Umm, you don't know what truly rural areas are like do you. You talk as if a graduating class of 100 is small. My graduating class was 18, and there were maybe 100 kids total in 9th through 12th grades and maybe 200 total for K-12. Having said that $50,000 still seams like an awfuly small amount to be saving for such a drastic change. I would think the reduced fuel costs for both transportation and heating and cooling would be more than that.
I had it explanied to me like this:
You can flip the cop off as long as you keep your arms inside the vehicle, just don't stick your arm out the window otherwise they can ticket you for an inapropriate signal (think left, right turn on your bicycle).
All though it is probably not a good idea to flip the cop off anyway.
When I was working on my mechanical engineering degree I was required to take the intro CS class as opposed to my department having our own programming class. We did everything in C++ and I have not written a single line of C++ since I completed the class, in fact I haven't written anything more complicated then some simple Excel macros. I didn't personaly cheat in the CS class but I know at the small school that I went to there were more mechanincal eningeers in my class then CS majors.
Wind has about a 30% avaliability factor to it (at least here in the US), so in order to actually have a gigawatt of power availabe at any time you need about 3 times the name plate capacity. So in this case you need about 3 gigawatts of installed capacity to equal a gigawatt of a normal baseload unit (i.e. coal or nuclear, in this case space based solar). The wind doesn't always blow, and the way around that in the US and I'm assuming in Europe and other larger landmasses, is that even though the wind might not be blowing here it is blowing somewhere. Japan has very limited amounts of space avaliable right now and I'm guessing would have a major problem if the wind isn't blowing because there just isn't enough avaliable area to spread out your generation. If you don't think this is a problem try looking up ERCOT (the acroynym for the Texas power grid, yes they are on their own grid) wind event or just click here http://www.nrel.gov/wind/systemsintegration/pdfs/2008/ela_ercot_event.pdf
One of the factors of this event was the loss of 1500 Megawatts of wind in 3 hours.
For one thing, Up was most definitely not a children's film. In children's films, the villain doesn't tie a protagonist to a chair and drop him out of a blimp. That's straight over the moral event horizon for a kids' film.
Villians in past childrens movies have done things like, "cursed the infant Princess Aurora to 'prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die' before the sun set on her sixteenth birthday after not being invited to the baby's christening" (Maleficent, the villain of sleeping beauty).
The queen in Snow White makes several attempts on Snow White's life "First, she visits the dwarves' house as an old peddler woman, and sells Snow White laces for a corset; but laces them tightly to asphyxiate her. When that fails, she returns as a different old woman, and tricks Snow White into using a poisoned comb. Finally when the comb fails to kill her, she visits again as a farmer's wife, and gives Snow White a poisoned apple."
So clearly all past villians have been peaches and cream without a hint of malice or evil.
All quotes taken from Wikipedia.
My brother has a 10" EEEPC (Atom N230 1.6 GHz, 1Gb ram, 160 Gb HDD, with XP) and I believe he can play WOW for something like 4hrs on the battery (he got the biggest battery he could).
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Doesn't marshmallow have gelatin in it? Gelatin comes from connective tissue and hoves of animals usually.
Of course you pay approximately 60% more for a big mac in Norway as compared to the U.S.
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How much beach-front property is going to be lost in a hundred years?
Less than the amount that will be added.
How many cities are going to be underwater?
Zero populated ones.
What is going to happen to the Republic of Maldives?
The residents will move to the new beach-front property.
Umm, you don't know what truly rural areas are like do you. You talk as if a graduating class of 100 is small. My graduating class was 18, and there were maybe 100 kids total in 9th through 12th grades and maybe 200 total for K-12. Having said that $50,000 still seams like an awfuly small amount to be saving for such a drastic change. I would think the reduced fuel costs for both transportation and heating and cooling would be more than that.
I had it explanied to me like this: You can flip the cop off as long as you keep your arms inside the vehicle, just don't stick your arm out the window otherwise they can ticket you for an inapropriate signal (think left, right turn on your bicycle). All though it is probably not a good idea to flip the cop off anyway.
When I was working on my mechanical engineering degree I was required to take the intro CS class as opposed to my department having our own programming class. We did everything in C++ and I have not written a single line of C++ since I completed the class, in fact I haven't written anything more complicated then some simple Excel macros. I didn't personaly cheat in the CS class but I know at the small school that I went to there were more mechanincal eningeers in my class then CS majors.
Wind has about a 30% avaliability factor to it (at least here in the US), so in order to actually have a gigawatt of power availabe at any time you need about 3 times the name plate capacity. So in this case you need about 3 gigawatts of installed capacity to equal a gigawatt of a normal baseload unit (i.e. coal or nuclear, in this case space based solar). The wind doesn't always blow, and the way around that in the US and I'm assuming in Europe and other larger landmasses, is that even though the wind might not be blowing here it is blowing somewhere. Japan has very limited amounts of space avaliable right now and I'm guessing would have a major problem if the wind isn't blowing because there just isn't enough avaliable area to spread out your generation. If you don't think this is a problem try looking up ERCOT (the acroynym for the Texas power grid, yes they are on their own grid) wind event or just click here http://www.nrel.gov/wind/systemsintegration/pdfs/2008/ela_ercot_event.pdf One of the factors of this event was the loss of 1500 Megawatts of wind in 3 hours.
For one thing, Up was most definitely not a children's film. In children's films, the villain doesn't tie a protagonist to a chair and drop him out of a blimp. That's straight over the moral event horizon for a kids' film.
Villians in past childrens movies have done things like, "cursed the infant Princess Aurora to 'prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die' before the sun set on her sixteenth birthday after not being invited to the baby's christening" (Maleficent, the villain of sleeping beauty). The queen in Snow White makes several attempts on Snow White's life "First, she visits the dwarves' house as an old peddler woman, and sells Snow White laces for a corset; but laces them tightly to asphyxiate her. When that fails, she returns as a different old woman, and tricks Snow White into using a poisoned comb. Finally when the comb fails to kill her, she visits again as a farmer's wife, and gives Snow White a poisoned apple." So clearly all past villians have been peaches and cream without a hint of malice or evil. All quotes taken from Wikipedia.
My brother has a 10" EEEPC (Atom N230 1.6 GHz, 1Gb ram, 160 Gb HDD, with XP) and I believe he can play WOW for something like 4hrs on the battery (he got the biggest battery he could).