Instead of wasting time slaughtering dolphins, Japanese should stop slacking and get to the real work - slaughtering the Sea Shepherd members and funders.
Any Dutchmen here? You can do your part and write to your MP and PM to voice your disagreement with your country's sheltering of Paul Watson.
"Other water" is pretty corrosive and generally unfit for most technical purposes. Scots are vaguely planning to use it for pumped storage anyway, but since they seem to aim for Magic Candy Mountain Land in their energy policy, it's probably mirage, too.
Who would buy textbooks from a company, which makes it painfully obvious, that they themselves never bothered to open an English textbook or to find some other means of learning to spell.
Grew up in a country which had 'Socialist' as a part of an official name and still live with all* of it's numerous socialist residues and I can guarantee you, that you won't find "cronyism" in Socialism, simply because it's such a normal way of how things are, that your eyes adjust after a short time.
Well, maybe not all. I escaped some of them by being forced into grey economy by laws made ostensibly to protect me.
That's when the real trouble begin. Most of the./ users seem to be from anglophone countries and hold some amusing views about the state of "Energiewende", but I can assure you, as someone living next to Germany, you wish to remain at just two. It's not German problem only, it's a problem for Poland and Czechia as well - we have to install unbelievably expensive phase shifters just to protect our grid from German "exports" (yes, those shiny figures of German electricity exports usually contain so called "physical exports", better sounding name for overflow). That's not Fox News propaganda, that's decision of Czech and Polish governments, made to simply maintain basic level of stability in our transmission systems. Germany's planning Brobdingnagian build-up of new lines, but, if you believe they'll make those 3600 necessary kilometers until 2020, when they managed only about hundred since 2007 or 08, I got a bridge to sell ya.
One last tidbit cause I got a stage to build in a few hours and should catch some sleep - those new power lines (and new dams and pumped-storage plants) are already vehemently protested by the same green groups that push for massive windmill/PV build-up. Talk about inconsistency.
Stop reading NY Times for scientific information, they're bunch of hacks. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation specifically states:
the Scientific Committee does not recommend multiplying very low doses by large numbers of individuals to estimate numbers of radiation-induced health effects within a population exposed to incremental doses at levels equivalent to or lower than natural background levels.
That's just from the last year, after extensive research, but it's been assumed for the long time - there are many areas with pretty high radiation levels (Ramsar has 260 mSv/y, compare that with Fukushima) without any measurable health impacts. Except the Iitate village, most of that "terribly contaminated" area is about as much radioactive as Denver. If I recall correctly, those Washington lobbyists hanging around Congress get more ionizing radiation from the all the granite. So for the love of Feynman, learn to stop worrying and to check your sources.
Just switch the fancy effects off, dummy. Oh, wait, it's Apple, nevermind. And that kids is why some of us stick with Linux, no matter how quirky and buggy can sometimes interface (mis)behave.
And rapid refers to more than just missiles, though "swift" would catch the meaning as well. As far as I recall, they were named by some girl who appreciated how fast they solved something or came to help the weaker ones, something like that.
Also, absence of anything on Greenpeace's pages should be outright disregarded beforehand as a proof of anything. We're talking about organisation which threw it's founding member down the memory hole: Patrick Moore of the original Don't Make A Wave Committee is missing now, though still listed as a crewmember of the ship. I vaguely remember he used to be completely vaporised from the pages but not sure and don't have time for Wayback Machine magic.
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion
Regardless of possible merits, my bull-Shih detector screams bloody murder. Does the good prof possess also some degree in biomolecular linguistics or is he just so good at marketing?
There are funds that take care of large scale donations, some of them non-discriminating, some of them catering to donors with some leaning. Two of them, openly and tranparently catering to rich people who want to be sure their money won't end up in the coffers of Greenpeace, WWF, Sierra club, Sea Shepherd, PETA, NRDC, Union of Concerned Scientists et al. (a sentiment I wholeheartedly understand), were spreading donations amounting roughly to WWF's and Greenpeace's combined yacht and sandwiches budget over bunch of causes loosely connected by the funds' raison d'être. That is covert funneling of dark money. When the aforementioned fuc^H^H^H fan^H^H^H char^H^H^H^H activist organisations I dislike (and more importantly disagree with on fundamental level) do something similar only with larger amounts of money, it is "educating the public" or "showcasing the opportunities".
Since WW2 Brazil has been using home grown ethanol as a fuel because they either couldn't get oil (I'm told this is what diesel is made from) or didn't want to pay high prices for it.
I think they used sugar cane grown in tropics and harvested by dirt cheap labor. So the rising living standards requiring increased mechanization to keep the pace might disrupt it pretty soon.
Dunno where you live, but pretty much everyone else has to pay for it through taxes or feed-in-tariffs whether they like it or not, which is the main issue - judging from myself, lots of critics would be content with "renewables" craze if its fans paid for it. After all, there must be enough of you to achieve this considering politicians shoving this into our throats get voted again and again. Unless, of course, it keeps on some other way, like lobbying from "Big Wind" (and traditional energy companies are always happy to jump the bandwagon once there are subsidies guaranteed by law)?
It's about 3,000 MW each - 2,919 for Doel and 2,985 for Tihange.
From Wikipedia:
At the start of 2012, there were 498 operational wind turbines in Belgium, with a capacity of 1080 MW. [2] The amount of electricity generated from wind energy has surpassed 2 TWh per year. [1]
and
Electricity consumption in Belgium has increased slowly since 1990 and nuclear power provides 54%, 45 billion kWh per year, of the country’s electricity.[1]
Excluding some magical increase of wind conditions to radically change capacity factor, 2.3GW would just raise those 2-odd TWh/year to somewhere near 5 TWh/y, thus making the dent rather unimpressive. And that's without counting in the intermittency of wind which would need to be balanced by pumped storage plants which are quite lossy not to mention nonexistent (at least in the required capacity) and based on a completely different economic model (pump up using cheap night electricity and generating during peaks).
The artificial island as pumped storage is indeed cool and useful idea but its 300 MW for 5 hours are not gonna make that much of a dent.
Sorry for being uncool and boringly realistic spoilsport, but seriously people, there would be no need for it if you just did your math (and fact checking) for yourself.
There are 3.2 gigawatts of geothermal power connected to the U.S. grid, less than 1 percent of the grid's capacity. Government estimates put the potential for new discoveries of conventional geothermal power at about 30 gigawatts, and EGS at more than 100 gigawatts over the next 50 years.
We can safely assume that the oil companies can sleep soundly at night.
Let it spread unofficially and once they get the meaning imprinted in them and the only remaining trouble is inappropriate name, just think of something noble sounding, like "Asssaver".
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Is there anything more arbitrary than the line drawn between "human" and "animal"?
Almost everything, though dolphins are really human-like as the racism, raping, violence for fun etc. goes.
http://questionablecontent.net...
Instead of wasting time slaughtering dolphins, Japanese should stop slacking and get to the real work - slaughtering the Sea Shepherd members and funders. Any Dutchmen here? You can do your part and write to your MP and PM to voice your disagreement with your country's sheltering of Paul Watson.
I'm not sure I'm gonna count a Unit Imperialist as a fellow geek, even NASA got finally rid of those fossils few years ago, get with the program, man!
Should we start campaigning for Cheerios boycott?
"Other water" is pretty corrosive and generally unfit for most technical purposes. Scots are vaguely planning to use it for pumped storage anyway, but since they seem to aim for Magic Candy Mountain Land in their energy policy, it's probably mirage, too.
At least with government we can vote people out of office; a private company has no such threat to encourage good behavior.
Ever heard the word "bankruptcy"?
Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
From non-American point of view, the greatest mental disorder was to let Socialists rebrand themselves as Liberals.
Who would buy textbooks from a company, which makes it painfully obvious, that they themselves never bothered to open an English textbook or to find some other means of learning to spell.
Grew up in a country which had 'Socialist' as a part of an official name and still live with all* of it's numerous socialist residues and I can guarantee you, that you won't find "cronyism" in Socialism, simply because it's such a normal way of how things are, that your eyes adjust after a short time.
Well, maybe not all. I escaped some of them by being forced into grey economy by laws made ostensibly to protect me.
Two thousand wind turbines ... now you're talking.
That's when the real trouble begin. Most of the ./ users seem to be from anglophone countries and hold some amusing views about the state of "Energiewende", but I can assure you, as someone living next to Germany, you wish to remain at just two. It's not German problem only, it's a problem for Poland and Czechia as well - we have to install unbelievably expensive phase shifters just to protect our grid from German "exports" (yes, those shiny figures of German electricity exports usually contain so called "physical exports", better sounding name for overflow). That's not Fox News propaganda, that's decision of Czech and Polish governments, made to simply maintain basic level of stability in our transmission systems.
Germany's planning Brobdingnagian build-up of new lines, but, if you believe they'll make those 3600 necessary kilometers until 2020, when they managed only about hundred since 2007 or 08, I got a bridge to sell ya.
One last tidbit cause I got a stage to build in a few hours and should catch some sleep - those new power lines (and new dams and pumped-storage plants) are already vehemently protested by the same green groups that push for massive windmill/PV build-up. Talk about inconsistency.
the Scientific Committee does not recommend multiplying very low doses by large numbers of individuals to estimate numbers of radiation-induced health effects within a population exposed to incremental doses at levels equivalent to or lower than natural background levels.
That's just from the last year, after extensive research, but it's been assumed for the long time - there are many areas with pretty high radiation levels (Ramsar has 260 mSv/y, compare that with Fukushima) without any measurable health impacts. Except the Iitate village, most of that "terribly contaminated" area is about as much radioactive as Denver. If I recall correctly, those Washington lobbyists hanging around Congress get more ionizing radiation from the all the granite. So for the love of Feynman, learn to stop worrying and to check your sources.
Those Bruce Schneier facts don't bode well for you.
Just switch the fancy effects off, dummy. Oh, wait, it's Apple, nevermind. And that kids is why some of us stick with Linux, no matter how quirky and buggy can sometimes interface (mis)behave.
And rapid refers to more than just missiles, though "swift" would catch the meaning as well. As far as I recall, they were named by some girl who appreciated how fast they solved something or came to help the weaker ones, something like that.
Here.
Also, absence of anything on Greenpeace's pages should be outright disregarded beforehand as a proof of anything. We're talking about organisation which threw it's founding member down the memory hole: Patrick Moore of the original Don't Make A Wave Committee is missing now, though still listed as a crewmember of the ship. I vaguely remember he used to be completely vaporised from the pages but not sure and don't have time for Wayback Machine magic.
All it takes is to do my job.
Don't want anyone to prematurely push Hipster Alarm's button, but wouldn't that create Ironic Energy?
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion
Regardless of possible merits, my bull-Shih detector screams bloody murder. Does the good prof possess also some degree in biomolecular linguistics or is he just so good at marketing?
There are funds that take care of large scale donations, some of them non-discriminating, some of them catering to donors with some leaning. Two of them, openly and tranparently catering to rich people who want to be sure their money won't end up in the coffers of Greenpeace, WWF, Sierra club, Sea Shepherd, PETA, NRDC, Union of Concerned Scientists et al. (a sentiment I wholeheartedly understand), were spreading donations amounting roughly to WWF's and Greenpeace's combined yacht and sandwiches budget over bunch of causes loosely connected by the funds' raison d'être. That is covert funneling of dark money. When the aforementioned fuc^H^H^H fan^H^H^H char^H^H^H^H activist organisations I dislike (and more importantly disagree with on fundamental level) do something similar only with larger amounts of money, it is "educating the public" or "showcasing the opportunities".
Since WW2 Brazil has been using home grown ethanol as a fuel because they either couldn't get oil (I'm told this is what diesel is made from) or didn't want to pay high prices for it.
I think they used sugar cane grown in tropics and harvested by dirt cheap labor. So the rising living standards requiring increased mechanization to keep the pace might disrupt it pretty soon.
Dunno where you live, but pretty much everyone else has to pay for it through taxes or feed-in-tariffs whether they like it or not, which is the main issue - judging from myself, lots of critics would be content with "renewables" craze if its fans paid for it. After all, there must be enough of you to achieve this considering politicians shoving this into our throats get voted again and again. Unless, of course, it keeps on some other way, like lobbying from "Big Wind" (and traditional energy companies are always happy to jump the bandwagon once there are subsidies guaranteed by law)?
From Wikipedia:
At the start of 2012, there were 498 operational wind turbines in Belgium, with a capacity of 1080 MW. [2] The amount of electricity generated from wind energy has surpassed 2 TWh per year. [1]
and
Electricity consumption in Belgium has increased slowly since 1990 and nuclear power provides 54%, 45 billion kWh per year, of the country’s electricity.[1]
Excluding some magical increase of wind conditions to radically change capacity factor, 2.3GW would just raise those 2-odd TWh/year to somewhere near 5 TWh/y, thus making the dent rather unimpressive. And that's without counting in the intermittency of wind which would need to be balanced by pumped storage plants which are quite lossy not to mention nonexistent (at least in the required capacity) and based on a completely different economic model (pump up using cheap night electricity and generating during peaks).
The artificial island as pumped storage is indeed cool and useful idea but its 300 MW for 5 hours are not gonna make that much of a dent.
Sorry for being uncool and boringly realistic spoilsport, but seriously people, there would be no need for it if you just did your math (and fact checking) for yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electricity_generation_in_Belgium.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Belgium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Belgium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Typical_capacity_factors
There are 3.2 gigawatts of geothermal power connected to the U.S. grid, less than 1 percent of the grid's capacity. Government estimates put the potential for new discoveries of conventional geothermal power at about 30 gigawatts, and EGS at more than 100 gigawatts over the next 50 years.
We can safely assume that the oil companies can sleep soundly at night.
Like the problem with lack of entrepreneurial spirit? Let's start with marketing the green honey to Umberto Eco fans — anyone else read Baudolino?
Let it spread unofficially and once they get the meaning imprinted in them and the only remaining trouble is inappropriate name, just think of something noble sounding, like "Asssaver".