This is only true if you get a seat, not if you have to stand up the whole time. Most transit is packed during rush hour and making it free only compounds that problem. Free transit might be a great idea for many reasons, but I don't know how many people it will get out of cars. Now if standing were free but a seat cost money, that may work nicely.
It does seem that heat pumps have improved quite a bit recently. I looked on Mitsubishi's web site and didn't find any pricing. In fact I can't find pricing for these cold-temperature heat pumps anywhere. Presumably that means they aren't cost-effective but the price will come down. Obviously my (Florida) heat pump would be useless in these temperatures. (I need a resistive backup when it gets near the freezing point)
I think you were going for a +5 Funny but just so that you know, in a Ponzi scheme, initial investors often get hit with clawbacks so not even they make money.
Nothing is a complete solution. We need to reduce CO2 emissions by about 30% in order to maintain a stable climate. https://phys.org/news/2016-11-... That doesn't seem terribly impossible.
We use about 30% of energy for transportation. https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl.... In New York, heat pumps aren't very efficient. They all have backup resistive elements that are running every day in winter. Methane looks much more appealing. Again we only need a 30% cut.
If we really want to achieve this we could certainly look at heat pumps that use methane as a backup rather than resistive plus some more insulation. That would probably get us there near immediately. But that's also expensive. Adding a resistive element to a heat pump is a couple hundred bucks. Adding a backup methane burner is probably in the thousands (or tens of thousands if you don't already have a chimney)
In very cold climates (like New York), a heat pump is no longer efficient on the coldest days. Even here in Florida, we use heat pumps for heating but on the coldest nights we have secondary resistive heat. My secondary heat only runs a few days a year. I don't know too many people in upstate NY but I did used to travel to the Baltimore area quite a bit and my customers there told me that there resistive heaters kicked in pretty much every night in the winter. That's not really data but its consistent with even what the heat pump manufacturers will say.
The first part of this post makes a lot of sense and deserves the +5. The second portion needs a -1. No idea how one would moderate that. Guess it depends on who has points.
The prison industrial complex certainly isn't racist. They don't care who is filling a bed as long as they get paid.
On the other hand, you only have to look out the window to see that our long history or racism in this country is still having a profound effect.
More importantly, in order to bring a medication to market, there is a *lot* of data that is required. You can't just start selling and hope nobody does. The FDA isn't saying this product can't ever be sold just that it has to come to market like any other drug.
These are desktop apps. And the reason you would "waste space" is to avoid downloading each and every time. You may not be aware of this but your browser currently has a "cache" that already wastes space in this way.
No idea why this got modded as troll. It seems that these "apps" are a new type of browser bookmark. Instead of bookmarking/., I can install a "/." app. What will that app do? Open up a new Edge process (without the normal navigation elements) and load up the page. There used to be a ton of "apps" like this for iPhone. People hated them. I wouldn't want them for Windows either. But from a security standpoint its no different than loading the page in Edge.
Yes, there was marketing involved. No matter how good your product, you still have to market and sell it. (This is surprising only to somebody who has taken a product to market). But this is distinguished from things that are pure marketing (pet rocks, Beats headphones, bottled water) versus things that provide tangible incremental value. In the end peoples protein intake doubled. The value was in the product not the marketing.
But it would be quite unreasonable to expect it to *stay* that way. Anybody who owns a parking facility is going to want to install chargers. Typically these places charge about 2x the going electricity rate so it will be pure profit. Gas stations will start to go away completely. Hopefully they get turned into parks.
Shocking to hear about electric heat. It's common in places like France where people thought that incremental electricity would be basically free. I wasn't expecting that in New York.
I don't think heat in an EV is as much of a problem as you make it to be. If you are charging while you are parked at work (or at the mall), you could presumably come out to a warm car. (I hope they have a way to turn the heater on remotely) This would be quite a convenience feature.
Note, though, that in very cold weather, the car will actually heat the *battery*. So you couldn't park at the Buffalo airport for two weeks without plugging in.
Well the "oil" used for heating isn't what comes out of the ground. You take the "oil" that comes out of the ground and you refine it into various petroleum products ranging from asphault to diesel fuel aka #2 heating oil. We use way more for cars than we do for heating. If we switch to wind/solar powers and electric vehicles, we can probably meet our petroleum product needs for quite a long time without the need for additional drilling. https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl...
I don't think that very much of NY uses electricity for heating. Probably all natural gas. Given that natural gas is really efficient for heating, I'm not sure that anything needs to be done here. We don't need to reach zero fossil fuels. Methane for heating is probably just fine forever.
> 7" as a "tablet" is still too small to be worth not using a phone.
Is this based on actually trying or just thinking about the problem? I bought a Nexus 6P phone at one point because I thought it would double as a phone and a tablet. For reading the newspaper and magazines, I found myself still using a 7" tablet.
I can tolerate holding my 10" tablet (Lenovo Miix). It's relatively heavy but I can make it work. If nothing else I can cross my legs and rest one corner to take a bit of the weight off. My wife had the original 10" iPad and never used it due to it being too heavy.
In places where you can put down a kickstand base, you can just setup a laptop and don't need a tablet at all. The 7" tablet rules in places where you can't setup a laptop. Airplanes, Lyft rides, park benches, and the waiting areas at gymnastics class all come to mind for me.
Then they would have no problem answering the call. They wouldn't even have to pick the phone up. Maybe there will be a class action and the affected users will all get 10% off their iWatch.
It's probably a function of your definition of a "reasonable" price. The volume on such a thing is going to be low so the overhead has to be distributed among a smaller number of units. Samsung has quite a few larger format tablets.
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This is only true if you get a seat, not if you have to stand up the whole time. Most transit is packed during rush hour and making it free only compounds that problem. Free transit might be a great idea for many reasons, but I don't know how many people it will get out of cars. Now if standing were free but a seat cost money, that may work nicely.
It does seem that heat pumps have improved quite a bit recently. I looked on Mitsubishi's web site and didn't find any pricing. In fact I can't find pricing for these cold-temperature heat pumps anywhere. Presumably that means they aren't cost-effective but the price will come down. Obviously my (Florida) heat pump would be useless in these temperatures. (I need a resistive backup when it gets near the freezing point)
I think you were going for a +5 Funny but just so that you know, in a Ponzi scheme, initial investors often get hit with clawbacks so not even they make money.
Not in cities! You are talking about rural poor.
Nobody is selling the plant. They are selling capsules of powder derived from the plant.
That's pretty good pay for somebody who doesn't seem to understand the concept of averages!
We use about 30% of energy for transportation. https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl.... In New York, heat pumps aren't very efficient. They all have backup resistive elements that are running every day in winter. Methane looks much more appealing. Again we only need a 30% cut. If we really want to achieve this we could certainly look at heat pumps that use methane as a backup rather than resistive plus some more insulation. That would probably get us there near immediately. But that's also expensive. Adding a resistive element to a heat pump is a couple hundred bucks. Adding a backup methane burner is probably in the thousands (or tens of thousands if you don't already have a chimney)
In very cold climates (like New York), a heat pump is no longer efficient on the coldest days. Even here in Florida, we use heat pumps for heating but on the coldest nights we have secondary resistive heat. My secondary heat only runs a few days a year. I don't know too many people in upstate NY but I did used to travel to the Baltimore area quite a bit and my customers there told me that there resistive heaters kicked in pretty much every night in the winter. That's not really data but its consistent with even what the heat pump manufacturers will say.
The first part of this post makes a lot of sense and deserves the +5. The second portion needs a -1. No idea how one would moderate that. Guess it depends on who has points. The prison industrial complex certainly isn't racist. They don't care who is filling a bed as long as they get paid. On the other hand, you only have to look out the window to see that our long history or racism in this country is still having a profound effect.
More importantly, in order to bring a medication to market, there is a *lot* of data that is required. You can't just start selling and hope nobody does. The FDA isn't saying this product can't ever be sold just that it has to come to market like any other drug.
These are desktop apps. And the reason you would "waste space" is to avoid downloading each and every time. You may not be aware of this but your browser currently has a "cache" that already wastes space in this way.
No idea why this got modded as troll. It seems that these "apps" are a new type of browser bookmark. Instead of bookmarking /., I can install a "/." app. What will that app do? Open up a new Edge process (without the normal navigation elements) and load up the page. There used to be a ton of "apps" like this for iPhone. People hated them. I wouldn't want them for Windows either. But from a security standpoint its no different than loading the page in Edge.
Yes, there was marketing involved. No matter how good your product, you still have to market and sell it. (This is surprising only to somebody who has taken a product to market). But this is distinguished from things that are pure marketing (pet rocks, Beats headphones, bottled water) versus things that provide tangible incremental value. In the end peoples protein intake doubled. The value was in the product not the marketing.
But it would be quite unreasonable to expect it to *stay* that way. Anybody who owns a parking facility is going to want to install chargers. Typically these places charge about 2x the going electricity rate so it will be pure profit. Gas stations will start to go away completely. Hopefully they get turned into parks.
Except that it was more than marketing. The lobsters have high protein content which was hard to come by at the time.
That I had to double-check that I was watching a live stream and not a CGI of what they expected to happen.
https://www.nature.com/article... Nobody knows. Best hypothesis is that it was a lucky mutation.
Sadly that is part of the problem. In poorer countries they are breeding these for food.
Shocking to hear about electric heat. It's common in places like France where people thought that incremental electricity would be basically free. I wasn't expecting that in New York. I don't think heat in an EV is as much of a problem as you make it to be. If you are charging while you are parked at work (or at the mall), you could presumably come out to a warm car. (I hope they have a way to turn the heater on remotely) This would be quite a convenience feature. Note, though, that in very cold weather, the car will actually heat the *battery*. So you couldn't park at the Buffalo airport for two weeks without plugging in.
Well the "oil" used for heating isn't what comes out of the ground. You take the "oil" that comes out of the ground and you refine it into various petroleum products ranging from asphault to diesel fuel aka #2 heating oil. We use way more for cars than we do for heating. If we switch to wind/solar powers and electric vehicles, we can probably meet our petroleum product needs for quite a long time without the need for additional drilling. https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl...
Heating. That will need some more planning.
I don't think that very much of NY uses electricity for heating. Probably all natural gas. Given that natural gas is really efficient for heating, I'm not sure that anything needs to be done here. We don't need to reach zero fossil fuels. Methane for heating is probably just fine forever.
> 7" as a "tablet" is still too small to be worth not using a phone. Is this based on actually trying or just thinking about the problem? I bought a Nexus 6P phone at one point because I thought it would double as a phone and a tablet. For reading the newspaper and magazines, I found myself still using a 7" tablet. I can tolerate holding my 10" tablet (Lenovo Miix). It's relatively heavy but I can make it work. If nothing else I can cross my legs and rest one corner to take a bit of the weight off. My wife had the original 10" iPad and never used it due to it being too heavy. In places where you can put down a kickstand base, you can just setup a laptop and don't need a tablet at all. The 7" tablet rules in places where you can't setup a laptop. Airplanes, Lyft rides, park benches, and the waiting areas at gymnastics class all come to mind for me.
I guess I need an explicit [/sarcasm] tag!
Then they would have no problem answering the call. They wouldn't even have to pick the phone up. Maybe there will be a class action and the affected users will all get 10% off their iWatch.
It's probably a function of your definition of a "reasonable" price. The volume on such a thing is going to be low so the overhead has to be distributed among a smaller number of units. Samsung has quite a few larger format tablets.