Sorry to break it to you, but you're the one who doesn't seem to grasp the problem. If you're talking about coal powerplants vs nukes, the correct metrics isn't brainpower, but "deaths per PWh". And coal is many orders of magnitude deadlier than nuclear power, even with Tchernobyl and Fukushima. Global warming isn't the only negative impact of coal powerplants : miners are dying in the thousands per year, in China alone (another example : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), and air pollution is alarmingly high close to the powerplant, even with good filters. A coal powerplant in Japan or Germany also has an high impact on people in Sudan, Syria or Tuvalu due to climate change. The impact of Fukushima is pretty much limited to the Fukushima region. Sorry for the forbes link, but this article really is relevant to the discussion : http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...
Your cell phone provider already has enough info to know everywhere you are at any point in time, who your friends and family are, who you call and how often. Google knows all your web habits, and what you hobbies are, and you bank knows every cent you spend, where and on what.
Actually, if you have an Android phone or if you use Gmail, Google knows all of this.
receipt that gets you your money back if you buy anything.
No, you get 50c€ back, and everything you can buy there is at least 2€ more expensive than everywhere else. The best method to save money is to not buy anything.
No need to do anything to corrupt Time Machine backups. Those weird non-standard Time Machine directory hard links do a great job of messing backups already.
I was at a conference last year : an important speaker was scheduled to be the first one of the day. He comes to the stage with his laptop (Windows 7), starts it up, and screams in disgust at the screen "Please do not power off your machine. Installing updates 1 from bazillion". He didn't have any copy of his powerpoint on a flash drive, and we didn't have Internet access. No biggie, he switched place with the 2nd speaker. After the presentation, the update process still wasn't finished. Then came the 3rd speaker. After almost an hour, the speaker told us "Shoot, I should've hold the presentation without my laptop, now I've got a plane to catch. Well, see you next year!"
Your -30% isn't really data, it's just a single point linked to an inaccurate measure. Literature (e.g. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11o...) usually mentions degradation rates of -0.5%/year, so about -10% in 20 years. But talking about optimism : Your glass is still less than 1/3 empty, so it's still more than 2/3 full;) Even -30% in 20 years is actually not so bad for a system that delivers free power without maintenance. If you clean your modules, check the cables+junction boxes and replace your inverter, you'll probably get much more than 70% of the original output.
It is my position that news reporting should be even-handed
Here's a quote from Desmond Tutu: If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
some people on Slashdot think that the Palestinians and Israel are actually at war
It depends on your definition of war. But it sure looks like foreign occupation to me (and many impartial governments)
the two lost soldiers
It has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but how on earth could they get lost, when they have to cross a checkpoint? Also : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Palestinians attack Israeli soldiers; 1 dead, 10 wounded, with 10 Israeli soldiers wounded" is more balanced.
This sounds more balanced to you? It sounds, at first at the very least, that the dead and wounded are all Israeli soldiers.
Group X broke the Geneva convention
The thing is, both groups have been repeatedly breaking this convention for a while now (phosphorus bombs, does it ring a bell?). Reporting just one group isn't slanted?
Just to be clear : Jews have suffered enough during history that they deserve a land in which they can leave free and in peace. Israel has the inalienable right to defend itself in order to achieve this goal. It doesn't mean, though, that they're allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with the backing of the United States. Settlements, embargo and occupation should just be out of the question, and they aren't. This doesn't leave much choice to people living under the occupation. During peaceful protests, nobody listens to them, and they might get shot. If they go to classical warfare, Goliath crushes David. They also get bombed every once in a while, because of terrorists. Well, guess what? Now even more people are terrorists, so it's a win-win for Israel, because they can say : "See? Terrorists hiding in hospitals!" and can keep on building new settlements to pacify the zone. My point of view might seem harsh on Israel, but after all, they consider themselves "the chosen people", so they should get their shit right, and this land is culturally closer to Europe and the US than all the lands around it : it's a sad fact, but I don't expect much any more from homophobic, misogynistic, and antisemite countries around Israel.
Finally, from a statistical point of view, we're arguing over epsilons here. Hundred of thousands are dying elsewhere (e.g. Syria) and we don't talk about it much here.
Have they ever considered the possibility that Google is okay with people of both sides of their holy war using the app and considers an area safe until someone on either side reports a couple murderous militant assholes shooting someone who prays to wrong flavor of the same sky fairy?
PROTIP: If you want to take the moral high ground, you might want to stop calling some humans baboons. Also, "These guys wearing regular civilian clothes in a civilian vehicle" are not always just passing by for no reason at all : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Considering the huge difference in weapons and armour on both sides, it's safe to assume that when 10 people get injured on both sides, injuries aren't really of the same scale. It's like when during a peaceful protest, 50 people get injured by the police with flashballs, tasers and batons, police force has to count every single scratch on their boots and helmets as an injury to make it look a bit more symmetrical. Does this look symmetrical to you : https://www.hrw.org/world-repo... ?
Yes. They also had to cross a freakin' checkpoint., that might have been a clue they were entering the West Bank. Also, those "security forces dressed in civilian clothes" didn't need Waze as an excuse to enter Qalandia in 2013 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The facades are actually west and east. They'll get about 715 kWh/m2.a of insolation. North and south facades would get about 655 kWh/m2.a Still, a southern roof with a 30 tilt would get 1230kWh/m2.a
Considering that the 2 top rows won't produce much, if at all, the tower won't produce 30000kWh/year, even with 20% module efficiency and 90% performance ratio.
First, congrats on your analysis, which seems on point. But it gets worse : http://www.autohaus.de/sixcms/... http://motor-exclusive.de/news... http://unternehmen-heute.de/ne... http://auto-presse.de/newssys/... As you see on those pictures, the panels seem to be custom made with 3*18 big monocrystalline-cells. With 9 rows and 9 columns of panels, you get 3888 cells per facade, which means 7776 for both facades (so you were right for north and south facades). Notice something? The big fat Porsche logo has been stuck on the friggin tower, and covers about 28 out of the 81 modules. The modules that are behind not only do not produce anything, but, depending on the way the modules are connected to one another, they might also prevent other modules to properly work. This mismatch can lead to overheating and panel damage. Nice design, here!
Most people get a photovoltaic installation because it generates money, not because it delivers clean(-ish) decentralized electricity to the grid. And you get paid a given amount of c€ per kWh for this electricity. The average power output is interesting though, because it shows that it's not even enough to power 1% of a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S (521 PS = 383 kW). What a load of greenwashing bullshit.
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I think I know. Was it The Aerospace Corporation?
Sorry to break it to you, but you're the one who doesn't seem to grasp the problem.
If you're talking about coal powerplants vs nukes, the correct metrics isn't brainpower, but "deaths per PWh".
And coal is many orders of magnitude deadlier than nuclear power, even with Tchernobyl and Fukushima.
Global warming isn't the only negative impact of coal powerplants : miners are dying in the thousands per year, in China alone (another example : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), and air pollution is alarmingly high close to the powerplant, even with good filters.
A coal powerplant in Japan or Germany also has an high impact on people in Sudan, Syria or Tuvalu due to climate change.
The impact of Fukushima is pretty much limited to the Fukushima region.
Sorry for the forbes link, but this article really is relevant to the discussion : http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...
Your cell phone provider already has enough info to know everywhere you are at any point in time, who your friends and family are, who you call and how often. Google knows all your web habits, and what you hobbies are, and you bank knows every cent you spend, where and on what.
Actually, if you have an Android phone or if you use Gmail, Google knows all of this.
No, you get 50c€ back, and everything you can buy there is at least 2€ more expensive than everywhere else.
The best method to save money is to not buy anything.
No need to do anything to corrupt Time Machine backups.
Those weird non-standard Time Machine directory hard links do a great job of messing backups already.
I was at a conference last year : an important speaker was scheduled to be the first one of the day.
He comes to the stage with his laptop (Windows 7), starts it up, and screams in disgust at the screen "Please do not power off your machine. Installing updates 1 from bazillion". He didn't have any copy of his powerpoint on a flash drive, and we didn't have Internet access.
No biggie, he switched place with the 2nd speaker. After the presentation, the update process still wasn't finished. Then came the 3rd speaker. After almost an hour, the speaker told us "Shoot, I should've hold the presentation without my laptop, now I've got a plane to catch. Well, see you next year!"
Fuck, I'm old :D
Ever heard of Guantanamo?
Your -30% isn't really data, it's just a single point linked to an inaccurate measure. Literature (e.g. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11o...) usually mentions degradation rates of -0.5%/year, so about -10% in 20 years. ;)
But talking about optimism : Your glass is still less than 1/3 empty, so it's still more than 2/3 full
Even -30% in 20 years is actually not so bad for a system that delivers free power without maintenance.
If you clean your modules, check the cables+junction boxes and replace your inverter, you'll probably get much more than 70% of the original output.
Also :
There was a time, not so long ago, during which a 4000$ mac was basically the only decent choice for video editing.
And where did you get all this information?
Apple? It must be 100% legitimate and accurate, then!
390MW average load. ;)
"News for nerds, where submitters are too stupid to get important units right"
Thanks for the answer.
Here's a quote from Desmond Tutu: If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
It depends on your definition of war. But it sure looks like foreign occupation to me (and many impartial governments)
It has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but how on earth could they get lost, when they have to cross a checkpoint?
Also : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This sounds more balanced to you? It sounds, at first at the very least, that the dead and wounded are all Israeli soldiers.
The thing is, both groups have been repeatedly breaking this convention for a while now (phosphorus bombs, does it ring a bell?). Reporting just one group isn't slanted?
Just to be clear :
Jews have suffered enough during history that they deserve a land in which they can leave free and in peace. Israel has the inalienable right to defend itself in order to achieve this goal.
It doesn't mean, though, that they're allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with the backing of the United States. Settlements, embargo and occupation should just be out of the question, and they aren't. This doesn't leave much choice to people living under the occupation. During peaceful protests, nobody listens to them, and they might get shot. If they go to classical warfare, Goliath crushes David. They also get bombed every once in a while, because of terrorists. Well, guess what? Now even more people are terrorists, so it's a win-win for Israel, because they can say : "See? Terrorists hiding in hospitals!" and can keep on building new settlements to pacify the zone.
My point of view might seem harsh on Israel, but after all, they consider themselves "the chosen people", so they should get their shit right, and this land is culturally closer to Europe and the US than all the lands around it : it's a sad fact, but I don't expect much any more from homophobic, misogynistic, and antisemite countries around Israel.
Finally, from a statistical point of view, we're arguing over epsilons here. Hundred of thousands are dying elsewhere (e.g. Syria) and we don't talk about it much here.
https://twitter.com/tomgauld/s... ;)
PROTIP: If you want to take the moral high ground, you might want to stop calling some humans baboons.
Also, "These guys wearing regular civilian clothes in a civilian vehicle" are not always just passing by for no reason at all : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Considering the huge difference in weapons and armour on both sides, it's safe to assume that when 10 people get injured on both sides, injuries aren't really of the same scale.
It's like when during a peaceful protest, 50 people get injured by the police with flashballs, tasers and batons, police force has to count every single scratch on their boots and helmets as an injury to make it look a bit more symmetrical.
Does this look symmetrical to you : https://www.hrw.org/world-repo... ?
Yes. They also had to cross a freakin' checkpoint., that might have been a clue they were entering the West Bank.
Also, those "security forces dressed in civilian clothes" didn't need Waze as an excuse to enter Qalandia in 2013 :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Where is the "-9999 Stupid idiot" Mod when I need one?
Also, kW, not KW.
The next step for solar power is storage? Good new from TFA :
Holy cow! Pardon my ignorance, but when do you need this chain?
Do you need it for transactions?
I found the location :
https://goo.gl/maps/xodNYSEfSo...
The facades are actually west and east. They'll get about 715 kWh/m2.a of insolation.
North and south facades would get about 655 kWh/m2.a
Still, a southern roof with a 30 tilt would get 1230kWh/m2.a
Considering that the 2 top rows won't produce much, if at all, the tower won't produce 30000kWh/year, even with 20% module efficiency and 90% performance ratio.
First, congrats on your analysis, which seems on point.
But it gets worse :
http://www.autohaus.de/sixcms/...
http://motor-exclusive.de/news...
http://unternehmen-heute.de/ne...
http://auto-presse.de/newssys/...
As you see on those pictures, the panels seem to be custom made with 3*18 big monocrystalline-cells.
With 9 rows and 9 columns of panels, you get 3888 cells per facade, which means 7776 for both facades (so you were right for north and south facades).
Notice something? The big fat Porsche logo has been stuck on the friggin tower, and covers about 28 out of the 81 modules.
The modules that are behind not only do not produce anything, but, depending on the way the modules are connected to one another, they might also prevent other modules to properly work. This mismatch can lead to overheating and panel damage.
Nice design, here!
Most people get a photovoltaic installation because it generates money, not because it delivers clean(-ish) decentralized electricity to the grid.
And you get paid a given amount of c€ per kWh for this electricity.
The average power output is interesting though, because it shows that it's not even enough to power 1% of a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S (521 PS = 383 kW).
What a load of greenwashing bullshit.