We can't really discuss fusion as an energy source because it doesn't exist yet, but I'm sure the flat-earth lobby will come up with a new set of specious objections to it when it does get here.
NIMBY and hippie heads are going to explode when the realization sets in that if we want to go zero carbon, renewables won't do it. There are no more good places in the US to build dams, and we don't have many places where we can put in an installation like the one I saw at Hellisheiði. Yellowstone is National Park, and the California thermal field has already been exploited. Hawaii would be a good site, but tapping that power has been held to offend the volcano gods.
So that leaves solar and wind as the avialble renewables. Both will provide a decent share of the peak load in suitable places, especially as applications are developed that can deal with fluctuating power supply, such as water desalination in California. But they can't provide the baseload that industries and large cities need, even if that "smart grid" pipe dream ever climbs the wall of NIMBYism that currently has it stymied.And no, we're not going to go back to coal the way Germany did.
Ringtone experience: being in a hiking shop when my iPhone rings, with the 'crickets' ringtone. About six different customers in the shop grab their iPhones too. And the phone that rang was someone else's.
US carbon emission is the fat green area in the chart. Yes, we will eventually grow our back to in erased carbon again if we coast on natural gas, but the replacement of coal by gas buys us time to build the long-term reactor fleet that going carbon free will require.
But the Planck scale includes no convenient equivalent of the metric shitload, or stere. Volumes would be expressed in inconvenient huge numbers, like Zimbabwean hotel bills.
The core value of metric is not just the decimal calculations, but that the units for different measures, such as weight and volume, fit together in an easily comprehensible way. No more medieval mess of fluid ounces, cups, pints and gallons.
It's the best ISP around here for bandwidth and availability, but as a cable provider it's limited in this rural area to customers who live on the cable runs. We have movie star mansions which can only get crappy DSL or even the any-port-in-a-storm Commspeed, a WISP that operates at analog modem speeds.
My one problem with Suddenlink is that it blocks certain sites. Does anyone else have to turn on a VPN to get youdrugstore.com?
"Trump's promises about bringing back coal mining jobs will fail. Those jobs are never coming back because they've been lost to automation. No amount of sabotaging environmental regulations will bring those jobs back."
No, the coal jobs are being lost to cheap gas - which right now is reducing US carbon output, Paris or no Paris.
And Sweden should have no trouble reaching its carbon-free goal because of its large hydro and nuclear baseload.
Well since it's inevitable then trying to reduce CO2 output is a waste of money.
The only way we could possibly sequester a meaningful amount is if someone managed to find a way to un-desertify the Sahara and planted trees throughout the whole thing in the next decade.
Seeding in properly selected parts of the oceans would be easier and faster.
8. Photos library! As a technically minded user of Apple products for many years, having lived through spotty transitions between iPhoto, Aperture and Photos, I don't trust Apple to curate my photo library at all. Instagram is better.
Dumbing down iPhoto into Photos by taking out user-designed folder organization was a change that has sold millions of copies of Adobe Lightroom.
The question for me is, why would I want to pay $6/month just to watch a few episodes of Star Trek: Discovery?
Especially if you already have CBS in your cable tier. That's why when I come back from the road to find I have missed a CBS episode, I have to Kodi it instead of being able to watch it on CBS streaming.
The obvious sequel to this is for people who find these terms offensive to trademark them preemptively.
This has already been done with domain names for years. NAACP owns all the obvious racist domain names, and so on. Trademark law, like all traditional legal norms, is still catching up with the Internet.
Yes, good for Coinbase for taking a stand. Ransomeware exists because people pay ransoms, it's as simple as that. To take this further: is there any way an exchange could facilitate the tracing of Bitcoin payments?
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And it's attitudes like this that bring the entire male species into disrepute.
If Silicon Valley males were a species, then the local women would be unable to mate with them and their tribe would expand only through recruitment.
Oh wait --
Also, it seems like it might cause a Streisand effect. Wouldn't that be lovely.
You mean that Internet users everywhere are going to start firing up coal stoves this fall just to spite the lawyers?
We can't really discuss fusion as an energy source because it doesn't exist yet, but I'm sure the flat-earth lobby will come up with a new set of specious objections to it when it does get here.
NIMBY and hippie heads are going to explode when the realization sets in that if we want to go zero carbon, renewables won't do it. There are no more good places in the US to build dams, and we don't have many places where we can put in an installation like the one I saw at Hellisheiði. Yellowstone is National Park, and the California thermal field has already been exploited. Hawaii would be a good site, but tapping that power has been held to offend the volcano gods.
So that leaves solar and wind as the avialble renewables. Both will provide a decent share of the peak load in suitable places, especially as applications are developed that can deal with fluctuating power supply, such as water desalination in California. But they can't provide the baseload that industries and large cities need, even if that "smart grid" pipe dream ever climbs the wall of NIMBYism that currently has it stymied.And no, we're not going to go back to coal the way Germany did.
I would say the discovery of fire and the invention of agriculture have provided far more returns.
Which puts Curiosity in some pretty elite company.
Ringtone experience: being in a hiking shop when my iPhone rings, with the 'crickets' ringtone. About six different customers in the shop grab their iPhones too. And the phone that rang was someone else's.
Charles Bronson runs a tight ship at Virgin. The $1 is quite an eyeopener.
Commit a crime in his neighborhood, and you will find out how the 'castle doctrine' works.
Except that this is about ringbacks , not ringtones.
Edit: 'erased'-> 'increased'. I was posting mobile.
Nobody here calls it kiwifruit.
Yet you call beets beetroot.
Sparkletts wants to hire you right away if you have a scheme for making water that light.
Actually one cubic meter would be 1000 kg, one tonne. But here again, the relationship among the metric units makes calculations easy.
https://www.epa.gov/climate-in...
US carbon emission is the fat green area in the chart. Yes, we will eventually grow our back to in erased carbon again if we coast on natural gas, but the replacement of coal by gas buys us time to build the long-term reactor fleet that going carbon free will require.
But the Planck scale includes no convenient equivalent of the metric shitload, or stere. Volumes would be expressed in inconvenient huge numbers, like Zimbabwean hotel bills.
The core value of metric is not just the decimal calculations, but that the units for different measures, such as weight and volume, fit together in an easily comprehensible way. No more medieval mess of fluid ounces, cups, pints and gallons.
It's the best ISP around here for bandwidth and availability, but as a cable provider it's limited in this rural area to customers who live on the cable runs. We have movie star mansions which can only get crappy DSL or even the any-port-in-a-storm Commspeed, a WISP that operates at analog modem speeds.
My one problem with Suddenlink is that it blocks certain sites. Does anyone else have to turn on a VPN to get youdrugstore.com?
"Trump's promises about bringing back coal mining jobs will fail. Those jobs are never coming back because they've been lost to automation. No amount of sabotaging environmental regulations will bring those jobs back."
No, the coal jobs are being lost to cheap gas - which right now is reducing US carbon output, Paris or no Paris.
And Sweden should have no trouble reaching its carbon-free goal because of its large hydro and nuclear baseload.
'Whoa! Maybe we shouldn't have printed that replacement rudder in PLA!'
Well since it's inevitable then trying to reduce CO2 output is a waste of money.
The only way we could possibly sequester a meaningful amount is if someone managed to find a way to un-desertify the Sahara and planted trees throughout the whole thing in the next decade.
Seeding in properly selected parts of the oceans would be easier and faster.
Women become rampaging bull-dikes.
No, that's just because you're using your Mac at a university.
8. Photos library! As a technically minded user of Apple products for many years, having lived through spotty transitions between iPhoto, Aperture and Photos, I don't trust Apple to curate my photo library at all. Instagram is better.
Dumbing down iPhoto into Photos by taking out user-designed folder organization was a change that has sold millions of copies of Adobe Lightroom.
I've never found the need yet for remote storage. I don't really understand what people use DropBox for.
Emailing large files.
I've wanted I(heart)269 on my car since California added their little set of additional characters
Emoji license plate characters? Is there a finger?
The question for me is, why would I want to pay $6/month just to watch a few episodes of Star Trek: Discovery?
Especially if you already have CBS in your cable tier. That's why when I come back from the road to find I have missed a CBS episode, I have to Kodi it instead of being able to watch it on CBS streaming.
The obvious sequel to this is for people who find these terms offensive to trademark them preemptively.
This has already been done with domain names for years. NAACP owns all the obvious racist domain names, and so on. Trademark law, like all traditional legal norms, is still catching up with the Internet.
'Those darned teenagers! Spending hour after hour on the phone!
Yes, good for Coinbase for taking a stand. Ransomeware exists because people pay ransoms, it's as simple as that. To take this further: is there any way an exchange could facilitate the tracing of Bitcoin payments?