Well the how of the burning is significant. Think of the smoke produced burning oil in a Diesel engine des vs lighting a pan of it on fire in your garage. The combustion could be just slightly bad instead of extra bad.
Otherwise, agreed. Better to turn it into smoke and CO2 than kill the sea critters.
Have prices gone up? I bought a 1KWh pack last year for less than $900 shipped. Granted it wasn't a high-performance 10C pack, but it would probably work fine for something like this.
VW is one of the few makes for which you can get your own fully functional scanner (not just OBDII) for a relatively reasonable price: VAG-COM (I didn't come up with the name). It lets you interact with pretty much everything in the car with their hardware dongle and software and a laptop. It's still a little bit steep for what's essentially a serial-to-USB converter, but I suppose you're mostly paying for their reverse-engineering time.
I tried some Feit Electric brand ones in my can fixtures attached to an electronic Lutron dimmer with no luck. The dimmer must have some kind of check for load or something because it would just blink its indicator. That bums me out because my wife insists on having a dimmer (exactly that dimmer) in that room which means we're stuck with 360W of halogens for now.
agreed, iperf is the best way to test link speeds, not hacking up some RAM drive test. One nice thing about the ram drive thing is you can test other parts of the stack, though.
sorry... very obscure. The reference was def 1 from here. Having to explain it makes it not funny, but if it wasn't funny to begin with then nothing is lost.
There aren't a lot of mountains or really any kind of elevation changes in SW MN (where most of the wind turbines are) so that means towers or some other method of creating elevation. I'm guessing you'd need either many small tanks or some really really huge ones to store any measurable amount of energy. Maybe there's some way the water storage could be built into the turbine's tower to save on costs.
Like some others have said, this works best for places with some hills or mountains.
No acorns here in the Twin Cities area either. I attributed it to stress induced by a leaf-stripping hail storm that rolled through toward the end of May, but apparently it's not just my yard.
I have three of them hanging over my roof so it was kinda nice not to have the 2 weeks of acorn mortar shelling we usually get every summer. I'll start worrying if the same thing happens next year...
think Mark Hamill who did video cut scenes for the Wing Commander games back in the mid-90s. People bought that game because he was a part of it, he can ask for royalties.
I think I bought the game despite the fact he was in it...
I use Notes at work and all of my colleagues are very happy with it.
You work for IBM, then?:D We've had Notes at our company for the better part of 10 years they've all been painful. I know our Notes devs are not top-notch (I did it for a year and in retrospect it was shocking what they let us deploy) but I have to echo the sentiment of other posters that if you can't get the core functionality (email, calendar, etc) to work well and make sense then you can pretty much dismiss it right out. That's 95% of what our users are doing and it sucks.
You bought your house in the wrong place. Next time look for bus stops when you buy.
Well, how about me then? I live in the Twin Cities out in the southern burbs. The next block over from my house is a park-n-ride bus stop deal, but it's obvious it's for the folks that work in the city centers (Minneapolis or St Paul proper). I work 3 miles from home so a commute is no biggie for me, but most other destinations require a lengthy drive.
I too tried to plan a simple trip off-hours to downtown, say to get dinner or hit the bars in Minneapolis. My best bet is to leave for dinner around 3PM from the park-n-ride, take a 45 minute ride to the MoA, then layover and transfer to a downtown-bound bus. 2 hour ride one-way. The worst part is the schedules are geared for commuters so the stops are far apart downtown-bound in the evening and non-existent after 5PM and on weekends. Coming back is not much better with most routes out to the burbs stopping around 7PM. The best option for me is to drive to MoA and take the train downtown, which still takes 45 minutes for the 12-mile route.
Anyway, yeah I could move, but being on or near the bus line does not necessarily mean that you're going to be able to get around on the bus without a huge hassle. Maybe someday they'll get that commuter rail setup and we'll be able to hop on and be downtown in 20 minutes or so, but I suspect I'll be old enough at that point that my kids will have taken away my keys anyway.
Weren't all the cable companies supposed to be using CableCards in their own new set top boxes by now? How are they handling this problem with those units?
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Time for an extra set of plates...
xkcd is great but I gotta throw in for The Oatmeal.
I'll just leave this here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/
http://m.voices.yahoo.com/lol-not-punctuation-87668.html
Please don't feed the troll. Anyone using the phrase "you people" should be automatically put on some kind of slashdot-posting probation.
doh!
agreed, this movie was pretty terrible, though that long take toward the end was pretty cool. It wasn't worth sitting through the rest of it, though.
Well the how of the burning is significant. Think of the smoke produced burning oil in a Diesel engine des vs lighting a pan of it on fire in your garage. The combustion could be just slightly bad instead of extra bad. Otherwise, agreed. Better to turn it into smoke and CO2 than kill the sea critters.
Have prices gone up? I bought a 1KWh pack last year for less than $900 shipped. Granted it wasn't a high-performance 10C pack, but it would probably work fine for something like this.
VW is one of the few makes for which you can get your own fully functional scanner (not just OBDII) for a relatively reasonable price: VAG-COM (I didn't come up with the name). It lets you interact with pretty much everything in the car with their hardware dongle and software and a laptop. It's still a little bit steep for what's essentially a serial-to-USB converter, but I suppose you're mostly paying for their reverse-engineering time.
I tried some Feit Electric brand ones in my can fixtures attached to an electronic Lutron dimmer with no luck. The dimmer must have some kind of check for load or something because it would just blink its indicator. That bums me out because my wife insists on having a dimmer (exactly that dimmer) in that room which means we're stuck with 360W of halogens for now.
agreed, iperf is the best way to test link speeds, not hacking up some RAM drive test. One nice thing about the ram drive thing is you can test other parts of the stack, though.
We don't pee in your toilet... so... um.... don't swim in our pool. no wait
sorry... very obscure. The reference was def 1 from here. Having to explain it makes it not funny, but if it wasn't funny to begin with then nothing is lost.
dude, don't be so alacrity
There aren't a lot of mountains or really any kind of elevation changes in SW MN (where most of the wind turbines are) so that means towers or some other method of creating elevation. I'm guessing you'd need either many small tanks or some really really huge ones to store any measurable amount of energy. Maybe there's some way the water storage could be built into the turbine's tower to save on costs. Like some others have said, this works best for places with some hills or mountains.
I have three of them hanging over my roof so it was kinda nice not to have the 2 weeks of acorn mortar shelling we usually get every summer. I'll start worrying if the same thing happens next year...
so justice Scalia is a horse? no, multiple horses? wha? I guess I should be paying more attention.
I vote for 'skeet'
This is fun ... Spaghetti Os, boiled football leather, ice cream bars
"Billion heir"? Someone in your family was very busy
I think I bought the game despite the fact he was in it...
FYI, it is no longer necessary to add the goofy port stuff on there. Seems to work fine by just adding "nyud.net" to the end of the hostname.
You work for IBM, then? :D We've had Notes at our company for the better part of 10 years they've all been painful. I know our Notes devs are not top-notch (I did it for a year and in retrospect it was shocking what they let us deploy) but I have to echo the sentiment of other posters that if you can't get the core functionality (email, calendar, etc) to work well and make sense then you can pretty much dismiss it right out. That's 95% of what our users are doing and it sucks.
Well, how about me then? I live in the Twin Cities out in the southern burbs. The next block over from my house is a park-n-ride bus stop deal, but it's obvious it's for the folks that work in the city centers (Minneapolis or St Paul proper). I work 3 miles from home so a commute is no biggie for me, but most other destinations require a lengthy drive.
I too tried to plan a simple trip off-hours to downtown, say to get dinner or hit the bars in Minneapolis. My best bet is to leave for dinner around 3PM from the park-n-ride, take a 45 minute ride to the MoA, then layover and transfer to a downtown-bound bus. 2 hour ride one-way. The worst part is the schedules are geared for commuters so the stops are far apart downtown-bound in the evening and non-existent after 5PM and on weekends. Coming back is not much better with most routes out to the burbs stopping around 7PM. The best option for me is to drive to MoA and take the train downtown, which still takes 45 minutes for the 12-mile route.
Anyway, yeah I could move, but being on or near the bus line does not necessarily mean that you're going to be able to get around on the bus without a huge hassle. Maybe someday they'll get that commuter rail setup and we'll be able to hop on and be downtown in 20 minutes or so, but I suspect I'll be old enough at that point that my kids will have taken away my keys anyway.
Weren't all the cable companies supposed to be using CableCards in their own new set top boxes by now? How are they handling this problem with those units?