Seemingly, Stoiber, the erstwhile candidate for German chancellor in the last election, just advocated an "ideology free" view (read: reassessment) of nuclear power. That he was that much pro atomic energy was new to me... But it's clear: there is no wind or oil in Bavaria, so the indigenous sources of energy are not quite plentiful. What he overlooks, is the 50.000 jobs being created in wind energy in the last years (how many people were there working in Siemens KWU, the nuclear branch that merged recently with Framatome?).
Some posters have pointed out the issue of lack of jobs in North Dakota, dying communities etc. See here for a Spanish example how this can be reversed.
And wind power in Europe has created over 150.000 jobs out of the blue. That's plenty more people than to run a few nuclear plants...
It depends on the size of the area in question. The correlation drops with distance, but even combining the wind power from all of Europe, the minimum production is only 1% of the installed capacity. And in the US, you would have to transport eg enough power for California through the faltering transmission lines from North Dakota or Iowa. See the works of Michael Milligan, Brian Parsons, Bernhard Ernst, Gregor Giebel and Hannele Holttinen for details.
On the plus side, most every result shows that integrating wind power up to 20% is very possible (Western Denmark survives with 27%, Navarra with 50%, and Schleswig-Holstein with even more).
...though close. One of our technicians had a job to do on the top level of a 125m met tower. Comes one bad move, and the ruggedized Nokia he had is unseated, falls, dangles two times at the mast, and disappears somewhere in the high grass. Well, not much to do there, is it? He and a colleague spend some time searching it, until the colleague asks: Did you have your mobile turned on?, rings to it, diddeli-diddeli-diddeli, go after the tone, pick it up, and all he had to do was to wipe it off!
I leave the calculation of the impact force as an exercise to the (karma-starved) reader.
Why is this modded funny? It's an perfectly valid question. Anyway, back in 2001 on the Roskilde Festival, Danish mobile company Sonofon had a truck with not only a mobile GSM cell, but also a free charging service for your phone! Of course it's a win-win situation...
Is anyone working on, say, a SD card with a TV tuner (be it analog or DVB) for a PDA? It probably still would suck the battery dry in no time, but it would be fun while it lasts...
Alternatively, have a purpose built solution, maybe employing something like the Archos Video Jukebox or the Media Center of MS. What's the status there?
Is there any advantage to be had by going for DVB? Batterywise, eg? Which size antenna do you need anyway?
Interesting that noone should come up with spacebattles.com - they mix everything in some grand figthing scenes (ships from B5, Star Trek, Galactica, Star Wars etc), and seem to be a bunch of happy amateurs. Great fun, and even some story line thrown in for good measure.
I went and saw the whole trilogy yesterday in the cinema (admittedly, with breaks between the movies), and I can tell you, this is the way to see it!
Even though you start to find some annoyances, like no 10 minutes without someone having watery eyes, or the amount of pathos being applied liberally to the film. What I'd really love from the DVDs, is to get a low-pathos version of the film...
I'd actually like it to have a cradle on top of my TV. There, it would be charged and at the same time double as my PVR. If they could pull that off, doing a PVR (TiVo style or whatever else) in a small portable package, they might have a winner.
What I'd like to see this technology used for is fat redistribution. Imagine these critters being injected at your fat repositories, latching onto a fat cell, getting into your bloodstream and depositing it either through the shunt or wherever you have the magnetic field positioned.
Usage: inject in the hips, wear magnetic bra! Result: Big boobs, thin legs! Why make trillions, if I could make... billions!?
I believe this is the right place to throw in a plug to PHPWeather. It's a parser for METAR files, the ones typically sent out from airports. This way, you can have your own page display the actual weather at the nearest airport.
Have a look at Ventus Vigor, where it is used (along with other great news from the wind power business). It's amazing how many countries they have weather data from...
If so, Denmark has joined Holland and now Ireland. Ireland is putting in the biggest wind turbines ever
Just for correcting you, it's the other way round: Denmark had the first real offshore wind farm at Vindeby, and Denmark is the first to have real offshore wind power plants with the two 160MW installations at Horns Reef and Nysted.
Please, someone with an aeronautics and space background respond. Would it be worthwile, and possible at all, to use the Concorde as a first stage for the Orbital Sciences Pegasus rocket (or some similar toy)?
My first guess is that something must prevent it, otherwise they would have gotten an old Tu-144 (nicknamed "Concordski") or even a mothballed SR-71. But what?
As an aside, yes, it was truly loud. I worked near Oxford for a while, and the only plane you could hear starting from Heathrow was Concorde. Once at around 1100 so you could start salivating for lunch, and once later in the evening, telling you that it's about time to get home...
And now, to the "interesting factoids of Concorde" section (shamelessly looted from BA's Tribute to Concorde site): - The Concorde has logged more supersonic hours than all military aircraft together. - The most flying passenger is an oil executive, logging up to 70 (seven-oh) trips in one year (trips as in, return trips). - Here should be a third factoid for symmetry, but I cannot remember it...
Actually, they sell cheap tickets now as a tribute - one leg Concorde, one leg monkey, for "only" 1999£!
FP? Anyway, I've visited that type of plant (OTEC, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) already in Hawaii (near Kona), where there is one running since quite some years. One problem is that it only works for steep ocean wall drop offs, since otherwise the pipe is getting too long.
It uses about half of the created energy (through a normal Carnot cycle) for pumping (about 120kW). The other half is not quite competetive, but with the nutrient rich and cool water, fish farming and air conditioning can be done, heaving the whole investment to a black zero (or better).
I leave the exercise of finding the link to a Karma-hungry reader.
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Actually, had it been the consensus of the world that Iraq poses an immediate threat, then the UN security council would have given green light for the war.
Your friend doesn't seem to have a PhD in lifecycle analysis. Doing the maths for a wind turbine, you get to an energy payback time of 2-3 months. Photovoltaics is more (some years nowadays, but I don't have a ref handy). For wind, look here: windpower.dk
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Actually, one large problem with the "liberalisation" California style was that they also regulated themselves out of a market based approach, basically regulating themselves out of the power saving alternative. Had the moon prices been allowed to be handed down to the consumers, the spirit of free enterprise could have taken hold to try to consume less electricity (consumers and industry alike).
All it takes is to hand out Office to the starving masses - the ones running this free (both versions, but mostly as in beer) OS, and they can make money from the free Linux _and_ keep their OS market profitable. Windows doesn't need to be the killer application any more in terms of revenue, just so that it can feed itself nicely.
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Seemingly, Stoiber, the erstwhile candidate for German chancellor in the last election, just advocated an "ideology free" view (read: reassessment) of nuclear power. That he was that much pro atomic energy was new to me... But it's clear: there is no wind or oil in Bavaria, so the indigenous sources of energy are not quite plentiful. What he overlooks, is the 50.000 jobs being created in wind energy in the last years (how many people were there working in Siemens KWU, the nuclear branch that merged recently with Framatome?).
Some posters have pointed out the issue of lack of jobs in North Dakota, dying communities etc. See here for a Spanish example how this can be reversed.
And wind power in Europe has created over 150.000 jobs out of the blue. That's plenty more people than to run a few nuclear plants...
It depends on the size of the area in question. The correlation drops with distance, but even combining the wind power from all of Europe, the minimum production is only 1% of the installed capacity. And in the US, you would have to transport eg enough power for California through the faltering transmission lines from North Dakota or Iowa.
See the works of Michael Milligan, Brian Parsons, Bernhard Ernst, Gregor Giebel and Hannele Holttinen for details.
On the plus side, most every result shows that integrating wind power up to 20% is very possible (Western Denmark survives with 27%, Navarra with 50%, and Schleswig-Holstein with even more).
...though close. One of our technicians had a job to do on the top level of a 125m met tower. Comes one bad move, and the ruggedized Nokia he had is unseated, falls, dangles two times at the mast, and disappears somewhere in the high grass. Well, not much to do there, is it?
He and a colleague spend some time searching it, until the colleague asks: Did you have your mobile turned on?, rings to it, diddeli-diddeli-diddeli, go after the tone, pick it up, and all he had to do was to wipe it off!
I leave the calculation of the impact force as an exercise to the (karma-starved) reader.
Why is this modded funny? It's an perfectly valid question.
Anyway, back in 2001 on the Roskilde Festival, Danish mobile company Sonofon had a truck with not only a mobile GSM cell, but also a free charging service for your phone! Of course it's a win-win situation...
Is anyone working on, say, a SD card with a TV tuner (be it analog or DVB) for a PDA? It probably still would suck the battery dry in no time, but it would be fun while it lasts...
Alternatively, have a purpose built solution, maybe employing something like the Archos Video Jukebox or the Media Center of MS. What's the status there?
Is there any advantage to be had by going for DVB? Batterywise, eg? Which size antenna do you need anyway?
Just fodder for thought (and replies).
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Interesting that noone should come up with spacebattles.com - they mix everything in some grand figthing scenes (ships from B5, Star Trek, Galactica, Star Wars etc), and seem to be a bunch of happy amateurs. Great fun, and even some story line thrown in for good measure.
I went and saw the whole trilogy yesterday in the cinema (admittedly, with breaks between the movies), and I can tell you, this is the way to see it!
Even though you start to find some annoyances, like no 10 minutes without someone having watery eyes, or the amount of pathos being applied liberally to the film. What I'd really love from the DVDs, is to get a low-pathos version of the film...
I'd actually like it to have a cradle on top of my TV. There, it would be charged and at the same time double as my PVR. If they could pull that off, doing a PVR (TiVo style or whatever else) in a small portable package, they might have a winner.
I believe it was 1967, and they had a full day with no traffic at all, to not have any nasty accidents during the switchover itself.
What I'd like to see this technology used for is fat redistribution. Imagine these critters being injected at your fat repositories, latching onto a fat cell, getting into your bloodstream and depositing it either through the shunt or wherever you have the magnetic field positioned.
... billions!?
Usage: inject in the hips, wear magnetic bra! Result: Big boobs, thin legs!
Why make trillions, if I could make
I believe this is the right place to throw in a plug to PHPWeather. It's a parser for METAR files, the ones typically sent out from airports. This way, you can have your own page display the actual weather at the nearest airport.
Have a look at Ventus Vigor, where it is used (along with other great news from the wind power business). It's amazing how many countries they have weather data from...
All of you people with the movie references, I wonder whether you meant Firefox?
Just for correcting you, it's the other way round: Denmark had the first real offshore wind farm at Vindeby, and Denmark is the first to have real offshore wind power plants with the two 160MW installations at Horns Reef and Nysted.
Just to nitpick...
... would gathering evidence then break the DCMA?
Obviously not for wiretapping, but for using the hard disks in court? Just wondering.
I already am turning the other inbox ...
about 20 times a day!
(I know, I get off lightly - our IT dept filters quite decently)
And voilá, Linux kernel 2575! Zipped past Windows elegantly enough!
Actually, if we really want to move forward as a society, shouldn't we try to make bombers obsolete in the first place?
Please, someone with an aeronautics and space background respond. Would it be worthwile, and possible at all, to use the Concorde as a first stage for the Orbital Sciences Pegasus rocket (or some similar toy)?
My first guess is that something must prevent it, otherwise they would have gotten an old Tu-144 (nicknamed "Concordski") or even a mothballed SR-71. But what?
As an aside, yes, it was truly loud. I worked near Oxford for a while, and the only plane you could hear starting from Heathrow was Concorde. Once at around 1100 so you could start salivating for lunch, and once later in the evening, telling you that it's about time to get home...
And now, to the "interesting factoids of Concorde" section (shamelessly looted from BA's Tribute to Concorde site):
- The Concorde has logged more supersonic hours than all military aircraft together.
- The most flying passenger is an oil executive, logging up to 70 (seven-oh) trips in one year (trips as in, return trips).
- Here should be a third factoid for symmetry, but I cannot remember it...
Actually, they sell cheap tickets now as a tribute - one leg Concorde, one leg monkey, for "only" 1999£!
FP? Anyway, I've visited that type of plant (OTEC, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) already in Hawaii (near Kona), where there is one running since quite some years. One problem is that it only works for steep ocean wall drop offs, since otherwise the pipe is getting too long.
It uses about half of the created energy (through a normal Carnot cycle) for pumping (about 120kW). The other half is not quite competetive, but with the nutrient rich and cool water, fish farming and air conditioning can be done, heaving the whole investment to a black zero (or better).
I leave the exercise of finding the link to a Karma-hungry reader.
Actually, had it been the consensus of the world that Iraq poses an immediate threat, then the UN security council would have given green light for the war.
Your friend doesn't seem to have a PhD in lifecycle analysis. Doing the maths for a wind turbine, you get to an energy payback time of 2-3 months. Photovoltaics is more (some years nowadays, but I don't have a ref handy). For wind, look here: windpower.dk
Baghdad, Beirut, Berlin, what's the difference!
Actually, one large problem with the "liberalisation" California style was that they also regulated themselves out of a market based approach, basically regulating themselves out of the power saving alternative. Had the moon prices been allowed to be handed down to the consumers, the spirit of free enterprise could have taken hold to try to consume less electricity (consumers and industry alike).
Just my c2.
All it takes is to hand out Office to the starving masses - the ones running this free (both versions, but mostly as in beer) OS, and they can make money from the free Linux _and_ keep their OS market profitable. Windows doesn't need to be the killer application any more in terms of revenue, just so that it can feed itself nicely.