Seems the size of the paragraph doubles every 2 stories.
While processor speed has been stuck at 4GHz for several years. Adding cores improves performance only while you have one process you can assign in parallel to each core.
My town has a really nice art house, built and operated by our annual film festival. Outside of festival week, it's a great place to see opera simulcasts and dinner-and-movie theme evenings. For everything else, and I watch a lot of movies, there's Netflix.
I see two totally separate marketing modes currently in use for this technology: the hobbyist market, home of the X-10 coffeemaker that you can sort of get working if you do enough fiddling with your wiring assisted by the advice of obscure online hacker forums, and the high end market for "smart homes" that you order as a turnkey package from a builder or a security company. Nobody cares about the X-10 hobbyists because they are invisible, so to the general public home tech is associated with the Smart Home they saw demonstrated on HGTV and bought by a young couple who work for a law firm.
But if you just want to do something specific, like monitor your baby, there are all kinds of relatively inexpensive and easy to assemble systems like the Insteon sensors that I use. But know when to invoke professional help in putting a system together. Don't be that person who is on vacation when their breaking glass sensor pings their iPhone app so that they can helplessly watch their house being cleaned out on live spycam because they don't have a way of calling their local police from Costa Rica.
Buddy of mine at work had one of his garage door openers fail. Guess what happens when it fails? It opens up the garage door because that's the smart thing to do right? Fail-open all the stuff
Because having it fail locked would probably be a fire code violation.
This was my point. Water on the Earth circulates in a closed system, with none of it being "used up" or permanently sequestered. When fresh water leaches soluble minerals out of the rocks in the places where it flows, nature dumps all of the minerals into the oceans or into land basins without an outlet.
Man has the ability to optionally pull dissolved minerals out of the natural circulation and use them for human purposes. Now that desalination is about to vastly increase the amount of dissolved minerals that we can control, we have the opportunity to use more of them. Those that we don't, we dump back in the ocean the natural way.
Salt lakes like the big one in Utah are historically sources of salt, not places where we are going to dump more of it. Ever driven I-80 between SLC and Wendover? You see salt extraction plants lined along the highway, taking salt out of the lake. One level higher up is the Bonneville Salt Flat, which we are tryingto keep salty so we can race on it.
We will be desalinating from the oceans, and what salt we return will be to the oceans.
Well, missing from your rant is localized effects. But carry on, angry ignorant fool.
Okay, carrying on. Soaker hoses exist, allowing us to place concentrated brine back into the sea without oversalting any one place. Compared to the separation problem, this will be the trivial part of desalination.
"The biggest problem isn't removing the salt, it is what to do with all the excess salt that remains. If you dump it back into the ocean, it wipes out all sea life in a large radius. It is pretty devastating."
This is classic enviro bullshit. You just claimed that if we suck in some seawater, separate the water from the minerals, and then return the minerals to the ocean again, that they magically turn toxic against the same species that have been spending their lives in it? Human desalination cannot change the amount of water or salt in the environment. "Excess salt" does not exist.
In fact, because salt has value in commerce, a lot of desalination salt will be retained on land for use in industrial processes. So large-scale desalination could technically be used to decrease the amount of salt in the ocean - though the amounts of salt and water we are talking about are so small compared to what is in the oceans that we could never detect the change in any foreseeable future.
"OR was there an increase in coal-fired generation somewhere else in the state?"
That's exactly what the article says: a nuclear shutdown causes the nearest mothballed coal plants to be restarted. Though grids can extend for great distances, the most efficient replacement power when a plant goes offline is from the vicinity.
"All of that said, there's really only one remaining reason to build a nuclear plant today rather than put up wind or solar power. "
Or if you want to smelt steel, which is why we have to do that in Asia today. Or if you want to have big cities. A 2000 sq ft house in suburban Arizona can power itself from PV cells on the roof, but what happens in a Seattle high-rise apartment building where each resident's share of the roof area is measured in square inches? What if you want your city to have a subway system, and sewage treatment for several million people?
And yes, if California is to survive, it will need to desalinate the inexhaustible water supply it borders on. That will also take nukes.
Google did try becoming evil in hopes of increasing profits, but just like all the other times they suddenly gave up on the project without explanation.
"The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the BBC that correcting rogue apostrophes is his speciality."
There's an old British expression, the Greengrocer's Apostrophe, for apostrophes wrongly used to indicate plurals. The term comes from seeing signs like BEET'S 5 PENCE at farmers' markets.
Same goes for airfare but use multiple computers. The airlines use cookies and if you visit the same site multiple times they raise the rates on you. So look and then go to a clean computer to book it.
Always have a second browser on your system to make the actual booking.
I have this vision of aliens landing and finding the vault on Svalbard as the only trace of humanity's existence. The head researcher sticks the flash drives in the ground while vainly attempting to extract all of our books and films from the seeds. Glumly, they radio home to file a No Contact and move on to the next planet.
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Rack-mountable and cheese-grater are two different designs. Pick one.
Seems the size of the paragraph doubles every 2 stories.
While processor speed has been stuck at 4GHz for several years. Adding cores improves performance only while you have one process you can assign in parallel to each core.
My town has a really nice art house, built and operated by our annual film festival. Outside of festival week, it's a great place to see opera simulcasts and dinner-and-movie theme evenings. For everything else, and I watch a lot of movies, there's Netflix.
I see two totally separate marketing modes currently in use for this technology: the hobbyist market, home of the X-10 coffeemaker that you can sort of get working if you do enough fiddling with your wiring assisted by the advice of obscure online hacker forums, and the high end market for "smart homes" that you order as a turnkey package from a builder or a security company. Nobody cares about the X-10 hobbyists because they are invisible, so to the general public home tech is associated with the Smart Home they saw demonstrated on HGTV and bought by a young couple who work for a law firm.
But if you just want to do something specific, like monitor your baby, there are all kinds of relatively inexpensive and easy to assemble systems like the Insteon sensors that I use. But know when to invoke professional help in putting a system together. Don't be that person who is on vacation when their breaking glass sensor pings their iPhone app so that they can helplessly watch their house being cleaned out on live spycam because they don't have a way of calling their local police from Costa Rica.
Buddy of mine at work had one of his garage door openers fail. Guess what happens when it fails? It opens up the garage door because that's the smart thing to do right? Fail-open all the stuff
Because having it fail locked would probably be a fire code violation.
This was my point. Water on the Earth circulates in a closed system, with none of it being "used up" or permanently sequestered. When fresh water leaches soluble minerals out of the rocks in the places where it flows, nature dumps all of the minerals into the oceans or into land basins without an outlet.
Man has the ability to optionally pull dissolved minerals out of the natural circulation and use them for human purposes. Now that desalination is about to vastly increase the amount of dissolved minerals that we can control, we have the opportunity to use more of them. Those that we don't, we dump back in the ocean the natural way.
Salt lakes like the big one in Utah are historically sources of salt, not places where we are going to dump more of it. Ever driven I-80 between SLC and Wendover? You see salt extraction plants lined along the highway, taking salt out of the lake. One level higher up is the Bonneville Salt Flat, which we are tryingto keep salty so we can race on it.
We will be desalinating from the oceans, and what salt we return will be to the oceans.
Well, missing from your rant is localized effects. But carry on, angry ignorant fool.
Okay, carrying on. Soaker hoses exist, allowing us to place concentrated brine back into the sea without oversalting any one place. Compared to the separation problem, this will be the trivial part of desalination.
Using graphene for desalination was previously researched at MIT:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
"The biggest problem isn't removing the salt, it is what to do with all the excess salt that remains. If you dump it back into the ocean, it wipes out all sea life in a large radius. It is pretty devastating."
This is classic enviro bullshit. You just claimed that if we suck in some seawater, separate the water from the minerals, and then return the minerals to the ocean again, that they magically turn toxic against the same species that have been spending their lives in it? Human desalination cannot change the amount of water or salt in the environment. "Excess salt" does not exist.
In fact, because salt has value in commerce, a lot of desalination salt will be retained on land for use in industrial processes. So large-scale desalination could technically be used to decrease the amount of salt in the ocean - though the amounts of salt and water we are talking about are so small compared to what is in the oceans that we could never detect the change in any foreseeable future.
"OR was there an increase in coal-fired generation somewhere else in the state?"
That's exactly what the article says: a nuclear shutdown causes the nearest mothballed coal plants to be restarted. Though grids can extend for great distances, the most efficient replacement power when a plant goes offline is from the vicinity.
"All of that said, there's really only one remaining reason to build a nuclear plant today rather than put up wind or solar power. "
Or if you want to smelt steel, which is why we have to do that in Asia today. Or if you want to have big cities. A 2000 sq ft house in suburban Arizona can power itself from PV cells on the roof, but what happens in a Seattle high-rise apartment building where each resident's share of the roof area is measured in square inches? What if you want your city to have a subway system, and sewage treatment for several million people?
And yes, if California is to survive, it will need to desalinate the inexhaustible water supply it borders on. That will also take nukes.
"A nuclear shutdown presumably also leads to both job losses and fear, which may be factors."
If this were a factor, we could then blame Hollywood for low birth weight.
"Anonymity is out the window."
In that case, then what's the point of using Bitcoin? You can run a perfectly functional digital economy with yen or any other real currency.
Google did try becoming evil in hopes of increasing profits, but just like all the other times they suddenly gave up on the project without explanation.
"100F = 37,7778C."
Only in Tucson.
"Back in my day, we called them grammar Nazis. It might not be allowed these days though."
The term we use today is alt-grammarians.
"The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the BBC that correcting rogue apostrophes is his speciality."
There's an old British expression, the Greengrocer's Apostrophe, for apostrophes wrongly used to indicate plurals. The term comes from seeing signs like BEET'S 5 PENCE at farmers' markets.
is still email.
Great Idea, I'll send an email to Florida for my next vacation
T is will reduce, but not eliminate, your chances of getting hit with fake rental car damage fees.
This is why I bought an RV. The hotel industry is just full of scumbags ...
All evil comes to the customer who books travel through third-party sites. Protip: there is not really any such thing as an online travel agent.
If your trip is too complicated to book directly through airline and hotel sites, go a real travel agent who has an office in your town.
Same goes for airfare but use multiple computers. The airlines use cookies and if you visit the same site multiple times they raise the rates on you. So look and then go to a clean computer to book it.
Always have a second browser on your system to make the actual booking.
I have this vision of aliens landing and finding the vault on Svalbard as the only trace of humanity's existence. The head researcher sticks the flash drives in the ground while vainly attempting to extract all of our books and films from the seeds. Glumly, they radio home to file a No Contact and move on to the next planet.
So at a coffee counter, does she stick cash in the tip jar without making sure the barista is looking her way?
I was going to do “Democrats Revive House Un-American Activities Committee” but thought better of it.
"That's when I stopped believing in dark energy. They just haven't made enough observations."
Dammit! Just when I was hoping to unload my leftover luminiferous aether.