Normal PV cells are more efficient the cooler they are, though attempts at water cooling them have given disappointing levels of improvement. They also run pretty hot without concentrators, anything more than 2-3x concentration is going to be difficult and probably seriously life shortening. What would be useful is an omnidirectional concentrator with no moving parts, either capturing light longer across the day or for something robust like solar steam generation.
I don't have much use for thermal generation in my climate, PV at least struggles on during low light conditions and a concentrator could help.
Still, others have tried so maybe there's something here. But it smells off.
I've bought mostly locked phones in the UK, the premium for an unlocked version has always been higher than the cost of an unlock code. Usually by more than 10x. I've waited more than 4 hours for the unlock code only once.
Charging batteries from the grid is insane in the UK unless done purely for power security. Most storage systems are hooked up to microgeneration (almost all PV) and the battery is used to avoid selling power cheaply to the grid then buying it back for much higher prices later. Any effect on emissions is a side effect, albeit one that should reduce them.
Ep1 mentioned it's not the 1st time the doctor had been female, on Gallifrey the limit on regenerations would not strictly apply and any number of them could have happened before becoming the 'Doctor'. Very useful having plot detail that let's them avoid entertaining the complaining middle aged teenagers with boob jokes.
I'm right handed but I've been hoarding a small pile of them since discovering having the numeric pad on the left ended my mouse RSI. I guess by letting me hold it closer to centre in a more natural pose.
Not bad keyboards, still using the 1st one after more than a decade, only the multimedia buttons and scroll wheel have died so far. Nice soft action and robust.
In my UK city Deliveroo riders actively avoid using roads, even seem averse to cycle paths if the pedestrian path isn't full. One way signs are just a hint to get off the road onto the pavement, stop lights are just pretty red lights to ignore if possible.
They're a fucking menace to pedestrians. It's no surprise at all they beat drivers following the rules.
Theory says identical amounts, not statistically equal. Observation says something else. On the large scale it might simply be uneven distribution, us only seeing a matter heavy region, the probability of that happening may also take some explaining.
Newer led filament bulbs need much less electronics to run since a string of them in the bulb will run directly of mains voltages. Less electronics makes them more dividing as well. They also don't need large ugly heatsinks and should heat stress less. They're getting cheap really fast, mine are long past their payback period and nowhere near their rated life.
More likely someone annoyed he's expected to pay for experts when all he needs is trained monkeys. The majority of so called programming tasks are just grinding out endless variations of existing code. Sometimes without any obvious programming involved.
That said a little CS could stop the monkeys routinely choosing the worst library calls for the code blocks they're wrapping with print systems. Maybe time for a CS lite, where you don't learn the math much but do get basic coding and how to pick the right algorithm when you call someone else's library of them. Monkeys with a guide book.
A quantum adiabatic calculation supposedly harnesses quantum entanglement to greatly speed up homing on the solution, compared to classical versions like simulated annealing. D-Waves problem is their devices are too noisy, too unpredictable to actually grab all that theoretical benefit.
Worse they've been competing with very poor classical implementations and every time they improve the performance of their shoddy device someone improves a classical algorithm enough to stay ahead. So far no sign they will ever get ahead.
Requirements so complex their IT folk never got it to work in the 3 years I tried creating my account, before retiring. Closest was the sign up page sending me to the self-employment 1st time registration page, none of them could tell me if that would recognise my existing (off line) account (assuming I magically remembered business details from 35 years ago) or create chaos. It's the last resort for incompetent IT workers.
Honey bees are farmed animals that turn a profit. That's why they're popular. Vicious, aggressive and dangerous to humans little bastards compared to other pollinators.
ICANN have already had a 2 year "temporary provision" AKA 2 years to bother reading the GPDR law. They had 10 years advance notice it was coming and endless opportunity to educate themselves or lobby for change.
They pissed away all opportunities given them, it ends now. No amount of threats or begging from the commercial parasites feeding on ICANNs unnecessarily open WHOIS can help them, they chose to be part of the problem and it's going to bite them.
Dark matter is the sexy name for matter we haven't seen yet. It could be emitting no radiation, or it could be no one has looked for the right emissions. As happened not so long ago when huge amounts of cool galactic gas were found, nicely visible when someone finally looked at the right frequencies.
It's surprisingly easy to 'not see' quite obvious (in hindsight) signals when observing resources are limited and careers are best served by looking for the expected over random observation because that usually gives results faster.
Should have said 'income'. Because we rarely meter generation, self use and generation income are uncoupled, the company get's the predictable income, the user the unpredictable self generation saving. It's a reasonable exchange.
Buying the system yourself always had a higher return but having a system at all beats one you can't afford to install.
In Europe we've been able to contract our roofs to PV companies for years. They take any profit, the homeowner gets free electricity. With the drop in feed in tariff rates new installations are dead in the UK now but it's still viable elsewhere. The schemes are so old they predate affordable domestic storage systems or grid storage but Tesla aren't really doing anything new.
The reason it continues is: early in the case BSF (TSGs lawyers) needed to buy themselves out of owning part of the case though no one really knows. The price was a fixed price + limited costs deal until the case was finished.
BSF cannot just walk away, discovery was finished before the bankruptcy leaving negligible ongoing costs, the case continues at BSFs expense and essentially free for the trustee. Doesn't take much chance of a win or reward to beat free.
And the reason TSG wouldn't show their case claims was mostly because revealing them would have ended all their claims against 3rd parties. Most told them where to go as it was after being sent deliberately detail free demands.
Theresa May is a never ending source of meaningless, "X and Y" catchy cliches, none of them achievable by her aimless and malign government. I think she's has a quota of distracting bullshit to deliver each week to keep her party happy and the country distracted from the incompetence.
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Loved my DiMage x20, still working after all those years. Surprised it's taken so long to reach phones.
Some of us are working hard to make sure all 17.4 mil of you leave.
We aren't coming with you. Enjoy the UK while it still exists.
Normal PV cells are more efficient the cooler they are, though attempts at water cooling them have given disappointing levels of improvement. They also run pretty hot without concentrators, anything more than 2-3x concentration is going to be difficult and probably seriously life shortening. What would be useful is an omnidirectional concentrator with no moving parts, either capturing light longer across the day or for something robust like solar steam generation.
I don't have much use for thermal generation in my climate, PV at least struggles on during low light conditions and a concentrator could help.
Still, others have tried so maybe there's something here. But it smells off.
I've bought mostly locked phones in the UK, the premium for an unlocked version has always been higher than the cost of an unlock code. Usually by more than 10x. I've waited more than 4 hours for the unlock code only once.
Buying unlocked is nice but unnecessary here.
Charging batteries from the grid is insane in the UK unless done purely for power security. Most storage systems are hooked up to microgeneration (almost all PV) and the battery is used to avoid selling power cheaply to the grid then buying it back for much higher prices later. Any effect on emissions is a side effect, albeit one that should reduce them.
Ep1 mentioned it's not the 1st time the doctor had been female, on Gallifrey the limit on regenerations would not strictly apply and any number of them could have happened before becoming the 'Doctor'. Very useful having plot detail that let's them avoid entertaining the complaining middle aged teenagers with boob jokes.
I'm right handed but I've been hoarding a small pile of them since discovering having the numeric pad on the left ended my mouse RSI. I guess by letting me hold it closer to centre in a more natural pose.
Not bad keyboards, still using the 1st one after more than a decade, only the multimedia buttons and scroll wheel have died so far. Nice soft action and robust.
In my UK city Deliveroo riders actively avoid using roads, even seem averse to cycle paths if the pedestrian path isn't full. One way signs are just a hint to get off the road onto the pavement, stop lights are just pretty red lights to ignore if possible.
They're a fucking menace to pedestrians. It's no surprise at all they beat drivers following the rules.
Theory says identical amounts, not statistically equal. Observation says something else. On the large scale it might simply be uneven distribution, us only seeing a matter heavy region, the probability of that happening may also take some explaining.
You're assuming Epic gave Google that information, that the information was correct and Epic a believable source.
Google make bad judgements but are serious about bugs they didn't deliberately intend. Epic are more often just clueless and slow to acknowledge bugs.
It's hard to take Epic's bleating seriously.
"More dividing" -> "more efficient" and I need to stop a: skipping preview, b: trusting swipe text input
Newer led filament bulbs need much less electronics to run since a string of them in the bulb will run directly of mains voltages. Less electronics makes them more dividing as well. They also don't need large ugly heatsinks and should heat stress less. They're getting cheap really fast, mine are long past their payback period and nowhere near their rated life.
It doesn't hurt that they look good as well.
Sounds like a wraparound bug... we'll just use the 2K bug fix, add a couple of digits to the complexity counter and carry on ;)
More likely someone annoyed he's expected to pay for experts when all he needs is trained monkeys. The majority of so called programming tasks are just grinding out endless variations of existing code. Sometimes without any obvious programming involved.
That said a little CS could stop the monkeys routinely choosing the worst library calls for the code blocks they're wrapping with print systems. Maybe time for a CS lite, where you don't learn the math much but do get basic coding and how to pick the right algorithm when you call someone else's library of them. Monkeys with a guide book.
A quantum adiabatic calculation supposedly harnesses quantum entanglement to greatly speed up homing on the solution, compared to classical versions like simulated annealing. D-Waves problem is their devices are too noisy, too unpredictable to actually grab all that theoretical benefit.
Worse they've been competing with very poor classical implementations and every time they improve the performance of their shoddy device someone improves a classical algorithm enough to stay ahead. So far no sign they will ever get ahead.
Requirements so complex their IT folk never got it to work in the 3 years I tried creating my account, before retiring. Closest was the sign up page sending me to the self-employment 1st time registration page, none of them could tell me if that would recognise my existing (off line) account (assuming I magically remembered business details from 35 years ago) or create chaos. It's the last resort for incompetent IT workers.
Honey bees are farmed animals that turn a profit. That's why they're popular. Vicious, aggressive and dangerous to humans little bastards compared to other pollinators.
ICANN have already had a 2 year "temporary provision" AKA 2 years to bother reading the GPDR law.
They had 10 years advance notice it was coming and endless opportunity to educate themselves or lobby for change.
They pissed away all opportunities given them, it ends now. No amount of threats or begging from the commercial parasites feeding on ICANNs unnecessarily open WHOIS can help them, they chose to be part of the problem and it's going to bite them.
Dark matter is the sexy name for matter we haven't seen yet. It could be emitting no radiation, or it could be no one has looked for the right emissions. As happened not so long ago when huge amounts of cool galactic gas were found, nicely visible when someone finally looked at the right frequencies.
It's surprisingly easy to 'not see' quite obvious (in hindsight) signals when observing resources are limited and careers are best served by looking for the expected over random observation because that usually gives results faster.
Should have said 'income'. Because we rarely meter generation, self use and generation income are uncoupled, the company get's the predictable income, the user the unpredictable self generation saving. It's a reasonable exchange.
Buying the system yourself always had a higher return but having a system at all beats one you can't afford to install.
In Europe we've been able to contract our roofs to PV companies for years. They take any profit, the homeowner gets free electricity. With the drop in feed in tariff rates new installations are dead in the UK now but it's still viable elsewhere. The schemes are so old they predate affordable domestic storage systems or grid storage but Tesla aren't really doing anything new.
The reason it continues is: early in the case BSF (TSGs lawyers) needed to buy themselves out of owning part of the case though no one really knows. The price was a fixed price + limited costs deal until the case was finished.
BSF cannot just walk away, discovery was finished before the bankruptcy leaving negligible ongoing costs, the case continues at BSFs expense and essentially free for the trustee. Doesn't take much chance of a win or reward to beat free.
And the reason TSG wouldn't show their case claims was mostly because revealing them would have ended all their claims against 3rd parties. Most told them where to go as it was after being sent deliberately detail free demands.
I love her 'deep and meaninful' relationship (failed) meme, when the EU clearly want a 'casual and meaningless'
Theresa May is a never ending source of meaningless, "X and Y" catchy cliches, none of them achievable by her aimless and malign government. I think she's has a quota of distracting bullshit to deliver each week to keep her party happy and the country distracted from the incompetence.
...or carried from Earth on the surface of something floating near the ISS. Like a spacesuit or docked capsule...