- windpower provides between 2 to 5 times as less GWh/(km.year) as photovoltaics panels. errr... right, I'll try to understand what you mean: You're saying that per square km, the amount of energy produced is 2 to 5 times lower ? That's totally irrelevant. In current state of tech, windpower is one of the cheapest available. People say it is intermittent (it is NOT... more on that later) so let's assume max 20% of energy production wind : that's still 20% CO2 reduced ? right ?
Plus, you cannot use it right next to where it's needed. huh ??? there's a thing called 'Electrical wiring' On intermittent availability : Wind 'turns' around high and low-pressure areas, so if you are at the center of a high- or low-pressure area, there is no wind, that means that a few hundred Km's further (in ANY direction) there will be wind. furthermore : our planet is a blanket of high and low-pressure zones adjacent to each other, and the reason very simple : the moon turns around us, the earth turns around it's axis, we move around the sun, the earth is a globe, clouds : this leads to an uneven warming of the earths-surface --> high and low-pressure zones.
you were clear, and i agree completely with you - my comment wasn't meant as an attack on you, more on the people who just swallow the nuclear industries' PR.
Even if we say that plants are entirely safe (Which seems to be the Slashdot consensus) _I_ don't agree with that. entirely safe is just not technologically possible i think, even the most tiny screw can fail. And even if there's a 99.999% safety level, there will still be a one-in-a-million chance on a major meltdown. Anyone wanna calculate the cost on that ? It is no coincidence that you can't get insurance on a nuclear plant.
The problem with that equation is in calculating the true cost of something. If you just use straight dollars, the equation doesn't work. For instance, if I were to choose a fuel for my car, I'd almost certainly choose gasoline because it is cheap - but it is hard to argue that pumping non-renewable toxic goo out of the ground, spending a ton of energy refining it, and then burning it is "ecological":) It's also much cheaper in dollars to just burn coal without any kind of pollution scrubbing... Well, that's why I included a statement about offloading onto society... putting toxins into the air certainly has a health cost...
And what most people don't know is the following : economical = ecological, if we define economical as using the least possible resources (as opposed to the other kind - in which costs are offloaded onto society)
Only 30000? There are Tens of millions of different species on earth - Flowering plants ALONE are numbering 250000! there is another similar project called tree of life
Not completely, you need to compare the weight of the complete drivetrain; a petrol-driven engine weighs hundreds of pounds, and an electric motor weighs just a fraction of that, if you're using that for a car. I would say: the smaller the vehicle, the more the advantage is on the side of the electric vehicle. (not to say that you will never be able to power the TGV with a petrol engine...)
>Make perpetual motion device Well, that shouldn't be a target, it should read : Make available a cheap energy source; You can't do anything with a perpetual motion device, if you can't make (cheap)energy with it. and what about passive housing?
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So you would not care if you would be subjected to waterboarding?
who says so? I want democracy for everybody (which includes for me: no death penalty, no torture, noone held without a wriiten accusation, right of representation,...)
FACT 1: We don't know for sure whether global warming is true or not, and whether it is human-made or not, but we have enough indication that points it is real, and it is man-made. Trouble is : we can't sit out the experiment: we're living IN the test-tube
FACT 2: The green-minded people know for a fact that humans are absolute uncaring bed-wetters who turn our planet in one big dump: there's a floating dump twice the size of the US in the pacific, other evidence is lying in bottles,cans and small plastic bags everywhere - and know that only long-term persistent trying to talk sense into people leads to a cleaner environment
However, these day the CEO's get bonuses even when the corporation is losing money and laying off all of the employee's... It's a sign of the times: rich people getting richer, poor people getting poorer, the people in the middle dying out. Soon the system will collapse.
from wikipedia:
Reaching up to 4 metres (13 feet) in total length and weighing up to 300 kg (660 pounds), tigers are comparable in size to the biggest extinct felids.
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I would even go as far as to say : you CAN NEVER EVER get the TGV to get up to 360 Kph on petrol.
let me spell it out for you : T - i - t - a - n - i - c.
it's bloody likely something has been overseen, or a construction error, or a fault in the materials used.
On intermittent availability : Wind 'turns' around high and low-pressure areas, so if you are at the center of a high- or low-pressure area, there is no wind, that means that a few hundred Km's further (in ANY direction) there will be wind. furthermore : our planet is a blanket of high and low-pressure zones adjacent to each other, and the reason very simple : the moon turns around us, the earth turns around it's axis, we move around the sun, the earth is a globe, clouds : this leads to an uneven warming of the earths-surface --> high and low-pressure zones.
you were clear, and i agree completely with you - my comment wasn't meant as an attack on you, more on the people who just swallow the nuclear industries' PR.
And what most people don't know is the following : economical = ecological, if we define economical as using the least possible resources (as opposed to the other kind - in which costs are offloaded onto society)
errr ... "informative" ???
Only 30000?
There are Tens of millions of different species on earth - Flowering plants ALONE are numbering 250000!
there is another similar project called tree of life
Not completely, you need to compare the weight of the complete drivetrain; a petrol-driven engine weighs hundreds of pounds, and an electric motor weighs just a fraction of that, if you're using that for a car. I would say: the smaller the vehicle, the more the advantage is on the side of the electric vehicle. (not to say that you will never be able to power the TGV with a petrol engine ...)
>Make perpetual motion device
Well, that shouldn't be a target, it should read : Make available a cheap energy source; You can't do anything with a perpetual motion device, if you can't make (cheap)energy with it.
and what about passive housing?
So you would not care if you would be subjected to waterboarding?
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/06/24/afx2110388.html
who says so? I want democracy for everybody (which includes for me: no death penalty, no torture, noone held without a wriiten accusation, right of representation, ...)
>political prisoners
yeah, those guys in Guantanamo bay are being tortured, those aren't just political prisoners.
FACT 1: We don't know for sure whether global warming is true or not, and whether it is human-made or not, but we have enough indication that points it is real, and it is man-made. Trouble is : we can't sit out the experiment: we're living IN the test-tube
FACT 2: The green-minded people know for a fact that humans are absolute uncaring bed-wetters who turn our planet in one big dump: there's a floating dump twice the size of the US in the pacific, other evidence is lying in bottles,cans and small plastic bags everywhere - and know that only long-term persistent trying to talk sense into people leads to a cleaner environment
hence: this program.
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Shouldn't this be a poll ? ...
The C64 would be the winner of course