I feel sorry for other people that have to unlock bicycles such as the police, fire department, and city workers when bicycles are locked up in the wrong places or look like they've been abandoned.
If you are in the right jurisdiction then solar panels would be a good decision. Use the panels to generate electricity during the day and sell it into the grid. At night charge the car when the price of electricity is cheaper. You save by not buying the batteries and depending on the price difference you might be able to pay off the panels fairly quickly.
Maybe the US should clean up its electricity generation. The car itself isn't directly responsible for any emissions. Hydro power is claimed to be a clean form of electricity because fossil fuels aren't burnt but methane is release from decaying plant matter behind the the dam.
We'll be dead by that time. The whole economy is based on the growth is good mantra. Let's build more homes and fill them with more stuff. Make the roads bigger to hold ever more cars because public transport is bad. More channels on your cable or satellite service. More artists on the music streaming service. As long as the net income keeps rising the stock price keeps going up and the investors are happy. As long as GDP keeps going up the economists and politicians are happy. Grow baby grow.
The market expects companies to grow at a certain rate no matter how big the company gets. The problem is that the larger a company gets the harder it is for it to keep growing at the same rate. Apple has been finding this out recently. Even though they are selling lots of phones the stock price isn't reflecting that because the analysts are always expecting Apple to sell more each quarter compared to the year before.
The easiest, and sometimes the only, way for a company to grow at these expected rates is to acquire another large company. The cable companies are constrained to the areas they are already in. There is a bit of growth in the housing stock but not enough to create the growth required. Basically you are going to see more of these large mergers in the future as companies need to keep their revenues and incomes expanding for the markets but their core businesses won't allow that growth to happen.
There was an application called Sporty on my iPhone that I was really interested in that let you find people nearby to play sports. When it first came out the only way to sign up was with Facebook. I just checked and you can now use email and Twitter (not that I'd use Twitter). Whenever I encounter a situation like this I write the app developers and tell them that I won't use their product while I need a Facebook account.
Webmail, as in a site to get your email, can support two-factor authentication. But the summary says that emails failed to support two-factor authentication. Email, by itself, doesn't have any authentication, single or two factor.
The banks where you are may be only moving to contactless payments now but in Canada we've had them for many years now (at least 5, probably more). We've have chip and PIN for even longer. The banking system in every country/region is different.
The president kept going on about WMDs in Iraq. When Canada was asked for help we said show us the evidence and our Parliament will vote on the matter. The US wouldn't even show the "evidence" to the party leaders. So we didn't go.
Whenever anyone from anywhere proclaims something bold without providing evidence I don't believe them or at least have my doubts. Especially when politics is involved. Look at who the players are and how they gain. A little scientific reasoning goes a long way.
They don't want the problem solved. They want it hidden from view. Putting people in shelters doesn't solve their problems. Getting them into an apartment starts to help. Then they can worry about eating properly, their health, getting a job if they don't have one, and a whole list of other things that will improve their lives.
It's very nice of you to offer but really, how far is your money going to go? Unless you are really rich but then since you are offering I'm going to assume that you aren't as you aren't that useful.
Of course this is all to get people to go to their site. The next thing they will do is disable the page for people who have ad blockers active. That way you will have to go to the site to see your mail and see the ads too. Wonder how close to broke they are.
Why does the US have this fascination of trying to "improve" how people vote? There's all these systems to let people vote electronically, on-line, or through the mail. Heck, even with paper ballots the US has a history of trying different things. Just remember Florida, 2000, and chads.
Marking an X next to the person you want to vote for has worked for a long time, it's simple, and doesn't need fancy new equipment which introduce new ways to alter the outcome of elections. The old system isn't broken and doesn't need to be fixed.
The biggest part of energy use in CCS doesn't come from the sequestration but from the capture using the scrubbers. So it doesn't matter if they put the CO2 into an oil well or use it to feed algae the system is still going to use a lot more coal because it needs electricity for the scrubbers.
It was a poor article. Yes CCS can grab the Carbon coming out of the exhaust stacks but what is missed is the fact that the process requires a lot of energy. The article doesn't mention anything about it but other plants have systems that require 30% to 40% of the electricity generated by the plant. So the plant has to produce a lot more electricity just to get production back to what it was. And then there are the emissions and waste generated from the additional mining and transportation of the extra coal. Of course that isn't mentioned.
It's much better to put the money towards conservation and methods of electrical generation that doesn't create CO2.
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Just make sure that you have 5 years of experience because that's what all of the recruiters will be asking for.
I feel sorry for other people that have to unlock bicycles such as the police, fire department, and city workers when bicycles are locked up in the wrong places or look like they've been abandoned.
If you are in the right jurisdiction then solar panels would be a good decision. Use the panels to generate electricity during the day and sell it into the grid. At night charge the car when the price of electricity is cheaper. You save by not buying the batteries and depending on the price difference you might be able to pay off the panels fairly quickly.
Maybe the US should clean up its electricity generation. The car itself isn't directly responsible for any emissions. Hydro power is claimed to be a clean form of electricity because fossil fuels aren't burnt but methane is release from decaying plant matter behind the the dam.
We'll be dead by that time. The whole economy is based on the growth is good mantra. Let's build more homes and fill them with more stuff. Make the roads bigger to hold ever more cars because public transport is bad. More channels on your cable or satellite service. More artists on the music streaming service. As long as the net income keeps rising the stock price keeps going up and the investors are happy. As long as GDP keeps going up the economists and politicians are happy. Grow baby grow.
The market expects companies to grow at a certain rate no matter how big the company gets. The problem is that the larger a company gets the harder it is for it to keep growing at the same rate. Apple has been finding this out recently. Even though they are selling lots of phones the stock price isn't reflecting that because the analysts are always expecting Apple to sell more each quarter compared to the year before.
The easiest, and sometimes the only, way for a company to grow at these expected rates is to acquire another large company. The cable companies are constrained to the areas they are already in. There is a bit of growth in the housing stock but not enough to create the growth required. Basically you are going to see more of these large mergers in the future as companies need to keep their revenues and incomes expanding for the markets but their core businesses won't allow that growth to happen.
What taxes? When you are that rich you spend a few hundred million on accountants and lawyers and you don't pay taxes.
There was an application called Sporty on my iPhone that I was really interested in that let you find people nearby to play sports. When it first came out the only way to sign up was with Facebook. I just checked and you can now use email and Twitter (not that I'd use Twitter). Whenever I encounter a situation like this I write the app developers and tell them that I won't use their product while I need a Facebook account.
No Microsoft offered $24B for what the stock market values at $374B now. They were looking to buy the company, not Zuckerbergs share of it.
Most people shouldn't drive, to be fair.
Well Musk was the one stupid enough to ask if Otis was going to take responsibility for all elevators around the world in the first place.
Rain? Why not during a blizzard?
Only if it was made by Otis. There are other elevator manufacturers in the world and they would be responsible for their own equipment.
Webmail, as in a site to get your email, can support two-factor authentication. But the summary says that emails failed to support two-factor authentication. Email, by itself, doesn't have any authentication, single or two factor.
The banks where you are may be only moving to contactless payments now but in Canada we've had them for many years now (at least 5, probably more). We've have chip and PIN for even longer. The banking system in every country/region is different.
It started before the 7 came out.
The president kept going on about WMDs in Iraq. When Canada was asked for help we said show us the evidence and our Parliament will vote on the matter. The US wouldn't even show the "evidence" to the party leaders. So we didn't go.
Whenever anyone from anywhere proclaims something bold without providing evidence I don't believe them or at least have my doubts. Especially when politics is involved. Look at who the players are and how they gain. A little scientific reasoning goes a long way.
How many of the homeless people they want to hide are homeless because one of these people had to keep a share price up and made a bunch of cuts?
They don't want the problem solved. They want it hidden from view. Putting people in shelters doesn't solve their problems. Getting them into an apartment starts to help. Then they can worry about eating properly, their health, getting a job if they don't have one, and a whole list of other things that will improve their lives.
It's very nice of you to offer but really, how far is your money going to go? Unless you are really rich but then since you are offering I'm going to assume that you aren't as you aren't that useful.
Of course this is all to get people to go to their site. The next thing they will do is disable the page for people who have ad blockers active. That way you will have to go to the site to see your mail and see the ads too. Wonder how close to broke they are.
And I hear that there's a skunk works project to get the capability to send a message to more than one recipient at a time working.
Why does the US have this fascination of trying to "improve" how people vote? There's all these systems to let people vote electronically, on-line, or through the mail. Heck, even with paper ballots the US has a history of trying different things. Just remember Florida, 2000, and chads.
Marking an X next to the person you want to vote for has worked for a long time, it's simple, and doesn't need fancy new equipment which introduce new ways to alter the outcome of elections. The old system isn't broken and doesn't need to be fixed.
The biggest part of energy use in CCS doesn't come from the sequestration but from the capture using the scrubbers. So it doesn't matter if they put the CO2 into an oil well or use it to feed algae the system is still going to use a lot more coal because it needs electricity for the scrubbers.
It was a poor article. Yes CCS can grab the Carbon coming out of the exhaust stacks but what is missed is the fact that the process requires a lot of energy. The article doesn't mention anything about it but other plants have systems that require 30% to 40% of the electricity generated by the plant. So the plant has to produce a lot more electricity just to get production back to what it was. And then there are the emissions and waste generated from the additional mining and transportation of the extra coal. Of course that isn't mentioned.
It's much better to put the money towards conservation and methods of electrical generation that doesn't create CO2.