With every inch of the country covered with solar panels they wouldn't produce as much and then there'd be no place for a ll the toxic batteries to store it.
You have no idea how wrong you are. France consumes 431,000,000,000 kWh/Year. "every inch of the country" is 643,801 km2. The insolation in France ranges from 3 sun hours/day in the north to 5 sun hours/day in the south, take an average of 4 sun hours/day. "covered with cheap 18% solar panels". That generates 463,536,720,000 kWh/Day, you could power the entire France for a year in just one single day. In fact that is enough to power the whole world 8 times over with 169,190,902,800,000 kWh/Year, the world only consumes 21,776,088,770,300 kWh/Year.
The PTT Bulletin Board System ( telnet://ptt.cc ) in Taiwan has more than 1.5 million registered users, with over 150,000 users online during peak hours. The BBS has over 20,000 boards covering a multitude of topics, and more than 20000 articles and 500000 comments are posted every day. It even has its own chrome extension telnet client. https://chrome.google.com/webs...
I did some digging on the interwebs looking for the real tech behind Magic Leap, surprisingly, I found that they actually do have the key people who invented core pieces of technology, when put together results in a high resolution high frame rare light field display, in other words, digital holography movies where your eye or any camera can actually focus on the near and far objects in a display.
Start by googling the keywords "scanning fiber technology", follow the trail of clues from there and you will quickly realize the tech they have is real and it works. I'll just list a few clues below: * Scanning Fiber Endoscope, Eric Seibel, Ph.D. 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But this is a camera not a display! Yes, the scanning fiber tech works both ways, you can put light sensors or light sources on the other end * Eric Seibel - Research Professor at University of Washington's Department of Bioengineering, http://www.me.washington.edu/r...
Check out his selected publications on "New displays are a fiber scanned microdisplay and a true 3D display that mimics the natural conditions of depth perception by adding both accommodative cues as well as stereographic cues." first author is Schowengerdt, B.T. who now works for Magic Leap. * True 3D Displays, https://depts.washington.edu/h... * 3D Displays using Scanning Laser Projection. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 2012, http://imgur.com/a/IRZK7 * Ultra-High Resolution Scanning Fiber Display for HMDs, DoD Air Force grant, 2013, to Brian Schowengerdt, Magic Leap, https://www.sbir.gov/content/u...
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With every inch of the country covered with solar panels they wouldn't produce as much and then there'd be no place for a ll the toxic batteries to store it.
You have no idea how wrong you are. France consumes 431,000,000,000 kWh/Year. "every inch of the country" is 643,801 km2. The insolation in France ranges from 3 sun hours/day in the north to 5 sun hours/day in the south, take an average of 4 sun hours/day. "covered with cheap 18% solar panels". That generates 463,536,720,000 kWh/Day, you could power the entire France for a year in just one single day. In fact that is enough to power the whole world 8 times over with 169,190,902,800,000 kWh/Year, the world only consumes 21,776,088,770,300 kWh/Year.
The PTT Bulletin Board System ( telnet://ptt.cc ) in Taiwan has more than 1.5 million registered users, with over 150,000 users online during peak hours. The BBS has over 20,000 boards covering a multitude of topics, and more than 20000 articles and 500000 comments are posted every day. It even has its own chrome extension telnet client. https://chrome.google.com/webs...
I did some digging on the interwebs looking for the real tech behind Magic Leap, surprisingly, I found that they actually do have the key people who invented core pieces of technology, when put together results in a high resolution high frame rare light field display, in other words, digital holography movies where your eye or any camera can actually focus on the near and far objects in a display.
Start by googling the keywords "scanning fiber technology", follow the trail of clues from there and you will quickly realize the tech they have is real and it works. I'll just list a few clues below:
* Scanning Fiber Endoscope, Eric Seibel, Ph.D. 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But this is a camera not a display! Yes, the scanning fiber tech works both ways, you can put light sensors or light sources on the other end
* Eric Seibel - Research Professor at University of Washington's Department of Bioengineering, http://www.me.washington.edu/r...
Check out his selected publications on "New displays are a fiber scanned microdisplay and a true 3D display that mimics the natural conditions of depth perception by adding both accommodative cues as well as stereographic cues." first author is Schowengerdt, B.T. who now works for Magic Leap.
* True 3D Displays, https://depts.washington.edu/h...
* 3D Displays using Scanning Laser Projection. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 2012, http://imgur.com/a/IRZK7
* Ultra-High Resolution Scanning Fiber Display for HMDs, DoD Air Force grant, 2013, to Brian Schowengerdt, Magic Leap, https://www.sbir.gov/content/u...
Dollars or Yuan?
It was 120 Billion Yuan or 17.5 Billion Dollars in a single day.
I made this drawing as a tribute to Aaron Swartz: http://goo.gl/E3v6F
Blog Post(Taiwan): http://caq-qoq.blogspot.tw/2013/01/aaron-swartz.html
I made this drawing as a tribute to Aaron Swartz: http://goo.gl/E3v6F
Blog Post(Taiwan): http://caq-qoq.blogspot.tw/2013/01/aaron-swartz.html
My girl friend made this illustration after I showed her this story on slashdot :)