A small wind turbine, solar cells, etc. on each home that generates enough electricity for the home and feeds excess to a national grid.
What you are referring to is called microgeneration. It's major drawback is that small scale power generation isn't nearly as efficient as large scale. This is particularly true for wind power in urban and suburban areas, where trees and other buildings block the wind.
Does it seem premature to declare this the savior of our energy troubles before you have even put up a single test/prototype site? What are the technical hurdles?
A company called SWAY has all of the details worked out, they just need funding for a prototype.
So, the logical followup question TFA doesn't address, is do cortisol injections or pills on waking produce a change in the symptoms?
It's like those game shows that don't tell you the answer until after the commercial. If they told you the answer, how would the researchers expect to get another round of funding?
"This is sad news for us all." -- Adam Swidler, of Postini Services
I said that, not Adam Swidler. If you read the firehose it says:
Adam Swidler, of Postini Services says, "It's unlikely we are going to see another event like McColo where taking out an I.S.P. has that kind of dramatic impact on global spam volumes." This is sad news for us all.
The kdawson put the quotes in the wrong place when he put it on the main page. This is likely a result of the firehose article being one large quote, in which I posted a quote, and used double quotes instead of single quotes.
I noticed during the tour of the ISS that the Russian side of the space station felt very remote from the rest for the station. I also noticed the American astronaut was using the American exercise equipment and the Russian cosmonaut was using the Russian exercise equipment. It didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but now it apparently is.
Even wikileaks can be seen as legitimate investigative reporting and whistle blowing.
People always hold wikileaks in such high regrard. Why, just the other day a snake slithered up to me and said:
...your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and
evil.
Then I heard a story about another couple who read wikileaks.
...their
eyes were opened to any more perfect knowledge of good; but only to the
unhappy experience of having lost the good of original grace and
innocence, and incurred the dreadful evil of sin.
The basic issue in the US is the partisan nature of both politics and the media
Agreed, and The Huffington Post is widely regarded as a left leaning blog. I think objective journalism died long before investigative journalism. I would love to see some great, old fashioned, investigative journalism, but I fear it would be extremely biased in today's media outlets.
The inductive load imparts a huge amount of DC current onto the AC power grid and trashes the windings in the connected transformers. The defense is to disconnect those transformers from the grid...
Which brings me back to my original point, why won't a circuit breaker or fuse solve this problem? If the mode of failure of the transformer is a thermal one, simply make a fuse that fails thermally before the transformer.
The military doesn't produce anything, it just takes it/spends it/wears it out.
Excluding the Army Corps of Engineers. They actually build stuff to prevent/manage natural disasters. They are also very small compared to the rest of the military, and staffed mainly by civilians.
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"outdoor" house cats
There's an oxymoron for you.
There are also many who believe cats should be kept indoors.
A small wind turbine, solar cells, etc. on each home that generates enough electricity for the home and feeds excess to a national grid.
What you are referring to is called microgeneration. It's major drawback is that small scale power generation isn't nearly as efficient as large scale. This is particularly true for wind power in urban and suburban areas, where trees and other buildings block the wind.
Does it seem premature to declare this the savior of our energy troubles before you have even put up a single test/prototype site? What are the technical hurdles?
A company called SWAY has all of the details worked out, they just need funding for a prototype.
I wonder if a lot of animals would naturally, for example, choose a large pile of food over a small pile of food.
You just gave me an idea to make a computer out of the food chain.
I wonder what would happen if we put 42 pieces of corn in a field full of birds?
It's already proven that chicks can do math.
the cops used to write tickets to people riding bicycles while intoxicated.
Something to think about.
P.S. Motorized bar stools are nothing new. People race them!
So, the logical followup question TFA doesn't address, is do cortisol injections or pills on waking produce a change in the symptoms?
It's like those game shows that don't tell you the answer until after the commercial. If they told you the answer, how would the researchers expect to get another round of funding?
Basically, you just said "maybe... maybe not".
Yup, I'm guessing that administering cortisol was beyond the scope of the experiment. We won't know the answer until someone tries it.
This is good science. It leaves the reader with more questions than it answered. That means MORE FUNDING!
Does this mean a Cortisol injection would help?
Perhaps low cortisol levels are another symptom. Correlation does not imply causation.
Like run them through mazes with electrodes along the wrong routes or something?
Back in my day, we called it "building character."
Ok, so it's an April Fools Joke.... but damn it's well implemented.
Then how come I've gotten about 10 "page load error" messages this morning?
"This is sad news for us all." -- Adam Swidler, of Postini Services
I said that, not Adam Swidler. If you read the firehose it says:
The kdawson put the quotes in the wrong place when he put it on the main page. This is likely a result of the firehose article being one large quote, in which I posted a quote, and used double quotes instead of single quotes.
Lord Buckethead?
I noticed during the tour of the ISS that the Russian side of the space station felt very remote from the rest for the station. I also noticed the American astronaut was using the American exercise equipment and the Russian cosmonaut was using the Russian exercise equipment. It didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but now it apparently is.
Every piece of investigative journalism is labeled "extremely biased" by those cast in a negative light.
Very true.
Goldfarb, Goldblum, Goldfrappe, Goldstein, and Horrific Ethnic Stereotype, LLC, Inc.
You better pay these guys, I hear they win more cases than Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe!
Even wikileaks can be seen as legitimate investigative reporting and whistle blowing.
People always hold wikileaks in such high regrard. Why, just the other day a snake slithered up to me and said:
Then I heard a story about another couple who read wikileaks.
I guess ignorance is bliss.
The basic issue in the US is the partisan nature of both politics and the media
Agreed, and The Huffington Post is widely regarded as a left leaning blog. I think objective journalism died long before investigative journalism. I would love to see some great, old fashioned, investigative journalism, but I fear it would be extremely biased in today's media outlets.
I get emails claiming to increase my python's performance all of the time, I just delete them.
The inductive load imparts a huge amount of DC current onto the AC power grid and trashes the windings in the connected transformers. The defense is to disconnect those transformers from the grid...
Which brings me back to my original point, why won't a circuit breaker or fuse solve this problem? If the mode of failure of the transformer is a thermal one, simply make a fuse that fails thermally before the transformer.
The military doesn't produce anything, it just takes it/spends it/wears it out.
Excluding the Army Corps of Engineers. They actually build stuff to prevent/manage natural disasters. They are also very small compared to the rest of the military, and staffed mainly by civilians.
+1 good job!
Here are some screenshots for Alpha 6, but does anybody have screenshots of Beta?
Not that they will be all that different.
Just as long as the space weather doesn't render my firearms inoperable ;)
I should have bought that riot gun instead of a taser. :(
Something has to tell the breakers to trip.
Usually heat.