I liked that too about the article, people are doing their own math and it is not that hard to do. I also agree that putting panels on residential
roof gives more power than commercial roofs though both should be happening. Your analysis of the PUC is interesting: the fox's lap dog is guarding the hen house? --
Renting solar power works well under TOU: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
I think what is happening is that folks with smaller roofs are seeing a problem. Your system is large enough so that it does more than you use during
peak so you actually get a credit at the higher rate. If you are only supplementing your use during peak then you have to pay at a higher rate because
(in CA) you are forced into the TOU contract. --
Get the right sized system that stays the right size: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
From the freak.... We're finding for our customers that under TOU, a ~60% system is about optimal. This is because we charge a flat rate. You
are seeing actual savings from your intended purchase so that is a positive though as you say it is not as attractive as a bond investment. For others,
it might make sense to rent until a purchase can actually equal or exceed a bond investment. Panel prices will be coming down as the solar grade
silicon supply improves so waiting to purchase might make some sense. You can see rates for renting by following the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
At the top of this http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/solar_panels.htm price comparison list I found Aten Solar selling at $3.15/Watt for thin film solar (minimum 32 panel purchase). They provide a 20 year better than 80% warranty similar to standard silicon panels. This won't fit on your roof and cover you power usage, but if you have yard space, this might get you going. This is amourphous silicon technology.
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Get Solar Power on your roof without the hassles: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
A licence is permission. Usually is is used when some activity could be dangerous if done poorly, such as driving or practicing medicine. It can
also be permission to use something, like a fishing licence. I think that an EULA is like a fishing licence, permission to use enforced scarcity.
The GPL is more like a licence to preach where one has to be reasonably free of heresy to be granted the licence, it is basically about competence.
I have to agree that lilypond http://www.lilypond.org/ really is good. It can be used to typeset music into a book or paper so that is useful to music students. It produces
MIDI output for quick checks. AND, it is cross-platform so that it can be shared easily. My nine year old caught on to the coding in just an hour or two. -- Solar for a song: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Actually, in a field where sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, reporting being able to get it to work consistently is progress. As you point
out others would validate, but this is more like saying you're out of alpha and into beta. It is a little more than that, too. If they can do it
over an over again, if someone else cannot, then it is more likely to be a problem with the other set up than a fluke in the original. It also
means they are ready to share their skill (beta rather than alpha again).
To get this to go takes quite a lot of preparation, not least getting deuterium concentrated. The effect is not seen with plain hydrogen,
so while interesting transmutation have been measured, it is hard to see how this could happen in nature and affect isotopic dating.
Heck, it is hard to see how this could happen at all. The deuteron having integer spin seems like the only thread to pull on....
Sure: http://www.lenr-canr.org/LibFrame1.html has mostly experimental links but you might look at things by S. Chubb (NRL) or P.L. Hagelstein (MIT) who are kind of rivals. Chubb's work tends to be towards coherence in the presence of boundy conditions looking especially at a low branching ratio D+D->He4 symetric reation while Hagelstein
tends to take a quantum tunneling approach.
Correction: We don't have an accepted theoretical framework. I've certainly heard talks where such a framework is proposed, and the
codeposition particle sizes in the present experiment are anticipated by theory, but it is still much too soon to say if one theory or another is correct, or if any existing theories are adequate. But, I think you are right that this is a more exciting area to dig in. --
Hot fusion now! http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
At this point, they are not aiming for net energy production. Their two main advances are to 1) use codeposition to get deutrium loading
from the beginning and 2) using a detector that can fit within the experiment. The first advance means that the effects are seen just about
every time, and the second means that the background has less of an effect on detection, particularly if charged particles are involved since
these have trouble escaping the experimental setup owing to Compton losses. Getting more power out than in is not really the basic measure though.
The power out so far is heat, so you want quite an excess before you can turn that back into something usable. --
Energy out from the Sun: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
The method of recording nuclear tracks is a solid is an old one but it has the advantage that the recording material can be placed very close
to the reaction. This has lead to the discovery of very short lived particles that might be long sought axions in a recent accelerator experiment: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0954-3899/34/1/009. The plastic detectors used in the SPAWARS experiment can be placed close to the electrode
so that background is a smaller part of the overall signal. Their method of electrode fabrication is also impressive. It seems to work just about
every time. --
Get solar power for what you pay your utility now: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
The energy produced per fusion event pretty much has to be the same, but the rate at which the fusion occurs is controled differently. If this can
be harnessed for energy production, it may end up as distributed power generation rather than centralized power generation envisioned for hot fusion.
There does seem to be sufficient palladium available to make significant levels of power. --
Hot fusion now with no installation cost: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Thanks, I'll try that. I just use the dictionary box on the FC6 tool bar now and google if the word does not turn up there but I have to feel
unsure of the spelling to check it.
I think a spellcheck would be great. I spell poorly and seldom notice an error unless it is someone else who made it. It would increase CPU
needs a little. That might be the tradeoff that keeps it out. Blogspot has a spellcheck for posts though not for comments. I notice is can be
quite slow while slashdot grinds down only occasionally.
A number of interests feel it is important to undermine confidence in science by teaching bogus controversies. Slashdot gets quite a bit of this
in both submissions and comments. This one is so bogus that it is suprising it slipped through but you'll notice its is attracting its share of
global warming is non-anthropogenic posts. Unltimately, this kind of thing teaches us to look more closely at the sources of information. The attempts
to manipulate us through our skepicism will eventually be recognized as dishonest: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/your-opinion-c ould-be-paid-for-by.html. -- Real Solar: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
At the top of this http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/solar_panels.htm price comparison list I found Aten Solar http://www.atensolar.com/14.html selling at $3.15/Watt for thin film solar (minimum 32 panel purchase). They provide a 20 year better than 80% warranty similar to standard silicon panels. This won't fit on your roof and cover you power usage, but if you have yard space, this might get you going right away and be less costly to mount. This is amourphous silicon technology.
--
Get Solar Power on your roof without the hassles: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Apple has now agreed to do better with its manufacturing process, it turns out that it was on its way already, so that portion of the Greenpeace
demand is met as they acknowledge.
The sad thing is that this kind of thing should really be handled by an industry standards mechanism. This is the responsible way to avoid a
race to the bottom. That Greenpeace had to step in says a lot about how competition in the computer industry is becoming more about exploitation
than innovation. This is going to be quite good for Apple's business since their vertical integration should make it easy to demonstrate leadership
at lower cost.
By installing a larger hot water tank, you can use solar thermal energy to heat your hot water. Some installations work reliably
for long periods. They do contain moving parts though. The plant you link to needs scale to work because it is going for a high
delta T to run a turbine. Because of scale they get to about 20% efficiency. With smaller delta T and smaller turbines it would
be substantially less efficient. --
Solar Power at a fixed rate for up to 25 years: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Slashdot Mirror
I liked that too about the article, people are doing their own math and it is not that hard to do. I also agree that putting panels on residential roof gives more power than commercial roofs though both should be happening. Your analysis of the PUC is interesting: the fox's lap dog is guarding the hen house?s -selling-solar.html
--
Renting solar power works well under TOU: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
I think what is happening is that folks with smaller roofs are seeing a problem. Your system is large enough so that it does more than you use during peak so you actually get a credit at the higher rate. If you are only supplementing your use during peak then you have to pay at a higher rate because (in CA) you are forced into the TOU contract.s -selling-solar.html
--
Get the right sized system that stays the right size: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
From the freak.... We're finding for our customers that under TOU, a ~60% system is about optimal. This is because we charge a flat rate. You are seeing actual savings from your intended purchase so that is a positive though as you say it is not as attractive as a bond investment. For others, it might make sense to rent until a purchase can actually equal or exceed a bond investment. Panel prices will be coming down as the solar grade silicon supply improves so waiting to purchase might make some sense. You can see rates for renting by following the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
At the top of this http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/solar_panels.htm price comparison list I found Aten Solar selling at $3.15/Watt for thin film solar (minimum 32 panel purchase). They provide a 20 year better than 80% warranty similar to standard silicon panels. This won't fit on your roof and cover you power usage, but if you have yard space, this might get you going. This is amourphous silicon technology. -- Get Solar Power on your roof without the hassles: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
A licence is permission. Usually is is used when some activity could be dangerous if done poorly, such as driving or practicing medicine. It can also be permission to use something, like a fishing licence. I think that an EULA is like a fishing licence, permission to use enforced scarcity. The GPL is more like a licence to preach where one has to be reasonably free of heresy to be granted the licence, it is basically about competence.
s -selling-solar.html
It is the same word, but the sense can be quite different.
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Solar power for what you pay your utility now: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
I have to agree that lilypond http://www.lilypond.org/ really is good. It can be used to typeset music into a book or paper so that is useful to music students. It produces MIDI output for quick checks. AND, it is cross-platform so that it can be shared easily. My nine year old caught on to the coding in just an hour or two.s -selling-solar.html
--
Solar for a song: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Actually, in a field where sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, reporting being able to get it to work consistently is progress. As you point out others would validate, but this is more like saying you're out of alpha and into beta. It is a little more than that, too. If they can do it over an over again, if someone else cannot, then it is more likely to be a problem with the other set up than a fluke in the original. It also means they are ready to share their skill (beta rather than alpha again).
To get this to go takes quite a lot of preparation, not least getting deuterium concentrated. The effect is not seen with plain hydrogen, so while interesting transmutation have been measured, it is hard to see how this could happen in nature and affect isotopic dating.
Heck, it is hard to see how this could happen at all. The deuteron having integer spin seems like the only thread to pull on....
Sure: http://www.lenr-canr.org/LibFrame1.html has mostly experimental links but you might look at things by S. Chubb (NRL) or P.L. Hagelstein (MIT) who are kind of rivals. Chubb's work tends to be towards coherence in the presence of boundy conditions looking especially at a low branching ratio D+D->He4 symetric reation while Hagelstein tends to take a quantum tunneling approach.
Correction: We don't have an accepted theoretical framework. I've certainly heard talks where such a framework is proposed, and the codeposition particle sizes in the present experiment are anticipated by theory, but it is still much too soon to say if one theory or another is correct, or if any existing theories are adequate. But, I think you are right that this is a more exciting area to dig in.s -selling-solar.html
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Hot fusion now! http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
At this point, they are not aiming for net energy production. Their two main advances are to 1) use codeposition to get deutrium loading from the beginning and 2) using a detector that can fit within the experiment. The first advance means that the effects are seen just about every time, and the second means that the background has less of an effect on detection, particularly if charged particles are involved since these have trouble escaping the experimental setup owing to Compton losses. Getting more power out than in is not really the basic measure though. The power out so far is heat, so you want quite an excess before you can turn that back into something usable.s -selling-solar.html
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Energy out from the Sun: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Actually, the budget that funded this paper was a few thousand dollars a year of discretionary funds http://newenergytimes.com/news/2006/NET19.htm#ee. One of the main contributions of Navy labs to this field is metalurgical skills. There has been actual funding from time to time but for the most part people work on this on their own time.s -selling-solar.html
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Go solar sooner: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
The method of recording nuclear tracks is a solid is an old one but it has the advantage that the recording material can be placed very close to the reaction. This has lead to the discovery of very short lived particles that might be long sought axions in a recent accelerator experiment: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0954-3899/34/1/009. The plastic detectors used in the SPAWARS experiment can be placed close to the electrode
so that background is a smaller part of the overall signal. Their method of electrode fabrication is also impressive. It seems to work just about
every time.s -selling-solar.html
--
Get solar power for what you pay your utility now: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
The energy produced per fusion event pretty much has to be the same, but the rate at which the fusion occurs is controled differently. If this can be harnessed for energy production, it may end up as distributed power generation rather than centralized power generation envisioned for hot fusion. There does seem to be sufficient palladium available to make significant levels of power.s -selling-solar.html
--
Hot fusion now with no installation cost: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
I think I remeber that some of the references in this review http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinnewphys ica.pdf to the "heat after death" effect described buckets of water evaporating. For most experiments they try to keep delta T low because they are trying to get an accurate
energy measurement using flow calorimeters.s -selling-solar.html
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Mr. Fusion on your roof: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Yup, Low Energy Nuclear Reactions or Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reaction. There is quite a lot that is published here: http://www.lenr-canr.org/. The SPAWARS work is quite impressive, with more links to it at http://www.lenr-canr.org/News.htm.s -selling-solar.html
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Get fusion now: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Thanks, I'll try that. I just use the dictionary box on the FC6 tool bar now and google if the word does not turn up there but I have to feel unsure of the spelling to check it.
I think a spellcheck would be great. I spell poorly and seldom notice an error unless it is someone else who made it. It would increase CPU needs a little. That might be the tradeoff that keeps it out. Blogspot has a spellcheck for posts though not for comments. I notice is can be quite slow while slashdot grinds down only occasionally.
Just that there are some mechanisms on slashdot. But, as you point out, not so many.
It did get voted down by at least one reader in the firehose.
A number of interests feel it is important to undermine confidence in science by teaching bogus controversies. Slashdot gets quite a bit of this in both submissions and comments. This one is so bogus that it is suprising it slipped through but you'll notice its is attracting its share of global warming is non-anthropogenic posts. Unltimately, this kind of thing teaches us to look more closely at the sources of information. The attempts to manipulate us through our skepicism will eventually be recognized as dishonest: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/your-opinion-c ould-be-paid-for-by.html.s -selling-solar.html
--
Real Solar: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
At the top of this http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/solar_panels.htm price comparison list I found Aten Solar http://www.atensolar.com/14.html selling at $3.15/Watt for thin film solar (minimum 32 panel purchase). They provide a 20 year better than 80% warranty similar to standard silicon panels. This won't fit on your roof and cover you power usage, but if you have yard space, this might get you going right away and be less costly to mount. This is amourphous silicon technology.s -selling-solar.html
--
Get Solar Power on your roof without the hassles: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Apple has now agreed to do better with its manufacturing process, it turns out that it was on its way already, so that portion of the Greenpeace demand is met as they acknowledge.
The sad thing is that this kind of thing should really be handled by an industry standards mechanism. This is the responsible way to avoid a race to the bottom. That Greenpeace had to step in says a lot about how competition in the computer industry is becoming more about exploitation than innovation. This is going to be quite good for Apple's business since their vertical integration should make it easy to demonstrate leadership at lower cost.
By installing a larger hot water tank, you can use solar thermal energy to heat your hot water. Some installations work reliably for long periods. They do contain moving parts though. The plant you link to needs scale to work because it is going for a high delta T to run a turbine. Because of scale they get to about 20% efficiency. With smaller delta T and smaller turbines it would be substantially less efficient.s -selling-solar.html
--
Solar Power at a fixed rate for up to 25 years: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Bucky Fuller wanted just this. I've linked to a site that is working on this issue here: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/coast-to-coast .html.
s -selling-solar.html
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Cure omnibefuddledness: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user