My life is priceless. Therefore what I am willing to trade it for; and what I might object to trading it for, might be a bit at varience with someone who thinks of their time as worth $60/hr.
And Buffalo is only upstate if you live south of Scarsdale. These people will also call Scarsdale (and maybe even Hempstead for that matter, which is really pretty funny) "The Country."
In a releated note when someone from Alaska visits North Hempstead (it could happen, although I'm not sure why) he does not "go south," he "goes east."
They have their place on the exterior, to prevent damage to glass from flying debris, but for the control of radiation (both in and out) from the interior I prefer a combination of blinds and curtains.
Physics is not mechanical engineering. Computer Science is not Computer Engineering is not programming.
If you feel the need for a practicum in your CS program to prepare you for a job in the IT industry, perhaps you have simply chosen the wrong course of study.
I don't think that energy use is the problem. It's our way of generating and delivering that is the problem. If we have environmentally-sound ways of generating and delivering the power, I really don't mind how much power people use at all, they could run electric heaters and AC units together, letting them battle it out all day long for all I care.
Well, if you can talk the pixies into doing for us, go for it. They won't even tell me where they hid my sock.
Other than that you'll have to live within the laws of physics. We have the Sun. Use it well. Even better, use it wisely.
Most city folks don't have the room to enough water . ..
Who said anything about water?
. ..the economies of scale make it MUCH cheaper for one location to use that type of energy storage for 100 homes than for each home to do it themself.
I'm not interested in how much it costs per hundred homes. I'm interested in how much it costs me; including redundencies for failure of the grid, because where I am it gets both hot enough and cold enough for people to die from it.
And, oddly enough, that's when the grid usually fails.
The reason we have centralized power generation is efficiency.
I am aware of why we have centralized power generation. That does not imply that all power generation needs to be centralized. It does not even imply that power generation need be efficient.
He is already sufficiently convinced that God intended America to have all the power.
Thus his actual issue with terrorism (as may be seen by his response to other sources of suffering) is not actually terror, but power. He will ignore terror if it does not reduce his power; and he will inflict terror if it increases his power.
Get thee hence and buy one of those desktop Stirling engines that will run on a candle flame and hook it up to a Mabuchi 540 hooked up to an LED.
Now run it on a candle flame. Now run it on an oil lamp flame. Now run it on an alchohol lamp flame. Now run it on a wood pellet flame. Now run it on a magnifying glass focusing the Sun.
Starting to get the picture?
Epilog:
The first person to suggest that it could be run on an electric heating element gets a bop upside the head and sent back to thermo class.
Not the sun's fault this hulk of a planet gets in the way for half the day.
The 24 hours of Daytona is considered a more difficult race than the 24 hueres du Mans in large part because it is is darker longer in February in Florida than it is in July in France.
A Dyson Sphere might well be the optimum solution, however it would be more acheivable to simply stop the rotation of the Earth and strip away its atmosphere.
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My life is priceless. Therefore what I am willing to trade it for; and what I might object to trading it for, might be a bit at varience with someone who thinks of their time as worth $60/hr.
KFG
"Upstate? They live in Yonkers!" She replied "Well, its above 96th St!"
If you aren't terribly careful you run a serious risk of learning something new every day. Today I learned that I was born upstate - East Harlem.
And all these years I thought it was another country.
KFG
It was 13 not ten.
Don't mix your abstractions, the headline says "Top 10," not "Top Ten."
Base 13, dude. Base 13
I must be serious, because nobody makes jokes in base 13.
KFG
This is a guy born in Mexico who travelled across the border everyday to attend high school in Texas
.unlike the slashdot script kiddies who took a 6 week course during the boom. . .
Well shit, anybody can succeed that way. I crossed the border from Texas into Mexico to be a dropout.
. .
Hey, I took a real course - 8 weeks.
When you do something with your life other than bitching than you can make fun of him
I piss and moan too.
KFG
Yes, but the first graders wouldn't give back the marbles.
KFG
And Buffalo is only upstate if you live south of Scarsdale. These people will also call Scarsdale (and maybe even Hempstead for that matter, which is really pretty funny) "The Country."
In a releated note when someone from Alaska visits North Hempstead (it could happen, although I'm not sure why) he does not "go south," he "goes east."
KFG
What am I missing?
Age.
KFG
I don't buy the "increased tax revenue" bit- people would spend their money in other ways.
It's the Fallacy of the Broken Stadium.
KFG
No, don't stop them now, they're just a single transform away from achieving ID of The Beast.
KFG
They have their place on the exterior, to prevent damage to glass from flying debris, but for the control of radiation (both in and out) from the interior I prefer a combination of blinds and curtains.
KFG
Switch major to engineering.
Physics is not mechanical engineering. Computer Science is not Computer Engineering is not programming.
If you feel the need for a practicum in your CS program to prepare you for a job in the IT industry, perhaps you have simply chosen the wrong course of study.
KFG
Or maybe we'll just build Dyson Sphere
Long time passing
Maybe we'll just build a Dsyson Sphere
Long time ago . . .
KFG
It doesn't matter if your roof is a mirror. . .
.
Yes, it does.
Yeah, it's possible to do without AC. .
Who said anything about living without AC?
I don't think that energy use is the problem. It's our way of generating and delivering that is the problem. If we have environmentally-sound ways of generating and delivering the power, I really don't mind how much power people use at all, they could run electric heaters and AC units together, letting them battle it out all day long for all I care.
Well, if you can talk the pixies into doing for us, go for it. They won't even tell me where they hid my sock.
Other than that you'll have to live within the laws of physics. We have the Sun. Use it well. Even better, use it wisely.
KFG
Most city folks don't have the room to enough water . . .
.the economies of scale make it MUCH cheaper for one location to use that type of energy storage for 100 homes than for each home to do it themself.
Who said anything about water?
. .
I'm not interested in how much it costs per hundred homes. I'm interested in how much it costs me; including redundencies for failure of the grid, because where I am it gets both hot enough and cold enough for people to die from it.
And, oddly enough, that's when the grid usually fails.
KFG
Yeah, and the whole impetus behind studying the elements was to turn lead into gold. But not anymore.
I don't suppose you noted that the post I responded to wasn't entirely serious, and thus neither was my response?
KFG
What color is your roof?
KFG
As I posted elsewhere under this story; sometimes sufficiency is more important than efficiency.
KFG
Pump the water up the hill during the night when there's excess power and dump it back through some turbines during the day when you need it.
If you go through some of my older posts you'll find I'm a fan of gravitational potential.
There is one question to be raised though; why do you think you need somebody else to store it for you?
KFG
Only getting off the treadmill breaks this loop.
But all my lights go out when I do that.
KFG
What intelligent person . . .
Ya talking about both of them?
KFG
The reason we have centralized power generation is efficiency.
I am aware of why we have centralized power generation. That does not imply that all power generation needs to be centralized. It does not even imply that power generation need be efficient.
It need only be sufficient.
KFG
He is already sufficiently convinced that God intended America to have all the power.
Thus his actual issue with terrorism (as may be seen by his response to other sources of suffering) is not actually terror, but power. He will ignore terror if it does not reduce his power; and he will inflict terror if it increases his power.
KFG
Get thee hence and buy one of those desktop Stirling engines that will run on a candle flame and hook it up to a Mabuchi 540 hooked up to an LED.
Now run it on a candle flame. Now run it on an oil lamp flame. Now run it on an alchohol lamp flame. Now run it on a wood pellet flame. Now run it on a magnifying glass focusing the Sun.
Starting to get the picture?
Epilog:
The first person to suggest that it could be run on an electric heating element gets a bop upside the head and sent back to thermo class.
KFG
Not the sun's fault this hulk of a planet gets in the way for half the day.
The 24 hours of Daytona is considered a more difficult race than the 24 hueres du Mans in large part because it is is darker longer in February in Florida than it is in July in France.
A Dyson Sphere might well be the optimum solution, however it would be more acheivable to simply stop the rotation of the Earth and strip away its atmosphere.
KFG
Solar power is reliable as hell.
Dude, the whole impetus for developing an electric power infrastructure in the first place was the desire for lighting when it's dark out.
KFG