It depends on the EU... the only way this would get off the ground is with legislation on a large market. The only large market which still occasionally passes reasonable consumer legislation (getting worse every day, but something still occasionally slips through) is the EU.
And what if the oil facet gets turned off a little faster than expected? The free market doesn't deal well with once a century events...
Short and long term energy and food self sufficiency is right up there with national security with state responsibilities... in fact you can't really have the latter without the former.
"This is the threat represented by a people whose ethics are utilitarian, and whose politics are socialist, particularly with regard to socialized medicine. The idea will soon take hold–thanks to those whom we have empowered to tell our story in the media–that it is too expensive to allow some persons to live, and since the government provides the care, the government will have to decide when their lives will end."
Won't the glorious and charitable libertarians provide healthcare for all those people any way though if they or their loved ones want it? I mean you guys tell us we could just get rid of socialized health care altogether and charity would supply health care for all the poor... so for a small group of people abandoned by state care it should be rather trivial should it not?
You'd probably want to do it with x-rays rather than gamma radiation. I don't think some hesitation in use/distribution of huge numbers of high dosage gamma sources is an irrational concern.
I wonder if a personal x-ray sterilizer would be legal to market...
The water thing seems more a roundabout vote against privatization of the water supply. Which is a perfectly reasonable thing, the statistics might be on the side of safety for nuclear power where heavy water reactors is concerned... but they aren't as squarely on the side of success where privatization of natural monopolies is concerned.
As for importing power, you could just upgrade the HVDC link you have with France...
How is it cost effective? It's desirable to the powers that be to have continual war and military involvement in law enforcement, but cost effective for the American tax payer? I don't think so.
Final Cut Pro isn't rendering... it's video editing on high resolution monitors where people want real time feedback. You are not going to get this from the cloud, unless that is the name of a cluster in your basement connected to your computer by Infiniband.
Apple wants everything to run on Apple hardware too.
Big difference between killing MacOS and killing it in the consumer market though. They could easily kill the vast majority of x86 Mac sales simply by pricing.
If the cheapest x86 you can buy is a 1500$ Macbook Pro most people will stick to the iOS devices.
Development is hardly an impediment, they could easily create a self hosted IDE on iOS to be used with iOS Macbooks and iMacs.
I could see iMacs going to iOS as well, and Macbook Pros being moved further upmarket to make them less attractive to normal consumers just like the ridiculously upmarket Mac Pros (not just an issue of margins, but also of hardware configuration... Mac Pros have ridiculously expensive components, they only make sense for people with so much money they just don't give a shit about price/performance ratios or who are dependent on Apple software).
Blah, I hadn't been paying attention for a while... I always knew the guys who tried to get rid of Michael were scummy, but this is a fucking new low. Don't send lawyers in before simply asking, unless want everyone to know you're an utter bastard.
Nantenna could be huge... if the physics work out right to allow them to integrate the antenna and the MIM diode into a single three layer structure it will cost cents to the m2.
Iran is a pariah in a way no country in the EU is. As far as dependence and future uncertainty, compared to oil and artificial fertilizer it's a drop in the pond.
For the rest it's simple economics, I see no reason to protect engineers any better or worse against outsourcing than the working class. Now Germany's nuclear industry might be large enough to be profitable, so it's a bit of a special case... but in smaller countries most of the expertise to build them is foreign any way.
It's expensive, prohibitive is just a state of mind. Going completely solar is feasible if done in Africa, not much more expensive than the stimulus plans and bailouts. The major hurdle is getting Morocco into the EU, a huge socio-political problem at this point (we should have done it decades ago).
But then so is going Nuclear on a huge scale... and Uranium is finite as well. Thorium is no alternative in the short term either, MSRs will take decades to come online. The only thorium breeders which could be put into service soon are liquid sodium cooled breeders, and I don't want those in my back yard.
I agree to a point... but where will we put those panels? Even Spain's weather is a bit too variable. Northern Africa is relatively close by and ideal... but the political stability is a problem. I've said it before... we should really have let Morocco into the EU from the start. It would have made a transition to solar power so much easier:/
For the smaller EU countries it would probably represent a net savings to import from France rather than refurbishing their small nuclear industry and having to deal with waste management and regulation... the wish to have a nuclear industry often has more to do with nationalism than economics, it's a hold over from decades ago.
Investors need to be punished when their governance is inadequate. Handing out punitive fines to real people but not to companies because it might hurt their poor employees and stock holders is a gross market distortion in favour of big companies.
It always seems to me that the US is the most corrupt first world country in the world.
You see stories like this and about a congressman throwing in an earmark for a company his uncle owns for millions of dollars and it's just taken as normal procedure... unfortunate, but nothing to get any politician fired over. In the UK parliamentarians step down for dodgy expense claim of 10s of thousands of pounds... in the US you get to hand out millions and get off scot free.
Loan guarantee, not subsidy. It can create those jobs for 0$ in government money spend, or it can waste the full amount in government money or anything in between (if the company goes bankrupt but government wants to see it finished rather than just paying of the debt and forgetting about it, it could chose to pay for the cost overruns to finish it to recoup some losses).
Do YOU realize how much water Switzerland has to pump up hill to store the kind of energy they need and how much pumping capacity they already have? Switzerland supplies half it's energy needs from hydro already, and converting a hydro plant to a pump station is hardly rocket science... sure it's not an option for all countries, but Switzerland can easily store a couple of days of electricity in it's reservoirs if it expands it's hydro power.
Get Morocco into the EU, their deserts alone are enough (you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket, but for the short term it will do). Use thermal storage to provide 2 day backup and coal plants within the EU for long term backup.
Will it be expensive to build all the solar plants and the HVDC links? Yes... but replacing the current electricity needs with solar with current technology has costs on the same order of magnitude as the crisis stimulus packages (with the caveat that 2 days of thermal storage will still require a bit of R&D, but I doubt that will shift costs by an order of magnitude).
With a moon shot type effort fully renewable energy is easily on the cards IMO. Even if it is more expensive than nuclear it can be build up far faster... the US has it really easy, since it has it's own deserts.
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It depends on the EU ... the only way this would get off the ground is with legislation on a large market. The only large market which still occasionally passes reasonable consumer legislation (getting worse every day, but something still occasionally slips through) is the EU.
And what if the oil facet gets turned off a little faster than expected? The free market doesn't deal well with once a century events ...
Short and long term energy and food self sufficiency is right up there with national security with state responsibilities ... in fact you can't really have the latter without the former.
"This is the threat represented by a people whose ethics are utilitarian, and whose politics are socialist, particularly with regard to socialized medicine. The idea will soon take hold–thanks to those whom we have empowered to tell our story in the media–that it is too expensive to allow some persons to live, and since the government provides the care, the government will have to decide when their lives will end."
Won't the glorious and charitable libertarians provide healthcare for all those people any way though if they or their loved ones want it? I mean you guys tell us we could just get rid of socialized health care altogether and charity would supply health care for all the poor ... so for a small group of people abandoned by state care it should be rather trivial should it not?
You'd probably want to do it with x-rays rather than gamma radiation. I don't think some hesitation in use/distribution of huge numbers of high dosage gamma sources is an irrational concern.
I wonder if a personal x-ray sterilizer would be legal to market ...
Do pesticides kill e-coli?
The water thing seems more a roundabout vote against privatization of the water supply. Which is a perfectly reasonable thing, the statistics might be on the side of safety for nuclear power where heavy water reactors is concerned ... but they aren't as squarely on the side of success where privatization of natural monopolies is concerned.
As for importing power, you could just upgrade the HVDC link you have with France ...
Thanks to the legend of Ataturk, which is fading. My prediction, Erdogan will remove term limits in 3-4 years ...
How is it cost effective? It's desirable to the powers that be to have continual war and military involvement in law enforcement, but cost effective for the American tax payer? I don't think so.
Final Cut Pro isn't rendering ... it's video editing on high resolution monitors where people want real time feedback. You are not going to get this from the cloud, unless that is the name of a cluster in your basement connected to your computer by Infiniband.
Apple wants everything to run on Apple hardware too.
There are order of magnitude performance differences to overcome, Final Cut Pro isn't moving to ARM for a long time.
There isn't even an ARM 64 bit instruction set yet ...
Big difference between killing MacOS and killing it in the consumer market though. They could easily kill the vast majority of x86 Mac sales simply by pricing.
If the cheapest x86 you can buy is a 1500$ Macbook Pro most people will stick to the iOS devices.
Development is hardly an impediment, they could easily create a self hosted IDE on iOS to be used with iOS Macbooks and iMacs.
I could see iMacs going to iOS as well, and Macbook Pros being moved further upmarket to make them less attractive to normal consumers just like the ridiculously upmarket Mac Pros (not just an issue of margins, but also of hardware configuration ... Mac Pros have ridiculously expensive components, they only make sense for people with so much money they just don't give a shit about price/performance ratios or who are dependent on Apple software).
Blah, I hadn't been paying attention for a while ... I always knew the guys who tried to get rid of Michael were scummy, but this is a fucking new low. Don't send lawyers in before simply asking, unless want everyone to know you're an utter bastard.
Nantenna could be huge ... if the physics work out right to allow them to integrate the antenna and the MIM diode into a single three layer structure it will cost cents to the m2.
Iran is a pariah in a way no country in the EU is. As far as dependence and future uncertainty, compared to oil and artificial fertilizer it's a drop in the pond.
For the rest it's simple economics, I see no reason to protect engineers any better or worse against outsourcing than the working class. Now Germany's nuclear industry might be large enough to be profitable, so it's a bit of a special case ... but in smaller countries most of the expertise to build them is foreign any way.
It's expensive, prohibitive is just a state of mind. Going completely solar is feasible if done in Africa, not much more expensive than the stimulus plans and bailouts. The major hurdle is getting Morocco into the EU, a huge socio-political problem at this point (we should have done it decades ago).
But then so is going Nuclear on a huge scale ... and Uranium is finite as well. Thorium is no alternative in the short term either, MSRs will take decades to come online. The only thorium breeders which could be put into service soon are liquid sodium cooled breeders, and I don't want those in my back yard.
I agree to a point ... but where will we put those panels? Even Spain's weather is a bit too variable. Northern Africa is relatively close by and ideal ... but the political stability is a problem. I've said it before ... we should really have let Morocco into the EU from the start. It would have made a transition to solar power so much easier :/
For the smaller EU countries it would probably represent a net savings to import from France rather than refurbishing their small nuclear industry and having to deal with waste management and regulation ... the wish to have a nuclear industry often has more to do with nationalism than economics, it's a hold over from decades ago.
France has comparative advantage.
Investors need to be punished when their governance is inadequate. Handing out punitive fines to real people but not to companies because it might hurt their poor employees and stock holders is a gross market distortion in favour of big companies.
It always seems to me that the US is the most corrupt first world country in the world.
You see stories like this and about a congressman throwing in an earmark for a company his uncle owns for millions of dollars and it's just taken as normal procedure ... unfortunate, but nothing to get any politician fired over. In the UK parliamentarians step down for dodgy expense claim of 10s of thousands of pounds ... in the US you get to hand out millions and get off scot free.
Yep, and saying slicing the throat while conscious is the most humane way is classical Jewish propaganda ...
Loan guarantee, not subsidy. It can create those jobs for 0$ in government money spend, or it can waste the full amount in government money or anything in between (if the company goes bankrupt but government wants to see it finished rather than just paying of the debt and forgetting about it, it could chose to pay for the cost overruns to finish it to recoup some losses).
Do YOU realize how much water Switzerland has to pump up hill to store the kind of energy they need and how much pumping capacity they already have? Switzerland supplies half it's energy needs from hydro already, and converting a hydro plant to a pump station is hardly rocket science ... sure it's not an option for all countries, but Switzerland can easily store a couple of days of electricity in it's reservoirs if it expands it's hydro power.
Get Morocco into the EU, their deserts alone are enough (you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket, but for the short term it will do). Use thermal storage to provide 2 day backup and coal plants within the EU for long term backup.
Will it be expensive to build all the solar plants and the HVDC links? Yes ... but replacing the current electricity needs with solar with current technology has costs on the same order of magnitude as the crisis stimulus packages (with the caveat that 2 days of thermal storage will still require a bit of R&D, but I doubt that will shift costs by an order of magnitude).
With a moon shot type effort fully renewable energy is easily on the cards IMO. Even if it is more expensive than nuclear it can be build up far faster ... the US has it really easy, since it has it's own deserts.
Or Moroccan Solar power bought through France, which they are putting money and effort into.