OK fine I will run the numbers for you: One day a month is statistically significant at around 3%.
My cellphone battery is 3.V, 750mAh, or about 3Watt-hours capacity. Emptying/charging it every week of the year gives about 150Wh consumption then, compared to 13,500,000Wh an American uses a year, or about 0.001%. This is statistically insignificant.
Hopefully that makes things a bit clearer for you.
Given that the average American consumes 13,500KWh per year, getting a couple of Watt-hours into your phone from wasted heat instead of the grid isn't going to make a damn bit of difference.
It might be keeping an close eye on Pakistan's nuclear weapons facilities too, given the way that country is heading. Can't be much fun having a collapsing nuclear power next door.
Disagree. If you haven't figured out how to question authority by the time you're out of school there's no hope for you, whether there's a day of the year supposedly dedicated to it or not. There's quite enough bullshit on the internet as it is, without degrading the established science sites down to that level on one day of the year.
Besides the article being dated March 31, 2009, joking about autism isn't exactly a barrel of laughs. Apr 1 seems to have turned into some kind of trial of trust of the media now, which pisses me off.
You might want to have a look at this article which suggests that uranium production way well have already peaked and will drop to zero by around 2050 or so, with ever increasing cost per kg produced. Since reprocessing is illegal in the USA, problems might arise sooner rather than later.
I think the fundamental problem is that in the West, energy (specifically watts-hours of electricity in this case) have been so cheap in the last few decades as to be effectively free. This is changing now through worldwide recession and the depletion of the easy-to-get fossil fuel. Once electricity prices start seriously ramping up (which they inevitably will), companies will be giving their utility bills a lot more scrutiny.
My 9 year old Vaio N505SN is almost as thin as that and 2.6lbs. Nice tough magnesium shell. Still working great as an XP netbook after all these years too.
Isn't California running out of money, spare electricity capacity and (most importantly) fresh water? In terms of imminent threats, I'm surprised terrorism is even on the horizon.
Interesting implications for other fringe-science fields, such as ESP and the paranormal. What kind of information has been being transmitted/received through the ether that we've never previously had the knowledge/tech to receive and interpret?
Individual transport within an airport - an environment designed round mass transport?
The Heathrow video claims '50% lower carbon emissions than buses or trains' - is that per passenger though? In a busy airport like Heathrow regular trains would be more efficient than individual transporters surely.
There's an apocryphal story that someone suggested a branch of Firefox that was leaned down by concentrating on the core browser functionality... what goes around...
It's always been kind-of annoying knowing that in a lot of netbooks, the super-efficient 2W Atom processor was paired with a clunky old 6W 945 chipset. Such a waste of battery life.
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Agreed. It's what Gumstix seems to be using for their tiny ARM-based boards, it's a good lightweight alternative to the increasingly bloated glibc.
ARM is getting big these days, it's not a market to sideline.
OK fine I will run the numbers for you:
One day a month is statistically significant at around 3%.
My cellphone battery is 3.V, 750mAh, or about 3Watt-hours capacity. Emptying/charging it every week of the year gives about 150Wh consumption then, compared to 13,500,000Wh an American uses a year, or about 0.001%. This is statistically insignificant.
Hopefully that makes things a bit clearer for you.
Given that the average American consumes 13,500KWh per year, getting a couple of Watt-hours into your phone from wasted heat instead of the grid isn't going to make a damn bit of difference.
It might be keeping an close eye on Pakistan's nuclear weapons facilities too, given the way that country is heading. Can't be much fun having a collapsing nuclear power next door.
I dont see any of the diesel big-rigs that are traitionally required to bring food and other resources into a city.
So why are 'worm' and 'virus' (in the context of computing) on the list?
Next thing you know, the robot will abduct a pretty female lab assistant to experiment on.
Disagree. If you haven't figured out how to question authority by the time you're out of school there's no hope for you, whether there's a day of the year supposedly dedicated to it or not. There's quite enough bullshit on the internet as it is, without degrading the established science sites down to that level on one day of the year.
Besides the article being dated March 31, 2009, joking about autism isn't exactly a barrel of laughs. Apr 1 seems to have turned into some kind of trial of trust of the media now, which pisses me off.
Anybody interested in the Anthropogenic Global Warming debate should watch The Great Global Warming Swindle for a polemic viewpoint.
You might want to have a look at this article which suggests that uranium production way well have already peaked and will drop to zero by around 2050 or so, with ever increasing cost per kg produced. Since reprocessing is illegal in the USA, problems might arise sooner rather than later.
I think the fundamental problem is that in the West, energy (specifically watts-hours of electricity in this case) have been so cheap in the last few decades as to be effectively free. This is changing now through worldwide recession and the depletion of the easy-to-get fossil fuel. Once electricity prices start seriously ramping up (which they inevitably will), companies will be giving their utility bills a lot more scrutiny.
This sounds similar to the case of Ireland's most reckless driver.
Somebody needs some Slack.
Reminds me of the 'Feelies' in Huxley's 'Brave New World'. It will probably end up being mainly used in the same fashion. (i.e. for porn)
My 9 year old Vaio N505SN is almost as thin as that and 2.6lbs. Nice tough magnesium shell. Still working great as an XP netbook after all these years too.
Isn't California running out of money, spare electricity capacity and (most importantly) fresh water? In terms of imminent threats, I'm surprised terrorism is even on the horizon.
As long as your sirname isn't Buttle.
Feels like there's a great danger here of falling deep into the uncanny valley, especially with facial prosthetics.
Interesting implications for other fringe-science fields, such as ESP and the paranormal. What kind of information has been being transmitted/received through the ether that we've never previously had the knowledge/tech to receive and interpret?
So did I, while on the ##1234567890 channel, good clean geeky fun.
Individual transport within an airport - an environment designed round mass transport?
The Heathrow video claims '50% lower carbon emissions than buses or trains' - is that per passenger though? In a busy airport like Heathrow regular trains would be more efficient than individual transporters surely.
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Mozilla Firefox
There's an apocryphal story that someone suggested a branch of Firefox that was leaned down by concentrating on the core browser functionality... what goes around...
So basically he's advocating fuzzy logic, which was big in AI research in the 80's?
It's always been kind-of annoying knowing that in a lot of netbooks, the super-efficient 2W Atom processor was paired with a clunky old 6W 945 chipset. Such a waste of battery life.