Wireless charging is an awesome feature. Its really easy to slot my Nexus 5 in and out of the cradle of my car system. Bingo! No fiddling to things connected etc. I can't believe they dropped the feature. My partner has an iPhone 6P and she's really jealous she can't do that with a phone that costs 3 time more than mine.
This could truly revolutionary but they left out some really important information. The most relevant is how many full-depletion cycle can it take?
To see why lets assume the battery can supply 3000 full-depletion cycles (The A123 batteries did). Then our generic $100, 1 KWHr battery can deliver 3000 KWHr of electricity on demand.
So that is $100.00/(3000 KWHr) = $0.03 / KWHr or 3 cents per KWHr
That is way less than a gas-fired peaking power plant. So if these guys can pull off 3000 cycles at $100 per KWHr they'll create a 100 billion dollar per year market and won't be able to keep up with demand.
Having not read the Quran, is there an equivalent of the parable of the Good Sumaritan, who although not of the tribe of Jesus, was nevertheless praised for his acts of kindness?
That video is really impressive. It's damn hard to hard a rocket on Earth and it looks like SpaceX has almost done it in a just a few iterations of their design. My *guess* is that the next attempt will succeed.
Once they do, the cost to put stuff in orbit will drop by an order of magnitude.
Her grunt work will be done on Linux Clusters. It's a real benefit to have a local development environment that matches this. I'd recommend a laptop where Scientific Lunix 6/7 runs flawlessly.
So while a mac is good hardware and has MS Office, a great PC which runs Linux flawlessly is what she really wants.
Yes. But even so, Denmark's CO2 footprint is much larger than Sweden and France and its electricity cost is far higher because of the expensive windmills and interconnects. The difference? Sweden and France have a large fraction of their electricity generated by Nuclear, which by the way, makes a nice backup if those hydro systems are maxed out during a long-term lull in wind output.
Oh well, good on Denmark for showing the world the real imitations of variable renewables...
According the wikipedia article: ".. on a leveraged basis we expect EDF to earn a Return on Equity (ROE) well in excess of 20% and possibly as high as 35%. Having considered the known terms of the deal, we are flabbergasted that the UK Government has committed future generations of consumers to the costs that will flow from this deal"
Sounds like EDF pulled a really sweet deal that sold the British Government to pay way more than needed to profitably run the nuclear facility. Nice work if you can get it.
That plus they didn't investigate a really obvious non-CO2 emitting technolgy that is a drop in replacement for coal-fired powered stations. Absolutely bloody obvious and no mention of it in the article at all.
You know there is a really simply reason renewable energy is more expensive (except hydro and geothermal in favourable locations).
It's the second Law of Thermodynamics. Solar and Wind power is diffuse. Hydrocarbons and particularly nuclear are far more concentrated, thus much easier and cheaper to draw power from. If Google had invested in a array of advanced Nuclear Power technologies, one or more of them may have come off and we'd have cheap CO2 free power for millions of years. If may still happen but it is very difficult and the sophisticated simulations of advanced nuclear IS something where Google could really contribute.
"The EM2 corportation has submitted a paper to axiv.org http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0133 describing their $10 million US Navy project to investigate Bussards Polywell fusion device. NBC has a report on the development http://www.nbcnews.com/science... . Quoting Nicholas Krall, a plasma physicist who has been working in the fusion field for more than a half-century and has been an adviser to EMC2 Fusion, "I think this is the most exciting experimental advance that I've been involved in," he told NBC News. 'I'm stoked.""
Plus there are 2-3 other concepts that gave got Venture Capital funding. Fusion is looking more interesting.
Here in Australia you can wander into any local supermarket and buy "Lite Salt" wich is 50% Potassium Chloride. These typically have a mass of 170 gm and consequently an activity of 4000 Bg. So by German standards that is 23529 Bg/Kg and hence way above the legal limit.
I totally agree. Now the big difference is the cost differential between selling excess power back to the grid (feed-in price 8 cents) compared to purchasing from the grid at 25 cents per KWHr. The Tesla batteries are projected to cost $200 per KWHr of storage so for $2000 your average punter can get 10 KWHr of storage and likely never need to purchase electricty from the grid. So a $5000 5KW system plus $2000 for 10 KWHr of storage means no more $2500 bills per year. The system pays for itself in less than 4 years.
There is a truely massive market if Tesla can hit their production targets at the advertised price point. Which seems possible given the extreme amount of vertical integration in the plant. Even the energy costs are provided via renewable energy buffered by their own batteries. Feed in raw lithium, aluminum, human labor, out comes batteries.
This is rediculus. Any reasonable person would not have shot down a commercial plane killing hundred of innocenct people. Clearly the Ukrane insurgents are unreasonable terrorists who should be treated as such. Ukraine needs large amounts of western help to fight them.
The thing about OpenStack is that it has been under really heavy development for the past two years. Two years ago the product was buggy as hell. But they've made a series of 6-monthly releases since then. Each one of which offered substantial improvements. Its now pretty good and stable. There is really a incredible support for it. I heard of numbers of around 2000 developers so each release really is substantially better than the previous.
Now that it is basically stable, it will likely get real traction with users and there are big private deployments already. The Australian NeCTAR project will roll-out 30,000 cores by the end of 2014. CERN is looking at a huge deployment of over 100,000 CPUs.
This world is not wanting for more human beings. By not adding to the human burden on the planet we are actually being responsible. But you'll happily treat us as lesser people because we don't have the same biological imperative that you do. Did I mention bad person? Personally I can't see how a hetero couple that doesn't/can't have kids is somehow lesser than someone who knocks up his wife so she can birth a kid they can raise as yet another bigot.
Hmm interesting logic, do you think of it as evolution in action? Once homosexuals are no longer living double lives, in a few generations the number of homosexuals will decrease by an order of magnitude.
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Wireless charging is an awesome feature. Its really easy to slot my Nexus 5 in and out of the cradle of my car system. Bingo! No fiddling to things connected etc. I can't believe they dropped the feature. My partner has an iPhone 6P and she's really jealous she can't do that with a phone that costs 3 time more than mine.
This could truly revolutionary but they left out some really important information. The most relevant is how many full-depletion cycle can it take?
To see why lets assume the battery can supply 3000 full-depletion cycles (The A123 batteries did). Then our generic $100, 1 KWHr battery can deliver 3000 KWHr of electricity on demand.
So that is $100.00/(3000 KWHr) = $0.03 / KWHr or 3 cents per KWHr
That is way less than a gas-fired peaking power plant. So if these guys can pull off 3000 cycles at $100 per KWHr they'll create a 100 billion dollar per year market and won't be able to keep up with demand.
Does it do Australian accents?
Mine is not very broad but google gets about 50% of what I say. Which makes it almost useless
Too right!
Having not read the Quran, is there an equivalent of the parable of the Good Sumaritan, who although not of the tribe of Jesus, was nevertheless praised for his acts of kindness?
That video is really impressive. It's damn hard to hard a rocket on Earth and it looks like SpaceX has almost done it in a just a few iterations of their design. My *guess* is that the next attempt will succeed.
Once they do, the cost to put stuff in orbit will drop by an order of magnitude.
Her grunt work will be done on Linux Clusters. It's a real benefit to have a local development environment that matches this. I'd recommend a laptop where Scientific Lunix 6/7 runs flawlessly.
So while a mac is good hardware and has MS Office, a great PC which runs Linux flawlessly is what she really wants.
Yes. But even so, Denmark's CO2 footprint is much larger than Sweden and France and its electricity cost is far higher because of the expensive windmills and interconnects. The difference? Sweden and France have a large fraction of their electricity generated by Nuclear, which by the way, makes a nice backup if those hydro systems are maxed out during a long-term lull in wind output.
Oh well, good on Denmark for showing the world the real imitations of variable renewables...
Thanks for link:
According the wikipedia article:
".. on a leveraged basis we expect EDF to earn a Return on Equity (ROE) well in excess of 20% and possibly as high as 35%. Having considered the known terms of the deal, we are flabbergasted that the UK Government has committed future generations of consumers to the costs that will flow from this deal"
Sounds like EDF pulled a really sweet deal that sold the British Government to pay way more than needed to profitably run the nuclear facility. Nice work if you can get it.
Gee, here's one very relevant point for the UK.
http://www.abc.net.au/environm...
Or wasting it on renewables....
In the case of the UK, this is absolutely incorrect. If it were there, would no need for the *substantial* subsides paid for renewable energy.
"It would require a huge amount of social engineering. Which is much harder than anything technical."
Yeah, well try changing the laws of physics and see how far you get.
That plus they didn't investigate a really obvious non-CO2 emitting technolgy that is a drop in replacement for coal-fired powered stations. Absolutely bloody obvious and no mention of it in the article at all.
You know there is a really simply reason renewable energy is more expensive (except hydro and geothermal in favourable locations).
It's the second Law of Thermodynamics. Solar and Wind power is diffuse. Hydrocarbons and particularly nuclear are far more concentrated, thus much easier and cheaper to draw power from. If Google had invested in a array of advanced Nuclear Power technologies, one or more of them may have come off and we'd have cheap CO2 free power for millions of years. If may still happen but it is very difficult and the sophisticated simulations of advanced nuclear IS something where Google could really contribute.
Oh well,
My submission of a couple of days ago.
"The EM2 corportation has submitted a paper to axiv.org http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0133 describing their $10 million US Navy project to investigate Bussards Polywell fusion device. NBC has a report on the development http://www.nbcnews.com/science... . Quoting Nicholas Krall, a plasma physicist who has been working in the fusion field for more than a half-century and has been an adviser to EMC2 Fusion, "I think this is the most exciting experimental advance that I've been involved in," he told NBC News. 'I'm stoked.""
Plus there are 2-3 other concepts that gave got Venture Capital funding. Fusion is looking more interesting.
Thank you.
I just checked my LG Nexus smart phone.
It has hardware-backed security.
How do you know it is Cs-137? The TFA doesn't say.
The 700 Bg/ Kg seems awefully low.
Here in Australia you can wander into any local supermarket and buy "Lite Salt" wich is 50% Potassium Chloride. These typically have a mass of 170 gm and consequently an activity of 4000 Bg. So by German standards that is 23529 Bg/Kg and hence way above the legal limit.
I totally agree. Now the big difference is the cost differential between selling excess power back to the grid (feed-in price 8 cents) compared to purchasing from the grid at 25 cents per KWHr. The Tesla batteries are projected to cost $200 per KWHr of storage so for $2000 your average punter can get 10 KWHr of storage and likely never need to purchase electricty from the grid. So a $5000 5KW system plus $2000 for 10 KWHr of storage means no more $2500 bills per year. The system pays for itself in less than 4 years.
There is a truely massive market if Tesla can hit their production targets at the advertised price point. Which seems possible given the extreme amount of vertical integration in the plant. Even the energy costs are provided via renewable energy buffered by their own batteries. Feed in raw lithium, aluminum, human labor, out comes batteries.
This is rediculus. Any reasonable person would not have shot down a commercial plane killing hundred of innocenct people. Clearly the Ukrane insurgents are unreasonable terrorists who should be treated as such. Ukraine needs large amounts of western help to fight them.
The thing about OpenStack is that it has been under really heavy development for the past two years. Two years ago the product was buggy as hell. But they've made a series of 6-monthly releases since then. Each one of which offered substantial improvements. Its now pretty good and stable. There is really a incredible support for it. I heard of numbers of around 2000 developers so each release really is substantially better than the previous.
Now that it is basically stable, it will likely get real traction with users and there are big private deployments already. The Australian NeCTAR project will roll-out 30,000 cores by the end of 2014. CERN is looking at a huge deployment of over 100,000 CPUs.
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
AbiWord won't capitalize words and the selection process gives just what you select. It even reads word perfect format :-)
Sure it doesn't have all the bell and whistles but it basically works as expected and doesn't try to be clever about what you actually want to write.
Hmm interesting logic, do you think of it as evolution in action? Once homosexuals are no longer living double lives, in a few generations the number of homosexuals will decrease by an order of magnitude.
You missed the point of my post . See my reply to dinkypoo.