What I find most annoying about all this is less the could of smug, and more the fact that household electricity use is such a small slice of the pie of overall US energy use. From wind power to this DC nonsense, it's obsessing on feelgood measures of little importance to the big picture.
This biggest slice of the pie is industrial energy use where electricity isn't part of the picture: "Primary energy use" by heavy industry for blast furnaces and the like. Industrial electricity use is the next biggest slice, followed by IIRC industrial transportation.
False, residential accounts for 22 % of energy use in USA. In fact, buildings in general (commercial + residential) take up the largest slice of the pie.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejou...
We will have to lower our overall consumption of energy while simultaneously increasing efficiency/reducing cost of renewables to stand a chance. I think it was a fair point. There are a few green products that may be worth it (local food, renewable energy etc), but most are just a fashion statement.
It can be cheaper to go green.
Drop down to 1 car if possible (try to bike or walk instead).
Buy clothes from the thrift store etc.
Switch to mostly vegetarian diet (maybe not cheaper now, but meat prices are skyrocketing so it will likely get there soon).
Run your AC/heat less.
Buy a used car (it may get less mpg but I imagine the emissons saved from not having to manufacture/transport a brand new car would make it worth it)
In general, buying/consuming less is greener, and obviously cheaper. I bet it has a much higher impact than buying organic/fair trade shit, or prius's
I don't understand, I thought corporate tax is only applied to a company's profits, that is only after the company pays all their expenses etc. Why would this "cost" have to be passed onto consumers?
Not so fast, heat pumps have an effective efficiency higher than 100% (in reality it's because it takes some energy from the surroundings). I suspect something similar here.
Weather and cell phones seem to be the only reasons for an American to not move to Canada (and BC weather is probably better than a lot of areas in the US)
WTF? Any plant that grows in the ground gets its energy from the sun. So growing our own plants for oil is no better than using solar panels, and is probably better due to the fact that growing plants have to be processed into oil and then burned to get the energy out of it.
Also, good luck finding a way to synthesize oil and getting more energy out of it then you put in (it's impossible).
I imagine that this was done using direct numerical simulation, which is considerably more accurate than any other method. Since turbulent fluid flow is inherently transient, and also involves very tiny wiggles, the only way to fully resolve what is happening is by massive computer simulations such as this one.
There is no point to a mathematical approximation, since they are trying to gain some insight into the foundations of the physics of sound. This wasn't just some for-the-hell-of-it simulation.
I'm not implying it's impossible, but assuming modern technology is going to come down and wave itself like a wand, magically fixing all our problems sounds pretty naive to me.
The screen on mine cracked 3 times. Thankfully I had been coerced into a Staples accidental damage warranty which replaced it the first 2 times, and by the third, they just gave me cash for the original cost of the laptop ($1200!). I went and bought the HP tm2. It's a successor to the tx2500, but has an intel core i5, discrete graphics card (albeit the weakest one made, but still), and a snazzy new (2 years ago) capacitive touch screen. It even had a fairly pain free linux install.
Too bad HP's "successor" to the tm2 is an intel atom shitbook.
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What I find most annoying about all this is less the could of smug, and more the fact that household electricity use is such a small slice of the pie of overall US energy use. From wind power to this DC nonsense, it's obsessing on feelgood measures of little importance to the big picture.
This biggest slice of the pie is industrial energy use where electricity isn't part of the picture: "Primary energy use" by heavy industry for blast furnaces and the like. Industrial electricity use is the next biggest slice, followed by IIRC industrial transportation.
False, residential accounts for 22 % of energy use in USA. In fact, buildings in general (commercial + residential) take up the largest slice of the pie. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejou...
No he's a 1.4285714e-10 percenter
If you rtfa you find out that the stomach issues were from dehydration and were quickly alleviated after a few glasses of water.
We will have to lower our overall consumption of energy while simultaneously increasing efficiency/reducing cost of renewables to stand a chance. I think it was a fair point. There are a few green products that may be worth it (local food, renewable energy etc), but most are just a fashion statement.
It can be cheaper to go green. Drop down to 1 car if possible (try to bike or walk instead). Buy clothes from the thrift store etc. Switch to mostly vegetarian diet (maybe not cheaper now, but meat prices are skyrocketing so it will likely get there soon). Run your AC/heat less. Buy a used car (it may get less mpg but I imagine the emissons saved from not having to manufacture/transport a brand new car would make it worth it) In general, buying/consuming less is greener, and obviously cheaper. I bet it has a much higher impact than buying organic/fair trade shit, or prius's
Smash bros
I've got a host file that can do it
I don't understand, I thought corporate tax is only applied to a company's profits, that is only after the company pays all their expenses etc. Why would this "cost" have to be passed onto consumers?
Combined with a form of fusion
Not so fast, heat pumps have an effective efficiency higher than 100% (in reality it's because it takes some energy from the surroundings). I suspect something similar here.
I know this is true in minecraft, real life too though?
Hands down one of the funniest things i've read all week
I always thought it was some sort of socialist conspiracy
Weather and cell phones seem to be the only reasons for an American to not move to Canada (and BC weather is probably better than a lot of areas in the US)
WTF ARPANET isn't anywhere in the constitution, what's wrong with this country??
Ya and the constitution didn't say anything about a free and open internet either! Dumb nerdy hippies
Iceland seems to be doing great actually http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/index.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/06/17/u-s-government-requests-for-google-users-private-data-spike-37-in-one-year/
WTF? Any plant that grows in the ground gets its energy from the sun. So growing our own plants for oil is no better than using solar panels, and is probably better due to the fact that growing plants have to be processed into oil and then burned to get the energy out of it. Also, good luck finding a way to synthesize oil and getting more energy out of it then you put in (it's impossible).
But cable TV companies are often the only option for decent home internet.
Tom Murphy's point is that our constant growth rate is unsustainable, and when the growth stops, the economy crashes.
I imagine that this was done using direct numerical simulation, which is considerably more accurate than any other method. Since turbulent fluid flow is inherently transient, and also involves very tiny wiggles, the only way to fully resolve what is happening is by massive computer simulations such as this one. There is no point to a mathematical approximation, since they are trying to gain some insight into the foundations of the physics of sound. This wasn't just some for-the-hell-of-it simulation.
I'm not implying it's impossible, but assuming modern technology is going to come down and wave itself like a wand, magically fixing all our problems sounds pretty naive to me.
And we do have a magic fairy improvement wand called "modern technology".
You've got to be shitting me
The screen on mine cracked 3 times. Thankfully I had been coerced into a Staples accidental damage warranty which replaced it the first 2 times, and by the third, they just gave me cash for the original cost of the laptop ($1200!). I went and bought the HP tm2. It's a successor to the tx2500, but has an intel core i5, discrete graphics card (albeit the weakest one made, but still), and a snazzy new (2 years ago) capacitive touch screen. It even had a fairly pain free linux install. Too bad HP's "successor" to the tm2 is an intel atom shitbook.