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Why Silicon Valley Won't Be the Green Car Detroit
thecarchik writes "NPR boldly pronounced, 'The new automobile of the 21st century is likely to benefit from the culture of Silicon Valley, where people are used to taking a chip, a cell or an idea and working on it until it becomes something big.' We've thought about it for a year, and discussed it with many people. And we don't believe it. Silicon Valley is the wrong place to build an auto industry, for three main reasons."
From the article:
Long cycles, faraway profits
Wrong kind of engineers
Painful place to build things
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
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Huh? Leads the world in manufacture of what? Go talk to the few Bay Area machine shops still left standing and ask them about manufacturing of high tech equipment. Go talk to a chip maker like Parallax and ask them their opinion on setting up fab in California. Wasn't there just an article on /. about how movies are being made anywhere except California? Heck, they're moving completely out of the U.S. altogether. You really think New Zealand is home to so many huge-budget films just because Peter Jackson was born there? You really think a movie exec signing a $100 million check cares where some dude was born? There are very few companies actually coding software here in the U.S., even California. My landlord got let go from his 20+ years at the IBM Almaden research center to get replaced by Indians, in India.
I am doing things for California. I own a small business and I'm not giving up on it. I help out when I can with candidates I feel are genuine, like John Dennis up in San Francisco. I am hoping to be working with several volunteer groups on real reforms for the state's utterly failed legislature. But I have to admit, the state is only worth so much money to me. If things keep going the way they are going, I will move elsewhere, probably Austin.
It is my opinion that your ignorance and holding on to victories of the past and refusing to face the brutal facts of reality are more damaging to this state than almost anything else. We are in crisis, and the worst is yet to come.
I once took an excursion to Reddit, and later HN. Unlimited up/down voting sucks when dealing with a hive-mind.
You're just proving your ignorance. Look up SEER or COP (coefficient of performance). A heatpump can commonly move 3X as much heat as energy is put into it. Eg. for every 1KW of electricity, it can output 3KW equivalent of heat. It gets better if you tie geothermal into that.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Btw I doubt there is a clear cut policy that makes what Williams said a terminable offense.
Enjoy:
http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/ethics/ethics_code.html
East Bay:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Aero Precision Industries - Livermore, CA
Peregrine Falcon Corporation - Pleasanton, CA
Alameda Aerospace - Alameda, CA
Erg Materials & Aerospace Corporation - Berkeley, CA
Ocellus Inc - Livermore, CA
Inspace Systems - Oakland, CA
Braxton Technologies - Pleasanton, CA
General Dynamics Corporation - San Leandro, CA
Pennisula:
L 3 Communications - San Carlos, CA
Peninsula Avionics, LLC - Mountain View, CA
Northrop Grumman - Oakland & San Francisco, CA
Ideal Aerosmith, Inc - Menlo Park, CA
South Bay:
Space Systems/Loral - Palo Alta, CA
Honeywell International - Fremont, CA
Santa Cruz:
Lockheed Martin Space Systems - Boulder Creek, CA