There is no nighttime in space. There are no clouds in space, no atmosphere to dilute the sun's energy, no birds to fly by and crap on the panels. That means 24h efficiency.
Yes, but then again there's the transmission problems... the earth DOES move. The solar sat would have to be able to track ground stations properly to be able to beam enough power to make it work. That, and there would have to be ground stations all around the circumference of the earth, most likely at the equator. (so as the energy travels as close to perpendicular to the earth's surface.)
Yes, you COULD build a 10-square-mile solar panel farm in New Mexico, but you wouldn't even be able to get the current out of state before line-losses, frequency problems, and other transmission problems ate all of your energy.
You'd do it the same way the other power companies do... Use an inverter to covert DC to square-pulsed AC, and then up the voltage to 100Kv or so, and haul it across the state. It's how the Central Valley Project here in California gets power from the dams in northern Cal. to the isolated farms in middle, and southern Cal.
Have you just never given any presentations that you needed to develop rapidly, or do you have some secret?
In the rare instance I have to develop a presentation, I put my photoshop skills to work, and create slides to view in ACDsee. (when I'm using the Windows NT environment.) In the Linux environment, I use GIMP and Kwrite to quickly HTML presentation shows. After this, I usually use a web browser in full screen.
For those who have no HTML skills, use Netscape Composer to place and link images. I've often thought of writing a C++/PHP script to preprocess a directory into a slideshow in HTML Form. That would be sufficient for me. Anything more than that, can't be "quickly" developed imho. (short of having mad multimedia skills, and doing no other job function.)
But really, Americans should worry more about your right to avoid having to mop your children's brains off the floor because they had a bad attack of the teenage blues and decided to end it all.
Personally, since when did we Americans have that right? Last I checked, Americans were generally in favor of doing with our body what we wish. This begs the question, how would CCTV really help a teenager who commits suicide? I doubt highly that such a system would have prevented anything that happened at either Jonesboro AK, or Columbine CO.
Another possibility not explored often enough, is what will this be used for 20 years down the line? American politicians have a habit of stripping our civil rights "to save the children". (and after 9-11-2k1, "to prevent terrorism"!) What is legal now, may not be in the future. And once the test cases have firmly cemented the use of cameras as legal, we slide right off the edge of the slippery slope into 1984.
So thanks, but I'll keep a gun in my jacket in case I feel unsafe walking the streets at 3am. (And just what is it you ARE doing at 3am in Brixton?)
Ducting is OK, but consider the material. Using PVC pipe for anything other than water is against code in CA. For running cable or wire of any kind, use plenum STP, or conduit encased UTP.
MOF, somewhere in the CA building code, it states that any wire that has outer insulation (ie: romex, cat-5, etc.) can't be run through conduit. But my books are back home. Can someone correct me on that?
Generally, there's only a few things to consider: (Please note: this is for wired networks only, since most home-grade wireless stuff isn't scalable past 11Mbps)
1: If you're going to run cables through walls, in an attic, under the floor boards, etc., use shielded twisted pair ethernet wiring. Not only will it reduce interference, but it usually is plenum rated to comply with building codes.
2: Consider using metal conduit if STP/Plenum cable is not available. Conduit is available at whatever necessary length from home building suppliers, and can be grounded independently to a grounding rod to reduce noise, and avoid ground loops.
3: Plan for expansion! Run at least 4 lines to each room of the house, and pool them all together with a fast ethernet switch, stored in a cool, dry place.:) If your switch has a higher bandwidth port for routing to external networks, point that to your proxy/firewall/nat/etc. boxen.
4: This is redundant, but be professional. Use wall boxes, etc for all the ports.
5: Plan your network security. Lots of people get so involved with the coolness of a wired home, that they forget all their network skills.
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There is no nighttime in space. There are no clouds in space, no atmosphere to dilute the sun's energy, no birds to fly by and crap on the panels. That means 24h efficiency.
Yes, but then again there's the transmission problems... the earth DOES move. The solar sat would have to be able to track ground stations properly to be able to beam enough power to make it work. That, and there would have to be ground stations all around the circumference of the earth, most likely at the equator. (so as the energy travels as close to perpendicular to the earth's surface.)
Yes, you COULD build a 10-square-mile solar panel farm in New Mexico, but you wouldn't even be able to get the current out of state before line-losses, frequency problems, and other transmission problems ate all of your energy.
You'd do it the same way the other power companies do... Use an inverter to covert DC to square-pulsed AC, and then up the voltage to 100Kv or so, and haul it across the state. It's how the Central Valley Project here in California gets power from the dams in northern Cal. to the isolated farms in middle, and southern Cal.
Have you just never given any presentations that you needed to develop rapidly, or do you have some secret?
In the rare instance I have to develop a presentation, I put my photoshop skills to work, and create slides to view in ACDsee. (when I'm using the Windows NT environment.) In the Linux environment, I use GIMP and Kwrite to quickly HTML presentation shows. After this, I usually use a web browser in full screen.
For those who have no HTML skills, use Netscape Composer to place and link images. I've often thought of writing a C++/PHP script to preprocess a directory into a slideshow in HTML Form. That would be sufficient for me. Anything more than that, can't be "quickly" developed imho. (short of having mad multimedia skills, and doing no other job function.)
Personally, since when did we Americans have that right? Last I checked, Americans were generally in favor of doing with our body what we wish. This begs the question, how would CCTV really help a teenager who commits suicide? I doubt highly that such a system would have prevented anything that happened at either Jonesboro AK, or Columbine CO.
Another possibility not explored often enough, is what will this be used for 20 years down the line? American politicians have a habit of stripping our civil rights "to save the children". (and after 9-11-2k1, "to prevent terrorism"!) What is legal now, may not be in the future. And once the test cases have firmly cemented the use of cameras as legal, we slide right off the edge of the slippery slope into 1984.
So thanks, but I'll keep a gun in my jacket in case I feel unsafe walking the streets at 3am. (And just what is it you ARE doing at 3am in Brixton?)
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MOF, somewhere in the CA building code, it states that any wire that has outer insulation (ie: romex, cat-5, etc.) can't be run through conduit. But my books are back home. Can someone correct me on that?
(Please note: this is for wired networks only, since most home-grade wireless stuff isn't scalable past 11Mbps)
1: If you're going to run cables through walls, in an attic, under the floor boards, etc., use shielded twisted pair ethernet wiring. Not only will it reduce interference, but it usually is plenum rated to comply with building codes.
2: Consider using metal conduit if STP/Plenum cable is not available. Conduit is available at whatever necessary length from home building suppliers, and can be grounded independently to a grounding rod to reduce noise, and avoid ground loops.
3: Plan for expansion! Run at least 4 lines to each room of the house, and pool them all together with a fast ethernet switch, stored in a cool, dry place. :) If your switch has a higher bandwidth port for routing to external networks, point that to your proxy/firewall/nat/etc. boxen.
4: This is redundant, but be professional. Use wall boxes, etc for all the ports.
5: Plan your network security. Lots of people get so involved with the coolness of a wired home, that they forget all their network skills.
6: If you live in CA, I highly suggest a UPS. :)