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Apropos our discussion on "public reaction" I see that the Associated Press has just picked up the story about Tanya Andersen's class action against the RIAA, a story that was reported here on Slashdot two weeks ago after it had been first reported on Jon Newton's web site p2pnet.net and on my lowly blog. And if you go the "commentary & discussion" section near the end of the blog post, you'll see a list of just some of the online media that have been discussing it, including Wired.com, Ars Technica, TechDirt, The Register, Yahoo! Tech, and many others, including European news media as well.

True it is that these stories are of greater interest to people interested in music, computers, the internet, p2p file sharing of music, videos, and games, or law.... but that includes MOST people under 50, a lot of people over 50, and almost everybody under 40.

Ironically, of all the people I know, the only one I can think of who would not be interested in any of this is.... believe it or not... Marie Lindor. She's never even turned on, let alone used, a computer, and she's worked such long hours as a home health aide, leaving early in the morning, getting home late, working weekends, and being a homemaker throughout... she doesn't have time to listen to music.

And she never even heard of file sharing.

Apropos our discussion on "public reaction" I see that the Associated Press has just picked up the story about Tanya Andersen's class action against the RIAA, a story that was reported here on Slashdot two weeks ago after it had been first reported on Jon Newton's web site p2pnet.net and on my lowly blog. And if you go the "commentary & discussion" section near the end of the blog post, you'll see a list of just some of the online media that have been discussing it, including Wired.com, Ars Technica, TechDirt, The Register, Yahoo! Tech, and many others, including European news media as well.

True it is that these stories are of greater interest to people interested in music, computers, the internet, p2p file sharing of music, videos, and games, or law.... but that includes MOST people under 50, a lot of people over 50, and almost everybody under 40.

Ironically, of all the people I know, the only one I can think of who would not be interested in any of this is.... believe it or not... Marie Lindor. She's never even turned on, let alone used, a computer, and she's worked such long hours as a home health aide, leaving early in the morning, getting home late, working weekends, and being a homemaker throughout... she doesn't have time to listen to music.

And she never even heard of file sharing.

could this be the ultimate, perfect and complete hand held device I blogged about here
http://jiggysblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-dream-mo bile-device.html
let me know your views.

I suppose you won't accept that I've been on the receiving end of that. Or maybe you just figure I deserve it.

I guess we will simply have to disagree here. I can see that you are convinced that small hypothetical increments are more than enough to wipe out huge continuous destruction. This, to me, looks very much like faith.

Yep and dealt with by his peers within a pretty short time. This should never had made ANY text books.

Well there is no chance that I will be able to remember what science book I had as a kid, but with some digging, I might be able to uncover which one my daughter was using a couple of years ago. It was still in that book.

I will admit that I do not know [Pat Michaels] personally, but I am good friends with someone who does and is in his field (I will not mention who that is since he would probably like to keep his job) so I can't answer your list of his crimes.

However, I will ask you if you have ever known of someone who has a bad reputation when looked up on the net that you know for a fact is made up of at best taking him out of context and and at worst pure lies? I know of a couple and to read about them on the net would leave me with a much worse opinion of them than deserved even when I don't agree with them. So unless you actually know (or know of) this person more directly, I will stick with what I hear from someone who does.

BTW. Pat Michaels used to be state climatologist, so I would say he did lose his job.

http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2007/08/gwt-1 4-release-and-out-of-beta.html

There is some ado here. Basically, if you have information that you really care about that you want to publish online, it is probably better to just go with one of the numerous discount hosts, rather than using a free publishing service. I might use blogspot for mindfarts. For ideas I want to develop further in more detail, I just pay out $50 bucks a year it costs for a web host.

The point of a free publishing service is that you provide free content that they will display in ways that make money to pay the hosting costs. Such companies will always be adding features and changing formats. A format change might increase or reduce the numbers of ads displayed along with your content. There legal language has to include terms to allow such changes, or the site is pretty much guaranteed to perish.

BTW, every publishing mechanism has some sort of compromise.

Divine misconception of the day: "China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation". It makes plenty of sense from the perspective that the Chinese government tries to control all the religions in the country, so naturally they try to control Tibetan Buddhism and the process of reincarnation as well. However, this makes no sense whatsoever from the perspective of objective truth. Reincarnation has not been verified to occur ever, and there is no solid theoretical reason to believe that it might occur. Furthermore, no reliable mechanism is being given for directing reincarnation, preventing reincarnation, or verifying that reincarnation has occurred. And even if it does occur, what is the Chinese government going to do about "unauthorized reincarnation"? Are they going to somehow force people to become "enlightened" so that they do not reincarnate? Are they going to arrest small children on the charge of having been Tibetan monks in a previous lifetime? Considering that the Chinese government has failed to eliminate an underground Catholic Church still loyal to Rome, despite persecution and having their own "Patriotic" Catholic Church, I confidently predict dismal failure in controlling Tibetan Buddhism as well.

Divine misconception of the day: "China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation". It makes plenty of sense from the perspective that the Chinese government tries to control all the religions in the country, so naturally they try to control Tibetan Buddhism and the process of reincarnation as well. However, this makes no sense whatsoever from the perspective of objective truth. Reincarnation has not been verified to occur ever, and there is no solid theoretical reason to believe that it might occur. Furthermore, no reliable mechanism is being given for directing reincarnation, preventing reincarnation, or verifying that reincarnation has occurred. And even if it does occur, what is the Chinese government going to do about "unauthorized reincarnation"? Are they going to somehow force people to become "enlightened" so that they do not reincarnate? Are they going to arrest small children on the charge of having been Tibetan monks in a previous lifetime? Considering that the Chinese government has failed to eliminate an underground Catholic Church still loyal to Rome, despite persecution and having their own "Patriotic" Catholic Church, I confidently predict dismal failure in controlling Tibetan Buddhism as well.

Just because a decision sounds reasonable on its face doesn't mean it is; the judge could be mischaracterizing the facts and mischaracterizing the authorities he's referring to. See my letters on the decision, the recent decision of the First Circuit in Latin American Music v. Archdiocese of San Juan, and the underlying authorities (collected here), before jumping to conclusions. The Latin American Music case shows that there is no basis in the Copyright Act for the RIAA's argument.

The only reason for this erroneous decision is that the Howells couldn't afford a lawyer to represent them. Which is why as a blogger I rarely report on, and as a lawyer I would never cite as an authority,
-default judgments
-ex parte orders or
-pro se cases.

A precedent which is not the result of adverse parties fully and fairly presenting both sides of a case to the judge .... is not a precedent at all. No judge takes such 'precedents' into account, and no lawyers -- except the RIAA lawyers -- would have so little self respect as to rely on such 'precedents'.

When Judge Karas comes down with his decision in Elektra v. Barker, where a full and fair hearing was given to both sides, and amicus curiae briefs from the affected industries and from the government were taken into account.... then we'll all know where we stand on the "making available" issue.

Just because a decision sounds reasonable on its face doesn't mean it is; the judge could be mischaracterizing the facts and mischaracterizing the authorities he's referring to. See my letters on the decision, the recent decision of the First Circuit in Latin American Music v. Archdiocese of San Juan, and the underlying authorities (collected here), before jumping to conclusions. The Latin American Music case shows that there is no basis in the Copyright Act for the RIAA's argument.

The only reason for this erroneous decision is that the Howells couldn't afford a lawyer to represent them. Which is why as a blogger I rarely report on, and as a lawyer I would never cite as an authority,
-default judgments
-ex parte orders or
-pro se cases.

A precedent which is not the result of adverse parties fully and fairly presenting both sides of a case to the judge .... is not a precedent at all. No judge takes such 'precedents' into account, and no lawyers -- except the RIAA lawyers -- would have so little self respect as to rely on such 'precedents'.

When Judge Karas comes down with his decision in Elektra v. Barker, where a full and fair hearing was given to both sides, and amicus curiae briefs from the affected industries and from the government were taken into account.... then we'll all know where we stand on the "making available" issue.

Just because a decision sounds reasonable on its face doesn't mean it is; the judge could be mischaracterizing the facts and mischaracterizing the authorities he's referring to. See my letters on the decision, the recent decision of the First Circuit in Latin American Music v. Archdiocese of San Juan, and the underlying authorities (collected here), before jumping to conclusions. The Latin American Music case shows that there is no basis in the Copyright Act for the RIAA's argument.

The only reason for this erroneous decision is that the Howells couldn't afford a lawyer to represent them. Which is why as a blogger I rarely report on, and as a lawyer I would never cite as an authority,
-default judgments
-ex parte orders or
-pro se cases.

A precedent which is not the result of adverse parties fully and fairly presenting both sides of a case to the judge .... is not a precedent at all. No judge takes such 'precedents' into account, and no lawyers -- except the RIAA lawyers -- would have so little self respect as to rely on such 'precedents'.

When Judge Karas comes down with his decision in Elektra v. Barker, where a full and fair hearing was given to both sides, and amicus curiae briefs from the affected industries and from the government were taken into account.... then we'll all know where we stand on the "making available" issue.

Just because a decision sounds reasonable on its face doesn't mean it is; the judge could be mischaracterizing the facts and mischaracterizing the authorities he's referring to. See my letters on the decision, the recent decision of the First Circuit in Latin American Music v. Archdiocese of San Juan, and the underlying authorities (collected here), before jumping to conclusions. The Latin American Music case shows that there is no basis in the Copyright Act for the RIAA's argument.

The only reason for this erroneous decision is that the Howells couldn't afford a lawyer to represent them. Which is why as a blogger I rarely report on, and as a lawyer I would never cite as an authority,
-default judgments
-ex parte orders or
-pro se cases.

A precedent which is not the result of adverse parties fully and fairly presenting both sides of a case to the judge .... is not a precedent at all. No judge takes such 'precedents' into account, and no lawyers -- except the RIAA lawyers -- would have so little self respect as to rely on such 'precedents'.

When Judge Karas comes down with his decision in Elektra v. Barker, where a full and fair hearing was given to both sides, and amicus curiae briefs from the affected industries and from the government were taken into account.... then we'll all know where we stand on the "making available" issue.

So, what you are saying is that, it is perfectly fine to point a finger at another country's human rights violations (etc.) while one's own country's records are dubious at best?

Oh, and I wanted to address this piece of illogic, sense I'm seeing it crop up from other PRC apologists in different threads. The answer is: Yes, as long as you also point the finger at your own country when it fucks up along the same lines. Which I do. A lot. One of the nice things about living in the U.S. is that we don't imprison dissidents until they explicitly threaten or commit violence, no matter how popular they may or may not be.

For what it's worth I've posted my personal list of top-ten software management tips on my blog: http://ericomguy.blogspot.com/2007/07/top-ten-list -of-tips-and-suggestions_31.html/ This list is based on my own personal experiance, and would have certianly helped me when I got started as a manager. Hopefully it can help you as well. -- Dan

It appears that someone's submitted a patch to the LKML that wrongly strips the BSD atheros driver of its license - a clear violation of copyright.

However, until it's in Linus's tree (or even the MM tree), the violation is not by "linux", but the contributor, Jiri Slaby.

Anyway, thanks to the OpenBSD team for these great drivers. Thanks to the Linux team for including them (under the correct license).

300-400 GB!?

Thats up to 20 GB a day for a normal workweek. If you do that much for 'work' your employer should be footing your bill for a business line.

Just what exactly do you do that requires you to download that much data in a single day?

I was accused of downloading up to 300 Gigs a month. And the blog has screen shots of what I'm using currently. My ISP (xmission.com) shows I'm using less than 50 Gigs in any single month. Period. Acceptable use is stated as 100 Gigs a month or 25 Gigs a week.

Now THAT'S an ISP with customer service!

What do I do? I Post on slashdot all day man! :-)

I had some kind of breakdown today and felt the need to ramble on forever about this article (mostly in a negative tone, I admit).

I won't reproduce it all here, but if anyone is interested have a ball.

A short summary might be that I think Dvoraks slid off some kind of gloom-and-doom terror-warning world-ending internet-on-fire deep end.

Although your points are good, Dvorak's article is not as much about centralization vs decentralization as it is about who controls the server(s), you or somebody else. I have blogged on this.

The ODF supporters are trying to block OOXML from becoming a standard ONLY because they've lobbied governments into passing open standards laws that will REQUIRE those governments to use their format if OOXML fails. They don't give a damn if it's the best format or not; they want a monopoly enforced by law.

Nonsense. The ODF supporters want an open format, so that there is no more microsoft lock-in in the office applications market. Some of these are indeed supporting it for commercial reasons (sun and google), but most of the ODF supporters are in it for transparency in government.

The case against OOXML on technical grounds has been made. The format is not open. See this link if you want more info: http://ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.com/

So Darth Vader gets screwed again. Lets face it, the whole series is really about him but noooo, his glory robbing little snot faced kid has got to prance around and steal his thunder. Typical younger generation...

It appears that coal has reached peak energy production http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/08/many-more-ghos ts.html in the US already though this might change if a lot of new power plants are built. The energy per unit mass mined will certainly continue to decline. The world coal energy production may peak around 2030. On the other hand, bringing new nuclear power on line has a long lead time and it may face a market where in cannot compete on price as soon as it starts producing or within just a few year there after. In this circumstance, offering federal loan guaranties seems the height of folly. The solution would look to be a greater than 45% growth rate in renewables and a transition of transportation to more efficient electric power. Since wind is expected to install 3 GW in the US this year: http://www.awea.org/newsroom/releases/AWEA_First_Q uarter_Market_Report_2007.html and solar PV installed 0.14 GW in the US last year http://www.solarbuzz.com/Marketbuzz2007-intro.htm (0.2 GW this year at 45% growth) we are seeing the equivilent of 2 or so nuclear plants a year while the NRC seems inclined to handle applications for new nuclear power one at a time. It is difficult to see then how new nuclear power finds a market unless coal plants are shut down. By the time any new nuclear plant comes on line, solar, at 45% growth, will be installing at a rate equivilent to the new nuclear capacity. In order to make and economic case for nuclear power then, one needs to show which coal plant it will shut down and that it can operate long enough displacing coal to make financial sense since all other new generation will likely be less expensive (wind already is). But, solar alone can cover current generation in 22 years so the longest operation period that a reactor can anticipate is about 16 years, much shorter than the design lifetime. That then raises the cost of new nuclear power by about a factor of three. Long lead times make for investment uncertainty when competing disruptive technologies are involved.
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It appears that coal has reached peak energy production http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/08/many-more-ghos ts.html in the US already though this might change if a lot of new power plants are built. The energy per unit mass mined will certainly continue to decline. The world coal energy production may peak around 2030. On the other hand, bringing new nuclear power on line has a long lead time and it may face a market where in cannot compete on price as soon as it starts producing or within just a few year there after. In this circumstance, offering federal loan guaranties seems the height of folly. The solution would look to be a greater than 45% growth rate in renewables and a transition of transportation to more efficient electric power. Since wind is expected to install 3 GW in the US this year: http://www.awea.org/newsroom/releases/AWEA_First_Q uarter_Market_Report_2007.html and solar PV installed 0.14 GW in the US last year http://www.solarbuzz.com/Marketbuzz2007-intro.htm (0.2 GW this year at 45% growth) we are seeing the equivilent of 2 or so nuclear plants a year while the NRC seems inclined to handle applications for new nuclear power one at a time. It is difficult to see then how new nuclear power finds a market unless coal plants are shut down. By the time any new nuclear plant comes on line, solar, at 45% growth, will be installing at a rate equivilent to the new nuclear capacity. In order to make and economic case for nuclear power then, one needs to show which coal plant it will shut down and that it can operate long enough displacing coal to make financial sense since all other new generation will likely be less expensive (wind already is). But, solar alone can cover current generation in 22 years so the longest operation period that a reactor can anticipate is about 16 years, much shorter than the design lifetime. That then raises the cost of new nuclear power by about a factor of three. Long lead times make for investment uncertainty when competing disruptive technologies are involved.
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Hmm.. Interestingly enough, the german IBM delegate then somehow managed to join the Kenyan delegation, and managed to write the objection. How can someone be both a german and kenyan delegate?

http://ooxmlhoaxes.blogspot.com/2007/05/has-ibm-an nexed-kenyan-iso-national.html

Sounds like both sides aren't playing fair.

The article is is talking about the reducing cost of fabrication. This is not the same as the retail price which responds to demand. The article also explains that there is a supply bottleneck for silicon because it is transitioning from using chipmaker scrap to becoming the dominant user of purified silicon. So, owing to this, the fabrication costs for thin film solar has been declining while silicon solar is holding steady. Improvements in fabrication methods are balanced by increased raw materials costs. Since silicon still dominates the market, price indicies hold steady as your link shows. But, to realize the 45% growth the article discusses, the thin film solar will be gaining market share. Most companies are going to try to retain 100% margins on fabrication in order to invest in expanding production.
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Walmart is not alone, there is Google, mentioned in the article, FedEx, GM, Coke, Kohls, Target, BJs, Cosco, and Staples (articles linked here: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/08/roof-pitch.htm l). I left out Macy's http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/06/06/macy s-installs-solar-power-in-26-stores/, Alcoa http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/08/24/alco a-installs-588-kw-solar-power-system/, Estee Lauder http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/04/20/este e-lauder-installs-solar-power-system/ and Meyer http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/03/22/meye r-installs-solar-power-system/.
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Walmart is not alone, there is Google, mentioned in the article, FedEx, GM, Coke, Kohls, Target, BJs, Cosco, and Staples (articles linked here: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/08/roof-pitch.htm l). I left out Macy's http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/06/06/macy s-installs-solar-power-in-26-stores/, Alcoa http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/08/24/alco a-installs-588-kw-solar-power-system/, Estee Lauder http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/04/20/este e-lauder-installs-solar-power-system/ and Meyer http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/03/22/meye r-installs-solar-power-system/.
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The energy to weight ratio is about 200 times better for silicon than it is for coal in terms of required transportation infrastructure. So, solar allows development without requiring as much hardware. You probably would not transport a lot of coal by mule train, but for solar that is an option.
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The first quote is Hanlon's razor, from Robert J. Hanlon in 1980.

And while you may have coined the second, 13,600 hits in Google suggest you weren't the first to do so. It's been attributed to Vernon Schryver, Paul Ciszek, been dubbed Clark's Law (no 'e') and Grey's Law, and even seen here on Slashdot.

(It's a great line, nonetheless!)

HVDC lines are built to last so corrosion is one of the things considered. If solar power is truely cheap, more line loss will be acceptable. It seems to me that truly high capacity lines will have less line loss for a couple of reasons: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/coast-to-coast .html. So, a worldwide web of transmission could make a lot of sense.
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HVDC lines are built to last so corrosion is one of the things considered. If solar power is truely cheap, more line loss will be acceptable. It seems to me that truly high capacity lines will have less line loss for a couple of reasons: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/coast-to-coast .html. So, a worldwide web of transmission could make a lot of sense.
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Thanks for the unnecessary advice. Did I say I was treating her like a Windows user? No. I said that the fact that she asked me how to install particular programs instead of how to do something opened my eyes a little. So I explained to her a little. Wait ... maybe it was a lot. I wanted to help her understand her new system and how it worked. In fact, I wrote quite a few tutorials for her, so take a breath before you flame. Asshole.

Thanks for the unnecessary advice. Did I say I was treating her like a Windows user? No. I said that the fact that she asked me how to install particular programs instead of how to do something opened my eyes a little. So I explained to her a little. Wait ... maybe it was a lot. I wanted to help her understand her new system and how it worked. In fact, I wrote quite a few tutorials for her, so take a breath before you flame. Asshole.

Thanks for the unnecessary advice. Did I say I was treating her like a Windows user? No. I said that the fact that she asked me how to install particular programs instead of how to do something opened my eyes a little. So I explained to her a little. Wait ... maybe it was a lot. I wanted to help her understand her new system and how it worked. In fact, I wrote quite a few tutorials for her, so take a breath before you flame. Asshole.

Thanks for the unnecessary advice. Did I say I was treating her like a Windows user? No. I said that the fact that she asked me how to install particular programs instead of how to do something opened my eyes a little. So I explained to her a little. Wait ... maybe it was a lot. I wanted to help her understand her new system and how it worked. In fact, I wrote quite a few tutorials for her, so take a breath before you flame. Asshole.

Thanks for the unnecessary advice. Did I say I was treating her like a Windows user? No. I said that the fact that she asked me how to install particular programs instead of how to do something opened my eyes a little. So I explained to her a little. Wait ... maybe it was a lot. I wanted to help her understand her new system and how it worked. In fact, I wrote quite a few tutorials for her, so take a breath before you flame. Asshole.

If the laptop and the server you use is Linux/Unix, rsync is definitely the answer to it - its robust and after the 1st time of rsyncing, the process should be quick enough (assuming you log-on often). I wrote a small script recently to sync my firefox bookmarks. Don't know whether it might be helpful to you, but here is the link: http://oidw.blogspot.com/2007/08/geek-talk.html

You are looking at retail prices which are all silicon. There has been a raw material shortage for these and demand has been high. Wholesale, and especially thin film panels are much less expensive but these don't get used on homes much. The issue with silicon in mentioned in the article.
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Yes, there is a project in New Mexico to do just this linked here: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-mexicans-c onspire.html.
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Yes, there is a project in New Mexico to do just this linked here: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-mexicans-c onspire.html.
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The cells do degrade mostly owing to cosmic rays creating defects in the doping layer. So, they'll perform to better than 80% over 25 years. In 100 years they'll degrade to 40%. You get about 66 effective new years in a century. Cells can be recycled: http://www.solarworld.de/solarmaterial/english/pre ss/8AV.3.14.pdf at about a third of the cost in energy to make them originally. Used in a location that give an energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) of 33 for extended life panels (two years payback), the recycled panels will have EROEI of 99. This is higher than any other energy source.
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I've been having a discussion with Chuck DeVore who is in the California Assembly: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-dormouse- said.html. He is very pro-nuke and anti-solar. One thing that has come up is the Pacific Intertie which carries power from the Northwest to LA. He points out that the Northwest is growing and may not have power to send in the future. That is where he comes from originally. If that future includes solar, then the power might flow in the other direction. I don't think I've persuaded him yet, but it is a very impressive piece of hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie.
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I've been having a discussion with Chuck DeVore who is in the California Assembly: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-dormouse- said.html. He is very pro-nuke and anti-solar. One thing that has come up is the Pacific Intertie which carries power from the Northwest to LA. He points out that the Northwest is growing and may not have power to send in the future. That is where he comes from originally. If that future includes solar, then the power might flow in the other direction. I don't think I've persuaded him yet, but it is a very impressive piece of hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie.
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You slipped the units. That should be 4.32 kWh/day. But, you also for got to tilt the panels: http://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/us_pv_annual_may200 4.jpg. You want 5 kWh per meter^2 per day and at 17% system efficiency that is about 0.85 kWh/m^2/day. You need 39 m^2 of panels to get 33 kWh/day or about 6 meters on a side.
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The cost of fuel cells is similar to solar http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/assumption/pdf/ele ctricity.pdf#page=3 but is not falling as fast. Do you have a reference for the conversion efficiency for the algae? Current silicon PV gets close to 20% and 40% cells are expected to be in production in 3 years as a result of a DARPA initiative.
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It depends on two things. The cost of solar and the cost of storage. If the cost of solar gets cheaper than everything else but the cost of storage makes the combination more expensive than some we'll likely see hydro getting more generation capacity and used less frequently (at night) because this is effective storage and some other night time sources will be used, likely wind since it is the cheapest now. If storage gets cheap enough to have the combination lower than other methods of generation, then the others will retire though I'd think flood control would still leave some hydro.
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You forgot to account for panels that wear out I think. Still what is 7th decimal place among freinds. Depending on the cost of storage, producing enough solar power to handle use at say 5 PM in the spring and just discard some of the noon generation. Just add a couple more years of production.
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Actually, the algae are not quite as efficent as current solar cells http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html and you later lose about 60% of the energy when you burn the biofuels since internal combustion engines are not very efficient.
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