No question. But the ones I was wearing were the first ones I had seen so in Australia the knowledge of what they are is very low. I got a fair few "what are those things" questions but even when I answered Google Glass most had no idea what they were.
I don't wear contacts and could see the screen clearly as soon as I put it on, so maybe that is the key. I did have to adjust the bridge slightly as the RHS of the screen kinda fuzzed out of existence when I first put them on. Once I shifted them about 1.5mm left I no longer had that problem.
I wore them all day and only really touched them as much as you would normal glasses.
I'd agree with that. People are really sensitive to the direction other people's eyes are aiming. It's really easy to tell when someone is looking into thier glass vs looking anywhere else.
It's not just that - you can actually see the screen is on. It is black a lot of the time so you see this black square when you are looking at someone else wearing them.
I actually think we are going to see more specialised servers appearing in average joe blogs homes. People are more IT comfortable now (not necessarily more literate) and most people seem to be quite comfortable in how to pirate media content. If you live somewhere where you can stream HD then great for you but most people can't so queuing up the Game of Thrones torrent to watch it tomorrow is a very common usage case.
This is then stored somewhere in their house and sent to what ever is the playback device. With basic TV's becoming mini media front ends and have wifi build in it becomes a simple process to setup. Over time that machine with the GOT episode on it will get more and more content on it till it becomes the "machine I download on and keep stuff on".
So it's not a nicely designed well run server but it has become one by default.
Also cloud processing - I keep hearing this thrown around. WTF do people use cloud resources for processing for at home??? I pretty much never stress my main pc's processors so I feel like I am missing something HUGE!
I finally got my hands on a pair to play with last week. My initial reaction was "This is sooooo awesome!" after a couple of hours with them though I was a little unsure as to what I would regularly use them for. The GPS map is extremely good while driving, it is far less distracting and intrusive than using a dash mounted gps. Also for those people who like texting while driving (naughty naughty) the voice recognition is amazing. The screen is also amazingly clear - you don't notice it till you look at it but when you do it is brilliant. Speaking of the screen you can very easily tell if someone who is wearing them is looking at something on it. You can clearly see the contrast when the screen is on.
As for taking pictures of people without their knowing or recording everything it's just not happening. You either need to have you hand up near your head tapping it or saying "ok glass, take photo". It is actually a lot easier to take an unobtrusive photo with a phone. Where the camera comes into its own is taking photos while you are holding something with both hands. That and the ability to stream what your phone is seeing to the tethered phone - this means you can get a second set of eyes on things if you wanted.
I wore them for a full day out and about and while they got a few looks nobody said anything at all. That may be thought because in Australia most people haven't really heard of them outside of the geek circles. When people did ask what these weird head piece thing I was wearing was they all wanted to play with it and ask about it. At least here no one seemed to care about the camera.
In the end what I used it for mostly was to talk to the owner of the glasses via hangouts about how I was finding using them. I send a couple of text messages, answered a heap of calls and took photos of things I wouldn't normally just to test the camera. In the same kind of way that you do with a new phone to test the camera. I would be very unlikely to take many pictures with it if I owned one and wouldn't care if they removed the camera to stop people stressing.
Finally I wouldn't recommend someone get this generation. The tech in the glass is obviously getting a little old now. There are a few noticeable instances of lag and it gets quite hot if you are using it. Not enough to be uncomfortable but definitely enough to be noticeable. Give it a modern phones processor and lower the power usage and it gets interesting.
My feedback for google would be - make the screen bigger. It shows a decent amount of info but it is 16:9 now and if it was 3 time taller it would be much more useful. Find a way to have a low power status display that could be there all the time - eg like displaying a clock.
I actually approached this differently. I built an over the top gaming rig which had loads of noisy fans in it, was a power pig, and was physically large. Previously that would have sat under my desk in the main family living area and made it sound like a vacuum was running all the time. I used to use that for everything from games through the surfing the web. Now I stuck it in a rack I keep in my garage and I have a low power pc sat on my desk that is passively cooled 90% of the time. Wake on lan is configured and when I want to play games - click - wait 2 mins and I'm off.
We use an android phone running an sms server to send and receive large volumes of texts. It was cheaper to do that on a $10/month plan than to use bulk sms servers.
The term of the contract it is on say unlimited texts as long as it is "reasonable" no idea what that number is but 15k per month is apparently reasonable....
You are looking at it the wrong way around. You are looking for money being made based on extracting oil. Look at it instead as money spent on expensive oil. If the Iraqi oil fields stopped producing the world wide cost of oil will rise. The US being the biggest consumer of oil is the MOST negatively effected by higher oil prices.
The amount of money that a US company could have made out of extracting oil in Iraq pales into insignificance when offset against the losses incurred through higher prices overall. The US doesn't care who is sucking it out of the ground as long as SOMEONE is.
When I was living in Hampshire (UK) they had a heap of large roundabouts off motorways with traffic lights on them. The lights caused the traffic to back onto the motorway at peak time. They took the lights out and the traffic flowed much better. What I found made the biggest differences were lanes that pushed you to a specific exit.
In Melbourne there are trams running through the center of the city on the same path as high volume cars. They run in the centre two lanes. To prevent trams being blocked by cars turning right (across the traffic, driving on the left) they make you turn right from the left lane..... So not only do you have to give way to traffic coming towards you you also have to give way to traffic coming from behind you. I do not like this Sam I am!
It does and a round about is definitely better. But it takes up more space and if that is a problem then stop signs work. Personally I like the painted and slightly humped roundabouts they use in the uk over 4 way stop signs - but I never hated them that much
But you stick traffic lights on round abouts!!!!! Weirdest thing I have ever seen!
Except for that insane round about near swindon (i think that is where it was) drove through that thing once.... 8 or 9 roundabouts all stuck together but just painted on..... I felt safer driving round the arc de triomphe.
In Australia you drive on the left so it's opposite but, give way to the right seems to pretty much sort it out. If two cars arrive at opposite sides of the 4 way intersection the car that isn't turning has right of way....
The Australian CTP (compulsory Third Party) program also covers award money for pain, suffering, loss of income etc.
I am personally going through that process as we were hit but a semi-trailer on a highway. Whole family was in the car and we were very lucky to get out without immediate injuries but my wife suffered compression fractures to her lower back as well as whiplash and disk bulges in her neck. Immediately we have been covered for medical expenses and are now in the process of compensation. That process though is about 2 years.....
Even in the event where the at fault driver wasn't insured the state still covers the insurance. Basically if you want to offer CTP insurance, the insurance company has to wear the risk of covering those costs if the at fault driver wasn't insured. The legal ramifications of being uninsured and at fault are huge so very few people risk it.
Maybe this is a difference between America and Australia but your medical costs will still be covered by the mandatory insurance scheme even if the at fault driver is uninsured. In Australia we call it "Rego" but it is actually a combination of the mandatory state vehicle registration tax and a compulsory third part insurance. You then get a sticker that MUST be displayed in the window of your car. It is about 10cm x 6cm, colour coded for the year and has a big number representing the month it expires. Not having a current one is an offence.
So if you get hit by an un-registered, un-insured driver your medical bills will be covered by the scheme and underwritten by the state. So the state has a vested interest in making sure that everyone has current insurance.
Note this insure is purely Third Part Person, ie medical costs of the other people. It doesn't cover property damage in any way.
It would bring your H1-B visa in line with the equivilent Australian visa the 457 business long stay visa. On that visa spouses and dependants can work without restriction.
From my perspective it seems crazy not to have it set up like that. I don't know about the H1-B but the 457 visa requires either, the position to be listed by immigration as an in demand skill, or the company to prove they have gone through reasonable steps to locate a domestic employee (and believe me that is actually a tough test). Then the 457 visa person has to go through a skills assessment, background check and education assessment.
So basically these people have skills you can't find in the domestic economy. This means you can't under pay them because another company will take them from you. And as a country they contribute a lot, so it makes no sense to not have their partner contributing as well to their living costs.
I guess another factor though is Australia has a universal health care system and you don't get that on a 457, also you may have to pay for your kids to attend state schools (depends on the state). So these people pay taxes and take very little.
I think the economics of wind and solar will improve over time as the technology matures, scale increases and more systems are put in place to handle the peaking nature of the power generated.
There is a nasty catch 22 though, and this is coal power generation is already in place, it is a depreciated asset so it has lower capital cost than solar or wind. That capital cost is calculated over the 50 year life of the plant, and even if coal becomes more expensive and the plant starts to run at a loss it is still more economically viable to run the plant for the duration. The loss each year would be a lot lower than the loss if they just closed it.
The other aspect is coal produces its power in 1 place, where as solar and wind are distributed. This has positives and negatives. Distributed means disruptions will only cut a small % of your power generation, but it also means much greater infrastructure cost transmission and maintenance of that transmission network. Coal being centralised gives you a bigger single point of failure but physically requires less poles, wires and transformers.
I assume this is the same project that has had the DA lodged by Warratah Coal in the past 2 days. This would be the new China First Mine in the Galilee, rail link and port upgrade - http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
The mine's target customers are not India but China and Japan. In addition to the China First Mine, which I could understand you writing off because it is Palmer, Hancock is building the Alpha coal mine in the same region. Gina Rhinehart will build it.
Finally thermal coal usage and its price will always be tied to power consumption. But coking coal is used for steel production and while there is still steel being produced Queensland will be digging up and selling vast quantities of coal.
Only if you don't count scooters as motorcycles. They are almost all auto twist and goes.
That said I have a CBR1000RR as my weekend toy and I love the fact that it is manual. However for a car I will always buy an auto. I have an auto subaru imprezza and an auto c class mercedes. Why? Because I commute in a car. I sit in traffic, or a potter to the shops. For me a manual gear box in a car is just a pain that I would rather not deal with.
I did have an e class mercedes for a short period (it lost a fight with a Semi on an highway:( ) and it had key less ignition. The way it worked was a button that pushed into the key slot. You got in with the key in your pocket and pushed the button. I never tried to kill the engine when driving but I have always figured that stopping an engine in an emergency situation will almost always be about last on my list of priorities. Firstly you would want to disengage the transmission ie throw it into neutral. If its an emergency who cares if the engine destroys itself through revs. If you kill then engine without disengaging the transmission you could easily lock the drive wheels under compression braking. The e class was a diesel, I seriously would not have wanted to have killed the engine while doing 100kph or more. If the surface was slick due to water or ice then you are in real trouble.... No abs for that type of braking.
If after I have come to a halt the engine is still going nuts and I can't kill it with the key I will A) pull off the spark plug leads (petrol) or B) press the mechanical decompression lever (diesel).
Instead of this pointless and down right weird crap how about you think about something useful? Maybe integrated traffic signal networks that can detect buildups via peoples cell phones and then adjust traffic light timings to break it up. Or use the fine grained data that you would have for assessing the effectiveness of public transport systems.
Are there? The only ones I was aware of were coal to oil type conversions or hydrogen production. What options are there for a petroleum substitute that doesn't require something like coal?
The biggest issue with regards to oil & gas shortages is not power generation related. Oil & gas represent our current best option for mobile energy. Even if we converted all oil & gas power generation to nuclear we will still consume a huge amount of Oil/Gas.
Without cost effective transport our economies and life style will collapse. Until we find a high efficiency, fast charge battery type option or some other way of storing energy for transport we actively need oil.
I personally feel that baseload generation should be nuclear so that we have longer to get electric vehicles and the required infrastructure in place. This is particularly true in places like Australia where range is a much bigger issue than a lot of places.
On a side note though peak oil doesn't appear to have happened as expected. Oil prices seem to be tied more to demand changes than supply changes ie rising price being tied to rapid increases in wealth in Asia. On the supply side it takes a long time to bring a basin to production so rapidly rising demand has a greater impact on price than anything else. Australia has seen the construction of 4 MASSIVE export focussed gas refineries and ports over the past 5 years, this is all because of the current un-utilised reserves in the cooper-eromanga, perth, canning, surat, bowen and gunnadeh basins which look like they hold a huge amount of gas and condensate. (APLNG, QCLNG, Barrow Island, Ichthys with Browse as a future one)
Sorry I misread the line. Going through that there are fatalities which you would count if you were trying to increase the numbers.
Here however is a link to a direct news article where 2 people died in the Netherlands. I am not trying to argue against wind turbines - purely answer the questions you asked about how. http://www.eastcountymagazine....
People die in almost all industries where there is an identifiable risk of that occurring. Wind farms are tall and require maintenance, they also have electrical risk. People don't always follow proper risk mitigation strategies and deaths happen. Deaths happen in mining for coal as well just as they happen in nuclear plants. I remember reading somewhere that a worker got killed when rods were pulled from a reactor pinning him against a wall.
Deaths happen when installing solar panels, when cleaning windows, when walking up stairs. when driving to work. What you cannot do is argue that Wind Farms are risk free because quite simply they are not. That said neither a nuclear power stations. The risks are different and need to be mitigated differently.
Construction and maintenance deaths. Wind requires far more individual generators than nuclear or any of the fossil fuel plants which means a greater level of maintenance and construction time for the same generation capacity. They are also high up in the air, which means higher risk.
Construction and maintenance always has a % chance risk of death or serious injury. Add height to that and the outcomes get worse. This isn't exclusive to wind farms.
Basically people fall while working on the wind farms and go splat. According to http://www.caithnesswindfarms.... there were 145 wind farm fatalities in the UK alone from 2009 - 2013 145 people died working on wind turbines.
LInkedIn in particular is highly useful if you are in a sales role. Essentially it is a form of self updating client book. It's accuracy is only so-so and it is definitely not exhaustive but without it the job would be much much more difficult.
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No question. But the ones I was wearing were the first ones I had seen so in Australia the knowledge of what they are is very low. I got a fair few "what are those things" questions but even when I answered Google Glass most had no idea what they were.
I don't wear contacts and could see the screen clearly as soon as I put it on, so maybe that is the key. I did have to adjust the bridge slightly as the RHS of the screen kinda fuzzed out of existence when I first put them on. Once I shifted them about 1.5mm left I no longer had that problem.
I wore them all day and only really touched them as much as you would normal glasses.
I'd agree with that. People are really sensitive to the direction other people's eyes are aiming. It's really easy to tell when someone is looking into thier glass vs looking anywhere else.
It's not just that - you can actually see the screen is on. It is black a lot of the time so you see this black square when you are looking at someone else wearing them.
I actually think we are going to see more specialised servers appearing in average joe blogs homes. People are more IT comfortable now (not necessarily more literate) and most people seem to be quite comfortable in how to pirate media content. If you live somewhere where you can stream HD then great for you but most people can't so queuing up the Game of Thrones torrent to watch it tomorrow is a very common usage case.
This is then stored somewhere in their house and sent to what ever is the playback device. With basic TV's becoming mini media front ends and have wifi build in it becomes a simple process to setup. Over time that machine with the GOT episode on it will get more and more content on it till it becomes the "machine I download on and keep stuff on".
So it's not a nicely designed well run server but it has become one by default.
Also cloud processing - I keep hearing this thrown around. WTF do people use cloud resources for processing for at home??? I pretty much never stress my main pc's processors so I feel like I am missing something HUGE!
I finally got my hands on a pair to play with last week. My initial reaction was "This is sooooo awesome!" after a couple of hours with them though I was a little unsure as to what I would regularly use them for. The GPS map is extremely good while driving, it is far less distracting and intrusive than using a dash mounted gps. Also for those people who like texting while driving (naughty naughty) the voice recognition is amazing. The screen is also amazingly clear - you don't notice it till you look at it but when you do it is brilliant. Speaking of the screen you can very easily tell if someone who is wearing them is looking at something on it. You can clearly see the contrast when the screen is on.
As for taking pictures of people without their knowing or recording everything it's just not happening. You either need to have you hand up near your head tapping it or saying "ok glass, take photo". It is actually a lot easier to take an unobtrusive photo with a phone. Where the camera comes into its own is taking photos while you are holding something with both hands. That and the ability to stream what your phone is seeing to the tethered phone - this means you can get a second set of eyes on things if you wanted.
I wore them for a full day out and about and while they got a few looks nobody said anything at all. That may be thought because in Australia most people haven't really heard of them outside of the geek circles. When people did ask what these weird head piece thing I was wearing was they all wanted to play with it and ask about it. At least here no one seemed to care about the camera.
In the end what I used it for mostly was to talk to the owner of the glasses via hangouts about how I was finding using them. I send a couple of text messages, answered a heap of calls and took photos of things I wouldn't normally just to test the camera. In the same kind of way that you do with a new phone to test the camera. I would be very unlikely to take many pictures with it if I owned one and wouldn't care if they removed the camera to stop people stressing.
Finally I wouldn't recommend someone get this generation. The tech in the glass is obviously getting a little old now. There are a few noticeable instances of lag and it gets quite hot if you are using it. Not enough to be uncomfortable but definitely enough to be noticeable. Give it a modern phones processor and lower the power usage and it gets interesting.
My feedback for google would be - make the screen bigger. It shows a decent amount of info but it is 16:9 now and if it was 3 time taller it would be much more useful. Find a way to have a low power status display that could be there all the time - eg like displaying a clock.
I actually approached this differently. I built an over the top gaming rig which had loads of noisy fans in it, was a power pig, and was physically large. Previously that would have sat under my desk in the main family living area and made it sound like a vacuum was running all the time. I used to use that for everything from games through the surfing the web. Now I stuck it in a rack I keep in my garage and I have a low power pc sat on my desk that is passively cooled 90% of the time. Wake on lan is configured and when I want to play games - click - wait 2 mins and I'm off.
We use an android phone running an sms server to send and receive large volumes of texts. It was cheaper to do that on a $10/month plan than to use bulk sms servers.
The term of the contract it is on say unlimited texts as long as it is "reasonable" no idea what that number is but 15k per month is apparently reasonable....
You are looking at it the wrong way around. You are looking for money being made based on extracting oil. Look at it instead as money spent on expensive oil. If the Iraqi oil fields stopped producing the world wide cost of oil will rise. The US being the biggest consumer of oil is the MOST negatively effected by higher oil prices.
The amount of money that a US company could have made out of extracting oil in Iraq pales into insignificance when offset against the losses incurred through higher prices overall. The US doesn't care who is sucking it out of the ground as long as SOMEONE is.
When I was living in Hampshire (UK) they had a heap of large roundabouts off motorways with traffic lights on them. The lights caused the traffic to back onto the motorway at peak time. They took the lights out and the traffic flowed much better. What I found made the biggest differences were lanes that pushed you to a specific exit.
In Melbourne there are trams running through the center of the city on the same path as high volume cars. They run in the centre two lanes. To prevent trams being blocked by cars turning right (across the traffic, driving on the left) they make you turn right from the left lane..... So not only do you have to give way to traffic coming towards you you also have to give way to traffic coming from behind you. I do not like this Sam I am!
It does and a round about is definitely better. But it takes up more space and if that is a problem then stop signs work. Personally I like the painted and slightly humped roundabouts they use in the uk over 4 way stop signs - but I never hated them that much
But you stick traffic lights on round abouts!!!!! Weirdest thing I have ever seen!
Except for that insane round about near swindon (i think that is where it was) drove through that thing once.... 8 or 9 roundabouts all stuck together but just painted on..... I felt safer driving round the arc de triomphe.
What's wrong with a 4-way stop sign?
In Australia you drive on the left so it's opposite but, give way to the right seems to pretty much sort it out. If two cars arrive at opposite sides of the 4 way intersection the car that isn't turning has right of way....
Ah you are ahead of QLD. 2015 they are scrapped.
The Australian CTP (compulsory Third Party) program also covers award money for pain, suffering, loss of income etc.
I am personally going through that process as we were hit but a semi-trailer on a highway. Whole family was in the car and we were very lucky to get out without immediate injuries but my wife suffered compression fractures to her lower back as well as whiplash and disk bulges in her neck. Immediately we have been covered for medical expenses and are now in the process of compensation. That process though is about 2 years.....
Even in the event where the at fault driver wasn't insured the state still covers the insurance. Basically if you want to offer CTP insurance, the insurance company has to wear the risk of covering those costs if the at fault driver wasn't insured. The legal ramifications of being uninsured and at fault are huge so very few people risk it.
Maybe this is a difference between America and Australia but your medical costs will still be covered by the mandatory insurance scheme even if the at fault driver is uninsured. In Australia we call it "Rego" but it is actually a combination of the mandatory state vehicle registration tax and a compulsory third part insurance. You then get a sticker that MUST be displayed in the window of your car. It is about 10cm x 6cm, colour coded for the year and has a big number representing the month it expires. Not having a current one is an offence.
So if you get hit by an un-registered, un-insured driver your medical bills will be covered by the scheme and underwritten by the state. So the state has a vested interest in making sure that everyone has current insurance.
Note this insure is purely Third Part Person, ie medical costs of the other people. It doesn't cover property damage in any way.
It would bring your H1-B visa in line with the equivilent Australian visa the 457 business long stay visa. On that visa spouses and dependants can work without restriction.
From my perspective it seems crazy not to have it set up like that. I don't know about the H1-B but the 457 visa requires either, the position to be listed by immigration as an in demand skill, or the company to prove they have gone through reasonable steps to locate a domestic employee (and believe me that is actually a tough test). Then the 457 visa person has to go through a skills assessment, background check and education assessment.
So basically these people have skills you can't find in the domestic economy. This means you can't under pay them because another company will take them from you. And as a country they contribute a lot, so it makes no sense to not have their partner contributing as well to their living costs.
I guess another factor though is Australia has a universal health care system and you don't get that on a 457, also you may have to pay for your kids to attend state schools (depends on the state). So these people pay taxes and take very little.
Fair enough.
I think the economics of wind and solar will improve over time as the technology matures, scale increases and more systems are put in place to handle the peaking nature of the power generated.
There is a nasty catch 22 though, and this is coal power generation is already in place, it is a depreciated asset so it has lower capital cost than solar or wind. That capital cost is calculated over the 50 year life of the plant, and even if coal becomes more expensive and the plant starts to run at a loss it is still more economically viable to run the plant for the duration. The loss each year would be a lot lower than the loss if they just closed it.
The other aspect is coal produces its power in 1 place, where as solar and wind are distributed. This has positives and negatives. Distributed means disruptions will only cut a small % of your power generation, but it also means much greater infrastructure cost transmission and maintenance of that transmission network. Coal being centralised gives you a bigger single point of failure but physically requires less poles, wires and transformers.
I assume this is the same project that has had the DA lodged by Warratah Coal in the past 2 days. This would be the new China First Mine in the Galilee, rail link and port upgrade - http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
The mine's target customers are not India but China and Japan. In addition to the China First Mine, which I could understand you writing off because it is Palmer, Hancock is building the Alpha coal mine in the same region. Gina Rhinehart will build it.
Finally thermal coal usage and its price will always be tied to power consumption. But coking coal is used for steel production and while there is still steel being produced Queensland will be digging up and selling vast quantities of coal.
Only if you don't count scooters as motorcycles. They are almost all auto twist and goes.
That said I have a CBR1000RR as my weekend toy and I love the fact that it is manual. However for a car I will always buy an auto. I have an auto subaru imprezza and an auto c class mercedes. Why? Because I commute in a car. I sit in traffic, or a potter to the shops. For me a manual gear box in a car is just a pain that I would rather not deal with.
I did have an e class mercedes for a short period (it lost a fight with a Semi on an highway :( ) and it had key less ignition. The way it worked was a button that pushed into the key slot. You got in with the key in your pocket and pushed the button. I never tried to kill the engine when driving but I have always figured that stopping an engine in an emergency situation will almost always be about last on my list of priorities. Firstly you would want to disengage the transmission ie throw it into neutral. If its an emergency who cares if the engine destroys itself through revs. If you kill then engine without disengaging the transmission you could easily lock the drive wheels under compression braking. The e class was a diesel, I seriously would not have wanted to have killed the engine while doing 100kph or more. If the surface was slick due to water or ice then you are in real trouble.... No abs for that type of braking.
If after I have come to a halt the engine is still going nuts and I can't kill it with the key I will A) pull off the spark plug leads (petrol) or B) press the mechanical decompression lever (diesel).
Instead of this pointless and down right weird crap how about you think about something useful? Maybe integrated traffic signal networks that can detect buildups via peoples cell phones and then adjust traffic light timings to break it up. Or use the fine grained data that you would have for assessing the effectiveness of public transport systems.
Are there? The only ones I was aware of were coal to oil type conversions or hydrogen production. What options are there for a petroleum substitute that doesn't require something like coal?
The biggest issue with regards to oil & gas shortages is not power generation related. Oil & gas represent our current best option for mobile energy. Even if we converted all oil & gas power generation to nuclear we will still consume a huge amount of Oil/Gas.
Without cost effective transport our economies and life style will collapse. Until we find a high efficiency, fast charge battery type option or some other way of storing energy for transport we actively need oil.
I personally feel that baseload generation should be nuclear so that we have longer to get electric vehicles and the required infrastructure in place. This is particularly true in places like Australia where range is a much bigger issue than a lot of places.
On a side note though peak oil doesn't appear to have happened as expected. Oil prices seem to be tied more to demand changes than supply changes ie rising price being tied to rapid increases in wealth in Asia. On the supply side it takes a long time to bring a basin to production so rapidly rising demand has a greater impact on price than anything else. Australia has seen the construction of 4 MASSIVE export focussed gas refineries and ports over the past 5 years, this is all because of the current un-utilised reserves in the cooper-eromanga, perth, canning, surat, bowen and gunnadeh basins which look like they hold a huge amount of gas and condensate. (APLNG, QCLNG, Barrow Island, Ichthys with Browse as a future one)
Less biased article about the wind farm fire - http://www.nltimes.nl/2013/10/...
Sorry I misread the line. Going through that there are fatalities which you would count if you were trying to increase the numbers.
Here however is a link to a direct news article where 2 people died in the Netherlands. I am not trying to argue against wind turbines - purely answer the questions you asked about how. http://www.eastcountymagazine....
People die in almost all industries where there is an identifiable risk of that occurring. Wind farms are tall and require maintenance, they also have electrical risk. People don't always follow proper risk mitigation strategies and deaths happen. Deaths happen in mining for coal as well just as they happen in nuclear plants. I remember reading somewhere that a worker got killed when rods were pulled from a reactor pinning him against a wall.
Deaths happen when installing solar panels, when cleaning windows, when walking up stairs. when driving to work. What you cannot do is argue that Wind Farms are risk free because quite simply they are not. That said neither a nuclear power stations. The risks are different and need to be mitigated differently.
Construction and maintenance deaths. Wind requires far more individual generators than nuclear or any of the fossil fuel plants which means a greater level of maintenance and construction time for the same generation capacity. They are also high up in the air, which means higher risk.
Construction and maintenance always has a % chance risk of death or serious injury. Add height to that and the outcomes get worse. This isn't exclusive to wind farms.
Basically people fall while working on the wind farms and go splat. According to http://www.caithnesswindfarms.... there were 145 wind farm fatalities in the UK alone from 2009 - 2013 145 people died working on wind turbines.
LInkedIn in particular is highly useful if you are in a sales role. Essentially it is a form of self updating client book. It's accuracy is only so-so and it is definitely not exhaustive but without it the job would be much much more difficult.