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Canonical engineering manager Ben Hoyt believes that a variable's name is more important than its type, so "[44]the name should be more prominent and come first in declarations." In many popular programming languages, including C, C++, Java, and C#, when you define a field or variable, you write the type before the name. For example (in C++): // Struct definition struct person { std::string name; std::string email; int age; }; In other languages, including Go, Rust, TypeScript, and Python (with type hints), you write the name before the type. For example (in Go): // Struct definition type Person struct { Name string Email string Age int } There's a nice answer in the Go FAQ about why Go chose this order: "[45]Why are declarations backwards?". It starts with "they're only backwards if you're used to C", which is a good point — name-before-type has a long history in languages like Pascal. In fact, Go's type declaration syntax (and packages) were [46]directly inspired by Pascal. The FAQ goes on to point out that parsing is simpler with name-before-type, and declaring multiple variables is less error-prone than in C. In C, the following declares x to be a pointer, but (surprisingly at first!) y to be a normal integer: int* x, y; Whereas the equivalent in Go does what you'd expect, declaring both to be pointers: var x, y *int The Go blog even has an in-depth article by Rob Pike on [47]Go's Declaration Syntax, which describes more of the advantages of Go's syntax over C's, particularly with arrays and function pointers. Oddly, the article only hints at what I think is the more important reason to prefer name-before-type for everyday programming: it's clearer. Hoyt argues a variable's name has more meaning (semantically) — pointing out dynamically-typed languages like Python and Ruby don't even need types., and that languages like Java, Go, C++ and C# now include type inference. "I think the takeaway is this: we can't change the past, but if you're creating a new language, please put names before types!" apply tags__________ 171554804 story [48]The Military [49]US Air Force Builds $5B Climate-Resilient 'Base of the Future' with Robot Dogs and AI Security [50](msn.com) [51]24 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:34AM from the super-soldiers dept. After a hurricane hit Florida, 484 buildings just at the Tyndall Air Force base were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. Five years later, it's part of a $5 billion, nine-year [52]rebuilding effort the Washington Post describes as rare "blank slate." The plan is "not merely to rebuild it, but to construct what the U.S. military calls 'the installation of the future,' which will be able to withstand rising seas, stronger storms and other threats..." The rebuild at Tyndall, which is expected to continue into 2027, marks the largest military construction project undertaken by the Pentagon. "Think of it as the Air Force throwing its Costco card down on the table and buying buildings in bulk," said Michael Dwyer, deputy chief of the Natural Disaster Recovery Division. A dizzying array of new technologies and approaches have been incorporated into the effort, from [53]semiautonomous robot dogs patrolling the grounds to artificial intelligence software designed to detect and deter any armed person who enters the base. But the most robust funding is aimed at making Tyndall more efficient, connected and resilient in the face of a warming world. Structures under construction — from dormitory complexes to a child care center to hangars that will house three new squadrons of the F-35A Lightning II later this year — are being built to withstand winds in excess of 165 mph. Steel frames, high-impact windows, concrete facades and roofing with additional bracing are among the features meant to weather the stronger storms to come. At nearby Panama City, sea level rise has accelerated in recent years, with federal data showing seas have risen there more than 4 inches since 2010. Planners factored in the potential for as much as 7 feet of sea level rise by the end of the century, and as a result placed the "vast majority" of new buildings at elevations that should be safe from storm surges for decades, Dwyer said. In addition, sensors placed near the low spots of buildings will send alerts the moment a flood threatens. The Air Force also has created a "digital twin" of Tyndall — essentially, a virtual duplicate of the base that allows officials to simulate how roads, buildings and other infrastructure would hold up in different scenarios, such as a hurricane or historic rainfall events. Other efforts include [54]restoring the beach's 10-foot sand dunes and its rocky shoreline, along with "the installation of submerged oyster reef breakwater that can reduce wave energy and erosion." But the article points out that the Air Force also has a second hope for their base: "that the lessons unfolding here can be replicated at other bases around the world that will face — or already are facing — similar threats... apply tags__________ 171554990 story [55]Hardware [56]Superconductor Breakthrough Claims Traced to a Basement Lab in Seoul [57](yahoo.com) [58]48 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:34PM from the notes-from-underground dept. In a neighborhood in Seoul there's an ordinary red-brick, four-story building, reports Bloomberg — but [59]there's something unique about the building's basement office. It's somehow the registered address of the Centre "whose extraordinary claims about a breakthrough in superconductor technology have shocked the scientific community and captivated the world." Bloomberg also reports that: - "No one responded when a Bloomberg News reporter knocked on the center's locked doors or reached out via LinkedIn." - "Goods including bottles of sparkling water delivered to the center's address have been left untouched outside the office's entrance." - "Multiple attempts to reach the scientists at the Quantum Energy Research Centre were not answered." - "The center's website has also been closed and says it is 'under construction.'" However, Kim Hyun Tak, one of the authors of the papers who is a research professor of physics at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, said the skeptical reaction is expected. "It's common practice when a new crucial discovery or invention is made public that there are more people who say that it's not credible," Kim said in a Zoom interview. "It's a natural thing for some people to laugh at it because it's the first time, and they don't even know what it is, but as time passes, they start to believe it...." In response to questions about why the Quantum Energy Research Centre hasn't provided the materials to other scientists, Kim said that it doesn't have enough inventory of the LK-99 compound nor time to recreate it, and that the researchers have been distracted by the number of journalists trying to contact them. "You know that the office is extremely small and in a poor state." he said. "It's so small, and you need the money to make the compounds. That's why they cannot mass-produce it." Despite the questions, he remained defiant that the research was sound. "The experimental data speaks for itself," Kim said. "We know it because we're the ones who synthesized it and conducted the studies." "The claim has been met with widespread excitement globally," adds Bloomberg, "sending related stocks soaring in South Korea and China, but also skepticism as past claims had been later proven wrong." apply tags__________ 171555144 story [60]The Almighty Buck [61]Strongest Sign Yet Australia Heads Toward a Totally Cashless Society? [62](9news.com.au) [63]115 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:34PM from the tear-down-this-wallet dept. The Australian news service 9News reports on the "strongest sign yet" that Australia is headed toward a "totally cashless society... the [64]number of notes in circulation officially declining for the first time since dollars and cents were introduced in 1966." According to data from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), more than a billion dollars worth of physical cash disappeared from circulation in the last financial year, a shift that's likely to make life more difficult for the elderly and for those in the regions. Authorities say less cash will also hurt the nation's criminals, who rely heavily on its use, making it harder for them to make transactions undetected... The RBA's survey of consumers' payment trends revealed that a third of Aussies now consider themselves "low cash users" — meaning they claim to use cash for less than 20 per cent of all their in-person transactions. In 2019, about half of the nation's residents were reported as such... It's expected that cash use will continue to decrease in the coming years, similar to the use of cheques, which are set to wrap up completely in the country by 2030. apply tags__________ 171554612 story [65]Power [66]US Scientists Repeat Fusion Power Breakthrough For a Second Time [67](afr.com) [68]58 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:14PM from the warmth-of-the-sun dept. The Financial Times reports: U.S. government scientists have [69]achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time, a result that is set to fuel optimism that progress is being made towards the dream of limitless, zero-carbon power... "In an experiment conducted on July 30, we repeated ignition at NIF," the laboratory said. "As is our standard practice, we plan on reporting those results at upcoming scientific conferences and in peer-reviewed publications..." Although many scientists believe fusion power stations are still decades away, the technology's potential is hard to ignore. Fusion reactions emit no carbon, produce no long-lived radioactive waste and a small cup of hydrogen fuel could theoretically power a house for hundreds of years... [T]he improved result at NIF, coming "only eight months" after the initial breakthrough, was a further sign that the pace of progress was increasing, said one of the people with knowledge of the results. apply tags__________ 171547890 story [70]Programming [71]Do Developers Tend To Scrap Or Ship Their First Drafts? [72](ntietz.com) [73]60 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @06:14PM from the tested-in-production dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [74]theodp writes: The necessity of multiple drafts may be an idea that's drilled into children's minds by teachers and parents, but in 2023 there's still a need to remind software engineers to [75]Throw Away Your First Draft of Your Code. "The next time you start on a major project," advises Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya, "I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all. Just throw it away. I'm serious. And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work. It's going to save you time in the long run." While Tietz-Sokolskaya's advice [76]echoes that of Ernest Hemingway ("the first draft of anything is shit"), do developers tend to scrap or ship their first drafts in the real world? apply tags__________ 171553348 story [77]Transportation [78]How an Apple AirTag Tracked Lost Luggage Much Better Than United [79](cnn.com) [80]80 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @04:34PM from the flight-risks dept. CNN tells the story of Sandra Shuster, who'd [81]included an airtag with her daughter's $2,000 lacrosse kit on a flight to Denver (with a stop-over in Chicago's O'Hare airport): When they arrived at Denver after midnight, the bag wasn't on the belt. United representatives at Denver gave them a case number and told them the bag should arrive on the 8.30 a.m. flight from Chicago in just a few hours. When it didn't, Shuster called the toll-free number for lost baggage that she'd been given. "They said, 'Your bag's going to come in later today on one of two flights.' I said 'OK, great,' but it never came. So I called later that afternoon and they said 'Your bag is still in Baltimore,'" says Shuster. There was just one problem: she already knew it wasn't in Baltimore. Three months earlier, Shuster had bought an AirTag — Apple's tracking devices — to know where her daughter's bag was... [T]he AirTag was showing as being at baggage reclaim at O'Hare. "I told them I could see it at Terminal 1 baggage reclaim in Chicago, and they said 'We have no record of it.' I asked them to call Chicago, and they said 'No, we're not allowed.' They said they'd put notes in the system and the baggage team would take care of it." The airline had mistakenly attached another customer's baggage-claim number to the luggage — so when it arrived at the stop-over in Chicago, baggage handlers couldn't know its ultimate destination, and it was moved to the "reclaim" belt. There were several more communication misfires — but fortunately, Shuster had more than 30,000 unused air miles... "I jumped on the plane, flew to Chicago, got to baggage claim, and it took them 30 seconds to give me my bag..." Shuster tells CNN. "What was difficult to comprehend was that it would have taken one call to Chicago to locate it, and nobody seemed able to do that... You can't tell me in this day and age, with all the technology available, that they can't figure this stuff out. Airlines need to do better." United later refunded Shuster's air miles, along with an apology "for the inconvenience you experienced on your recent trip with United." apply tags__________ 171553642 story [82]AI [83]AI-Generated Art Banned from Future 'Dungeons & Dragons' Books After Fan Uproar [84](geekwire.com) [85]44 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:34PM from the slaying-a-Mimic dept. A Dungeons & Dragons expansion book included AI-generated artwork. Fans on Twitter [86]spotted it before the book was even released (noting, among other things, a wolf with human feet). An embarrassed representative for Wizards of the Coast then [87]tweeted out an announcement about new guidelines stating explicitly that "artists must refrain from using AI art generation as part of their creation process for developing D&D art." [88]GeekWire reports: The artist in question, [89]Ilya Shkipin, is a California-based painter, illustrator, and operator of an NFT marketplace, who has worked on projects for Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast since 2014. Shkipin took to Twitter himself on Friday, and acknowledged in [90]several now-deleted tweets that he'd used AI tools to "polish" several original illustrations and concept sketches. As of Saturday morning, Shkipin had taken down his original tweets and announced that the illustrations for Glory of the Giants are "[91]going to be reworked..." While the physical book won't be out until August 15, the e-book is available now from Wizards' D&D Beyond digital storefront. Wizards of the Coast emphasized this won't happen again. About this particular incident, they noted "We have worked with this artist since 2014 and he's put years of work into books we all love. While we weren't aware of the artist's choice to use AI in the creation process for these commissioned pieces, we have discussed with him, and he will not use AI for Wizards' work moving forward." GeekWire adds that the latest D&D video game, Baldur's Gate 3, "went into its full launch period on Tuesday. Based on metrics such as its player population on Steam, BG3 has been an immediate success, with a high of [92]over 709,000 people playing it concurrently on Saturday afternoon." apply tags__________ 171553224 story [93]Security [94]New (Deep Learning-Enhanced) Acoustic Attack Steals Data from Keystrokes With 95% Accuracy [95](bleepingcomputer.com) [96]43 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:34PM from the hearing-aided dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [97]SonicSpike quotes [98]this article from BleepingComputer: A team of researchers from British universities has trained a [99]deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%... Such an attack severely affects the target's data security, as it could leak people's passwords, discussions, messages, or other sensitive information to malicious third parties. Moreover, contrary to other side-channel attacks that require special conditions and are subject to data rate and distance limitations, acoustic attacks have become much simpler due to the abundance of microphone-bearing devices that can achieve high-quality audio captures. This, combined with the rapid advancements in machine learning, makes sound-based side-channel attacks feasible and a lot more dangerous than previously anticipated. The researchers achieved 95% accuracy from the smartphone recordings, 93% from Zoom recordings, and 91.7% from Skype. The article suggests potential defenses against the attack might include white noise, "software-based keystroke audio filters," switching to password managers — and using biometric authentication. apply tags__________ 171552912 story [100]IT [101]Zoom Demands Workers Return to Office Two Days a Week. Is The Remote-Working Revolution Dead? [102](msn.com) [103]140 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:34PM from the tell-a-conferencer dept. Even Zoom is now telling its 8,400 employees to [104]stop working remotely at least two days a week and return to the office. The policy applies to employees within 50 miles of a Zoom office ith a Zoom spokesperson calling this hybrid approach the "most effective". Business Insider quips that Zoom making the move means "[105]The remote work revolution is officially dead." And earlier this week The Los Angeles Times argues that "After watching and waiting, some chaotic back-and-forth and a few false starts, the white-collar American workforce [106]appears to be settling — for now — in a hybrid mode." Even as more corporations are moving to call workers back to the office, arguing it's better for preserving company culture and decision-making, few employers have required employees to work on-site five days a week. Most are like [107]Meta and Los Angeles-based Farmers Group, which recently announced that most employees who had been working remotely will have to come in three days a week starting in September. Some firms have [108]backtracked in favor of a more flexible system, or put return-to-office plans on ice, because of worker resistance and other changes wrought by the pandemic... [M]any other companies have stayed silent on the issue of remote work, maintaining vague or largely unenforced policies as they wait to see where the struggle ends. More unions, including the guild at the Los Angeles Times, are [109]wrestling with management over remote work, which has become a top labor issue. For all these reasons, the overall amount of work done from home has held remarkably steady this year at about 28%, according to monthly surveys of thousands of workers by WFH Research, a group including Stanford and the University of Chicago. That's way up from roughly 5% of work done at home before COVID-19. And there are some signs that employers are giving workers greater flexibility in their work schedules and when they can work from home. In a nationwide survey conducted last month for The Times by polling firm [110]Leger, 27% of full-time workers said their employers had become more lenient over the last year about working remotely. Only 15% said their employers got stricter. Most of the rest said there was no change. Leger's survey showed that 11% of full-time employees work 100% from home, and 31% work a hybrid schedule, with most saying they choose which days to come into the office. The remainder said that they work fully on company premises or that their jobs aren't compatible with at-home work. These results line up almost exactly with WFH data... Rob Sadow, chief executive at Scoop Technologies, a firm specializing in flexible-work software and [111]research, says the percentages of employers that are fully remote and fully in-office have both declined since the start of the year. What's grown in their place is a "structured" hybrid model in which employees and employers have essentially split the difference. "This two to three days a week is starting to feel like a pretty decent, happy medium," Sadow said. "Executives and employees are finding somewhat of a truce in terms of how much time is spent in the office and at home." The article also points out that "Some employees have quit and moved to more remote-work friendly firms." apply tags__________ 171548974 story [112]AI [113]UK Woman Fitted With AI-Powered Bionic Arm [114](bbc.com) [115]32 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:34PM from the bionic-woman dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [116]destinyland writes: This is straight out of science fiction. The technology is absolutely incredible..." says a woman who received an AI-powered bionic arm. "I'm just absolutely in awe of the technology and excited about the future prospects this will give me." The [117]short video clip (produced by the BBC) also features the woman's doctor explaining that "the top section is customized to fit...with electrodes there recording the unique pattern of movement, that then talk to a little computer inside the forearm that then, through AI, build data and record those movements to tell the arm what to do." A [118]GoFundMe campaign had raised £296,613 (about $378,121 USD) to purchase the bionic arm — and last week the grateful recipient shared a long-awaited status update. "It's here. It fits. It works...! 6 months after I first signed up in the clinic I have my bionic arm. State of the art, tailored to my body, the price of a very nice sports car. 24h in and I'm already putting it to good use. The feeling of freedom is unbeatable. Being able to carry things in 2 hands! Open a bottle! Give my husband a 2 arm hug! "I wouldn't have been able to do this without you, you believed in me since the very beginning. You stood by me in my darkest hour. THANK YOU." apply tags__________ 171549128 story [119]Books [120]What Role Does Intuition Play in Science? [121](theamericanscholar.org) [122]74 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:34AM from the feeling-your-way dept. Recently science author Sam Kean [123]reviewed In a Flight of Starlings, a "slender, uneven collection of essays by Giorgio Parisi about his life in physics, from his student days in Rome to the work that won him a share of [124]the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics." But the reviewer makes an interesting point: As someone who writes about science history, I have long grumbled about how misleading modern scientific papers are. I understand the need to present scientific findings in a clean, concise way, but the papers also omit all the false starts, blind alleys, broken equipment, and dumb mistakes that beset real scientific research every day. By omitting all the human stuff, the papers fail to explain how science really gets done. Parisi raises a related complaint — that scientific papers omit all sense of intuition. Indeed, the best sections of the book explore the role of intuition in scientific thinking. He quotes a friend who says that "a good mathematician understands immediately which mathematical statements are true and which are false, whereas a bad mathematician has to try to prove them in order to know." The same applies to science: the early stages of any project are chaotic, and the data can be confusing and even contradictory. Scientists need intuition to cut through the mess and focus on the most promising explanations. Much of this intuition is unconscious and, while still grounded in physical brain processes, remains murky and hard to reconstruct. And for whatever reason, that vagueness makes scientists uncomfortable. "In almost all texts written by scientists," Parisi notes, "these themes are taboo." So it's refreshing to see a scientist, especially one of Parisi's stature, honestly discuss the fuzzy side of scientific thinking, and not just during the early, groping stages but in the technical phases of a project, too. "The physicist sometimes uses mathematics ungrammatically," he admits, "a license that we grant to poets" as well... In a Flight of Starlings, Parisi writes, "is my attempt to convey to a wide readership something of the beauty, importance, and cultural value of modern science." Does he succeed? At times, yes... Perhaps it's not unlike the hodgepodge of science itself, then... apply tags__________ 171547290 story [125]Transportation [126]California Will Probe Data-Collecting, Internet-Connected Cars [127](msn.com) [128]22 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:34AM from the sharing-the-ride dept. The Washington Post reports: California's newly empowered privacy regulators announced their first case Monday, a [129]probe of the data practices of newer-generation cars that are often or always connected to the internet. The California Privacy Protection Agency said its enforcement division would review manufacturer's treatment of data collected from vehicles, including locations, smartphone connections and images from cameras. The agency was established by a 2020 ballot initiative that toughened the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. As of July 1, it can conduct operations to enforce Californians' right to learn what is being collected about them, the right to stop that information from being spread and the right to have it deleted... When combined with web surfing habits and other internet data collated by brokers, movement tracking can paint a full portrait that includes a person's home, workplace, shopping habits, religious attendance and medical treatments. Insurance companies also want data on how quickly drivers brake ahead of problems on the road, along with other performance indicators, and they are willing to pay to get it. The Post notes that data is beamed to business partners of automakers [130]under "vague privacy policies." apply tags__________ 171544764 story [131]Earth [132]Is Natural Gas Actually On Par With Coal for Greenhouse Gas Emissions? [133](iop.org) [134]159 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:34AM from the emissions-impossible dept. Is natural gas really a cleaner alternative to coal and oil? That claim "is facing increasing scrutiny," writes Slashdot reader [135]sonlas: One significant concern with natural gas is the release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, during its extraction, production, transportation, and processing. Methane is approximately 30 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO2 over a 100-year period. (And methane leaks can occur at various stages of the gas supply chain, from wellhead emissions during drilling and extraction to leakage during transportation and distribution.) Additionally, intentional venting or flaring of methane also contributes to the problem. [136]An article published in Environmental Research Letters challenges the assumption that natural gas is a cleaner energy source compared to coal or oil. Their study takes into account the full lifecycle emissions of natural gas, including methane leakage rates, and arrives at a different conclusion. With a methane leakage rate of 7.5% and other relevant factors considered, the greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas can be on par with or even exceed those of coal. Even a lower methane leakage rate of 2% can diminish the environmental advantage of natural gas significantly. A key aspect of this study is its focus on real-world methane leakage rates. Aerial measurements conducted in various oil and gas production regions in the U.S. revealed substantial methane leak rates ranging from 0.65% to a staggering 66.2%. (Similar leakage rates have been identified in other parts of the world.) These findings raise serious concerns about the climate impact of natural gas and cast doubt on its role as a so-called "transition energy" in the quest for cleaner and more sustainable energy sources, especially liquefied natural gas... This complicates the search for sustainable energy solutions, especially in Europe where gas was included in the green taxonomy following a [137]push from Germany. apply tags__________ 171544664 story [138]Earth [139]America's Offshore Wind Potential is Huge but Untapped [140](theverge.com) [141]109 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:34AM from the call-me-the-breeze dept. A [142]new analysis "shows that over 4,000 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind potential is available along the U.S. coastline," capable of fulfilling up to 25% of U.S. energy demand in 2050. (And it could also add $1.8 trillion in economy-boosting investment, while employing up to 390,000 workers.) This new analysis comes from Berkeley researchers, who worked with nonprofit clean energy research firm GridLab and climate policy think tank Energy Innovation, [143]reports the Verge: The Biden administration has [144]committed to halving the nation's emissions by the end of the decade and has plans to source electricity completely from carbon pollution-free energy by 2035. Adding to that urgency, U.S. electricity demand is forecast to nearly triple by 2050, according to the Berkeley report. On top of a growing economy, the clean energy transition means electrifying more vehicles and homes — all of which put more stress on the power grid unless more power supply comes online at a similar pace. To meet that demand and hit its climate goals, the report says the U.S. has to add 27 gigawatts of offshore wind and 85 GW of land-based wind and solar each year between 2035 and 2050. That timeline might still seem far away, but it's a big escalation of the Biden administration's current goal of deploying 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030. Europe, with an electricity grid about 70% the size of the U.S., already has about as much offshore wind capacity as the Biden administration hopes to build up by the end of the decade. Right now, wind energy makes up just over 10% of the [145]U.S. electricity mix, and nearly all of that comes from land-based turbines... For now, the U.S. has just two small wind farms off the coasts of Rhode Island and Virginia. [146]Construction started on the foundations for the nation's [147]first commercial-scale wind farm off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, in June... Project costs have gone up with higher interest rates and rising prices for key commodities like steel, [148]Heatmap reports. That's led to power purchase agreements falling through for some projects in early development, including [149]plans in Rhode Island for an 884-megawatt wind farm that alone would have added more than 20 times as much generation capacity as the U.S. has today from offshore wind. Developers are struggling to make projects profitable without passing costs on to consumers... The study found a modest 2 to 3 percent increase in wholesale electricity costs with ambitious renewable energy deployment. But renewable energy costs have fallen so dramatically in the past that the researchers think those costs could wind up being smaller over time. 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