It's a great idea, but they don't tend to cope too well with storms. Now, a retractable shade sail, controlled manually or automatically might work.
Or some solar panels.
There are some insane building codes here that just. shouldn't. be. allowed. For example - this is technically a temperate zone (26 deg south), but summers have reached 40C here in the last few years - and I see people being allowed to build houses with 'stylish' black tile roofs. It seems that building designers just seem to think that aircon will cope with it. I would like to see the electricity bills. I couldn't believe it the first time I saw a black roof in the local district. I stopped and looked again - the place also had no eaves. Whoever at the local council approved that plan should be fired.
There's an ongoing eruption event in the region. Could it have been pouring lots of CO2 into the air recently?
I'm sure the research scientists know what they're doing, but IIRC volcanic events are responsible for a lot of CO2. I'd like to see some data from samples collected elsewhere.
"Maintenance? You do know how solid state technology works right? "
Well, you do have to wash them periodically - about once a year. That takes a hose, a long-handled brush, and about 1 hour of effort.
Perhaps the parent poster was talking about....deep breath....paying for someone else to do it. Sheesh. If you're afraid to walk on your roof to wash your PV, perhaps you should just avoid it altogether - go live in an apartment.
Has anyone mentioned the reduced airconditioning costs from having part of your roof shaded?
"Solar PV Cells degrade over time expected life 20 years"
Yes, they do. In fact I've just replaced some - they weren't top-quality to begin with, but they'd been there since about 1991 (previous owner), so I'm not complaining. The rest of the array are high-quality items, warranted for 80% of their rated output for 25 years. In the 22 years I've lived in a (mostly) solar-powered house, the price of quality PV has dropped to about 1/3 of that when I started - so it's cheaper to replace when it does lose its efficiency.
Has grid power dropped to 1/3 of what it was 20 years ago?
Do you folk in the USofA get special training in this heavily-partisan "attack mode" version of discourse?
The whole state is insane? Because they choose something that you don't like? How does it affect you? Do you live in California? Do you work for a fossil-fuel electricity generator company? Or perhaps yours is a job peripheral to that, such that PV uptake threatens your future. Tell us, please.
While you're at it, tell us if the air quality in Ca generally is better now than, say the 1960s and 70s.
"But I don't want "snap, crackle & pop" in the middle of a quiet section of an opera aria, thanks."
Play 'em wet. 50/50 distilled water and ethanol, add a drop or two of ethylene glycol (or dishwashing liquid), wet a cloth with it, wring it out until it just stops dripping, and wipe that over the vinyl. Play, then dry before putting away.
It's not even the WU and BITS that need attention.
I tried turning WU and BITS to disable in order to get a bunch of machines (16 x entry-level SLOW W10 Home Lenovo laptops) to a consistent state - then WU and BITS could be re-enabled. These are laptops bought by someone else for a small cash-strapped independent school. I needed to get candy crush and all the other crap off permanently before releasing them to the classroom. You can't just "uninstall" candy crush - it's still there and will activate for any new profile. You have to resort to some powershell shenanigans to remove it completely.
Only there's this thing called Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant that set them all off downloading and installing the Fall Creator's Update.
I tracked that down to a series of scheduled tasks called the "Update Orchestrator" but they couldn't be changed as they were owned by SYSTEM, and seizing ownership of those tasks to disable them was a bit confronting - I started thinking about unintended consequences, so I had to let them proceed.
And it installed "Disney Magic Kingdom" for me. How pleasant.
Honest question - isn't it necessary to de-energise the transmitter before technicians can climb the tower to install or maintain hardware? Presumably it happens in the graveyard shift. The ERP right at the tower must be quite high.
In any case, I doubt the enforceability of the "hereafter developed" clause. Insurance companies have very clearly defined "future events", e.g. water that enters your house via ground flow, that is flood, vs. water that enters your hosue via leaky roof. That's come about by legal precedent, and they don't get to use a generic term like "entry of water" then slide out of a claim by saying "we meant flood, not leaky roof".
So you can't use a blanket term like "hereafter developed" and hope a court will enforce it. I think it's been used to provide a framework on which to base the inevitable court case, to get a legal decision for just how far Eventbrite can stretch their greed.
That's just not going to work. Celebrity X turns up unannounced, (or, as mentioned above, there's something copyrightable in the background), gets filmed by Eventbrite. Unless the event promoter has a blanket clause in the ticket T&C covering this, Eventbrite *and* the promoter will likely lose the court case.
To satisfy Eventbrite, the promoter will have to get advance clearance from all rights holders. And if one or more don't agree to Eventbrite's terms? Either that item drops from the event, or Eventbrite doesn't get to sell the tickets. I know what I'd choose.
It says on many currencies "good for debts public and private", but if there's a decently-readable "No Cash" sign on the front door (before your transaction begins, i.e. before you incur the debt), then the business is within its rights to specify how they will accept payment.
If that information isn't made available before the debt is incurred, e.g. no sign, and they've already made your coffee, then you can offer cash, and no reasonable magistrate is going to convict you (even if the police could be bothered to arrest you) because you offered a legal means to settle the debt.
Why couldn't they slurp voice calls? The audio of your voice is just data, once it's processed by the ADC. Your voice is not transmitted as an analog waveform to the cell tower - it's digital all the way until the DAC at the other person's phone.
Well, perhaps you could look at financial incentives to encourage people to stop building houses that vastly exceed their needs.
Yurts and Kale, no - but stop building McMansions. There's an environmental cost to all of that construction, let alone the ongoing costs to provide heating and cooling.
Sorry, "3rd-world" isn't quite what I meant to say - it's a bit stupid to refer to some developing nations as "3rd-world". I hope you know what I mean.
Technology is important, very important, but it is not the *only* solution. Resources other than solar PV, wind, hydro and some other geo-based sources are finite in our timeframe, even if we find better and more efficient ways to exploit them (as we should).
Better education, ESPECIALLY for girls and women, will make a big difference.
"You don't need to have 8 children, or even birth 8 babies, to have a decent life."
Of course, using technology to deliver that education is important, too.
Getting 3rd-world populations away from the idea that "big family = success" is just as important as technological solutions to the problems that overpopulation has caused.
I wouldn't ask anyone to stop breeding, just keep it to 2 children - we need the ongoing mix of genes to keep ourselves healthy.
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Seriously? There has to be a line drawn somewhere. What's *your* opinion on when it should stop?
He's already saved more lives than you ever could. There *are* other people with his blood type, you know.
Mel. See http://catb.org/jargon/html/st...
It's a great idea, but they don't tend to cope too well with storms. Now, a retractable shade sail, controlled manually or automatically might work.
Or some solar panels.
There are some insane building codes here that just. shouldn't. be. allowed. For example - this is technically a temperate zone (26 deg south), but summers have reached 40C here in the last few years - and I see people being allowed to build houses with 'stylish' black tile roofs. It seems that building designers just seem to think that aircon will cope with it. I would like to see the electricity bills. I couldn't believe it the first time I saw a black roof in the local district. I stopped and looked again - the place also had no eaves. Whoever at the local council approved that plan should be fired.
Aha. Thanks.
There's an ongoing eruption event in the region. Could it have been pouring lots of CO2 into the air recently?
I'm sure the research scientists know what they're doing, but IIRC volcanic events are responsible for a lot of CO2. I'd like to see some data from samples collected elsewhere.
That issue is long solved. In fact, it's mandatory for grid-feed systems here in Oz to disconnect when the grid goes down.
Seriously, where does the $25K figure come from?
3KW of PV, installed, with inverter and other electronics wouldn't cost more than AUD$10K here.
"Maintenance? You do know how solid state technology works right? "
Well, you do have to wash them periodically - about once a year. That takes a hose, a long-handled brush, and about 1 hour of effort.
Perhaps the parent poster was talking about....deep breath....paying for someone else to do it. Sheesh. If you're afraid to walk on your roof to wash your PV, perhaps you should just avoid it altogether - go live in an apartment.
Has anyone mentioned the reduced airconditioning costs from having part of your roof shaded?
"Solar PV Cells degrade over time expected life 20 years"
Yes, they do. In fact I've just replaced some - they weren't top-quality to begin with, but they'd been there since about 1991 (previous owner), so I'm not complaining. The rest of the array are high-quality items, warranted for 80% of their rated output for 25 years. In the 22 years I've lived in a (mostly) solar-powered house, the price of quality PV has dropped to about 1/3 of that when I started - so it's cheaper to replace when it does lose its efficiency.
Has grid power dropped to 1/3 of what it was 20 years ago?
Do you folk in the USofA get special training in this heavily-partisan "attack mode" version of discourse?
The whole state is insane? Because they choose something that you don't like? How does it affect you? Do you live in California? Do you work for a fossil-fuel electricity generator company? Or perhaps yours is a job peripheral to that, such that PV uptake threatens your future. Tell us, please.
While you're at it, tell us if the air quality in Ca generally is better now than, say the 1960s and 70s.
"the cost of building a roof capable of supporting the weight of solar panels also has to be taken into account,"
If your roof can't handle the additional weight of (for example) 3KW of PV, then I agree you've got more important things to worry about.
Honestly, that's such a stupid argument.
Really? Me, and the parent "flamebait"? Someone's drunk.
"But I don't want "snap, crackle & pop" in the middle of a quiet section of an opera aria, thanks."
Play 'em wet. 50/50 distilled water and ethanol, add a drop or two of ethylene glycol (or dishwashing liquid), wet a cloth with it, wring it out until it just stops dripping, and wipe that over the vinyl. Play, then dry before putting away.
Reduces heat from friction, too.
It's not even the WU and BITS that need attention.
I tried turning WU and BITS to disable in order to get a bunch of machines (16 x entry-level SLOW W10 Home Lenovo laptops) to a consistent state - then WU and BITS could be re-enabled. These are laptops bought by someone else for a small cash-strapped independent school. I needed to get candy crush and all the other crap off permanently before releasing them to the classroom. You can't just "uninstall" candy crush - it's still there and will activate for any new profile. You have to resort to some powershell shenanigans to remove it completely.
Only there's this thing called Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant that set them all off downloading and installing the Fall Creator's Update.
I tracked that down to a series of scheduled tasks called the "Update Orchestrator" but they couldn't be changed as they were owned by SYSTEM, and seizing ownership of those tasks to disable them was a bit confronting - I started thinking about unintended consequences, so I had to let them proceed.
And it installed "Disney Magic Kingdom" for me. How pleasant.
Honest question - isn't it necessary to de-energise the transmitter before technicians can climb the tower to install or maintain hardware? Presumably it happens in the graveyard shift. The ERP right at the tower must be quite high.
In any case, I doubt the enforceability of the "hereafter developed" clause. Insurance companies have very clearly defined "future events", e.g. water that enters your house via ground flow, that is flood, vs. water that enters your hosue via leaky roof. That's come about by legal precedent, and they don't get to use a generic term like "entry of water" then slide out of a claim by saying "we meant flood, not leaky roof".
So you can't use a blanket term like "hereafter developed" and hope a court will enforce it. I think it's been used to provide a framework on which to base the inevitable court case, to get a legal decision for just how far Eventbrite can stretch their greed.
That might just work. I like the way you think.
But I doubt Eventbrite would welcome you back for subsequent events.
That's just not going to work. Celebrity X turns up unannounced, (or, as mentioned above, there's something copyrightable in the background), gets filmed by Eventbrite. Unless the event promoter has a blanket clause in the ticket T&C covering this, Eventbrite *and* the promoter will likely lose the court case.
To satisfy Eventbrite, the promoter will have to get advance clearance from all rights holders. And if one or more don't agree to Eventbrite's terms? Either that item drops from the event, or Eventbrite doesn't get to sell the tickets. I know what I'd choose.
Ctrl-f "RPG"
It's still doing a lot of commerce, so why shouldn't any other useful language?
It says on many currencies "good for debts public and private", but if there's a decently-readable "No Cash" sign on the front door (before your transaction begins, i.e. before you incur the debt), then the business is within its rights to specify how they will accept payment.
If that information isn't made available before the debt is incurred, e.g. no sign, and they've already made your coffee, then you can offer cash, and no reasonable magistrate is going to convict you (even if the police could be bothered to arrest you) because you offered a legal means to settle the debt.
Why couldn't they slurp voice calls? The audio of your voice is just data, once it's processed by the ADC. Your voice is not transmitted as an analog waveform to the cell tower - it's digital all the way until the DAC at the other person's phone.
But according to the headline on this article, it's a Big Falcon Rocket Rocket.
Just like an ATM machine or a PIN number.
Well, perhaps you could look at financial incentives to encourage people to stop building houses that vastly exceed their needs.
Yurts and Kale, no - but stop building McMansions. There's an environmental cost to all of that construction, let alone the ongoing costs to provide heating and cooling.
Sorry, "3rd-world" isn't quite what I meant to say - it's a bit stupid to refer to some developing nations as "3rd-world". I hope you know what I mean.
Technology is important, very important, but it is not the *only* solution. Resources other than solar PV, wind, hydro and some other geo-based sources are finite in our timeframe, even if we find better and more efficient ways to exploit them (as we should).
Better education, ESPECIALLY for girls and women, will make a big difference.
"You don't need to have 8 children, or even birth 8 babies, to have a decent life."
Of course, using technology to deliver that education is important, too.
Getting 3rd-world populations away from the idea that "big family = success" is just as important as technological solutions to the problems that overpopulation has caused.
I wouldn't ask anyone to stop breeding, just keep it to 2 children - we need the ongoing mix of genes to keep ourselves healthy.