Cheaper panels just mean bigger margins on the system integration and that's where it's expensive.
There's a bigger problem though. If you can afford tens of thousands of dollars for a subsidized solar installation, you are definitely in the middle class, so poorer people are being taxed to reduce your installation costs, and fuel bills.
Which is basically anything at all as long as it involves buying large quantities of:
1. micro organisms (yeast). 2. Large vessels. 3. Energy to keep it all warm.
If someone is subsidising their countries product X, everyone else is better placing product X on an import duty roster cancelling the subsidy. Otherwise you are taking money from people who need it and giving to those who don't.
I would add that it can be worth developing an income stream which is unrelated to your primary work, a "hobby" income if you want. Something you enjoy doing and which can help when the TSHTF and your primary work vanishes. Better if you diversify; as unrelated to work sectors as possible but this is often not possible. If you are lucky it'll take off and you get to retire after a couple of hectic years.
Goldman Sachs have already made their money selling Facebook funds. Then comes the IPO with shooting star valuations for the upper management & VCs. Then the plunge to earth for the bag holders.
More typically known as pump & dump. This is what Silicon Valley is all about.
To the penchant for destabilising democratically elected governments and installing puppet dictators in order to acquire resources and dominate regions militarily.
Apple iPad and iPhone users are found to have had their personal sense of values warped by the Jobs reality distortion field. Retailers are said to be intrigued.
Ironic you should choose the Wizard of Oz. You may want to read up who Baum supported, and on the symbolism behind the book.
15 trillion in debt and growing exponentially. Now more than 100% of GDP.
They can't afford all the things they are buying now.
The rest of the world is just as broke, you think you are going to be able to continue to sell your debt to fund your spending? China is about to crash, Japan has it's own problems, Europe is in a shambles and the American government is spending what 30%? 40%? more than it earns year after year. The only country in the world which can get away with deficits like that year after year is the one printing the world reserve currency. Any other would have collapsed like a banana republic.
So who is going to pay for it all? The FED? Because that does appear to be the answer and that would be well and truly banana republic territory.
You have a problem because your funding model is broken.
Set up an IT shop where people can buy tickets which entitle them to support for standard computers as well as tickets which entitle them to support on the non standard latest widgets. Money comes out of their budget and goes to IT budget. Problem solved. They will have to justify to their own management why their widget is costing $2k per year to support vs $20 for an XTerm.
Same goes for network storage, backups, large email inboxes any resource. Let people pay, then the justification is their problem. No pay, no service. IT then only provides the services that the business needs and not those it doesn't, and those services automatically get the funding they need by the fact that they were purchased. Those people and departments which demand a lot of resources then automatically pay a lot of money and the services they need are properly funded.
Resource allocation on the IT side becomes trivial. People bought support for Widget X on the shop? You need people able to provide support, hey look, you got money too.
i.e run your apps on remote app servers, or group the desktops as app servers so they serve specific groups of apps. They will load faster; the libraries and code are already in RAM, will run faster, the CPU cache hit rate is higher and you can run more copies per server with copy on write RAM management. For example, you run open office on 200 desktops, you need 200 * 200Mb RAM; 40Gb. You run 200 instances of open office on a central server, you need 200Mb + 20Mb*200 instances; 4.2Gb. It's just a matter of utilisation. With a job scheduler (aka grid), you can get up to the high 80% easily. Without, your utilisation will average single digit %.
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Cheaper panels just mean bigger margins on the system integration and that's where it's expensive.
There's a bigger problem though. If you can afford tens of thousands of dollars for a subsidized solar installation, you are definitely in the middle class, so poorer people are being taxed to reduce your installation costs, and fuel bills.
Which is basically anything at all as long as it involves buying large quantities of:
1. micro organisms (yeast).
2. Large vessels.
3. Energy to keep it all warm.
If someone is subsidising their countries product X, everyone else is better placing product X on an import duty roster cancelling the subsidy.
Otherwise you are taking money from people who need it and giving to those who don't.
Good points.
I would add that it can be worth developing an income stream which is unrelated to your primary work, a "hobby" income if you want. Something you enjoy doing and which can help when the TSHTF and your primary work vanishes. Better if you diversify; as unrelated to work sectors as possible but this is often not possible.
If you are lucky it'll take off and you get to retire after a couple of hectic years.
It makes a lot of sense to hit the right spot. No matter the price.
Games and A.Is which teach kids best according to their abilities using the most effective teaching strategies, backed up by human teachers.
Motivation is a problem, but it's a problem with kids sitting at desks in schools.
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/polovina/learnpyramid/about.htm
I'm not sure I'd call what we have just now as "providing education".
Righteousness.
Set up a paypal account with the title "Parents against Nike violence against small children."
You should be out selling them hot dogs. That's what mobs are for.
Goldman Sachs have already made their money selling Facebook funds. Then comes the IPO with shooting star valuations for the upper management & VCs. Then the plunge to earth for the bag holders.
More typically known as pump & dump. This is what Silicon Valley is all about.
Name other random natural resources.
Don't you get it, we only intervene where there are resources to be acquired.
Three times is enemy action.
To the penchant for destabilising democratically elected governments and installing puppet dictators in order to acquire resources and dominate regions militarily.
Apple iPad and iPhone users are found to have had their personal sense of values warped by the Jobs reality distortion field. Retailers are said to be intrigued.
You just described the death of Android.
And anyway, nobody buys an iPad for the iPad. They buy an iPad to be locked into an easy to use environment. Think AOL without the modems.
This is up against top of the range BMW, Mercs, Audis, low end Maseratis, Porches, Aston Martins.
Depends how it handles in reality, quality, but the spec (apart from top speed) says it's cheap.
That's about 3 hours of flight time. So people avoid the chopper for 3 hours and then come back after it runs our of fuel and goes away.
You need boots on the ground to hold something.
For cargo though I'd have thought something like this would be better:
http://www.hybridairvehicles.com/
HTH.
The point is not to make fighter aircraft. The point is to make money. The aircraft is an incidental byproduct.
It wasn't till the FED that they managed to create truly co-ordinated world wide depressions.
Didn't have a big enough paycheck attached.
They can pretty much do what they want as long as they renew it every year. (I'm sure that will get boring at some point)
Y'know terrorists everywhere.
So who was on Dancing with the Stars the other day?
Ironic you should choose the Wizard of Oz. You may want to read up who Baum supported, and on the symbolism behind the book.
15 trillion in debt and growing exponentially. Now more than 100% of GDP.
They can't afford all the things they are buying now.
The rest of the world is just as broke, you think you are going to be able to continue to sell your debt to fund your spending? China is about to crash, Japan has it's own problems, Europe is in a shambles and the American government is spending what 30%? 40%? more than it earns year after year. The only country in the world which can get away with deficits like that year after year is the one printing the world reserve currency. Any other would have collapsed like a banana republic.
So who is going to pay for it all? The FED? Because that does appear to be the answer and that would be well and truly banana republic territory.
You idealist you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/opinion/22herbert.html
What you really mean is. "Throw them to the politicians".
You have a problem because your funding model is broken.
Set up an IT shop where people can buy tickets which entitle them to support for standard computers as well as tickets which entitle them to support on the non standard latest widgets. Money comes out of their budget and goes to IT budget. Problem solved. They will have to justify to their own management why their widget is costing $2k per year to support vs $20 for an XTerm.
Same goes for network storage, backups, large email inboxes any resource. Let people pay, then the justification is their problem. No pay, no service. IT then only provides the services that the business needs and not those it doesn't, and those services automatically get the funding they need by the fact that they were purchased. Those people and departments which demand a lot of resources then automatically pay a lot of money and the services they need are properly funded.
Resource allocation on the IT side becomes trivial. People bought support for Widget X on the shop? You need people able to provide support, hey look, you got money too.
Well DUH.
Go vote for Ron Paul.
i.e run your apps on remote app servers, or group the desktops as app servers so they serve specific groups of apps. They will load faster; the libraries and code are already in RAM, will run faster, the CPU cache hit rate is higher and you can run more copies per server with copy on write RAM management.
For example, you run open office on 200 desktops, you need 200 * 200Mb RAM; 40Gb. You run 200 instances of open office on a central server, you need 200Mb + 20Mb*200 instances; 4.2Gb.
It's just a matter of utilisation. With a job scheduler (aka grid), you can get up to the high 80% easily. Without, your utilisation will average single digit %.