We'll go spinning off into space like in Space:1999. The oxygen will snow down to the ground and we'll all live in tiny hovels shoveling oxygen snow onto the fire.
IIRC, in the book Contact, the Hayden character from the film made his billions by developing an ad blocker for televisions. It would mute the tv whenever a commercial came on.
No I realize that and only respond to comment from people about others w/o tvs I don't actively going around telling people this. I'm honestly curious about what is wrong with not owning a television (other than I cannot afford it).
I have a fiend who used to read fortune magazine in grade school and come to school in a tie and dress shirt every day. He was really poor and didn't even speak English. All the kids made fun of him, but is worth over 10M today.
? What do you mean? I don't have facebook or a tv and both objectively and subjectively am doing well in life and don't feel I'm missing anything, have a lot more free time to read and study and would save over $1200/year over what I would spend on cable. For comparison, that's a vacation on the other side of the US, even a trip to Europe or to double the insulation in my house.
There was no point in reducing the price other the pieces of solar remained at $30/watt (I've seen it recently at $0.26/watt which is a one year payback time in Phoenix). Not only that, but other uses for storage have better economics than solar (a smartphone that lasts a week or a 500 mile car battery). I really don't know why inverters still cost so much. I paid $1600 for my 3.6kw inverter used for solar, but can buy a very similar 5kw industrial inverter for $150.
I personally changed and didn't wait for someone to do it for me. There's no reason that others also cannot change. I even spent very little money. Wanting others to do what you won't do for yourself is hypocritical.
In the US, per capita energy use is 250kwh/day. Building 10x as many reactors as we have now would provide 100% of all the energy use in the US (not just electricity, but all energy). It's a relatively simple and straight forward engineering problem just look at what the industrialization and mobilization for WWII accomplished in 5 years.
If people were truly serious, then that is what we would be doing right now, until then I have a had time believing that people think it's a problem.
It is fully permitted. I did everything fully legal. Except maybe the solar. The house is wired for 120vAC and the solar is not permanently attached to anything. I bring in 30A 120AC from a UL listed inverter through the breaker panel on the side of the house. It was assumed the house would run from a generator, but 120vac is 120vac and I get much cleaner power off of the inverter than the generator. And I do pay tax, but it has gone up a lot since I finished the house. Still only a few hundred dollars/year.
Rough breakdown is $6k solar (2.5kw), $2k slab foundation, $12k house material (wood/roofing), $5k septic. I found a lot of material like windows and doors on craigslist and also talking to people at building construction sites where I picked up their garbage/leftovers. It has taken me over 7 years from my first nights in a tent, but I quickly found a free trashed rv after that. Solar is only half price now from what I originally paid in 2008, but compared @$0.5kwh fuel for the generator, it has paid for itself.
I share a well with a neighbor but have quotes for ~$12k to drill a new hole @330' (same depth as theirs). I seriously doubt anyone would be interested in developing the area. There are a few big mansions being built around me, mostly by people from California, but most don't stay for long and move out after a couple of years. It's very boring out here unless you are self entertaining. Most people aren't.
If you don't feel like doing work yourself, you can always find old abandoned houses around ghost towns with acreage. I haven't looked into that much, but did look at a few complete turnkey farms in small towns in OH and MI a few years ago in the $80k range.
I built a self sufficient, solar powered off grid farm with 100m^2 luxury house and over 16 hectares of land over the period of the last eight years and under $50,000 cash. I started out living in a tent and was a lot of work, but it comes out to ~$7,000 year investment. That works out to $3.50/hour based on a 2,000hour work year. The rest of the world can melt down or flood or whatever and I should be fine.
Did they have seat belts? I only remember being in three cars all the time I was in Kenya. They were optional an few people could afford them. And if you crashed, you'd just lay crumpled up in you car until someone notified your family to come get you or what was left. I got t see ths more than once.
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> tipping point You could impress a lot of easily impressed people by sounding all sciency if you started calling it a bifurcation point.
We'll go spinning off into space like in Space:1999. The oxygen will snow down to the ground and we'll all live in tiny hovels shoveling oxygen snow onto the fire.
IIRC, in the book Contact, the Hayden character from the film made his billions by developing an ad blocker for televisions. It would mute the tv whenever a commercial came on.
The rich just never care about them.
Neither do users. If users cared, they would use yahoo services more.
No I realize that and only respond to comment from people about others w/o tvs I don't actively going around telling people this. I'm honestly curious about what is wrong with not owning a television (other than I cannot afford it).
I have a fiend who used to read fortune magazine in grade school and come to school in a tie and dress shirt every day. He was really poor and didn't even speak English. All the kids made fun of him, but is worth over 10M today.
? What do you mean? I don't have facebook or a tv and both objectively and subjectively am doing well in life and don't feel I'm missing anything, have a lot more free time to read and study and would save over $1200/year over what I would spend on cable. For comparison, that's a vacation on the other side of the US, even a trip to Europe or to double the insulation in my house.
Seriously, what is wrong with ether?
If that were not the case, every single program down to hello world would be considered AI. And math is not magic.
Yes, volumetric density is bad, but mass density is more important.
4% of the us population. 1/25
There was no point in reducing the price other the pieces of solar remained at $30/watt (I've seen it recently at $0.26/watt which is a one year payback time in Phoenix). Not only that, but other uses for storage have better economics than solar (a smartphone that lasts a week or a 500 mile car battery). I really don't know why inverters still cost so much. I paid $1600 for my 3.6kw inverter used for solar, but can buy a very similar 5kw industrial inverter for $150.
It's not only CO2, but GDP/CO2.
Not owning a car is much better than owning a tesla.
there's no good reason
There are plenty of good reasons, but you have to weigh to cost benefit of each to decide what to do.
I personally changed and didn't wait for someone to do it for me. There's no reason that others also cannot change. I even spent very little money. Wanting others to do what you won't do for yourself is hypocritical.
As for nuclear
In the US, per capita energy use is 250kwh/day. Building 10x as many reactors as we have now would provide 100% of all the energy use in the US (not just electricity, but all energy). It's a relatively simple and straight forward engineering problem just look at what the industrialization and mobilization for WWII accomplished in 5 years.
If people were truly serious, then that is what we would be doing right now, until then I have a had time believing that people think it's a problem.
The electric motor used in the solar car at my university was measured at 97% in the early 1990's.
LiPo = 0.95MJ/kg
Rough breakdown is $6k solar (2.5kw), $2k slab foundation, $12k house material (wood/roofing), $5k septic. I found a lot of material like windows and doors on craigslist and also talking to people at building construction sites where I picked up their garbage/leftovers. It has taken me over 7 years from my first nights in a tent, but I quickly found a free trashed rv after that. Solar is only half price now from what I originally paid in 2008, but compared @$0.5kwh fuel for the generator, it has paid for itself.
I share a well with a neighbor but have quotes for ~$12k to drill a new hole @330' (same depth as theirs). I seriously doubt anyone would be interested in developing the area. There are a few big mansions being built around me, mostly by people from California, but most don't stay for long and move out after a couple of years. It's very boring out here unless you are self entertaining. Most people aren't.
If you don't feel like doing work yourself, you can always find old abandoned houses around ghost towns with acreage. I haven't looked into that much, but did look at a few complete turnkey farms in small towns in OH and MI a few years ago in the $80k range.
I built a self sufficient, solar powered off grid farm with 100m^2 luxury house and over 16 hectares of land over the period of the last eight years and under $50,000 cash. I started out living in a tent and was a lot of work, but it comes out to ~$7,000 year investment. That works out to $3.50/hour based on a 2,000hour work year. The rest of the world can melt down or flood or whatever and I should be fine.
Is this really AI? I worked on self driving cars and trucks (backing up a three trailer truck) and used control theory and a lot of math, but no AI.
Did they have seat belts? I only remember being in three cars all the time I was in Kenya. They were optional an few people could afford them. And if you crashed, you'd just lay crumpled up in you car until someone notified your family to come get you or what was left. I got t see ths more than once.
I'm waiting for my autonomous RV. Now is the time to invest in RV parks and KOA. Who needs a house when I can live in a new city every month.
I didn't think so.