Still? Why should the power company (and thus, other consumers (everyone else)) foot the bill?
This is not simply hooking you into the grid. This is also putting in equipment to allow you to push power BACK to the grid. That's neither inexpensive, nor trivial.
If someone wants the benefits of solar (INCLUDING the ability to push power to the power company and reduce/nearly eliminate their own bill), they can damn well pay for it THEMSELVES instead of reaching into everyone else's pockets and stealing a "hand out".
Again, forcing a "charity handout" from the power company to undependable generators that they (the power company) don't need and can't control isn't the answer.
That's like buying a car and demanding the dealer toss in thousands of dollars of after-market mods for free.
Should the power companies be FORCED to just eat the fees of hooking up and stabilizing a power source that's only producing cheap power during periods where demand is lowest?
Sure -- they can use some of the money they save by not having to build and maintain more peaking plants, because residential solar will now handle that issue for them.
What money is that? They already have sources of power as it is. And they now have to pay for the hardware to accept some unstable power load of an unspecified and uncontrolled generator and pay out to these people as well?
How about NO.
If someone wants to hook their home generator facility into the grid, they can pay for their OWN hookup and ammortize the cost over time.
So you want to grow installations/generation by 512,820.5% right?
Let me rephrase that, you want to expand the existing solar install base by OVER HALF A BILLION PERCENT?
And, because nobody ACTUALLY wants to answer, I ask again. Who's supposed to absorb these costs? The grid providers? Should they bankrupt themselves over this? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
Then you're living in a daydream. There simply isn't enough land for things like big solar farms to create that scale. Or wind farms. And, for ENVIRONMENTAL reasons, Hydro in at least the US is nearly as developed as it's going to get.
In addition, even with a thousand-fold increase in battery capacity and efficiency, you're still not going to have a stable enough power source to provide base load.
The problem with trying to use renewable sources as base load is NOT economics. It's dependability. It simply isn't there. And, as our society comes to depend on energy MORE, losses, even small ones, magnify in severity.
What we need are clean technologies like fusion and fission to provide the base load. Then we can use renewables pushed into a capacitance network to smooth out peaks. Rather than relying DIRECTLY on the renewables themselves.
And, in that framework, we can build renewable WHERE IT MAKES SENSE. Not just "a solar panel on every roof, a turbine on every roof peak, and a hookup to the natural gas just in case the shit hits the fan."
Should the power companies be FORCED to just eat the fees of hooking up and stabilizing a power source that's only producing cheap power during periods where demand is lowest?
That's nice. Except there's no such thing as an Intel-Platform-SSD and an OSX-Platform-SSD.
Yes, there are SSDs manufactured by Intel. But that's irrrelevant.
Basically this is a stupid driver+firmware hack by the Cupertino Turtleneck Crew so that if someone wants to buy a third party SSD and put it into their system, Apple can penalize them by eventually destroying the performance of the drive, simply by preventing it from doing what is now a common housekeeping function on all modern drives.
And this happens whether you buy a quality drive OR NOT.
So it has nothing to do with drive cheapness.
It has to do with Apple being giant, flaming schlongs.
Yep! We don't want our kids watching porn! It'll warp them into sex fiends! We're puttin' in a filter! No porn for you little Bobby! Hey little Bobby! How the hell'd you get your hands on porn?
Yep! We don't want our kids watching or reading anything to do with terrorism! It'll turn them into head-chopping raghead terrorists! We're puttin' in a filter. No terrorism for you little Bobby! Hey little Bobby! How the hell'd you get your hands on that terrorist manifesto? And why do you have three wives?
"Did you wake up this morning?" "Well...yeah..." "Then you aren't safe. You never were "safe", and you never WILL BE "safe". "Safe" is a lie and an illusion. Get used to it!" "What if I'd said "no" to you?" "The answer would still be the same, only preceded by the blast of an air horn to wake you up."
Okay, in many ways, much of the framework of what you're talking about ALREADY EXISTS.
But trolls continue to exist anyhow. Why is that?
Because the trolls don't give a damn for the polite bounds of society.
As to "shaming individuals who cross bounds".
First, they have to be able to feel shame. Second, this is an entirely arbitrary watermark. Third, it's just BEGGING for abuse. It's basically institutionalization of PC-speak. Never mind that there truly ARE legitimate usages of harsh speech. Fourth, in a way, isn't this part of the problem? Weren't some of these people attempting to shame someone who transgressed some notion of "decency"?
At this point, what would be the difference between you and someone who's doxxing or throwing off threats?
As for "losing all credibility". So, the second someone CLAIMS these people have transgressed, their arguments have exactly zero meaning? Even legitimate arguments? Sorry, but people can be assholes and still have a valid point. Not liking them is not a valid counter to legitimate arguments.
Sorry, but this has not been thought through, even a little. This is a very shallow thought experiment where none of the ramifications have even been considered.
Seriously, if you're running across someone else's network and/or on someone else's hardware, you can't keep this anonymous.
Even if you're running on your OWN hardware, you still have to interconnect. And there just isn't a good, reliable way to remain anonymous.
If someone can get in and see your wares, the feds can as well. At which point, you take up residence in FPMITA prison and they liquidate your life for cash.
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Still? Why should the power company (and thus, other consumers (everyone else)) foot the bill?
This is not simply hooking you into the grid. This is also putting in equipment to allow you to push power BACK to the grid. That's neither inexpensive, nor trivial.
If someone wants the benefits of solar (INCLUDING the ability to push power to the power company and reduce/nearly eliminate their own bill), they can damn well pay for it THEMSELVES instead of reaching into everyone else's pockets and stealing a "hand out".
Again, forcing a "charity handout" from the power company to undependable generators that they (the power company) don't need and can't control isn't the answer.
That's like buying a car and demanding the dealer toss in thousands of dollars of after-market mods for free.
Every single building and rooftop, is not suitable for mounting solar panels.
Nor is every climate suitable for implementation of solar panels.
And telling someone they have to go up onto their roof and shovel off their panels in the dead of winter?:
Yeah. NOT gonna fly.
And that's assuming some mythical panel setup that magically produces more power than the building requires.
The thing is, if personal solar gets big enough, it's NOT going to be a zero-cost/nonprofit or even low profit endeavor.
It'll be the largest money-burning boondoggle in history.
If someone wants to build their own parallel grid power company, be my guest. I'm all for competition.
But forcing existing providers to subsidize your personal whims and avarice? Sorry, I can't get behind that.
Because, if they can do it to the power companies and get away with it, sooner or later they're going to try to do it to ME too.
Should the power companies be FORCED to just eat the fees of hooking up and stabilizing a power source that's only producing cheap power during periods where demand is lowest?
Sure -- they can use some of the money they save by not having to build and maintain more peaking plants, because residential solar will now handle that issue for them.
What money is that? They already have sources of power as it is. And they now have to pay for the hardware to accept some unstable power load of an unspecified and uncontrolled generator and pay out to these people as well?
How about NO.
If someone wants to hook their home generator facility into the grid, they can pay for their OWN hookup and ammortize the cost over time.
Oh! But THAT makes it UNECONOMICAL!
Well...yeah...generally DEMANDING "charity" is!
20%?
So, you want to take solar from .0039%, to 20%?
So you want to grow installations/generation by 512,820.5% right?
Let me rephrase that, you want to expand the existing solar install base by OVER HALF A BILLION PERCENT?
And, because nobody ACTUALLY wants to answer, I ask again. Who's supposed to absorb these costs? The grid providers? Should they bankrupt themselves over this? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
Then you're living in a daydream. There simply isn't enough land for things like big solar farms to create that scale. Or wind farms. And, for ENVIRONMENTAL reasons, Hydro in at least the US is nearly as developed as it's going to get.
In addition, even with a thousand-fold increase in battery capacity and efficiency, you're still not going to have a stable enough power source to provide base load.
The problem with trying to use renewable sources as base load is NOT economics. It's dependability. It simply isn't there. And, as our society comes to depend on energy MORE, losses, even small ones, magnify in severity.
What we need are clean technologies like fusion and fission to provide the base load. Then we can use renewables pushed into a capacitance network to smooth out peaks. Rather than relying DIRECTLY on the renewables themselves.
And, in that framework, we can build renewable WHERE IT MAKES SENSE. Not just "a solar panel on every roof, a turbine on every roof peak, and a hookup to the natural gas just in case the shit hits the fan."
50%?
Currently solar makes up about 3% of all renewable energy produced in the US.
Renewable energy accounts for about 13% of domestically produced power and about 11.2% of total production.
So. 3% of of 13% (I'll be generous and take the higher number). That's approximately 0.0039% of domestically produced power.
What is the appropriate "level of penetration" for this tech compared to total generation? Half a percent? A whole percent
Is the solar install base REALLY going to be able to accommodate a 15-30,000% (fifteen to thirty THOUSAND percent) increase in deployment?
MAYBE, but I seriously doubt it.
If you're talking double digits of total production/consumption percentage, you're deluded. Flat-out, stone cold, cheese firmly off cracker NUTS.
At which point the natural gas industry would like to talk with you about augmenting your personal production with nice, cheap natural gas!
And I say again, who's paying for the modifications to the grid that will be necessary to accept this power?
If you ever think you're going to zero-sum your whole bill from the power company forever, guess again. It's just not a sustainable pricing model.
Should the power companies be FORCED to just eat the fees of hooking up and stabilizing a power source that's only producing cheap power during periods where demand is lowest?
I think not.
That's nice. Except there's no such thing as an Intel-Platform-SSD and an OSX-Platform-SSD.
Yes, there are SSDs manufactured by Intel. But that's irrrelevant.
Basically this is a stupid driver+firmware hack by the Cupertino Turtleneck Crew so that if someone wants to buy a third party SSD and put it into their system, Apple can penalize them by eventually destroying the performance of the drive, simply by preventing it from doing what is now a common housekeeping function on all modern drives.
And this happens whether you buy a quality drive OR NOT.
So it has nothing to do with drive cheapness.
It has to do with Apple being giant, flaming schlongs.
Like yahren. And felgercarb,
Yep! We don't want our kids watching porn! It'll warp them into sex fiends!
We're puttin' in a filter!
No porn for you little Bobby!
Hey little Bobby! How the hell'd you get your hands on porn?
Yep! We don't want our kids watching or reading anything to do with terrorism! It'll turn them into head-chopping raghead terrorists!
We're puttin' in a filter.
No terrorism for you little Bobby!
Hey little Bobby! How the hell'd you get your hands on that terrorist manifesto? And why do you have three wives?
Yep. It's called "Common Core".
Ain't it great?
It says it relays the info to police.
It doesn't say it kicks the info to the police station or dispatch.
It did say "police officers were immediately able to track his movements and quickly subdue him".
So we're possibly looking at some form of on-site monitoring system.
All you have to do is get your plane down to a NASA facility. Legally.
No he doesn't! Haven't you been paying attention to the articles about planes, rockets and self-driving cars?
In a couple years, Eric Schmidt is going to forget what his legs are for...
That hasn't been the point of school in years.
Most of the learning, people get out of the way in the first few minutes of class.
The rest of the time, school is a kiddie jail with socialization programs and a rowdy inmate population.
Without that shot detection system, we wouldn't know what was going on in the school
I would think that the loud bangs, screaming, and fleeing people would be a dead giveaway.
"Did you wake up this morning?"
"Well...yeah..."
"Then you aren't safe. You never were "safe", and you never WILL BE "safe". "Safe" is a lie and an illusion. Get used to it!"
"What if I'd said "no" to you?"
"The answer would still be the same, only preceded by the blast of an air horn to wake you up."
Never mind your body is also mildly radioactive.
And that your local background radiation may actually be higher than the exposure to that quantity of water.
It will take about 100yrs for the amount of fukushima caesium 137 released into the environment to diminish to only ~10%.
Years since event | caesium137 remaining
30yrs | 1/2
60yrs | 1/4th
90yrs | 1/8th
One. Hundred. Years.
Can you give us the breakdown again? But in yahrens?
Okay, in many ways, much of the framework of what you're talking about ALREADY EXISTS.
But trolls continue to exist anyhow. Why is that?
Because the trolls don't give a damn for the polite bounds of society.
As to "shaming individuals who cross bounds".
First, they have to be able to feel shame. Second, this is an entirely arbitrary watermark. Third, it's just BEGGING for abuse. It's basically institutionalization of PC-speak. Never mind that there truly ARE legitimate usages of harsh speech. Fourth, in a way, isn't this part of the problem? Weren't some of these people attempting to shame someone who transgressed some notion of "decency"?
At this point, what would be the difference between you and someone who's doxxing or throwing off threats?
As for "losing all credibility". So, the second someone CLAIMS these people have transgressed, their arguments have exactly zero meaning? Even legitimate arguments? Sorry, but people can be assholes and still have a valid point. Not liking them is not a valid counter to legitimate arguments.
Sorry, but this has not been thought through, even a little. This is a very shallow thought experiment where none of the ramifications have even been considered.
Why yes. And didn't he spend a lot of time trying to avoid the media a while back?
Seriously, if you're running across someone else's network and/or on someone else's hardware, you can't keep this anonymous.
Even if you're running on your OWN hardware, you still have to interconnect. And there just isn't a good, reliable way to remain anonymous.
If someone can get in and see your wares, the feds can as well. At which point, you take up residence in FPMITA prison and they liquidate your life for cash.