Where did I say that we have to stay with fossil fuels? I said that nuclear is too expensive. That leaves a lot of other viable alternatives. And getting everything more efficient is a great way to help things out. No matter how you plan to electrify the grid the more efficient everything is the fewer power plants you need to build. Even if you are for nuclear power you should still be for increasing the efficiency of everything because it decreases the number of power plants the need to be built in order to save our lifestyle.
We haven't gotten used to thinking about efficiency because electricity has been relatively inexpensive. In Ontario when the price goes up too much the people scream at the government and it does some accounting trick that involves the taxpayers paying for electricity so it looks like our bills are cheap. We're still paying for it but from a different pocket.
In places like the US, Canada, and Australia the electric companies have been set up on a cost + profit basis so they just build plants and networks to keep up with demand. There has been historically little reason for them to talk about efficiency. Even in the past couple of decades when they do talk about efficiency it's small stuff like light bulbs. We need to change how these companies are funded so that they get rewarded for lowering electric usage.
Back around 2013 the province Ontario wanted to add a new plant to the grid and sent out a request for proposals. The least expensive one that came back was in the area of $13B per reactor and there was going to be two reactors. This was the starting point. Permissions weren't going to be a big deal as they were going to build it beside an existing plant. The government dropped it as it's too expensive.
Please stop with the nuclear power plants. They're too expensive to build and take a long time to build as they almost always go way over the estimated time.
The best thing to do is to take the money and invest in efficiency so that you don't need to build the new plant in the first place. I see large buildings being constructed and at the top they still have the large air conditioning units installed. It would be much more efficient to use a ground source heat pump for the heating and cooling in the building and much less energy would be used. There are condos being built and each unit has a small air conditioner on the balcony/patio. Small air conditioners are the worst for efficiency but cheapest for the builder as they didn't have to pipe/duct each unit if they used a large unit for the building or a ground source heat pump.
The $10B+ cost to build a nuclear plant could subsidize the installation of ground source heat pumps on man new office towers and refit existing towers. This would lead to a large reduction in electricity usage (and probably natural gas for the heating).
It would be great if all computer power supplies were at least 80% efficient. I had computer that ran 24/7 with one that wasn't and replaced it with one that was over 80% efficient and noticed the temperature in the room dropped after I made the switch. Imagine how much energy is being wasted by all of the computers with inefficient power supplies across the world and how many power stations could be closed if they had more efficient power supplies.
Just like Facebook when it said it wouldn't take any user data from WhatsApp when it bought that company. These companies thrive on user data and aren't going to pass up a chance to get more if they can no matter what they've said before.
How about I don't use Gmail. Tying it to Gmail sounds stupid.
I'm on a Mac and I wouldn't use this service anyways. I just print the page and under the PDF menu there's an option to 'email PDF' and one to 'save PDF' if I feel like saving it instead of emailing.
Are you talking about the tariffs the other countries put in place to retaliate against the US tariffs? The US were the first to put tariffs in place and should be the first to put them down.
Your Dear Leader has put tariffs against steel and aluminum from Canada and a number of other countries. Even after signing the new USMCA free trade agreement the tariffs are still there and we don't know when they are going to go away.
Another tariff that is popular for the US to apply against Canada is for lumber. Every five to ten years this comes up again and again. The "problem" is supposedly that the Canadian governments (Federal and provincial) aren't charging a high enough stumpage fee (the fee to cut down a tree on crown land). So the US government see it as an unfair subsidy on lumber and applies a tariff to it. The strange part is if the unprocessed trunk is exported to the US the US government doesn't see the low stumpage fee as an unfair subsidy. Essentially the US government is using the tariff to transfer forestry jobs over to the US. Anything other than cutting the tree down and transporting the trunk to the border is said to have an unfair subsidy. But if that was true it should also apply to supplying the lumber to the mills. Both the Dems and the Reps have been doing this to us.
These tariffs aren't about getting China to behave properly and treat their workers and the environment properly. Trump believes that the US has to have a positive trade balance with every country, not just an overall trade balance. Tariffs are a way to protect jobs if used correctly but they can't be used like Trump has been doing.
Oh great! An easier way to put more things into orbit. There are a couple of companies planning to put thousands and thousands of satellites into orbit for Internet access. Now all of these companies are starting up to let just about anyone to put their own satellite into orbit. Sure, they will fall out of orbit eventually but low Earth orbit is going to get very crowded in the near future.
Why do you assume that they ticket price will go down? This could just as easily be used to pad profit (or at least reduce losses) on a flight. The airline business isn't a free and open competitive marketplace. There are some routes that only have one carrier. In cases like that the airline has no incentive to drop the price while at the same time cramming you into the plane like sardines.
It's their own collection of images from their archive of previous articles. There's no issue of copyright unless they distribute the images in a new way that's not covered in contracts.
Hard to donate when you haven't heard of the site before. In other discussions on here about the music industry people have suggested sites that they get their music from and I haven't seen this before.
I don't think you have to worry about screen space since you haven't been able to buy a small screen phone with the latest specs in years. At least not from the big names. Apple's offering has always come with a bunch of features missing so that people would go to the small one that they announce in September (the SE or equivalent gets announced about six months later).
I sure hope that they don't expect planes to go across the continent doing a dive maneuver. Might be tricky getting over the Rockies, especially heading west.
But it's only a 7.3" tablet. Some phones aren't that far off from that. This thing, from the video, has two screens, one for the phone and the other for the tablet. Might as well just get the larger phone and have fewer things to worry about.
I have a small, 4", phone and a 9" tablet and I like that combination. I use my phone as a phone, communications device, and a few things for shopping. My tablet is for reading, games, and a light mobile computer. Now if they can get the phone to unfold twice so the tablet is four times the screen size then it might be worth looking into.
I would add The Science Show from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to your list of shows/podcasts. I prefer it to Quirks and Quarks.
For podcasts the BBC has Inside Science, Science in Action, and The Life Scientific. The last one is interesting because it interviews a noted scientist about their work and why they got into science. The interviewer is a scientist. I normally don't like interview type shows but I like this one.
A while ago I saw a documentary about how people with allergies used to go to Phoenix (or some city like that) because because there were no plants growing there that they were allergic to. But over the years people were missing the trees and other plants from where they came and started planting them. One person would put in the plants that they wouldn't be allergic to but not thing about other people. It had gotten to the point where people are suffering from their allergies again.
How dare they even think about using counterespionage techniques against the US! Don't they know that they are just supposed to do nothing and let the US win?/s
If you are in the enterprise and something like KDE Plasma isn't supported by RedHat then it's not going to be installed. It'd just give the RedHat support people something to point to as the problem even it couldn't possibly be the problem.
I was responsible for about 75 servers for a government department to host some of their web sites and application servers. This was for development, testing, and production servers. I wanted to have all of the servers to boot up to run level 3 and forget any of the desktop stuff. Better to save any of the resources for the actual applications we wanted to run. But the couple of other people in my group couldn't live with that even though we did absolutely nothing at all that required an X Server to be running on those machines.
No money for essential services but let's spend a bunch of money on faux holograms that don't really add much to the teaching experience over a projection TV. With the projection TV you can save the lecture and post it on YouTube so the students can watch it later.
Put the money into the basic essentials and leave the fancy light shows for the entertainment industry or even CEOs introducing products.
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Where did I say that we have to stay with fossil fuels? I said that nuclear is too expensive. That leaves a lot of other viable alternatives. And getting everything more efficient is a great way to help things out. No matter how you plan to electrify the grid the more efficient everything is the fewer power plants you need to build. Even if you are for nuclear power you should still be for increasing the efficiency of everything because it decreases the number of power plants the need to be built in order to save our lifestyle.
We haven't gotten used to thinking about efficiency because electricity has been relatively inexpensive. In Ontario when the price goes up too much the people scream at the government and it does some accounting trick that involves the taxpayers paying for electricity so it looks like our bills are cheap. We're still paying for it but from a different pocket.
In places like the US, Canada, and Australia the electric companies have been set up on a cost + profit basis so they just build plants and networks to keep up with demand. There has been historically little reason for them to talk about efficiency. Even in the past couple of decades when they do talk about efficiency it's small stuff like light bulbs. We need to change how these companies are funded so that they get rewarded for lowering electric usage.
Back around 2013 the province Ontario wanted to add a new plant to the grid and sent out a request for proposals. The least expensive one that came back was in the area of $13B per reactor and there was going to be two reactors. This was the starting point. Permissions weren't going to be a big deal as they were going to build it beside an existing plant. The government dropped it as it's too expensive.
Please stop with the nuclear power plants. They're too expensive to build and take a long time to build as they almost always go way over the estimated time.
The best thing to do is to take the money and invest in efficiency so that you don't need to build the new plant in the first place. I see large buildings being constructed and at the top they still have the large air conditioning units installed. It would be much more efficient to use a ground source heat pump for the heating and cooling in the building and much less energy would be used. There are condos being built and each unit has a small air conditioner on the balcony/patio. Small air conditioners are the worst for efficiency but cheapest for the builder as they didn't have to pipe/duct each unit if they used a large unit for the building or a ground source heat pump.
The $10B+ cost to build a nuclear plant could subsidize the installation of ground source heat pumps on man new office towers and refit existing towers. This would lead to a large reduction in electricity usage (and probably natural gas for the heating).
It would be great if all computer power supplies were at least 80% efficient. I had computer that ran 24/7 with one that wasn't and replaced it with one that was over 80% efficient and noticed the temperature in the room dropped after I made the switch. Imagine how much energy is being wasted by all of the computers with inefficient power supplies across the world and how many power stations could be closed if they had more efficient power supplies.
DHS might see it as a chance to get rid of some low performers.
Just like Facebook when it said it wouldn't take any user data from WhatsApp when it bought that company. These companies thrive on user data and aren't going to pass up a chance to get more if they can no matter what they've said before.
Use the GPS to determine the distance to the nearest police station and if it hits zero then wipe the phone.
Your app wouldn't have worked in this case because a network was available (it had to be in order for the remote wipe to work).
How about I don't use Gmail. Tying it to Gmail sounds stupid.
I'm on a Mac and I wouldn't use this service anyways. I just print the page and under the PDF menu there's an option to 'email PDF' and one to 'save PDF' if I feel like saving it instead of emailing.
Are you talking about the tariffs the other countries put in place to retaliate against the US tariffs? The US were the first to put tariffs in place and should be the first to put them down.
Your Dear Leader has put tariffs against steel and aluminum from Canada and a number of other countries. Even after signing the new USMCA free trade agreement the tariffs are still there and we don't know when they are going to go away.
Another tariff that is popular for the US to apply against Canada is for lumber. Every five to ten years this comes up again and again. The "problem" is supposedly that the Canadian governments (Federal and provincial) aren't charging a high enough stumpage fee (the fee to cut down a tree on crown land). So the US government see it as an unfair subsidy on lumber and applies a tariff to it. The strange part is if the unprocessed trunk is exported to the US the US government doesn't see the low stumpage fee as an unfair subsidy. Essentially the US government is using the tariff to transfer forestry jobs over to the US. Anything other than cutting the tree down and transporting the trunk to the border is said to have an unfair subsidy. But if that was true it should also apply to supplying the lumber to the mills. Both the Dems and the Reps have been doing this to us.
These tariffs aren't about getting China to behave properly and treat their workers and the environment properly. Trump believes that the US has to have a positive trade balance with every country, not just an overall trade balance. Tariffs are a way to protect jobs if used correctly but they can't be used like Trump has been doing.
Oh great! An easier way to put more things into orbit. There are a couple of companies planning to put thousands and thousands of satellites into orbit for Internet access. Now all of these companies are starting up to let just about anyone to put their own satellite into orbit. Sure, they will fall out of orbit eventually but low Earth orbit is going to get very crowded in the near future.
Why do you assume that they ticket price will go down? This could just as easily be used to pad profit (or at least reduce losses) on a flight. The airline business isn't a free and open competitive marketplace. There are some routes that only have one carrier. In cases like that the airline has no incentive to drop the price while at the same time cramming you into the plane like sardines.
It's their own collection of images from their archive of previous articles. There's no issue of copyright unless they distribute the images in a new way that's not covered in contracts.
Hard to donate when you haven't heard of the site before. In other discussions on here about the music industry people have suggested sites that they get their music from and I haven't seen this before.
stop sacrificing screen space
I don't think you have to worry about screen space since you haven't been able to buy a small screen phone with the latest specs in years. At least not from the big names. Apple's offering has always come with a bunch of features missing so that people would go to the small one that they announce in September (the SE or equivalent gets announced about six months later).
the research jet is performing a dive maneuver
I sure hope that they don't expect planes to go across the continent doing a dive maneuver. Might be tricky getting over the Rockies, especially heading west.
But it's only a 7.3" tablet. Some phones aren't that far off from that. This thing, from the video, has two screens, one for the phone and the other for the tablet. Might as well just get the larger phone and have fewer things to worry about.
I have a small, 4", phone and a 9" tablet and I like that combination. I use my phone as a phone, communications device, and a few things for shopping. My tablet is for reading, games, and a light mobile computer. Now if they can get the phone to unfold twice so the tablet is four times the screen size then it might be worth looking into.
I would add The Science Show from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to your list of shows/podcasts. I prefer it to Quirks and Quarks.
For podcasts the BBC has Inside Science, Science in Action, and The Life Scientific. The last one is interesting because it interviews a noted scientist about their work and why they got into science. The interviewer is a scientist. I normally don't like interview type shows but I like this one.
It's like the gold-foil experiment done about 105 years ago that showed us that "solid" items aren't really all that solid.
They seem to have no problem drilling wells in the Middle East.
A while ago I saw a documentary about how people with allergies used to go to Phoenix (or some city like that) because because there were no plants growing there that they were allergic to. But over the years people were missing the trees and other plants from where they came and started planting them. One person would put in the plants that they wouldn't be allergic to but not thing about other people. It had gotten to the point where people are suffering from their allergies again.
How dare they even think about using counterespionage techniques against the US! Don't they know that they are just supposed to do nothing and let the US win? /s
If you are in the enterprise and something like KDE Plasma isn't supported by RedHat then it's not going to be installed. It'd just give the RedHat support people something to point to as the problem even it couldn't possibly be the problem.
I was responsible for about 75 servers for a government department to host some of their web sites and application servers. This was for development, testing, and production servers. I wanted to have all of the servers to boot up to run level 3 and forget any of the desktop stuff. Better to save any of the resources for the actual applications we wanted to run. But the couple of other people in my group couldn't live with that even though we did absolutely nothing at all that required an X Server to be running on those machines.
Yes, who would want to use their phone as an actual phone in 2018?!?! /s
No money for essential services but let's spend a bunch of money on faux holograms that don't really add much to the teaching experience over a projection TV. With the projection TV you can save the lecture and post it on YouTube so the students can watch it later.
Put the money into the basic essentials and leave the fancy light shows for the entertainment industry or even CEOs introducing products.