I, for one, enjoy large Alaskan King Crab legs on a barbeque. I will enjoy super-sized Alaska King Crab legs the size of my forearm in the near future.
Politicians will not do anything because they themselves are ultra-rich and want to continue to hide their own money in the same way. Unless they write the new laws like Obamacare and personally exempt themselves.
I've been looking for a walkthrough for hiding my wealth in low-tax countries. The eHow article wasn't cutting it. I'm thinking of sending my gazillion dollars to the Bahamas.
No chance the MPAA CEO Chris Dodd (former Democratic Senator from Connecticut) had anything to do with the prosecution. Politicians would never call in favors to get someone charged with a crime.
So you want to transmit electricity 4,000 miles to Alaska? That's the distance from Anchorage, AK to Phoenix, AZ (great potential solar power there). The roads are only passable for 2-3 months per year, so it would take 4x longer to build the power lines than normal. Plus, you have 4,000 miles of power lines to check and secure, otherwise people living in one of the most inhospitable areas in North America would be without power. Power = heat. Alaska could not afford a 24 hour power outage when it is -20 degrees F.
It's not about practicality, it's about safety. If you want to volunteer to get your sled dogs and mush 500 miles through the Alaskan winter to fix a power line, then feel free to encourage Alaska to go equator solar power.
It's not about storage degradation during the winter months. It's about total solar production capacity during the winter months. In July, there are ~15 hours of daylight in Barcelona, Spain. In December, there are ~9.5 hours of daylight. That's a total decrease of 37% of daylight, or time solar arrays would have to produce electricity.
What about Anchorage, Alaska, which gets ~5 hours of daylight in the winter? That would be a 66% reduction in the potential power generation of solar panels. Or large snowstorm events, like Snowmageddon in the Eastern United States which dropped 3 feet of snow in some areas, and the snow sticking around for a month afterwards.
Molten salt sounds great. All I am saying is that on-demand energy will always be needed. Just like large data centers have backup generators. The power grid should have some sort of power production capability which can generate power regardless of environmental conditions.
Your reference is misleading. The article actually says "Molten salt is used to store heat collected by a solar power tower so that it can be used to generate electricity in bad weather or at night. Thermal efficiencies over one year of 99% have been predicted". I could only find one example of this molten salt storage actually being used in the real world, to store energy.
So good news world! In the sunniest time of the year, solar panels can produce power 24/7 with molten salt storage. What happens when it is winter time and the sun is only out for 9-10 hours?
The electrical grid is not some fairy-dust invention which magically stores electricity. It distributes energy which is being produced at any given moment. You can't take power out of the grid if there is nothing producing the energy!
I didn't ask about the price of solar. Solar power could be.00001 cents per kWH for all I care. But solar panels do not work at night. They are reduced in efficiency when it is cloudy. And are completely useless when covered in show. Solar panels, at best, will be used to help offset the need for on-demand energy sources (nuclear, natural gas, coal). They are not a plausible replacement for the ENTIRE North American power grid.
With your logic, I have decided to blame solar power on the death of anyone who got dehydrated while out in the sun. And I am going to blame wind power on the death of anyone caused by a hurricane or tornado. Under your flawed logic, more people have died from solar and wind power than have from nuclear power.
Open the drive shell. Pull out the platters. Place on top of pile of sticks. Pour gasoline on top of platters and sticks. Light match. Start fire. Roast marshmallows.
Fair point. Gattaca was just about genetics. In neurological theory, nurture can shape the function of the brain. It is a larger picture of a person's thought process and capabilities.
But what really matters, is having a fMRI ordered by a court a violation of your 5th amendment rights?
How would a supercomputer help solar panels make more power? 1. I didn't realize computers were smart enough to analyze cancer and find the magic cure. So that's what we've been doing wrong all these years! 2. I can use my home desktop to track stars. There's no variables involved here, just constants. Remember, they were tracking stars before computers, linear algebra, and calculus were invented. 3. And atom simulators can run on a sub $5,000 workstation.
I believe there is something much more disgusting and sinister lurking within the keyboards of the Slashdot community. And I, for one, would love to know how to unclog my keyboard of said substance.
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I, for one, enjoy large Alaskan King Crab legs on a barbeque. I will enjoy super-sized Alaska King Crab legs the size of my forearm in the near future.
Politicians will not do anything because they themselves are ultra-rich and want to continue to hide their own money in the same way. Unless they write the new laws like Obamacare and personally exempt themselves.
I've been looking for a walkthrough for hiding my wealth in low-tax countries. The eHow article wasn't cutting it. I'm thinking of sending my gazillion dollars to the Bahamas.
No chance the MPAA CEO Chris Dodd (former Democratic Senator from Connecticut) had anything to do with the prosecution. Politicians would never call in favors to get someone charged with a crime.
Said every Nazi ever.
Eye for and eye, tooth for a tooth. It could be much worse, you politically driven RIAA/MPAA hatchetmen, aka Federal Prosecutors.
What operating systems do you have installed on your personal computers?
So you want to transmit electricity 4,000 miles to Alaska? That's the distance from Anchorage, AK to Phoenix, AZ (great potential solar power there). The roads are only passable for 2-3 months per year, so it would take 4x longer to build the power lines than normal. Plus, you have 4,000 miles of power lines to check and secure, otherwise people living in one of the most inhospitable areas in North America would be without power. Power = heat. Alaska could not afford a 24 hour power outage when it is -20 degrees F.
It's not about practicality, it's about safety. If you want to volunteer to get your sled dogs and mush 500 miles through the Alaskan winter to fix a power line, then feel free to encourage Alaska to go equator solar power.
It's not about storage degradation during the winter months. It's about total solar production capacity during the winter months. In July, there are ~15 hours of daylight in Barcelona, Spain. In December, there are ~9.5 hours of daylight. That's a total decrease of 37% of daylight, or time solar arrays would have to produce electricity.
What about Anchorage, Alaska, which gets ~5 hours of daylight in the winter? That would be a 66% reduction in the potential power generation of solar panels. Or large snowstorm events, like Snowmageddon in the Eastern United States which dropped 3 feet of snow in some areas, and the snow sticking around for a month afterwards.
Molten salt sounds great. All I am saying is that on-demand energy will always be needed. Just like large data centers have backup generators. The power grid should have some sort of power production capability which can generate power regardless of environmental conditions.
Your reference is misleading. The article actually says "Molten salt is used to store heat collected by a solar power tower so that it can be used to generate electricity in bad weather or at night. Thermal efficiencies over one year of 99% have been predicted". I could only find one example of this molten salt storage actually being used in the real world, to store energy.
Regarding the actual efficiency of this method, in relation to the Andasol plant in Spain "It came on line March 2009. On July 4, 2011, a company in Spain celebrated an historic moment for the solar industry: Torresol’s 19.9 MW concentrating solar power plant became the first ever to generate uninterrupted electricity for 24 hours straight, using a molten salt heat storage."
So good news world! In the sunniest time of the year, solar panels can produce power 24/7 with molten salt storage. What happens when it is winter time and the sun is only out for 9-10 hours?
You, sir, have won this discussion.
The electrical grid is not some fairy-dust invention which magically stores electricity. It distributes energy which is being produced at any given moment. You can't take power out of the grid if there is nothing producing the energy!
I didn't ask about the price of solar. Solar power could be .00001 cents per kWH for all I care. But solar panels do not work at night. They are reduced in efficiency when it is cloudy. And are completely useless when covered in show. Solar panels, at best, will be used to help offset the need for on-demand energy sources (nuclear, natural gas, coal). They are not a plausible replacement for the ENTIRE North American power grid.
Nuclear power != Nuclear bomb.
With your logic, I have decided to blame solar power on the death of anyone who got dehydrated while out in the sun. And I am going to blame wind power on the death of anyone caused by a hurricane or tornado. Under your flawed logic, more people have died from solar and wind power than have from nuclear power.
You mean something like The Most Studied Real Estate on the Planet?
So tell me, how much power does a solar panel array produce between 8pm and 6am?
I keep coming back every few hours, hoping for the insanity to stop. And it hasn't. Time to go read Reddit.
It's lame. It was never funny. It is completely stupid. If I wanted to read stupid things on the internet, I would read Reddit.
This is about as lame as my dad saying "cool, dude, awesome, and cowabunga" when I was a teenager. Stop the madness!
Your encryption scheme is as lame as your April Fool's joke.
Open the drive shell. Pull out the platters. Place on top of pile of sticks. Pour gasoline on top of platters and sticks. Light match. Start fire. Roast marshmallows.
Fair point. Gattaca was just about genetics. In neurological theory, nurture can shape the function of the brain. It is a larger picture of a person's thought process and capabilities.
But what really matters, is having a fMRI ordered by a court a violation of your 5th amendment rights?
One step away from Gattaca.
Question asked.... and answered well. A rarity on here these days.
How would a supercomputer help solar panels make more power?
1. I didn't realize computers were smart enough to analyze cancer and find the magic cure. So that's what we've been doing wrong all these years!
2. I can use my home desktop to track stars. There's no variables involved here, just constants. Remember, they were tracking stars before computers, linear algebra, and calculus were invented.
3. And atom simulators can run on a sub $5,000 workstation.
I believe there is something much more disgusting and sinister lurking within the keyboards of the Slashdot community. And I, for one, would love to know how to unclog my keyboard of said substance.