It must be rough, having dozens of people throwing money at you.
It's a lie. These are not job offers, they are job spams. They are required to "look" for an American candidate before hiring a cheaper H1b, so they send out spam emails and try to act as scummy as possible in the hopes that no one will replay so they can hire the H1B of their choice. If you do reply, they will ask for you visa number. Yes, their application will literally ask you for your visa number. It won't ask if you are a citizen. If you don't fill in the visa number (because you don't have one because you are a citizen), then it goes in the round file.
But for $3500 I can now have lights and TV and night even when the lines are down. I'm willing to pay that much just to have the safety of backup power. This will happen within the next 5 years for me.
Well, not with this battery, you can't. It can only supply 10kwh of electricity. That won't even make it through the night in Florida's weather.
If the price of these gets low enough, it might make sense for everybody to install one, even without solar panels.
Peak pricing is based on peak demand. If someone buys a battery to try and get abitrage between peak and offpeak pricing they can.
However as soon as you try to scale it up and "everyone starts doing it" it doesn't work.
Each person that adds on lops a little slice of how much is needed at peak, and adds a little sloce to how much is needed off peak.
Think about that. As soon as enough people jump on the bandwagon the offpeak demand rises and the peak demand falls to equilibrium and the prices will equalize and there will be no more price arbitrage.
So, short term, yeah, it might makes sense - you might even break even or come out ahead depending on how things go. As backup power for your home, maybe it makes sense.
Another thought is that due to the inefficiencies of storage and conversion back and forth from AC even though the peak might be lower, the overall electric usage will be higher. So, less green overall.
You're assuming its only possible use is as an investment to same money on your energy rates. With some tweaked settings and possibly a supplemental power source (small gas/propane generator, solar panels, wind turbine, etc) it could serve partially in that role as well as a whole house backup system and/or an integration point for renewables.
Don't forget that in the average household, this amount of storage would only last you less than 8 hours.
I think that power companies should offer more incentives for people to have these in order to smooth out the electricity demand. Imagine if everybody had one. The grid wouldn't need as much capacity, and they would be able to use more renewables because the draw would be constant and people could store their own power.
If it was really a cost effective way to store power, then the utility companies would already be doing it. It is far cheaper to do it in en masse than to do it in individual homes. Unfortunately, battery storage is not efficient or cost-effective, so they don't do it.
Many electricity companies are already charging higher rates during peak times. This is one way to get rid of the peaks. It's already a $0.05/KWh difference where I live.
Luxury. It is $0.47 difference between peak and non-peak where I live.
Then there is the matter of NORDO (No radio) flying, which is perfectly fine in non-controlled airspace, but which may now not be possible from some airports due to not being in contact with a controller.
I don't know why the controllers union would be against it. They would have to add more controllers to control new remote strips which they previously did not control. Maybe they considered it a safety issue due to not being actually on the grounds and were worried about getting sued if there was an incident.
I bet if the government banned the sale of tomatoes, you would try to justify it. "They're a deadly nightshade!" you would say. "It should be illegal to sell them!"
No. There are plenty of regulations I don't agree with. However, I don't think that if there is an existing regulation that some companies should have to work within those regulations and other companies should get to do whatever they want.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Just ask the local Starbucks if you can put a 3d printer in the corner.
I mean seriously, are the looking to make things in this "makerspace" or just mash the go button on the 3D printer? I would say the 3D printer would just distract people from making things. You need welders, handtools, lathes, tablesaws, drill presses, lots of wood and metal, digital multimeters, wires. Probably most anything that you would find in the tools section of your local Home Depot or Lowes would be helpful. You might also notice that your local Home Depot or Lowes does not have a 3D printer.
Last Thursday I booked a normal taxi (in Oregon) to take me to the airport. He picked up another guy as well. He asked us first and we got a discount (but the driver made more.. the discount was not 50%).
So I don't see how ride sharing and taxi service are mutually exclusive.
Well, you have not experienced ride sharing. Ride sharing is when person A is going somewhere and finds a person B who also wants to go there and they share expenses. Your situation was not ride sharing because person C, the taxi driver was not already going to that location and went there at your will (just like an Uber driver does). If person A and person B prearranged to share the same taxi, that would be ride sharing for the two of you, but from the Taxi (or Uber of Lyft) perspective, it would still be a commercial for hire service.
In other words, to regulate them seemingly as if they are normal taxi cabs, forcing the same large costs upon them and so totally destroying their current form, which is what makes them so valuable - in other words, banning by regulation.
It is already banned by regulation and they are doing it anyway. Boston is just making new regulations recognizing them as some different sort of commercial for hire service. But they aren't. They are just a taxicab that chooses not to obey the law.
Sounds pretty good. I wonder if it will extend to the ride share boards up in many of the state's colleges.
I doubt it. Those are actually ride sharing situations. People are actually going to a destination and willing to share expenses. Lyft and Uber call themselves Ridesharing, but they are actually a taxi for hire service.
I have a 50Mbps connection as well, and I just did a speed test and averaged 9.76 Mpbs with spikes up to about 11. This is about normal for my 50 Mbps connection.
What does it matter when at the end of the day a suitcase full of cash and a few dozen lobbyists will trump every single anti-monopoly law we have in existence.
Well, there's your answer, then. I'm sure the entire citizenry of the U.S. can produce more suitcases full of cash than AT&T and Direct TV can.
Failing everyone in the class because you can't control the class is ridiculous (assuming the class size is not 10). If there are disruptive students that make you feel you need police protection, then you should do something about them (whatever's relevant for your schools policy, suspension, filling charges, etc).
Controlling the classroom? Are these grade school students? The professor was hired to teach, not to babysit. If the kids in there don't want to learn, they shouldn't be in there. They don't get an automatic A for showing up and spending their daddy's money.
Now, he should have handled it differently. You don't want to be here? Fine. Get out and don't come back. Now let's the rest of us get back to learning.
Well, it is actually more like 10%, but the government says it is 2-3%. What they don't consider is that a large part of people's expenditures is on things that they don't include in the CPI, like fuel and items which are delivered using fuel, in other words, everything. Most common food items have gone up by 100% or more in the last 10 years. They also do not take into consideration that a "box of crackers" has only gone up by 3% per year in cost, but a "box of crackers" now weighs about half what a "box of crackers" used to weigh. A "Case of soda" used to be 24 cans, and now it is 20 cans for the same price. Presto! 0% inflation.
Of course, most peoples largest expenditure is insurance, which used to go up about 20% per year, but now thanks to Obamacare, only goes up...20% per year, with the exception of the first year of Obamacare , when it went up by anywhere from -infinity (due to subsidies given to very few people) to 500% for some people (400% for me personally). Insurance is on a path to account for 100% of people's income in about 20 years at present growth rates. It is currently inifinity% of my income as I was let go in January, but Obamacare still costs me the same now as it did when I was making $85k. I do not get a subsidy or even a tax credit for what I am paying for insurance. I had to pay into the system when I had a job, but now that i don't, the system does not support me at all.
Well, why don't you submit an article to the moderators about the 2,500 people who died and see if they choose to post it. Then we will kick back and see how many people read it.
You just dated yourself. It is mostly just people that are 30+ that still use email on any sort of a regular basis. It would be sort of like letting everyone know you are safe via telegraph.
No, texting would be like letting everyone know you are safe via telegraph. Facebook would be like letting everyone know via a billboard that people may not drive by or pay attention to.
Things like these make me ashamed of being a member of the human race.
Why? The human race is an amazing work of nature. It is not you that is the problem. It is the people who shot her. They are the ones who are not fit to be members of the human race and need to be culled from it before they can pass on their corrupted genes.
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It must be rough, having dozens of people throwing money at you.
It's a lie. These are not job offers, they are job spams. They are required to "look" for an American candidate before hiring a cheaper H1b, so they send out spam emails and try to act as scummy as possible in the hopes that no one will replay so they can hire the H1B of their choice. If you do reply, they will ask for you visa number. Yes, their application will literally ask you for your visa number. It won't ask if you are a citizen. If you don't fill in the visa number (because you don't have one because you are a citizen), then it goes in the round file.
I do not understand how you can be an economist and get it wrong.
Economists are ALWYAS wrong. They keep their jobs by being able to explain WHY they were wrong.
But for $3500 I can now have lights and TV and night even when the lines are down. I'm willing to pay that much just to have the safety of backup power. This will happen within the next 5 years for me.
Well, not with this battery, you can't. It can only supply 10kwh of electricity. That won't even make it through the night in Florida's weather.
If the price of these gets low enough, it might make sense for everybody to install one, even without solar panels.
Peak pricing is based on peak demand. If someone buys a battery to try and get abitrage between peak and offpeak pricing they can.
However as soon as you try to scale it up and "everyone starts doing it" it doesn't work.
Each person that adds on lops a little slice of how much is needed at peak, and adds a little sloce to how much is needed off peak.
Think about that. As soon as enough people jump on the bandwagon the offpeak demand rises and the peak demand falls to equilibrium and the prices will equalize and there will be no more price arbitrage.
So, short term, yeah, it might makes sense - you might even break even or come out ahead depending on how things go. As backup power for your home, maybe it makes sense.
Another thought is that due to the inefficiencies of storage and conversion back and forth from AC even though the peak might be lower, the overall electric usage will be higher. So, less green overall.
You're assuming its only possible use is as an investment to same money on your energy rates. With some tweaked settings and possibly a supplemental power source (small gas/propane generator, solar panels, wind turbine, etc) it could serve partially in that role as well as a whole house backup system and/or an integration point for renewables.
Don't forget that in the average household, this amount of storage would only last you less than 8 hours.
I think that power companies should offer more incentives for people to have these in order to smooth out the electricity demand. Imagine if everybody had one. The grid wouldn't need as much capacity, and they would be able to use more renewables because the draw would be constant and people could store their own power.
If it was really a cost effective way to store power, then the utility companies would already be doing it. It is far cheaper to do it in en masse than to do it in individual homes. Unfortunately, battery storage is not efficient or cost-effective, so they don't do it.
Many electricity companies are already charging higher rates during peak times. This is one way to get rid of the peaks. It's already a $0.05/KWh difference where I live.
Luxury. It is $0.47 difference between peak and non-peak where I live.
This is the third time in as many weeks that they have announced this, at least on slashdot.
Then there is the matter of NORDO (No radio) flying, which is perfectly fine in non-controlled airspace, but which may now not be possible from some airports due to not being in contact with a controller.
I don't know why the controllers union would be against it. They would have to add more controllers to control new remote strips which they previously did not control. Maybe they considered it a safety issue due to not being actually on the grounds and were worried about getting sued if there was an incident.
I bet if the government banned the sale of tomatoes, you would try to justify it. "They're a deadly nightshade!" you would say. "It should be illegal to sell them!"
No. There are plenty of regulations I don't agree with. However, I don't think that if there is an existing regulation that some companies should have to work within those regulations and other companies should get to do whatever they want.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Just ask the local Starbucks if you can put a 3d printer in the corner.
I mean seriously, are the looking to make things in this "makerspace" or just mash the go button on the 3D printer? I would say the 3D printer would just distract people from making things. You need welders, handtools, lathes, tablesaws, drill presses, lots of wood and metal, digital multimeters, wires. Probably most anything that you would find in the tools section of your local Home Depot or Lowes would be helpful. You might also notice that your local Home Depot or Lowes does not have a 3D printer.
Last Thursday I booked a normal taxi (in Oregon) to take me to the airport. He picked up another guy as well. He asked us first and we got a discount (but the driver made more.. the discount was not 50%).
So I don't see how ride sharing and taxi service are mutually exclusive.
Well, you have not experienced ride sharing. Ride sharing is when person A is going somewhere and finds a person B who also wants to go there and they share expenses. Your situation was not ride sharing because person C, the taxi driver was not already going to that location and went there at your will (just like an Uber driver does). If person A and person B prearranged to share the same taxi, that would be ride sharing for the two of you, but from the Taxi (or Uber of Lyft) perspective, it would still be a commercial for hire service.
In other words, to regulate them seemingly as if they are normal taxi cabs, forcing the same large costs upon them and so totally destroying their current form, which is what makes them so valuable - in other words, banning by regulation.
It is already banned by regulation and they are doing it anyway. Boston is just making new regulations recognizing them as some different sort of commercial for hire service. But they aren't. They are just a taxicab that chooses not to obey the law.
Sounds pretty good. I wonder if it will extend to the ride share boards up in many of the state's colleges.
I doubt it. Those are actually ride sharing situations. People are actually going to a destination and willing to share expenses. Lyft and Uber call themselves Ridesharing, but they are actually a taxi for hire service.
I have a 50Mbps connection as well, and I just did a speed test and averaged 9.76 Mpbs with spikes up to about 11. This is about normal for my 50 Mbps connection.
I don't have Netflix, but last I talked to someone with Netflix and mentioned Game of Thrones, they did not have it available.
What does it matter when at the end of the day a suitcase full of cash and a few dozen lobbyists will trump every single anti-monopoly law we have in existence.
Well, there's your answer, then. I'm sure the entire citizenry of the U.S. can produce more suitcases full of cash than AT&T and Direct TV can.
Failing everyone in the class because you can't control the class is ridiculous (assuming the class size is not 10). If there are disruptive students that make you feel you need police protection, then you should do something about them (whatever's relevant for your schools policy, suspension, filling charges, etc).
Controlling the classroom? Are these grade school students? The professor was hired to teach, not to babysit. If the kids in there don't want to learn, they shouldn't be in there. They don't get an automatic A for showing up and spending their daddy's money.
Now, he should have handled it differently. You don't want to be here? Fine. Get out and don't come back. Now let's the rest of us get back to learning.
Well, it is actually more like 10%, but the government says it is 2-3%. What they don't consider is that a large part of people's expenditures is on things that they don't include in the CPI, like fuel and items which are delivered using fuel, in other words, everything. Most common food items have gone up by 100% or more in the last 10 years. They also do not take into consideration that a "box of crackers" has only gone up by 3% per year in cost, but a "box of crackers" now weighs about half what a "box of crackers" used to weigh. A "Case of soda" used to be 24 cans, and now it is 20 cans for the same price. Presto! 0% inflation. ...20% per year, with the exception of the first year of Obamacare , when it went up by anywhere from -infinity (due to subsidies given to very few people) to 500% for some people (400% for me personally). Insurance is on a path to account for 100% of people's income in about 20 years at present growth rates. It is currently inifinity% of my income as I was let go in January, but Obamacare still costs me the same now as it did when I was making $85k. I do not get a subsidy or even a tax credit for what I am paying for insurance. I had to pay into the system when I had a job, but now that i don't, the system does not support me at all.
Of course, most peoples largest expenditure is insurance, which used to go up about 20% per year, but now thanks to Obamacare, only goes up
Music (among other art) is just a hobby that some get paid for, it's not an occupation...
Interesting opinion. I happen to disagree. Instead, I think that YOUR chosen profession is just a hobby and you don't deserve to get paid for it.
Well, why don't you submit an article to the moderators about the 2,500 people who died and see if they choose to post it. Then we will kick back and see how many people read it.
Must be a freak wormhole. This sounds like 1950s view of the future of education that didn't happen and we look back on and laugh at.
You just dated yourself. It is mostly just people that are 30+ that still use email on any sort of a regular basis. It would be sort of like letting everyone know you are safe via telegraph.
No, texting would be like letting everyone know you are safe via telegraph. Facebook would be like letting everyone know via a billboard that people may not drive by or pay attention to.
Things like these make me ashamed of being a member of the human race.
Why? The human race is an amazing work of nature. It is not you that is the problem. It is the people who shot her. They are the ones who are not fit to be members of the human race and need to be culled from it before they can pass on their corrupted genes.
Seriously, I restart my samsung a few times a day just to prevent problems from occurring in the first place.
If you can prevent problems, then you don't have problems. Stop complaining.
Yeah, buddy! And when they bend you over, don't ask for lube, just take it dry, like a man!