Based on 100 million people wasting 5 minutes changing clocks twice a year, and given an average life expectancy of 80 years, I estimate 23 lives are wasted.
At least a few of those 23 are going to be children.
Here's a link that speaks to that
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12o...
In a nutshell, absent extreme temps in either direction, today's panels degrade very, very little over 20 years.
At or near the equator, UV will kill them at about 1-2% a year.
In very cold wet climates, snowload and wind degrade them about the same.
That doesn't make them a panacea of course. Non-distributability is the main problem. A tough not to crack.
Though he presented it as per person, it is actually per utility customer, i.e. household.
How much electricity does an American home use?
In 2016, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 10,766 kilowatthours (kWh), an average of 897 kWh per month
Echo that. I can't count the number of times that I discovered a nasty dried booger halfway through an otherwise excellent used paper book. I just can't bring myself to read past it. Boogers I discover on my nook don't seem to bother at all.:)
As for the ecological life cycle accounting, I'd say that overall the infrastructure to handle ebook readers and all the electronics associated with them including batteries and all the energy in producing all the infrastructure (servers, electronics, rare earths, global shipping, etc.) have a far worse ecological life cycle assessment than printed paper.
I would disagree. The servers, electronics, rare earths, etc would all exist absent e-books. As to the e-book itself, sure it may only last 5 years or so but in that five years I will read at least 100 books. So, is my single nook more or less environmentally friendly than at least 100 paper books?
Not only that, but do you realize how few books are actually available as eBooks? Sure, most titles being published today are, but I seldom read new books. Had this conversation on a plane, once.
What year was that? It couldn't have been too long ago since he was searching for the books while on a plane. But I found a random article from 2013 wherein the writer bemoans as you do and lists 18 books that are not available as an ebook.
https://bookriot.com/2013/03/1...
Every single one of those is now available, most for less than $10.
This was funny...
Are you going to format shift your eBooks or just let them fade away? Sure, somebody will keep doing it, but what makes you think they'll make it available to you?
I mean, you're a little right, Rick, but was it forced on you? Were you tricked into upgrading? I can't imagine anyone wouldn't notice though. But for the great unwashed it really didn't make much of a difference. I have a mixture on several machines and I'm pretty happy with all of them. Or at least not unhappy.
It's 261mb for me with only gmail open. But does that really matter? FF is bigger hog at 1gb and 5 tabs open. And does that really matter? On my wee old laptop I have 16g and 60% avail. So long as I don't run out I'm good. You?
You are describing the first symptoms of cataracts.
I just had cataract surgery so I know what you're experiencing. Having the surgery is like getting teenage eyesight back. I can even make out the color bands on 1/8th ohm resistors again.
Just look at how the average number of comments per article has shrunk over the last decade.
Can you prove that? I'm betting that just the average number of AC's we have per thread now greatly exceeds the number named postings per thread ten or twenty years ago.
Netflix now starts playing video willy nilly with no way to stop it...
The 'back' button stops it just fine on my U.I.
As far as them doing away with the rating system: I'm fine with that since it was utter bullshit anyway.
I don't recall it ever having a way to filter for language... but I believe you.
But Chrome is a famously poor choice for Netflix - it only supports 720P, [netflix.com] despite that it's apparently possible to force 1080P playback with tweaks. [github.com]
(To be clear, the 720P limitation appears to be Netflix's doing, not Chrome's.)
Firefox also. Edge will support 4K. IE and Safari will support 1080. I'm not sure if it is a Netflix thing or a Silverlight/DRM stardards thing. Or some combination. For my laptop, it doesn't matter.
There are two videos. The one with the object hovering and sprinting off to the right is so grainy and low resolution that it's hard to make sense of it at all; practical worthless. The other video is the one I think you saw. That one is crystal clear and very hard to explain. I would vote that it is utterly faked long, long before I voted it was space aliens. But there's a lot in-between those two that I don't know about.
Not all but most things considered nuclear waste isn't really waste. It remains very useful even if not presently. So they store where they can still get at it.
I think he was just being Poe. Commercial OTA television is free to receive by anyone with an antenna and tuner. There are no fees. It is funded by running ads. So many, many ads. Usually approaching ten minutes out of ever thirty. Blah. Public OTA television is funding partly by government and private grants, but mostly by People Like You:) They have commercials too but only at the beginning or end of a show; very brief, usually.
Thanks for your post. Seems to me an all-electric semi isn't ready for prime time. A hybrid semi seems to make more sense, especially for in-city local use. That energy wasted in braking large loads could be recouped. A smaller diesel engine and a respectable battery pack might mean a cost saving that is respectable enough to make up for the added cost of the hybrid system. Or it might not. If it were a workable idea they'd probably be doing it now.
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Yours is the first post in this thread that deserves reading.
Based on 100 million people wasting 5 minutes changing clocks twice a year, and given an average life expectancy of 80 years, I estimate 23 lives are wasted.
At least a few of those 23 are going to be children.
Please, think of the children.
Here's a link that speaks to that
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12o...
In a nutshell, absent extreme temps in either direction, today's panels degrade very, very little over 20 years.
At or near the equator, UV will kill them at about 1-2% a year.
In very cold wet climates, snowload and wind degrade them about the same.
That doesn't make them a panacea of course. Non-distributability is the main problem. A tough not to crack.
How much electricity does an American home use?
In 2016, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 10,766 kilowatthours (kWh), an average of 897 kWh per month
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs...
897kWh/mo / 30 days is 30kWh/day
So the 40% stands.
On average, Americans drive 20 miles per day, and an electric car uses about 0.3 kwh per mile, for about 6 kwh / day.
On average each household has two cars/commuters. So that's 12 kwh/day. for an increase closer to 40%
Echo that. I can't count the number of times that I discovered a nasty dried booger halfway through an otherwise excellent used paper book. I just can't bring myself to read past it. Boogers I discover on my nook don't seem to bother at all. :)
As for the ecological life cycle accounting, I'd say that overall the infrastructure to handle ebook readers and all the electronics associated with them including batteries and all the energy in producing all the infrastructure (servers, electronics, rare earths, global shipping, etc.) have a far worse ecological life cycle assessment than printed paper.
I would disagree. The servers, electronics, rare earths, etc would all exist absent e-books. As to the e-book itself, sure it may only last 5 years or so but in that five years I will read at least 100 books. So, is my single nook more or less environmentally friendly than at least 100 paper books?
Not only that, but do you realize how few books are actually available as eBooks? Sure, most titles being published today are, but I seldom read new books. Had this conversation on a plane, once.
What year was that? It couldn't have been too long ago since he was searching for the books while on a plane. But I found a random article from 2013 wherein the writer bemoans as you do and lists 18 books that are not available as an ebook. https://bookriot.com/2013/03/1...
...
Every single one of those is now available, most for less than $10.
This was funny
Are you going to format shift your eBooks or just let them fade away? Sure, somebody will keep doing it, but what makes you think they'll make it available to you?
Dude! It's on the internet.
I mean, you're a little right, Rick, but was it forced on you? Were you tricked into upgrading? I can't imagine anyone wouldn't notice though. But for the great unwashed it really didn't make much of a difference. I have a mixture on several machines and I'm pretty happy with all of them. Or at least not unhappy.
It's 261mb for me with only gmail open. But does that really matter? FF is bigger hog at 1gb and 5 tabs open. And does that really matter? On my wee old laptop I have 16g and 60% avail. So long as I don't run out I'm good. You?
You are describing the first symptoms of cataracts. I just had cataract surgery so I know what you're experiencing. Having the surgery is like getting teenage eyesight back. I can even make out the color bands on 1/8th ohm resistors again.
See above. Roughly 5% is original titles, depending on how you define 'original'. If we're counting hours, it would be far less.
I suppose it depends on how you count it.
Netflix currently has about 300 original titles (depending on how you define original) according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Instant Watcher counts 5682 total Netflix titles. http://instantwatcher.com/sear...
Let's call it 5%
Just look at how the average number of comments per article has shrunk over the last decade.
Can you prove that? I'm betting that just the average number of AC's we have per thread now greatly exceeds the number named postings per thread ten or twenty years ago.
Netflix is dying.
In what world is it dying? This chart ...
https://www.statista.com/chart...
Shows steady and consistent growth.
If something that works "like netflix used to" comes along, netflix will go bankrupt in a week.
So we agree it is currently the best thing going.
Netflix now starts playing video willy nilly with no way to stop it ...
The 'back' button stops it just fine on my U.I. As far as them doing away with the rating system: I'm fine with that since it was utter bullshit anyway. I don't recall it ever having a way to filter for language ... but I believe you.
But Chrome is a famously poor choice for Netflix - it only supports 720P, [netflix.com] despite that it's apparently possible to force 1080P playback with tweaks. [github.com] (To be clear, the 720P limitation appears to be Netflix's doing, not Chrome's.)
Firefox also. Edge will support 4K. IE and Safari will support 1080. I'm not sure if it is a Netflix thing or a Silverlight/DRM stardards thing. Or some combination. For my laptop, it doesn't matter.
There are two videos. The one with the object hovering and sprinting off to the right is so grainy and low resolution that it's hard to make sense of it at all; practical worthless. The other video is the one I think you saw. That one is crystal clear and very hard to explain. I would vote that it is utterly faked long, long before I voted it was space aliens. But there's a lot in-between those two that I don't know about.
Not all but most things considered nuclear waste isn't really waste. It remains very useful even if not presently. So they store where they can still get at it.
I think he was just being Poe. Commercial OTA television is free to receive by anyone with an antenna and tuner. There are no fees. It is funded by running ads. So many, many ads. Usually approaching ten minutes out of ever thirty. Blah. Public OTA television is funding partly by government and private grants, but mostly by People Like You :) They have commercials too but only at the beginning or end of a show; very brief, usually.
Al Gore should totally sue this guy.
Thanks for your post. Seems to me an all-electric semi isn't ready for prime time. A hybrid semi seems to make more sense, especially for in-city local use. That energy wasted in braking large loads could be recouped. A smaller diesel engine and a respectable battery pack might mean a cost saving that is respectable enough to make up for the added cost of the hybrid system. Or it might not. If it were a workable idea they'd probably be doing it now.
Is this a bad thing? Can't see how.
This is what happens when your money piles up on you. I won't predict it will never fly, but I'll bet it never does anything useful.
You mean like the C-Max Energi, the Focus Electric and the Fusion Hybrid?