It also used to take several weeks to get an install done for rooftop solar. Now it's done in less than a week, because the mounting hardware is better, the panels are more efficient (requiring less per install), etc.
The costs will come down as the installs scale up. It's already happening.
Is anyone actually arguing that it is? If they are, they they are fools.
I live in a city that is less than 200 miles from where most of the US coal is dug out of the ground, and we have insanely cheap grid power - including transmission costs, I pay 8.3 cents per kWh. I had a chance to talk to one of the co-founders of SolarCity about a year ago and asked him why they aren't operating in Ohio, and he said that is why - they can't make the math work for enough people because the grid power is just too cheap here right now.
A company advertises that they will install solar to lower your rate, and when they're honest about not being able to do that for your particular situation, it's bad?
I would much rather have companies that are honest and will do a full assessment and not blow smoke up my ass. That's a refreshing change.
An average of 5 peak sunlight hours per day puts you the same as California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado - all of which are installing solar as fast as possible.
People are installing solar in New York, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, which get even less peak sunlight, and it still pencils out.
It's fair to say that you get super cheap energy from the grid - I know I do. But to say "we only get 5 hours of sunlight" is complete bunk.
The bills aren't zero, though. You still pay a grid connection fee. You still pay for 'delivery charge'. And yes, there obviously will be a tipping point where net metering will need to change, but we're nowhere close to that regardless of what the corporate puppets on the Nevada PUC have decided to do. It's worth noting that California had the same chance to change net metering shortly after Nevada made their decision, and decided to change nothing.
At least with solar, it turns out that manufacturing many square feet of semiconductors per install is expensive. It will still pay off easily over the installed lifetime, but most people aren't interested in a 5+ year ROI for some reason.
Is anyone actually arguing that nuclear needs to load follow? Isn't that what natural gas peaking plants do today, over the top of base-load coal-fired generation?
That's still $10B that is far more wisely spent on renewable energy then buying bombs or building pork projects to get some congress critter's vote on other pork.
What you can do with it: talk about how awesome your new GPU is, while never actually getting that performance out of it because of the piss poor state of AMD's drivers.
I'm just saying that one of those two events will have happened. Not that they would have just happened, or that you'd have a nice shiny crypto key that works billions of years afterward.
"Why do people think that Edward Snowden knows more about iPhone encryption and security than the manufacturer of the iPhone, and the software engineers who wrote the OS?"
Apple has been working with the FBI since day one on this thing. If there was a way in that didn't involve a custom OS image that weakens the security, they would have done it. Apple drew a line, and the FBI is using a Federal Magistrate to challenge that line.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic. Statistically, by the time you actually cracked it, the human race will have either abandoned Earth due to an expanding sun, or have gone extinct. Unless you get triple-Powerball-winner lucky.
For all purposes of reality, only Apple is getting that thing open unless the NSA has undisclosed methods, and they sure as shit won't disclose them for this chickenshit useless case. The only reason the FBI is going through all this is because they want to have the legal precedent to crowbar anyone's phone open, from any manufacturer, with any warrant or writ from a judge.
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News flash: blacklists suck. Stop posting this garbage.
It's not just on Android / Chrome. It's terrible on iOS / Safari too.
Wrong. That was the case until the ITC was extended in the Federal Omnibus bill.
It also used to take several weeks to get an install done for rooftop solar. Now it's done in less than a week, because the mounting hardware is better, the panels are more efficient (requiring less per install), etc.
The costs will come down as the installs scale up. It's already happening.
Is anyone actually arguing that it is? If they are, they they are fools.
I live in a city that is less than 200 miles from where most of the US coal is dug out of the ground, and we have insanely cheap grid power - including transmission costs, I pay 8.3 cents per kWh. I had a chance to talk to one of the co-founders of SolarCity about a year ago and asked him why they aren't operating in Ohio, and he said that is why - they can't make the math work for enough people because the grid power is just too cheap here right now.
How about "externalizing the costs of burning mountains and releasing it into the air we breathe" ? That counts as a subsidy in my mind.
Wait.
A company advertises that they will install solar to lower your rate, and when they're honest about not being able to do that for your particular situation, it's bad?
I would much rather have companies that are honest and will do a full assessment and not blow smoke up my ass. That's a refreshing change.
An average of 5 peak sunlight hours per day puts you the same as California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado - all of which are installing solar as fast as possible.
People are installing solar in New York, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, which get even less peak sunlight, and it still pencils out.
It's fair to say that you get super cheap energy from the grid - I know I do. But to say "we only get 5 hours of sunlight" is complete bunk.
The bills aren't zero, though. You still pay a grid connection fee. You still pay for 'delivery charge'. And yes, there obviously will be a tipping point where net metering will need to change, but we're nowhere close to that regardless of what the corporate puppets on the Nevada PUC have decided to do. It's worth noting that California had the same chance to change net metering shortly after Nevada made their decision, and decided to change nothing.
At least with solar, it turns out that manufacturing many square feet of semiconductors per install is expensive. It will still pay off easily over the installed lifetime, but most people aren't interested in a 5+ year ROI for some reason.
Is anyone actually arguing that nuclear needs to load follow? Isn't that what natural gas peaking plants do today, over the top of base-load coal-fired generation?
Giving something a larger subsidy in order to make it economically viable, by definition, means it isn't economically viable.
That's still $10B that is far more wisely spent on renewable energy then buying bombs or building pork projects to get some congress critter's vote on other pork.
Can't be - I don't see any FUD about nuclear power in the summary. mdsolar can't resist taking a shot at anything nuclear in anything he posts.
What you can do with it: talk about how awesome your new GPU is, while never actually getting that performance out of it because of the piss poor state of AMD's drivers.
How dare you trust the credentials that were stolen from us! You should have known they were stolen, even though we didn't even know!
I'm just saying that one of those two events will have happened. Not that they would have just happened, or that you'd have a nice shiny crypto key that works billions of years afterward.
So what you are saying is that they should just compromise a 1024-bit RSA key instead of the AES-256 encrypted filesystem.
What a marvelous choice. Good thing you opined anonymously on that.
You forgot:
"Why do people think that Edward Snowden knows more about iPhone encryption and security than the manufacturer of the iPhone, and the software engineers who wrote the OS?"
Apple has been working with the FBI since day one on this thing. If there was a way in that didn't involve a custom OS image that weakens the security, they would have done it. Apple drew a line, and the FBI is using a Federal Magistrate to challenge that line.
And the legal standard for that is "too fucking bad."
If I bury a box in a forest with my diary in it, and then they want to peek at it after I'm dead, too fucking bad. Same situation.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic. Statistically, by the time you actually cracked it, the human race will have either abandoned Earth due to an expanding sun, or have gone extinct. Unless you get triple-Powerball-winner lucky.
For all purposes of reality, only Apple is getting that thing open unless the NSA has undisclosed methods, and they sure as shit won't disclose them for this chickenshit useless case. The only reason the FBI is going through all this is because they want to have the legal precedent to crowbar anyone's phone open, from any manufacturer, with any warrant or writ from a judge.
That's one whopper of an 'if'. We've been waiting for gaming performance parity for a decade now, and it's still not here.
So, an LTO tape drive then?
Are only 10% of the funding requests granted because they are careful, or because they only have 10% of the funds that are requested?
Yeah, because women vote as one. Always. Just like every other demographic you can name.
Can't imagine why you posted this anonymous.