The US Electric Grid is in Disarray, While the Judicial Court Systems, Fed Ex, UPS,911 Dispatches, Air Travel, and Police Arrests are affected by the Blue Screen of Death Global Tech Outage!
The "blue screen of death" is a notorious error screen displayed by Windows operating systems after a fatal system error. It is a sign that the computer has encountered a problem critical enough to require an immediate restart. To fix it, users can try several methods such as disabling automatic restart, uninstalling recent applications, checking for hardware issues, or using system recovery options. Why is it important we embrace new technologies instead of being forced to use outdated technology that hurts our pockets and the environment?
Solar cell technology is progressing swiftly. Thin-film solar cells consist of layers of semiconductor materials like cadmium telluride or copper indium gallium selenide, which are applied onto substrates of glass, metal, or plastic. These cells require significantly less silicon than the thick wafers used in conventional photovoltaic cells. Additionally, thin-film cells do not require the use of hazardous hydrofluoric acid for wafer cleaning.
While thin-film cells are used in industry, their high cost limits their widespread adoption. However, there is an emerging thin-film technology that utilizes a coating of perovskite, a light-absorbing material, which shows great promise. According to multiple reports since 2020 by Nature, efforts have been underway globally to reduce the cost of perovskite solar cells to make them commercially viable with most recent promising results from MIT in Massachusetts USA. Perovskite, a common crystal structure found in abundance in Sub-Saharan African countries like South Africa, is garnering interest across various scientific fields due to its significant energy potential.
While the industry has utilized thin-film cells, they were previously too expensive. However, their costs have decreased by over 70 percent in the last year. The efficiency of standard photovoltaic cells has significantly improved, now approaching 25 percent. Perovskite solar cells have further increased this efficiency to up to 35 percent. Additionally, the development of "tandem" solar cells, which combine perovskite with silicon, allows for enhanced light absorption across various parts of the spectrum, thereby boosting efficiency even more.
Today’s solar panels and solar roofing tiles or window film are built to last 20 to 30 years. Similarly, wind turbines have a life span of about 20 to 25 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A 2017 study in Nature Energy reported that the lifetime carbon footprints of solar, hydro and wind power plants are just a fraction of the lifetime footprints of coal and natural gas plants. The study also projects that, in 2050, the energy involved in constructing and operating a solar or wind power plant will be just 3-5% percent of its electricity output.
Integrating renewables into the grid does not require the capacity to meet peak global demand simultaneously. Instead, an optimized combination of various renewable technologies and some storage can collectively maintain power supply. As noted by energy writer Ketan Joshi, the widespread adoption of renewables can lead to an excess of energy. The challenge is not a shortage of energy but rather an energy surplus that can drive down prices. This was observed when Hawaii initially transitioned to solar power, leading to an energy surplus that nearly overwhelmed the grid and resulted in a year-long moratorium on rooftop solar until grid upgrades were implemented.
A 2019 study in Joule noted that for wind and solar power to completely power the United States, energy storage would need to be highly cost-competitive, with a maximum price tag of just $20 per kilowatt-hour, about 90 percent cheaper than it currently is. The materials in lithium-ion batteries are too expensive to hit that target, but researchers have developed other battery materials, such as sodium sulfur and sodium nickel chloride, that could be much cheaper. Most notable is the Salt battery! The sodium–nickel–chloride battery, and sometimes as a sodium–metal–halide battery. The common name comes from its development under the Zeolite Battery Research Africa (ZEBRA) project, started in South Africa in 1985!
The salt battery, as its name suggests, incorporates table salt as a key ingredient and other materials, such as nickel (nickel chloride and sodium are self-generated during charging!Battery Consult, the Swiss company created in 2008, is predicted that a Na-NiCl2 battery solution would be highly compatible with the trend towards decentralized electricity production. Indeed, renewable energy costs are even today constantly falling. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the reduction in wind electricity production costs between 2010 and 2017 would have fell by about 33 per cent, while solar electricity costs have fallen by about 90 per cent. IRENA also predicted a further 59% reduction in the cost of solar photovoltaics by 2030. Everything that bodes well for the future of storage technologies.
How to Fix a Blue Screen of Death
The most important Blue Screen of Death troubleshooting step you can take is to ask yourself what you did just before the device stopped working.
Did you just install a new program or a piece of hardware, update a driver, install a Windows update, etc.? If so, there's a very good chance that the change you made caused the BSOD.
Undo the change you made and test again for the STOP Error. Depending on what it was that changed, some solutions might include:
Starting up using Last Known Good Configuration to undo recent registry and driver changes.
Using Windows System Restore to undo recent system changes.
Rolling back the device driver to a version prior to your driver update.
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