True, but that is not an inherent flaw of geothermal, they just royally fucked up their geological survey before drilling. Basically, they opened up a watertight layer that had protected a formation of anhydrous gypsum. Water went in, gypsum expanded, ground level rose accordingly... No profit.
Mosley, you never cease to amaze me. After demonstrating utter cluelessness when it comes to climatology and economics, you proceed straight to demonstrating that you have not the faintest idea of biology and thermodynamics either. Who would have thunk...
They have. Energy payback time for a PV panel is about 1-5 years these days. EROEI is somewhat hard to calculate, so the values that you see are spanning a wide range, also depending on the type of the panel and manufacturing process, but in general, over the whole lifetime, a panel nets 5-30 times the energy expended in its production.
I swear to Cthulhu, you Paulites sound like a proper cult when speaking of your exalted leader. Unfortunately, the "knowledge" he is applying is amounting to about zero, and the "freedom" he promises comes right out of the "war is peace" school of thought.
You think the libertardians care about "society"? I mean, just listen to the word. Yeah, come on, listen. Sounds like "socialism", doesn't it? Can't have that.
Well, it was found in Bavaria after all. Our state's motto could as well be "Get off my lawn!" - so our traditions might be derived in an unbroken chain from a long lost dinosaur high culture... And, by the way, proper Lederhosen are made from deer skin. Dinosaur leather is for tourists and Prussians. Period. Now get off my lawn! (Or, to put it in proper Bavarian - "Schleich Di!")
What's with the Paulites always using his Dr. title when speaking of their god and master? Haven't seen this with anyone else. Has a nice cultist ring to it, guys.
Short version - I got mine, fuck y'all. The whole concept of solidarity in a society, making stuff easier for everyone by economies of scale is totally alien to you, isn't it? Got yours, after all already.
Quite simply put, because the military doesn't keep his capitalist overlords from polluting, exploiting, betraying and indoctrinating, doesn't take their god-given right to be racist and otherwise discriminatory asswipes from them. You see, that's the part of gubbermint that is actually fine, only the evil regulators, them are socialism.
Well, for now, all exploratory holes up there have pretty much come up dry. The fabled cornucopia of arctic oil might well be just a dream. But the simple fact that all major players are going apeshit over the prospect of new, err, prospects up there seems to be a strong sign to me that a) global warming and b) peak oil is pretty much a fact. And that combination can pretty much scare the hell out of anyone with a brain....
The Boards of Canada song is indeed great. I actually do find it way more relaxing than the song mention in TFA, since it lacks that oily harmonious quality that screams "I WANT TO BE RELAXING". The slightly broken sound of the Boards calms me down way better. You might wanna try anything from Godspeed You Black Emperor!. Don't mind the vocal parts, they are short, and the instrumental soundscapes between make for a great background. I probably linked their darkest one here, but hey...
Yes, just as the actions and motives of humans are incomprehensible to a fish.
Yeah. Tell that to the trout in the stream where I am fishing. The little bastards comprehend perfectly what I am up to. The buggers swim circles around whatever bait I am using just to mock me. I swear to Dagon, having me around fishing is a sport to them
Without copyright or patents, there is no market for ideas at all. IP law enables the valuation of ideas by trade - in any other case, the ideas would be worth nothing at all, since copying them is essentially free of cost. Whether this is good or bad is another question, but the idea that abolishing IP law would create a "free market on ideas" is frankly ridiculous.
Around here, the local bookshops killed themselves, mostly by stocking only the current top 100 bestsellers. You come in, think "Oh look, they got like 100s of shelf meters of books here" - and then, upon closer examination, you find out that it is meter after meter of the same crap of the month with nothing interesting at all and staff that couldn't find their arse if you handed them a mirror on a stick and a map. Good riddance. I rather have a decent online store. I am not talking about chains, the small stores in my area did this shit to themselves.
Well, I am living in Munich now, but originally I am from Frankonia - and when I ask around there, the enthusiasm about Ude is limited. Then again, that's at the rural arse-end of Oberfranken, where the enthusiasm for anything not midnight-black is generally limited... As you say, a lot can happen - let's hope for the best.
Well, this is veering off-topic, but do you really believe Ude can do it? He's popular in Munich, true, but outside of it? Besides, who else is there to fill the ranks as ministers and secretaries? As much as I'd love to see the CSU go next time, I'll only believe it when I see it.
GM still made their own AC compressors in 1988? I am a bit baffled at that. Mind you, I don't know Detroit, but I do know the German car industry quite well - stuff like AC compressors has been outsourced to suppliers ages ago around here. Definitely before '88. And with the suppliers being the car makers bitch, it would have gone like "Retool then and swallow the cost or we find someone else"...
Besides scaling, there is another difference betweens subs and locomotives on the one side and cars on the other - the frequency of working point shifts. In a train or a ship you run at constant power output for long periods, while the working point of your engine constantly moves in a car, especially in city traffic. Not sure how this is relevant for this design, but it is a factor to keep in mind - it killed all experiments with gas turbines for cars, for example.
Well, Daimler has at least bought a 10% share in Tesla. I am working pretty closely with some of the Daimler developers, and believe me, they are watching closely what is going on at Tesla.
No European patent office will ask you for a working implementation. If it makes physical sense, you can get a patent. Only if there are serious doubts about the possibility of your invention actually functioning, or being actually possible to implement by the man skilled in the art, the patent offices might ask you for experimental proof.
All of this, of course, has jack shit to do with first-to-file or first-to-invent. First to file only sets the priority at filing date. If your invention is publicly disclosed before you file, you are fucked, basically. And no one can come up with a claim of "but, but I invented it earlier" and drag you into endless court battles over your lab books. The other guy might have invented it earlier, but if he didn't file before you, he is fucked. If he made it public before your filing date, you are fucked. That's all there is to first to file.
From completely ignoring the possibility of psychological trauma and pain, I take it you are white, male, middle class, right? The personification of privilege.
Anyway, fortunately for the decent US citizens, no one is asking your highness who is deserving to live in your country. I don't live there, anyway. One year was more than enough.
When you are reminded about the rules of the legal system, you go "but, but this is a war". When you are reminded about the rules of war, you go "but, but this is not a war, these are non-state actors". Can't have it both ways. You are nothing but a groveling little fascist fuck, only good for licking the boots of your masters, in the hope that you, yourself, one day might be the one holding the whip. Less than nothing.
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And why is that, maxwell demon? I'll tell you why - because you ain't doing your bloody work! Back in that box and sort those damn molecules!
True, but that is not an inherent flaw of geothermal, they just royally fucked up their geological survey before drilling. Basically, they opened up a watertight layer that had protected a formation of anhydrous gypsum. Water went in, gypsum expanded, ground level rose accordingly... No profit.
Mosley, you never cease to amaze me. After demonstrating utter cluelessness when it comes to climatology and economics, you proceed straight to demonstrating that you have not the faintest idea of biology and thermodynamics either. Who would have thunk...
They have. Energy payback time for a PV panel is about 1-5 years these days. EROEI is somewhat hard to calculate, so the values that you see are spanning a wide range, also depending on the type of the panel and manufacturing process, but in general, over the whole lifetime, a panel nets 5-30 times the energy expended in its production.
I swear to Cthulhu, you Paulites sound like a proper cult when speaking of your exalted leader. Unfortunately, the "knowledge" he is applying is amounting to about zero, and the "freedom" he promises comes right out of the "war is peace" school of thought.
You think the libertardians care about "society"? I mean, just listen to the word. Yeah, come on, listen. Sounds like "socialism", doesn't it? Can't have that.
Sounds like you didn't get much of an education, if any, doing it your brilliant self-reliant way.
Well, it was found in Bavaria after all. Our state's motto could as well be "Get off my lawn!" - so our traditions might be derived in an unbroken chain from a long lost dinosaur high culture... And, by the way, proper Lederhosen are made from deer skin. Dinosaur leather is for tourists and Prussians. Period. Now get off my lawn! (Or, to put it in proper Bavarian - "Schleich Di!")
What's with the Paulites always using his Dr. title when speaking of their god and master? Haven't seen this with anyone else. Has a nice cultist ring to it, guys.
Short version - I got mine, fuck y'all. The whole concept of solidarity in a society, making stuff easier for everyone by economies of scale is totally alien to you, isn't it? Got yours, after all already.
Quite simply put, because the military doesn't keep his capitalist overlords from polluting, exploiting, betraying and indoctrinating, doesn't take their god-given right to be racist and otherwise discriminatory asswipes from them. You see, that's the part of gubbermint that is actually fine, only the evil regulators, them are socialism.
Well, for now, all exploratory holes up there have pretty much come up dry. The fabled cornucopia of arctic oil might well be just a dream. But the simple fact that all major players are going apeshit over the prospect of new, err, prospects up there seems to be a strong sign to me that a) global warming and b) peak oil is pretty much a fact. And that combination can pretty much scare the hell out of anyone with a brain....
The Boards of Canada song is indeed great. I actually do find it way more relaxing than the song mention in TFA, since it lacks that oily harmonious quality that screams "I WANT TO BE RELAXING". The slightly broken sound of the Boards calms me down way better. You might wanna try anything from Godspeed You Black Emperor!. Don't mind the vocal parts, they are short, and the instrumental soundscapes between make for a great background. I probably linked their darkest one here, but hey...
Yes, just as the actions and motives of humans are incomprehensible to a fish.
Yeah. Tell that to the trout in the stream where I am fishing. The little bastards comprehend perfectly what I am up to. The buggers swim circles around whatever bait I am using just to mock me. I swear to Dagon, having me around fishing is a sport to them
Without copyright or patents, there is no market for ideas at all. IP law enables the valuation of ideas by trade - in any other case, the ideas would be worth nothing at all, since copying them is essentially free of cost. Whether this is good or bad is another question, but the idea that abolishing IP law would create a "free market on ideas" is frankly ridiculous.
Around here, the local bookshops killed themselves, mostly by stocking only the current top 100 bestsellers. You come in, think "Oh look, they got like 100s of shelf meters of books here" - and then, upon closer examination, you find out that it is meter after meter of the same crap of the month with nothing interesting at all and staff that couldn't find their arse if you handed them a mirror on a stick and a map. Good riddance. I rather have a decent online store. I am not talking about chains, the small stores in my area did this shit to themselves.
Well, I am living in Munich now, but originally I am from Frankonia - and when I ask around there, the enthusiasm about Ude is limited. Then again, that's at the rural arse-end of Oberfranken, where the enthusiasm for anything not midnight-black is generally limited... As you say, a lot can happen - let's hope for the best.
Anyway, Servus to a fellow Bavarian slashdotter.
GM still made their own AC compressors in 1988? I am a bit baffled at that. Mind you, I don't know Detroit, but I do know the German car industry quite well - stuff like AC compressors has been outsourced to suppliers ages ago around here. Definitely before '88. And with the suppliers being the car makers bitch, it would have gone like "Retool then and swallow the cost or we find someone else"...
Besides scaling, there is another difference betweens subs and locomotives on the one side and cars on the other - the frequency of working point shifts. In a train or a ship you run at constant power output for long periods, while the working point of your engine constantly moves in a car, especially in city traffic. Not sure how this is relevant for this design, but it is a factor to keep in mind - it killed all experiments with gas turbines for cars, for example.
Well, Daimler has at least bought a 10% share in Tesla. I am working pretty closely with some of the Daimler developers, and believe me, they are watching closely what is going on at Tesla.
No European patent office will ask you for a working implementation. If it makes physical sense, you can get a patent. Only if there are serious doubts about the possibility of your invention actually functioning, or being actually possible to implement by the man skilled in the art, the patent offices might ask you for experimental proof.
All of this, of course, has jack shit to do with first-to-file or first-to-invent. First to file only sets the priority at filing date. If your invention is publicly disclosed before you file, you are fucked, basically. And no one can come up with a claim of "but, but I invented it earlier" and drag you into endless court battles over your lab books. The other guy might have invented it earlier, but if he didn't file before you, he is fucked. If he made it public before your filing date, you are fucked. That's all there is to first to file.
From completely ignoring the possibility of psychological trauma and pain, I take it you are white, male, middle class, right? The personification of privilege.
Anyway, fortunately for the decent US citizens, no one is asking your highness who is deserving to live in your country. I don't live there, anyway. One year was more than enough.
Were you born as a condescending asshole or did you need training to reach your level of idiocy?
When you are reminded about the rules of the legal system, you go "but, but this is a war". When you are reminded about the rules of war, you go "but, but this is not a war, these are non-state actors". Can't have it both ways. You are nothing but a groveling little fascist fuck, only good for licking the boots of your masters, in the hope that you, yourself, one day might be the one holding the whip. Less than nothing.