You can exclaim "fucking retards" but without thermite, there is nothing on the plane or in an office building that can burn hot enough to cause steel to melt. I believe this is the one factor that needs a plausible explanation. Any attempts to gain a plausible explanation for the steel melted in this way has been met with refusal to answers or denial of the question.
This melting steel is often mentioned by those who have never welded, cast metal, or done any blacksmith work. Steel softens well before it melts. Watch a blacksmith work sometime. I've tried my hand at it while visiting the Oregon Trail Travelers.
An 1/2 inch iron bar is easly bent by hand after some coal fire warming. A llttle work with a hammer and anvil easly forms the flat end for a good prybar for opening crates. A wood, coal, or oil fire is warm enough to make steel beams plyable and no longer able to support the load without bending long before you get molten iron. In foundry work, I have never gotten anything hot enough to melt, but hot enough to easly bend.
A floor sagging a few feet and pulling a support out of line by a foot or two is enough to start a major collapse.
I can walk up to your house and ring the door bell and attempt to strike up a conversation with you. Nothing illegal about that. However, when I continue doing it to you after you have asked me to stop, it becomes harassment and is actionable in a court of law. Harassment is not a constitutionally protected behavior.
If you sent an automated bot to repeatedly ring my bell and simply drop a request for a call back, and it repeated until I caved and called, I would be a little ticked. Especialy if the bell rang at 2:30 AM. Remember, I work nights. The bot that rang the bell simply isn't listening when you tell it to stop.
The whole point is there is NOBODY to tell to stop on the line when they call.
Believe it or not, this works every time under the FDCPA. The reason why is that 99.9% of the people complain on the phone where the debt collection agency is not liable. Hardly anyone ever writes a letter.
Not everyone believes that it should be a requirement to write anyone a letter who calls to ask them to stop. With some phone numbers, it's less hastle and easer to simply get another number and drop the number that is on the bad boys list. One call fixes it instead of a letter writing campaign.
This phone abuse is one of the reasons phones & phone numbers are becomming disposable. They get clogged and die like an old email account.
The pitty is the numbers get recycled quickly to some poor unsuspecting new customer who then has to deal with the trash associated with the old phone number.
Any calls that occur after this are, by definition, harassment.
What about the ton of calls hammering my line while I am a nightshift worker prior to finaly returning their call on the dayshift? It's almost 2:30AM here and I just had lunch. An automated call not stating who they are and who the call is for is just plain wrong. If you call me, you better be on the line... Otherwise, I may return the favor with automated calls back requesting a C & D.
If debt collectors are calling you it's because you're a deadbeat who doesn't pay their bills & you deserve to get harrassed.
If they called for me, you may have a point. The calls came and didn't ask for anybody by name. The calls were not for me. They were for the prior owner of the phone number. The calls didn't say who they were, who the call was for, and didn't say how to make them stop.
Until I called, I had no idea it wasn't a phishing call. It was only after I chewed them out for cold calling an unlisted number did I find out who the deadbeat was they were trying to track down. As collatoral damage, I did not deserve these calls. The calls should be outlawed.
Why is this limited to just telemarketers? Debt collectors, campaigners, and non-profits need included.
I kept getting hammered by an automated call only leaving a number to call back.. A Google search turned up the number belonged to a collection agency in Chicago. They were hammering stale cases and my new number from a move just happend to be one of the numbers they had. If you don't speak english and thus unable to follow the instructions to call, there is no way to stop these calls as there is never anyone on the line to talk to.
I called them and told them to put me on their DNC list. They informed me that they were exempt as they were not telemarketers. WTF??? I expect this new thing to be full of loopholes also.
Seriously, though, you can expect a HUGE pushback on this from the publishing industry (college textbooks are a big moneymaker, especially considering how overpriced many textbooks are) and even from some professors (they write the books, after all).
This is the pushback against high monopoly pricing. They are starting to find the breaking point in an otherwise inflexible market (Ya gotta have that book).
As the alternatives start to errode the monopoly, the publishers will adjust to find the maximum profit point, but the policies that are put in place to curb runaway prices will remain for quite some time.
It sounds like this can absorb and release heat as fast as an electrical switch can be flipped and mankind has made some pretty snappy switches that could repeat REALLY fast.
Most people don't want the heat back in the same place it was absorbed. A fast switch isn't needed. A fast transport of the device from the hot side heatsink back to the cold side heatsink is needed.
Maybe if this was built into an electric motor, we could have one side hot and one side cold as they spin from side to side. Hmm Maybe a fan that blows hot air through the left side and cold through the right side.;-) Just duct the hot and cold where you want them.
A Peltier thermolelectric module is continious cycle with a hot and cool side.
This device on the other hand is an absorption cycle where the same side (all sides) alternately gets hot to give off heat (hot) and then reverses to absorb heat from the same surface. This is an electrical replacement for Crosley Ice Balls.
Let's say you create a game on the assumption that 500,000 people will want to play the game, based on demographics and popularity of similar games. You want to sell it for $50 each so that's a $25,000,000 budget - pretty good!
This is exactly where most games lose me. I work full time, have a family, etc. There isn't much between minesweeper and Unreal for non-dedicated PC gamers. Nintendo game found this market wide open with easy to learn games that doesn't require complex manuals and a large dedication of time to enjoy. Much of the piracy is simply limited time and money budgets and wanting to try lots of games. They are not priced for casual gamers. I've never spent over $20 for a single game. I sometimes pick up recycled games as I don't need the latest and greatest. With online registration and failure of right of first sale, even this has died.
Now days, I stick to older games, Linux games, and other mindless time wasters. (the demo games are fun)
Often the demo is almost playable to encourage you to buy the full version, but the full version is priced for hardcore gamers.
If I can't try before I buy, I often just don't buy.
In the case of several demo's, some work much better than the official product.
Case in point, Nerf Arena Blast. This older game was out where several games listed as multiplayer could spawn clients for LAN play. The demo worked fine on an 8 player LAN. I bought the game only to find out it was NOT a 1 server mulitplayer LAN game. The demo worked fine without a disk in the drive. The official game required the CD in the drive. In a frag fest, the demo worked much better than the purchased product in every aspect except the number of maps, the ability to use 3rd party maps (lots of great free ones and ports from Unreal) and choices of teams and players.
Needless to say, due to unmet expectations, the no CD hack was employed to install many copies and kill the CD slowdown. The shipped product was not up to par with the demo in expectations and performance. I did not buy multiple copies due to the unexpected price for a LAN fragfest. Outside the home family LAN, we respected copyright and simply LAN fragged the demo. Everyone to the party could legaly pre-install the game and be ready to frag without the expense.
The surprise of needing to buy 9 copies instead of the one and the CD in the drive requirement led directly to the piracy of hacking the NO CD and additional copies for the additional players for the family.
It's a fun game based on Unreal, but with Nerf Guns and much brighter arenas.;-)
The CO2 triple point is interesting to watch. The discovery in the article is regarding water hot enough at high enough pressure to cross this point in nature.
The judge should strip them of their right to practice until the successfully pass an English language exam showing that they can actually read and comprehend words.
You are expecting too much from an administration who spent time trying to figure out what "is" is.
Undercover cops buy drugs and the state doesn't have to prosecute them for buying them.
I understand the point, but it doesn't apply. In the drugs case, the cops didn't legally manufacture the legal to posses drugs. The drugs in question were not legal. In the RIAA case, the recordings were legally created by RIAA members and then downloaded by the legal copyright holder. It would be different if the actual songs were illegal products not produced by RIAA members. If she provided underground detailed bomb or meth manufacturing instructions in an audio file, then the distribution of an illegal product may be the issue, not copyright infringement.
Don't pirate Microsoft products (it's illegal and Microsoft loses profits, but at least you help them sell more copies of Office) and don't use their file formats (it's legal and Microsoft loses control over you, something they hate more than losing a single sale).
I've been using open formats more lately. I send attachments in email and mention the attachment is in an open format created by Open Office that not all propritory programs will open it. Later I send it again exported as a PDF for those who have trouble opening ISO certified formats.
When I was in the service, one of the guys couldn't get a Vanity license plate for the same reason. His legal name is Lust. After pointing out to the clerk, he said thought the clerk's name was offensive to him. He got the plate.
I first met him with the plate on his van and asked how he got the plate. He told me and we became friends.
This type of stuff has been happening since the 1970's or before. The only news is it is an online name.
Only if their site doesn't exclude other sources of legal content, such as craigslist or ebay where the right of first sale may be used to sell a pre-owned DVD.
it's not about downloading a song. The price of downloaded music is well established at $0.99 (or less). DISTRIBUTING is the issue and unless she has logs which show exactly how many times she distributed it, she can explicative deleted.
If she has residential Internet service, it is easy to prove a maximum transfer that could have possibly happened. So far the awards using your logic would have been for 100% upload saturation 24X7 for many decades. This is very unlikely. The case is about excessive damages far beyond any possible reality.
Not only that, but Comcast is actually addressing its clients' concerns and negative feedback, as opposed to being oblivious to them.
So any word on when they are lowering prices, stopping spoofed packets, and removing inviable bandwidth caps?
Wanting Internet, but not wanting pay TV and yet another phone service (which may be problematic with faxes and the alarm system) is an expensive service. If they don't do something soon, I'll soon have DSL as I already have a POTS line and a cell phone. It's much cheaper if you don't want the triple play to go elsewhere.
A gallon of gas contains approx. 1.3 x 10^8 joules of energy, and there are 3.6 x 10^6 joules in a kilowatt hour. At $0.10 per kilowatt hour, that is equivalent to $3.61 worth of electricity to replace a gallon of gas. Which isn't a whole lot cheaper than current gas prices.
And an electric car puts about 70% or more of the K Joules to the wheels where the gas car puts about 80% of the Kjoules out the radiator. If you want heat, they are close to the same price. If you want motion, the electric is cooler as it tosses out much less heat.
Look for the radiator on the next electric car you see. Try running a gas car without a radiator.
Nobody in their right mind installs a solar system with a battery bank unless they are way the hell out in the boondocks, or off-grid entirely.
There are several reasons to have a battery bank. In the boondocks is valid as well as off grid. In areas, not always in the boondocks, a battery in a solar system, or a battery in a UPS, what's the diff? In one, you don't need yet another inverter and the run time is much longer when the sun is out. Remember, the grid tie stuff dies with an outage.
In the above mentioned case, the retirees are snowbirds away for great parts of the year on extended trips. Reliable power for the solar heat is required to prevent frozen pipes and dead houseplants. Part of the reason for the PV system to be smaller is to permit more area for solar heat in the Northern climate. A power failure means some of the lights don't work and heating appliances such as the stove and electric dryer are dead for a while, but everything else is functional 24/7. The system is only 2KW with a 5KW inverter on the batteries.
That's still a bit too long an investment for this to be really practical. Prices need to come down to about a four year payoff before I'd be really interested.
This is a common mistake. The assumption that energy costs are fixed or simply follow inflation is in error. Expect electric rates to follow gasoline prices that preceed it by a couple years. Payback period could be as short as only 5 years. In another 8 years, that 4 year payoff may be a reality for those who bought equipment now, but in 8 years the demand will drive up the prices for the installations much like fuel effecient car prices have gone up while waiting lists form.
It was my rationing when I bought my Prius. I was watching peak oil, the drilling restrictions and understood why no new refineries are being built. There is no more oil to refine. I bought the Prius when the payback period was 100K miles when gasoline was under $2.00/gallon. Payback has shifted a lot lately and not because the price of the Prius is less.
Expect the same from this solar install. It's on the way. Seen the price of home heating oil and natural gas lately? Fossil fuel electricity isn't far behind. Wind, hydro, and solar buffer this some.
I don't understand the reasoning for such a restriction
It's to keep home generation from going commercial. The inverters tie to the grid by going in sync with it. They are required to shut down in a power outage to prevent islanding and frying linemen. With too many of these of too large of a capacity, they may become large enough to island a small block. With the size restriction, loss of grid ensures shutdown regardless of the powerfactor the neighborhood may provide.
The system in the article has no battery and no transfer switch. It is unable to provide power during a full power failure. He rejected two other bids which had 2 inverters. Most likely, one was grid tie and the other for running critical load with battery backup for power outages. The 2 inverters was not explained well in the article. My dad's system has no grid tie. It is battery and critical load inverter. It sells no power, stores some, and picks up about 65% of the typical load. These systems cost more and have higher maitnance due to the batteries, but are great for end of the line unstable power.
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You can exclaim "fucking retards" but without thermite, there is nothing on the plane or in an office building that can burn hot enough to cause steel to melt. I believe this is the one factor that needs a plausible explanation. Any attempts to gain a plausible explanation for the steel melted in this way has been met with refusal to answers or denial of the question.
This melting steel is often mentioned by those who have never welded, cast metal, or done any blacksmith work. Steel softens well before it melts. Watch a blacksmith work sometime. I've tried my hand at it while visiting the Oregon Trail Travelers.
http://www.ottravelers.com/
An 1/2 inch iron bar is easly bent by hand after some coal fire warming. A llttle work with a hammer and anvil easly forms the flat end for a good prybar for opening crates. A wood, coal, or oil fire is warm enough to make steel beams plyable and no longer able to support the load without bending long before you get molten iron. In foundry work, I have never gotten anything hot enough to melt, but hot enough to easly bend.
A floor sagging a few feet and pulling a support out of line by a foot or two is enough to start a major collapse.
I can walk up to your house and ring the door bell and attempt to strike up a conversation with you. Nothing illegal about that. However, when I continue doing it to you after you have asked me to stop, it becomes harassment and is actionable in a court of law. Harassment is not a constitutionally protected behavior.
If you sent an automated bot to repeatedly ring my bell and simply drop a request for a call back, and it repeated until I caved and called, I would be a little ticked. Especialy if the bell rang at 2:30 AM. Remember, I work nights. The bot that rang the bell simply isn't listening when you tell it to stop.
The whole point is there is NOBODY to tell to stop on the line when they call.
Believe it or not, this works every time under the FDCPA. The reason why is that 99.9% of the people complain on the phone where the debt collection agency is not liable. Hardly anyone ever writes a letter.
Not everyone believes that it should be a requirement to write anyone a letter who calls to ask them to stop. With some phone numbers, it's less hastle and easer to simply get another number and drop the number that is on the bad boys list. One call fixes it instead of a letter writing campaign.
This phone abuse is one of the reasons phones & phone numbers are becomming disposable. They get clogged and die like an old email account.
The pitty is the numbers get recycled quickly to some poor unsuspecting new customer who then has to deal with the trash associated with the old phone number.
Gaming all day was fun, but it was nice to get some human contact - even if it was a marketer.
If only it were a person on the other end of the line instead of press 1 for engilish, press dos for espanyol....
Any calls that occur after this are, by definition, harassment.
What about the ton of calls hammering my line while I am a nightshift worker prior to finaly returning their call on the dayshift? It's almost 2:30AM here and I just had lunch. An automated call not stating who they are and who the call is for is just plain wrong. If you call me, you better be on the line... Otherwise, I may return the favor with automated calls back requesting a C & D.
If debt collectors are calling you it's because you're a deadbeat who doesn't pay their bills & you deserve to get harrassed.
If they called for me, you may have a point. The calls came and didn't ask for anybody by name. The calls were not for me. They were for the prior owner of the phone number. The calls didn't say who they were, who the call was for, and didn't say how to make them stop.
Until I called, I had no idea it wasn't a phishing call. It was only after I chewed them out for cold calling an unlisted number did I find out who the deadbeat was they were trying to track down. As collatoral damage, I did not deserve these calls. The calls should be outlawed.
Quit leaving that fucking hole in these things !
Why is this limited to just telemarketers? Debt collectors, campaigners, and non-profits need included.
I kept getting hammered by an automated call only leaving a number to call back.. A Google search turned up the number belonged to a collection agency in Chicago. They were hammering stale cases and my new number from a move just happend to be one of the numbers they had. If you don't speak english and thus unable to follow the instructions to call, there is no way to stop these calls as there is never anyone on the line to talk to.
I called them and told them to put me on their DNC list. They informed me that they were exempt as they were not telemarketers. WTF??? I expect this new thing to be full of loopholes also.
Seriously, though, you can expect a HUGE pushback on this from the publishing industry (college textbooks are a big moneymaker, especially considering how overpriced many textbooks are) and even from some professors (they write the books, after all).
This is the pushback against high monopoly pricing. They are starting to find the breaking point in an otherwise inflexible market (Ya gotta have that book).
As the alternatives start to errode the monopoly, the publishers will adjust to find the maximum profit point, but the policies that are put in place to curb runaway prices will remain for quite some time.
It sounds like this can absorb and release heat as fast as an electrical switch can be flipped and mankind has made some pretty snappy switches that could repeat REALLY fast.
Most people don't want the heat back in the same place it was absorbed. A fast switch isn't needed. A fast transport of the device from the hot side heatsink back to the cold side heatsink is needed.
Maybe if this was built into an electric motor, we could have one side hot and one side cold as they spin from side to side. Hmm Maybe a fan that blows hot air through the left side and cold through the right side. ;-) Just duct the hot and cold where you want them.
How is this different from a Peltier cooler?
A Peltier thermolelectric module is continious cycle with a hot and cool side.
This device on the other hand is an absorption cycle where the same side (all sides) alternately gets hot to give off heat (hot) and then reverses to absorb heat from the same surface. This is an electrical replacement for Crosley Ice Balls.
http://crosleyautoclub.com/IcyBall/crosley_icyball.html
Let's say you create a game on the assumption that 500,000 people will want to play the game, based on demographics and popularity of similar games. You want to sell it for $50 each so that's a $25,000,000 budget - pretty good!
This is exactly where most games lose me. I work full time, have a family, etc. There isn't much between minesweeper and Unreal for non-dedicated PC gamers. Nintendo game found this market wide open with easy to learn games that doesn't require complex manuals and a large dedication of time to enjoy. Much of the piracy is simply limited time and money budgets and wanting to try lots of games. They are not priced for casual gamers. I've never spent over $20 for a single game. I sometimes pick up recycled games as I don't need the latest and greatest. With online registration and failure of right of first sale, even this has died.
Now days, I stick to older games, Linux games, and other mindless time wasters. (the demo games are fun)
Often the demo is almost playable to encourage you to buy the full version, but the full version is priced for hardcore gamers.
If I can't try before I buy, I often just don't buy.
In the case of several demo's, some work much better than the official product.
Case in point, Nerf Arena Blast. This older game was out where several games listed as multiplayer could spawn clients for LAN play. The demo worked fine on an 8 player LAN. I bought the game only to find out it was NOT a 1 server mulitplayer LAN game. The demo worked fine without a disk in the drive. The official game required the CD in the drive. In a frag fest, the demo worked much better than the purchased product in every aspect except the number of maps, the ability to use 3rd party maps (lots of great free ones and ports from Unreal) and choices of teams and players.
Needless to say, due to unmet expectations, the no CD hack was employed to install many copies and kill the CD slowdown. The shipped product was not up to par with the demo in expectations and performance. I did not buy multiple copies due to the unexpected price for a LAN fragfest. Outside the home family LAN, we respected copyright and simply LAN fragged the demo. Everyone to the party could legaly pre-install the game and be ready to frag without the expense.
The surprise of needing to buy 9 copies instead of the one and the CD in the drive requirement led directly to the piracy of hacking the NO CD and additional copies for the additional players for the family.
It's a fun game based on Unreal, but with Nerf Guns and much brighter arenas. ;-)
The CO2 triple point is interesting to watch. The discovery in the article is regarding water hot enough at high enough pressure to cross this point in nature.
Video of CO2 crossing this point is here;
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Carbon+Dioxide+critical&hl=en&emb=0#q=CO2%20phases&hl=en&emb=0
In a nutshell, it's the point where the vapor is just as dense as the liquid state. Watch to video to the triple point.
I didn't know Bill Clinton was still in office.
Checked the members of the Senate and House lately? Bill by himself wasn't the administration but only part of it.
The judge should strip them of their right to practice until the successfully pass an English language exam showing that they can actually read and comprehend words.
You are expecting too much from an administration who spent time trying to figure out what "is" is.
Undercover cops buy drugs and the state doesn't have to prosecute them for buying them.
I understand the point, but it doesn't apply. In the drugs case, the cops didn't legally manufacture the legal to posses drugs. The drugs in question were not legal. In the RIAA case, the recordings were legally created by RIAA members and then downloaded by the legal copyright holder. It would be different if the actual songs were illegal products not produced by RIAA members. If she provided underground detailed bomb or meth manufacturing instructions in an audio file, then the distribution of an illegal product may be the issue, not copyright infringement.
Don't pirate Microsoft products (it's illegal and Microsoft loses profits, but at least you help them sell more copies of Office) and don't use their file formats (it's legal and Microsoft loses control over you, something they hate more than losing a single sale).
I've been using open formats more lately. I send attachments in email and mention the attachment is in an open format created by Open Office that not all propritory programs will open it. Later I send it again exported as a PDF for those who have trouble opening ISO certified formats.
When I was in the service, one of the guys couldn't get a Vanity license plate for the same reason. His legal name is Lust. After pointing out to the clerk, he said thought the clerk's name was offensive to him. He got the plate.
I first met him with the plate on his van and asked how he got the plate. He told me and we became friends.
This type of stuff has been happening since the 1970's or before. The only news is it is an online name.
Yep, the MPAA finally gets it!
Only if their site doesn't exclude other sources of legal content, such as craigslist or ebay where the right of first sale may be used to sell a pre-owned DVD.
it's not about downloading a song. The price of downloaded music is well established at $0.99 (or less). DISTRIBUTING is the issue and unless she has logs which show exactly how many times she distributed it, she can explicative deleted.
If she has residential Internet service, it is easy to prove a maximum transfer that could have possibly happened. So far the awards using your logic would have been for 100% upload saturation 24X7 for many decades. This is very unlikely. The case is about excessive damages far beyond any possible reality.
Not only that, but Comcast is actually addressing its clients' concerns and negative feedback, as opposed to being oblivious to them.
So any word on when they are lowering prices, stopping spoofed packets, and removing inviable bandwidth caps?
Wanting Internet, but not wanting pay TV and yet another phone service (which may be problematic with faxes and the alarm system) is an expensive service. If they don't do something soon, I'll soon have DSL as I already have a POTS line and a cell phone. It's much cheaper if you don't want the triple play to go elsewhere.
A gallon of gas contains approx. 1.3 x 10^8 joules of energy, and there are 3.6 x 10^6 joules in a kilowatt hour. At $0.10 per kilowatt hour, that is equivalent to $3.61 worth of electricity to replace a gallon of gas. Which isn't a whole lot cheaper than current gas prices.
And an electric car puts about 70% or more of the K Joules to the wheels where the gas car puts about 80% of the Kjoules out the radiator. If you want heat, they are close to the same price. If you want motion, the electric is cooler as it tosses out much less heat.
Look for the radiator on the next electric car you see. Try running a gas car without a radiator.
Nobody in their right mind installs a solar system with a battery bank unless they are way the hell out in the boondocks, or off-grid entirely.
There are several reasons to have a battery bank. In the boondocks is valid as well as off grid. In areas, not always in the boondocks, a battery in a solar system, or a battery in a UPS, what's the diff? In one, you don't need yet another inverter and the run time is much longer when the sun is out. Remember, the grid tie stuff dies with an outage.
In the above mentioned case, the retirees are snowbirds away for great parts of the year on extended trips. Reliable power for the solar heat is required to prevent frozen pipes and dead houseplants. Part of the reason for the PV system to be smaller is to permit more area for solar heat in the Northern climate. A power failure means some of the lights don't work and heating appliances such as the stove and electric dryer are dead for a while, but everything else is functional 24/7. The system is only 2KW with a 5KW inverter on the batteries.
That's still a bit too long an investment for this to be really practical. Prices need to come down to about a four year payoff before I'd be really interested.
This is a common mistake. The assumption that energy costs are fixed or simply follow inflation is in error. Expect electric rates to follow gasoline prices that preceed it by a couple years. Payback period could be as short as only 5 years. In another 8 years, that 4 year payoff may be a reality for those who bought equipment now, but in 8 years the demand will drive up the prices for the installations much like fuel effecient car prices have gone up while waiting lists form.
It was my rationing when I bought my Prius. I was watching peak oil, the drilling restrictions and understood why no new refineries are being built. There is no more oil to refine. I bought the Prius when the payback period was 100K miles when gasoline was under $2.00/gallon. Payback has shifted a lot lately and not because the price of the Prius is less.
Expect the same from this solar install. It's on the way. Seen the price of home heating oil and natural gas lately? Fossil fuel electricity isn't far behind. Wind, hydro, and solar buffer this some.
http://www.wtrg.com/daily/heatingoilprice.html
http://www.theenergyco-op.com/OIL%20PRICE%20UPDATING/hhoil_pastprices.htm
http://www.wtrg.com/daily/gasprice.html
I don't understand the reasoning for such a restriction
It's to keep home generation from going commercial. The inverters tie to the grid by going in sync with it. They are required to shut down in a power outage to prevent islanding and frying linemen. With too many of these of too large of a capacity, they may become large enough to island a small block. With the size restriction, loss of grid ensures shutdown regardless of the powerfactor the neighborhood may provide.
The system in the article has no battery and no transfer switch. It is unable to provide power during a full power failure. He rejected two other bids which had 2 inverters. Most likely, one was grid tie and the other for running critical load with battery backup for power outages. The 2 inverters was not explained well in the article. My dad's system has no grid tie. It is battery and critical load inverter. It sells no power, stores some, and picks up about 65% of the typical load. These systems cost more and have higher maitnance due to the batteries, but are great for end of the line unstable power.