>... negative environmental effects because of their disruption of wind/water flow
Um... what? If you consider that the troposphere is at least 10km high, that the very largest wind turbines are 100m in diameter, that a wind turbine will slow the wind by at most one third for maximum efficiency, and that wind speeds in the lower atmosphere increase with height by a power law relationship, you've got 1/3 of 1% of a very small part of the wind being disrupted.
I can think of worse ways of generating electricity.
What Steve could use is some indsutrial design work on his devices. I'm sure they work, but... well, wander about the UofT campus for a bit, and you'll surely meet him.
Back when I used to review computer games (was it really 15 years ago? sheesh!) we sometimes got games to review via crackers since the publisher couldn't get a copy to us in time. This was always done with the full consent (and often at the intigation) of the publishers.
Solar, wind, tidal? Useful adjuncts to conventional generation techniques, but blighted by NIMBY and power storage issues.
Why is power storage always brought up when renewables are mentioned? It's not as if it's a different type of electricity.
We can do baseload with a diverse, renewable energy portfolio. We have fairly efficient grids, and when it's not windy/sunny here, it is somewhere else on the same grid.
As regards NIMBY, I don't think you've seen it unless you've tried to build any power station. Everyone wants the power, just no-one wants to live with its source of generation.
In the meantime, I'll keep building wind turbines. I'll keep advising local communities on how they can embed renewable energy to strengthen their local grid. I'll keep doing my wind resource assessments. By the twenty-teens, by which time the fusion guys might just be exporting power, some of my windfarms will have been running for 20 years.
You have to remember that, since plants are only a maximum of 12% efficient, fossil fuel represents a tiny fraction of that maximum. A lot of carbon is lost in decomposition, usually as methane.
So if anyone ever dismisses solar photovoltaic as inefficient, consider that your 30% fuel energy efficient internal combustion engine is actually only (0.12 * 0.3) = 3.6% primary energy efficient at best.
As Greg Allen once said, "Fossil fuel is just dead solar power."
rejecting messages with more than N spelling errors.
checking not just the frequency of the words, but the frequency that words appear next to one another. Until recently, this would have been the domain of heavy-duty corpus linguistics types. Since we have more processing power and disk space than we really know what to do with, it's no longer beyond the imaginable.
So BTX means a whole new raft of cases? Great for landfill operators!
If the computer industry had EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility, or sometimes called Product Stewardship), they might reconsider their headlong rush to create short lifespan products.
After all, it's not the 3GHz Pentium 4 that we want, but it's the computing power that it provides.
So the technology we'd need to leave a heavily-polluted Planet Earth would be the very technology that would be causing the pollution that we'd have to leave behind?
If even the most brain dead induhvidual can send a fax, why do we keep getting (and my cow orkers occasionally sending) blank fax pages that were obvious fed into the machine upside down?
I'm not sure they are willing to spend the $4bn to get Pickering going again. It's the cause of a provinical enquiry, and questions are being asked about the viability of the whole scheme. We can bring in renewable sources quicker and more cheaply.
As regards paying for the cost of nuclear power, it's nowhere near included in the consumer cost. Yucca Mountain won't solve the world's problems.
Cost of building a seismically-stable containment facility, and training up a cadre of technician-priests able to look after the whole mess for thousands of years: Priceless
Thye put out the call yesterday, they were still $2,500 short when I donated this morning at about 0800 EST, and now they're up over $23,000. I guess everyone loves Wikipedia.
Slashdot Mirror
or is Troy James Hurtubise's widow ...
Um ... what? If you consider that the troposphere is at least 10km high, that the very largest wind turbines are 100m in diameter, that a wind turbine will slow the wind by at most one third for maximum efficiency, and that wind speeds in the lower atmosphere increase with height by a power law relationship, you've got 1/3 of 1% of a very small part of the wind being disrupted.
I can think of worse ways of generating electricity.
but as you well know, blimps are evil.
What Steve could use is some indsutrial design work on his devices. I'm sure they work, but ... well, wander about the UofT campus for a bit, and you'll surely meet him.
This looks exactly like Steve Mann's EyeTap device. Which, incidentally, runs Linux.
The Nielsens are in, and they're not looking good for zynot ...
cat(1)
Back when I used to review computer games (was it really 15 years ago? sheesh!) we sometimes got games to review via crackers since the publisher couldn't get a copy to us in time. This was always done with the full consent (and often at the intigation) of the publishers.
It also covers editorial computing staff. Back in the UK, I was the senior analyst and NUJ Father of Chapel (== shop steward, union rep).
There will be a free, usable package for repro work when quality four-colour seps are free ...
We'll make you most welcome. We've still got plenty of the 1960s-vintage draft-resisters here. Oh, and better beer.
So if anyone ever dismisses solar photovoltaic as inefficient, consider that your 30% fuel energy efficient internal combustion engine is actually only (0.12 * 0.3) = 3.6% primary energy efficient at best.
As Greg Allen once said, "Fossil fuel is just dead solar power."
rejecting messages with more than N spelling errors.
checking not just the frequency of the words, but the frequency that words appear next to one another.
Until recently, this would have been the domain of heavy-duty corpus linguistics types. Since we have more processing power and disk space than we really know what to do with, it's no longer beyond the imaginable.
So BTX means a whole new raft of cases? Great for landfill operators!
If the computer industry had EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility, or sometimes called Product Stewardship), they might reconsider their headlong rush to create short lifespan products.
After all, it's not the 3GHz Pentium 4 that we want, but it's the computing power that it provides.
No, a donut. Canadian meal deals always include a donut. Freaks out them southerners no end.
So the technology we'd need to leave a heavily-polluted Planet Earth would be the very technology that would be causing the pollution that we'd have to leave behind?
oh yeah, and the real info is at http://www.apple.com/ipodmini/.
If even the most brain dead induhvidual can send a fax, why do we keep getting (and my cow orkers occasionally sending) blank fax pages that were obvious fed into the machine upside down?
I would buy an mp3 player too small to hold my entire collection because:
I'm not sure they are willing to spend the $4bn to get Pickering going again. It's the cause of a provinical enquiry, and questions are being asked about the viability of the whole scheme. We can bring in renewable sources quicker and more cheaply.
As regards paying for the cost of nuclear power, it's nowhere near included in the consumer cost. Yucca Mountain won't solve the world's problems.
You conveniently forget the external costs of dealing with the aftermath of nuclear power. Plus it's expensive to build -- it'll cost CDN $4,000,000,000 to restore the Pickering (Ontario) nuclear power station to full operation. And all due to bungling management.
Yes, the site is quite badly placed, and grading of the site caused a jump in the rise ofrodents, hence a rise in the number of raptors.
I've worked with wind turbines for years, and never seen a bird kill.
Thye put out the call yesterday, they were still $2,500 short when I donated this morning at about 0800 EST, and now they're up over $23,000. I guess everyone loves Wikipedia.