Back in the 90's we had news aircraft (planes and helicopters), police and civilian aircraft (I flew over my high school at about 500' and photographed it with a telephoto lens (including some of the surrounding houses) in a c182. I put a camera on a kite in grade school and got many backyard pictures, youtube is filled with videos of model rockets that have videos showing people's back yards, google street view is a gigantic searchable online database of people's front yards. Someone I knew in college flew over his girlfriend's house and took pictures of her in her backyard (he actually got in a little trouble for violating altitude rules, but a better camera would have fixed that). What do you propose to do when you can buy an image stabilized camera with 5,000x magnification and weights 25grams for $10 because the technology will eventually get there.
Back in the 90's all the/. articles on autonomous vehicles, notably from Georgia Tech and their competition, looked on the technology as very exciting. Now it's "I'ma blast one out of the sky with my shotgun if it comes within a half mile of my yard." It's a whole new mindset and culture in only a generation. That's some serious manipulation going on and people don't even recognize it.
Inverters can be made veryinexpensively. These are an order of magnitude price difference from a solar inverter and with a material cost difference of $60.
How did the EV-1 threaten GM's profit centers? I understand the concept, but it never would have threatened the IC cars. It "had a stated range of 70 to 100 miles". Nobody is going to pay $50,000 for a car like that.
It happened to me at a large company. We developed a low cost widget that competed directly with another divisions high cost (and high margin) , but nearly identical widget. We were shut down, the group disbanded, the other more politically connected division went on to make high profits for the company - until an external competitor came in and put the whole company out of business with low cost widgets. See The Innovator's Dilemma.
Not a 3d printer, but do you think an atlas robot could be considered self replicating if it were able to assemble itself, or even better operate the machines to process the raw materials to make the components?
Old grumpy men don't mock the progress of technology, they mock the over hyping of a technology that has been around for 40 year. We are still developing manufacturing technology on all fronts, yet only see 3d printing stories. Why do non grumpy young men hate on manufacturing technology that isn't 3d printing?
"So how much is energy consumption increasing nation wide?"
Energy is decreasing nation wide, largely in part to it being imported in manufactured goods rather than manufacturing them here.
Until recently solar was > $2/watt, so even if the BOS were free, solar would have been prohibitively expensive. Only now that the panels are
In a sunny place like AZ, a 1w solar cell will produce 25 of electricity/year. A solar system here potentially would have a payback time of less than 3 years, even when taking into consideration the cost of money.
Solar has been on a consistent and predictable downward trend since 1860 (when solar was discovered). It follows an exponential curve just like Moore's law, the difference being Moore said that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months and in solar the metric of $/watt halves every 5 years. This has been going one for a century and a half. Kurzweil et andere have lots of graphs on technology like this. With or without government investment.
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Game of Thrones? And why should I care?
Maybe soee people actually aren't trying to avoid it. Don't run. We are your friends.
-- W.C. Fields
Progressive vs non-interlaced is the one I always get stuck on. Interlaced has a specific meaning.
Back in the 90's we had news aircraft (planes and helicopters), police and civilian aircraft (I flew over my high school at about 500' and photographed it with a telephoto lens (including some of the surrounding houses) in a c182. I put a camera on a kite in grade school and got many backyard pictures, youtube is filled with videos of model rockets that have videos showing people's back yards, google street view is a gigantic searchable online database of people's front yards. Someone I knew in college flew over his girlfriend's house and took pictures of her in her backyard (he actually got in a little trouble for violating altitude rules, but a better camera would have fixed that). What do you propose to do when you can buy an image stabilized camera with 5,000x magnification and weights 25grams for $10 because the technology will eventually get there.
Back in the 90's all the /. articles on autonomous vehicles, notably from Georgia Tech and their competition, looked on the technology as very exciting. Now it's "I'ma blast one out of the sky with my shotgun if it comes within a half mile of my yard." It's a whole new mindset and culture in only a generation. That's some serious manipulation going on and people don't even recognize it.
Inverters can be made very inexpensively. These are an order of magnitude price difference from a solar inverter and with a material cost difference of $60.
How did the EV-1 threaten GM's profit centers? I understand the concept, but it never would have threatened the IC cars. It "had a stated range of 70 to 100 miles". Nobody is going to pay $50,000 for a car like that.
playing Russian Roulette with a semi auto.
What difference would that make? Do you even know hat that means?
It happened to me at a large company. We developed a low cost widget that competed directly with another divisions high cost (and high margin) , but nearly identical widget. We were shut down, the group disbanded, the other more politically connected division went on to make high profits for the company - until an external competitor came in and put the whole company out of business with low cost widgets. See The Innovator's Dilemma.
cents. Sorry, I originally wrote it with a c and planned to go back and replace with a but was distracted.
That would take about 3 months and an understanding of what entropy is
AKA, Picard's Theorem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Not a 3d printer, but do you think an atlas robot could be considered self replicating if it were able to assemble itself, or even better operate the machines to process the raw materials to make the components?
Old grumpy men don't mock the progress of technology, they mock the over hyping of a technology that has been around for 40 year. We are still developing manufacturing technology on all fronts, yet only see 3d printing stories. Why do non grumpy young men hate on manufacturing technology that isn't 3d printing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You've heard wrong. Next
"So how much is energy consumption increasing nation wide?" Energy is decreasing nation wide, largely in part to it being imported in manufactured goods rather than manufacturing them here.
Mojave Solar Project Killing Threatened Desert Tortoises
AZ is far more desert than west Texas and there are environmentalists all over solar plant here.
faster than I could have imagined.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Wiring an mounting (hardware) is 10/w
Until recently solar was > $2/watt, so even if the BOS were free, solar would have been prohibitively expensive. Only now that the panels are In a sunny place like AZ, a 1w solar cell will produce 25 of electricity/year. A solar system here potentially would have a payback time of less than 3 years, even when taking into consideration the cost of money.
Solar has been on a consistent and predictable downward trend since 1860 (when solar was discovered). It follows an exponential curve just like Moore's law, the difference being Moore said that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months and in solar the metric of $/watt halves every 5 years. This has been going one for a century and a half. Kurzweil et andere have lots of graphs on technology like this. With or without government investment.
"mathematically best solution", but to what problem? People caught up in the answers often do not understand the question
Nighttime storage maybe. That's what I do with my excess.