Add to that the fact that 747 are 'commercially available' and it even becomes financially feasible... and you could use commercially trained pilots - rather than expensive fighter pilots.
Um...for all practical purposes, there's no such thing as a "commercially trained pilot." The airlines get most of their pilots from the military; it saves them money because they only have to bring pilots up to speed on the particulars of what they'll be flying, instead of having to start with the basics.
Hell, the Air Force already has a handful of pilots checked out on the VC-25A who are already familiar with the aircraft.
We already have simple social security numbers? Why do we need a card? Give your SS# to the election people and vote. How tough is that?
It's illegal to use Social Security numbers for any purpose other than the administration of the Social Security system. I'll allow that the law isn't exactly vigorously enforced, but does that make it OK to break it yet again?
The system is fucked up beyond all repair, and only partisan republican robots inside the US can't see that. Here's a standard the Bush campaign couldn't live with: count the votes until you get the same answer twice, something any two-toothed cretin who runs a cash register knows.
You're practically guaranteed to not get the same results twice out of a punched-card ballot. A cleanly-punched ballot stands a better chance in a Votomatic, but the blue-haired crowd in Palm Beach County must have a problem with reading and/or reading comprehension and failed in large numbers to make a valid vote. (This wasn't even the first time this had happened.) Some of the problem came from double-punched ballots, which should be tossed immediately, but the rest of it was with incompletely-punched ballots. Depending on how it's punched, it may or may not be counted by the machine. It's also possible that a snag as the card passes through can alter the ballot, whether or not the ballot was correctly cast. This type of error tends to inflate every candidate's vote count approximately equally, and we saw that with both candidates making small (and approximately equal) gains in their totals in successive recounts.
Combine that with attempts by Gore and his minions to change the rules after the ballots had been cast and a Democrat-appointed state supreme court that aided and abetted the Gore campaign in its attempt at election fraud, and you have a recipe for disaster.
That said, it would not be a bad idea for certain localities to consider getting some more modern voting equipment.
The following was posted frequently to sci.space for the past 10+ years. I'm uncertain of it's origin. Perhaps it's relevant here...
Sounds like a description of the Fisher Space Pen, except that the manufacturer's history page says that the pen and its cartridge had already been figured out and were in production when NASA noticed that it would work in space. Before that time, astronauts had been using pencils.
Some Americans spend so much time being angry that an environmentally-conscious person has determined something they like to do is harmful that they never stop to wonder whether that person might actually be right.
Given the track record of the environmentalist wackos in the past (remember when they said we were headed into a new Ice Age?), I'd say we have damn good reason to be skeptical.
Wow thinking like this is the reason SUVs are popular and there is a gas shortage.
It's called safety through being bigger than everyone else. It's also called living in a free country, instead of letting the environmentalist wackos dictate that we all drive tin-cans-on-wheels that do 0-60 in five minutes, fall apart if you look at them the wrong way, and put you in mortal danger in what would otherwise be a minor fender-bender.
I cant think of a well designed american car. American cars are either designed to show how small their owners brains are or how short their dicks are.
...and your average stickered-up rice burner isn't? Yeah, right. My Cutlass has gone 24 years already, and will still be hauling ass when your Civic has long rotted away in some junkyard.
Processors currently cost a fortune made out of sand. How much will they cost made from diamond?
The only reason gem-quality diamonds cost so much is that the De Beers diamond cartel has created artificial scarcity in that market in order to drive prices up to their current levels. (Diamonds used to be nowhere near as expensive in relation to other gemstones, and weren't even considered particularly desirable until sometime in the early-to-mid-20th century.) Industrial-grade diamond materials, such as are used in cutting tools and abrasives, aren't at all expensive. Also, the processes for making synthetic diamond are only capable at this time of making the industrial-grade materials; nobody is anywhere near capable of squeezing a lump of carbon into the next Star of Africa or Hope Diamond, let alone the smaller rocks to which women become so attached.
I associated the whole "ask what I think, not what I feel" bit with Rush Limbaugh, who has said the same thing (more or less) before. Andre must be a dittohead.:-)
I'm sure you'll still be able to use their universal key. The one that's all 0s with one 1. I don't remember offhand, but it has the form of 00000-01000-0000-000 something like that. Oops, did they not want that to get out?
Most of their stuff that uses two groups of digits as a CD key can take either 123-1234567 or 1234-1234567 (depending on whether the first block is 3 or 4 digits).
Back when I was under the thumb of The Man, I actually memorized a Win98 OEM CD key. I had twenty machines to ops-check before the day-after-Thanksgiving one year, so I scribbled down the CD key from one of the machines on pieces of masking tape which went up at each of the four workstations I was using to get the job done. By the time all the machines were done, I had the stupid thing committed to memory...so there are now dozens of Win98 boxen all over town using BCP3V-3RR6D-Q8BK8-YRKP2-T43R8. Sometimes I scare even myself.:-)
Second, there is a big performance gap between IDE and SCSI [DVD-ROM drives]. I own the topline Pioneer of both varieties -- my first one was SCSI, I got it more than a year ago, and its 6x speed is STILL the fastest.
A while ago, the boss had a new machine put together for use at work (we would've built it ourselves, but some weird circumstances popped up so that that didn't happen). It was specced out as a fairly high-end system (1-GHz Athlon, 512 megs RAM, Cheetah X15, etc.)...one of the items was a 10x SCSI DVD-ROM. I knew they were out there; I had seen them from several vendors on Pricewatch. The company that built the machine tried giving us the run-around on the DVD-ROM drive, but we forced them to dig around for the exact parts we specified. (Even after we received it, we had to apply a bunch of patches and driver upgrades to Win2K to make it run right, but it's been running great for the past few months.)
We had specced a Pioneer slot-load 10x SCSI DVD-ROM. It must've been fairly new at the time, as they were unable to get that exact model. The system ended up getting built with a Toshiba 10x SCSI DVD-ROM (tray-load), which has worked about the same. I would think faster drives would be available now, though as with CD-ROM drives I suspect that any practical benefits were gained long ago and the continuing race for faster speeds isn't much more than a dick-size contest among the drive manufacturers. (Consider that 1x DVD-ROM runs at about the same data rate as 8x CD-ROM, and you'll see why.)
AFAIK CD-RW's don't fulfill the CD specs (CD-R's only barely), so no player is "required" to play them. I myself haven't seen any CD-RW's play in any CD-players (though I've tested only a few), but they often work in CD-ROMs.
Most older CD-ROM drives don't care too much for CD-RWs. I have several older drives (Sony 4x IDE, Panasonic 4x SCSI, and Mitsumi 6x IDE) that don't take rewritables. The newer drives I have (Creative Labs 2x IDE DVD-ROM, Creative Labs 24x IDE, Memorex 40x IDE) read them, as of course does the burner I use (BTC 2x2x6 IDE).
Also, while most audio CD players won't read CD-RWs, most DVD players will. I've used rewritables to test VCD burns before committing them to CD-R, and I've played MP3s off of 'em (the player is an Apex AD-600A...the model the MPAA loves to hate).
Of course, what I really want is somethat that scans TV listings and tells me when something interesting is going to be on. Or something that records off the radio, but only archives music it thinks I'll like.
Umm...you mean something like TiVo? Over time, it figures out what kind of stuff you like and starts recording things it thinks you'll like.
It only does TV, though...if it also did radio, that would be the sh*t. (The problem is that radio schedules often aren't published in the same manner as TV schedules. A radio station's website might have a listing of what it's playing (here's a local example), but I've never seen a schedule for all of the local radio stations, compiled in one publication, anywhere in the States. They probably figure that someone who listens mainly to stuff like Nine Inch Nails or Stone Temple Pilots doesn't give a rat's ass about what's playing on a station that plays the Backdoor^H^H^H^Hstreet Boys or Britney Spears, or something like that.)
I can't imagine ANY serious Linux distributor that will put 2.4.0 on it's new version of Linux..
Think RedHat!:)
He said serious Linux distributor.:-)
(I've been using SuSE for about the past two years. Before SuSE, I used Slackware, and before Slackware, I used SLS (I guess that says something about how long I've been using Linux:-) ). I'm now in the middle of building a system from source (using LFS) and have that system running 2.4.0-test12 with the appropriate ReiserFS patch added. I tried applying that patch to 2.4.0-prerelease...when it tried to mount/, it panicked. Who would've thought it would be so fussy about which kernel it'd accept? When it's up and running all the software I use, it'll replace SuSE. Everything is optimized for the K6 (since I have three of 'em that'll need to run it), and all binaries are stripped to save space and load time. Even on an ancient P5-166 with a Quantum Bigfoot, it loads up in almost no time (not too many services running yet, though...just OpenSSH and ClusterNFS at this point).)
Aren't they an import from the other side of the Atlantic?
There are two different products with the same name. The small tart candies in the cylindrical wrapper are from up north; I don't recall what the ones from across the puddle were like (they had an annoying jingle associated with them on British TV).
Thanks wljones, for the tech-y interruption to all this witty reparté. In the Matrix(movie), the defense againt the EMP was to turn off all power. Besides it being a MOVIE, why would that not be a realistic defense in the real world?
The current induced in the wires and board traces that hook a circuit together would fry most solid-state devices.
Hook a short length of wire across the input of a reasonably sensitive meter. Swipe a magnet by the wire. You should see a slight fluctuation in the meter reading. Multiply that by several orders of magnitude and you have an approximation of what an EMP weapon would do. It'd be like applying wall voltage across every component in a circuit.
I guess not.:-P Since when has any problem with the educational system been fixed by throwing more money at it? The goons in the NEA and the Democrat Party might believe that all that ails our schools can be fixed by the further (mis-)appropriation of the taxpayers' money, but reality is considerably different.
If more money would fix our education problems, please explain how it is that the school districts that spend the most money often produce the worst results (I'm thinking of places like Washington, DC, as examples), while districts with much more modest funding don't have as many problems cranking out people who can read, write, and calculate.
improve the quality of teaching
This would be useful, but how would you go about doing this? The teachers' unions have blocked reforms such as merit pay that would link pay to performance. Short of busting the unions (an approach to which I wouldn't be opposed, as they often serve little purpose other than to stir the sh*t nowadays), I'm not convinced that much can be done to fix the public-education system as it exists today. Over the past 30-40 years, it has degenerated into an inefficient, money-hogging monstrosity that often does a fair-to-poor job of preparing kids for The Real World.
Using a computer to play DVDs is something of a hack anyways. You have to have a GOOD TV out, buy a remote for it, tweak the computer, maintain it, make sure all the fans are quiet. The hardest part is finding quality stuff because PC stuff in general is junk IMO, you have to make sure you are willing to spend extra money for better components if they are available. I'd recommend the Creative DXR3 with Hollywood + drivers, that card is pretty good, but no component outs, although there might be a hack out for that.
Instead of worrying about getting decent analog output from your computer, you could just park a monitor in your living room. 19" monitors aren't much more expensive now than good 19-20" TVs, and it's my understanding that HDTV-capable tuner cards are supposed to be fairly cheap as well. It could be a way to get into HDTV without spending thousands, if you have a computer you can dedicate to doing video work (when it's not doing anything else, you can have it find Mersenne primes or something).
"But a 19" monitor is too small for TV," you say? I hate you.:-) (I don't have the space for something much bigger than the 20" Panasonic I have now, and even if I did, I don't know if it'd be worth springing for a bigger TV anyway.)
For a while, I had a K6-200 with a Riva 128 (came with TV-out) and a Creative Labs Dxr2 kit running Win95 and rigged as a DVD/MP3 player. Playing that stuff now has mostly been relegated to an Apex AD600A (one of the "loophole" models), though the computer is still under the TV, running command-line Linux to provide another place to read mail/news and play MP3s across the network. Maybe it'll get an HDTV card someday, if such a card doesn't need a GHz Athlon/P!!! to drive it.
Except now ads will be actually part of the content, so it'll be a lot harder to filter them out...
Rather than just get a blank rectangle where a banner should be, you might end up with blank javascript pop-ups, which'll be more annoying then a banner ad could ever be, IMO.
squid-redir includes a replacement script that closes pop-ups as soon as they open. Since it rewrites URLs, it can substitute this script whenever a known pop-up site is called.
Likewise for redirect links. If the actual link to the article you want to read requires that you step through, say, DoubleClicks site in order to see the ad and hence, retrieve the URL, then you'll be effectively blocked from content if your blocking proxy prevents you from visiting doubleclick.
If you look at the average DCLK URL, you'll often find the true destination URL tacked on somewhere at the end. By stripping out DCLK's garbage, you can go straight to your destination without pinging DCLK. squid-redir ought to be able to handle this; I've set mine to strip out the navigation bar at the top of AOHell-hosted websites. As an example, here's the pattern squid-redir uses for that fix:
But on the Macintosh machine at home, I haven't been able to find a decent http proxy to filter banner ads, so I've just suffered. Perhaps someone here can recommend a proxy for the Mac... that works.
With MacOS X, Squid (and the filtering add-ons available for it) would be a pretty good option. If it's been ported to any older versions, it might work for you as well. (It's been ported to NT, at least, so it's not completely restricted to UN*Xish platforms.)
The other option, of course, would be to throw Linux onto your Mac and then run Squid under that.:-) (I picked up a Quadra 610 dirt-cheap recently with that intention, more for sh*ts and grins than anything else...just need something bigger than an 80-meg hard drive now.)
[WebWasher] can filter out Javascript cued on opening/closing windows, remove pop-ups entirely, and reclaim space which would have been used by banner ads.
Actually, squid can do some (all?) of these things. My former company used to use a squid proxy, and they'd configured it to automatically remove popups from a number of well known annoying sites (Tripod, GeoCities, etc.)
I used WebWasher for a while...it's really good at figuring out what's probably an ad, but it also tends to be a bit too aggressive in blocking JavaScript (sometimes, Windows Update wouldn't work while WebWasher was running). I put Squid on my Linux server at home a few months back, along with a Perl-based redirector script from http://taz.net.au/block. It's been nearly as effective as WebWasher, without impairing the function of certain sites like WebWasher sometimes does. If an ad slips through, it happens because the site that serves it up isn't in the known list of ad sites; I check the logs, add the new site, and no more ads come through from them ever again. (The list I'm currently using is available at http://salfter.dyndns.org/redir.)
Now I'm trying to get this setup running on the NT server at work. Squid itself is up and running (the homepage for the NT port of Squid 2.1 is at http://www.phys-iasi.ro/users/romeo/squidnt.htm, but their download link is bad...try ftp://ftp.tsu.tula.ru/pub/windows/squidnt21a.zip instead); now I need to get Perl going and then see if the redirector will work the same under NT as it does under Linux. (I'll probably have to wait until everybody's gone, in case the Perl installer decides it needs to reboot the server...and even if it doesn't, some other needed updates will want to reboot the server anyway.)
Speaking of which, do 8 bit machines actually have enough memory and speed to handle Java code? It's not exactly the fastest code in the world...
It depends on how it's configured. Until 1992, my main computer was an Apple IIe (definitely an 8-bit box) with 1 meg of RAM and 40 megs of disk...and that wasn't even the most you could put in there. (I also had it running at 10 MHz, so it was pretty damn quick for the time. Used AppleWorks for writing papers and ProTERM for dialing BBSes...fun stuff.)
Holy crap, I never saw this coming. I've owned 3Dfx cards for years, and their hardware kicks ass - not necessarily performance-wise, but reliability, and compatibility. Drivers were never an issue (as opposed to some other card maker).
I don't know what color the sky might be on your world, but here on Earth, I used to have no end of problems getting Voodoo3 cards working right--under Win9x, let alone under anything else. Pop in a different board (whether it used nVidia, ATI, or something else) and your problems were solved.
Voodoo2 cards worked well enough for what they were (3D-only, and thus useless for any real computing ("real computing" != "games")), but it eventually got to where I was telling people to stay away from the Voodoo3. Maybe things have changed in the past couple of years (hell, the Rage 128 had driver issues when it was first out, but it works properly now), but 3Dfx hardly had an unblemished history.
The Hoover Dam is actually used more for Las Vegas I believe, which is significantly closer...
Hoover Dam is fairly close (about 40 miles away), but Las Vegas gets most of its power from coal- and gas-fired plants. California uses over half (about 56%) of the power generated by Hoover Dam. (The numbers on where the power goes are here. There's a power line near where I live that appears to run between Nellis AFB and Lake Mead (the lake formed by the dam), and that probably is the only dam power used in the valley.)
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Hell, the Air Force already has a handful of pilots checked out on the VC-25A who are already familiar with the aircraft.
Combine that with attempts by Gore and his minions to change the rules after the ballots had been cast and a Democrat-appointed state supreme court that aided and abetted the Gore campaign in its attempt at election fraud, and you have a recipe for disaster.
That said, it would not be a bad idea for certain localities to consider getting some more modern voting equipment.
Back when I was under the thumb of The Man, I actually memorized a Win98 OEM CD key. I had twenty machines to ops-check before the day-after-Thanksgiving one year, so I scribbled down the CD key from one of the machines on pieces of masking tape which went up at each of the four workstations I was using to get the job done. By the time all the machines were done, I had the stupid thing committed to memory...so there are now dozens of Win98 boxen all over town using BCP3V-3RR6D-Q8BK8-YRKP2-T43R8. Sometimes I scare even myself. :-)
We had specced a Pioneer slot-load 10x SCSI DVD-ROM. It must've been fairly new at the time, as they were unable to get that exact model. The system ended up getting built with a Toshiba 10x SCSI DVD-ROM (tray-load), which has worked about the same. I would think faster drives would be available now, though as with CD-ROM drives I suspect that any practical benefits were gained long ago and the continuing race for faster speeds isn't much more than a dick-size contest among the drive manufacturers. (Consider that 1x DVD-ROM runs at about the same data rate as 8x CD-ROM, and you'll see why.)
Also, while most audio CD players won't read CD-RWs, most DVD players will. I've used rewritables to test VCD burns before committing them to CD-R, and I've played MP3s off of 'em (the player is an Apex AD-600A...the model the MPAA loves to hate).
It only does TV, though...if it also did radio, that would be the sh*t. (The problem is that radio schedules often aren't published in the same manner as TV schedules. A radio station's website might have a listing of what it's playing (here's a local example), but I've never seen a schedule for all of the local radio stations, compiled in one publication, anywhere in the States. They probably figure that someone who listens mainly to stuff like Nine Inch Nails or Stone Temple Pilots doesn't give a rat's ass about what's playing on a station that plays the Backdoor^H^H^H^Hstreet Boys or Britney Spears, or something like that.)
(I've been using SuSE for about the past two years. Before SuSE, I used Slackware, and before Slackware, I used SLS (I guess that says something about how long I've been using Linux :-) ). I'm now in the middle of building a system from source (using LFS) and have that system running 2.4.0-test12 with the appropriate ReiserFS patch added. I tried applying that patch to 2.4.0-prerelease...when it tried to mount /, it panicked. Who would've thought it would be so fussy about which kernel it'd accept? When it's up and running all the software I use, it'll replace SuSE. Everything is optimized for the K6 (since I have three of 'em that'll need to run it), and all binaries are stripped to save space and load time. Even on an ancient P5-166 with a Quantum Bigfoot, it loads up in almost no time (not too many services running yet, though...just OpenSSH and ClusterNFS at this point).)
There are two different products with the same name. The small tart candies in the cylindrical wrapper are from up north; I don't recall what the ones from across the puddle were like (they had an annoying jingle associated with them on British TV).
The current induced in the wires and board traces that hook a circuit together would fry most solid-state devices.
Hook a short length of wire across the input of a reasonably sensitive meter. Swipe a magnet by the wire. You should see a slight fluctuation in the meter reading. Multiply that by several orders of magnitude and you have an approximation of what an EMP weapon would do. It'd be like applying wall voltage across every component in a circuit.
Do you have a better idea?
I guess not. :-P Since when has any problem with the educational system been fixed by throwing more money at it? The goons in the NEA and the Democrat Party might believe that all that ails our schools can be fixed by the further (mis-)appropriation of the taxpayers' money, but reality is considerably different.
If more money would fix our education problems, please explain how it is that the school districts that spend the most money often produce the worst results (I'm thinking of places like Washington, DC, as examples), while districts with much more modest funding don't have as many problems cranking out people who can read, write, and calculate.
This would be useful, but how would you go about doing this? The teachers' unions have blocked reforms such as merit pay that would link pay to performance. Short of busting the unions (an approach to which I wouldn't be opposed, as they often serve little purpose other than to stir the sh*t nowadays), I'm not convinced that much can be done to fix the public-education system as it exists today. Over the past 30-40 years, it has degenerated into an inefficient, money-hogging monstrosity that often does a fair-to-poor job of preparing kids for The Real World.
Instead of worrying about getting decent analog output from your computer, you could just park a monitor in your living room. 19" monitors aren't much more expensive now than good 19-20" TVs, and it's my understanding that HDTV-capable tuner cards are supposed to be fairly cheap as well. It could be a way to get into HDTV without spending thousands, if you have a computer you can dedicate to doing video work (when it's not doing anything else, you can have it find Mersenne primes or something).
"But a 19" monitor is too small for TV," you say? I hate you. :-) (I don't have the space for something much bigger than the 20" Panasonic I have now, and even if I did, I don't know if it'd be worth springing for a bigger TV anyway.)
For a while, I had a K6-200 with a Riva 128 (came with TV-out) and a Creative Labs Dxr2 kit running Win95 and rigged as a DVD/MP3 player. Playing that stuff now has mostly been relegated to an Apex AD600A (one of the "loophole" models), though the computer is still under the TV, running command-line Linux to provide another place to read mail/news and play MP3s across the network. Maybe it'll get an HDTV card someday, if such a card doesn't need a GHz Athlon/P!!! to drive it.
squid-redir includes a replacement script that closes pop-ups as soon as they open. Since it rewrites URLs, it can substitute this script whenever a known pop-up site is called.
If you look at the average DCLK URL, you'll often find the true destination URL tacked on somewhere at the end. By stripping out DCLK's garbage, you can go straight to your destination without pinging DCLK. squid-redir ought to be able to handle this; I've set mine to strip out the navigation bar at the top of AOHell-hosted websites. As an example, here's the pattern squid-redir uses for that fix:
This is a simple pattern that only adds "_ht_a/" to the URL. Similar manipulation is possible for other sites as needed.
With MacOS X, Squid (and the filtering add-ons available for it) would be a pretty good option. If it's been ported to any older versions, it might work for you as well. (It's been ported to NT, at least, so it's not completely restricted to UN*Xish platforms.)
The other option, of course, would be to throw Linux onto your Mac and then run Squid under that. :-) (I picked up a Quadra 610 dirt-cheap recently with that intention, more for sh*ts and grins than anything else...just need something bigger than an 80-meg hard drive now.)
I used WebWasher for a while...it's really good at figuring out what's probably an ad, but it also tends to be a bit too aggressive in blocking JavaScript (sometimes, Windows Update wouldn't work while WebWasher was running). I put Squid on my Linux server at home a few months back, along with a Perl-based redirector script from http://taz.net.au/block. It's been nearly as effective as WebWasher, without impairing the function of certain sites like WebWasher sometimes does. If an ad slips through, it happens because the site that serves it up isn't in the known list of ad sites; I check the logs, add the new site, and no more ads come through from them ever again. (The list I'm currently using is available at http://salfter.dyndns.org/redir.)
Now I'm trying to get this setup running on the NT server at work. Squid itself is up and running (the homepage for the NT port of Squid 2.1 is at http://www.phys-iasi.ro/users/romeo/squidnt.htm, but their download link is bad...try ftp://ftp.tsu.tula.ru/pub/windows/squidnt21a.zip instead); now I need to get Perl going and then see if the redirector will work the same under NT as it does under Linux. (I'll probably have to wait until everybody's gone, in case the Perl installer decides it needs to reboot the server...and even if it doesn't, some other needed updates will want to reboot the server anyway.)
It depends on how it's configured. Until 1992, my main computer was an Apple IIe (definitely an 8-bit box) with 1 meg of RAM and 40 megs of disk...and that wasn't even the most you could put in there. (I also had it running at 10 MHz, so it was pretty damn quick for the time. Used AppleWorks for writing papers and ProTERM for dialing BBSes...fun stuff.)
I don't know what color the sky might be on your world, but here on Earth, I used to have no end of problems getting Voodoo3 cards working right--under Win9x, let alone under anything else. Pop in a different board (whether it used nVidia, ATI, or something else) and your problems were solved.
Voodoo2 cards worked well enough for what they were (3D-only, and thus useless for any real computing ("real computing" != "games")), but it eventually got to where I was telling people to stay away from the Voodoo3. Maybe things have changed in the past couple of years (hell, the Rage 128 had driver issues when it was first out, but it works properly now), but 3Dfx hardly had an unblemished history.
Hoover Dam is fairly close (about 40 miles away), but Las Vegas gets most of its power from coal- and gas-fired plants. California uses over half (about 56%) of the power generated by Hoover Dam. (The numbers on where the power goes are here. There's a power line near where I live that appears to run between Nellis AFB and Lake Mead (the lake formed by the dam), and that probably is the only dam power used in the valley.)