So my electricity bill's going to go down now? No, I didn't think so either.
No, because part of the reason wind/solar is more competitive is because the more wind/solar you have, the more expensive fossil fuel power becomes. It is explained in TFA.
No TFA said
t’s a self-reinforcing cycle. As more renewables are installed, coal and natural gas plants are used less. As coal and gas are used less, the cost of using them to generate electricity goes up. As the cost of coal and gas power rises, more renewables will be installed.
What the article did say is the marginal costs of Renewables are zero, where legacy systems have their marginal cost tied to fuel expenses, the article didn't address fixed costs i.e. how much it costs to make no electricity and that is considerable cost in both cases. A lot of expenses have been subsidised for renewables, 1. they didn't have to pay for offline backup power sources, 2. they didn't have to pay for transmission infrastructure 3. people pretended they had no negative environmental impacts 4. construction costs were subsidized 5. there were no decommissioning funds When all of that gets added back into the cost of renewables, plus the cost of the green subsidies, people are going to talk fondly of the "Good 'Ol Days" when you didn't have to plan your day around whether the sun was shining or the wind was blowing.
The hard evidence, the data is in the stocks of the big four (EnBW, E.ON, RWE, Vattenfall) being in free fall for years now, while them desperately searching buyers for their outdated, in deficit fossil plants. Recently they even tried moving them into bad-bank-style shell corps.
That's actually the trend everywhere, companies are spinning off their "Carbon Intense" assets into separate operating units or even whole new companies. The old "Carbon Intense" assets can't compete with the renewables when the conditions are favorable, and renewables can't compete when conditions are unfavorable. This way the utilities get to externalize the cost of base load and peaking to their legacy systems which drives up their expenses and the regulators have to allow rate increases to return them to their allowed 15% profitability, the legacy systems can not be allowed to fail or we lose backup. The renewables will never have their rates cut no matter how much they are making because it "saves the planet" and all of that!
Household wind-turbines are not only inefficient, but are short-lived as well, home-owner rarely consider maintenance or decommissioning costs. Household wind-turbines are for the majority of their existence simply as non-operational blight.
I remember Isaac Asimov saying "Either everything we know about particle physics is wrong, or the sun has gone out; therefore the sun has gone out". in regards to neutrino flip.
Since Corporate taxes are almost always less than Individual taxes, deductions for expenses are automatic, cutting corporate taxes to zero would increase tax revenue.
It does seem like the antivirals are having an effect in a small group of patients, the question is whether the effect holds up in studies designed to study the effect and are statistically rigorous, and if it isn't significant is that because the population had undiscovered factors complicating the study.
Think of how many factious accounts were created with personal data bought from hackers were on Ashley Madison and adult friend finder, and tell me again how not having an account is going to save you from vindictive narcissistic drama queens.
Putting this conversation back at least partly into the nerd domain,
So, can anyone explain to me why the US government (top executive levels) doesn't have a standard secure e-mail communications system?
I honestly don't get it.
OK 1. Government run Email systems are secure and are backed up regularly to prevent data loss, as required by law. 2. Government run Email systems are subject to Freedom of Information requests, as required by law. 3. Freedom of Information requests, for information stored on Government run Email systems are fulfilled by third party Government administrators without regard to whether it about embarrassing, immoral or illegal activities of a Former Sec of State, as required by law. Hillary Clinton is a control freak, the idea of anybody else controlling information about her other than her is enough to cause her to meltdown.
Oh BS, you didn't get single-payer healthcare because the insurance companies donate millions to political campaigns, not to mention all the democratic voting worker-drones they would be putting out of work.
It will also be interesting to see if a new digital divide develops, with some people still without IPv6 connectivity and stuff they want only available via IPv6. (Again, I doubt it will be an issue.)
Just start a rumor that Google gives preferential page rank to IPv6, then everybody and everything will be on it!
Often it's not a matter of allowing, all it takes is one RadioShack going chpt11 and a Bankruptcy Judge ordering your personal data is sold to the highest bidder; then your cell starts blowing up from telemarketers and your suddenly "hot-babe1983" on Ashley Madison!
Everybody that has a gmail seems to automagically have a G+ account and google don't seem to understand that many of us have our professional personaes where everything has to be work place safe, and our in the bar with our trash talking bro's personaes where I don't really care if Sears injects lingerie ads into every web page I load.
There was talk of using the smart meters and the cars inboard computers to negotiate and in some cases, sell back electricity to the utilities during peak times.
We are in an interglacial period, It will not last forever, based on past cycles we are very, very lucky. The question isn't whether the glaciers will cover the majority of the earth's land but when and how quickly the ice will return. Beside in 1965, climatology was considered in the same league as tarot cards.
Being perp walked through school in handcuffs is either being arrested or kidnapped, so maybe the kid is an asshole, oops I mean "disciplinary problem", that's a character flaw not an illegality. Besides what 9th grader isn't an asshole? They'd be better off keeping 8th, 9th and 10th graders in a post middle school anyways.
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So my electricity bill's going to go down now? No, I didn't think so either.
No, because part of the reason wind/solar is more competitive is because the more wind/solar you have, the more expensive fossil fuel power becomes. It is explained in TFA.
No TFA said
What the article did say is the marginal costs of Renewables are zero, where legacy systems have their marginal cost tied to fuel expenses, the article didn't address fixed costs i.e. how much it costs to make no electricity and that is considerable cost in both cases. A lot of expenses have been subsidised for renewables,
1. they didn't have to pay for offline backup power sources,
2. they didn't have to pay for transmission infrastructure
3. people pretended they had no negative environmental impacts
4. construction costs were subsidized
5. there were no decommissioning funds
When all of that gets added back into the cost of renewables, plus the cost of the green subsidies, people are going to talk fondly of the "Good 'Ol Days" when you didn't have to plan your day around whether the sun was shining or the wind was blowing.
The hard evidence, the data is in the stocks of the big four (EnBW, E.ON, RWE, Vattenfall) being in free fall for years now, while them desperately searching buyers for their outdated, in deficit fossil plants. Recently they even tried moving them into bad-bank-style shell corps.
That's actually the trend everywhere, companies are spinning off their "Carbon Intense" assets into separate operating units or even whole new companies. The old "Carbon Intense" assets can't compete with the renewables when the conditions are favorable, and renewables can't compete when conditions are unfavorable. This way the utilities get to externalize the cost of base load and peaking to their legacy systems which drives up their expenses and the regulators have to allow rate increases to return them to their allowed 15% profitability, the legacy systems can not be allowed to fail or we lose backup. The renewables will never have their rates cut no matter how much they are making because it "saves the planet" and all of that!
Household wind-turbines are not only inefficient, but are short-lived as well, home-owner rarely consider maintenance or decommissioning costs. Household wind-turbines are for the majority of their existence simply as non-operational blight.
Sorry Sir, you should have a designated driver when you go to the Gym.
Neither, the point is scientific hubris almost always gets bitch slapped by reality;
I remember Isaac Asimov saying "Either everything we know about particle physics is wrong, or the sun has gone out; therefore the sun has gone out". in regards to neutrino flip.
Since Corporate taxes are almost always less than Individual taxes, deductions for expenses are automatic, cutting corporate taxes to zero would increase tax revenue.
Doh, meant fictitious, burned by spell-check.
It does seem like the antivirals are having an effect in a small group of patients, the question is whether the effect holds up in studies designed to study the effect and are statistically rigorous, and if it isn't significant is that because the population had undiscovered factors complicating the study.
Think of how many factious accounts were created with personal data bought from hackers were on Ashley Madison and adult friend finder, and tell me again how not having an account is going to save you from vindictive narcissistic drama queens.
She's kind of chunky and wears to much jewelry.
> What the hell do you do when the power goes out or there's some sort of emergency?
Hasn't happened yet, so why would people worry about it?
You mean like the Northeast Blackout of 2003?
TROFF and ED, you heathen!
Putting this conversation back at least partly into the nerd domain,
So, can anyone explain to me why the US government (top executive levels) doesn't have a standard secure e-mail communications system?
I honestly don't get it.
OK
1. Government run Email systems are secure and are backed up regularly to prevent data loss, as required by law.
2. Government run Email systems are subject to Freedom of Information requests, as required by law.
3. Freedom of Information requests, for information stored on Government run Email systems are fulfilled by third party Government administrators without regard to whether it about embarrassing, immoral or illegal activities of a Former Sec of State, as required by law.
Hillary Clinton is a control freak, the idea of anybody else controlling information about her other than her is enough to cause her to meltdown.
Oh BS, you didn't get single-payer healthcare because the insurance companies donate millions to political campaigns, not to mention all the democratic voting worker-drones they would be putting out of work.
Do they still have it in windows 8-10? Seems like the only time I type an IP address is when I'm trying to ping the name server anyway.
It will also be interesting to see if a new digital divide develops, with some people still without IPv6 connectivity and stuff they want only available via IPv6. (Again, I doubt it will be an issue.)
Just start a rumor that Google gives preferential page rank to IPv6, then everybody and everything will be on it!
My analogy would be, I may be compelled to turn over a document, but I can't be compelled to teach your translator how to read it.
Often it's not a matter of allowing, all it takes is one RadioShack going chpt11 and a Bankruptcy Judge ordering your personal data is sold to the highest bidder; then your cell starts blowing up from telemarketers and your suddenly "hot-babe1983" on Ashley Madison!
Good thing I never signed up for G+
that you know of.
Everybody that has a gmail seems to automagically have a G+ account and google don't seem to understand that many of us have our professional personaes where everything has to be work place safe, and our in the bar with our trash talking bro's personaes where I don't really care if Sears injects lingerie ads into every web page I load.
It pretty rare that a producer in a free market flat out pays a consumer to receive product.
There was talk of using the smart meters and the cars inboard computers to negotiate and in some cases, sell back electricity to the utilities during peak times.
It would have been a good time to charge up BOB the Big 'Ol Battery in Presidio Texas; it probably takes 40MW/hrs to charge that sucker up.
We are in an interglacial period, It will not last forever, based on past cycles we are very, very lucky. The question isn't whether the glaciers will cover the majority of the earth's land but when and how quickly the ice will return. Beside in 1965, climatology was considered in the same league as tarot cards.
Being perp walked through school in handcuffs is either being arrested or kidnapped, so maybe the kid is an asshole, oops I mean "disciplinary problem", that's a character flaw not an illegality. Besides what 9th grader isn't an asshole? They'd be better off keeping 8th, 9th and 10th graders in a post middle school anyways.