what's even more remarkable is that there is no federal or state funding for this project
The R&D was federally financed. I've done some work on it myself.
One of the advantages of this technology is that it is not solar. It's thermal. An external "combustion" engine is used to drive the generating turbine, thus any source of heat may be used.
One of the problems with solar power is that it is unreliable; innately. Some sort of storage/backuup system must be available to go online at all times. By using a heat engine to turn a generator instead of direct conversion to electricity, when the sun goes down you can just throw some buffalo chips (or whatever) in the firebox. There's no need for a completely redundant infrastructure.
So someone else can meter it and charge you for it. Think of their children.
While Slashdot has been broken I "lost" a response in the crap power story. Someone suggested that crap power could only be useful if it scaled. My response; a simple "Why?"
One of the big problems with mirrors as lenses is that they have to be cleaned.
So do solar cells. It's a real problem with roof mounted home units. Reducing the area also reduces the cost of cleaning.
Sorry but ONLY!!!!
Ok, here I'm with ya. If you offered me a new F-16 at half price it would be a remarkable bargain, but I still couldn't afford it with my combined lifetime earnings., let alone its upkeep.
Copyright as we know it was conceived to protect the song writer a century before the sound recording industry even existed and author's rights remain a legal issue seperate from distribution of sound recording issues.
The right to perform (whether live or for a ditributed recording) is all the author has to sell.
And boy, are you going to be in for a rude awakening when the new longevity therapies come out. I got lucky, my Father-in-law is already dead. He was computer technology savvy, but caught a bad case of Luddite technology.
Fireplace poker upside the head. Sometimes the old ways are very effective.
Believe it or not they would rather that their employees *not* spend all day listening to music or watching movies. And they are usually somewhat opposed to employees running P2P on their networks as well.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's perfectly easy to accomplish all of that in *nix and has been for decades.
No, the reason the vast majority of businesses are not opposed to their software infrastructure being "DRM infested" is the management of purely internal documents. The shit they don't want the SEC to see.
Slashdot Mirror
Why would people be allowed to base their cold-calls on someone's posted ads?
Because information wants to be free. Sorry, but every silver lining requires a dark cloud to line.
The obits will be used for apartment hunting.
KFG
what's even more remarkable is that there is no federal or state funding for this project
The R&D was federally financed. I've done some work on it myself.
One of the advantages of this technology is that it is not solar. It's thermal. An external "combustion" engine is used to drive the generating turbine, thus any source of heat may be used.
One of the problems with solar power is that it is unreliable; innately. Some sort of storage/backuup system must be available to go online at all times. By using a heat engine to turn a generator instead of direct conversion to electricity, when the sun goes down you can just throw some buffalo chips (or whatever) in the firebox. There's no need for a completely redundant infrastructure.
KFG
Why all the talk of centralized power generation?
So someone else can meter it and charge you for it. Think of their children.
While Slashdot has been broken I "lost" a response in the crap power story. Someone suggested that crap power could only be useful if it scaled. My response; a simple "Why?"
My goal is independence, not servitude.
KFG
One of the big problems with mirrors as lenses is that they have to be cleaned.
So do solar cells. It's a real problem with roof mounted home units. Reducing the area also reduces the cost of cleaning.
Sorry but ONLY!!!!
Ok, here I'm with ya. If you offered me a new F-16 at half price it would be a remarkable bargain, but I still couldn't afford it with my combined lifetime earnings., let alone its upkeep.
Cheaper does not imply affordable.
KFG
Music != recorded sound media.
Copyright as we know it was conceived to protect the song writer a century before the sound recording industry even existed and author's rights remain a legal issue seperate from distribution of sound recording issues.
The right to perform (whether live or for a ditributed recording) is all the author has to sell.
KFG
If you RTFA the difference is that this guy was not arrested simply for playing music. He was arrested for violating a court injunction.
KFG
. . . little Johnny shouldn't need to pay anything for playing the Star Wars theme at his small piano recital.
That is correct. Little Johnny's music teacher, as the promoter, is responsible for paying the fee.
That is why Little Johnny is actually playing a Bach minuet.
KFG
Michael Jackson, actually. In an amusing bit of irony Sir Paul does not own Yesterday . . . but he does own Tomorrow.
KFG
Does anyone else find it odd that a gas & oil law official is proposing this?
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He's not a gas & oil law official. He's an attorney. It's a natural fit for him, because as an attorney he's full of . . .
I wonder if it would be possible in the future to engineer plants which when harvested produce an optimal BTU return. .
Sure, it'll just take hundreds of years to grow them.
KFG
. . .to really make a difference, the technology has to be . . . scalable.
Why?
KFG
". . .aspie joke. . ."
There's a dyslexia joke in there somewhere; and I'm it.
KFG
There's an aspie in there somewhere, but I think I'll leave it alone, lest it get taken literally.
KFG
I fully understood what you were talking about.
And boy, are you going to be in for a rude awakening when the new longevity therapies come out. I got lucky, my Father-in-law is already dead. He was computer technology savvy, but caught a bad case of Luddite technology.
Fireplace poker upside the head. Sometimes the old ways are very effective.
KFG
. . .the older Luddites die. . .
Damn kid Luddites these days. Get off my lawnmower!
KFG
Your bigotry blinds you to the possibility that it is the spammer who is blind.
I fully support equal rights for the blind to be scum sucking bastards who need to be put down.
KFG
You had the perfect post with the first sentence; then you went and added more.
KFG
Thomas Edison reportedly unimpressed by blue-LED keychain flashlights
It would be more correct to say that he has failed to respond.
KFG
I fully support equal rights of the blind to access Kevlar(tm).
KFG
Amazon was pushing Crocs sandals at me the other day and they looked interesting, but I wanted more information; so I went to the company website.
It required that I have Flash installed and Javascript enabled to enter:
So I went to Teva.
KFG
Just shoot 'em on sight.
KFG
Supposedly, . . .
.according to Microsoft press statements,. . .
. .
. . . the GPL is some sort of virus which, once touched, makes all proprietary software into open source.
KFG
I learned everything I need to know about managing my money in kindergarten:
I go down to the vault and dive into it.
KFG
What the hell have I ever done to you?
KFG
So, your argument for Linux is . . .
.completely unstated in this thread, so far.
."
.is canned resposes to arguments that have not been made.
. .
Sir, . . . what makes you . . . zealots so ridiculous . .
. .
KFG
Believe it or not they would rather that their employees *not* spend all day listening to music or watching movies. And they are usually somewhat opposed to employees running P2P on their networks as well.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's perfectly easy to accomplish all of that in *nix and has been for decades.
No, the reason the vast majority of businesses are not opposed to their software infrastructure being "DRM infested" is the management of purely internal documents. The shit they don't want the SEC to see.
KFG