You have a very low bar. Watch it without the laugh track sometime. Once nothing is telling you to laugh, your brain might engage and you will realize that, in fact, none of the 'jokes' are funny and most are just the same joke told in a variety of other sit coms.
100% solar panels? we could trivially wipe out a day time use. We can use gravity systems for storage.
Fuck, if this was 1930, we would be doing it all ready. Now everyone is a whiny ass afraid of big projects. The bests roads, best education system, best space agency, tallest buildings, longest bridges all see to be in the US, but apparently everyone has given up and have no problems watching out civilization built into straw start to blow away. At least billionaires get to keep more billions and suck money out of the system; which is what kills the middle class..
A massive solar project would pretty much put everyone to work, increase the tax base.
Who said anything a out roof tops? I just price solar for my roof, here in Oregon. 10,000 BEFORE tax breaks and incentives, BTW.
Anyway, we can build solar thermal farms and hook them into the existing grid. The US has vast open mostly sunny areas. We can build several solar farms 25 miles to a side. Nothing about that is hard from an engineering perspective.
Roof top would be bonus. But if you want to talk about panels then: Mandate new houses have to have them. Cover parking lots and put panels there. Put panels along the side of the freeways. These panel would probably get less efficiency do to the cover getting dirty, but that is over come with just the shear volume you could do.
gosh where indeed. oh right, a power issue in Canada takes out electricity for millions of people not even in the country. It was due to 1(one) fault. SCADA infrastructure is woefully out dated.
"The technology of power transmission hasn't fundamentally changed in 100 years. " um, yes it has. sure you see wires and thing its the same, but the tech to make the wires, to step up and down the power has vastly improved. This is why we have so little power loss compared to even 50 years ago.
"so why would you replace it if it's still working just fine?" it's not.
Yes, then when you get home you charge it from the batteries that were charging while you were at work. Also, there is vast unused solar space.
How many large parking lots could be covered but aren't? all of those could be generating electricity. It would even have the side benefit in that there will be less impact on micro-climate then asphalt. The cover could be 30 feet high, so trucks wouldn't have a problem. And it would be better for shoppers during 'bad' weather. The sides of the freeways could have linked solar panels AND act as a carrier for cross counter electricity.
The sad thing? the engineering isn't that difficult and is doable. Climate change deniers are spending money like mad, lying, and impacting us all. I speak without hyperbole when I say, run away green house means the extinction of our civilization, and quite possible the human species.
From your link: Solar Energy Comparison with Fossil Fuels By comparison, solar power is still the clear winner, according to ecology.com, in terms of being more environmentally friendly. When solar power generation is matched against fossil fuel-based energy production, solar is less damaging to the earth. Even the dangers that are presented by solar power are found as often, or more so, in the by-products of fossil fuels, and there is no escaping the fact that a solar panel can provide as much as 20 years of power generation for a single carbon investment of manufacturing the system, which cannot be duplicated by any other commonly used type of energy production, other than wind system
"The advertisers won't pay more just because the stars now get paid more." false.
"I don't think you understand the concept of value." I actually do.
"so this obviously (well, maybe not to you) makes great sense for all parties involved." except the consumer. Anyone who buys a product, regardless if the watch the show, pays and gets no say.
" Have you tried acting/making people laugh week after week for years?" No, but there are 100,000 of actors that do. Those actors are not special.
" It is incredibly difficult" More difficult then running into a burning building? more difficult the writing? more difficult the building aircraft? more difficult then teaching kids ear after year for decades?
No, it's not that difficult. say what they are told to say? stand where they are told to stand? Yes, acting takes skill. I just thing it's not worth millions of dollars a year.
Do you think the production company dips into their own pocket, or that the price of advertising goes up to make the difference? Consumers pay those bills. Every time you buy something, you are paying those outrages salaries.
It's not life risking, it's not overly hard, they are off a great deal of the year.
If it was actually funny they wouldn't need that laugh track to tell you when the joke is.
Compared to almost every other job on the planet, they are ridiculously over paid.
Google. Google is the new coding books(everything books, really.). If you are just looking for examples or cut and paste of something someone has done before, you don't need coding books.
"Wireless power transmission makes it extremely hard to monitor usage and thus extract payment." Spoken like someone who doesn't know jack/shit about electricity.
" Too bad your watch tattled that you just paused in front of a 'bookstore' that sells gay porn." And that would be bad.. why?
". It's also too bad your employer was exempted from EOE because it's against the corporation's sincerely held religion, so you get fired in the process." Why is it reporting to me employer, exactly? My phone doesn't report to my employer when it know I stop in front of a store.
I rarely see any spam anymore, so I'm not sure why it would increase.
Gathering power from RF is not new. This might be a novel way to implement it, but it will have the same issues.
1) No free ride. Taking RF and turning it into electricity means less range for the RF. 2) You are still paying for power. No it's just a lot less efficient.
There is a reason the radio industry has worked hard to stop RF power light bulbs. Because the broadcaster would be paying for your electricity.
No. UUCP was the 'internet' until TCP/IP became more popular. The first personal computers used UUCP to connect to the internet. By internet, I mean the hardware and lines. TCP/IP is not the internet. It's an internet protocol. A way to tonnect to communicate vie 'the internet'.
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You have a very low bar.
Watch it without the laugh track sometime.
Once nothing is telling you to laugh, your brain might engage and you will realize that, in fact, none of the 'jokes' are funny and most are just the same joke told in a variety of other sit coms.
Ask minorities how they liked it.
FYI, transmission losses over 4000 miles is 7%.
100% solar panels? we could trivially wipe out a day time use.
We can use gravity systems for storage.
Fuck, if this was 1930, we would be doing it all ready. Now everyone is a whiny ass afraid of big projects.
The bests roads, best education system, best space agency, tallest buildings, longest bridges all see to be in the US, but apparently everyone has given up and have no problems watching out civilization built into straw start to blow away. At least billionaires get to keep more billions and suck money out of the system; which is what kills the middle class..
A massive solar project would pretty much put everyone to work, increase the tax base.
Who said anything a out roof tops? I just price solar for my roof, here in Oregon. 10,000 BEFORE tax breaks and incentives, BTW.
Anyway, we can build solar thermal farms and hook them into the existing grid.
The US has vast open mostly sunny areas. We can build several solar farms 25 miles to a side.
Nothing about that is hard from an engineering perspective.
Roof top would be bonus. But if you want to talk about panels then:
Mandate new houses have to have them.
Cover parking lots and put panels there.
Put panels along the side of the freeways. These panel would probably get less efficiency do to the cover getting dirty, but that is over come with just the shear volume you could do.
This is a doable solution.
.
gosh where indeed. oh right, a power issue in Canada takes out electricity for millions of people not even in the country. It was due to 1(one) fault.
SCADA infrastructure is woefully out dated.
"The technology of power transmission hasn't fundamentally changed in 100 years. "
um, yes it has. sure you see wires and thing its the same, but the tech to make the wires, to step up and down the power has vastly improved. This is why we have so little power loss compared to even 50 years ago.
"so why would you replace it if it's still working just fine?"
it's not.
Yes, then when you get home you charge it from the batteries that were charging while you were at work.
Also, there is vast unused solar space.
How many large parking lots could be covered but aren't? all of those could be generating electricity. It would even have the side benefit in that there will be less impact on micro-climate then asphalt.
The cover could be 30 feet high, so trucks wouldn't have a problem. And it would be better for shoppers during 'bad' weather.
The sides of the freeways could have linked solar panels AND act as a carrier for cross counter electricity.
The sad thing? the engineering isn't that difficult and is doable. Climate change deniers are spending money like mad, lying, and impacting us all.
I speak without hyperbole when I say, run away green house means the extinction of our civilization, and quite possible the human species.
From your link:
Solar Energy Comparison with Fossil Fuels
By comparison, solar power is still the clear winner, according to ecology.com, in terms of being more environmentally friendly. When solar power generation is matched against fossil fuel-based energy production, solar is less damaging to the earth. Even the dangers that are presented by solar power are found as often, or more so, in the by-products of fossil fuels, and there is no escaping the fact that a solar panel can provide as much as 20 years of power generation for a single carbon investment of manufacturing the system, which cannot be duplicated by any other commonly used type of energy production, other than wind system
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/list_63278...
We could power all our electricity needs, 24/7 with solar. It would probably take about 10 years and 30 billion dollars.
Home generation through solar is good for everyone.
"The advertisers won't pay more just because the stars now get paid more."
false.
"I don't think you understand the concept of value."
I actually do.
"so this obviously (well, maybe not to you) makes great sense for all parties involved."
except the consumer. Anyone who buys a product, regardless if the watch the show, pays and gets no say.
" Have you tried acting/making people laugh week after week for years?"
No, but there are 100,000 of actors that do. Those actors are not special.
" It is incredibly difficult"
More difficult then running into a burning building? more difficult the writing? more difficult the building aircraft? more difficult then teaching kids ear after year for decades?
No, it's not that difficult.
say what they are told to say? stand where they are told to stand?
Yes, acting takes skill. I just thing it's not worth millions of dollars a year.
Do you think the production company dips into their own pocket, or that the price of advertising goes up to make the difference?
Consumers pay those bills. Every time you buy something, you are paying those outrages salaries.
It's not life risking, it's not overly hard, they are off a great deal of the year.
If it was actually funny they wouldn't need that laugh track to tell you when the joke is.
Compared to almost every other job on the planet, they are ridiculously over paid.
Google.
Google is the new coding books(everything books, really.). If you are just looking for examples or cut and paste of something someone has done before, you don't need coding books.
have been steep in technology since agriculture.
mayhaps you want to be specific?
for what they do. VASTLY overpaid.
I like that hen the are called on their blackface they respond:
I know people like that!
Imagine if they where making fun of black culture and the defense is 'I know black people!'
Sickening.
"...t ok with the force of the state being used to enforce its terms."
as long as you are ok with the state not enforcing me to pay.
"Wireless power transmission makes it extremely hard to monitor usage and thus extract payment."
Spoken like someone who doesn't know jack/shit about electricity.
Just put it near the bed, so it charges while you sleep.
" Too bad your watch tattled that you just paused in front of a 'bookstore' that sells gay porn."
And that would be bad.. why?
". It's also too bad your employer was exempted from EOE because it's against the corporation's sincerely held religion, so you get fired in the process."
Why is it reporting to me employer, exactly? My phone doesn't report to my employer when it know I stop in front of a store.
I rarely see any spam anymore, so I'm not sure why it would increase.
Here, have some more straws to grasp:
http://www.pbase.com/sleeper55...
the what? keep the what from spying on you?
It's no more stupid then the phrase 'Cascading Style Sheet'
It's about what you are used to.
Do you realize you said the internet equivalent of:
"Noone in New York drove, there was too much traffic" - PJ Fry
The means you would increase the power on your wifi to charge your devices.
It's inefficient, bot OTOH, no wires.
Gathering power from RF is not new. This might be a novel way to implement it, but it will have the same issues.
1) No free ride. Taking RF and turning it into electricity means less range for the RF.
2) You are still paying for power. No it's just a lot less efficient.
There is a reason the radio industry has worked hard to stop RF power light bulbs. Because the broadcaster would be paying for your electricity.
No.
UUCP was the 'internet' until TCP/IP became more popular. The first personal computers used UUCP to connect to the internet.
By internet, I mean the hardware and lines. TCP/IP is not the internet. It's an internet protocol. A way to tonnect to communicate vie 'the internet'.
Here, let me help you out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...