Why don't you try reading what I wrote rather than listening to the little voice in your head? I didn't even mention windmills in my message. I was pointing out that when it is cold in one place in Europe it is often cold in almost all of Europe. We all need electricity at the same time, so there is not much scope to use the grid, in so far as it exists, to move power from places where it's needed to places where it's not.
At this exact moment France is generating 1.32GW from wind, out of an installed capacity of around 8GW. Our neighbours in the UK are generating 0.92GW from a similar capacity.
Which is entirely consistent with the wind map you posted which shows very low wind speeds across France, Belgium, Germany, Holland and the UK due to there being a fucking big freezing cold anticyclone over our heads at the moment.
Luckily their is a bit of wind and some sun in Spain, so we're able to import about 2.3GW from them -- like I said before, thanks guys.
Are we still talking about France? Because it already has a grid. Basically the whole EU is one huge grid.
That is, in fact not really true.
France has interconnectors with its neighbours, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, but they are of limited size, for example the links to Germany are around 5GW max.
The other problem is that Europe is pretty small, we tend to have the same weather over large parts of the continent. It's freezing pretty much everywhere at the moment, so we can't actually share all that much.
Currently France is exporting 3GW to Italy and importing 2GW from Spain and 1GW from the UK (thanks, guys)
Windmills look a heck of a lot nicer than a coal fired electricity plant.
France has only two coal fired plants, at least one of which is being converted to biomass.
Personally I find windmills quite pretty, but then I also find our nice nukes quite pretty too, and given that it's fucking cold today and there is not much wind I'm happy to have them.
To put it in perspective, some 130 GW of additional solar and wind power will be installed by 2020, equal to France's total renewable power generation capacity, said Frank Yu, principal consultant at Wood Mackenzie.
France has nowhere near 130 GW of installed renewable power generation.
Currently we're running near peak demand at 92 GW due to the horrible cold, we've got about 55 GW of nukes running flat out (5 reactors are off line for maintenance) and about 15 GW of fossils, 13 GW of hydro, 2.6 GW of solar and 2.6 GW of wind.
How many of the other figures in this article are bullshit?
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” -- Douglass Adams. RIP.
Germany has seemed a lot more stable economically than France and with a better work ethic
Hahaha!
It's well known in France that it's not worth calling your German clients or suppliers after around 17:30 (or 16:30 on Fridays) because they'll have already left the office.
If an American and a Frenchman both see someone drive by in a Mercedes, the American thinks, "Someday, I'll have a car like that". The Frenchman thinks...
The Frenchman thinks "oh, look, a taxi driver".
Seriously, a Mercedes is not exactly an amazing status symbol here.
The owner of the small business making electric window shutters near me drives a Maserati GranTurismo. Whenever I pass it with French friends they tend to say things like "Vroom! Vroom!"
You asked for a Sailfish phone available in the US -- I said Nexus 5, you whined that it had no keyboard.
Newsflash -- neither did the Jolla one. (Yes, I know about the keyboard TOH, that's not a Jolla product).
Why was the Jolla one not available in the US? Because the US uses weird frequency bands that the SOC they used didn't support. Blame the FCC, not Jolla.
You seem to have a very strong sense of entitlement.
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He probably had, like me, a Nokia N900.
LibreSSL is no better in this sense, and seems to have the exact OpenSSL license.
Well, of course, one thing you can't do when forking is change the license
The best solution is to shrink people down to the size of a small rodent.
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
While this sounds very similar to the low-pressure concept designed initially by Tesla founder Elon Musk
Some of us know how to read books. This idea wasn't exactly new when Elon Musk was born!
See, for example, The Reefs of Space, Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson, 1964.
Hey, fuck you very much too.
Why don't you try reading what I wrote rather than listening to the little voice in your head? I didn't even mention windmills in my message. I was pointing out that when it is cold in one place in Europe it is often cold in almost all of Europe. We all need electricity at the same time, so there is not much scope to use the grid, in so far as it exists, to move power from places where it's needed to places where it's not.
At this exact moment France is generating 1.32GW from wind, out of an installed capacity of around 8GW. Our neighbours in the UK are generating 0.92GW from a similar capacity.
Which is entirely consistent with the wind map you posted which shows very low wind speeds across France, Belgium, Germany, Holland and the UK due to there being a fucking big freezing cold anticyclone over our heads at the moment.
Luckily their is a bit of wind and some sun in Spain, so we're able to import about 2.3GW from them -- like I said before, thanks guys.
Are we still talking about France? Because it already has a grid. Basically the whole EU is one huge grid.
That is, in fact not really true.
France has interconnectors with its neighbours, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, but they are of limited size, for example the links to Germany are around 5GW max.
The other problem is that Europe is pretty small, we tend to have the same weather over large parts of the continent. It's freezing pretty much everywhere at the moment, so we can't actually share all that much.
Currently France is exporting 3GW to Italy and importing 2GW from Spain and 1GW from the UK (thanks, guys)
Windmills look a heck of a lot nicer than a coal fired electricity plant.
France has only two coal fired plants, at least one of which is being converted to biomass.
Personally I find windmills quite pretty, but then I also find our nice nukes quite pretty too, and given that it's fucking cold today and there is not much wind I'm happy to have them.
You could maybe argue nuclear is renewable, making renewables 90GW, but 130 is an outright lie.
Nuclear is renewable... if you're prepared to wait for the next supernova...
To put it in perspective, some 130 GW of additional solar and wind power will be installed by 2020, equal to France's total renewable power generation capacity, said Frank Yu, principal consultant at Wood Mackenzie.
France has nowhere near 130 GW of installed renewable power generation.
Currently we're running near peak demand at 92 GW due to the horrible cold, we've got about 55 GW of nukes running flat out (5 reactors are off line for maintenance) and about 15 GW of fossils, 13 GW of hydro, 2.6 GW of solar and 2.6 GW of wind.
How many of the other figures in this article are bullshit?
It wouldn't be too hard to create a more efficient public healthcare system that makes actual sense..
In any place in the world except America.
the average tv sux for gamin. the best LED will blow the best OLED out of the water.
There is no such thing as a "LED" TV. You mean LCD with a LED backlight.
Most distros don't support (or at least recommend) in place upgrading
They don't?
Guess I'll stick to Debian then.
I've got at least one system that has been upgraded step by step from Sarge (3.1) to Jessie (8).
Raising things through the official channels is out of the question
Get out now.
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” -- Douglass Adams. RIP.
How? Hillary beat Sanders in the primaries.
Nobody's outlawing anything. The law says your employer can't force you to work out of hours.
Germany has seemed a lot more stable economically than France and with a better work ethic
Hahaha!
It's well known in France that it's not worth calling your German clients or suppliers after around 17:30 (or 16:30 on Fridays) because they'll have already left the office.
If an American and a Frenchman both see someone drive by in a Mercedes, the American thinks, "Someday, I'll have a car like that". The Frenchman thinks ...
The Frenchman thinks "oh, look, a taxi driver".
Seriously, a Mercedes is not exactly an amazing status symbol here.
The owner of the small business making electric window shutters near me drives a Maserati GranTurismo. Whenever I pass it with French friends they tend to say things like "Vroom! Vroom!"
If the US presidential elections were run using French rules Hillary would have won.
and Marine Le Pen is leading the the French presidential polls.
Citation?
Because she isn't.
Of course you do -- slashdot's unicode handling is notoriously shitty.
Well, since there are only 7 basic plots that's not surprising,
it's snowing in the Sahara
And you don't find that slightly unusual?
Newsflash -- they don't make phones any more.
You asked for a Sailfish phone available in the US -- I said Nexus 5, you whined that it had no keyboard.
Newsflash -- neither did the Jolla one. (Yes, I know about the keyboard TOH, that's not a Jolla product).
Why was the Jolla one not available in the US? Because the US uses weird frequency bands that the SOC they used didn't support. Blame the FCC, not Jolla.
You seem to have a very strong sense of entitlement.
So they hate America because Google made a phone with no keyboard?
What?