The key thing is that this setup is actually very good for emergencies, specially in densely populated areas like urban Japan where you can't put easily a household generator like in small apartments.
From TFA:
The lithium ion batteries in a Leaf can story up to 24kWh (kilowatt hours) of electricity, which Nissan estimates is sufficient to power an average Japanese home for about two days. That means if the system was used for a few hours during the day, the car would still retain enough power to make trips.
Since supply is very tight in central and eastern Japan and they are forecasting that these zones will be facing power shortages up to the year 2014, this system is a very good fit to smooth the power demand. For example, for Tokyo Electric Company service area, the demand curve is in this link: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/forecast/html/index-e.html#graph1
The yellow band is the time that TEPCO is requesting customers to reduce their demand to prevent blackouts. If this system becomes widely used instead of seeing their demand drop below 49% at 3 am. and getting close to 100% at 8 pm. in normal circumstances with the help of customers they could increase the demand in the midnight hours and decrease their peak demand even if customers go with their normal energy consumption, and in the process achieve something similar to a smart grid without actually building it.
The submission is a litte incomplete. Where are the plans and schematics of his reactor!? It could be the heigth of geekness and coolness if most of the case and support structure were made of LEGO.
The sad part is that all their theories have been proved false. I'm from Mexico, and I remember in my childhood when the neoliberals took charge of the country in 1982. At that time, Mexico was wealthier than South Korea, Taiwan or any of the asian "tigers". Crime was something to worry only around the worst neighborhoods at night. But, they started to privatize everything, they made the first or second public bailout of the companies of our local plutocracy and started to freeze wages, but they didn't anything about prices because that would have been interference with the markets. Fast forward today, after 30 years of the same we ended with 10% of the mexicans living overseas and 60% of those unlucky enough to be unable to escape from this hellhole below poverty line; crime everywhere and corruption beyond our worst nightmares. Currently, USA is like Mexico in 1982, but if the politicians make a wrong decision next week they will be like Mexico in 1987 after the financial crash. Pray that USA never becomes like Mexico in 2011.
Which, in my not so humble opinion, puts the lie to America being a Christian nation.
That, and the fact that most people there feel no qualms in killing or hurting innocents if they can get one "bad guy". Even Pontius Pilate was more merciful than that.
I think that that's what taxes are for. To take good care of your fellow countrymen, and, if there is a surplus, help the development of poorer countries or provide relief in case of natural disasters. Unfortunately, in most western nations the taxes are only levied from the poor and middle class, and used to buy military hardware and bail out the corps of the local plutocrats every time they screw up.
In Danny's case, his company has set up a donations page for the Japanese Red Cross, and with several partner companies, they have started the distribution of special action figures from which a third of the retail price goes for the Red Cross. I think it is a very good trade off.
Is very easy too to steal your battery. Apple's tradeoff is between usability and a small form factor, and the easy replacement of batteries. In previous models, it was easy to lock the battery in it's place to prevent to get your battery stolen or replaced.
AFAIC remember, Israel doesn't have a written constitution, and have many extremist and ultra religious parties and politicians that would make Le Pen appear like a moderate centrist.
A friend of me told me a history of an american customer that got into her store in Mexico looking for some home decorating stuff, and then the customer ROFL at a picture of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza vs the windmills saying: "Look!! these are mariachis in Holland!".
In reality, the most common type of hat used in Mexico is of the same shape than the one used in Texas and Southwest USA, that does make sense since culturally it was the same place for 200 years and the environment and farming jobs were very similar.
Apple's marketing is almost non existent outside USA, Japan and western Europe. The first iPod was only for powered Firewire and only worked with Mac OS X via iTunes 2 or 3. After it became a Firewire/USB device and Apple released iTunes for Windows was when it became the standard of MP3 players. The groundbreaking thing with the iPod is that it was far smaller than competing products, it could sync and charge way faster with the host computer than any other device thanks to the high bandwidth and current available on Firewire ports that beat the crap out of USB 1.1 and the fact that the device's interface and software were far better than the ones found in competing products at the time.
I think that it is innovation when you find simpler and easier ways to do things. Jobs philosophy goes more toward empowering average users than giving more raw power in his products that will not be used because consumers can't find a way to tap that power.
A bit off topic, but I would like to thank you for many of your useful posts regarding Windows. After 8 years around only Macs, UltraSPARC machines and linux servers my Windows-fu rusted severely, and you helped me to do a better service to my users at work and help my friends at home.
Actually, nuclear has improved its output despite keeping the same reactors with almost the same thermal output. This is expected since the advances in lighter generators and materials for the generators used in wind turbines and hydroelectric power stations find its way into the generators of nuclear power stations. But this shouldn't be a discussion of one kind of generation or the other, but what is the best mix of generation technologies for a given nation/market. It would be insane if in the southwest the utilities don't build more solar thermal power stations, or improve the hydroelectric power stations already built, but is also insane to not invest in better an safer nuclear power plants since not everything yet can be powered only by alternative sources and they can't be built or used everywhere.
Their previous half assed attempt at starting a social network failed miserably because they by default exposed not only all your contacts in Google Mail, but also every mail address in your inbox and sent mail folder for the world to see. Compared to that, even the awfully bad privacy settings of Facebook were a godsend.
Because the process needed to do that would mean that the one implementing it will make Hitler and every other questionable character in the previous 9k years of recorded human history into saints. Would you boast around your acquittances that you will support to make The Holocaust 1000 times over?
Two workers died after the tsunami flooded the turbine building of unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi, their bodies were recovered two weeks after the tsunami. Those two are the only casualties related to the disaster in a meaningful way. Another worker from a partner company died from a hearth attack apparently, but he started to work in Fukushima Daiichi 3 or 4 days before his death. 6 workers in total have received radiation doses above the emergency limit of 250 mSv, two of them had around 600 mSv of exposure. A female worker had surpassed the fairly smaller limit for female workers by their child bearing condition, but since she is around 55 years old, she shouldn't face any trouble.
I think that this is far more important than the comparison with the chinese machine, since this means that there is serious competition again in the high end market.
The problem is that a significant percentage of your countrymen get a really good hard on and a orgasm every time they get news that their armed forces are dropping bombs and firing bullets anywhere in the world. Is the best way to win elections and certainly, that Citizens United ruling from your Supreme Court has put the last nail in the coffin of the american democratic republic. On the plus side, you guys can use Jefferson's body to power all the East Coast instead of letting him simply spin in his grave.
What about killing people because they have the wrong color in their skin? Because that is what are doing the rebels in the "liberated" places of Libya. What about dropping people to drown in the sea from airplanes or helicopters? What about killing the parents of kids and giving said kids to military families unable to have kids? These things were done by dictators in South America with the full support of USA. I'm no fan of Gaddaffi, but on this stage, I think that many people in the "loyalist" side are not fighting for him, they are fighting against what they perceive as a worst evil than him.
Isn't cheaper to just put a bullet through blind Tommy's head and expect that if anyone gets blind by an accident do the same? We can let die people that suffer strokes or crash their cars, after all, intensive care units are too expensive too.
That is an almost direct quote of what the mexican president Vicente Fox said 6 years ago:
"This is a government of the entrepreneurs, by the entrepreneurs, for the entrepreneurs", but entrepreneurs being equal to big corporations because these conservative assholes are doing everything possible to crush small business. You can see how much good this ended for us mexicans. The guy ended putting is signature in a book wrote by republican propagandist Rob Allyn after his term ended, called "Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith and Dreams of a Mexican President". The implementation of this stupid policies is what made that crime is the only news that come to Mexico and that illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States skyrocketed during his term, but the people of Wisconsin are free to chose misery if they want that. What in the fucking hell were they thinking when they put that puppet of the Koch brothers as governor?
Sorry, this is mostly made for propaganda that the american public buys easily because they don't know even a little bit of the reality in foreign countries. The american government has issue with Gadaffi killing civilians, but they appear that they don't have any trouble with the rebels killing black people just because they are black. The ethnic cleansing that libyan rebels are doing could have been stopped easily if the western powers had said to the libyan rebels that they will stop to support their offensive if the killings of black people don't come to an end. The same logic applies to all the friends and foes of USA around the world. The almost irrational hate against USA that goes in large swats of the world didn't appear out of thin air or soviet propaganda.
You have seen the mass demonstrations against despotic rulers in Middle East, the demonstrations against Chávez in Venezuela, but I would bet my life that most of you americans have never saw a picture or a video of the demonstrations that we mexicans did against the stolen elections in 2006, the largest one was of at least 2.5 million people in Mexico City, but since we were fighting against the imposition of an american puppet we had been painted like a minority of enemies of democracy.
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The key thing is that this setup is actually very good for emergencies, specially in densely populated areas like urban Japan where you can't put easily a household generator like in small apartments.
From TFA:
The lithium ion batteries in a Leaf can story up to 24kWh (kilowatt hours) of electricity, which Nissan estimates is sufficient to power an average Japanese home for about two days. That means if the system was used for a few hours during the day, the car would still retain enough power to make trips.
Since supply is very tight in central and eastern Japan and they are forecasting that these zones will be facing power shortages up to the year 2014, this system is a very good fit to smooth the power demand. For example, for Tokyo Electric Company service area, the demand curve is in this link:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/forecast/html/index-e.html#graph1
The yellow band is the time that TEPCO is requesting customers to reduce their demand to prevent blackouts. If this system becomes widely used instead of seeing their demand drop below 49% at 3 am. and getting close to 100% at 8 pm. in normal circumstances with the help of customers they could increase the demand in the midnight hours and decrease their peak demand even if customers go with their normal energy consumption, and in the process achieve something similar to a smart grid without actually building it.
The submission is a litte incomplete. Where are the plans and schematics of his reactor!? It could be the heigth of geekness and coolness if most of the case and support structure were made of LEGO.
The sad part is that all their theories have been proved false. I'm from Mexico, and I remember in my childhood when the neoliberals took charge of the country in 1982. At that time, Mexico was wealthier than South Korea, Taiwan or any of the asian "tigers". Crime was something to worry only around the worst neighborhoods at night. But, they started to privatize everything, they made the first or second public bailout of the companies of our local plutocracy and started to freeze wages, but they didn't anything about prices because that would have been interference with the markets. Fast forward today, after 30 years of the same we ended with 10% of the mexicans living overseas and 60% of those unlucky enough to be unable to escape from this hellhole below poverty line; crime everywhere and corruption beyond our worst nightmares. Currently, USA is like Mexico in 1982, but if the politicians make a wrong decision next week they will be like Mexico in 1987 after the financial crash. Pray that USA never becomes like Mexico in 2011.
Which, in my not so humble opinion, puts the lie to America being a Christian nation.
That, and the fact that most people there feel no qualms in killing or hurting innocents if they can get one "bad guy". Even Pontius Pilate was more merciful than that.
Thank you for the link. Now the bloodbath that is happening in Mexico makes sense. We are the human sacrifices to the almighty Market.
I think that that's what taxes are for. To take good care of your fellow countrymen, and, if there is a surplus, help the development of poorer countries or provide relief in case of natural disasters. Unfortunately, in most western nations the taxes are only levied from the poor and middle class, and used to buy military hardware and bail out the corps of the local plutocrats every time they screw up.
In Danny's case, his company has set up a donations page for the Japanese Red Cross, and with several partner companies, they have started the distribution of special action figures from which a third of the retail price goes for the Red Cross. I think it is a very good trade off.
Is very easy too to steal your battery. Apple's tradeoff is between usability and a small form factor, and the easy replacement of batteries. In previous models, it was easy to lock the battery in it's place to prevent to get your battery stolen or replaced.
If this can make you feel better, your schedule is far, far, far more sane than the one my team has been following the last 5 years.
Or tigers, wolves, bears or another tribe of humans that want to kill you in the name of their god.
AFAIC remember, Israel doesn't have a written constitution, and have many extremist and ultra religious parties and politicians that would make Le Pen appear like a moderate centrist.
A friend of me told me a history of an american customer that got into her store in Mexico looking for some home decorating stuff, and then the customer ROFL at a picture of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza vs the windmills saying: "Look!! these are mariachis in Holland!".
In reality, the most common type of hat used in Mexico is of the same shape than the one used in Texas and Southwest USA, that does make sense since culturally it was the same place for 200 years and the environment and farming jobs were very similar.
Apple's marketing is almost non existent outside USA, Japan and western Europe. The first iPod was only for powered Firewire and only worked with Mac OS X via iTunes 2 or 3. After it became a Firewire/USB device and Apple released iTunes for Windows was when it became the standard of MP3 players. The groundbreaking thing with the iPod is that it was far smaller than competing products, it could sync and charge way faster with the host computer than any other device thanks to the high bandwidth and current available on Firewire ports that beat the crap out of USB 1.1 and the fact that the device's interface and software were far better than the ones found in competing products at the time.
I think that it is innovation when you find simpler and easier ways to do things. Jobs philosophy goes more toward empowering average users than giving more raw power in his products that will not be used because consumers can't find a way to tap that power.
A bit off topic, but I would like to thank you for many of your useful posts regarding Windows. After 8 years around only Macs, UltraSPARC machines and linux servers my Windows-fu rusted severely, and you helped me to do a better service to my users at work and help my friends at home.
Actually, nuclear has improved its output despite keeping the same reactors with almost the same thermal output. This is expected since the advances in lighter generators and materials for the generators used in wind turbines and hydroelectric power stations find its way into the generators of nuclear power stations. But this shouldn't be a discussion of one kind of generation or the other, but what is the best mix of generation technologies for a given nation/market. It would be insane if in the southwest the utilities don't build more solar thermal power stations, or improve the hydroelectric power stations already built, but is also insane to not invest in better an safer nuclear power plants since not everything yet can be powered only by alternative sources and they can't be built or used everywhere.
Their previous half assed attempt at starting a social network failed miserably because they by default exposed not only all your contacts in Google Mail, but also every mail address in your inbox and sent mail folder for the world to see. Compared to that, even the awfully bad privacy settings of Facebook were a godsend.
Because the process needed to do that would mean that the one implementing it will make Hitler and every other questionable character in the previous 9k years of recorded human history into saints. Would you boast around your acquittances that you will support to make The Holocaust 1000 times over?
Two workers died after the tsunami flooded the turbine building of unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi, their bodies were recovered two weeks after the tsunami. Those two are the only casualties related to the disaster in a meaningful way. Another worker from a partner company died from a hearth attack apparently, but he started to work in Fukushima Daiichi 3 or 4 days before his death. 6 workers in total have received radiation doses above the emergency limit of 250 mSv, two of them had around 600 mSv of exposure. A female worker had surpassed the fairly smaller limit for female workers by their child bearing condition, but since she is around 55 years old, she shouldn't face any trouble.
I think that this is far more important than the comparison with the chinese machine, since this means that there is serious competition again in the high end market.
The problem is that a significant percentage of your countrymen get a really good hard on and a orgasm every time they get news that their armed forces are dropping bombs and firing bullets anywhere in the world. Is the best way to win elections and certainly, that Citizens United ruling from your Supreme Court has put the last nail in the coffin of the american democratic republic. On the plus side, you guys can use Jefferson's body to power all the East Coast instead of letting him simply spin in his grave.
What about killing people because they have the wrong color in their skin? Because that is what are doing the rebels in the "liberated" places of Libya. What about dropping people to drown in the sea from airplanes or helicopters? What about killing the parents of kids and giving said kids to military families unable to have kids? These things were done by dictators in South America with the full support of USA. I'm no fan of Gaddaffi, but on this stage, I think that many people in the "loyalist" side are not fighting for him, they are fighting against what they perceive as a worst evil than him.
Greenpeace hates humans, more than anything.
Isn't cheaper to just put a bullet through blind Tommy's head and expect that if anyone gets blind by an accident do the same? We can let die people that suffer strokes or crash their cars, after all, intensive care units are too expensive too.
Sorry, I was under the assumption that voting rights there were restricted to people that weren't brain dead.
That is an almost direct quote of what the mexican president Vicente Fox said 6 years ago:
"This is a government of the entrepreneurs, by the entrepreneurs, for the entrepreneurs", but entrepreneurs being equal to big corporations because these conservative assholes are doing everything possible to crush small business. You can see how much good this ended for us mexicans. The guy ended putting is signature in a book wrote by republican propagandist Rob Allyn after his term ended, called "Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith and Dreams of a Mexican President". The implementation of this stupid policies is what made that crime is the only news that come to Mexico and that illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States skyrocketed during his term, but the people of Wisconsin are free to chose misery if they want that. What in the fucking hell were they thinking when they put that puppet of the Koch brothers as governor?
Sorry, this is mostly made for propaganda that the american public buys easily because they don't know even a little bit of the reality in foreign countries. The american government has issue with Gadaffi killing civilians, but they appear that they don't have any trouble with the rebels killing black people just because they are black. The ethnic cleansing that libyan rebels are doing could have been stopped easily if the western powers had said to the libyan rebels that they will stop to support their offensive if the killings of black people don't come to an end. The same logic applies to all the friends and foes of USA around the world. The almost irrational hate against USA that goes in large swats of the world didn't appear out of thin air or soviet propaganda.
You have seen the mass demonstrations against despotic rulers in Middle East, the demonstrations against Chávez in Venezuela, but I would bet my life that most of you americans have never saw a picture or a video of the demonstrations that we mexicans did against the stolen elections in 2006, the largest one was of at least 2.5 million people in Mexico City, but since we were fighting against the imposition of an american puppet we had been painted like a minority of enemies of democracy.