Conversion of solar energy into consumable electricity should not be thought of in terms of modern transmissions grids we use in Europe/N. America. Those grids work because energy generation required large facilities to produce prodigious amounts of electricity. Solar makes more sense when you look at it from a distributed energy generation system. Generation distribution minimizes transmission loss by reducing length of transmission lines and captures more solar energy as an aggregate.
If we want to be serious about the developing world and our climate future, we as the western world need to invest in that type of technology to allow a technological leap frog.
And here I am with no mod points to give ya. But count this as a +1.
Pretty ironic that on the same page, Slashdot has a story of Russian press members protesting over their right to free speech and privacy and another story of the UK embracing the erosion of their freedoms and privacy. What a wacky world.
You're right. We wouldn't recognize the United States. But not for your reasons. Lincoln's plan was to return the Confederate States back into the Union as the prodigal sons. He had no intention of a crushing and punishing "Reconstruction." Without having to go through Reconstruction, the race issues of the South would have been solved a lot earlier and lot more amicable than they were. The only thing the South mourned with Lincoln's death was post facto when they realized who would succeed him.
His death caused generations of embittered hatred between South and North. You need to crack open a history book or maybe just google the definition of scalawag and carpet bagger to understand why generations of Southerners looked to the North with a skeptical and embittered eye.
Now for the humor. Although the screeching hag is technically from Illinois (a Union State), it is awesome to see carpet bagging inversed with the Junior Senator from New York. lol.
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Conversion of solar energy into consumable electricity should not be thought of in terms of modern transmissions grids we use in Europe/N. America. Those grids work because energy generation required large facilities to produce prodigious amounts of electricity. Solar makes more sense when you look at it from a distributed energy generation system. Generation distribution minimizes transmission loss by reducing length of transmission lines and captures more solar energy as an aggregate. If we want to be serious about the developing world and our climate future, we as the western world need to invest in that type of technology to allow a technological leap frog.
And here I am with no mod points to give ya. But count this as a +1. Pretty ironic that on the same page, Slashdot has a story of Russian press members protesting over their right to free speech and privacy and another story of the UK embracing the erosion of their freedoms and privacy. What a wacky world.
You're right. We wouldn't recognize the United States. But not for your reasons. Lincoln's plan was to return the Confederate States back into the Union as the prodigal sons. He had no intention of a crushing and punishing "Reconstruction." Without having to go through Reconstruction, the race issues of the South would have been solved a lot earlier and lot more amicable than they were. The only thing the South mourned with Lincoln's death was post facto when they realized who would succeed him. His death caused generations of embittered hatred between South and North. You need to crack open a history book or maybe just google the definition of scalawag and carpet bagger to understand why generations of Southerners looked to the North with a skeptical and embittered eye. Now for the humor. Although the screeching hag is technically from Illinois (a Union State), it is awesome to see carpet bagging inversed with the Junior Senator from New York. lol.