They should pitch it as a window coating that has a far better thermal performance than triple pane windows, does not require replacing your existing windows and costs a fraction of said replacement.
Oh yeah, and it will charge your cellphone too. With a lot of windows, a bunch of cell phones.
Makes me wonder just how big/bitchin a system you could put in a 10gal fishtank. Just think of all the wild component mounting configurations you could to with clear plastic.
Neither will Arizona. Why? The quasi-governmental authorities of Salt River Project and Arizona Public Service got the law changed back in the late 70's (thank you, Corporation Commission) so that such a thing was impossible. See, they're in the business of MAKING money, not giving it back to you.
What the hell you talkin' 'bout, Willis?
You can indeed sell power back to SRP and APS at a profit. You buy at retail, sell at wholesale and they get paid for managing the distribution of power.
Do your research before running off at the mouth like that.
The two power companies here in Phoenix (SRP and APS) ultimately see themselves as managing the distribution of power, versus actually generating power. They're all for it.
I believe the management surcharge for excess energy put back into the grid is $0.025 per KWH. Prices here range from $0.07 to $0.17 per KWH. Works for me.
Now all I need is lots of solar panels. And maybe a house to put them on...
Perhaps comparing this to the same process on Paris Hilton would be a report that sparks SkyNet to life. I don't know. Seriously, if those two have 6 of the top ten words in common it would have to mean something. What, words like: idiot, dumbass and crotchrot?
It depends on how often are you planning on reading the data. Once a year, maybe?
It's an archive, not a backup. Backups are for "Oh crap! I just deleted the Quickbooks file!"
Archives are for "Oh crap! The server room just 'splode!"
Or for pulling old historical data, like emails from eight years ago.
Or in the case of the common ancestor here, pulling the raw footage in order to create a fun little retrospective to show at his now adult (in 2030) son's wedding reception.
Ya know, I keep seeing comments like this and I have to wonder...
What make you think he's only going to be in the shed during the day? Do you assume he doesn't work during the day, like most of us?
Are you meaning to be funny? Funny comes from the unexpected, not the blatantly obvious.
I mean, come on, how productive do you think this kind of response really is?
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Here in AZ, if you generate more energy than you use in any given month, the utilities (APS and SRP) will actually pay you the difference (minus a small management/service fee, of course). Also, the big rebate comes from the utilities, not the state, which just gives a tax credit.
I've always tried to appreciate the technology I interact with in my everyday life. It gives me the insight to understand what we are capable of in the future. And how soon that future may be.
I actually live in Phoenix and work in a suburb, Chandler.
Our 10Ksqf warehouse uses 4 swamp coolers to cool it during the summer. Running at full blast, the temperature usually never drops below 20 degrees F of the ambient temperature outside. To get even that, we are, IIRC, running about 80 gallons an hour total through those units. The water is so hard here in the Valley, that we have to have the pads cleaned once a month because they get completely clogged up with salt and minerals. And that's after installing in-line filters.
Also, they are only effective with less than 30% humidity. Basically only the first half of summer here. As the monsoon season starts building up, the humidity rises and it hits 102-103F in the warehouse.
Also, keep in mind that for a fair chunk of the summer, it never drops below a 100 degrees. Even at night. Whether it's swamp or air-con, you're running it most of the time.
Swamp coolers are definitely cheaper than aircon, but you get what you pay for.
If not, backing up will still be a time-consuming nightmare, even if restores are relatively easy.
Assuming 6 minutes to burn and swap a 4.7GB DVD, it would take you a bit over 21 hours to back up 1TB. And every time you were away for more than six minutes, you would extend that total time.
Assuming no compression on the tape, it would take 10 LTO tapes and about 20 hours to back up 1TB. Gen 1 LTO's run about 14MB/sec. You would need to swap tapes every two hours, not every six minutes. It still would suck, though.
For about double the price ($700-800), you could get set up with an LTO2 drive, which have a native capacity of 200GB and run about 30MB/sec. That would cut your tapes down to 5 and your total back time to about 10 hours.
Backing up 1TB is definitely a non-trivial task. Even copying to a 1TB HDD will take hours (more than five, unless you're going from array to array of drives). For sequential, sustained transfer, LTO3 drives (70MB/sec) are actually faster than even the fastest of non-SS HDD's. They are 'spensive, though.
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Ya know, I think they're selling this all wrong.
They should pitch it as a window coating that has a far better thermal performance than triple pane windows, does not require replacing your existing windows and costs a fraction of said replacement.
Oh yeah, and it will charge your cellphone too. With a lot of windows, a bunch of cell phones.
Simple? No.
Awesome? Yes!
Makes me wonder just how big/bitchin a system you could put in a 10gal fishtank. Just think of all the wild component mounting configurations you could to with clear plastic.
Silly dominoans! Now every pizza place know how much it costs to open a pizzaria on the moon. They just gave up their competitive advantage.
IE 7 won't run on Win 2000, either.
(though I am adamantly opposed to a sequel of Johnny Mnemonic)
Um, you don't want anyone to do Neuromancer?
With a 10K Solar Array and appropriate battery storage, you could run 50 eeeBoxen for a year.
A 10K array can pull about 9000 KWh per year. An eeeBox has a maximum power draw of 20W (480Wh per day, or 175.2KWh per year).
And that's in Seattle. Here in Phoenix, you'll be generating more like 14000 KWh per year. Which is almost 80 eeeBoxen.
Hmmm... Asus needs to make eeeServers.
Never underestimate the power of Captain Backhoe!
Dude, what's a guy (just a guess) like you doing in a place like this?
You should be here:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/mindx/frame.html
TTFN,
Moekandu
That is absolutely brilliant!
Thank you.
Yeah, me too.
I get chills just thinking about the trailer.
The book On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins describes why researchers think the neocortex is important.
Not phrenology by a long shot.
"Don't tag me, bro!"
Neither will Arizona.
Why? The quasi-governmental authorities of Salt River Project and Arizona Public Service got the law changed back in the late 70's (thank you, Corporation Commission) so that such a thing was impossible.
See, they're in the business of MAKING money, not giving it back to you.
What the hell you talkin' 'bout, Willis?
You can indeed sell power back to SRP and APS at a profit. You buy at retail, sell at wholesale and they get paid for managing the distribution of power.
Do your research before running off at the mouth like that.
The two power companies here in Phoenix (SRP and APS) ultimately see themselves as managing the distribution of power, versus actually generating power. They're all for it.
I believe the management surcharge for excess energy put back into the grid is $0.025 per KWH. Prices here range from $0.07 to $0.17 per KWH. Works for me.
Now all I need is lots of solar panels. And maybe a house to put them on...
FYI alcohol doesn't really kill brain cells (unless you were to pour the alcohol directly on the brain cells, perhaps).
Yeah. That sounds like a Darwin Award waiting to happen.
An ISP in Japan will also soon be throttling their user's bandwidth.
Yes, they are creating an upload cap of 30GB per day. Not per month, per day .
I for one, welcome our Japanese ISP bandwidth capping overlords! Please?
Too bad it's out of my price range. I'd like to own .domedomedomerighthereonthecoffeetable.
Yeah, that would mean something all right.
I would take a used LTO drive from a good company over a new, factory-sealed SDLT that someone gave me for free.
It depends on how often are you planning on reading the data. Once a year, maybe?
It's an archive, not a backup. Backups are for "Oh crap! I just deleted the Quickbooks file!"
Archives are for "Oh crap! The server room just 'splode!"
Or for pulling old historical data, like emails from eight years ago.
Or in the case of the common ancestor here, pulling the raw footage in order to create a fun little retrospective to show at his now adult (in 2030) son's wedding reception.
Ya know, I keep seeing comments like this and I have to wonder...
What make you think he's only going to be in the shed during the day? Do you assume he doesn't work during the day, like most of us?
Are you meaning to be funny? Funny comes from the unexpected, not the blatantly obvious.
I mean, come on, how productive do you think this kind of response really is?
Here in AZ, if you generate more energy than you use in any given month, the utilities (APS and SRP) will actually pay you the difference (minus a small management/service fee, of course). Also, the big rebate comes from the utilities, not the state, which just gives a tax credit.
The rules definitely vary by locale.
Mod parent up!
I've always tried to appreciate the technology I interact with in my everyday life. It gives me the insight to understand what we are capable of in the future. And how soon that future may be.
I actually live in Phoenix and work in a suburb, Chandler.
Our 10Ksqf warehouse uses 4 swamp coolers to cool it during the summer. Running at full blast, the temperature usually never drops below 20 degrees F of the ambient temperature outside. To get even that, we are, IIRC, running about 80 gallons an hour total through those units. The water is so hard here in the Valley, that we have to have the pads cleaned once a month because they get completely clogged up with salt and minerals. And that's after installing in-line filters.
Also, they are only effective with less than 30% humidity. Basically only the first half of summer here. As the monsoon season starts building up, the humidity rises and it hits 102-103F in the warehouse.
Also, keep in mind that for a fair chunk of the summer, it never drops below a 100 degrees. Even at night. Whether it's swamp or air-con, you're running it most of the time.
Swamp coolers are definitely cheaper than aircon, but you get what you pay for.
Does your carousel burn DVD's?
If not, backing up will still be a time-consuming nightmare, even if restores are relatively easy.
Assuming 6 minutes to burn and swap a 4.7GB DVD, it would take you a bit over 21 hours to back up 1TB. And every time you were away for more than six minutes, you would extend that total time.
Assuming no compression on the tape, it would take 10 LTO tapes and about 20 hours to back up 1TB. Gen 1 LTO's run about 14MB/sec. You would need to swap tapes every two hours, not every six minutes. It still would suck, though.
For about double the price ($700-800), you could get set up with an LTO2 drive, which have a native capacity of 200GB and run about 30MB/sec. That would cut your tapes down to 5 and your total back time to about 10 hours.
Backing up 1TB is definitely a non-trivial task. Even copying to a 1TB HDD will take hours (more than five, unless you're going from array to array of drives). For sequential, sustained transfer, LTO3 drives (70MB/sec) are actually faster than even the fastest of non-SS HDD's. They are 'spensive, though.