Government regulation causes more problems than it solves. California's "deregulated" energy market was regulqated so that there was no incentive to provide reliable excess capacity.
Solar thermal panels can be up to 90% efficient. The vacuum tubes work in cold and cloudy climates. The energy they displace will directly reduce electricity generation costs, reduce CO2 emmissions and they are far far far cheaper than photovoltaics.
For cooling look at evaporative cooling or simply pumping the heat into a local river or ocean... Most of California's cities are sited near the Pacific... Yet air conditioning is the single largest consumer of electricity, by far.
ixed that for you. No business survives beyond their normal lifetime in the market.
Well. that's clearly not the case.
Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan etc etc etc. If you have a friend in the government, you can get them to tax the people to guarantee your profits.
Eventually some outcompete the others by allowing their replication machines to replicate more successfully. The ones which don't, also die off because their replication machines are unable to reproduce.
The result is an averaging out of gene noise, leaving only the successful signal for a particular niche.
This "one version will overtake all the rest" mentality is a meat-space concept and has no place on the Internet.
Wrong. Because they have to grow, and once all of the little guys are gone, they can only grow at the expense of each other. Therefore there can be only one.
Why would hydrogen peroxide not instantly decompose? Every reaction requires activation energy.
There's plenty of energy around... It's a battery... If you burn hydrogen it doesn't form hydrogen peroxide. If you burn Li, it's the Li2O2 which is the side reaction.
Lets put it this way. I'll believe it when I see it.
I'm living in Berlin now and of the things which hits me hard just about every day (literally) are the bloody doors. German doors aren't mere convenience items, they are designed to stop tanks. British doors in comparison are made of cardboard, mainly for show, you can swing one open with a flick of the wrist. Attempt that with a German door an you will be nursing a sprained shoulder for the rest of the week. Clearly it's a design intention that going through a door should be something one does with care and aforethought.
Use Sodium instead. There's even more of it in seawater. Sure it's a bit heavier, a bit bigger but a tiny fraction of the cost, and cost is a huge problem with batteries.
Then you roll it up to make it convenient. It isn't a block of metal. What interest me is the volume and mass are going to change as the oxygen is absorbed. Oxygen is almost 2 times the mass of Lithium, only about half the volume but it'll form a crystaline structure with the Li which will hugely increase the volume of the oxide over that of the metal.
As soon as any of the indicators go up (these are pretty reliable predictors of activity), the FED simply filters the money out of the banks, rates go up for daily business paper and money is more scarce.
Instead of attempting to convert sunlight to electricity. Simply use the heat.
Install a Heat Store or Heat Bank and use Solar thermal panels as a heat source for the store. You can also then add wood, gas, electric, whatever as heat sources to supplement the solar thermal panels.
For cooling. Use evaporative cooling, its 3-4 times more efficient than air conditioning.
The ROI and EROEI for solar thermal is far higher than for photovoltaics. Typically 5-7 year payback without subsidies.
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Need to catch up mate. We'll be getting rid of virtual machines next too.
Here's another suggestion.
High priced oil *triggers* recessions.
This would be far simpler and explain the oscilation in the price of oil after the demand destruction has fed through.
I don't know. Just seems simpler to me.
Perhaps this technology might be useful elsewhere.
Government regulation causes more problems than it solves. California's "deregulated" energy market was regulqated so that there was no incentive to provide reliable excess capacity.
Most of our electricity is used for the creation or movement of heat. Which is spectacularly dumb and inefficient.
e.g.
http://ducts.lbl.gov/calducts.htm
Solar thermal panels can be up to 90% efficient. The vacuum tubes work in cold and cloudy climates. The energy they displace will directly reduce electricity generation costs, reduce CO2 emmissions and they are far far far cheaper than photovoltaics.
For cooling look at evaporative cooling or simply pumping the heat into a local river or ocean... Most of California's cities are sited near the Pacific... Yet air conditioning is the single largest consumer of electricity, by far.
ixed that for you. No business survives beyond their normal lifetime in the market.
Well. that's clearly not the case.
Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan etc etc etc. If you have a friend in the government, you can get them to tax the people to guarantee your profits.
A relative of mine puts 100,0000 miles on a car in a year. That's a lot of fuel.
With the kindle?
whereas the only way to do that on the others is to illegally copy published works.
Eventually some outcompete the others by allowing their replication machines to replicate more successfully. The ones which don't, also die off because their replication machines are unable to reproduce.
The result is an averaging out of gene noise, leaving only the successful signal for a particular niche.
Barking.... But I don't think Berlin represents Germany.
The transmission system is irrelevant. All that matters is that you know you have received whatever was sent.
Just make sure you send a checksum and that the received file matches.
oh wait... Windows scripting...
If you could think of a way to do it. Is it OK to steal a little bit of money from everyone?
From now, your servers will have been "Jacksoned".
This "one version will overtake all the rest" mentality is a meat-space concept and has no place on the Internet.
Wrong. Because they have to grow, and once all of the little guys are gone, they can only grow at the expense of each other. Therefore there can be only one.
Why would hydrogen peroxide not instantly decompose? Every reaction requires activation energy.
There's plenty of energy around... It's a battery... If you burn hydrogen it doesn't form hydrogen peroxide. If you burn Li, it's the Li2O2 which is the side reaction.
Lets put it this way. I'll believe it when I see it.
I'm living in Berlin now and of the things which hits me hard just about every day (literally) are the bloody doors.
German doors aren't mere convenience items, they are designed to stop tanks. British doors in comparison are made of cardboard, mainly for show, you can swing one open with a flick of the wrist. Attempt that with a German door an you will be nursing a sprained shoulder for the rest of the week. Clearly it's a design intention that going through a door should be something one does with care and aforethought.
Why would would the oxygen remain in a reduced state with plenty of Li around?
Use Sodium instead. There's even more of it in seawater. Sure it's a bit heavier, a bit bigger but a tiny fraction of the cost, and cost is a huge problem with batteries.
Then you roll it up to make it convenient. It isn't a block of metal. What interest me is the volume and mass are going to change as the oxygen is absorbed. Oxygen is almost 2 times the mass of Lithium, only about half the volume but it'll form a crystaline structure with the Li which will hugely increase the volume of the oxide over that of the metal.
I suspect primary.
And as for evaporative cooling, I expect that in CA, water is even more of a resource to be conserved than electricity is.
Salt water evaporates just as well as fresh, and most of the cities in California are sitting adjacent to the Pacific Ocean.
The news would have been everywhere with minimal bandwidth consumed.
Basically, the webserver concept is broken for really big traffic.
Of course, the problem with usenet is it's too efficient. People can post crap too easily and get others to pay for it.
Of server manufacturers customers are not Google, or Amazon or Facebook. The VP doesn't get that he's just not that important....
http://www.shadowstats.com/
As soon as any of the indicators go up (these are pretty reliable predictors of activity), the FED simply filters the money out of the banks, rates go up for daily business paper and money is more scarce.
ITYM the FED causes a recession.
Instead of attempting to convert sunlight to electricity. Simply use the heat.
Install a Heat Store or Heat Bank and use Solar thermal panels as a heat source for the store. You can also then add wood, gas, electric, whatever as heat sources to supplement the solar thermal panels.
For cooling. Use evaporative cooling, its 3-4 times more efficient than air conditioning.
The ROI and EROEI for solar thermal is far higher than for photovoltaics. Typically 5-7 year payback without subsidies.