The most important rule for Brittons in Belgium is : don't try your drinking habbits on the belgian beer. it's much stronger(and better) than you're used to; furthermore : taste the effing beer please, in stead of gulping it down.
Or, if you don't care about disk space, use the FLACs directly.
a standard size HD is about 300 Gb now. That would mean about 1000 CD's worth of music in FLAC (or more than a month continuous music)... so disk space essentially is not an issue anymore...
idiot. If no energy is taken out of the wind: It would start to blow faster and faster. Furthermore, if it is not taken out by windmills, it will certainly be taken out by houses, trees, mountains.
wind is a form of temporary energy storage. sun --> heat --> wind --> erosion. total input energy (sun) will stay the same. output simply changes a bit. (a tiny bit less energy will be converted into erosion).
RTFA. and read up some more on how wind works. No wind in place A = center of cyclone or center of anticyclone, meaning that a few hundred clicks in any direction there IS wind 100% garanteed. (unless the moon would magically disappear, the sun would magically disappear AND the earth would magically stop turning)
private business has mad lots of profits by polluting and destroying the city and it's surroundings. now it's time for the community to pay up... go figure.
Once the cheap land is used up for these installations
5 seconds of searching gave me this : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4560139.stm "that figure may rise to 20% by 2020. 0.0001% of British land to produce that amount of electricity" so 0.0005% of British land is enough. seeing that the UK is relatively densely populated, I think we can assume there is enough land. and then we have also the seas left...
"entire power usage could come from renewables, with 70% total energy from wind at the same sort of costs or lower than at present" (and oil,coal,nuclear... WILL get more expensive. Guaranteed.)
Read the article here : http://www.politicsinthepub.org.au/downloads/BP16_BaseLoadFallacy.pdf "Although a single wind turbine is indeed intermittent, this is not generally true of a system of several wind farms, separated by several hundred kilometres and experiencing different wind regimes." and here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power "A series of detailed modelling studies which looked at the Europe wide adoption of renewable energy and interlinking power grids using HVDC cables, indicates that the entire power usage could come from renewables, with 70% total energy from wind at the same sort of costs or lower than at present. Intermittency would be dealt with, according to this model, by a combination of geographic dispersion to de-link weather system effects, and the ability of HVDC to shift power from windy areas to non-windy areas."
essentially, what's said here is that geographical dispersion can easily cope with the intermitency problem. (I can imagine the [total amount of moving air] * [avg wind speed] = constant.)
I know, I'm a big proponent of that. But tell that idea to the Americans here, that you need gov intervention to do such a thing, and it is immediately discarded as 'intrusive' and 'takes away freedoms'.
The logical and simpler solution is to increase the price of electricity and/or gasoline, to reflect the real cost of the commodity, through taxes
hey Einstein, how is the consumer going to know how much that shiny new fridge is going to consume ? Without government intervention, he won't be able to tell the difference between a high and a low efficient device...
if they care about my correspondence, will have my email folders to look through to learn a bit about those that came before them.
I hardly ever look into my email archive; And I wouldn't think the people coming after me would take the time or effort skimming all those 1000-s of emails...
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some of the Belgian beers I certainly won't try twice
there are at least 200 different ones, apart from the pilseners, so you won't run out of options quick.
The most important rule for Brittons in Belgium is : don't try your drinking habbits on the belgian beer. it's much stronger(and better) than you're used to; furthermore : taste the effing beer please, in stead of gulping it down.
Or, if you don't care about disk space, use the FLACs directly.
a standard size HD is about 300 Gb now. That would mean about 1000 CD's worth of music in FLAC (or more than a month continuous music) ... so disk space essentially is not an issue anymore ...
Wind is worthless from a cost pov anyways
[citation needed]
"the whole of europe" HAH. he speaks of Germany, Uk, Spain. have you seen a map recently ? You can transport electricty for over 7000 Km (see http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical-articles/transmission/cigre/present-limits-of-very-long-distance-transmission-systems/index.shtml) relatively cost-efficient. (that's TWICE the distance from Moscow to Madrid ...; or the distance between the north of Norway and the equator)
idiot. If no energy is taken out of the wind: It would start to blow faster and faster. Furthermore, if it is not taken out by windmills, it will certainly be taken out by houses, trees, mountains.
wind is a form of temporary energy storage. sun --> heat --> wind --> erosion.
total input energy (sun) will stay the same. output simply changes a bit. (a tiny bit less energy will be converted into erosion).
more info :
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/prs/lwprs/def.rxml
Sometimes the wind does not blow at al
RTFA. and read up some more on how wind works. No wind in place A = center of cyclone or center of anticyclone, meaning that a few hundred clicks in any direction there IS wind 100% garanteed. (unless the moon would magically disappear, the sun would magically disappear AND the earth would magically stop turning)
45% and 54% for Spain. If you can upgrade the scale, you can bring those 2 numbers very close together.
OK, so you won't believe projected figures. try actual installed capacity of 24% in denmark then ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Denmark
private business has mad lots of profits by polluting and destroying the city and it's surroundings. now it's time for the community to pay up ... go figure.
Once the cheap land is used up for these installations
5 seconds of searching gave me this : ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4560139.stm "that figure may rise to 20% by 2020. 0.0001% of British land to produce that amount of electricity" so 0.0005% of British land is enough. seeing that the UK is relatively densely populated, I think we can assume there is enough land. and then we have also the seas left
"entire power usage could come from renewables, with 70% total energy from wind at the same sort of costs or lower than at present" (and oil,coal,nuclear ... WILL get more expensive. Guaranteed.)
Read the article here : http://www.politicsinthepub.org.au/downloads/BP16_BaseLoadFallacy.pdf "Although a single wind turbine is indeed intermittent, this is not generally true of a system of several wind farms, separated by several hundred kilometres and experiencing different wind regimes." and here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power "A series of detailed modelling studies which looked at the Europe wide adoption of renewable energy and interlinking power grids using HVDC cables, indicates that the entire power usage could come from renewables, with 70% total energy from wind at the same sort of costs or lower than at present. Intermittency would be dealt with, according to this model, by a combination of geographic dispersion to de-link weather system effects, and the ability of HVDC to shift power from windy areas to non-windy areas."
essentially, what's said here is that geographical dispersion can easily cope with the intermitency problem. (I can imagine the [total amount of moving air] * [avg wind speed] = constant.)
it's crashed once -- but only once -- in several hours of use.
flash ?
while programmers will be a useless load due to the lack of electricity.
solar panels ? windturbines ?
electric vehicles have NO transmission. the engine is mounted in the wheel.
I know, I'm a big proponent of that. But tell that idea to the Americans here, that you need gov intervention to do such a thing, and it is immediately discarded as 'intrusive' and 'takes away freedoms'.
who makes that manual ? The corp ... that corp can put anything he likes into that manual, if it weren't for government regulation.
If the consumer can't make informed choices, then the market fails
It's worse than that: The corp is a lot more powerful than the consumer, so you need to restrict the corp to let the market work.
The logical and simpler solution is to increase the price of electricity and/or gasoline, to reflect the real cost of the commodity, through taxes
hey Einstein, how is the consumer going to know how much that shiny new fridge is going to consume ? Without government intervention, he won't be able to tell the difference between a high and a low efficient device ...
And if you think Government is the solution, then you're part of the problem.
I don't think so. But while corp is 10 times as strong as gov (like it is now) gov should gain power(or rather corp should lose power).
if they care about my correspondence, will have my email folders to look through to learn a bit about those that came before them.
I hardly ever look into my email archive; And I wouldn't think the people coming after me would take the time or effort skimming all those 1000-s of emails ...
You think other governments and corporations aren't monitoring, spying and tracking all citizens/serfs/customers?
there, fixed that for ya.