I think it is great that you have such a handle on this subject. I will read IPCC Working Group report #1. However, can you supply us all with a couple of quick hits? It's a common thought that the ice core samples show temperature rising before CO2, not the other way around. You mentioned that causation was backwards. Can you supply me with a quick thought on that? I'm not dogmatic about this subject, just anxious to get to the bottom of it.
I am just curious - why can't we use the new quantum computing technology to make even better encryption algorithms that are in turn hard to break with quantum computers?
I've heard that the 30% efficiency rating also includes the heat that is just wasted and not converted into electricity, sort of like computing the efficiency of a steam engine by including all the waste heat an not how much work actually gets done. There is something called the Shockley-Queisser limit named (at least in part) for the guy who invented the transistor which pretty much says 41% is all you'll ever get. And I believe the world average including night, day, cloud cover etc., is more like 200w M^2 although it may be a bit higher.
When they say they coped with volume by switching to a backup system don't they probably mean a fall-back system? In other words, there was something wrong with their on-line production system? Either that or they have backup hardware with more horsepower than their day-to-day hardware which I think is unlikely. Or, by backup system they mean they added some scalable nodes. They probably had deployed something on the wrong day. - anyone agree?
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I think it is great that you have such a handle on this subject. I will read IPCC Working Group report #1. However, can you supply us all with a couple of quick hits? It's a common thought that the ice core samples show temperature rising before CO2, not the other way around. You mentioned that causation was backwards. Can you supply me with a quick thought on that? I'm not dogmatic about this subject, just anxious to get to the bottom of it.
I am just curious - why can't we use the new quantum computing technology to make even better encryption algorithms that are in turn hard to break with quantum computers?
I've heard that the 30% efficiency rating also includes the heat that is just wasted and not converted into electricity, sort of like computing the efficiency of a steam engine by including all the waste heat an not how much work actually gets done. There is something called the Shockley-Queisser limit named (at least in part) for the guy who invented the transistor which pretty much says 41% is all you'll ever get. And I believe the world average including night, day, cloud cover etc., is more like 200w M^2 although it may be a bit higher.
When they say they coped with volume by switching to a backup system don't they probably mean a fall-back system? In other words, there was something wrong with their on-line production system? Either that or they have backup hardware with more horsepower than their day-to-day hardware which I think is unlikely. Or, by backup system they mean they added some scalable nodes. They probably had deployed something on the wrong day. - anyone agree?