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  1. Re:Hmm... on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 2

    On demand water heaters have 20-25 year servicelives. cost about 1.5 times as much but are 25% more efficient.

    The rest of what you said is more or less correct.

  2. Re:Consistent availability is the issue on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 1

    I did use that term too loosely. I mostly meant old abandoned industrial site. Think the abandoned industrial strip you see along the 5 heading towards Buffalo.

    Yeah, it tastes like the grapes it came from. Their pear brandy is great if you like that sort of thing. It is very french/german style, so more like grappa then what americans think of as brandy.

    Southern Tier is fine, but IPA is just not my thing. At least not these days, it used to be good before it turned into a more hops contest. I would suggest you try out Flying Bison beers if you have not so far.

    I also brew beer, but I tend to stick to wheat ales and wheat doppelbocks.

  3. Re:Moronic, absolutely moronic. on Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s · · Score: 1

    Both can be made from biofuels. If that is worth doing or not is another question.

  4. Re:Moronic, absolutely moronic. on Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s · · Score: 1

    I agree with all of what you have said, but the reality is people oppose regulation then make these same claims. Either nuclear power has to be highly regulated or that is the predictable result.

  5. Re:Theoretically, sure on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 2

    I did not mention natgas and for good reason. It does not send mercury and tons of radioactive material into the air. Coal power is dirty, face it. Nothing can be done about that, the very material it burns is highly contaminated.

    Nuclear power costs are actually far more about plant construction. Look it up. Cheap coal and gas are why we do not have more Nuclear power. Nuclear power plants take decades to payback their investment. Not once has one been built without government loans and insurance. The free market hates them.

    Defanging the EPA will only lead to more love canal type incidents.

    You have been lied too.

  6. Re:Hmm... on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A little more? We are talking about 25% more.

    You would have to boil the water at 2am and insulate the heck out of the tank if you wanted to have hot water at 10am
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    I would imagine more likely we will use a large thermos style bottle connected to an on demand system. At night it would fill the thermos and only then run again if needed.

    Old style thin tank heaters are going away.

  7. Re:Consistent availability is the issue on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 1

    I live in West Seneca. I drive to Buffalo everyday, I see the turbines turning on the brown fields. Am I imagining that?

    Lots more vineyards by lake Ontario than Erie, in WNY. Even more out by the fingerlakes. If you get a chance head out there and check out the distillery. Avoid their vodka though, it is not good.

  8. Re:Hmm... on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Water heaters should not be running at all unless someone is taking a shower. It is called on demand hot water, tank style heaters need to go. Normally this is gas fueled, not electric.

  9. Re:Climate Damage? on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Compare the amount of energy available to the amount we are using. Then reply to yourself telling the idiots that modded you up to stop doing that.

  10. Re:Theoretically, sure on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 2

    They would survive fine if their competitors had to pay for waste disposal. Hell, nuclear would be a lot more attractive too, if coal plants could not just use the atmosphere as their dumping ground.

    Nuclear power does not survive on the open market. It never has and likely never will. The time to pay back cost is so long that government loans are needed, the site cleanup costs are so far the taxpayers problem and disposal is still an unsolved issue. I like wind power, I love nuclear power, but neither of them can compete on price in the current power market.

  11. Re:Consistent availability is the issue on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 1

    It always is only local.
    There are places that have wind nearly 24x7. Think along the shores of the great lakes. Much of which are now brownfields. Perfect places to put wind turbines, and they are doing just that.

  12. Re:Bull Shit. on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    HONEYCOMB!

    I am not talking about the cereal. Ask Google about that one.

    Also then why do the OEMs get it before everyone else? Clearly there are two different levels of access here.

  13. Re:WRONG WRONG WRONG on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    Yes it does, I agree. I do that as well.

    That does not make it legal though. We are both technically breaking copyright by doing that.

    There are a great many things you can do that are not legal and get away with if you don't turn it into a business.

  14. Re:Google is evil on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: -1

    Clearly you are, dumbass.

    I Shall taunt you a second time here, dummy!

    HoneyComb makes it clear that Android as is shipped on devices is not OpenSource. Only AOSP is.

  15. Re:Google is evil on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: -1

    Hey ignorant fool, why are you confusing AOSP and Android.

    They are not the same thing. See the debacle about the HoneyComb Release.

  16. Re:Bull Shit. on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    Because Google is turning a blind eye to violators who do not profit from distribution. You can also freely download movies, tv shows and music that does not make it legal.

  17. Re:Bull Shit. on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    That is AOSP, not android. Yes Android and AOSP share most code, that does not make them the same thing.

    While I quite like Android and AOSP I am not blind to the fact that google is having their cake and eating it too. For further evidence of that see honeycomb aka 3.0. It was not released via the AOSP.

  18. Re:Google is evil on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    Acer would be unable to gain access to Android, they could however still obtain the AOSP code.
    Which is not Android, merely based on it and they share the vast majority of code.

    Acer would not at all however have access to what is commonly referred to as GAPPS, which includes but is not limited to Google Maps, Google Market, Google Talk and Google Voice.

  19. Re:Bull Shit. on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    Neither did I.

    I stated that the OS called Android which is its trademarked name is not Open Source. Only the AOSP is.

    Let me make this very clear I will try to use small words:
    Android the OS whose name is trademarked is not Open Source software. AOSP is open source and based on Android, but is not Android.

    Was that simple enough for you?

  20. Re:Bull Shit. on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    I said GAPPS, that would be the collection of android apps found on most android branded devices including the market. Google owns those apps, that is why they care.

  21. Re:Probably and andriod fork/knockoff on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    Google did not help them do that.
    They are free to interoperate just like WINE runs windows apps.

  22. Re:Probably and andriod fork/knockoff on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    Not what parent is talking about and not even true.

    GAPPS is licensed to the device, meaning most CM installs are fine to run it. They can backup GAPPS and reinstall it after flashing CM.

  23. Re:Bull Shit. on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    At which point Google will sue the shit out of you for distributing GAPPS. Either you are putting them on the device or hosting them, either is copyright violation. This is why CM no longer distributes them.

  24. Re:Bull Shit. on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    No, AOSP is Open Source. The trademarked Android is not. This is how HoneyComb was never released as Open Source.

  25. Re:Bull Shit. on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 2

    What he said is factually correct. The trademarked "Android" is not Open Source. It is provided on a contractual basis. AOSP is Open Source under the Apache license.

    This is how Honeycomb AKA Android 3.0 was never released Open Source. It is also why there is no Cynogenmod 8, as that number would have been for Honeycomb.