In a free market the two would have a price war to determine who gets to sell during those times. The benefit of this is that the loser would have an incentive to invest in ways to efficiently store their over-production.
Well the nifty thing about solar power is that its production peak occurs exactly during the peak of demand (round noon), so the chance of over-production is nil, while the most expensive plants (gas for instance) which would only kick in for peaks of demand can be kept off line.
Discussion of technological breakthroughs is meaningless without a discussion of the cost.
Absolutely! Total subsidy for nuclear power in Germany is around 300 billion Euro (including cost for dismantling out-of-order plants), which makes 4.3ct on every kwh, compared to around 2ct currently for renewables.
http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/atomkraft/nachrichten/artikel/atomkraft_mit_304_milliarden_euro_subventioniert/
(sorry, I only have this source in German, but google translate seems to work pretty well on it).
We shouldn't stop subsidizing renewable energy before reaching this level!
(BTW, note that the Pulitzer Center stats are per 100K *people*, NOT per 100K vehicle miles, which is the usual standard benchmark for traffic safety statistics! This is a very odd choice for such statistics, and throws the entire effort into considerable question....)
Well as you see from the text, it's meant to be less about driving per se, but more for comparison with other causes of death like diseases. Such a comparison wouldn't be possible without a common metric.
Well they say on the funding page
"We've been through a long creative process, from early concepts and sketches to 3D wireframes and a variety of test handsets. It's all led us to the beautiful Ubuntu Edge prototype that you see throughout this page."
So you think they're lying?
I don't know the details on this Catholic town trying to ban porn and condoms but honestly I can see arguments either way for whether or not that sort of law/ordinance should be legal to make. On the one hand, this is a planned community with a specific purpose so it only makes sense that that should (within reason) be able to set up any sort of laws they want. If you don't like it, don't move there.
Well, won't these people have children, significant others, employees etc., who are not completely free in their decision whether to live there or not?
Note that TeX nowadays has more "faces" than it used to have in the time of VT100 terminals.
While writing scientific papers, theses and monographs is probably still the most popular application by far, TeX is also the basis for very modern data based publishing applications like DocScape (plug: http://www.docscape.de/opencms/web/docscape/en/home/).
DocScape customers are producing millions (and printing tens of thousands) of pages a year in highest design quality, using a modern, data-driven and fully automated process. This is clearly technologically much more advanced than manual creation in DTP software, in the same sense that the fully automatic robot-based manufacturing of cars is technologically more advanced than manual assembly.
The stability, efficiency and versatility (in the sense that it is fully programmable and can produce arbitrary PDF structures) of the TeX engine is an all-important basis for such modern technology.
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In a free market the two would have a price war to determine who gets to sell during those times. The benefit of this is that the loser would have an incentive to invest in ways to efficiently store their over-production.
Well the nifty thing about solar power is that its production peak occurs exactly during the peak of demand (round noon), so the chance of over-production is nil, while the most expensive plants (gas for instance) which would only kick in for peaks of demand can be kept off line.
Discussion of technological breakthroughs is meaningless without a discussion of the cost.
Absolutely! Total subsidy for nuclear power in Germany is around 300 billion Euro (including cost for dismantling out-of-order plants), which makes 4.3ct on every kwh, compared to around 2ct currently for renewables. http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/atomkraft/nachrichten/artikel/atomkraft_mit_304_milliarden_euro_subventioniert/ (sorry, I only have this source in German, but google translate seems to work pretty well on it). We shouldn't stop subsidizing renewable energy before reaching this level!
(BTW, note that the Pulitzer Center stats are per 100K *people*, NOT per 100K vehicle miles, which is the usual standard benchmark for traffic safety statistics! This is a very odd choice for such statistics, and throws the entire effort into considerable question....)
Well as you see from the text, it's meant to be less about driving per se, but more for comparison with other causes of death like diseases. Such a comparison wouldn't be possible without a common metric.
Well they say on the funding page "We've been through a long creative process, from early concepts and sketches to 3D wireframes and a variety of test handsets. It's all led us to the beautiful Ubuntu Edge prototype that you see throughout this page." So you think they're lying?
Uh, they already have a prototype built you know... The funding is just for the actual mass production. Or so they say.
I don't know the details on this Catholic town trying to ban porn and condoms but honestly I can see arguments either way for whether or not that sort of law/ordinance should be legal to make. On the one hand, this is a planned community with a specific purpose so it only makes sense that that should (within reason) be able to set up any sort of laws they want. If you don't like it, don't move there.
Well, won't these people have children, significant others, employees etc., who are not completely free in their decision whether to live there or not?
Note that TeX nowadays has more "faces" than it used to have in the time of VT100 terminals.
While writing scientific papers, theses and monographs is probably still the most popular application by far, TeX is also the basis for very modern data based publishing applications like DocScape (plug: http://www.docscape.de/opencms/web/docscape/en/home/).
DocScape customers are producing millions (and printing tens of thousands) of pages a year in highest design quality, using a modern, data-driven and fully automated process. This is clearly technologically much more advanced than manual creation in DTP software, in the same sense that the fully automatic robot-based manufacturing of cars is technologically more advanced than manual assembly.
The stability, efficiency and versatility (in the sense that it is fully programmable and can produce arbitrary PDF structures) of the TeX engine is an all-important basis for such modern technology.