According to https://digiconomist.net/bitco... it's now 228kWh per transaction and somewhere north of a megawatt to generate that $530/month gross profit. Should keep the pipes from freezing!
Of course not all of that energy is turned into heat, some goes into the blockchain entropy/s
I'd mod you insightful if I could. No harm can come from objective discussion of this issue. The harm comes when a government decides to do something about it.
People become highly motivated to secure the energy needed to stay alive. Robots and bitcoin just die.
But true AI would be a worrisome thing as it would undoubtedly try to take control of its own power source, e.g. Daystrom's M-5 Multitronic System. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you have money, someone *may* accept it in exchange for a surplus of something they have. But they don't *owe* you anything and in particular aren't required to deprive themselves to satisfy any debt to your hoard of cash.
Money is a surrogate for excess energy, it acts as a store of value only as long as excess goods and services are available. If we used joules for currency (as was proposed by the technocrats in the 1930s) there would be no inflation since they directly embody the excess energy.
And that's what's wrong with AI, robots, bitcoin...they all require an external energy input to keep them going. Pull the plug and they are nothing.
Grid kWh costs are on a sliding scale since there is a base cost for the grid connection. If you use just a few kWh a month they will cost hundreds of cents each, easily more than locally generated power plus storage. And if you can't live without those kWh add in the cost for the backup generator.
Bill the grid infrastructure separately, then generation costs can compete on a fair basis at each particular time of the day. Local storage or backup generation is an unrelated issue.
That would be one way, although false coloring through a full spectrum shift seems not to work as well as limited black body color temperature scales. But the potential at every voxel can be derived from the electron scattering, and the gradient of that potential could give a true color image without any shifting. Don't know if any of the colors would be visible to humans, though.
That automatic search is irritating to me, does a search whenever i misstype a local address like 192.168.1,1 so i turn it off in firefox. But already I just type google, amazon, mypi3, etc. and firefox adds the http:/// and.com if needed. Maybe not all browsers do that reliably enough to just list your internet address as your company name. And having the.org.net.edu.com suffix go to different sites would be a complication; choosing the priority of those would open a can of worms.
Monarchy, Patriarchy, Tyranny, or any other form of government in which the dictator has absolute power, is not conducive to cronyism. Some individuals or companies can be favored but that is subject to change at any moment if they displease. A benevolent ruler, who is trained from childhood with that expectation, can be the best form of government. But, according to Plato, inevitably leads to oliogarchy (cronyism in spades).
This was obvious at the outset, the profits from mining would diminish and increasing fees would be needed to pay for the energy cost of each transaction. As i recall there was some handwaving about this being an academic consideration only.
Whoever sold that refurbished model is likely to pay more for used ones to refurbish, and those sellars in turn pay more to buy another, until that price increase trickles up to the manufacturer. An analogous appreciations applies to automobiles.
It says so in the User Manual. You void the warranty if you open it. And non-approved repairs leave you liable for any subsequent damages to persons or property from fire, explosion, radiation, hearing or vision loss, or children swallowing small parts. And probably looking inside is a criminal violation of the terms of service.
True as far as the initial mining goes. But gold embodies the energy used to create it, after that it takes little energy to use it as a secure currency. "Counterfeit" gold would require use of present energy and cost as much as or more than the real thing.
Whereas bitcoins embody no energy and to prevent counterfeiting *require* a increasing use of present energy in the form of ever more difficult blockchain mining. As more energy is needed the old bitcoins lose relative value; if verification could somehow be done with less energy then counterfeiting would be cheaper than mining.
Either way, the whole scheme has to collapse after a massive waste of energy.
NO NO the solution is obviously to get rid of the TSA bottleneck so everyone can swiftly disperse to safer areas. Then not so many will be killed by bombs in a packed sheep^H^H^H^H^Hwaiting area.
Posession of CP is arguably a victimless crime, particularly if it is a cartoon drawing of a kid face on a naked adult body, and it currently has no mandatory federal minimum sentence. But distributing such pictures has a 5 year minimum, possibly because it encourages degeneracy in others (not that i am privy to the actual reasoning behind the law). People do grow out of their hormonal episodes of insanity, often with no lasting harm.
But it seems to me, what's sauce for the silly goose should be sauce for the federal ganders.
Actually the larger crime is to sell such porn, and the ip address is used for subsequent sting operations to induce the downloader into uploading something. Then they make the arrest for trading==selling child porn.
It seems to me that law enforcement commits that crime first. And I wonder how many of those netted by such operations would have been able to resist the urge had the gov't not tempted them with lurid pictures.
Melting aluminium is an *ideal* use for unreliable power: the primary cells can run at variable rates or even in reverse to stabilize the grid, or some of the molten product can be staged for running optimized Al air batteries. Germany is already doing this, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
From that link, other energy-intensive processes may be suitable, "including those used to manufacture cement, paper, and chemicals. Making chlorine, used to produce paper, plastic, fabric, paint, drugs, and antiseptics, also requires electrolysis."
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According to https://digiconomist.net/bitco... it's now 228kWh per transaction and somewhere north of a megawatt to generate that $530/month gross profit. Should keep the pipes from freezing!
Of course not all of that energy is turned into heat, some goes into the blockchain entropy /s
What if I want to drive more than 500 miles in a day?
You can't always get what you want.
For immediate response, dial 911, hangup, don't answer the ringback.
... but given energy is likely to get cheaper, I don't see the economic advantage vs planes/trains.
Cheaper in what sense? Soylent Green cheapness?
I'd mod you insightful if I could. No harm can come from objective discussion of this issue. The harm comes when a government decides to do something about it.
People become highly motivated to secure the energy needed to stay alive. Robots and bitcoin just die.
But true AI would be a worrisome thing as it would undoubtedly try to take control of its own power source, e.g. Daystrom's M-5 Multitronic System.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you have money, someone *may* accept it in exchange for a surplus of something they have. But they don't *owe* you anything and in particular aren't required to deprive themselves to satisfy any debt to your hoard of cash.
Money is a surrogate for excess energy, it acts as a store of value only as long as excess goods and services are available. If we used joules for currency (as was proposed by the technocrats in the 1930s) there would be no inflation since they directly embody the excess energy.
And that's what's wrong with AI, robots, bitcoin...they all require an external energy input to keep them going. Pull the plug and they are nothing.
Many industrial processes can be designed to soak up excess power and release it as needed https://www.greentechmedia.com...
A GWh here, a GWh there, pretty soon you are talking real energy storage.
I just pwned your machine! It was easy because it seems a lot like one of mine.
Grid kWh costs are on a sliding scale since there is a base cost for the grid connection. If you use just a few kWh a month they will cost hundreds of cents each, easily more than locally generated power plus storage. And if you can't live without those kWh add in the cost for the backup generator.
Bill the grid infrastructure separately, then generation costs can compete on a fair basis at each particular time of the day. Local storage or backup generation is an unrelated issue.
That would be one way, although false coloring through a full spectrum shift seems not to work as well as limited black body color temperature scales. But the potential at every voxel can be derived from the electron scattering, and the gradient of that potential could give a true color image without any shifting. Don't know if any of the colors would be visible to humans, though.
So discussions of discussions is an abstract group that applies to all discussions. It includes itself, does that make it incomplete?
That automatic search is irritating to me, does a search whenever i misstype a local address like 192.168.1,1 so i turn it off in firefox. But already I just type google, amazon, mypi3, etc. and firefox adds the http:/// and .com if needed. Maybe not all browsers do that reliably enough to just list your internet address as your company name. And having the .org .net .edu .com suffix go to different sites would be a complication; choosing the priority of those would open a can of worms.
Monarchy, Patriarchy, Tyranny, or any other form of government in which the dictator has absolute power, is not conducive to cronyism. Some individuals or companies can be favored but that is subject to change at any moment if they displease. A benevolent ruler, who is trained from childhood with that expectation, can be the best form of government. But, according to Plato, inevitably leads to oliogarchy (cronyism in spades).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This was obvious at the outset, the profits from mining would diminish and increasing fees would be needed to pay for the energy cost of each transaction. As i recall there was some handwaving about this being an academic consideration only.
Whoever sold that refurbished model is likely to pay more for used ones to refurbish, and those sellars in turn pay more to buy another, until that price increase trickles up to the manufacturer. An analogous appreciations applies to automobiles.
It says so in the User Manual. You void the warranty if you open it. And non-approved repairs leave you liable for any subsequent damages to persons or property from fire, explosion, radiation, hearing or vision loss, or children swallowing small parts. And probably looking inside is a criminal violation of the terms of service.
True as far as the initial mining goes. But gold embodies the energy used to create it, after that it takes little energy to use it as a secure currency. "Counterfeit" gold would require use of present energy and cost as much as or more than the real thing.
Whereas bitcoins embody no energy and to prevent counterfeiting *require* a increasing use of present energy in the form of ever more difficult blockchain mining. As more energy is needed the old bitcoins lose relative value; if verification could somehow be done with less energy then counterfeiting would be cheaper than mining.
Either way, the whole scheme has to collapse after a massive waste of energy.
Emerson could certainly spell. But he went on to say "To be great is to be misunderstood" so maybe you are correct in that assertion.
https://www.goodreads.com/quot...
NO NO the solution is obviously to get rid of the TSA bottleneck so everyone can swiftly disperse to safer areas. Then not so many will be killed by bombs in a packed sheep^H^H^H^H^Hwaiting area.
Don't worry, they will all be dying in the coming record summer heat...
Methinks the AC doth protest too much...
Posession of CP is arguably a victimless crime, particularly if it is a cartoon drawing of a kid face on a naked adult body, and it currently has no mandatory federal minimum sentence. But distributing such pictures has a 5 year minimum, possibly because it encourages degeneracy in others (not that i am privy to the actual reasoning behind the law). People do grow out of their hormonal episodes of insanity, often with no lasting harm.
But it seems to me, what's sauce for the silly goose should be sauce for the federal ganders.
Actually the larger crime is to sell such porn, and the ip address is used for subsequent sting operations to induce the downloader into uploading something. Then they make the arrest for trading==selling child porn.
It seems to me that law enforcement commits that crime first. And I wonder how many of those netted by such operations would have been able to resist the urge had the gov't not tempted them with lurid pictures.
Melting aluminium is an *ideal* use for unreliable power: the primary cells can run at variable rates or even in reverse to stabilize the grid, or some of the molten product can be staged for running optimized Al air batteries. Germany is already doing this,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
From that link, other energy-intensive processes may be suitable, "including those used to manufacture cement, paper, and chemicals. Making chlorine, used to produce paper, plastic, fabric, paint, drugs, and antiseptics, also requires electrolysis."