Well, I've been an advocate of replacing coal power with nuclear power for quite some time, but even I'll admit that NG generally results in less than half the CO2 emissions for the energy production, and relative to a reactor is far cheaper to build. And nuclear promises to be cheaper than solar/wind for the amount of electricity produced.
However, you need quite a lot of it. NG, while cheap in many areas, makes me hesitant because I believe that when we go 'full bore' we'd exhaust our supplies fairly quickly and have increased expenses. Thus I'd like to see nuclear electricity production while we keep NG for heating homes and chemical manufacturing. Heck, you'd have to be rather round-about to make steel using nuclear energy, you can use NG heat directly.
There's a HUGE difference between 'anything in the internet' and 'internet'.
I don't trust 'the internet' as a whole one bit. Still, there are specific sites I place a large amount of trust in.
I trust wikipedia, for example, about as much as I would an encyclopedia or public school textbook. Good for getting links and figures for internet arguments. Not so much for a college thesis, but a good point to start.
"The Media" is such a loaded phrase these days, that it's no surprise nobody "trusts" them. Years of politicians and everyone else slamming "traditional media", "Big media", "The Liberal Media", and "The Right-wing Media" mean that everyone associates "The Media" with whatever group they disagree with.
I simplify it even more.
Look at the approval ratings for 'congress'. They've been dipping into the single digits lately. Yet ask people about their representative/senator, it's pretty much guaranteed to be at least double that of 'congress'.
Ask about Fox News, NBC, CNN, BBC, etc... You'll get higher numbers.
The only real "deficiency" for house use would be the fact that it is JUST an AP, not a router/AP combo with a built-in switch.
However, if you're rackmounting most of your gear, independent router and APs (esp. if you decide to use multiple APs to cover a large area) aren't a bad thing.
I agree, but I'd probably want to talk with the reps on the usage of them - the rocket is only capable of 5Ghz operation per the spec sheet, and I'd be concerned about compatibility with WPA2, SSID, connecting to multiple sources, etc... It's designed to provide remote internet access, after all.
This is the first time I've seen this company, and the spec sheets don't mention that stuff. Limited time for research as well.
As for the mount, with 120 degree coverage, I'd suggest wall mount in a corner.
For the performance they provide, Ubiqiti's Rocket and Bullet series are pretty reasonably priced. A complete high power 5 GHz N setup (with PoE injector, AP, and antennas) will run you around $150-170. A Rocket M5 is $90, and a matched 16 dBi 120 degree sector antenna is $80, total $170.
You do realize I was looking to provide wireless access inside my house, right? The Rocket/Bullet are explicity designed for outdoor point to point use, not point to multipoint.
You can roll your own PoE, just run half-duplex connections to your kit (1/2 and 3/6 pairs, IIRC) and use the other wires in the bundle to carry power.
Interesting, but I'd rather not for a number of reasons. 1. Future upgradeability - gigabit requires the extra lines, and at 600mbit, even at half duplex a N device can be fast enough to saturate a 100mb connection. Especially if you get a dual radio router and run networks on both the 2.4 and 5 ghz range. 2. Selling - I don't want to leave landmines for a future purchaser of my house. 3. Trouble for me - I get a new router, I may have to make MORE adapters for my wireless router to make it work.
Remember that this would be a NEW BUILD house, so running more wire is cheap. I'd rather just pay the $20-60 to have 2 ethernet lines run to the spots I plan on possibly having routers than to mess with half-duplexing. Heck, it's about the same price to have them put a power slot next to it as well.
One of the main selling points to POE wireless points, in my opinion, isn't for NEW builds, it's for when you're retrofitting. That way you only have to run the network cable over to where you're going to mount it to on the ceiling, instead of also having to run a power cable, doubling the infrastructure upgrade costs. It's marginally neater as well.
As for the wall power jacks from radio shack; the local one is pretty horribly canted towards consumer electronics, not 'do it yourself'. I'd end up using the local menards or ordering off the internet.
Anyways, with new build you might as well put a proper AC jack there, it's more versatile.
The only reason for having them is paranoia anyways. A centrally located wiring closet with an AP should work, but a couple spots I can put APs in would ensure excellent connectivity in the living room, bedrooms, even garage* and yard(if I want it).
Heck, the 'TRENDnet TEW-653AP' are almost just right for my purposes though. Still a bit heavy on features - I'm thinking more of a central controller doing the DHCP and firewall stuff, kinda like how aruba networks work(dumb AP that essentially tunnels all of it's traffic via VPN to a central controller that decides what to do with it). The other point is that it's 2.4 ghz only. Produce a dual radio 2.4/5 Ghz version and I'm sold(as long as reliability, range are still adequate).
I don't know if it's a problem with 802.11G or a problem with DD-WRT but if I have a file transfer going I get dropouts, and my two APs are on different channels with no others visible in the area since I live in the boonies.
Possibly your router; I've done LARGE data transfers over 802.11G without problems other than 'takes forever'. I'm much happier now that I'm running on N, and one router easily covers the whole house. The whole reason for having multiple APs in my 'New' house is because it'll be bigger and the closet will be in the basement. I'd probably get a 8 port switch or something anyways and hardwire stuff like game stations and my desktop machines. Server/s will go in the closet(remember to have cooling to that closet).
*for looking up advice on car maintenance/repairs, maybe?
True, but the Australian market, in the scheme of things, is limited compared to the world market. If the whole world was going to it then we wouldn't have this problem(I'm have DSL).
I don't know how global the 'ADSL' standard Australia is using is, but I do know they tend to have to pay a pretty premium and have limited selection for things like DVRs because of their unique TV system.
Another limiting factor is that 'G' is still 'good enough' for most people - and my phone company is giving 4 port + wireless G routers to new subscribers. A new coworker got that - he's living in a dorm right now, and was having (wireless) network issues. I hauled my laptop over there and fired up the diagnostic software - 'You're on channel 1, along with 7 other networks I can see. There's 7 more on 7, and another 6 on 11'. I ended up putting him on channel 9 - got his connection speed (6' away from the router) from 40mbit to the full 54 and ended the dropout problem. Still, the 'optimal' solution would be for him, indeed, many of the people living there, would be to get routers capable of operating in the 5 Ghz range, whether N or A.
I originally got a modem, then they replaced it with a 4 port wired router w/integrated DSL modem, now they're giving away the wireless ones. Loved it because they screwed up the upgrades because I had a static NIC. They suggested plugging straight into the router 'for better speeds', I pointed out that my router had wireless N, gigabit ports, and better security than theirs. If they had upgraded me to wireless, at best I'd have used theirs to set up a public network for visitors.
Or you could get REALLY short cables, stack the units properly for airflow,
*Looks at current router and DSL modem*
Yeah, that would require them to also stop with the 'art deco' designs.
Or for me to at least get some sort of shelf/rack system.
Of course, in my new house design I actually have a comm closet - wouldn't necessarily put the wireless router in there, but I sure as heck would put the cable/DSL modem in there and use an ethernet run to any wireless routers. Hmmm... at that point might as well use POE and those thin wireless APs. But that's a commercial solution and a LOT more expensive than a consumer integrated unit.
The subsidies for solar/renewable power is so high that they can still make money via diesel generators?
That's a pretty crazy amount of subsidization. Especially if you add a substantial risk penalty for doing something illegal, the cost of the generators, the cost of the fuel, etc...
4.5k MwH is 4.5M Kwh, that's $450k worth of electricity in my area.
Going for around 3 cents as a 'low ball', that would be 30 cents a kwh equivalent. Well over a million USD equivalent. Possibly. I could see that, but while it's a substantial fraud case, it's not a game changer, I think.
It's applicable in the sense that the eReaders aren't a major cash cow (like the iPod is), but it's not applicable in the sense that the blades (books) don't dull. There's a cost to switching that builds up over time as you invest into a library.
A major concern of mine, and a reason why I'm very hesitant to buy books from either amazon or B&N, indeed, any sight that uses DRM.
I could put up with a DVD style encryption - able to download to ANY e-reader as long as I authenticate.
Being a somewhat obsessive buyer of books on webscription, one of my irks with my nook is that it doesn't have a search function - which when you load up 300+ ebooks is kinda important.
In fact, I'd argue FOR double framing walls with 2x4s outside and 2x3s inside with an insulation (and wiring and plumbing) gap, rather than framing with 2x6 (to code). If you stagger them, you can avoid the thermal bridging in the wall studs.
Personally, I was going to go with Insulating Concrete Forms for the outside...
Earth Berm has it's own problems.
Maybe that R50/inch foam will fix the door issue. But the window problem is still there, unless you live in a cave.
True, but there are tricks even with windows, especially if you get everything else to R-50 levels w/thermal mass.
Dehumidification isn't an issue in my area; Heating is the primary concern. Build a structure that retains heat well enough, go with a buried air exchange(probably need a tower away from the house tall enough to avoid being buried in snow), etc... Have to put the exchange pretty deep, but in the middle of winter 'barely freezing' is better than -30. Then just use an actual heat exchanger to bring it up into the 60s.
True, but fiberglass is far from the best insulator we have. Today I'd argue spray foam is the better choice in most cases. Natural vapor barrier and no air leaks.
Aerogel insulation would be neat, but isn't yet commercially practical. Then again... R-50 per inch (10x foam).
When I get around to building my own house, it's going to be a low energy cost one, but even I'll admit that I'll be sacrificing a few rooms worth of floorspace to get it...
What is the point of posting a speed limit at a limit that is already natural to 85% of people on that road? WHY POST IT?
First, the 85% level is that 85% of people drive at or below that level. Not that 85% drive at that speed.
As for posting it - differences in speed cause more accidents than speeding alone. As a psychological matter, by posting the speeds even more people will actually follow it, resulting in a smaller deviation of speed. It also gives you legitimate reason to bust those driving too fast for conditions, or even too slow.
For instance, there is absolutely NO REASON to put a 6 lane highway through a school zone - or, conversely, to build a school on a 6 lane highway. Depending on which was built first, whoever designed and built the latter structure was a complete MORON!!
I hesitate to agree due to legacy and new build concerns - I can see building said highway next to a school ending up being the most logical. But then, I'd include managing the school's traffic as part of the plan - putting a pedestrian bridge or tunnel up, for example.
But evaporative cooling causes what kinds of problems?
At most, increased humidity. But modern electronics are actually pretty resistent to this, especially if they're producing enough heat to avoid condensation. Which doesn't take much.
The question is, did anyone over there ask for our help?
I have memories of them asking for us to not cease sending them help when the USSR stopped invading in the late eighties.
As for the minerals - geological surveys take time, this one identifies deposits scattered throughout the country, so it's fairly thourough. The resources have been know of for some time, but I think this announcement was delayed until the survey was complete.
My point would be that much as this case, if the business you're suing doesn't have real assets in the country you're suing in, you're essentially engaging in pointless pageantry*.
I can sue any company in US court I want, but if they don't have any resources in the USA I can shut down, they can pretty much ignore me. The award means pretty much nothing.
Especially since a LOT of European countries don't recognize trials in absentia or default judgments or anything like that.
In order to get your money, you'd have to get a court in the country where the business actually has assets to authorize it, which often means a case more complicated than suing them there in the first place.
Inverters are around 65 cents. Everything else put together is another 50 cents or so.
And what did I say? Ancillary costs like 'inverter, wiring, and mounts' run $1-2?.65+.50=$1.15, or a third of total equipment costs. $2/watt probably includes some install work.
Yes, panels are the most expensive part of the install. My point was that even if the panels are free that you're looking at quite a long payback.
1 watt of panel, 30% capacity factor('Pretty Sunny' area), will produce around 2.6 kwh a year.
I pay around 10 cents a kwh. So that's 26 cents worth of electricity. If the install ends up costing $3.45/watt, that's 13 years without interest or cost of capital. I generally don't go for anything less than 12, preferably 10.
No way, ND has excellent sunlight. Best-case production in NV is ~6 peak hours on average over the year, ND is ~4.5. You get the same amount of sunlight as the upper half of California.
So I'd get ~75% of the power installing it at home. 25% more power can pay for a lot of power line.
SaskPower is sitting on multiple GW of hydro that they haven't developed because they don't have anyone to sell it to. 24 hours, 365 days, and a lot closer than NV!
Even better, but I was pointing out some of the interesting things about solar.
Besides, NV would be producing more power, proportionally, in the wintertime than ND, which is when we need the juice. We don't have significant AC costs. Meanwhile, the increased power production in the summer, when ND doesn't need it, can be used to power AC systems in the south.
Incidentally, if you run a business that mails purchases to IL, that means you have customers there, ergo, you conduct business in the state. Not a complicated concept.
Yeah, but you can't really serve or confiscate property from the customers, unless you sue them instead.
Like the Chinese drywall case. People with contaminated drywall aren't suing the Chinese company that made it, they're suing the companies that sold and/or installed it, leading to the company that imported it, in turn the importing company is working through the Chinese legal system. Last I heard the Chinese manufacturer is settling.
Now if you are in Spam, hijack a system in Korea to send spam to China, where should you be liable?
I'm going to assume you meant 'Spain', not 'Spam' in the first instance.
First, criminal jurisdiction can be different than civil jurisdiction, but what generally would happen is that the diplomats in Korea and Spain would conference to determine jurisdiction. China would have limited involvement, as 'spam' is a lower offense than hijacking a system. Anyways, determining jurisdiction would be a complicated, diplomatic, and political game. For example, Spain would likely refuse to extradite if Korea has substantially higher penalties for the hijacking.
On the whole though, the likely outcome would be that the spammer is tried in Spain, where HE was when he committed the crime, under spanish law, with evidence provided by Korean authorities. For countries unwilling/unable to do this, this is where 'diplomatic incidents' can start happening, up to embargos, special military ops, and in the case of the USA, invasion of the offending country in question*.
Even for crimes committed IN the country, where the person then successfully flees back to their home country, it becomes a matter of 'extradition', and you're often stuck essentially trying them again in their home contry to get them back.
Falling back to civil cases, as Spamhaus mentions, 'settlement schmettlement', they have no assetts in the USA and British authorities won't accept any US default judgement without it going through THEIR court system, which means that e360 would have to hire an english barrister to argue before the court.
I tend to liken Spamhaus's activities to be a bit like operating a mail order business. It's not the mail order business's responsability to ensure that their services are legal in the country they ship things to, it's the purchaser's.
Here in the USA, for example, let's take the tainted chinese drywall. Here's the general lawsuit chain: 1. Homeowners hire builder/remodeler who used the drywall. If builder/remodeler is unavaiable(bankrupt, out of business), skip to #2 2. Builder/Remodeler sues the distributer 3. Distributers sue the importer. 4. The Importer sues the maker of the chinese drywall(or reaches a settlement) in chinese court.
Though I think they're collecting up all the homeowners and such into a class action against the importing company.
*Off the top of my head, I remember us doing this THREE TIMES.
Which they were, since they were providing their service to people and businesses in Illinois.
Internet breaks things sometimes, but in this case they weren't even 'conducting business in Il' any more than a mail order company would by mailing purchases there.
No employees in the state, no physical premesis in the state.
I think that even the reduced judgement is going to have the problem of how can you go about collecting from Spamhaus? 360 has likely spent far more on this than spamhaus. In order to collect, they'll have to go to Spamhaus, THEN they'll start with the obstructing using their native country's legal system.
Since most countries won't extradite or hold penalties for stuff that isn't illegal in their home country, they'll essentially have to get Spamhaus retried in Britain.
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Well, I've been an advocate of replacing coal power with nuclear power for quite some time, but even I'll admit that NG generally results in less than half the CO2 emissions for the energy production, and relative to a reactor is far cheaper to build. And nuclear promises to be cheaper than solar/wind for the amount of electricity produced.
However, you need quite a lot of it. NG, while cheap in many areas, makes me hesitant because I believe that when we go 'full bore' we'd exhaust our supplies fairly quickly and have increased expenses. Thus I'd like to see nuclear electricity production while we keep NG for heating homes and chemical manufacturing. Heck, you'd have to be rather round-about to make steel using nuclear energy, you can use NG heat directly.
There's a HUGE difference between 'anything in the internet' and 'internet'.
I don't trust 'the internet' as a whole one bit. Still, there are specific sites I place a large amount of trust in.
I trust wikipedia, for example, about as much as I would an encyclopedia or public school textbook. Good for getting links and figures for internet arguments. Not so much for a college thesis, but a good point to start.
"The Media" is such a loaded phrase these days, that it's no surprise nobody "trusts" them. Years of politicians and everyone else slamming "traditional media", "Big media", "The Liberal Media", and "The Right-wing Media" mean that everyone associates "The Media" with whatever group they disagree with.
I simplify it even more.
Look at the approval ratings for 'congress'. They've been dipping into the single digits lately. Yet ask people about their representative/senator, it's pretty much guaranteed to be at least double that of 'congress'.
Ask about Fox News, NBC, CNN, BBC, etc... You'll get higher numbers.
The only real "deficiency" for house use would be the fact that it is JUST an AP, not a router/AP combo with a built-in switch.
However, if you're rackmounting most of your gear, independent router and APs (esp. if you decide to use multiple APs to cover a large area) aren't a bad thing.
I agree, but I'd probably want to talk with the reps on the usage of them - the rocket is only capable of 5Ghz operation per the spec sheet, and I'd be concerned about compatibility with WPA2, SSID, connecting to multiple sources, etc... It's designed to provide remote internet access, after all.
This is the first time I've seen this company, and the spec sheets don't mention that stuff. Limited time for research as well.
As for the mount, with 120 degree coverage, I'd suggest wall mount in a corner.
For the performance they provide, Ubiqiti's Rocket and Bullet series are pretty reasonably priced. A complete high power 5 GHz N setup (with PoE injector, AP, and antennas) will run you around $150-170. A Rocket M5 is $90, and a matched 16 dBi 120 degree sector antenna is $80, total $170.
You do realize I was looking to provide wireless access inside my house, right? The Rocket/Bullet are explicity designed for outdoor point to point use, not point to multipoint.
'PowerAP N' would be more what I'm looking for.
You can roll your own PoE, just run half-duplex connections to your kit (1/2 and 3/6 pairs, IIRC) and use the other wires in the bundle to carry power.
Interesting, but I'd rather not for a number of reasons.
1. Future upgradeability - gigabit requires the extra lines, and at 600mbit, even at half duplex a N device can be fast enough to saturate a 100mb connection. Especially if you get a dual radio router and run networks on both the 2.4 and 5 ghz range.
2. Selling - I don't want to leave landmines for a future purchaser of my house.
3. Trouble for me - I get a new router, I may have to make MORE adapters for my wireless router to make it work.
Remember that this would be a NEW BUILD house, so running more wire is cheap. I'd rather just pay the $20-60 to have 2 ethernet lines run to the spots I plan on possibly having routers than to mess with half-duplexing. Heck, it's about the same price to have them put a power slot next to it as well.
One of the main selling points to POE wireless points, in my opinion, isn't for NEW builds, it's for when you're retrofitting. That way you only have to run the network cable over to where you're going to mount it to on the ceiling, instead of also having to run a power cable, doubling the infrastructure upgrade costs. It's marginally neater as well.
As for the wall power jacks from radio shack; the local one is pretty horribly canted towards consumer electronics, not 'do it yourself'. I'd end up using the local menards or ordering off the internet.
Anyways, with new build you might as well put a proper AC jack there, it's more versatile.
The only reason for having them is paranoia anyways. A centrally located wiring closet with an AP should work, but a couple spots I can put APs in would ensure excellent connectivity in the living room, bedrooms, even garage* and yard(if I want it).
Heck, the 'TRENDnet TEW-653AP' are almost just right for my purposes though. Still a bit heavy on features - I'm thinking more of a central controller doing the DHCP and firewall stuff, kinda like how aruba networks work(dumb AP that essentially tunnels all of it's traffic via VPN to a central controller that decides what to do with it). The other point is that it's 2.4 ghz only. Produce a dual radio 2.4/5 Ghz version and I'm sold(as long as reliability, range are still adequate).
I don't know if it's a problem with 802.11G or a problem with DD-WRT but if I have a file transfer going I get dropouts, and my two APs are on different channels with no others visible in the area since I live in the boonies.
Possibly your router; I've done LARGE data transfers over 802.11G without problems other than 'takes forever'. I'm much happier now that I'm running on N, and one router easily covers the whole house. The whole reason for having multiple APs in my 'New' house is because it'll be bigger and the closet will be in the basement. I'd probably get a 8 port switch or something anyways and hardwire stuff like game stations and my desktop machines. Server/s will go in the closet(remember to have cooling to that closet).
*for looking up advice on car maintenance/repairs, maybe?
True, but the Australian market, in the scheme of things, is limited compared to the world market. If the whole world was going to it then we wouldn't have this problem(I'm have DSL).
I don't know how global the 'ADSL' standard Australia is using is, but I do know they tend to have to pay a pretty premium and have limited selection for things like DVRs because of their unique TV system.
Another limiting factor is that 'G' is still 'good enough' for most people - and my phone company is giving 4 port + wireless G routers to new subscribers. A new coworker got that - he's living in a dorm right now, and was having (wireless) network issues. I hauled my laptop over there and fired up the diagnostic software - 'You're on channel 1, along with 7 other networks I can see. There's 7 more on 7, and another 6 on 11'. I ended up putting him on channel 9 - got his connection speed (6' away from the router) from 40mbit to the full 54 and ended the dropout problem. Still, the 'optimal' solution would be for him, indeed, many of the people living there, would be to get routers capable of operating in the 5 Ghz range, whether N or A.
I originally got a modem, then they replaced it with a 4 port wired router w/integrated DSL modem, now they're giving away the wireless ones. Loved it because they screwed up the upgrades because I had a static NIC. They suggested plugging straight into the router 'for better speeds', I pointed out that my router had wireless N, gigabit ports, and better security than theirs. If they had upgraded me to wireless, at best I'd have used theirs to set up a public network for visitors.
Or you could get REALLY short cables, stack the units properly for airflow,
*Looks at current router and DSL modem*
Yeah, that would require them to also stop with the 'art deco' designs.
Or for me to at least get some sort of shelf/rack system.
Of course, in my new house design I actually have a comm closet - wouldn't necessarily put the wireless router in there, but I sure as heck would put the cable/DSL modem in there and use an ethernet run to any wireless routers. Hmmm... at that point might as well use POE and those thin wireless APs. But that's a commercial solution and a LOT more expensive than a consumer integrated unit.
The subsidies for solar/renewable power is so high that they can still make money via diesel generators?
That's a pretty crazy amount of subsidization. Especially if you add a substantial risk penalty for doing something illegal, the cost of the generators, the cost of the fuel, etc...
4.5k MwH is 4.5M Kwh, that's $450k worth of electricity in my area.
Subsidies are up to 10X more than fossil payments?
Going for around 3 cents as a 'low ball', that would be 30 cents a kwh equivalent. Well over a million USD equivalent. Possibly. I could see that, but while it's a substantial fraud case, it's not a game changer, I think.
It's applicable in the sense that the eReaders aren't a major cash cow (like the iPod is), but it's not applicable in the sense that the blades (books) don't dull. There's a cost to switching that builds up over time as you invest into a library.
A major concern of mine, and a reason why I'm very hesitant to buy books from either amazon or B&N, indeed, any sight that uses DRM.
I could put up with a DVD style encryption - able to download to ANY e-reader as long as I authenticate.
Being a somewhat obsessive buyer of books on webscription, one of my irks with my nook is that it doesn't have a search function - which when you load up 300+ ebooks is kinda important.
That would also work, but I'll say that all the 'high deductible' plans I've seen had the limit be an annual one.
How many $5-10k illnesses/injuries can you financially stand a year? If you do, how likely are they to NOT be interrelated?
I'll note that this would be an *annual* deductible. Once you meet it, the plan pays out 100%
In fact, I'd argue FOR double framing walls with 2x4s outside and 2x3s inside with an insulation (and wiring and plumbing) gap, rather than framing with 2x6 (to code). If you stagger them, you can avoid the thermal bridging in the wall studs.
Personally, I was going to go with Insulating Concrete Forms for the outside...
Earth Berm has it's own problems.
Maybe that R50/inch foam will fix the door issue. But the window problem is still there, unless you live in a cave.
True, but there are tricks even with windows, especially if you get everything else to R-50 levels w/thermal mass.
Dehumidification isn't an issue in my area; Heating is the primary concern. Build a structure that retains heat well enough, go with a buried air exchange(probably need a tower away from the house tall enough to avoid being buried in snow), etc... Have to put the exchange pretty deep, but in the middle of winter 'barely freezing' is better than -30. Then just use an actual heat exchanger to bring it up into the 60s.
Keyword here: Apartment. When they're not going to be paying for the electricity for it, the owner often doesn't care.
There's always outliers.
R30 fiberglass bats are 9 1/2 inches thick
True, but fiberglass is far from the best insulator we have. Today I'd argue spray foam is the better choice in most cases. Natural vapor barrier and no air leaks.
Aerogel insulation would be neat, but isn't yet commercially practical. Then again... R-50 per inch (10x foam).
Fiberglass, loose-fill: R2.5-3.7/inch, Batts: R3.1-4.3
Foams: R3.6-7
When I get around to building my own house, it's going to be a low energy cost one, but even I'll admit that I'll be sacrificing a few rooms worth of floorspace to get it...
What is the point of posting a speed limit at a limit that is already natural to 85% of people on that road? WHY POST IT?
First, the 85% level is that 85% of people drive at or below that level. Not that 85% drive at that speed.
As for posting it - differences in speed cause more accidents than speeding alone. As a psychological matter, by posting the speeds even more people will actually follow it, resulting in a smaller deviation of speed. It also gives you legitimate reason to bust those driving too fast for conditions, or even too slow.
For instance, there is absolutely NO REASON to put a 6 lane highway through a school zone - or, conversely, to build a school on a 6 lane highway. Depending on which was built first, whoever designed and built the latter structure was a complete MORON!!
I hesitate to agree due to legacy and new build concerns - I can see building said highway next to a school ending up being the most logical. But then, I'd include managing the school's traffic as part of the plan - putting a pedestrian bridge or tunnel up, for example.
But evaporative cooling causes what kinds of problems?
At most, increased humidity. But modern electronics are actually pretty resistent to this, especially if they're producing enough heat to avoid condensation. Which doesn't take much.
The question is, did anyone over there ask for our help?
I have memories of them asking for us to not cease sending them help when the USSR stopped invading in the late eighties.
As for the minerals - geological surveys take time, this one identifies deposits scattered throughout the country, so it's fairly thourough. The resources have been know of for some time, but I think this announcement was delayed until the survey was complete.
My point would be that much as this case, if the business you're suing doesn't have real assets in the country you're suing in, you're essentially engaging in pointless pageantry*.
I can sue any company in US court I want, but if they don't have any resources in the USA I can shut down, they can pretty much ignore me. The award means pretty much nothing.
Especially since a LOT of European countries don't recognize trials in absentia or default judgments or anything like that.
In order to get your money, you'd have to get a court in the country where the business actually has assets to authorize it, which often means a case more complicated than suing them there in the first place.
*Cleaned up my wording a bit.
Inverters are around 65 cents.
Everything else put together is another 50 cents or so.
And what did I say? Ancillary costs like 'inverter, wiring, and mounts' run $1-2? .65+.50=$1.15, or a third of total equipment costs. $2/watt probably includes some install work.
Yes, panels are the most expensive part of the install. My point was that even if the panels are free that you're looking at quite a long payback.
1 watt of panel, 30% capacity factor('Pretty Sunny' area), will produce around 2.6 kwh a year.
I pay around 10 cents a kwh. So that's 26 cents worth of electricity. If the install ends up costing $3.45/watt, that's 13 years without interest or cost of capital. I generally don't go for anything less than 12, preferably 10.
No way, ND has excellent sunlight. Best-case production in NV is ~6 peak hours on average over the year, ND is ~4.5. You get the same amount of sunlight as the upper half of California.
So I'd get ~75% of the power installing it at home. 25% more power can pay for a lot of power line.
SaskPower is sitting on multiple GW of hydro that they haven't developed because they don't have anyone to sell it to. 24 hours, 365 days, and a lot closer than NV!
Even better, but I was pointing out some of the interesting things about solar.
Besides, NV would be producing more power, proportionally, in the wintertime than ND, which is when we need the juice. We don't have significant AC costs. Meanwhile, the increased power production in the summer, when ND doesn't need it, can be used to power AC systems in the south.
Incidentally, if you run a business that mails purchases to IL, that means you have customers there, ergo, you conduct business in the state. Not a complicated concept.
Yeah, but you can't really serve or confiscate property from the customers, unless you sue them instead.
Like the Chinese drywall case. People with contaminated drywall aren't suing the Chinese company that made it, they're suing the companies that sold and/or installed it, leading to the company that imported it, in turn the importing company is working through the Chinese legal system. Last I heard the Chinese manufacturer is settling.
Now if you are in Spam, hijack a system in Korea to send spam to China, where should you be liable?
I'm going to assume you meant 'Spain', not 'Spam' in the first instance.
First, criminal jurisdiction can be different than civil jurisdiction, but what generally would happen is that the diplomats in Korea and Spain would conference to determine jurisdiction. China would have limited involvement, as 'spam' is a lower offense than hijacking a system. Anyways, determining jurisdiction would be a complicated, diplomatic, and political game. For example, Spain would likely refuse to extradite if Korea has substantially higher penalties for the hijacking.
On the whole though, the likely outcome would be that the spammer is tried in Spain, where HE was when he committed the crime, under spanish law, with evidence provided by Korean authorities. For countries unwilling/unable to do this, this is where 'diplomatic incidents' can start happening, up to embargos, special military ops, and in the case of the USA, invasion of the offending country in question*.
Even for crimes committed IN the country, where the person then successfully flees back to their home country, it becomes a matter of 'extradition', and you're often stuck essentially trying them again in their home contry to get them back.
Falling back to civil cases, as Spamhaus mentions, 'settlement schmettlement', they have no assetts in the USA and British authorities won't accept any US default judgement without it going through THEIR court system, which means that e360 would have to hire an english barrister to argue before the court.
I tend to liken Spamhaus's activities to be a bit like operating a mail order business. It's not the mail order business's responsability to ensure that their services are legal in the country they ship things to, it's the purchaser's.
Here in the USA, for example, let's take the tainted chinese drywall. Here's the general lawsuit chain:
1. Homeowners hire builder/remodeler who used the drywall. If builder/remodeler is unavaiable(bankrupt, out of business), skip to #2
2. Builder/Remodeler sues the distributer
3. Distributers sue the importer.
4. The Importer sues the maker of the chinese drywall(or reaches a settlement) in chinese court.
Though I think they're collecting up all the homeowners and such into a class action against the importing company.
*Off the top of my head, I remember us doing this THREE TIMES.
Which they were, since they were providing their service to people and businesses in Illinois.
Internet breaks things sometimes, but in this case they weren't even 'conducting business in Il' any more than a mail order company would by mailing purchases there.
No employees in the state, no physical premesis in the state.
I think that even the reduced judgement is going to have the problem of how can you go about collecting from Spamhaus? 360 has likely spent far more on this than spamhaus. In order to collect, they'll have to go to Spamhaus, THEN they'll start with the obstructing using their native country's legal system.
Since most countries won't extradite or hold penalties for stuff that isn't illegal in their home country, they'll essentially have to get Spamhaus retried in Britain.