The credits are not bought by the state. They're bought by utilities, which have state-imposed quotas to meet, if their production isn't clean enough. This is sensible, since utilities will otherwise have a relative market advantage from externalities in the form of pollution.
Nearly 5000 kWh/yr from a 3 kW system would be very high specific production. I think you're overestimating a bit.
You might want to check out PVWATTS, which is an online estimator, or if you really want to get into it, PVsyst is an excellent modeling application that has a free demo.
I am a solar installer. A typical 3 kW rooftop installation costs about $20k, nowhere near the 60k you came up with.
Large utility-scale installations make money in the long run, selling power at market rates. This has been true for a couple years now (primarily because of new markets for renewable energy credits in many states). The challenge, as another commenter pointed out, is cash flow and financing.
I heard Greene's interview on Fresh Air and it seems like he does a good job of explaining the theory and the controversy surrounding it, emphasizing that it is the most reasonable explanation he is aware of without yet being entirely convincing.
That said, I studied math and physics at Columbia, and have heard many stories about Greene. My best friend there took his mathematical physics course. And Brian Greene is pretty much universally described as an arrogant jerk. Even by Columbia standards.
It is a case of, fairly well respected theorist makes a name for himself doing pop-sci stuff, gets offered tenure in TWO departments and comes to think of himself as hot shit, then gets pissed off when because of his notoriety he has to teach courses to packed classrooms. So he would do his very best to get everyone to drop his course.
My friend got so pissed off after the first day that he never showed up to a single lecture, studied his ass off without having to listen to the guy talk, and aced the final!
It's not really very interesting whether the facts needed to give an answer are contained in the first page of Google or Bing search results. The difficulty is in understanding what the clue is actually asking, and answering in a way that isolates the relevant information (in the form of a question, of course). And doing so very quickly, even when there is often clever use of language going on. The difference between an "average human" at 60% and Ken Jennings at 79% is huge! And it's not just about how large a base of knowledge you're working from.
Get a Weller soldering iron, some of those Jameco parts kits for all your common components, an oscilloscope, a couple decent multimeters, maybe a logic analyzer. Solderless breadboards and lots of those plug-in wire jumpers are useful. You want to have all the usual hand tools, plus a third-hand tool or two, a heat gun and heat shrink supplies, maybe a molex pin crimper. Try to leave some of your budget left over for when you find new things that you really want to get.
I think other countries referred to in the cables are more likely to direct their anger at the US government for allowing the leak, and certainly the war-related disclosures pissed off the US primarily. I can recall some earlier leaks that no doubt infuriated other governments or corporations. The Daniel Moi thing comes to mind. But talk of assassination seems overblown and really just feeds the cult of personality. People expecting some extraordinary rendition probably watch too many movies.
That said, caveats: I really like what Wikileaks does and consider it necessary; I could see things getting a lot dicier in the future for Julian Assange, easily; and I like a good political thriller as much as the next guy:)
Most likely, in my opinion: The justice department will get something started under the Espionage Act, the US will make some halfhearted attempts at extradition in order to appease those who want a tough stance, and Assange will have enough sense never to go to any country that would land him in a US federal courthouse.
I guess this paragraph from the Wikipedia article may be relevant:
A further characteristic of the plasma-based EUV sources under development is that they are not even partially coherent, unlike the KrF and ArF excimer lasers used for current optical lithography. Further power reduction (energy loss) is expected in converting incoherent sources (emitting in all possible directions at many independent wavelengths) to partially coherent (emitting in a limited range of directions within a narrow band of wavelengths) sources by filtering (unwanted wavelengths and directions). On the other hand, coherent light poses a risk of monochromatic reflection interference and mismatch of multilayer reflectance bandwidth.
No, you're not the only one. I think the PA support is particularly good in Karmic. I upgraded recently and it fixed the last remaining issue I was having. And as a longtime SPDIF user I love the hardware profiles that let me easily select digital vs analog inputs and outputs.
Did you RTFA? The data they supposedly have is for an implosion device, that would be suitable to go on a missile. So I don't think the conventional wisdom of "oh, uranium is easy, it's just the extraction that is hard" really applies here. Any they would be able to apply this knowledge to building weapons that use plutonium, which will be the next step once the Arak reactor comes online.
If you want a thin and light notebook with a decent-sized screen that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, a 12" netbook is perfect. The price jumps straight from around $500 to around $1500 for higher-powered subnotebooks in the same form factor. Aside from the terrible GPU, I like the Mini 12.
I'm not saying I buy the argument that Intel forced this on Dell. I think it's more likely Dell is ready to come out with a better alternative in the very near future. It's just marketing: they probably don't want to distract from a new product launch by canceling a product at the same time.
Cisco's expertise in "data handling"? What could possibly be so complicated about a network of sensors that NASA (the people who built the Shuttle) have to contract out to Cisco to pull it off.
Oh yeah, Depression-era government spending.
If in 2050 each person needs 109 hectares of arable land, we are going to be in trouble no matter what. With the population at that time estimated to be 9 billion, and given that there are about 3 billion hectares of arable land on the planet, we might need to come up with a few hundred thousand more earths.
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Well, this is their series C, but yeah, I'm kind of amazed at the amount.
The credits are not bought by the state. They're bought by utilities, which have state-imposed quotas to meet, if their production isn't clean enough. This is sensible, since utilities will otherwise have a relative market advantage from externalities in the form of pollution.
Nearly 5000 kWh/yr from a 3 kW system would be very high specific production. I think you're overestimating a bit.
You might want to check out PVWATTS, which is an online estimator, or if you really want to get into it, PVsyst is an excellent modeling application that has a free demo.
I am a solar installer. A typical 3 kW rooftop installation costs about $20k, nowhere near the 60k you came up with. Large utility-scale installations make money in the long run, selling power at market rates. This has been true for a couple years now (primarily because of new markets for renewable energy credits in many states). The challenge, as another commenter pointed out, is cash flow and financing.
What a milestone! It will be the first time ever that 100,000 people were sued for copyright infringement in 12.00913 months!
I heard Greene's interview on Fresh Air and it seems like he does a good job of explaining the theory and the controversy surrounding it, emphasizing that it is the most reasonable explanation he is aware of without yet being entirely convincing.
That said, I studied math and physics at Columbia, and have heard many stories about Greene. My best friend there took his mathematical physics course. And Brian Greene is pretty much universally described as an arrogant jerk. Even by Columbia standards.
It is a case of, fairly well respected theorist makes a name for himself doing pop-sci stuff, gets offered tenure in TWO departments and comes to think of himself as hot shit, then gets pissed off when because of his notoriety he has to teach courses to packed classrooms. So he would do his very best to get everyone to drop his course.
My friend got so pissed off after the first day that he never showed up to a single lecture, studied his ass off without having to listen to the guy talk, and aced the final!
It's not really very interesting whether the facts needed to give an answer are contained in the first page of Google or Bing search results. The difficulty is in understanding what the clue is actually asking, and answering in a way that isolates the relevant information (in the form of a question, of course). And doing so very quickly, even when there is often clever use of language going on. The difference between an "average human" at 60% and Ken Jennings at 79% is huge! And it's not just about how large a base of knowledge you're working from.
Heh. Perhaps I should have just said "nice soldering iron."
Get a Weller soldering iron, some of those Jameco parts kits for all your common components, an oscilloscope, a couple decent multimeters, maybe a logic analyzer. Solderless breadboards and lots of those plug-in wire jumpers are useful. You want to have all the usual hand tools, plus a third-hand tool or two, a heat gun and heat shrink supplies, maybe a molex pin crimper. Try to leave some of your budget left over for when you find new things that you really want to get.
I think other countries referred to in the cables are more likely to direct their anger at the US government for allowing the leak, and certainly the war-related disclosures pissed off the US primarily. I can recall some earlier leaks that no doubt infuriated other governments or corporations. The Daniel Moi thing comes to mind. But talk of assassination seems overblown and really just feeds the cult of personality. People expecting some extraordinary rendition probably watch too many movies.
:)
That said, caveats: I really like what Wikileaks does and consider it necessary; I could see things getting a lot dicier in the future for Julian Assange, easily; and I like a good political thriller as much as the next guy
Most likely, in my opinion:
The justice department will get something started under the Espionage Act, the US will make some halfhearted attempts at extradition in order to appease those who want a tough stance, and Assange will have enough sense never to go to any country that would land him in a US federal courthouse.
So this would presumably be used for extreme ultraviolet lithography?
I guess this paragraph from the Wikipedia article may be relevant:
A further characteristic of the plasma-based EUV sources under development is that they are not even partially coherent, unlike the KrF and ArF excimer lasers used for current optical lithography. Further power reduction (energy loss) is expected in converting incoherent sources (emitting in all possible directions at many independent wavelengths) to partially coherent (emitting in a limited range of directions within a narrow band of wavelengths) sources by filtering (unwanted wavelengths and directions). On the other hand, coherent light poses a risk of monochromatic reflection interference and mismatch of multilayer reflectance bandwidth.
since the main thing limiting additional deployment of Predators is the availability of bandwidth.
No, you're not the only one. I think the PA support is particularly good in Karmic. I upgraded recently and it fixed the last remaining issue I was having. And as a longtime SPDIF user I love the hardware profiles that let me easily select digital vs analog inputs and outputs.
While you're at it, google "debunking FEMA camps" and get the real story. I don't think there's any credible evidence for FEMA detention camps.
Did you RTFA? The data they supposedly have is for an implosion device, that would be suitable to go on a missile. So I don't think the conventional wisdom of "oh, uranium is easy, it's just the extraction that is hard" really applies here. Any they would be able to apply this knowledge to building weapons that use plutonium, which will be the next step once the Arak reactor comes online.
If you want a thin and light notebook with a decent-sized screen that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, a 12" netbook is perfect. The price jumps straight from around $500 to around $1500 for higher-powered subnotebooks in the same form factor. Aside from the terrible GPU, I like the Mini 12. I'm not saying I buy the argument that Intel forced this on Dell. I think it's more likely Dell is ready to come out with a better alternative in the very near future. It's just marketing: they probably don't want to distract from a new product launch by canceling a product at the same time.
How could an antenna for frequencies with a wavelength of a few centimeters be 18 meters wide?
Cisco's expertise in "data handling"? What could possibly be so complicated about a network of sensors that NASA (the people who built the Shuttle) have to contract out to Cisco to pull it off. Oh yeah, Depression-era government spending.
The real reason is that the GPU drivers have not yet been officially ported to xorg 1.5.
If in 2050 each person needs 109 hectares of arable land, we are going to be in trouble no matter what. With the population at that time estimated to be 9 billion, and given that there are about 3 billion hectares of arable land on the planet, we might need to come up with a few hundred thousand more earths.