una persona e dici peste e corna, ma poi neghi che sia autistica, neghi che abbia problemi, neghi qualsiasi motivazione o spiegazione, alla fine che coerenza stai dimostrando? anche senza essere psicologhi si capisce che è solo un accanimento senza senso. e pure inutile, se non dannoso. o fai finta di niente e va tutto bene, o se il problema esiste il problema esiste. ma difficilmente funzionerà come piace a te... statisticamente parlando.
[quote]La rapida evoluzione degli scenari securitari odierni pone Stati come l’Italia nella posizione di doversi interrogare sullo stato delle proprie Forze armate e sulle necessità espresse dallo strumento militare nazionale per garantire una difesa appropriata. In questo contesto si
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Secondo il quotidiano americano, il Pentagono sta cercando di trasformare l'esercito Usa in una forza adatta ad uno scontro sul terreno con le truppe cinesi L'articolo New York Times: “l’esercito Usa prepara la guerra con la Cina” proviene da Pagine Esteri.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale “Quella è la vera prova di colpevolezza di Silvio Berlusconi di come ha preso i soldi dalla mafia”. Lo dice Nunzio Samuele Calamucci a Massimiliano Camponovo in un’intercettazione telefonica agli atti dell’inchiesta
le parole dette feriscono molto più delle parole scritte. per questo l'idea secondo cui per non ferire le persone è meglio parlare che scrivere è sbagliata. ed è sbagliato pure che parlando si creano meno fraintendimenti, perché questo in realtà dipende dalle persone e dalla loro capacità di reagire immediatamente e con prontezza, e non è per niente scontato.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Membra sparse per le strade, rifugi dati alle fiamme, centinaia di persone intrappolate negli ospedali: I palestinesi raccontano le scene apocalittiche dell'ultima campagna di Israele L'articolo Dentro l’assedio del nord di Gaza, dove “la morte aspetta
Changelog: 🦝 add link to manual and Matrix room in "App information" dialog; 🦝 add possibility to make following/followed list private in profile settings; 🦝 fix making post indexable in profile settings; 🦝 fix pagination for followed users, followed hashtags and hashtag feed; 🦝 fix profile settings loading after account switch; 🦝 optimization of startup and account switch flows; 🦝 add experimental support for embedded images in posts; 🦝 as usual, dependency updates and more unit tests.
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@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo La casa automobilistica tedesca Volkswagen ha annunciato un piano "lacrime e sangue", che include 15 mila licenziamenti, la chiusura di tre fabbriche e riduzioni salariali. I sindacati promettono battaglia L'articolo Volkswagen licenzia e chiude le fabbriche, Germania sotto shock proviene da Pagine
[quote]Mentre la situazione in Medio Oriente continua ad evolvere, l’Italia si muove per portare il suo contributo a una riduzione delle tensioni, facendo particolare attenzione alla sicurezza e al ruolo che possono ricoprire gli oltre mille Caschi blu italiani schierati in Libano.
Martedì 29 ottobre 2024, ore 17:30 presso la Sala Buzzati in Via Balzan, 3 – Milano Intervengono Andrea Cangini, Segretario Generale Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Ferruccio de Bortoli, Presidente Fondazione Corriere della Sera Alberto Mingardi, Direttore Generale Istituto Bruno Leoni Angelo Varni, Professore emerito Università di Bologna Coordina Paola Pica,
Quando si fanno le verifiche, si scoprono le bugie. La "pinocchia" di palazzo Chigi è stata verificata come bugiarda e inattendibile. Oltre una dichiarazione verificata su due di Meloni continua a non essere attendibile | Pagella Politica pagellapolitica.it/articoli/fa…
Qual è il bilancio dopo 10 mesi di governo Tusk, a un anno dalla vittoria nelle elezioni parlamentari? Ho scritto un'analisi per ResetDoc, partendo dalla svolta securitaria in materia di immigrazione.
What's the balance after 10 months of Tusk's government, one year after the victory in the parliamentary elections? I wrote an analysis for ResetDoc.
“Regain control, ensure security.” This is the slogan of a draft law promoted by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and adopted by his government to outline the country’s migration strategy from 2025 to 2030.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale C’è un elemento che potrebbe sfuggire nella vittoria di Marco Bucci su Andrea Orlando alle elezioni regionali liguri di ieri, ed è un elemento che mostra come nella scelta di una candidatura, soprattutto in un contesto come quello di una regione, sia bene tenere in considerazione al fianco di elementi
An Elon Musk-funded PAC is targeting Republicans with ads that depict a fever-dream caricature of what Harris would do if elected president.#Progress2028
Frontiere Sonore Radio Show Ep. 4: Simone inizia una sezione di presentazione di piccole etichette italiane, in questa puntata presentiamo Stanze Fredde Records di Torino
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The Animal Kingdom - The Animal Kingdom, In un futuro prossimo alcuni umani iniziano a mutare trasformandosi gradualmente in animali. - The Animal Kingdom
[quote]I nuovi scenari globali, caratterizzati da un ritorno dei conflitti e delle crisi su vasta scala, richiedono di aggiornare i sistemi produttivi per andare incontro alle richieste di istituzioni e Forze armate. Perché ciò sia possibile, l’Italia deve abbandonare i vecchi schemi
Scorrendo le lettere è inoltre possibile seguire idealmente quasi tutta la produzione letteraria di Raimondi fino al 1965 adrianomaini.altervista.org/sc…
Lo ha deciso il parlamento israeliano con un voto a larga maggioranza, che complicherà moltissimo le attività umanitarie dell'agenzia nella Striscia di Gaza e in Cisgiordania
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Three things stand out here.
One is that Sweden does not appear to have our system of constraint payments:
Second is the fact that low winds mean high market prices, and vice versa. Obviously wind farms make their money when the wind blows, so low prices at those times drastically impact earnings.
In the UK, the CfD subsidy protects wind farms from these fluctuations, whilst ROC subsidies are generous enough to offset low market prices.
And thirdly, the article rightly notes that wind farms don’t have to pay for grid adaption and other wider system costs.