That is what is so odd. None of those books are banned in the US. What is happening is a school saying this book is not appropriate to be in the school. Nothing is stopping anyone from reading the books if they want to. While the choices for removal are all debatable as far as this being censorship or book banning it is about as mild as a form of censorship as one can imagine.
It is an interesting subject when you think about it. Take this basic premise Books are important because they are a very powerful way to exchange and teach ideas. The issue then becomes not all ideas are good ones.
For example Mien Kampf is a classic example of a lot of really bad ideas but another example would be Chariot of the Gods. In the US and other nations we work on the idea that adults should have the option to read anything and decide for themselves. The problem is that it doesn't always work. I mean you still have people that believe in Crop Circles, Big Foot, and astrology, and the DNC. So should school libraries limit the content to that which is safe? If a teenager wants to read a more challenging book the parents can supply it via the public library or purchase. Or should it be a free for all. Should a sixth graders have access to the Happy Hooker from the school library? Maybe the Turner Diaries? Then you have the issue of where is the line between curation and indoctrination? Or even between indoctrination and education? I suggest that it is not as simple as "Censorship is bad, um okay"
While I am a really tired of PC I do not think that is the reason. Of course my school didn't ban books. It had a far better solution. In my Jr. High School they had a small book shelf that had books that required parents permission. One of the books on that shelf was Brave New World which I will never understand being restricted since it was anti drug and anti casual sex. It was not a problem for me since my parents gave me permission to read what ever. In High School they put the books like Catch 22 and Slaughter House 5 in the "young adults room". You had to be in 11th or 12th grade to go in but for some reason it was never open. They where always using it for projects and such. Very effective way to not have the books cause a problem.
Simple, ever hear of the Corvette? Fiberglass. Actually the reason that so few cars are made out of fiberglass is that metal is cheaper. It takes a lot less time to stamp a body panel then it does to mold and cure one in fiberglass. The second is weight you can often make a lighter part out of Aluminum than fiberglass and always out of carbon fiber. Fiberglass is only used for low volume production that can not afford to use Carbon fiber and the Vette out of tradition.
I am all for wired ethernet. Probably get much better speeds that way. As to WiFi causing cancer? There is as much proof that WiFi causes cancer as their is proof photovoltaic panels and organic kale do.
"For a grid it is no difference whether a coal plant explodes or a steel mill suddenly disconnects or a town suddenly is disconnected from the grid because the power lines fail etc. etc"
A coal plant explodes, steel mill drops off, or a town drops off because of a power line fail... Oh those never cause issues at all. I never said that it could not be managed but that is one of the reasons that solar and wind are so expensive. The problem is much worse in Hawaii than other states because they have several small but isolated grids to deal with. One for each of the islands.
Really not the same thing. Even when talking about engines it isn't the same thing. The motor on the GT3 is great butyou will not see one go for 300,000 miles. You also have cost. A GT3 motor will cost more than an F150.
Those are not brought into the US and I am not sure they even build them in the UK anymore. Land Rover where very much the British version of the Jeep. And yes the Jeep came first and the two vehicles where often used for much the same thing after war.
The first Land Rovers where built out of left overs from the war. England had a lot of aluminum for aircraft construction but where building few aircraft. Steel has some real benefits for car bodies like the fact that is is more springy than aluminum, it will flex a little and bounce back it is also easier to weld and tends to be harder. It is also stronger for a given thickness. Aluminum is much more corrosion resistant and stronger per mass.
I would love slashdot to drop the ACs. Sure let people post as an AC but still make them take the Karma hit when they are are jerks. I see very little if anything posted on slashdot that is valuable and needs to be protected by anonymity. Mostly it is just bigotry inflected with profanity.
"So solar and wind DECREASE the need for peaking generation." But not the need for peaking generating plants. You will still need enough peaking plants to cover the Solar and wind output! Those plants will have to be built, staffed, and maintained even when sitting static. Those fixed costs will drive up the cost of those plants for KWH produced because they will stay fixed. Also those good wind sites with lake effect are not all that common and are just not found in most of the midwest where you find the highest wind potential. Sites with good wind are solar potential near population centers are just not that common. I am for Solar and Wind and Nuclear but I am also realistic about the problems with solar and wind. They are a new kind of power generation. Power companies have a lot of experience dealing with base-load and peaking power plants. Solar and wind are what I would call opportunistic power plants. Today probably the best system available would be Nuclear base-load, natural gas and hydrogen peaking, and solar and wind opportunistic. Maybe use excess power from solar and wind along with heat from Nuclear to make synth fuel from hydrogen and atmospheric CO2.
You will find the prices are about the same from HP and Lenovo for workstation class machines. But the truth is you can not even buy the parts to build a workstation as powerful as the Mac Pro for the same price.
a 20% power source that fluctuates over time.... Maybe you did not understand what keeping the grid stable means. 112v +-10% is not considered stable. All it takes for that power output of solar cells to drop like a rock is a good rainstorm to come though like a front. Guess what? In Hawaii that happens a lot so you could see a 20% drop in total out put in 10 minutes.
My facts are right but you did not read what I wrote. "I think you might find that contrary to what you might think, those states do indeed have a share of mountains." And what I said was. "The problem is that the best areas for solar power do not tend to be near large amounts of water and or mountains. " You must both. If you are missing one you are out of luck. So like large amounts of Texas are flat and dry so they are the and. The states you mentioned are missing water in most places and in most of the places they do have water they already have dams. Then you have my hone state of Florida where you have water but we consider think of a hill 600 ft tall as mountain here. My point stands as does my statement that locations where that will work are few and far apart.
They do not have to be on the grid but we are talking about Solar on the grid in this story.Yes you can and some people go off the grid but then they have to invest in a lot of batteries as well as genset.
Because you have never priced workstation class parts maybe?
It is hard to find a Xeon that exactly matches the one in the Pro but the very top of the line socket 2011 Ivy Bridge EP xeon CPU is over $2500 on newegg. The one closest to the one in the Mac Pro is this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117273 and it is $1111.99 on newegg. So there is one third the price of the Pro right there. Two Firepro w7000 GPUs are 700 each and you are at 2800 more or less. now add in the motherboard, ECC ram PCIe SSDs case and power supply and you can see the Pro is actually a good deal for what you get. Those are the prices off Newegg so yes you might find them cheaper but they are competitive. A Dell workstation configured close to the Mac Pro is actually more expensive.
"the utility needs fewer peaker plants." No they don't they just get to run them less making them more expensive. Modern peaking plants use natural gas these days which is cheap. In fact natural gas baseload is cheaper than coal! Hawaii has the most expensive power in the US I believe because they mainly use oil because of transportation reasons. They have no native sources of fuel on the islands.
It does if you have. 1. a lot of water 2. Mountains. The problem is that the best areas for solar power do not tend to be near large amounts of water and or mountains. Places like Texas, Nevada, Arizona, and Florida for example.
No they are really not. Maybe from a business standpoint but not from a reality standpoint. Solar goes from zero to max out put from dawn to solar noon back to zero at sunset. Actually it is zero for a good while after dawn and before sunset but you get what I mean. Once you get a lot of that on a grid it can become a nightmare to keep stable. Batteries are not an option yet so storage is just not practical. You need a huge amount of peaking plants to keep the grid stable. You do not want large voltage and or frequencies swings.
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Wow and yet it is place I would not want to live since their is no real freedom.
That is what is so odd. None of those books are banned in the US. What is happening is a school saying this book is not appropriate to be in the school. Nothing is stopping anyone from reading the books if they want to. While the choices for removal are all debatable as far as this being censorship or book banning it is about as mild as a form of censorship as one can imagine.
It is an interesting subject when you think about it. Take this basic premise
Books are important because they are a very powerful way to exchange and teach ideas.
The issue then becomes not all ideas are good ones.
For example Mien Kampf is a classic example of a lot of really bad ideas but another example would be Chariot of the Gods. In the US and other nations we work on the idea that adults should have the option to read anything and decide for themselves. The problem is that it doesn't always work. I mean you still have people that believe in Crop Circles, Big Foot, and astrology, and the DNC. So should school libraries limit the content to that which is safe? If a teenager wants to read a more challenging book the parents can supply it via the public library or purchase. Or should it be a free for all. Should a sixth graders have access to the Happy Hooker from the school library? Maybe the Turner Diaries?
Then you have the issue of where is the line between curation and indoctrination? Or even between indoctrination and education?
I suggest that it is not as simple as "Censorship is bad, um okay"
While I am a really tired of PC I do not think that is the reason.
Of course my school didn't ban books. It had a far better solution. In my Jr. High School they had a small book shelf that had books that required parents permission. One of the books on that shelf was Brave New World which I will never understand being restricted since it was anti drug and anti casual sex. It was not a problem for me since my parents gave me permission to read what ever.
In High School they put the books like Catch 22 and Slaughter House 5 in the "young adults room". You had to be in 11th or 12th grade to go in but for some reason it was never open. They where always using it for projects and such. Very effective way to not have the books cause a problem.
Simple, ever hear of the Corvette? Fiberglass.
Actually the reason that so few cars are made out of fiberglass is that metal is cheaper. It takes a lot less time to stamp a body panel then it does to mold and cure one in fiberglass.
The second is weight you can often make a lighter part out of Aluminum than fiberglass and always out of carbon fiber.
Fiberglass is only used for low volume production that can not afford to use Carbon fiber and the Vette out of tradition.
I am all for wired ethernet. Probably get much better speeds that way.
As to WiFi causing cancer? There is as much proof that WiFi causes cancer as their is proof photovoltaic panels and organic kale do.
That is what I thought as well.
"For a grid it is no difference whether a coal plant explodes or a steel mill suddenly disconnects or a town suddenly is disconnected from the grid because the power lines fail etc. etc"
A coal plant explodes, steel mill drops off, or a town drops off because of a power line fail... Oh those never cause issues at all.
I never said that it could not be managed but that is one of the reasons that solar and wind are so expensive. The problem is much worse in Hawaii than other states because they have several small but isolated grids to deal with. One for each of the islands.
Really not the same thing. Even when talking about engines it isn't the same thing. The motor on the GT3 is great butyou will not see one go for 300,000 miles. You also have cost. A GT3 motor will cost more than an F150.
Those are not brought into the US and I am not sure they even build them in the UK anymore. Land Rover where very much the British version of the Jeep. And yes the Jeep came first and the two vehicles where often used for much the same thing after war.
The first Land Rovers where built out of left overs from the war. England had a lot of aluminum for aircraft construction but where building few aircraft.
Steel has some real benefits for car bodies like the fact that is is more springy than aluminum, it will flex a little and bounce back it is also easier to weld and tends to be harder. It is also stronger for a given thickness.
Aluminum is much more corrosion resistant and stronger per mass.
But better than CNN.
1. It is expensive
2. It is censorship.
I would love slashdot to drop the ACs. Sure let people post as an AC but still make them take the Karma hit when they are are jerks. I see very little if anything posted on slashdot that is valuable and needs to be protected by anonymity. Mostly it is just bigotry inflected with profanity.
"So solar and wind DECREASE the need for peaking generation."
But not the need for peaking generating plants. You will still need enough peaking plants to cover the Solar and wind output! Those plants will have to be built, staffed, and maintained even when sitting static. Those fixed costs will drive up the cost of those plants for KWH produced because they will stay fixed. Also those good wind sites with lake effect are not all that common and are just not found in most of the midwest where you find the highest wind potential. Sites with good wind are solar potential near population centers are just not that common.
I am for Solar and Wind and Nuclear but I am also realistic about the problems with solar and wind. They are a new kind of power generation. Power companies have a lot of experience dealing with base-load and peaking power plants. Solar and wind are what I would call opportunistic power plants. Today probably the best system available would be Nuclear base-load, natural gas and hydrogen peaking, and solar and wind opportunistic. Maybe use excess power from solar and wind along with heat from Nuclear to make synth fuel from hydrogen and atmospheric CO2.
You will find the prices are about the same from HP and Lenovo for workstation class machines. But the truth is you can not even buy the parts to build a workstation as powerful as the Mac Pro for the same price.
Not yet. but could it be used to help heal a damaged liver? And how long before they can print blood vessels?
And this is why ACs are Useless.
a 20% power source that fluctuates over time.... Maybe you did not understand what keeping the grid stable means. 112v +-10% is not considered stable. All it takes for that power output of solar cells to drop like a rock is a good rainstorm to come though like a front. Guess what? In Hawaii that happens a lot so you could see a 20% drop in total out put in 10 minutes.
My facts are right but you did not read what I wrote.
"I think you might find that contrary to what you might think, those states do indeed have a share of mountains."
And what I said was.
"The problem is that the best areas for solar power do not tend to be near large amounts of water and or mountains. "
You must both. If you are missing one you are out of luck. So like large amounts of Texas are flat and dry so they are the and. The states you mentioned are missing water in most places and in most of the places they do have water they already have dams. Then you have my hone state of Florida where you have water but we consider think of a hill 600 ft tall as mountain here.
My point stands as does my statement that locations where that will work are few and far apart.
They do not have to be on the grid but we are talking about Solar on the grid in this story.Yes you can and some people go off the grid but then they have to invest in a lot of batteries as well as genset.
He also skimped a bit by using gaming Motherboard on one of the builds.
Because you have never priced workstation class parts maybe?
It is hard to find a Xeon that exactly matches the one in the Pro but the very top of the line socket 2011 Ivy Bridge EP xeon CPU is over $2500 on newegg.
The one closest to the one in the Mac Pro is this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117273 and it is $1111.99 on newegg. So there is one third the price of the Pro right there.
Two Firepro w7000 GPUs are 700 each and you are at 2800 more or less. now add in the motherboard, ECC ram PCIe SSDs case and power supply and you can see the Pro is actually a good deal for what you get. Those are the prices off Newegg so yes you might find them cheaper but they are competitive.
A Dell workstation configured close to the Mac Pro is actually more expensive.
"the utility needs fewer peaker plants."
No they don't they just get to run them less making them more expensive. Modern peaking plants use natural gas these days which is cheap. In fact natural gas baseload is cheaper than coal!
Hawaii has the most expensive power in the US I believe because they mainly use oil because of transportation reasons. They have no native sources of fuel on the islands.
It does if you have.
1. a lot of water
2. Mountains.
The problem is that the best areas for solar power do not tend to be near large amounts of water and or mountains. Places like Texas, Nevada, Arizona, and Florida for example.
No they are really not. Maybe from a business standpoint but not from a reality standpoint. Solar goes from zero to max out put from dawn to solar noon back to zero at sunset. Actually it is zero for a good while after dawn and before sunset but you get what I mean. Once you get a lot of that on a grid it can become a nightmare to keep stable. Batteries are not an option yet so storage is just not practical. You need a huge amount of peaking plants to keep the grid stable. You do not want large voltage and or frequencies swings.