Remember the German economy is dominated by high paying factory jobs in the automotive sector
It is?
According to figures compiled by the IAQ Institute for Work, Skills and Training, more than one in five employees, or nearly seven million people, earned less than 8.50 euros per hour in 2011.
There are also so-called “mini-jobs” where employees are paid a maximum of 450 euros a month and are exempt from paying social or welfare contributions.
Nearly eight million people were in such low-pay or mini-job forms of employment in 2012, almost twice as many as 20 years ago, according to data by the federal statistics office Destatis.
“Germany is the EU country where the proportion of low-wage jobs is highest behind Hungary and the United Kingdom,” said the OECD’s German expert, Andreas Kappeler, pointing to a 2010 study.
Your purchasing model treats the services of searching and aggregating product listings as an externality that you expect society as a whole to bare while you enjoy a free rider effect.
Society has to get naked? The Bill of Rights guarantees the right to wear sleeveless shirts?
Remember Michael Mann of the Climate Research Unit of the East Anglia University and his team making up data and tweaking their models, because what they did have was not showing what the team was paid to show.
You remember that, I'll remember what really happened.
By the way, moron, Michael Mann is at Penn State, not UEA.
Water vapour is a potent GHG but we don't need to worry about it. Why? Any water vapour produced by man is a [drumroll] drop in the ocean. [rimshot]. Thanks for coming, I'll be here all week, try the veal.
Wind and solar can increase output when they are online,
The problem being that we don't get to choose when they are online, wind is offline depending on the weather, solar is offline depending on the weather, time of year and time of day.
you can ask the Swedes how much they wished they could increase the output of Ringhals when it was down unscheduled for months and electricity prices once in a while spiked at €3/kWh.
That's why France has 58 nuclear reactors, not one.
At least with wind turbines you rarely see an entire wind farm offline at once without warning, and very rarely for an extended period.
We've seen periods of up to a week over Northern Europe, not just one wind farm.
You are right that France does get some money for their exports.
Some?
Still, the whole thing is only viable because it is paid for by the government, it would have no chance as a new build in a free market.
Well, no.
France's nuclear power program cost some FF 400 billion in 1993 currency, excluding interest during construction. Half of this was self-financed by EdF, 8% (FF 32 billion) was invested by the state but discounted in 1981, and 42% (FF 168 billion) was financed by commercial loans.
The taxpayer paid for 8% of the program. (And of course one of the biggest taxpayers is... EDF!)
Patents don't protect what you want to do, they protect how you do it.
The article claims that JP Morgan have invented a system that does some of the same things that Bitcoin does, it gives no evidence that it does those things in the same way.
If load following nuclear is such a success, why does every country around France get free power at night from them?
Sorry, misread your message.
But it's wrong - every country around France doesn't get "free" power - they pay a shitload for the power they get from France. Like I said, it's Frances #4 export.
Anyway, if you want to know about French load ballancing nuclear go look at
All France's nuclear capacity is from PWR units. There are two ways of varying the power output from a PWR: control rods, and boron addition to the primary cooling water. Using normal control rods to reduce power means that there is a portion of the core where neutrons are being absorbed rather than creating fission, and if this is maintained it creates an imbalance in the fuel, with the lower part of the fuel assemblies being more reactive that the upper parts. Adding boron to the water diminishes the reactivity uniformly, but to reverse the effect the water has to be treated to remove the boron, which is slow and costly, and it creates a radioactive waste.
So to minimise these impacts for the last 25 years EdF has used in each PWR reactor some less absorptive "grey" control rods which weigh less from a neutronic point of view than ordinary control rods and they allow sustained variation in power output. This means that RTE can depend on flexible load following from the nuclear fleet to contribute to regulation in these three respects:
Primary power regulation for system stability (when frequency varies, power must be automatically adjusted by the turbine).
Secondary power regulation related to trading contracts.
Adjusting power in response to demand (decrease from 100% during the day, down to 50% or less during the night, etc.)
PWR plants are very flexible at the beginning of their cycle, with fresh fuel and high reserve reactivity. But when the fuel cycle is around 65% through these reactors are less flexible, and they take a rapidly diminishing part in the third, load-following, aspect above. When they are 90% through the fuel cycle, they only take part in frequency regulation, and essentially no power variation is allowed (unless necessary for safety). So at the very end of the cycle, they are run at steady power output and do not regulate or load-follow until the next refueling outage. RTE has continuous oversight of all French plants and determines which plants adjust output in relation to the three considerations above, and by how much.
I'm not married, but I have sex with unmarried women. I don't really think that we deserve to die, do you?
Be careful - the average basement dwelling, married to his right hand, slashdot geek probably thinks you do deserve to die for getting what he's not getting.
If you could somehow get a court to rule that their doctrine was unconstitutional, that decision would also just about have to support burning all copies of "Atlas Shrugged" and arresting the entire Libertarian party as well.
If load following nuclear is such a success, why does every country around France get free power at night from them?
Huh? France would only need to sell electricity cheap during the night if load following didn't work. EDF does sell electricity to it's neighbours, but not for nothing - it's France's 4th largest export.
Even though you can do load following with nuclear, it is an entirely stupid thing to do, because nuclear fuel is approximately free once you have built the power plant. There is no reason to save it.
Do you run any nuclear power plants? EDF do and they seem to think it's worth it.
By the same token wind and solar can do load following, because wind turbines have brakes and solar automatically stops outputting power if there is no load.
In order to do load following you need to be able to reduce output, which solar and wind can do, but you also need to be able to increase it, which wind and solar can't do.
On a cold windless night you're fucked if all you've got are wind and solar.
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Given the American facination with prison rape I suspect very few of them are plug resistant.
Remember the German economy is dominated by high paying factory jobs in the automotive sector
It is?
According to figures compiled by the IAQ Institute for Work, Skills and Training, more than one in five employees, or nearly seven million people, earned less than 8.50 euros per hour in 2011.
There are also so-called “mini-jobs” where employees are paid a maximum of 450 euros a month and are exempt from paying social or welfare contributions.
Nearly eight million people were in such low-pay or mini-job forms of employment in 2012, almost twice as many as 20 years ago, according to data by the federal statistics office Destatis.
“Germany is the EU country where the proportion of low-wage jobs is highest behind Hungary and the United Kingdom,” said the OECD’s German expert, Andreas Kappeler, pointing to a 2010 study.
Your purchasing model treats the services of searching and aggregating product listings as an externality that you expect society as a whole to bare while you enjoy a free rider effect.
Society has to get naked? The Bill of Rights guarantees the right to wear sleeveless shirts?
"Bundes" = Federal (as in "Bundesrepublik Deutschland")
"Agentur" = Agency/office
"Für" = For
"Arbeit" = Work (as in "Arbeit macht frei").
Pretty easy to understand.
Ok, fair do's.
Now, for extra points, which half of his claims were right. :-)
Wow you're one fanboy. half your claims are wrong.
Ok, negative boy, which half?
Remember Michael Mann of the Climate Research Unit of the East Anglia University and his team making up data and tweaking their models, because what they did have was not showing what the team was paid to show.
You remember that, I'll remember what really happened.
By the way, moron, Michael Mann is at Penn State, not UEA.
Oh for fucks sake.
Water vapour is a potent GHG but we don't need to worry about it. Why? Any water vapour produced by man is a [drumroll] drop in the ocean. [rimshot]. Thanks for coming, I'll be here all week, try the veal.
Okay, that's weird - /. just screwed up my formatting...
You must be new around here.
There may be good reasons to fork Gnome3
http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/nautilus-next
http://afaikblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/new-folder2.png
Maybe, but what does that have to do with a fork of the Gnome 3.6 control center?
"Self-financed" just means that they had already taken the money from the consumers.
With those amazingly high electricity prices.
Oh, wait, among the lowest prices in Europe.
Wind and solar can increase output when they are online,
The problem being that we don't get to choose when they are online, wind is offline depending on the weather, solar is offline depending on the weather, time of year and time of day.
you can ask the Swedes how much they wished they could increase the output of Ringhals when it was down unscheduled for months and electricity prices once in a while spiked at €3/kWh.
That's why France has 58 nuclear reactors, not one.
At least with wind turbines you rarely see an entire wind farm offline at once without warning, and very rarely for an extended period.
We've seen periods of up to a week over Northern Europe, not just one wind farm.
You are right that France does get some money for their exports.
Some?
Still, the whole thing is only viable because it is paid for by the government, it would have no chance as a new build in a free market.
Well, no.
France's nuclear power program cost some FF 400 billion in 1993 currency, excluding interest during construction. Half of this was self-financed by EdF, 8% (FF 32 billion) was invested by the state but discounted in 1981, and 42% (FF 168 billion) was financed by commercial loans.
The taxpayer paid for 8% of the program. (And of course one of the biggest taxpayers is... EDF!)
The whole article is shit.
Patents don't protect what you want to do, they protect how you do it.
The article claims that JP Morgan have invented a system that does some of the same things that Bitcoin does, it gives no evidence that it does those things in the same way.
If load following nuclear is such a success, why does every country around France get free power at night from them?
Sorry, misread your message.
But it's wrong - every country around France doesn't get "free" power - they pay a shitload for the power they get from France. Like I said, it's Frances #4 export.
Anyway, if you want to know about French load ballancing nuclear go look at
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-A-F/France/
All France's nuclear capacity is from PWR units. There are two ways of varying the power output from a PWR: control rods, and boron addition to the primary cooling water. Using normal control rods to reduce power means that there is a portion of the core where neutrons are being absorbed rather than creating fission, and if this is maintained it creates an imbalance in the fuel, with the lower part of the fuel assemblies being more reactive that the upper parts. Adding boron to the water diminishes the reactivity uniformly, but to reverse the effect the water has to be treated to remove the boron, which is slow and costly, and it creates a radioactive waste.
So to minimise these impacts for the last 25 years EdF has used in each PWR reactor some less absorptive "grey" control rods which weigh less from a neutronic point of view than ordinary control rods and they allow sustained variation in power output. This means that RTE can depend on flexible load following from the nuclear fleet to contribute to regulation in these three respects:
Primary power regulation for system stability (when frequency varies, power must be automatically adjusted by the turbine).
Secondary power regulation related to trading contracts.
Adjusting power in response to demand (decrease from 100% during the day, down to 50% or less during the night, etc.)
PWR plants are very flexible at the beginning of their cycle, with fresh fuel and high reserve reactivity. But when the fuel cycle is around 65% through these reactors are less flexible, and they take a rapidly diminishing part in the third, load-following, aspect above. When they are 90% through the fuel cycle, they only take part in frequency regulation, and essentially no power variation is allowed (unless necessary for safety). So at the very end of the cycle, they are run at steady power output and do not regulate or load-follow until the next refueling outage. RTE has continuous oversight of all French plants and determines which plants adjust output in relation to the three considerations above, and by how much.
In Belgium and many other countries in Europe the government levy and collect a mandatory religious tax from citizens.
For values of "many" that are equal to "some".
The ever correct Wikipedia claims:
1 Austria
2 Croatia
3 Denmark
4 Finland
5 Germany
6 Iceland
7 Italy
8 Sweden
9 Switzerland
As far as I can tell the Belgian government funds "recognised" religions from general taxation - there appears to be no seperate "church tax".
"There are people who only do the second, but that means that they are not married by law. "
No, it means they are committing a crime.
A religious wedding _before_ a civil one is expressis verbis forbidden by the constitution.
In Belgium?
RU Sure?
I'm not married, but I have sex with unmarried women. I don't really think that we deserve to die, do you?
Be careful - the average basement dwelling, married to his right hand, slashdot geek probably thinks you do deserve to die for getting what he's not getting.
If you could somehow get a court to rule that their doctrine was unconstitutional, that decision would also just about have to support burning all copies of "Atlas Shrugged" and arresting the entire Libertarian party as well.
Funny, I'm not seeing any downside here.
Not really impressive. Marriage predates the 1300s. It still comes down to man and woman, even for at least the last three to four thousand years.
You think polygamy disapeared three thousand years ago?
I think what we can say is that marriage has been between a man and a woman for thousands of years.
Simply untrue.
Marriage has been between:
A man and one or more women.
A woman and one or more men.
Groups of men and women.
Men.
Women
Children..
Many other wierd combinations, possibly involving goats, sheep &c
for thousands of years.
question: who killed more people (according to the bible); god or satan?
Who was Satan? If you think that Satan is Lucifer, then Satan is a fallen angel.
And one of the most important distinctions between angels and men is that angels have no free will.
So Satan is doing God's will.
The only following orders defence? Or the only giving orders defence?
No you can't grab your neighbor's wife and sodomize her in front of the dog.
unless she wants you too.....
Wants me too, as well as the dog?
This is why the EU solved the problem with a Civil Union status across the board, which marriages count as automatically.
What crazy alternative universe are you writing from?
Marriage and similar is defined by national law, not EU law.
Some countries have civil unions. Some don't The countries that do have different definitions of what they are.
Some countries allow same sex mariages, some don't. Some countries recognise church marriages, some don't.
If load following nuclear is such a success, why does every country around France get free power at night from them?
Huh? France would only need to sell electricity cheap during the night if load following didn't work. EDF does sell electricity to it's neighbours, but not for nothing - it's France's 4th largest export.
Even though you can do load following with nuclear, it is an entirely stupid thing to do, because nuclear fuel is approximately free once you have built the power plant. There is no reason to save it.
Do you run any nuclear power plants? EDF do and they seem to think it's worth it.
By the same token wind and solar can do load following, because wind turbines have brakes and solar automatically stops outputting power if there is no load.
In order to do load following you need to be able to reduce output, which solar and wind can do, but you also need to be able to increase it, which wind and solar can't do.
On a cold windless night you're fucked if all you've got are wind and solar.
1. the trees are made of carbon extracted from the atmosphere
Where did the carbon in fossil fuels come from?
The prehistoric atmosphere, not our atmosphere.
You know, the one that had a fuck-load more CO2 in it.
2. even if they don't burn that carbon goes back to the atmosphere when the trees die and decay.
Correct, we'll have to stop that to.
Knut? Is that you? How did the business with the tides go?