While I agree it's more viable in the long term to split water that isn't what is happening today. We're extracting hydrogen gas from natural gas which is like using a coal plant to power an electric car. F-ing stupid.
I think that hydrogen is a stupid method to store power as we lose more energy with it than with batteries. Plus it's more difficult to handle than other solutions to store energy on a small scale (batteries) or a large scale (pumped water storage, flywheels, molten salt, the proposed rail car method, etc). Additionally with hydrogen the distribution method limits people to refuel using a model like the existing gasoline/diesel system. Electric cars can be recharged at home, stores, while at work, etc. Plus plans exist to use them as grid storage where cars would charge at night and discharge partially during peak times.
Water may be everywhere but it's cheaper to make hydrogen gas from natural gas and that's what most industrial processes do. It's simply too expensive to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen gases no matter the method and no matter where you do it. So until that problem is solved using hydrogen gas to ween us off fossil fuels is a farce.
I didn't do a detailed calculation but a guesstimate would be in the area of 20 to 25 years. The difference in price was about $32,000 plus tax, so say $36,000 since we are doing this quickly and sales tax is 13%. I spend a little over $2,000 a year on my natural gas and electricity, with electricity costing a bit less. (Though it's about $45 a month just to be connected to the natural gas and rent a hot water tank even without using any gas. Bastards!)
With a GSHP my natural gas bill would be completely gone. My electric bill would go down in the summer because the central A/C would be removed but the electric bill would go up a bit year round to run the pump for the GSHP. Overall I'd guess my electric bill might go down by $100 over the year. Just a wild guess because the pump probably uses much less electricity than a central A/C. Therefore I'd probably be saving about $1250 a year so the payback would be about 28 years. Then you have to figure that the cost of natural gas and electricity will both be going up over that time so I'd lower the payback period to 20 to 25 years. Of course this is just a back of the envelope set of calculations. Right now the big strength of the GSHP is where you have a house where you would need to pay to install for a natural gas pipeline to be put in.
I hate my natural gas company but I didn't hate them that much to spend so much money putting in a GSHP last year. Plus if I'm going to spend $40k I'll put up solar panels and get them paid back in about 9 or 10 years.
The NIMBYs will say it will ruin the view. It's a big argument some people in Europe have against windmills. The big thing in North America against windmills is the so-called health problems which don't exist.
I'd just tell then it's either this or a nuclear plant. Your choice.
The problem with pumped water storage is that you need to have a good supply of water, a reservoir above, a reservoir below, and a proper height differential between the two reservoirs. These severely limit the number of places in which you can place such a system. (The reservoir below may not always be a reservoir if there is a source of water large enough, such as a river, always available when the system is running.)
With this system all you really need is some relatively smooth ground running at a grade for the required distance which allows you to install it in many more areas. And it's not that complex. Excess electricity is used to move rail cars up the hill. When electricity is needed the cars move down the hill and use regenerative braking to generate electricity.
It's not a train like you normally see on the tracks while going for a drive such as an Amtrack or a freight train. There are a large number of independently controlled flatbed cars on a series of parallel tracks. Yes the tracks are still long. When you have excess energy one or more cars are moved towards the top in order to take up the electricity. When electricity is required one or more cars can be send down the tracks using regenerative braking to create electricity. If a car reaches the bottom and electricity is still required another car can be started from the top. But if the demand for electricity stops then full brakes are applied and the cars stop where they are waiting for the next demand or surplus.
It's mostly off the shelf technology. The only new thing might be the software to control the cars based on the demand or surplus of electricity plus any software for the cars.
There are air conditioning systems that make ice during off peak electricity hours and then use that ice to cool air during the peak hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Personally I wish more places would use ground source heat pumps (GSHP) though I understand that they don't because the systems are expensive. That's why I don't have one. When it came to replace my furnace and A/C last year I looked into a GSHP and it was about 5 times the price of a pretty good natural gas furnace (98%+ efficient) and a SEER 16 A/C. Instead of storing the cold you are storing the heat. In the summer a normal central A/C just dumps the heat into the air and gets less efficient the hotter it is. A GSHP will transfer the heat into the ground where it is kept and it doesn't matter how warm it is outside. Then in the winter the GSHP will take the heat that was saved in the summer, plus some of the heat that was already there, and transfer it back into the building to warm it up.
Do research programs not have to have some ethical considerations or scientists not have to have taken ethical training? I see so many things done now just because we have the ability to do it without it looking like anyone even thinking if it was a good idea to attempt it in the first place.
Hey, here's a great idea! If someone doesn't set a password on their security camera then let's just include it in a list and let the police view it. Why not just say that if someone left their door unlocked that the police can come in and look around too? Did any of these researchers actually sit down and think if there was a need, what the privacy implications were to society, what happens in the future when default passwords get added to no passwords, how do you opt out if you need to have no password (say for custom software), etc.
If they have not laid off everyone at the first chance in order to keep their share prices high. Maybe if they showed a bit of loyalty to their employees then they wouldn't have such a problem getting people once things started getting better.
Well, since it's a game that was entirely about placing falling blocks you would be right about that as I can't think of a plot to build a 90 minute movie around. At least nothing that wouldn't be played to the people confined in Guantanamo.
Waterboarding is drowning under controlled conditions. It's supposed to simulated but many times the victims did drown and had to be resuscitated.
I think the main point is that if the US is going around trying to convince the world that it's the shining example of goodness that has been wronged then it shouldn't be going around doing evil acts like this. After the 9/11 attacks there was a tremendous amount of sympathy and goodwill towards the US in which it could have used for much good. Even after the invasion of Afghanistan it kept much of that goodwill because it got the approval from the UN. Then it didn't get the approval for the invasion of Iraq due to the lack of evidence but still went ahead, proof of how prisoners were treated came out, Guantanamo, the death toll from the second Iraq war (and not just the US casualties), the torture scandal, drone strikes, and a long list of other things has eroded that goodwill and even turned it into hostility from certain areas. The world was ready to help the US but it's leaders chose a path of vengeance instead of tackling the problem.
Because in the fictional drama everyone else on the set (in the room) is a paid extra and knows what is going to happen. There are also lots of other people on hand off camera doing the tasks that need to be done so that anyone not associated with the shoot knows that a TV/movie production is being done. Additionally the owners and/or people leasing the location have probably been paid for the use and definitely had to have given permission to use the area so the know what is going on. A scene is normally acted out many times unless special circumstances prevent it, such as a vehicle being crashed. Even then it's rehearsed in place before the final take.
None of those happened in this case and that's why charges were brought against them. There's a difference between: 1. Me going into a random theatre and yelling fire which causes panic and 2. Having a theatre filled with extras knowing that I'm going to yell fire, cameras capturing me coming in to yell fire, and the extras acting in a panic filled manner.
Scenario 1 will get me charged while scenario 2 won't because it's acting.
They were going to try Larry Ellison but the waiting list from disgruntled Oracle and Java users meant that they wouldn't have had an attempt until 2035 at the earliest.
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Or maybe it could refer to all of their online accounts such as Hot Mail, Xbox accounts, etc.
And there are plenty of countries with a high minimum wage which haven't put in robots in their fast food outlets.
While I agree it's more viable in the long term to split water that isn't what is happening today. We're extracting hydrogen gas from natural gas which is like using a coal plant to power an electric car. F-ing stupid.
I think that hydrogen is a stupid method to store power as we lose more energy with it than with batteries. Plus it's more difficult to handle than other solutions to store energy on a small scale (batteries) or a large scale (pumped water storage, flywheels, molten salt, the proposed rail car method, etc). Additionally with hydrogen the distribution method limits people to refuel using a model like the existing gasoline/diesel system. Electric cars can be recharged at home, stores, while at work, etc. Plus plans exist to use them as grid storage where cars would charge at night and discharge partially during peak times.
And a price hike.
Water may be everywhere but it's cheaper to make hydrogen gas from natural gas and that's what most industrial processes do. It's simply too expensive to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen gases no matter the method and no matter where you do it. So until that problem is solved using hydrogen gas to ween us off fossil fuels is a farce.
I didn't do a detailed calculation but a guesstimate would be in the area of 20 to 25 years. The difference in price was about $32,000 plus tax, so say $36,000 since we are doing this quickly and sales tax is 13%. I spend a little over $2,000 a year on my natural gas and electricity, with electricity costing a bit less. (Though it's about $45 a month just to be connected to the natural gas and rent a hot water tank even without using any gas. Bastards!)
With a GSHP my natural gas bill would be completely gone. My electric bill would go down in the summer because the central A/C would be removed but the electric bill would go up a bit year round to run the pump for the GSHP. Overall I'd guess my electric bill might go down by $100 over the year. Just a wild guess because the pump probably uses much less electricity than a central A/C. Therefore I'd probably be saving about $1250 a year so the payback would be about 28 years. Then you have to figure that the cost of natural gas and electricity will both be going up over that time so I'd lower the payback period to 20 to 25 years. Of course this is just a back of the envelope set of calculations. Right now the big strength of the GSHP is where you have a house where you would need to pay to install for a natural gas pipeline to be put in.
I hate my natural gas company but I didn't hate them that much to spend so much money putting in a GSHP last year. Plus if I'm going to spend $40k I'll put up solar panels and get them paid back in about 9 or 10 years.
It just needs a decent hill, not a mountain. It can go into a lot more places than something like pumped water storage.
The NIMBYs will say it will ruin the view. It's a big argument some people in Europe have against windmills. The big thing in North America against windmills is the so-called health problems which don't exist.
I'd just tell then it's either this or a nuclear plant. Your choice.
The problem with pumped water storage is that you need to have a good supply of water, a reservoir above, a reservoir below, and a proper height differential between the two reservoirs. These severely limit the number of places in which you can place such a system. (The reservoir below may not always be a reservoir if there is a source of water large enough, such as a river, always available when the system is running.)
With this system all you really need is some relatively smooth ground running at a grade for the required distance which allows you to install it in many more areas. And it's not that complex. Excess electricity is used to move rail cars up the hill. When electricity is needed the cars move down the hill and use regenerative braking to generate electricity.
It's not a train like you normally see on the tracks while going for a drive such as an Amtrack or a freight train. There are a large number of independently controlled flatbed cars on a series of parallel tracks. Yes the tracks are still long. When you have excess energy one or more cars are moved towards the top in order to take up the electricity. When electricity is required one or more cars can be send down the tracks using regenerative braking to create electricity. If a car reaches the bottom and electricity is still required another car can be started from the top. But if the demand for electricity stops then full brakes are applied and the cars stop where they are waiting for the next demand or surplus.
It's mostly off the shelf technology. The only new thing might be the software to control the cars based on the demand or surplus of electricity plus any software for the cars.
There are air conditioning systems that make ice during off peak electricity hours and then use that ice to cool air during the peak hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Personally I wish more places would use ground source heat pumps (GSHP) though I understand that they don't because the systems are expensive. That's why I don't have one. When it came to replace my furnace and A/C last year I looked into a GSHP and it was about 5 times the price of a pretty good natural gas furnace (98%+ efficient) and a SEER 16 A/C. Instead of storing the cold you are storing the heat. In the summer a normal central A/C just dumps the heat into the air and gets less efficient the hotter it is. A GSHP will transfer the heat into the ground where it is kept and it doesn't matter how warm it is outside. Then in the winter the GSHP will take the heat that was saved in the summer, plus some of the heat that was already there, and transfer it back into the building to warm it up.
That's only because they have such a difficult time finding us on a map.
They view doesn't get better from Canada.
Do research programs not have to have some ethical considerations or scientists not have to have taken ethical training? I see so many things done now just because we have the ability to do it without it looking like anyone even thinking if it was a good idea to attempt it in the first place.
Hey, here's a great idea! If someone doesn't set a password on their security camera then let's just include it in a list and let the police view it. Why not just say that if someone left their door unlocked that the police can come in and look around too? Did any of these researchers actually sit down and think if there was a need, what the privacy implications were to society, what happens in the future when default passwords get added to no passwords, how do you opt out if you need to have no password (say for custom software), etc.
I find it hard for you to imagine anything when that temperature (in Celsius) would be much higher than your IQ.
Well maybe Nintendo can go after Fox for the ad money since they played a gameplay video.
For when you hit a moose at least you can feed your family for the next while because it won't escape.
If they have not laid off everyone at the first chance in order to keep their share prices high. Maybe if they showed a bit of loyalty to their employees then they wouldn't have such a problem getting people once things started getting better.
with a plot that's "not at all what you think
Well, since it's a game that was entirely about placing falling blocks you would be right about that as I can't think of a plot to build a 90 minute movie around. At least nothing that wouldn't be played to the people confined in Guantanamo.
And the worst part is that enough people will go see so that it will make enough money to enable the trilogy.
Waterboarding is drowning under controlled conditions. It's supposed to simulated but many times the victims did drown and had to be resuscitated.
I think the main point is that if the US is going around trying to convince the world that it's the shining example of goodness that has been wronged then it shouldn't be going around doing evil acts like this. After the 9/11 attacks there was a tremendous amount of sympathy and goodwill towards the US in which it could have used for much good. Even after the invasion of Afghanistan it kept much of that goodwill because it got the approval from the UN. Then it didn't get the approval for the invasion of Iraq due to the lack of evidence but still went ahead, proof of how prisoners were treated came out, Guantanamo, the death toll from the second Iraq war (and not just the US casualties), the torture scandal, drone strikes, and a long list of other things has eroded that goodwill and even turned it into hostility from certain areas. The world was ready to help the US but it's leaders chose a path of vengeance instead of tackling the problem.
Then PETA will become involved due to cruelty to whatever he's wearing in place of hair.
Because in the fictional drama everyone else on the set (in the room) is a paid extra and knows what is going to happen. There are also lots of other people on hand off camera doing the tasks that need to be done so that anyone not associated with the shoot knows that a TV/movie production is being done. Additionally the owners and/or people leasing the location have probably been paid for the use and definitely had to have given permission to use the area so the know what is going on. A scene is normally acted out many times unless special circumstances prevent it, such as a vehicle being crashed. Even then it's rehearsed in place before the final take.
None of those happened in this case and that's why charges were brought against them. There's a difference between:
1. Me going into a random theatre and yelling fire which causes panic and
2. Having a theatre filled with extras knowing that I'm going to yell fire, cameras capturing me coming in to yell fire, and the extras acting in a panic filled manner.
Scenario 1 will get me charged while scenario 2 won't because it's acting.
They were going to try Larry Ellison but the waiting list from disgruntled Oracle and Java users meant that they wouldn't have had an attempt until 2035 at the earliest.