And this is why electronic voting should ALWAYS print a human and machine readable ballot. The electronically reported ballot numbers are quickly verified when those physical ballots are counted by a separate optical reader. Those ballots are then thoroughly verified by human counting. It is ok if we don't know who wins an election the second the polls are closed. There is nothing more important than verifiability and accountability in democracy.
Yea. If I stand up i can see the blue sky and palm trees out the window over the next row of cubicles. It makes it really depressing to go back to work after lunch.
Just like a hotrod magazine has shiny cars with half naked asian women draped over them. You can have a gun magazine featuring well oiled fully automatic weapons cradled lovingly between the buxom bosoms of beautiful women.
Islam is a religion based on evil, it grew out of Christianity.
Religion itself is evil. It is a memetic parasite infecting, subverting and corrupting the single most critical and defining component that makes us human, our minds.
Yes. 100x100 miles = 10k miles ^ 2. Actually it does account for growth of nearly 20% higher than current power consumption assuming we can't build solar thermal plants any more efficiently than we can right now.
Star tram does not eliminate your launch costs if you are going beyond LEO. You still need rockets to hit a transfer orbit.
How are you going to build a star tram without taxpayers? Private industry? Right now, you can't get investments for ANYTHING without a likely profit within 1 year. Charity? good luck. How are you going to get right of way for the airspace around a structure 20k tall (or more) and 100s of k long?
I said solar thermal, not photovoltaic. Solar thermal can produce power steadily around the clock.
1: We can build solar thermal capacity TODAY. 2: Even without launch costs, orbital solar is going to be more expensive than ground based solar because 10km ^ 2 of solar thermal plant in the desert will cost less than 1km of rectena plus a fleet of orbital platforms capable of delivering equivalent power from low earth orbit.
3: The TEA party exists. 98% of republican senators and representatives have signed the Norquist pledge to never ever raise taxes under any circumstances. 20 billion dollars is more than NASA's annual budget. Congress controls that budget. The worlds most powerful billionaires have tricked the american people into believing that you can balance the budget by slashing revenue. As long as the plutocracy of so called "fiscal conservatism" exists, you will never be able to fund your pie in the sky project. It will be hard enough just trying to keep the country out of the gutter.
We are talking about launch costs because they are still an issue. Build your star tram and get launch costs to $40 a pound and then you can be taken seriously.
DOH! unit conversion error! It will actually take about 9 times more land to do solar thermal on the ground, not 4 times. Its still close enough that I don't see any advantage for orbital solar considering the launch costs.
The cheap $1.25 CFL bulbs I get at walmart put out full light in less than half a second, most often faster than I can notice. Its been a long time since CFL's have been slow to light.
They had to same authoritarian political ideology of the monarchs that preceded them. The difference is that they do not appeal to the divine right of kings for their authority, but rather make token gestures towards ruling for the good of society and murdering anyone who would speak against them. It is the same authoritarian political ideology that now infests America, using appeals to the divine hand of the free market as the superstition that placates the ignorant masses.
One of the supposed benefits of orbital solar is that you can use the land beneath the antenna's for other purposes, such as farming or parks. I don't like the idea of irradiating our farmers or children.
I didn't realize that it was so land inefficient. Putting solar thermal plants on the ground to supply 100% of us power needs (including automobiles and trains) only takes about a 100 mile square, less than 4 times to surface usage for not burning trillions (or more, have not done the math) of tons of rocket fuel.
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.And I would vote for anyone but Obama if anyone wasn't enthralled by the cult of Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers.
And how do you know your paper votes are not being reported back to the secret police?
And this is why electronic voting should ALWAYS print a human and machine readable ballot. The electronically reported ballot numbers are quickly verified when those physical ballots are counted by a separate optical reader. Those ballots are then thoroughly verified by human counting. It is ok if we don't know who wins an election the second the polls are closed. There is nothing more important than verifiability and accountability in democracy.
And then there are the people who hate him because he really is a shitty human being long before the social network was made.
Most modern households have multiple vehicles. One of them should be a plug in electric/hybrid for driving to work and running around town.
Yea. If I stand up i can see the blue sky and palm trees out the window over the next row of cubicles. It makes it really depressing to go back to work after lunch.
Diesel has not been less expensive than gasoline for a while.
You can have both.
Just like a hotrod magazine has shiny cars with half naked asian women draped over them. You can have a gun magazine featuring well oiled fully automatic weapons cradled lovingly between the buxom bosoms of beautiful women.
Speaking as a radical left wing family oriented gun loving software engineer, hell if I know.
Islam is a religion based on evil, it grew out of Christianity.
Religion itself is evil. It is a memetic parasite infecting, subverting and corrupting the single most critical and defining component that makes us human, our minds.
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Did you miss the part where he works in the mid-west?
I presume he is talking about Ohio rather than India.
Yes. 100x100 miles = 10k miles ^ 2. Actually it does account for growth of nearly 20% higher than current power consumption assuming we can't build solar thermal plants any more efficiently than we can right now.
Star tram does not eliminate your launch costs if you are going beyond LEO. You still need rockets to hit a transfer orbit.
How are you going to build a star tram without taxpayers? Private industry? Right now, you can't get investments for ANYTHING without a likely profit within 1 year. Charity? good luck. How are you going to get right of way for the airspace around a structure 20k tall (or more) and 100s of k long?
I said solar thermal, not photovoltaic. Solar thermal can produce power steadily around the clock.
You are being as ridiculously optimistic.
Yes I do.
1: We can build solar thermal capacity TODAY.
2: Even without launch costs, orbital solar is going to be more expensive than ground based solar because 10km ^ 2 of solar thermal plant in the desert will cost less than 1km of rectena plus a fleet of orbital platforms capable of delivering equivalent power from low earth orbit.
3: The TEA party exists. 98% of republican senators and representatives have signed the Norquist pledge to never ever raise taxes under any circumstances. 20 billion dollars is more than NASA's annual budget. Congress controls that budget. The worlds most powerful billionaires have tricked the american people into believing that you can balance the budget by slashing revenue. As long as the plutocracy of so called "fiscal conservatism" exists, you will never be able to fund your pie in the sky project. It will be hard enough just trying to keep the country out of the gutter.
We are talking about launch costs because they are still an issue. Build your star tram and get launch costs to $40 a pound and then you can be taken seriously.
DOH! unit conversion error! It will actually take about 9 times more land to do solar thermal on the ground, not 4 times. Its still close enough that I don't see any advantage for orbital solar considering the launch costs.
The cheap $1.25 CFL bulbs I get at walmart put out full light in less than half a second, most often faster than I can notice. Its been a long time since CFL's have been slow to light.
A fair amount of the money the LDS brings in goes to fighting against gay marriage. So they are actually harming society with their "charity".
They had to same authoritarian political ideology of the monarchs that preceded them. The difference is that they do not appeal to the divine right of kings for their authority, but rather make token gestures towards ruling for the good of society and murdering anyone who would speak against them. It is the same authoritarian political ideology that now infests America, using appeals to the divine hand of the free market as the superstition that placates the ignorant masses.
One of the supposed benefits of orbital solar is that you can use the land beneath the antenna's for other purposes, such as farming or parks. I don't like the idea of irradiating our farmers or children.
I didn't realize that it was so land inefficient. Putting solar thermal plants on the ground to supply 100% of us power needs (including automobiles and trains) only takes about a 100 mile square, less than 4 times to surface usage for not burning trillions (or more, have not done the math) of tons of rocket fuel.
That is pretty much what I thought.
yea, emit enough IR and you can make those pesky walls burn away.
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