The numbers are here. Right now, Spanish wind power is generating ~10400 MW out of 17600 installed MW (59%, green graph). The yellow graph shows wind power as percentage of total demand (now stands at 38%). (Select "2009-11-08" as date and click "Consultar otra fecha").
Wind has been generating between 7-10 GW in Spain during the last week, check it in the other graphic (labeled as "Eólica"). "Rest. reg. especial" means other tech (biomass, solar, cogeneration), and "Intercambios int." means imports/exports (to/from France, Portugal or Morocco). When hydro turns dark blue, reversible hydro plants are pumping water.
Microeconomics can answer this question: monopolists engage in price discrimination in order to maximize their profits, predating the consumer surplus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Sad, but probably true. In Spain, when we switched to the Euro (2002), a lot of things that used to be sold at 100 pesetas began to be sold at 1 Euro (~166 ptas).
True, but the political situation is a bit different in Europe. In Spain, we haven't pure liberal parties; the other big party is the PP, which is mainly conservative; and the PSOE, as a leftish party, is supposed to be in the side of the people, not the corporations (or at least this is their propaganda). In economic terms, both parties are quite similar.
In Spain, SGAE, Promusicae and others (spanish RIAAs) are paid a percentage ('canon') of the price of storage devices: CDs, DVDs, printers, hard drives, cameras... in compensation for their hypothetical losses because of P2P. But now they are showing that they also want to adopt the US way to 'defend' their copyrighted media, so we'll end up being f*cked twice.
And our ruling party, the PSOE, calls itself leftish. Contradictory, isn't it?
Where can I find these proposed improvements? I have found Portage very powerful until now (perhaps slow bacuase of Python and Bash), and I'd like to see what kind of features are missing (ebuilds are bash scripts, so I wonder why are they obsolete)
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The numbers are here. Right now, Spanish wind power is generating ~10400 MW out of 17600 installed MW (59%, green graph). The yellow graph shows wind power as percentage of total demand (now stands at 38%). (Select "2009-11-08" as date and click "Consultar otra fecha").
Wind has been generating between 7-10 GW in Spain during the last week, check it in the other graphic (labeled as "Eólica"). "Rest. reg. especial" means other tech (biomass, solar, cogeneration), and "Intercambios int." means imports/exports (to/from France, Portugal or Morocco). When hydro turns dark blue, reversible hydro plants are pumping water.
Well, economic textbooks say economics profit equals (customer's perceived value minus actual retail cost).
Microeconomics can answer this question: monopolists engage in price discrimination in order to maximize their profits, predating the consumer surplus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Sad, but probably true. In Spain, when we switched to the Euro (2002), a lot of things that used to be sold at 100 pesetas began to be sold at 1 Euro (~166 ptas).
True, but the political situation is a bit different in Europe. In Spain, we haven't pure liberal parties; the other big party is the PP, which is mainly conservative; and the PSOE, as a leftish party, is supposed to be in the side of the people, not the corporations (or at least this is their propaganda). In economic terms, both parties are quite similar.
In Spain, SGAE, Promusicae and others (spanish RIAAs) are paid a percentage ('canon') of the price of storage devices: CDs, DVDs, printers, hard drives, cameras... in compensation for their hypothetical losses because of P2P. But now they are showing that they also want to adopt the US way to 'defend' their copyrighted media, so we'll end up being f*cked twice. And our ruling party, the PSOE, calls itself leftish. Contradictory, isn't it?
Where can I find these proposed improvements? I have found Portage very powerful until now (perhaps slow bacuase of Python and Bash), and I'd like to see what kind of features are missing (ebuilds are bash scripts, so I wonder why are they obsolete)