A plant which can on average run say 200 days a year for 8 hours a day... yeah sure, you could make that work. It's not terribly efficient compared to 356 days 24 hour shift utilization, but it's still in the same order of magnitude for the plant (and I'm of the opinion that once stuff is in the same order of magnitude you have to start doing detailed math). The 10s of percent loss in labour utilization from bad weather is too small to even worry about in a hand waving competition.
It's not outside of the realm of possibility that we will find much cheaper ways to store electricity overnight for a couple of days with decent round trip efficiency either. Probably thermal energy storage, I'd try pebbles in a bath of tin with dual purpose steam turbines (also to be ran on gas or liquid fuel when the spot price for electricity is high enough and the thermal storage is depleted). The extremely high temperature achievable allows much simpler open systems (ie. just add water) than the closed systems necessary for decent efficiency at lower temperatures, I think those are a dead end.
He didn't make a value judgement,/gg/'ers are so easily offended. I'll rephrase it a bit so your reply can at least be relevant for someone.
2chan seem to get bored faster so you don't get cringeworthy never-ending shitstorms like GamerGate coming out of it, which has managed to be an even more embarrassing mess of inflated self importance and myopia than Chanology.
Stop and go driving blows period, I don't see how not having to shift helps much. I wonder if the increased involvement in operating the car might help prevent rear ending in stop and go traffic, though on the downside many people aren't comfortable with using hand brake when pulling away on a steep incline.
He describes what he thinks could be an electricity to liquid process competitive with fossil fuels (he envisages to be used with nuclear power, but it's still an electricity to liquid process) and you use that as an argument for the impossibility of storing sunlight. That's a bit non sequitur.
Have you ever looked at trend lines for PV electricity cost? If you want to build a nuke plant with private money they are downright scary and with HVDC distribution isn't much of an issue either. If the US navy manages to cheaply convert electricity to liquids that could be even better for solar than nuclear, if the trend lines hold. As a money man you should have some respect for technical analysis;) It's mostly bullshit, but in the absence of known physical limits it's as good as any other guess on the bounds of solar electricity cost.
Area is not a problem for the US either, it has plenty of deserts with good sunshine (it is obviously a problem for the EU).
Their solar panels weren't very good at the time and it does need a ton of handling compared to solar panels.
The only way I see algae harvesting being economic is with plastic "ponds" on the ocean, area is cheap, don't have to pump water (open systems like the one you describe need it) and don't have to worry about overheating (closed systems do this). Put the gasification+FT close by and recycle the ashes back into the ponds.
Her smile and physical signs of excitement are still quite physical.
Your focus in what attracts you physically can shift. People in long relationships tend to be good at this, for obvious reasons, but it also reminds me somewhat of an interview with a male porn star I saw once. He could find beauty to be attracted to in almost any female body by simply focusing on one part.
Did your daughter's optometrist add that wearing negative power glasses while using that ipad makes it incredibly much worse? It's a foot away without the glasses, it's virtual image is much closer with them.
Kids glasses should come with health warnings... they destroy so many eyes.
Judaism certainly has problematic concepts as well. Islam wants to convert us, Ovadia Yosef just wanted to rule us.
The establishment of Israel makes it in my opinion inevitable that religious Judaism will change into a form pushing for the annexation of the temple mount and the promised land in general... the orthodox outside Israel might maintain the illegitimacy of Israel, but the ones inside won't be able to unite the dichotomy for long. See the changing rabbinic opinions about visitations to temple mount for instance. There is also a demographic shift under way away from secularism.
As for what religious Judaism might consider the promised land, lets just say it's not cut and dry :
Make a new internet, this time demanding best practices from anyone linked. Don't have best practices on egress filtering and for responding to reports of source addresses participating in a DDOS? You're delinked. Don't delink servers usable for known amplification attacks? You're delinked.
It's looking very likely that there are much simpler methods of implementing quantum computing algorithms using optical means and the NSA might be further along the path of that research than academia.
Carrying capacity of land when farmed by well equipped, well educated farmers with a plentiful supply of oil and chemicals supplying a vegetarian diet is not exactly the same as the practical carrying capacity of land. Throw in economic disparity and meat consumption, throw in the fragility of international supply chains, throw in brain drain, white flight and dispossession and the carrying capacity can quickly go to complete and utter shit.
It's not like the media doesn't successful push the US in the same direction... they just have neighbours and immigrants slightly less hostile to their way of life, thanks to geography.
I meant you can't redistribute the people to where the resources are without destroying civilizations (and productivity with it). You can obviously redistribute the resources as long as there is political will... but that will can disappear and then you have countries with unsustainable populations and no food aid.
If Google provides the internet through satellites they won't even need Tor.
Developing and air dropping a couple million Young Boy's/Lady's Illustrated Primers into the Middle East, now that would be useful... not very politically correct of course.
Overpopulation is depleting resources far faster than climate change.
PS. yes, there's plenty for plenty more people... but not correctly distributed among the people, which you can't redistribute without destroying civilization.
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Seasoned professionals have given us decades worth of mostly unnecessary buffer overflows.
A plant which can on average run say 200 days a year for 8 hours a day ... yeah sure, you could make that work. It's not terribly efficient compared to 356 days 24 hour shift utilization, but it's still in the same order of magnitude for the plant (and I'm of the opinion that once stuff is in the same order of magnitude you have to start doing detailed math). The 10s of percent loss in labour utilization from bad weather is too small to even worry about in a hand waving competition.
It's not outside of the realm of possibility that we will find much cheaper ways to store electricity overnight for a couple of days with decent round trip efficiency either. Probably thermal energy storage, I'd try pebbles in a bath of tin with dual purpose steam turbines (also to be ran on gas or liquid fuel when the spot price for electricity is high enough and the thermal storage is depleted). The extremely high temperature achievable allows much simpler open systems (ie. just add water) than the closed systems necessary for decent efficiency at lower temperatures, I think those are a dead end.
He didn't make a value judgement, /gg/'ers are so easily offended. I'll rephrase it a bit so your reply can at least be relevant for someone.
2chan seem to get bored faster so you don't get cringeworthy never-ending shitstorms like GamerGate coming out of it, which has managed to be an even more embarrassing mess of inflated self importance and myopia than Chanology.
They say there is a chicken and egg problem, I only see a chicken problem.
Stop and go driving blows period, I don't see how not having to shift helps much. I wonder if the increased involvement in operating the car might help prevent rear ending in stop and go traffic, though on the downside many people aren't comfortable with using hand brake when pulling away on a steep incline.
He describes what he thinks could be an electricity to liquid process competitive with fossil fuels (he envisages to be used with nuclear power, but it's still an electricity to liquid process) and you use that as an argument for the impossibility of storing sunlight. That's a bit non sequitur.
Have you ever looked at trend lines for PV electricity cost? If you want to build a nuke plant with private money they are downright scary and with HVDC distribution isn't much of an issue either. If the US navy manages to cheaply convert electricity to liquids that could be even better for solar than nuclear, if the trend lines hold. As a money man you should have some respect for technical analysis ;) It's mostly bullshit, but in the absence of known physical limits it's as good as any other guess on the bounds of solar electricity cost.
Area is not a problem for the US either, it has plenty of deserts with good sunshine (it is obviously a problem for the EU).
With less people on the planet it would be an option, of course with enough people on the planet we run out of options real quick regardless.
Their solar panels weren't very good at the time and it does need a ton of handling compared to solar panels.
The only way I see algae harvesting being economic is with plastic "ponds" on the ocean, area is cheap, don't have to pump water (open systems like the one you describe need it) and don't have to worry about overheating (closed systems do this). Put the gasification+FT close by and recycle the ashes back into the ponds.
Her smile and physical signs of excitement are still quite physical.
Your focus in what attracts you physically can shift. People in long relationships tend to be good at this, for obvious reasons, but it also reminds me somewhat of an interview with a male porn star I saw once. He could find beauty to be attracted to in almost any female body by simply focusing on one part.
Will only work with very well behaved kids, but you could make them wear reading glasses while reading and using a computer.
Problem solved.
Did your daughter's optometrist add that wearing negative power glasses while using that ipad makes it incredibly much worse? It's a foot away without the glasses, it's virtual image is much closer with them.
Kids glasses should come with health warnings ... they destroy so many eyes.
I wasn't quoting the UN, I was quoting the Rabbi testifying before the UN.
Could have just gone with Genesis 15:18 too of course.
Judaism certainly has problematic concepts as well. Islam wants to convert us, Ovadia Yosef just wanted to rule us.
The establishment of Israel makes it in my opinion inevitable that religious Judaism will change into a form pushing for the annexation of the temple mount and the promised land in general ... the orthodox outside Israel might maintain the illegitimacy of Israel, but the ones inside won't be able to unite the dichotomy for long. See the changing rabbinic opinions about visitations to temple mount for instance. There is also a demographic shift under way away from secularism.
As for what religious Judaism might consider the promised land, lets just say it's not cut and dry :
http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL....
An Ayatollah or a Haredi with a finger on the button, seems about equally as scary a thought to me.
Make a new internet, this time demanding best practices from anyone linked. Don't have best practices on egress filtering and for responding to reports of source addresses participating in a DDOS? You're delinked. Don't delink servers usable for known amplification attacks? You're delinked.
Problem solved.
It's looking very likely that there are much simpler methods of implementing quantum computing algorithms using optical means and the NSA might be further along the path of that research than academia.
Until they change the addresses, or simply pipe the telemetry through the windows update connection
If we want to create demand by having more people on welfare we can just send the checks abroad.
Carrying capacity of land when farmed by well equipped, well educated farmers with a plentiful supply of oil and chemicals supplying a vegetarian diet is not exactly the same as the practical carrying capacity of land. Throw in economic disparity and meat consumption, throw in the fragility of international supply chains, throw in brain drain, white flight and dispossession and the carrying capacity can quickly go to complete and utter shit.
Maliki government, Turkish government, Saudi Arabian government ... extremist Sunni militias rarely have to look very hard for sponsors.
Has little to do with European values.
It's not like the media doesn't successful push the US in the same direction ... they just have neighbours and immigrants slightly less hostile to their way of life, thanks to geography.
I meant you can't redistribute the people to where the resources are without destroying civilizations (and productivity with it). You can obviously redistribute the resources as long as there is political will ... but that will can disappear and then you have countries with unsustainable populations and no food aid.
If Google provides the internet through satellites they won't even need Tor.
Developing and air dropping a couple million Young Boy's/Lady's Illustrated Primers into the Middle East, now that would be useful ... not very politically correct of course.
There is no significant number of truly committed bleeding heart liberals. There's only the media and sheep.
In the end liberalism in society is bought with money, conservatism will have to be bought with blood and raped daughters.
Overpopulation is depleting resources far faster than climate change.
PS. yes, there's plenty for plenty more people ... but not correctly distributed among the people, which you can't redistribute without destroying civilization.