[sohkamyung]

Off-topic, but the image captioned "Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure" looks AI generated. The workers on the extreme left and right are standing on solar panels, and the one in the centre is holding some metal bars that merge Escher-like with the panels behind him.

Even the caption sounds like part of an AI prompt to generate the image.

[AndrewDucker]

The caption for it is "ChatGPT generated panoramic Photo of a Pakistani factory rooftop covered in solar panels Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure"

[Bric3d]

The file name is "ChatGPT-Image-Apr-4-2025-03_25_23-PM-800x445.png", so yeah, sure seems like it.

[limaoscarjuliet]

Also "Battery storage is the next act [...]". There is no way they went "Full Clean Energy" without battery storage.

Sounds more like op-ed piece than actual facts.

[rurban]

Nonsense. When you have huge cheap water dams, you won't need expensive tiny battery storage

[garyfirestorm]

Help me connect the dots. Solar energy - water dams - tiny battery storage.

[rurban]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage

Solar: only when sun shines. Peak power needed: in the morning. Best storage: water dams

In Pakistan there is no big grid to allow feeding solar back to pump water up. But the small e-rollers don't need much. This works fine enough, locally.

[woleium]

for that you need distribution, Pakistan’s power distribution is awful, which is likely what led to the solar revolution in the first place

[cowmix]

I'm not sure what bugs me more. People using GenAI for making content or people using GenAI AND being lazy about it.

[rocmcd]

How do we know the entire article isn't AI-generated? There are no external links or references. Could this all be made up blog spam / AI slop?