Of the rapacious cable network no longer allowing me to watch a game broadcast free over the air without a subscription. First I had to watch in SD only, then I had to pay for the HD box, and always with a monthly subscription cost that kept rising. And then to get the stream, I have to login with my cable account (that I don't want, because it's expensive).
Many utilities offer discounted charging rates for off-peak times. This rate of 6.7 per kilowatt-hour, from Dakota Electric in MN, is actually one of the highest. https://www.dakotaelectric.com...
So your gas fuel costs about 7 times more per mile, not 3.7. Compare that over a 5 or 10 year vehicle life and it's thousands of dollars.
Also, there are likely maintenance savings. Check out the schedule maintenance booklets from Nissan for the Versa compared to the Leaf. There's no oil to change, oil filters, air filters, spark plugs.
https://owners.nissanusa.com/c...https://owners.nissanusa.com/c...
It's true that an EV needs a new battery eventually but at 12,000 miles per year, an EV battery is expected to still have 70% of its original capacity. Even if you need a new battery in 10 years, prices are coming down so quickly that it's likely to be closer to $3000 than the original $10,000. Far less than the fuel cost savings in that time period.
One major reason the 2000-era movie sucked was that D&D is a universe to tell stories in, not itself a compelling story. As others have mentioned, there are many fantasy books whose characters have been in the D&D universe that make good stories, but a "D&D movie" doesn't even make sense, unless you consider the "summoner geeks" short animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's what a D&D movie means to me.
And it's as good a story of how sexism plays out in real life as anything, so the comments here are just appalling.
The sexism denialism on Slashdot rivals climate denialism in the Republican Party. You don't have to be sexist toward women to contribute toward the problem, just like you don't have to love fossil fuels to contribute to climate change, folks. But if you don't act deliberately, you're just part of the problem.
I'll grant you this, it's not necessarily JUST sexism that keeps women out of STEM, but if you think it doesn't play a role, you're better off staying in mama's basement.
Yes, believe it or not, black people can be racist, too. It's a socially pervasive attitude that affects nearly everyone. Look at the Freakonomics analysis of our attitude toward black sounding names, for example. It's convenient to dismiss the notion because of the mistaken belief that "black people wouldn't be racist to themselves," but there's an awful lot of data to suggest otherwise.
It does. A lot more. Which is why the Audubon Society (bird folks) feel that fighting climate change and coal power is a bigger deal than fighting wind. http://policy.audubon.org/wind...
Baseload is concept of a 20th century grid run by monopoly utilities with a vested financial interest in operating certain inflexible power plants at maximum output. If I have a paid-off coal or nuclear power plant, of course I want it to run at max output 24/7! And because I'm the monopoly utility (true in 30 U.S. states), I get to prioritize output from my power plant. Winner winner chicken dinner!
In truth, our power system already has a helluva lot of capacity built to accommodate variability from energy USERS (supply = demand at all times or system crashes), and it can also be used to manage variability from energy PRODUCERS, like wind. It's not an extra cost, it's built in until the level of variability far exceeds current situations (except in isolated geographic areas of the grid, or island power networks).
In the long run, we will need a power system with more flexible sources of generation or storage to manage higher levels of variability associated with wind and solar power. But for now, on most power grids? Not even close.
And guess what, fossil fuels aren't without variability, either? What if you can't get a coal train to a coal power plant? http://www.marketplace.org/top...
The linked article may not follow your standard of cheapest, but this does. Wind is cheapest, with external costs or not: http://www.lazard.com/PDF/Leve...
You don't need to factor in "external" costs. I work in the energy policy field, and this is pretty much the gold standard for comparing cost of electricity generation. Other than energy efficiency, wind is already the cheapest.
http://www.lazard.com/PDF/Leve...
If you're not trolling, you may want to try re-phrasing without loaded language, e.g. "Do you ever regret spending so many hours playing video games?"
Otherwise, we might ask you why you spend so much time posting to pointless Slashdot Q&A articles...
The title may be manipulative, but it's also right. Even with plenty of coal-fired power still on the grid, electric vehicles offer lower greenhouse gas emissions than natural gas vehicles, and the grid continues to get cleaner as more renewable energy is added to it. EVs are a great complement, too, because their batteries allow for energy storage of variable wind and solar. And even the 1st generation EV batteries have enough storage to power 60% of daily vehicle trips in the U.S.
From a climate perspective, we have no business trying to increase extraction of fossil fuels. From an infrastructure perspective, we have no business trying to build another fossil fuel fueling network when we already have electricity everywhere to power electric vehicles.
Wind and solar have variable output, so they need to be partnered with flexible power generation. Nuclear is fundamentally inflexible because you can't quickly ramp up or down electricity output from a nuclear power plant.
See this short video for a nice explanation of the incompatibility:
http://www.ilsr.org/coal-nucle...
The Lake St. light rail station in Minneapolis is one of the few with an indoor area (an enclosed escalator) and heat. In the winter, the students from nearby schools tend to congregate in the stairwells and escalators, smoking (which is illegal, of course). The music works because it drives them outdoors, helping passengers feel safer because they don't have to push through a crowd of high school students.
Of course, whether or not people should feel unsafe because of a crowd of kids smoking is a different issue, but I'd guess most of the adult travelers coming through the station prefer the loud music to the loitering teens.
I'm rather surprised that so many Slashdot users complain about the default settings in FF4. Yes, they changed the toolbar, statusbar, tab location etc.... But every single one of those things can be changed with in-browser settings or extensions. In my mind, those aren't problems - that's exactly what makes Firefox a great browser. Isn't this a site for nerds?
I'll bite - please tell me what is so awful about the Awesome Bar. When used for search, it will quickly identify sites I've already bookmarked/tagged with the terms I'm searching for. It ranks my bookmarks higher than just my history, so I almost always see those historic sites first. Plus, I can use keywords to quickly load pages I use frequently. I no longer waste time sorting my bookmarks into hierarchical folders because that requires a lot of wasted mouse clicks when I can just start typing terms/tags/keywords into the bar.
And this is bad because?
The whole affair was a whirlwind media circus trial orchestrated by conservatives who didn't think poor people had a right to fight back against the banking industry.
Democrats may have their own skeletons, but ACORN isn't one of them.
This old rule was for the age of competition. There is no real competition in wireless. You can have coverage, customer service, or fair prices. Pick any ONE.
I'm sure the locals and the municipality are saying "Why the !#%!%$! did we build these stupid trails if people aren't going to use them?"
I know this taxpayer is saying, "why can't our idiot local governments publish their routes so Google, Garmin, etc. can include them in their databases?"
This taxpayer is usually also saying "cut my taxes, they are too high." The connection escapes them.
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Of the rapacious cable network no longer allowing me to watch a game broadcast free over the air without a subscription. First I had to watch in SD only, then I had to pay for the HD box, and always with a monthly subscription cost that kept rising. And then to get the stream, I have to login with my cable account (that I don't want, because it's expensive).
Also, there are likely maintenance savings. Check out the schedule maintenance booklets from Nissan for the Versa compared to the Leaf. There's no oil to change, oil filters, air filters, spark plugs. https://owners.nissanusa.com/c... https://owners.nissanusa.com/c...
It's true that an EV needs a new battery eventually but at 12,000 miles per year, an EV battery is expected to still have 70% of its original capacity. Even if you need a new battery in 10 years, prices are coming down so quickly that it's likely to be closer to $3000 than the original $10,000. Far less than the fuel cost savings in that time period.
One major reason the 2000-era movie sucked was that D&D is a universe to tell stories in, not itself a compelling story. As others have mentioned, there are many fantasy books whose characters have been in the D&D universe that make good stories, but a "D&D movie" doesn't even make sense, unless you consider the "summoner geeks" short animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... That's what a D&D movie means to me.
And it's as good a story of how sexism plays out in real life as anything, so the comments here are just appalling. The sexism denialism on Slashdot rivals climate denialism in the Republican Party. You don't have to be sexist toward women to contribute toward the problem, just like you don't have to love fossil fuels to contribute to climate change, folks. But if you don't act deliberately, you're just part of the problem. I'll grant you this, it's not necessarily JUST sexism that keeps women out of STEM, but if you think it doesn't play a role, you're better off staying in mama's basement.
Yes, believe it or not, black people can be racist, too. It's a socially pervasive attitude that affects nearly everyone. Look at the Freakonomics analysis of our attitude toward black sounding names, for example. It's convenient to dismiss the notion because of the mistaken belief that "black people wouldn't be racist to themselves," but there's an awful lot of data to suggest otherwise.
It does. A lot more. Which is why the Audubon Society (bird folks) feel that fighting climate change and coal power is a bigger deal than fighting wind. http://policy.audubon.org/wind...
In truth, our power system already has a helluva lot of capacity built to accommodate variability from energy USERS (supply = demand at all times or system crashes), and it can also be used to manage variability from energy PRODUCERS, like wind. It's not an extra cost, it's built in until the level of variability far exceeds current situations (except in isolated geographic areas of the grid, or island power networks).
In the long run, we will need a power system with more flexible sources of generation or storage to manage higher levels of variability associated with wind and solar power. But for now, on most power grids? Not even close.
And guess what, fossil fuels aren't without variability, either? What if you can't get a coal train to a coal power plant? http://www.marketplace.org/top...
Yes. They are publicly-sanctioned monopolies with regulated profits. This is Slashdot, so I don't think I need to say more.
The linked article may not follow your standard of cheapest, but this does. Wind is cheapest, with external costs or not: http://www.lazard.com/PDF/Leve...
You don't need to factor in "external" costs. I work in the energy policy field, and this is pretty much the gold standard for comparing cost of electricity generation. Other than energy efficiency, wind is already the cheapest. http://www.lazard.com/PDF/Leve...
You are a coward to use a term like that for anyone. And so are the folks willing to mod this up. Her behavior was ridiculous, but so is yours.
If you're not trolling, you may want to try re-phrasing without loaded language, e.g. "Do you ever regret spending so many hours playing video games?" Otherwise, we might ask you why you spend so much time posting to pointless Slashdot Q&A articles...
There's nothing at all unclear about when solar is at parity with traditional power prices: http://www.ilsr.org/projects/s...
The title may be manipulative, but it's also right. Even with plenty of coal-fired power still on the grid, electric vehicles offer lower greenhouse gas emissions than natural gas vehicles, and the grid continues to get cleaner as more renewable energy is added to it. EVs are a great complement, too, because their batteries allow for energy storage of variable wind and solar. And even the 1st generation EV batteries have enough storage to power 60% of daily vehicle trips in the U.S. From a climate perspective, we have no business trying to increase extraction of fossil fuels. From an infrastructure perspective, we have no business trying to build another fossil fuel fueling network when we already have electricity everywhere to power electric vehicles.
Wind and solar have variable output, so they need to be partnered with flexible power generation. Nuclear is fundamentally inflexible because you can't quickly ramp up or down electricity output from a nuclear power plant. See this short video for a nice explanation of the incompatibility: http://www.ilsr.org/coal-nucle...
The Lake St. light rail station in Minneapolis is one of the few with an indoor area (an enclosed escalator) and heat. In the winter, the students from nearby schools tend to congregate in the stairwells and escalators, smoking (which is illegal, of course). The music works because it drives them outdoors, helping passengers feel safer because they don't have to push through a crowd of high school students. Of course, whether or not people should feel unsafe because of a crowd of kids smoking is a different issue, but I'd guess most of the adult travelers coming through the station prefer the loud music to the loitering teens.
I'm rather surprised that so many Slashdot users complain about the default settings in FF4. Yes, they changed the toolbar, statusbar, tab location etc.... But every single one of those things can be changed with in-browser settings or extensions. In my mind, those aren't problems - that's exactly what makes Firefox a great browser. Isn't this a site for nerds?
I'll bite - please tell me what is so awful about the Awesome Bar. When used for search, it will quickly identify sites I've already bookmarked/tagged with the terms I'm searching for. It ranks my bookmarks higher than just my history, so I almost always see those historic sites first. Plus, I can use keywords to quickly load pages I use frequently. I no longer waste time sorting my bookmarks into hierarchical folders because that requires a lot of wasted mouse clicks when I can just start typing terms/tags/keywords into the bar. And this is bad because?
The whole affair was a whirlwind media circus trial orchestrated by conservatives who didn't think poor people had a right to fight back against the banking industry.
Democrats may have their own skeletons, but ACORN isn't one of them.
*air ball*
You can opt out for each specific App: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/06/ars-reviews-ios-4-whats-new-and-notable.ars/7
This old rule was for the age of competition. There is no real competition in wireless. You can have coverage, customer service, or fair prices. Pick any ONE.
I'm sure the locals and the municipality are saying "Why the !#%!%$! did we build these stupid trails if people aren't going to use them?"
I know this taxpayer is saying, "why can't our idiot local governments publish their routes so Google, Garmin, etc. can include them in their databases?"
This taxpayer is usually also saying "cut my taxes, they are too high." The connection escapes them.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/nicotine-bees-population-restored-with-neonicotinoids-ban.php?campaign=th_rss_science
Are you kidding? I only clicked on the story in hopes of finding that someone had posted it.