You and I have more power available to us at peak because our solar/wind neighbor is only drawing half of peak. "The Grid" is healthier. I agree 100%.
...but that's not my point.
My point is only that excess residential solar has little value, since it's generated when it's least needed. [Because if it was needed, houses wouldn't be generating extra.]
While I'm perhaps to blame for not being clear - you're missing the point.
Residential soar systems, for the most part, do not generate 100% of the electricity residences need. As long as that's true, they're generating overhead electricity only during times when extra electricity isn't in high demand. When demand is high, they're not producing any extra to give back to the grid.
As soon as residential solar can generate >100% of a house's peak need, then it'll have something useful to give back to the grid.
Point is, solar is most efficient at times when the grid least needs the electricity from it. [Obviously, since the times residential systems have excess is when residential electricity demand is low.] If everyone had a solar system that produced more than it needed at peak input, there'd never be anyone to sell the excess to.
The times when residential solar systems are generating the sort of power that they can sell back to the grid -- they're the times that the grid (generally) needs it the least.
Oklahoma is a *highly* coal and gas fired grid, so you'd think any semi-predictable amount of residential solar overflow would help. *shrug*
Obviously this varies from region to region, but I was always led to understand that in hot locales, peak was late afternoon, when houses began to cool down, and businesses were still cooling....part of the reason why large solar plants are moving to molten salt -- to keep providing power in the early evening when the sun isn't directly overhead.
Depth of field and dynamic range, and that's just for starters.......if you honestly believe that video looks better than film, I don't know what to tell you.
The post is currently 50% flamebait, 50% underrated, and presumably it picks up another flamebait and/or underrated here and there to keep it in the +2 Flamebait range.
I still have no idea what the overall quality of the $5 movie is though...
I was nearly ready to give up on SHIELD. The episodes had become fairly stock procedural fantasy/CSI.
...but the last 5-6 episodes were pretty great. So they're back on the list of shows I'm looking forward to watching, rather than begrudgingly clearing it from my DVR.
The quality of my entertainment is important to me. There's a big difference between things "filmed" on video and things actually captured on film. You can be better immersed in something if you're not constantly having your suspension of disbelief broken by terrible effects.
I just want to know if I should be expecting A-Team style car crashes where suddenly the car has tinted windows and goes over a ramp behind a bush....
Can anyone comment about the quality of this film? Is this Cinema quality? Direct-to-Video? SciFi channel? YouTube?
While watching SHIELD the other week, they transitioned seamlessly to a Captain America commercial -- and I wondered if I was still watching SHIELD until 5 seconds later, a actual car crash stunt happened, and I knew the budget for the 30-second commercial was higher than the entire episode of SHIELD that I had been watching.
I'll gladly pay $5 to watch a new movie in this "new model" of distribution.
....but I won't pay $5 to watch something that should have been released to YouTube.
Well sure. There are some great corners out there, but those panhandlers are the top of the panhandling food chain. We've all seen that expose where they follow a panhandler home in his BMW to the suburbs.
Most though......they make about $8/hr (tax free - or at least unreported). That's enough to score a room to share with your other gutterpunk friends and score some more heroin.
That headline and your a ref= are astonishingly sensationalist.
..the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported that hospital staff had given as many as 1,500 patients one-way bus tickets to California and 46 other states between 2008 and 2013.
Over 5-6 years, Nevada offered bus tickets (home?) to former mental patients without providing good enough post-care documentation for them. They went to 47 of the 47 possible states you can take a bus to without a passport. They went at a rate of 250 a year, and, in total 24 of them ended up in SF over those 5-6 years.
There's no direct evidence that those 24 ended up homeless, or were even homeless!...just that the some of them then availed themselves of state medical care and shelter.
...but you see, I'm an honest working man, driving home to see my family, and I only need 73 more cents to buy the part I need for my car, and I'll be on my way.
Will it be one of the part-time homeless who make a full days' wage standing a few hours on the corner and then retreating to their suburban home because they have a juicy location?
Will it be a "gutterpunk" who has chosen homelessness as his lifestyle - playing the ukulele on "college" street between heroin injections?
[Panhandling, apparently, nets about $8/hour, depending on where you live -- more than enough if you aspire to only shoot up and go back to your crappy hotel after a few hours.]
...or will it be the genuinely if-only-I-could-bootstrap-myself homeless, the mentally ill, or someone who's on the streets because they're out of options?
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You and I have more power available to us at peak because our solar/wind neighbor is only drawing half of peak. "The Grid" is healthier. I agree 100%.
My point is only that excess residential solar has little value, since it's generated when it's least needed. [Because if it was needed, houses wouldn't be generating extra.]
While I'm perhaps to blame for not being clear - you're missing the point.
Residential soar systems, for the most part, do not generate 100% of the electricity residences need. As long as that's true, they're generating overhead electricity only during times when extra electricity isn't in high demand. When demand is high, they're not producing any extra to give back to the grid.
As soon as residential solar can generate >100% of a house's peak need, then it'll have something useful to give back to the grid.
I'll just install a lazy susan on my house...
Point is, solar is most efficient at times when the grid least needs the electricity from it. [Obviously, since the times residential systems have excess is when residential electricity demand is low.] If everyone had a solar system that produced more than it needed at peak input, there'd never be anyone to sell the excess to.
Even in your example, my point remains.
The times when residential solar systems are generating the sort of power that they can sell back to the grid -- they're the times that the grid (generally) needs it the least.
Oklahoma is a *highly* coal and gas fired grid, so you'd think any semi-predictable amount of residential solar overflow would help. *shrug*
Obviously this varies from region to region, but I was always led to understand that in hot locales, peak was late afternoon, when houses began to cool down, and businesses were still cooling. ...part of the reason why large solar plants are moving to molten salt -- to keep providing power in the early evening when the sun isn't directly overhead.
Short answer? I'm at work, and we block nearly every video streaming site.
He's only Louis when he's being introduced or billed in credits.
His friends call him "Louie," he calls himself "Louie" -- or so I'm lead to believe from all of his interviews and radio appearances.
It'd be no different than saying Bob De Niro or Sam Jackson.
What's next, complaining he didn't say call him Louis Szekely? Cit him some slack.
If you have to fiddle with your router to make it work well, then Vimeo sucks.
Video looks better than film?
WUT?!?
Depth of field and dynamic range, and that's just for starters... ....if you honestly believe that video looks better than film, I don't know what to tell you.
Correct.
The post is currently 50% flamebait, 50% underrated, and presumably it picks up another flamebait and/or underrated here and there to keep it in the +2 Flamebait range.
I still have no idea what the overall quality of the $5 movie is though...
I was nearly ready to give up on SHIELD. The episodes had become fairly stock procedural fantasy/CSI.
The quality of my entertainment is important to me. There's a big difference between things "filmed" on video and things actually captured on film. You can be better immersed in something if you're not constantly having your suspension of disbelief broken by terrible effects.
I just want to know if I should be expecting A-Team style car crashes where suddenly the car has tinted windows and goes over a ramp behind a bush....
Can anyone comment about the quality of this film? Is this Cinema quality? Direct-to-Video? SciFi channel? YouTube?
While watching SHIELD the other week, they transitioned seamlessly to a Captain America commercial -- and I wondered if I was still watching SHIELD until 5 seconds later, a actual car crash stunt happened, and I knew the budget for the 30-second commercial was higher than the entire episode of SHIELD that I had been watching.
I'll gladly pay $5 to watch a new movie in this "new model" of distribution.
Not in my back ocean!
Well sure. There are some great corners out there, but those panhandlers are the top of the panhandling food chain. We've all seen that expose where they follow a panhandler home in his BMW to the suburbs.
Most though... ...they make about $8/hr (tax free - or at least unreported). That's enough to score a room to share with your other gutterpunk friends and score some more heroin.
...and in a couple more decades, we'll be done decriminalizing it.
Except in Alabama, because Jesus.
Give samzenpus a break. It's not like he's an editor of a large new aggregation site or anything.
An open letter to you and the smoking homeless:
Stop smoking, idiot.
Yours in FSM,
mythosaz
Actually nothing says, "I'm stupid" like smoking.
I've never, ever, been shocked to see a homeless man smoking a cigarette. No money for a razor and shampoo again today, but hey, American Spirit!
Heroin I understand. :/
That headline and your a ref= are astonishingly sensationalist.
..the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported that hospital staff had given as many as 1,500 patients one-way bus tickets to California and 46 other states between 2008 and 2013.
Over 5-6 years, Nevada offered bus tickets (home?) to former mental patients without providing good enough post-care documentation for them. They went to 47 of the 47 possible states you can take a bus to without a passport. They went at a rate of 250 a year, and, in total 24 of them ended up in SF over those 5-6 years.
There's no direct evidence that those 24 ended up homeless, or were even homeless! ...just that the some of them then availed themselves of state medical care and shelter.
In summary -- liar, liar, pants on fire.
When I give change to a homeless guy, i know that 100% of my money is going to do that homeless guy some good...
Well, 100% of it goes to the homeless guy, but based on your own description, it sounds like none of it does any good.
At least the 30% in the collection box might go to permanent solutions, halfway houses, transition solutions, job training and education, etc.
Also fewer and fewer people know the difference between less and fewer.
...but you see, I'm an honest working man, driving home to see my family, and I only need 73 more cents to buy the part I need for my car, and I'll be on my way.
Will it be one of the part-time homeless who make a full days' wage standing a few hours on the corner and then retreating to their suburban home because they have a juicy location?
Will it be a "gutterpunk" who has chosen homelessness as his lifestyle - playing the ukulele on "college" street between heroin injections?
[Panhandling, apparently, nets about $8/hour, depending on where you live -- more than enough if you aspire to only shoot up and go back to your crappy hotel after a few hours.]
There are plenty of Android head units available now...