Of course, this isn't practical - even ignoring the political implications, transmission losses would create serious problems. Getting away from AC current and using DC for all grid transmission could fix part of that problem, but that's not likely to happen any time soon.
Westinghouse isn't dead, he's just posting nonsense on Slashdot!
Considering the overlap between techies and otaku is something like 4200%, I fear for the future of US-Japan relations after the first big wave of American emigration hits their shores.
Sweden blocks known child pornography sites at the network level. From what I've heard on Something Awful, one of the Chans is on this list, but I may never find out since I'm too afraid to go to any of them, for fear of getting flagged.
No huge loss. It's probably just all Rickrolls and anime anyways...
Enigma was broken by a Polish cryptographer named Marian Rejewski. The Poles knew they were going to be overrun by the Germans and disclosed their work to the French and British.
I welcome the yuppies that bought the first aluminum bikes, costing probably several thousand dollars back then, but now anyone can have a bike that is light and doesn't rust.
You can thank the unwashed masses for recycling their pop cans, and penny-pinching Chinese framemakers for that.
"Gag the Internet" I had no idea Mormons were so kinky.
Mormons have long been known for exemplary kinkiness in the face of unyielding repression, but I think, as far as gagging the Internet goes, Max Hardcore beats them hands-down.
Not by a long shot. Calder Hall, a Magnox reactor in the UK, was online in the mid-fifties. They shut it down in 2003 after more years in service than your mom.
The press does not exist to provide information but to provoke emotion. Showing the actual button that destroyes a spacecraft with human occupants achieves this effect nicely.
But you've have to have a cold, dead soul not to get a tiny thrill just seeing the thing.
Pumped storage is not without problems--environmental, that is.
Many resevoirs are designed to operate at a constant level ("head" for us, the difference in height between the surface and the exit of the turbine). Of course a drought could push you out of wack if this is your regulation goal, but, in general, you're going to be sticking to pretty much the same level, and, as a consequence, coast.
With resevoirs which vary according to demand, there can be large head changes over the year and with different demand patterns (and rainfall)--which translate into DRAMATIC changes in the coastline of the resevoir. As you know, the vegetation and soil developement is most at the coast line. When all of this living matter is suddenly put under four meters of water, it dies and is replaced with anerobic systems. This decay produces hydrogen sulphide (generally nasty) and methane (a greenhouse gas IIRC 400x stronger than CO2). This is the origin of concerns about how much greenhouse gas production that hydropower offsets.
Then, when the water level dives down, you kill the anaerobic systems, leaving a barren coastline (both just above and just below the waterline at the coast) which is less hospitable to fish and terrestrial animals whose life is based around this environment.
Up in Sweden, where we have considerable such resevoir regulation, which results in lakes banked by bleached stone for many km in each direction. It has also completely changed the distribution of fishlife in these valleys.
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Do you remember the Gimp from Pulp Fiction?...
Considering the overlap between techies and otaku is something like 4200%, I fear for the future of US-Japan relations after the first big wave of American emigration hits their shores.
So is that why all the new episodes are off the island?
Or pie-eating contest.
Works for Indian guys.
No true Scotsman is crap.
Cruise munitions are dangerous.
Sweden blocks known child pornography sites at the network level. From what I've heard on Something Awful, one of the Chans is on this list, but I may never find out since I'm too afraid to go to any of them, for fear of getting flagged.
No huge loss. It's probably just all Rickrolls and anime anyways...
So which English tabloid do you work for, because I'd love to meet one of those Page 3 girls...
But in Nazi England, Poland invades YOU!
There is only one true Orange Catholic Bible.
What? Not enough sand?
Not by a long shot. Calder Hall, a Magnox reactor in the UK, was online in the mid-fifties. They shut it down in 2003 after more years in service than your mom.
Finally, Objectivists will have a film to their name!
Well, with the exception of The Fountainhead, which was accidentally filmed as a screwball comedy.
Most of the CS people I know are 'well-rounded.'
We have to balance our love of the technology with our disdain for the user.
It's perfectly natural BOfH behavior.
Pumped storage is not without problems--environmental, that is.
Many resevoirs are designed to operate at a constant level ("head" for us, the difference in height between the surface and the exit of the turbine). Of course a drought could push you out of wack if this is your regulation goal, but, in general, you're going to be sticking to pretty much the same level, and, as a consequence, coast.
With resevoirs which vary according to demand, there can be large head changes over the year and with different demand patterns (and rainfall)--which translate into DRAMATIC changes in the coastline of the resevoir. As you know, the vegetation and soil developement is most at the coast line. When all of this living matter is suddenly put under four meters of water, it dies and is replaced with anerobic systems. This decay produces hydrogen sulphide (generally nasty) and methane (a greenhouse gas IIRC 400x stronger than CO2). This is the origin of concerns about how much greenhouse gas production that hydropower offsets.
Then, when the water level dives down, you kill the anaerobic systems, leaving a barren coastline (both just above and just below the waterline at the coast) which is less hospitable to fish and terrestrial animals whose life is based around this environment.
Up in Sweden, where we have considerable such resevoir regulation, which results in lakes banked by bleached stone for many km in each direction. It has also completely changed the distribution of fishlife in these valleys.
Actually, mullets are very popular for women here in Sweden. It's like smashing a stained glass window, I say.