The difference between the energy in direct light to "indirect" or cloudy day light is a factor of 10x at least. No collector can change that. Your 10kW panels will barely make 1kW on a cloudy day *if you are lucky* and assuming you have the "perfect" collector.
The photographer can sign over copyright to who ever the want to. Its often the deal with selling a *single* photo to a newspaper or journal. They are free to put it into the contract...or not... and you are free to agree to the terms of the contract... or not.
I did the same. Only difference is i went to maybe 10-12 photographers before i got a deal. But dam, if I pay a few thousand dollars, i get the negatives and copyrights. Just like the company i work for gets the copyrights of the code i write.
Its also theoretically impossible with a single band gap material. Silicon is less than the ideal single band gap material, so that makes doubly theoretically impossible.
1 Photon to one electron is only half the story. If the photon has more energy than the electron then there is a loss. The electron has a fixed energy (band gap) and the photons *must* have that much energy or more before it works at all. There are other details too, in silicon its not a direct band gap, so each photon cannot just eject a single electron, it must also emit a phonon (heat). Silicon has a theoretical maximum efficiency (electrical) of about 29-30% IIRC in sunlight (thats at 100% quantum efficiency for all photons at and above the band gap).
Most people here are the first to claim the government is using "pedofear" to get policy through based on the emotional cloud cast by such things. Yet so many seem to be very keen do exactly that when it suits them. Is there *any* evidence of real pedophilia, or are you just mudding the waters for your own ends?
Well most are ok with the excessive use of virgins, its the baby killing that gets everyone frothing at the mouth. Apparently when people say there are too many people in the world they are talking about *other peoples babies*. Who knew?
Yea, like the zone free dvd player that you not allowed to sell (yes really) that i have on the shelf. Mod chipping is not hard to get done either, and technically illegal....
The fact remains, it will be possible to do, it will be done. And what does 3 strikes and your out mean with "iPods" anyway. You need a mp3 player permit?
You missed my point entirely. I am working in population genetics, I did my masters in physics (Astrophysics, Fluid dynamics and laser physics were my main topics). My PhD was a conjoint math/biology Thesis. I am currently with the math department, biology department, medical school and veterinary school. I also have 10 years commercial programing experience. I am not unusual. We switch fields all the time. If you can't, you probably shouldn't have a PhD.
The whole "you must be born a Climatologist to do climatology" is not something we do in science. Unless you go political. Many climatologists didn't do climatology but probably started in a different field, or studied more general physics. You really don't need to be a friken climatologist to understand the field. I can understand the papers.
But once the waters are above a critical muddiness, more mud won't make a difference;) and lets face it these waters have been way over the critical muddiness threshold a long time ago.
Crops are already growing faster due to increased CO2, since the growth rate on many plants is limited by the absorption of CO2.
The Doomers going on about everything being a desert or floods are also way of the mark as well. These "predictions" comes from an "ensemble" of simulation, basically many simulations with the initial conditions and parameters tweaked a little bit. In one run it may be dryer here but wetter other there, and visa versa on the next run. Thus dry here is *not* independent from wetter over there. Yet whats reported is cheery picked, its all going to be dersert etc.
And interesting fact about some of the simulation runs, they sometimes give "un physical" results, ie snowball earth type things. The runs are just ignored.
Well Climatologist are not computer scientist, so they are clearly not qualified to write a climate simulation. Computer scientists are not climatologists so they are clearly not qualified to write a climate simulation. So who can write a climate simulation. Well Al Gore is not a climatologist yet people seem to think his option on the matter at hand is important, there fore the only person who is qualified to write climate software is Al Gore!
All the people I know that use to conduct research in this field left long ago because of how politically charged it had became (and how polarized the results must be). Peer review does not mean what you think it means.
Yes you can. But very little is easily installable there by default on linux. The default is almost always some kind of system wide installation. As i originally, said its a royal PITA to get packages that want to install in/usr and co to install int/home/coolGuy/App. Its hard cus no one expect linux users not to have some kind of root access. Yes you can do it, but its not trivial.
So in summary windows is bad cus you need administrator rights to install anything, and linux is good cus you need root to install anything.
The point is that if its installed in user space it does not have the root privileges to bork with the rest of the system. The idea that the administrator must veteo every little thing on a system is stupid, inefficient and childish. Do you want your 60K+ employers to site around waiting to do work while the admin (who often knows little about your project or requirements, and in this case cant code to save his life) sifts through the 100 daily request for upgrades, and installs, or do you want us to get the job done.
It not limited to windows either. At work we have nothing but linux and i don't have root (of course). Try installing things in user space. When its possible its a royal PITA. Why, mainly because package devs etc assume you will use yum/apt-get for everything and have a free 1Gbit internet connection. This not always a good assumption.
My Parents definition of safe was don't shoot yourself, but kill as many for those bloody Aussie tree bears as you can (Possums). Don't roll the tractor, we can't afford a new one, and I won't take you to the hospital if you burn yourself when using petrol to light a fire. I was 13, the oldest of 5. We all turned out just fine. Had a lot of fun with the dirt bikes. Breaks and injuries heal (mostly). Fun memories last forever;)
there isn't enough nuclear fuel out there for more than 50 years or so..
Bullshit. Even the current Uranium reserves today will last about 80 years for a once through cycle (more with price increases), with reprocessing its 60x that (more that 4000 years). And then there is Thorium, thats gives us another 20,000 years worth. Last but not least there is Uranium from the oceans, which is far bigger than both the previous sources put together.
Perhaps we shouldn't use solar either since it wont last for ever either.
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The difference between the energy in direct light to "indirect" or cloudy day light is a factor of 10x at least. No collector can change that. Your 10kW panels will barely make 1kW on a cloudy day *if you are lucky* and assuming you have the "perfect" collector.
Number 1 is *not* illegal in a lot of places.
In NZ, bankruptcy means no international travel for 5 years....For a Kiwi, thats a prison term.
I smell BS.
The photographer can sign over copyright to who ever the want to. Its often the deal with selling a *single* photo to a newspaper or journal. They are free to put it into the contract...or not... and you are free to agree to the terms of the contract... or not.
I did the same. Only difference is i went to maybe 10-12 photographers before i got a deal. But dam, if I pay a few thousand dollars, i get the negatives and copyrights. Just like the company i work for gets the copyrights of the code i write.
Anything we do is doing more harm than good!
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Everything.
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So why are you causing so much harm then! Stop doing everything now!
Its also theoretically impossible with a single band gap material. Silicon is less than the ideal single band gap material, so that makes doubly theoretically impossible.
1 Photon to one electron is only half the story. If the photon has more energy than the electron then there is a loss. The electron has a fixed energy (band gap) and the photons *must* have that much energy or more before it works at all. There are other details too, in silicon its not a direct band gap, so each photon cannot just eject a single electron, it must also emit a phonon (heat). Silicon has a theoretical maximum efficiency (electrical) of about 29-30% IIRC in sunlight (thats at 100% quantum efficiency for all photons at and above the band gap).
Most people here are the first to claim the government is using "pedofear" to get policy through based on the emotional cloud cast by such things. Yet so many seem to be very keen do exactly that when it suits them. Is there *any* evidence of real pedophilia, or are you just mudding the waters for your own ends?
Well most are ok with the excessive use of virgins, its the baby killing that gets everyone frothing at the mouth. Apparently when people say there are too many people in the world they are talking about *other peoples babies*. Who knew?
Yea, like the zone free dvd player that you not allowed to sell (yes really) that i have on the shelf. Mod chipping is not hard to get done either, and technically illegal....
The fact remains, it will be possible to do, it will be done. And what does 3 strikes and your out mean with "iPods" anyway. You need a mp3 player permit?
Because its /.
Real nerds don't post here.... oh wait...
You missed my point entirely. I am working in population genetics, I did my masters in physics (Astrophysics, Fluid dynamics and laser physics were my main topics). My PhD was a conjoint math/biology Thesis. I am currently with the math department, biology department, medical school and veterinary school. I also have 10 years commercial programing experience. I am not unusual. We switch fields all the time. If you can't, you probably shouldn't have a PhD.
The whole "you must be born a Climatologist to do climatology" is not something we do in science. Unless you go political. Many climatologists didn't do climatology but probably started in a different field, or studied more general physics. You really don't need to be a friken climatologist to understand the field. I can understand the papers.
Because its cheaper to sleep in our own excrement.
But once the waters are above a critical muddiness, more mud won't make a difference ;) and lets face it these waters have been way over the critical muddiness threshold a long time ago.
Crops are already growing faster due to increased CO2, since the growth rate on many plants is limited by the absorption of CO2.
The Doomers going on about everything being a desert or floods are also way of the mark as well. These "predictions" comes from an "ensemble" of simulation, basically many simulations with the initial conditions and parameters tweaked a little bit. In one run it may be dryer here but wetter other there, and visa versa on the next run. Thus dry here is *not* independent from wetter over there. Yet whats reported is cheery picked, its all going to be dersert etc.
And interesting fact about some of the simulation runs, they sometimes give "un physical" results, ie snowball earth type things. The runs are just ignored.
Well Climatologist are not computer scientist, so they are clearly not qualified to write a climate simulation. Computer scientists are not climatologists so they are clearly not qualified to write a climate simulation. So who can write a climate simulation. Well Al Gore is not a climatologist yet people seem to think his option on the matter at hand is important, there fore the only person who is qualified to write climate software is Al Gore!
All the people I know that use to conduct research in this field left long ago because of how politically charged it had became (and how polarized the results must be). Peer review does not mean what you think it means.
The assumption of a competent admin seems to the key mistake here ;)
Yes you can. But very little is easily installable there by default on linux. The default is almost always some kind of system wide installation. As i originally, said its a royal PITA to get packages that want to install in /usr and co to install int /home/coolGuy/App. Its hard cus no one expect linux users not to have some kind of root access. Yes you can do it, but its not trivial.
So in summary windows is bad cus you need administrator rights to install anything, and linux is good cus you need root to install anything.
The point is that if its installed in user space it does not have the root privileges to bork with the rest of the system. The idea that the administrator must veteo every little thing on a system is stupid, inefficient and childish. Do you want your 60K+ employers to site around waiting to do work while the admin (who often knows little about your project or requirements, and in this case cant code to save his life) sifts through the 100 daily request for upgrades, and installs, or do you want us to get the job done.
It not limited to windows either. At work we have nothing but linux and i don't have root (of course). Try installing things in user space. When its possible its a royal PITA. Why, mainly because package devs etc assume you will use yum/apt-get for everything and have a free 1Gbit internet connection. This not always a good assumption.
My Parents definition of safe was don't shoot yourself, but kill as many for those bloody Aussie tree bears as you can (Possums). Don't roll the tractor, we can't afford a new one, and I won't take you to the hospital if you burn yourself when using petrol to light a fire. I was 13, the oldest of 5. We all turned out just fine. Had a lot of fun with the dirt bikes. Breaks and injuries heal (mostly). Fun memories last forever ;)
there isn't enough nuclear fuel out there for more than 50 years or so..
Bullshit. Even the current Uranium reserves today will last about 80 years for a once through cycle (more with price increases), with reprocessing its 60x that (more that 4000 years). And then there is Thorium, thats gives us another 20,000 years worth. Last but not least there is Uranium from the oceans, which is far bigger than both the previous sources put together.
Perhaps we shouldn't use solar either since it wont last for ever either.
I personally blame the sensationalist media.
I blame the people who only read/pay/buy/watch sensationalist media.
There is no market for the other kind of news media at least. Headlines like,"$X planes landed safely today." just don't sell.