A 3 MW turbine at 35% capacity factor generates 9,000 MW-hr per year. There are entire farms doing much better than that in many places but Germany has many older farms that aren't so productive and would be better served by replacing them with newer, more efficient turbines rather than develop new installations.
Also, their residential electricity usage is much lower than the average American, 1/4th - 1/3rd as much. A single turbine like the one I described above could power over 2000 typical German homes.
"Subsidies, tax breaks, under the table deals" - yup, because those never existed before wind power and we had a wonderfully free & incorruptible process of picking electricity sources.
"the PART TIME that the wind blows" - capacity factors have been getting steadily better for some time. While 25-30% was considered quite good for onshore wind just a few years ago, it's now more like 36-43% and some do even better. Offshore wind is significantly more consistent but also expensive.
The Chevy Volt is NOT all-electric; it's only slightly different than a plug-in Prius. What Musk is doing is building the entire ECOsystem. Cars, batteries, high power charging stations. over the air updates, solar manufacturing & leasing. All of those things are already available but no one company has done as much and Tesla is TINY compared to the competition.
So they're both topnotch, hardcore programmers & mafia dons? And no one will have the ability or vision to replace these "bosses"? Remember when their used to be a Jewish mafia? Nobody replaced them, right? Given the collective populations of Russia, China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, the entire US-despising Muslim world, there are millions both capable blackhat hackers & criminal masterminds.
Between China, North Korean and the former Soviet countries there are THOUSANDS of programmers who can make sophisticated exploits and there are probably as many in the free world.
You're just another power-hungry twit looking to implement toll-roads to everywhere on the information superhighway.
John Gannon is supposed to be the new "general manager" of the Info Mgmt business - if he's not the CEO and Brown is still going to be in charge, what's the fucking point?
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
300 million years ago, the landmasses were all agglomerated into the Pangaea supercontinent which lasted for 100 million years. The differing location vs present day makes for very different climate. The CO2 level during the past 1/2 million years has never surpassed 300 ppm so 350 is a 15% buffer.
"The car has unusual good looks" - that was before the BMW i8 "Rich people will buy it if they think its not gonna leave them stranded" - there's also the Porsche Panamera S eHybrid, which has better performance for about the same money and a big name behind it. For 1/3 more - which wouldn't be a deal-breaker for folks in the upper-upper-middle-class - there's the aforementioned BMW i8, also backed by a well-known automotive maker. WangXiang may not be small but they don't - as yet - have solid name recognition outside of China.
And that's if you're only discounting Tesla's established - and growing - Supercharger network. One little-known fact is that they're also installing 80 A chargers that can provide about 55 miles of range per hour, about the same as charging at home with the Dual Charger High Power Wall Connector. http://green.autoblog.com/2014...
"because that gets the car under the magic $100,000 price barrier" - I'm not sure how much of a barrier that is. These cars are mostly being bought by folks who are quite well off. I would say that "price barriers" exist at $25k, 35k, $50k but anyone who's trying to decide between a top end Model S, the Panamera S, the i8 or the Fisker Karma isn't going to make up his mind solely on a $20k price difference; it'll be just one of several factors in the final decision.
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Tell that to the UK who's facing having to pay $30 billion for 3.2 GW at Hinkley Point AND a 35 year per-MW subsidy at twice the current rate.
A 3 MW turbine at 35% capacity factor generates 9,000 MW-hr per year. There are entire farms doing much better than that in many places but Germany has many older farms that aren't so productive and would be better served by replacing them with newer, more efficient turbines rather than develop new installations.
Also, their residential electricity usage is much lower than the average American, 1/4th - 1/3rd as much. A single turbine like the one I described above could power over 2000 typical German homes.
"Subsidies, tax breaks, under the table deals" - yup, because those never existed before wind power and we had a wonderfully free & incorruptible process of picking electricity sources.
"the PART TIME that the wind blows" - capacity factors have been getting steadily better for some time. While 25-30% was considered quite good for onshore wind just a few years ago, it's now more like 36-43% and some do even better. Offshore wind is significantly more consistent but also expensive.
It's an oldie that was sent around in the late '90s. I think I first saw it in '98
Truly epic trolling. Well done.
The Chevy Volt is NOT all-electric; it's only slightly different than a plug-in Prius.
What Musk is doing is building the entire ECOsystem. Cars, batteries, high power charging stations. over the air updates, solar manufacturing & leasing.
All of those things are already available but no one company has done as much and Tesla is TINY compared to the competition.
So they're both topnotch, hardcore programmers & mafia dons? And no one will have the ability or vision to replace these "bosses"?
Remember when their used to be a Jewish mafia? Nobody replaced them, right?
Given the collective populations of Russia, China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, the entire US-despising Muslim world, there are millions both capable blackhat hackers & criminal masterminds.
Between China, North Korean and the former Soviet countries there are THOUSANDS of programmers who can make sophisticated exploits and there are probably as many in the free world.
You're just another power-hungry twit looking to implement toll-roads to everywhere on the information superhighway.
I'm guessing they would call that the Model Q (Quad-motor) instead of Model F.
John Gannon is supposed to be the new "general manager" of the Info Mgmt business - if he's not the CEO and Brown is still going to be in charge, what's the fucking point?
Car analogy fail. Protein, fat, carbs, metabolism, look it up.
I don't know. A case that advanced probably need both a doctor & a dietitian / nutritionist involved.
Hah! German will never die!!
Just eat a lot less carbs.
The continents were also in different positions, much closer together, which would have an affect on ocean circulation.
?? I've had the real stuff many times back in the '80s - it was freakin' awesome.
"unobmapleium" - ROFL. You, sir, have won the Internet for today - and the sun hasn't even come up yet where I live.
After all these years, the Canadarm is their claim to fame in the space race?
At this point, it must be embarrasing to the average Canadian.
300 million years ago, the landmasses were all agglomerated into the Pangaea supercontinent which lasted for 100 million years. The differing location vs present day makes for very different climate. The CO2 level during the past 1/2 million years has never surpassed 300 ppm so 350 is a 15% buffer.
That's just more oil that should be left in the ground, at least until we can get CO2 below ~350 parts per million
Gov Jerry Brown signs 6 bills in favor of EVs
http://www.greencarreports.com...
That's sounds like an extremely expensive way to heat your dog's unit.
Just get an electric doggy blanket for him.
+5 Funny for that comment.
"The car has unusual good looks" - that was before the BMW i8
"Rich people will buy it if they think its not gonna leave them stranded" - there's also the Porsche Panamera S eHybrid, which has better performance for about the same money and a big name behind it. For 1/3 more - which wouldn't be a deal-breaker for folks in the upper-upper-middle-class - there's the aforementioned BMW i8, also backed by a well-known automotive maker. WangXiang may not be small but they don't - as yet - have solid name recognition outside of China.
And that's if you're only discounting Tesla's established - and growing - Supercharger network. One little-known fact is that they're also installing 80 A chargers that can provide about 55 miles of range per hour, about the same as charging at home with the Dual Charger High Power Wall Connector.
http://green.autoblog.com/2014...
"because that gets the car under the magic $100,000 price barrier" - I'm not sure how much of a barrier that is. These cars are mostly being bought by folks who are quite well off. I would say that "price barriers" exist at $25k, 35k, $50k but anyone who's trying to decide between a top end Model S, the Panamera S, the i8 or the Fisker Karma isn't going to make up his mind solely on a $20k price difference; it'll be just one of several factors in the final decision.
I'm not the one panicking over "bioweapons" or some other bullshit chickenshit fantasy doomsday scenario.