All of the fast changes of electrical supply cited in the article were moves from one baseload source to another. But if you want to move from baseload to renewables (other than the lone baseload renewable, hydro) we will need a new grid. The envisioned upgrade, "Smart Grid" would be able to match fluctuating supplies with continually monitored and controlled loads. Yes, you will have to give your utility power to continually monitor your electrical demand and be able to switch your major appliances on and off to match the changing supply of sun and wind. Changing over to this grid will cost a few teradollars.
The very first small step in upgrading to Smart Grid is Smart Meter, the first generation of which continually monitors load for each user, but does not have the control component. In my town the hippie moms have already protested away Smart Meter on grounds that they "emit radiation" by which they mean use cellular data chips to send their readings to the utility. So around here anyway, the flat-earth lobby has already eaten its own proposed solution.
A fundamental difference between Boeing and TVA is that Boeing is making ongoing use of technology it develops in competition with other companies of its type, wherever they may be located. TVA, on the other hand, recently canceled its plans to build new next-generation nukes. That being the case, it has no business sitting on technology that the rest of the world can use.
What would be even better would be for Adobe to drop Acrobat Reader, forcing Microsoft to embed PDF support in Windows, just like the Other Guys. Approximately one third of a Windows user's working day seems to be installing Acrobat updates.
Because TVA is an electric utility, not a military organization, the nuclear information it possesses is purely for civilian use. If it allows China to emit less carbon by closing more coal plants, the net effect will be beneficial for everyone.
The crime here is not espionage, but theft of TVA's intellectual property.
"But Ramanujan was never taught the process of writing down formal proofs, he self thought everything from a handbook of mathematical identities. Rediscovering several things others had already discovered and proved. He was utterly at a loss to explain how he was able to do math. He simply said, "I look at the equation or a problem. Then Goddess Namagiri Devi writes the answer in my tongue and I recite it". (not an accurate quote, paraphrased by me)"
The other mathematician who was self-taught in the same way was Blaise Pascal. He even invented his own terminology for conventional geometric forms because his family kept him away from formal study.
This processor will have eight common cores and be capable of simulating such real-world situations as a table of foodies fighting over how to divide a restaurant check.
It turns out that a lot of benign species, like damsel flies and fish flies, are ready to occupy the mosquito ecological niche. The world will not miss them.
"Denial much, guys? Do you work for coal/oil companies?"
If you want to see industrial-strength denial, just point out to a Church of Warminetics Operating Thetan that eliminating carbon would mean switching from fossil energy sources to nuclear.
"Cash is by far the preferred choice of payment by criminals worldwide should we ban that too?"
Has there ever been a single instance in the wild of ransomware for cash? Kidnapping for ransom died out in the US because of the increasing difficulty of making a cash drop. I predict that we are about to see kidnapping come back into style, for Bitcoin.
Many of the ransomware schemes, especially the ones aimed ta corporate users, use social engineering to trick users into clicking on a software install request and then giving specific permission to run the program. These techniques are applicable on any platform.
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All of the fast changes of electrical supply cited in the article were moves from one baseload source to another. But if you want to move from baseload to renewables (other than the lone baseload renewable, hydro) we will need a new grid. The envisioned upgrade, "Smart Grid" would be able to match fluctuating supplies with continually monitored and controlled loads. Yes, you will have to give your utility power to continually monitor your electrical demand and be able to switch your major appliances on and off to match the changing supply of sun and wind. Changing over to this grid will cost a few teradollars.
The very first small step in upgrading to Smart Grid is Smart Meter, the first generation of which continually monitors load for each user, but does not have the control component. In my town the hippie moms have already protested away Smart Meter on grounds that they "emit radiation" by which they mean use cellular data chips to send their readings to the utility. So around here anyway, the flat-earth lobby has already eaten its own proposed solution.
This bill is so insane that it will sail right through Congress.
A fundamental difference between Boeing and TVA is that Boeing is making ongoing use of technology it develops in competition with other companies of its type, wherever they may be located. TVA, on the other hand, recently canceled its plans to build new next-generation nukes. That being the case, it has no business sitting on technology that the rest of the world can use.
" if the Chinese government sends agents to steal information about more efficient aircraft engines from Boeing to pass on to COMAC"
That too would be theft of company IP.
I was there at UC when my generation protested Gov. Reagan's civilization-destroying increase of tuition from $80 per quarter to $100.
What would be even better would be for Adobe to drop Acrobat Reader, forcing Microsoft to embed PDF support in Windows, just like the Other Guys. Approximately one third of a Windows user's working day seems to be installing Acrobat updates.
Hired PR can paper over the effects of an errant email, but if you try to erase a news event, you just spammed Barbra Streisand.
Because TVA is an electric utility, not a military organization, the nuclear information it possesses is purely for civilian use. If it allows China to emit less carbon by closing more coal plants, the net effect will be beneficial for everyone.
The crime here is not espionage, but theft of TVA's intellectual property.
Why not life in jail? How does the whore get to keep millions of dollars for doing nothing and giving people fake health data?
Or she could run for president. Worked for Carly Fiorina, didn't it?
"But Ramanujan was never taught the process of writing down formal proofs, he self thought everything from a handbook of mathematical identities. Rediscovering several things others had already discovered and proved. He was utterly at a loss to explain how he was able to do math. He simply said, "I look at the equation or a problem. Then Goddess Namagiri Devi writes the answer in my tongue and I recite it". (not an accurate quote, paraphrased by me)"
The other mathematician who was self-taught in the same way was Blaise Pascal. He even invented his own terminology for conventional geometric forms because his family kept him away from formal study.
"Was also the last really good year for American pop music, before disco took over. "
Also the year of my first really good relationship.
Added to queue. Netflix still rocks.
And this is the company that Trump wants to entrust with building a wall around the solar system to keep out aliens?
This processor will have eight common cores and be capable of simulating such real-world situations as a table of foodies fighting over how to divide a restaurant check.
It turns out that a lot of benign species, like damsel flies and fish flies, are ready to occupy the mosquito ecological niche. The world will not miss them.
Release those GMO mosquitos that eliminate the species spreading Zika
"Denial much, guys? Do you work for coal/oil companies?"
If you want to see industrial-strength denial, just point out to a Church of Warminetics Operating Thetan that eliminating carbon would mean switching from fossil energy sources to nuclear.
"Pompous European millennials are calling American's stupid."
Now Europeans can only wish they could have built a wall, and made the Saudis pay for it.
"Liberals are terrified of degradation of civil liberties and reductions in public health and safety."
They are also terrified of science, and whatever it might be applied to.
"Companies banding together to exert control on governments is nothing new. "
In fact, it's business as usual. Hence the popularity this year of 'outsider' candidates.
It's two-factor login without the first factor.
"Cash is by far the preferred choice of payment by criminals worldwide should we ban that too?"
Has there ever been a single instance in the wild of ransomware for cash? Kidnapping for ransom died out in the US because of the increasing difficulty of making a cash drop. I predict that we are about to see kidnapping come back into style, for Bitcoin.
"...you'll find that this is Windows specific"
Many of the ransomware schemes, especially the ones aimed ta corporate users, use social engineering to trick users into clicking on a software install request and then giving specific permission to run the program. These techniques are applicable on any platform.
Certainly the return signal would have to be something tight-beam, such as another laser. We could have to look for backscatter from the signal.
"Actually we bounce laser beams off of the Moon [wikipedia.org] to measure Earth/Moon distance on a regular basis."
Because we relay off a corner-reflector array that was placed there for that purpose.