People who go into an office today - and managers who look, touch and feel, are dinosaurs in a telecommuting age.
The connected workers will emerge in new businesses which choose managers and employees, as well as a payment and incentive plans, based on the connected model.
Then, more likely the brick and mortar business will downsize and outsource - into these new businesses which are connected.
These arguments about how one "prefers" to talk to people face-to-face, or yielding a part of your house, are moot. I don't see people making that choice.
P.S. the connected worker may not live in your city, country, or continent.
remote worker's use far less energy - if one assumes the home would have been kept Air-conditioned anyway - one more person doesn't raise the cost much. The computer power of course is negligible.
Surely the largest energy gains would come from telecommuting.
I submit that the shift to telecommuting will look less like the current employee group working out of their home, and more like companies increasing relying on "outsourcing", and out-sorcerers increasingly consisting of people who work in low-marginal-energy environments - whether their own college dorm, some un-cooled sweatshop in Thailand.
It bears mentioning that working from home reduces the AC energy for life-work by 50% while reducing the transportation energy by 80%. It also reduced healthcare costs by reducing viral exposures.
Since most of the propping-up was done in secret away from the American People - is it fair to focus ire on the United States? Perhaps we should put list dictator-supporters on the internet so people will know their names?
I disagree, Apple has an "exclusive agreement" with AT&T, in my book, that makes them the same team, effectively the same "Company" as in the "company you keep."
Absent an ocean - which provides a gradient of temperatures and protection from Solar radiation for early unsophisticated life forms, it may be difficult for life to get started.
Sure we may be surprised by some new means of self-reproduction, but on our own planet - how many organisms got their start outside of the petri dish of vast body of water? AIK
Close. The best surface is used in photography (See SceneMachine). It may have other uses, but it consists of a great number of diamond shaped beads - the internal angle of which is 90 degrees, which means that light energy entering the surface from a wide acceptance angle - exits the bead at 180 degrees; that's right - back at you bitches.
At maybe $80 a barrel, Fischer Tropsch synthesis is a bit pricey for something which is less than proven (the price - not the process). Sure, Oil is over $80 today; and I would grant you that IF Oil stays this high, then F/T becomes a very acceptable option - which is really quite a hopeful proposition - in that while we may not see $30 barrels again, we may have sustainable energy at less than current prices.
I'm not suggesting the equipment is perfect, but's its pretty deep into the point of diminishing returns.
Silicon valley has been making progressively better fabrication device and their are Billions, amaybe hundreds of billions of experience in all aspects of chip fab. It's unlikely they missed a huge opportunity for cost reduction.
Nano particles behave like asbestos. You think somehow long sheets of them are going to fly? I'm a skeptic; I've watched the hazmat teams disassemble asbestos laced buildings. That's expensive sh&(.
Investors in the PV industry are far more interested in what Germany does than the USA, since that's where the product is heading. The US has much lower subsidies and commands less of the market...
The Credible voices are pretty easy to follow since they present presentations at the conferences.
Most people in the PV business are there for the subsidies, and there isn't much hope they can survive without them. Not now, and not ten years from now.
Its a heavily subsidized Plant - which I would applaud - if there was any chance of that technology scaling up while becoming more competative. Unfortunately, there isn't anyone credible who believes PV is going to hit its stride.
This is also true in Kiev. A little know fact about Chernobyl is that the heat is piped to Kiev, the largest city in Ukraine. I've lived in both Hungary and Kiev - but I'm not sure if Hungary gets is power from a nuclear plants - the odds I would say are high, given it has an active coal-soot clean up program which is washing years of coal dust off of its beautiful gilded historical buildings.
Everyone makes this immediate leap that prices will move against the first rule of supply and demand.
I would submit that prices move against supply/demand only when their are breakthroughs in production or material constraints. Computers went from hand production to pick and place production, whilst transistors got smaller and smaller.
The problem is that these 37% cells are already being produced on the best equipment. So those gains in cost are already priced in...
I suspect that many people realize that when first created, the internet was closed to themselves. It was an elite ivory tower kind of thing. You know - the kind of thing a guy who rides on private jets and limosines would like. That thing - called Arpanet I think - was probably what Al was referring too. There is a world of difference between the government-edition Arpanet - and the mostly free (as in speech) Internet - which brought the printing press to the individual for the first time in history, and connected every individual to the kind of elite information previously only available to the rich. Somehow I doubt that Al Gore played a significant role in democratizing the information age. That role would fall to a new category of leaders. And I think you of all people should know:)
If I'm wrong on that - let's see where Al Gore voted to open up the Internet to private citizens...
Almost. The cooling tower has a very important job in any heat cycle engine since energy = hot side - cold side. Take away the cold side, and you've got bumpkiss. The plant re-uses the water. In an Open cycle, some water evaporates, but much of it is reused - in a closed cycle plant, all of the water is recycled and only air passes through the cooling tower.
Yes, this heat can be used for things, but its tricky to find a customer for that much heat all of the time. Food processing plants use a lot of low-temperature steam, and some other industrial processes, but that's been a strategy for a long time, and it's not exactly solved the riddle yet.
The rate of improvement isn't constant, but it's a hint of how close you are to the end. Diminishing returns have pretty much arrived for PV. There are lots of options, Thin film, concentrated, organic, CIGS, Nano-this, Q-that; but in the end, the price of a roof-top installation is fairly immobile at this point. So much of the cost is interred in hard work like ladder-climbing, wire-twisting, roof-screwing, and so on, there isn't much left to improve. Vinod uses the example of the zero-dollar PV - even than the price wouldn't compete with the grid - for all the other costs.
Given that we have technology like CSP using mirrors and standard steam turbines, What do you feel is the best balance between improving what has already proved functional, or dickering around with a test tube? I see MIT has dye-impregnated acrylic, you have an asbestos, er nanotech, based material and some theories, while the European are building real working Solar plants at Utility scale.
I dunno, it just seems we're a bit heavy on the science experiments and little to slow on the Yankee Ingenuity these days.
If Al Gore is to the environment what Rev. Jesse Jackson is to.. well anyway, I think I'd rather hear from people who generally get their facts straight. Vinod Khosla has what one calls a pretty good record on these things - though I'd take exception to his positions in retrospect on bio-ethanol for example. I agree with you on Carbon Indulgences.
Since I cringe each time the Candidates energy plans are butchered - and it happens often.
ie. McCain has said Oboma is AGAINST a 300 million dollar (Xprizey) thing for a vehicle battery. and Oboma is opposed to nuclear.
Well, I've never heard Oboma suggest that electric vehicles are a bad idea or anything disparaging of their development, second, I've actually heard Oboma speak rather embracingly of Nuclear - provided as he says - we can solve the storage problem.
McCain would obviously spill oil anywhere he could find it.
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I think you misunderstood my point.
People who go into an office today - and managers who look, touch and feel, are dinosaurs in a telecommuting age.
The connected workers will emerge in new businesses which choose managers and employees, as well as a payment and incentive plans, based on the connected model.
Then, more likely the brick and mortar business will downsize and outsource - into these new businesses which are connected.
These arguments about how one "prefers" to talk to people face-to-face, or yielding a part of your house, are moot. I don't see people making that choice.
P.S. the connected worker may not live in your city, country, or continent.
remote worker's use far less energy - if one assumes the home would have been kept Air-conditioned anyway - one more person doesn't raise the cost much. The computer power of course is negligible.
Surely the largest energy gains would come from telecommuting.
I submit that the shift to telecommuting will look less like the current employee group working out of their home, and more like companies increasing relying on "outsourcing", and out-sorcerers increasingly consisting of people who work in low-marginal-energy environments - whether their own college dorm, some un-cooled sweatshop in Thailand.
It bears mentioning that working from home reduces the AC energy for life-work by 50% while reducing the transportation energy by 80%. It also reduced healthcare costs by reducing viral exposures.
Since most of the propping-up was done in secret away from the American People - is it fair to focus ire on the United States? Perhaps we should put list dictator-supporters on the internet so people will know their names?
The rates are only reasonable if they represent some close proximity to the competitive rates available for the same or similar service.
Let's assume there is some service - perhaps in Canada, which provides internet coverage.
That's the limit of conscionable.
"Clearly Posting" an unconscionable rate doesn't make it conscionable.
I disagree, Apple has an "exclusive agreement" with AT&T, in my book, that makes them the same team, effectively the same "Company" as in the "company you keep."
Absent an ocean - which provides a gradient of temperatures and protection from Solar radiation for early unsophisticated life forms, it may be difficult for life to get started.
Sure we may be surprised by some new means of self-reproduction, but on our own planet - how many organisms got their start outside of the petri dish of vast body of water? AIK
Close.
The best surface is used in photography (See SceneMachine). It may have other uses, but it consists of a great number of diamond shaped beads - the internal angle of which is 90 degrees, which means that light energy entering the surface from a wide acceptance angle - exits the bead at 180 degrees; that's right - back at you bitches.
AIK
At maybe $80 a barrel, Fischer Tropsch synthesis is a bit pricey for something which is less than proven (the price - not the process). Sure, Oil is over $80 today; and I would grant you that IF Oil stays this high, then F/T becomes a very acceptable option - which is really quite a hopeful proposition - in that while we may not see $30 barrels again, we may have sustainable energy at less than current prices.
I'm not suggesting the equipment is perfect, but's its pretty deep into the point of diminishing returns.
Silicon valley has been making progressively better fabrication device and their are Billions, amaybe hundreds of billions of experience in all aspects of chip fab. It's unlikely they missed a huge opportunity for cost reduction.
Nano particles behave like asbestos.
You think somehow long sheets of them are going to fly? I'm a skeptic; I've watched the hazmat teams disassemble asbestos laced buildings. That's expensive sh&(.
Investors in the PV industry are far more interested in what Germany does than the USA, since that's where the product is heading. The US has much lower subsidies and commands less of the market...
The Credible voices are pretty easy to follow since they present presentations at the conferences.
Most people in the PV business are there for the subsidies, and there isn't much hope they can survive without them. Not now, and not ten years from now.
Its a heavily subsidized Plant - which I would applaud - if there was any chance of that technology scaling up while becoming more competative. Unfortunately, there isn't anyone credible who believes PV is going to hit its stride.
This is also true in Kiev. A little know fact about Chernobyl is that the heat is piped to Kiev, the largest city in Ukraine. I've lived in both Hungary and Kiev - but I'm not sure if Hungary gets is power from a nuclear plants - the odds I would say are high, given it has an active coal-soot clean up program which is washing years of coal dust off of its beautiful gilded historical buildings.
No - he meant a power plan in every nuclear home...
See - this is the problem;
Everyone makes this immediate leap that prices will move against the first rule of supply and demand.
I would submit that prices move against supply/demand only when their are breakthroughs in production or material constraints. Computers went from hand production to pick and place production, whilst transistors got smaller and smaller.
The problem is that these 37% cells are already being produced on the best equipment. So those gains in cost are already priced in...
AIK
I suspect that many people realize that when first created, the internet was closed to themselves. It was an elite ivory tower kind of thing. You know - the kind of thing a guy who rides on private jets and limosines would like. That thing - called Arpanet I think - was probably what Al was referring too. There is a world of difference between the government-edition Arpanet - and the mostly free (as in speech) Internet - which brought the printing press to the individual for the first time in history, and connected every individual to the kind of elite information previously only available to the rich. :)
Somehow I doubt that Al Gore played a significant role in democratizing the information age. That role would fall to a new category of leaders. And I think you of all people should know
If I'm wrong on that - let's see where Al Gore voted to open up the Internet to private citizens...
Almost.
The cooling tower has a very important job in any heat cycle engine since energy = hot side - cold side. Take away the cold side, and you've got bumpkiss. The plant re-uses the water. In an Open cycle, some water evaporates, but much of it is reused - in a closed cycle plant, all of the water is recycled and only air passes through the cooling tower.
Yes, this heat can be used for things, but its tricky to find a customer for that much heat all of the time. Food processing plants use a lot of low-temperature steam, and some other industrial processes, but that's been a strategy for a long time, and it's not exactly solved the riddle yet.
Really - Is it "possible" or pretense?
That really is the question. Is it possible that the delivered price of Solar PV could drop 50% in a period of 18 months year after year?
The rate of improvement isn't constant, but it's a hint of how close you are to the end. Diminishing returns have pretty much arrived for PV. There are lots of options, Thin film, concentrated, organic, CIGS, Nano-this, Q-that; but in the end, the price of a roof-top installation is fairly immobile at this point. So much of the cost is interred in hard work like ladder-climbing, wire-twisting, roof-screwing, and so on, there isn't much left to improve. Vinod uses the example of the zero-dollar PV - even than the price wouldn't compete with the grid - for all the other costs.
Given that we have technology like CSP using mirrors and standard steam turbines, What do you feel is the best balance between improving what has already proved functional, or dickering around with a test tube? I see MIT has dye-impregnated acrylic, you have an asbestos, er nanotech, based material and some theories, while the European are building real working Solar plants at Utility scale.
I dunno, it just seems we're a bit heavy on the science experiments and little to slow on the Yankee Ingenuity these days.
It might turn out to be nothing more than a few million cases of asthma and an end to expatriating our wealth overseas.
Even then, I'd think alternatives to oil might be worth giving a passing glance. eh?
If Al Gore is to the environment what Rev. Jesse Jackson is to .. well anyway, I think I'd rather hear from people who generally get their facts straight. Vinod Khosla has what one calls a pretty good record on these things - though I'd take exception to his positions in retrospect on bio-ethanol for example. I agree with you on Carbon Indulgences.
Since I cringe each time the Candidates energy plans are butchered - and it happens often.
ie. McCain has said Oboma is AGAINST a 300 million dollar (Xprizey) thing for a vehicle battery. and Oboma is opposed to nuclear.
Well, I've never heard Oboma suggest that electric vehicles are a bad idea or anything disparaging of their development, second, I've actually heard Oboma speak rather embracingly of Nuclear - provided as he says - we can solve the storage problem.
McCain would obviously spill oil anywhere he could find it.
AIK