When LED's come down in cost by a factor of 10 and their CRI matches decent CFL's then I'll be all over them as they eliminate the single biggest failure point for me which is the glass tube, out of dozens of CFL's installed over the last 8 years at home I've only lost 3 to dead ballasts and none so far to dead phosphors (though a few are starting to get dim enough that I might consider replacing them).
Hell one of those companies is Oracle themselves. In fact the current version of several of the products we use still have the JRE 1.5.0 as the bundled version.
The US has more breweries than Germany (~2,000 versus ~1,300) so if you're right about Germany have more than 1/3 then between us we have over 70% of all breweries worldwide =)
4-5% for the mass market lagers just like basically everywhere. You can find everything from 2-12% ABV in most well stocked specialty stores though the typical range is 4-9%. Some states have a limit on the maximum ABV allowed under the tax bracket for beer and so you won't typically be able to find anything above that statute limit.
You may not like the product that BMC puts out but it's not of low quality, every professional brewer I know is amazed at the quality control of the big three. The very pale, lightly hopped light lager that the big three produce as their mainstay is one of the most technically difficult beers to produce because ANY defect is instantly noticeable whereas with a big IPA you can screw all sorts of things up and it just gets masked by the overpowering bitterness. That isn't to say that there's no art to making a good IPA, just that it's a much more forgiving style when it comes to defects.
Correction, there are over 2,000 micro and craft breweries in the US today and we're adding them at a bit over 200 net new breweries per year. That's 50% more than Germany and even on a per-capita basis we're projected to pass them by the end of the decade. It really is a good time to be a beer lover in America =)
There are five micro's just around Fayetteville (one of the podcasts I listen to is based out of the area and they've been featuring the local homebrewers who went pro in the last two years). There are over 2,000 micro and craft breweries in the US and we're adding about 200 net new breweries per year. We're not up to the breweries per capita of Germany, but we're on a trajectory to catch them by the end of the decade. If you can't find a local brew you like you either don't like beer or you aren't trying.
Sure they do, I keep my house about 16C in the winter and they don't take appreciably longer to reach full brightness, heck the CFL's in my garage door opener get plenty bright even on -30C mornings.
You are arguing the wrong thing, a heat pump can produce a BTU load of more 3,415 BTU per hour per kw which is where the efficiency of greater than 100% is coming from. Sure, they aren't creating more than 3,415 BTU per hour per kw, but most people don't care about the thermodynamics of the universe, just the energy that is required to heat or cool their domicile.
The GE CFL's that Walmart and Samsclub sell will reach 90+% brightness in about 2-3 seconds and 100% in under a minute. As far as the dimable CFL's, they are available but they don't dim as far, and those do take considerable time to warm up. I stopped buying them after the first purchase and now purchase the energy efficient halogen bulbs for my downstairs can lights that are on a dimmer, they're about halfway between a traditional incandescent and a CFL in efficiency and won't be banned under the efficiency guidelines.
The problem is that the cost of energy as currently setup in the US does no account for negative externalities and every attempt to fix that situation has been blocked so they pushed through what they could (not that it makes any significant difference since domestic lighting is less than.1% of all energy use, but it was something they could take back to their voters who superficially care about the environment).
Err, the $40B is the Fed buying T-bills, the only way that's helping the big banks is by causing the yield on those instruments to fall thus making other investments (like perhaps bonds issues through big banks) more attractive.
We could give that neighbouring country chemical and biological weapons citation needed
We could start murdering their scientists That was Israel, not the US, it's unlikely the US would have approved if Israel had bothered to ask us.
I'm not saying the US has been real friendly towards Iran, we've kind of been dicks to them over the last 60 years or so, but let's keep facts straight.
Uh, the bean counters asked the CS guys to data mine for the drones that cost the least (more effective in management speak doesn't mean helped the customer the most, it means lowest cost per caller).
Well, if the bean counters consider the lack of those qualities to be what makes for a good callcenter worker then it's no wonder that the quality of support has gone down as fast as it has. Six or seven years ago when I called into support there was about a 50% chance of reaching someone who was smart and could solve my problem without relying on a script (which never solve my problem because if it can be found in available documentation I've already tried it before calling support), today there's maybe a 5% change if that.
We're exporting finished oil goods and importing crude. One of the biggest reasons for the recent change is that we have VERY cheap natural gas from shale. Mexico is sending crude to US refineries where they are using cheap natural gas to crack the crude into the useful components like gasoline and then they are shipping the finished products back to Mexico. This is more efficient than using some fraction of each barrel to power the cracking process. Since natural gas produces less CO2 per BTU it's also better for the environment even when you account for the transportation. In some instances the invisible hand really does lead to a better solution =)
Google's already Intel's fifth biggest customer, the other big web\cloud players probably aren't that far behind so if enough of them insist on Open Rack designs it won't matter what the rest of us want, they WILL be produced. With the way people move between those large players it's likely that will happen.
No, they actually can't force you to buy one, they can however levy a tax on you if you fail to buy one (a perhaps subtle but important distinction, one expands the commerce clause the other relies on the taxing power).
Hehe, a similar tech is already in the passport, most western passports now include RFID chips. Now we just need Congress to withhold highway funds until the states include RFID in drivers licenses and we're at the same end goal without needing an expensive smartphone with a charged battery available.
Except the new Zagat rating's aren't just the official Zagat ratings, they're a weighted blend of Zagat, Google Local, and web ratings including Yelp and Urban Spoon. From what I've seen in my local market they tend to be quite accurate.
Please tell me those are just for the datacenter and not the ones supplying power to life critical systems (please!). I mean if by test you mean run full load off them then I understand, but if you mean your generators are never exercised then it's no wonder at least one of them fails during your annual run.
Yep, in fact we're producing so much of it that the biggest barrier to lower prices right now is pipeline capacity. Heck right now Mexico is shipping crude to the US, using cheap natural gas to crack it, and reimporting the processed fuel because it's cheaper than using some fraction of the crude to fuel the cracking process.
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When LED's come down in cost by a factor of 10 and their CRI matches decent CFL's then I'll be all over them as they eliminate the single biggest failure point for me which is the glass tube, out of dozens of CFL's installed over the last 8 years at home I've only lost 3 to dead ballasts and none so far to dead phosphors (though a few are starting to get dim enough that I might consider replacing them).
Hell one of those companies is Oracle themselves. In fact the current version of several of the products we use still have the JRE 1.5.0 as the bundled version.
The US has more breweries than Germany (~2,000 versus ~1,300) so if you're right about Germany have more than 1/3 then between us we have over 70% of all breweries worldwide =)
4-5% for the mass market lagers just like basically everywhere. You can find everything from 2-12% ABV in most well stocked specialty stores though the typical range is 4-9%. Some states have a limit on the maximum ABV allowed under the tax bracket for beer and so you won't typically be able to find anything above that statute limit.
You may not like the product that BMC puts out but it's not of low quality, every professional brewer I know is amazed at the quality control of the big three. The very pale, lightly hopped light lager that the big three produce as their mainstay is one of the most technically difficult beers to produce because ANY defect is instantly noticeable whereas with a big IPA you can screw all sorts of things up and it just gets masked by the overpowering bitterness. That isn't to say that there's no art to making a good IPA, just that it's a much more forgiving style when it comes to defects.
Correction, there are over 2,000 micro and craft breweries in the US today and we're adding them at a bit over 200 net new breweries per year. That's 50% more than Germany and even on a per-capita basis we're projected to pass them by the end of the decade. It really is a good time to be a beer lover in America =)
There are five micro's just around Fayetteville (one of the podcasts I listen to is based out of the area and they've been featuring the local homebrewers who went pro in the last two years). There are over 2,000 micro and craft breweries in the US and we're adding about 200 net new breweries per year. We're not up to the breweries per capita of Germany, but we're on a trajectory to catch them by the end of the decade. If you can't find a local brew you like you either don't like beer or you aren't trying.
569ml is the proper unit of measurement for beer =)
Sure they do, I keep my house about 16C in the winter and they don't take appreciably longer to reach full brightness, heck the CFL's in my garage door opener get plenty bright even on -30C mornings.
You are arguing the wrong thing, a heat pump can produce a BTU load of more 3,415 BTU per hour per kw which is where the efficiency of greater than 100% is coming from. Sure, they aren't creating more than 3,415 BTU per hour per kw, but most people don't care about the thermodynamics of the universe, just the energy that is required to heat or cool their domicile.
The GE CFL's that Walmart and Samsclub sell will reach 90+% brightness in about 2-3 seconds and 100% in under a minute. As far as the dimable CFL's, they are available but they don't dim as far, and those do take considerable time to warm up. I stopped buying them after the first purchase and now purchase the energy efficient halogen bulbs for my downstairs can lights that are on a dimmer, they're about halfway between a traditional incandescent and a CFL in efficiency and won't be banned under the efficiency guidelines.
The problem is that the cost of energy as currently setup in the US does no account for negative externalities and every attempt to fix that situation has been blocked so they pushed through what they could (not that it makes any significant difference since domestic lighting is less than .1% of all energy use, but it was something they could take back to their voters who superficially care about the environment).
I had missed that, thanks. Well then QE3 really is a bailout for the big banks =(
Err, the $40B is the Fed buying T-bills, the only way that's helping the big banks is by causing the yield on those instruments to fall thus making other investments (like perhaps bonds issues through big banks) more attractive.
We could give that neighbouring country chemical and biological weapons
citation needed
We could start murdering their scientists
That was Israel, not the US, it's unlikely the US would have approved if Israel had bothered to ask us.
I'm not saying the US has been real friendly towards Iran, we've kind of been dicks to them over the last 60 years or so, but let's keep facts straight.
Uh, the bean counters asked the CS guys to data mine for the drones that cost the least (more effective in management speak doesn't mean helped the customer the most, it means lowest cost per caller).
tends not to be overly inquisitive or empathetic
Well, if the bean counters consider the lack of those qualities to be what makes for a good callcenter worker then it's no wonder that the quality of support has gone down as fast as it has. Six or seven years ago when I called into support there was about a 50% chance of reaching someone who was smart and could solve my problem without relying on a script (which never solve my problem because if it can be found in available documentation I've already tried it before calling support), today there's maybe a 5% change if that.
We're exporting finished oil goods and importing crude. One of the biggest reasons for the recent change is that we have VERY cheap natural gas from shale. Mexico is sending crude to US refineries where they are using cheap natural gas to crack the crude into the useful components like gasoline and then they are shipping the finished products back to Mexico. This is more efficient than using some fraction of each barrel to power the cracking process. Since natural gas produces less CO2 per BTU it's also better for the environment even when you account for the transportation. In some instances the invisible hand really does lead to a better solution =)
Google's already Intel's fifth biggest customer, the other big web\cloud players probably aren't that far behind so if enough of them insist on Open Rack designs it won't matter what the rest of us want, they WILL be produced. With the way people move between those large players it's likely that will happen.
No, they actually can't force you to buy one, they can however levy a tax on you if you fail to buy one (a perhaps subtle but important distinction, one expands the commerce clause the other relies on the taxing power).
Are you seriously holding up Arkansas government as a model for anything but failure?
Hehe, a similar tech is already in the passport, most western passports now include RFID chips. Now we just need Congress to withhold highway funds until the states include RFID in drivers licenses and we're at the same end goal without needing an expensive smartphone with a charged battery available.
Except the new Zagat rating's aren't just the official Zagat ratings, they're a weighted blend of Zagat, Google Local, and web ratings including Yelp and Urban Spoon. From what I've seen in my local market they tend to be quite accurate.
Please tell me those are just for the datacenter and not the ones supplying power to life critical systems (please!). I mean if by test you mean run full load off them then I understand, but if you mean your generators are never exercised then it's no wonder at least one of them fails during your annual run.
Yep, in fact we're producing so much of it that the biggest barrier to lower prices right now is pipeline capacity. Heck right now Mexico is shipping crude to the US, using cheap natural gas to crack it, and reimporting the processed fuel because it's cheaper than using some fraction of the crude to fuel the cracking process.