Solar Reserve [solarreserve.com] have some great low externality base load solar power stations. The heat is stored in molten salt and is available when the sun goes down. Base load solar plant like this can be scaled up,
Interesting. How much does it cost them to produce a MW continuously for 8766 hours?
the world is run by corporations, not people. corporations are run by shareholders.
And shareholders are people. So you're saying that:
the world is not run by people
AND
the world is run by people
For what it's worth, if you have a 401k, it is very likely that YOU are a shareholder. It's utterly certain that I am a shareholder, in about a dozen companies, not counting 401k, IRA, and similar items that own shares....
They can't even fly a satellite to the right orbit (FACT: They have NEVER achieved target orbit in any flight... relying on the spacecraft GNC to complete the flight)
Pretty sure that that's not true.
Though if it were true, it's no longer true, since I just watched a SpaceX launch that put the satellite into the target orbit....
Aren't the Russian GRU and our Republican traitors being in positions of power the problem; the GOP "Deep State"?
There were two States (Delaware and New Jersey) mentioned by name in TFS. Neither is a bastion of the GOP. Four Dem Senators, 8 Dem Representatives, 5 GOP Representatives, between the two of them.
So the problem doesn't seem to be a GOP "Deep State" thing, unless the Democratic Party is part of the GOP these days....
Nuclear also has it's issues. A diesel electric sub is much quieter, and therefore harder to detect, than a nuclear as long as the diesel electric is running in electric mode.
The phrase you should be looking for is "natural circulation reactor". That's when you don't need reactor coolant pumps to get power out of your reactor.
They tend to be quieter than ambient. Which means you can detect them, with a sensitive enough sonar, by listening for the hole in the "normal" sea noise.
Will you feel the same way when it's a D nominee being accused at the 11th hour. Because it will happen, assuming they ever nominate a decent presidential candidate.
Not the OP, but yes, I think I will feel the same way when it's a D nominee.
If we've reached the point where any random person can say words to the effect of "he/she/it did something really bad 30 or 40 years ago, and so shouldn't get this job!!! Evidence? No, insisting on evidence is just so wrong! Because he/she/it did something really BAD!!!", then we've reached the point where the Republic is doomed anyways....
Why do we constantly keep trying to FUCK with the food supply?
Yeah! We should just keep using the same things we've been using since Sumer and Tyre were a big deal! There's no reason at all to suppose we can, well, improve crop yields or anything.
Do note that, absent the improvements made in crops since I was born, we'd be having mass famines now. Seven billion people aren't going to be fed with the crops of the 1940's, much less those of the 1840's....
He wasn't born in the USA so don't think he's even eligible for VP.
Nothing in the Constitution says he can't be VP.
That said, he can't replace the President if the Pres were to die, since he'd have to meet the Presidential requirement to be a Citizen to do so.
Which means, for practical purposes, he won't be picked to be VP, since noone wants the House to pick the new President if the old one kicks the bucket. Well, noone outside the House, anyways....
The price of constructing EVs might be low enough that they could be sold for $10k, but without competition they'll be sold for the price people expect to pay for a vehicle.
And if they're sold for much more than they could be if they had competition, then other companies will say "we need to get us some of that Free Money" and start building their own EV's.
Which will drive the price of an EV down to the point where noone is making any more profit on an EV than they do on a conventional auto.
1) It's friggin' hot in the South 6 months out of the year... I'd arrive everywhere stinking awful. Not to mention, can you imagine all the dehydration deaths if many people did this?
You must live in the nice part of the South. The part I live in if friggin' hot EIGHT months out of the year. And humid as all hell to boot - let's hear it for temps and humidity both in the mid-90's (fahrenheit - that's mid-30's for you Celsius junkies)...
Well FitBit doesn't monitor hits to the head. Also in a lot of cases. I put on my health tracker, I go for cardio run. My Heart Beats exceeding 170bpm then I stop, Cooling down, I take off the fitbit, just because I do not want it on me.
Did I just take off the device or did I just die?
Well, from TFA, it looks like your question is irrelevant. They found a dead person. They got a warrant to look at the Fitbit data, which suggested strongly that whatsername died while whatsisname was physically present. They arrested whatsisname on suspicion of murder. And now twelve "good men and true" (okay, a mix of men and women, but the phrase is from way back before they let women sit on juries) will decide whether there's enough evidence to send a 90-year-old to prison for life (assuming he doesn't die of old age before the trial)....
Historically, China has had next to no interest in importing anything if they could possibly help it.
For the last couple millenia, their general policy was "foreigners can come here to buy our (obviously superior) goods, but we have no need of, and no interest in, their obviously inferior (since not Chinese) goods."
I actually hope California holds it grown and wins, then other states will all start their own Net-neutrality laws, each one slightly different. Enough for them to say. You know it would be much easier if we had a single rule to follow across all the state lines. Aka Net-neutrality.
Alas, the Federal Preemption Clause of the Constitution tends toward CA being in the wrong.
That said, arguably the Feds don't actually have a law regulating the industry, so CA doing so in CA is perfectly legal.
Which means, it all depends on who has the best lawyers, and what the various Judges (presumably including Appellate and Supreme Court (eventually)) think of their arguments.
Either that, or the tech heavyweights know perfectly well that if they can bypass someone's encryption, so can the bad guys. Which means no more online purchases, or bill payment, or anything like that.
Or do you really think it's a good idea to put your banking information out somewhere where pretty much anyone can get at it (to pay their own bills, for instance)?
Both. Gets as close as 80 and as far as 2300. The orbit isn't exactly a circle
80 AU's is mentioned as the mean distance. NOT the minimum distance. If 80 AU's is the mean distance, and 2300 AU were aphelion (which is NOT what they said), the Goblin would have to have an orbit that pretty much brushed the Sun, took a few tens of thousands of loops around the Sun down near Mercury, followed by a close pass of Mercury that tossed it out toward Jupiter, then a close pass of Jupiter tossed it into the outer system to reach that 2300 AU level, then fall back to the Sun, close pass by Jupiter, another close pass by Mercury to keep it low for a few thousand years, lather, rinse, repeat.
Now, it's quite possible that they meant to write (and didn't, because they were idiots who didn't know what the words meant) that perihelion was 80 AU, and aphelion was 2300 AU.
Or someone cut & pasted from two articles to make this article. And one of the articles referred to one object, but the other referred to another....
Now "What the hell is wrong in your country to the point that your local police has tanks and sends them on simple phone calls" is an entirely different and unaddressed question.
And the answer is...
Once upon a time, a PD had some money left over as they approached the end of a fiscal year. Knowing, as they did, that leftover money would mean a budget cut next year, they went looking for something to spend it on. And they found some nice, expensive, new armoured car. So they bought it.
A bit later, there was another PD in the same situation. And they pointed to the first group and said, "Hey, they have an armoured car! Why don't we get one too?"
And then, all across the country, PD's with (taxpayer) money to burn said, in effect, "Hey, those guys have armoured cars! We won't be taken seriously as a PD without some of our own!"
And then the first PD, seeing everyone with armoured cars, said (the next time they had extra money at the end of the fiscal year) "Hey! We need to lead the way in policing! Armoured cars are SOOO last year! We need us a fucking TANK!"
And it was so....
Mind you, like the SWAT team in most PD's, it's never used, but if the other guys have one, you won't be taken seriously without one of your own....
No... the men will report for annual strength measurements, and a series of handicaps (weights and encumberments they must wear at all times while on the job) will be installed designed to reduce their ability to lift to be the same as the average female.
Seems to me I vaguely remember a SciFi short story once that did something like this. Very silly story, but had me rolling on the floor in a couple places....
But the state can do whatever they like about the internet, because Net Neutrality failed.
Well, whatever they like to the part of the internet originating in the State.
The parts originating in Europe, China, Africa, Nevada, Texas, etc? Not so much....
Though, I suppose they could just ban out-of-California internet sources. Sort of a "Great Wall of California" approach to the internet. I doubt many of them would get reelected if they cut a lot of people off from whatever part of the internet they used frequently that was Out of State, but, hey, if it saves even one person from being exposed to a new idea....
And here I thought that "gigawatts" were a unit of power (energy/time)...
I remember reading some SF back in the day where the author used the phrase "(metric prefix)watts of energy" a lot. Always made me want to smack him one....
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Interesting. How much does it cost them to produce a MW continuously for 8766 hours?
And shareholders are people. So you're saying that:
the world is not run by people
AND
the world is run by people
For what it's worth, if you have a 401k, it is very likely that YOU are a shareholder. It's utterly certain that I am a shareholder, in about a dozen companies, not counting 401k, IRA, and similar items that own shares....
Pretty sure that that's not true.
Though if it were true, it's no longer true, since I just watched a SpaceX launch that put the satellite into the target orbit....
There were two States (Delaware and New Jersey) mentioned by name in TFS. Neither is a bastion of the GOP. Four Dem Senators, 8 Dem Representatives, 5 GOP Representatives, between the two of them.
So the problem doesn't seem to be a GOP "Deep State" thing, unless the Democratic Party is part of the GOP these days....
The phrase you should be looking for is "natural circulation reactor". That's when you don't need reactor coolant pumps to get power out of your reactor.
They tend to be quieter than ambient. Which means you can detect them, with a sensitive enough sonar, by listening for the hole in the "normal" sea noise.
They're glorified diesel Type XXI boats (WW2 German boats).
If you really want extended underwater capabilities, well, that's why they invented the nuke boats....
Hmm, State Line IoT Sales Store, anyone?
Also, if I mailorder something from a business in Vermont, is that a "sale in California", or a "sale in Vermont"?
Not the OP, but yes, I think I will feel the same way when it's a D nominee.
If we've reached the point where any random person can say words to the effect of "he/she/it did something really bad 30 or 40 years ago, and so shouldn't get this job!!! Evidence? No, insisting on evidence is just so wrong! Because he/she/it did something really BAD!!!", then we've reached the point where the Republic is doomed anyways....
Yeah! We should just keep using the same things we've been using since Sumer and Tyre were a big deal! There's no reason at all to suppose we can, well, improve crop yields or anything.
Do note that, absent the improvements made in crops since I was born, we'd be having mass famines now. Seven billion people aren't going to be fed with the crops of the 1940's, much less those of the 1840's....
Nothing in the Constitution says he can't be VP.
That said, he can't replace the President if the Pres were to die, since he'd have to meet the Presidential requirement to be a Citizen to do so.
Which means, for practical purposes, he won't be picked to be VP, since noone wants the House to pick the new President if the old one kicks the bucket. Well, noone outside the House, anyways....
And if they're sold for much more than they could be if they had competition, then other companies will say "we need to get us some of that Free Money" and start building their own EV's.
Which will drive the price of an EV down to the point where noone is making any more profit on an EV than they do on a conventional auto.
You must live in the nice part of the South. The part I live in if friggin' hot EIGHT months out of the year. And humid as all hell to boot - let's hear it for temps and humidity both in the mid-90's (fahrenheit - that's mid-30's for you Celsius junkies)...
Well, from TFA, it looks like your question is irrelevant. They found a dead person. They got a warrant to look at the Fitbit data, which suggested strongly that whatsername died while whatsisname was physically present. They arrested whatsisname on suspicion of murder. And now twelve "good men and true" (okay, a mix of men and women, but the phrase is from way back before they let women sit on juries) will decide whether there's enough evidence to send a 90-year-old to prison for life (assuming he doesn't die of old age before the trial)....
For the last couple millenia, their general policy was "foreigners can come here to buy our (obviously superior) goods, but we have no need of, and no interest in, their obviously inferior (since not Chinese) goods."
Alas, the Federal Preemption Clause of the Constitution tends toward CA being in the wrong.
That said, arguably the Feds don't actually have a law regulating the industry, so CA doing so in CA is perfectly legal.
Which means, it all depends on who has the best lawyers, and what the various Judges (presumably including Appellate and Supreme Court (eventually)) think of their arguments.
Or do you really think it's a good idea to put your banking information out somewhere where pretty much anyone can get at it (to pay their own bills, for instance)?
80 AU's is mentioned as the mean distance. NOT the minimum distance. If 80 AU's is the mean distance, and 2300 AU were aphelion (which is NOT what they said), the Goblin would have to have an orbit that pretty much brushed the Sun, took a few tens of thousands of loops around the Sun down near Mercury, followed by a close pass of Mercury that tossed it out toward Jupiter, then a close pass of Jupiter tossed it into the outer system to reach that 2300 AU level, then fall back to the Sun, close pass by Jupiter, another close pass by Mercury to keep it low for a few thousand years, lather, rinse, repeat.
Now, it's quite possible that they meant to write (and didn't, because they were idiots who didn't know what the words meant) that perihelion was 80 AU, and aphelion was 2300 AU.
Or someone cut & pasted from two articles to make this article. And one of the articles referred to one object, but the other referred to another....
As long as they're not based in CA, you mean? Yes, a company with no physical presence in CA is not liable to obey CA law.
Anymore than someone living and working in CA is liable to obey, say, Mississippi law. Or Vermont law....
Which will work right up to the point that the robocallers set up in Nevada, where CA law can't touch them....
Hey! Almost everything that the English government says and does online annoys me. Does that mean they're liable to be arrested under this law?
Well, one can hope, eh?
And the answer is...
Once upon a time, a PD had some money left over as they approached the end of a fiscal year. Knowing, as they did, that leftover money would mean a budget cut next year, they went looking for something to spend it on. And they found some nice, expensive, new armoured car. So they bought it.
A bit later, there was another PD in the same situation. And they pointed to the first group and said, "Hey, they have an armoured car! Why don't we get one too?"
And then, all across the country, PD's with (taxpayer) money to burn said, in effect, "Hey, those guys have armoured cars! We won't be taken seriously as a PD without some of our own!"
And then the first PD, seeing everyone with armoured cars, said (the next time they had extra money at the end of the fiscal year) "Hey! We need to lead the way in policing! Armoured cars are SOOO last year! We need us a fucking TANK!"
And it was so....
Mind you, like the SWAT team in most PD's, it's never used, but if the other guys have one, you won't be taken seriously without one of your own....
Seems to me I vaguely remember a SciFi short story once that did something like this. Very silly story, but had me rolling on the floor in a couple places....
Of course, you'll have to wait on delivery till I start a Facebook account....
Well, whatever they like to the part of the internet originating in the State.
The parts originating in Europe, China, Africa, Nevada, Texas, etc? Not so much....
Though, I suppose they could just ban out-of-California internet sources. Sort of a "Great Wall of California" approach to the internet. I doubt many of them would get reelected if they cut a lot of people off from whatever part of the internet they used frequently that was Out of State, but, hey, if it saves even one person from being exposed to a new idea....
And here I thought that "gigawatts" were a unit of power (energy/time)...
I remember reading some SF back in the day where the author used the phrase "(metric prefix)watts of energy" a lot. Always made me want to smack him one....