Well, and that is understandable. That is also why I continue with a couple of domains and use google applications (though I do the web hosting on rackspace at this time). But, I used to enjoy doing my own server, etc. however, I have decided that I want a family and to focus on start-ups.
For over 15 years, I spent my time doing my own servers. Figured out that I was spending too much time doing server admin and not enough building sand castles. Now, I am on Google.
You scream about environmentalist and say that we will not mine rare earth. Yet, California pass re-starts later this year. Likewise, they will be doing the refining HERE, and producing magnets in USA. So, california pass's re-start shoots down the BS about not having any.
In addition, other nations have plenty of mining and that includes Canada and many nations in EU. How clean are their operations? Clean.
The problem is NOT environmentalist. It is business execs that want to have the lowest cost by producing goods in a similar fashion as China. It is not going to happen. Yet companies make loads of money by simply putting up a clean operation right from the gitgo.
Oddly, other nations, like Canada and many in EU, have the ability to mine it cheaply AND clean their environment. Only in America where our Execs make 10-100 x what other nation's exec make, do we seem unable to do so. Why is that?
No, it is not. The fact is, that if we pulled ore from china vs. from here, it would be cheaper here. California pass is starting up because of this. Our problem is that refining was shut down here because reagan pushed us to GIVE the tech to China. Now China has dumped on the market and destroyed our refining capability (well, that as California environmental nuts). But, the refining is coming.
First off, ALL mater absorbs energy while undergoing a phase change. During that time, they are not changing temperatures. Once the phase change is done, then the temp will change.
Likewise, phase change is not a big deal. The issue is that it moves from solid to liquid. At time of changing to liquid, it will have to interact with another material to stay stick around or be in small micro bubbles that are attached.
They have a trained troop for doing this. They admit it. The crackers in China have a death penalty against them, UNLESS it is directed at the west and they sell the information to the Chinese gov. (think of how the brits used pirates against the french and Spanish). That in the intel world have put out honeypots, seen the attacks from Chinese IPs and seen the false information from it show up in Chinese reports later on.
But other than that, no real reason to believe that China is the one who would want more information about holding games in China (like the way hitler did), or that China is spying on the west.
THat would be either Wyoming (with near 100% coal and low taxes), or Washington or Idaho (with large hydro).
Here in Colorado Xcel we pay.09 for electricity, though boulder is apparently looking to lower theirs by creating their own electric company. I will say that with Colorado Xcel, if you have an electric car and get the variable rate, it is something like.09 daytime, but.05 nighttime, but they will nail you if you do the charge in the daytime (spike in demand amp will cost you HEAVILY). .
Actually, night time prices may go DOWN, not up. The night time is significantly under utilized. By getting electric cars on the grid, utilities can afford to put on larger base systems and skip the dispatchable systems (expensive to run, but quick to alter loads). If the utilities can increase the loads, then they can charge lower rates overall.
Just out of curiosity, what is your max bandwidth? You on a 12 or a 20 or a 40? The reason that I ask is that 12s are adsl , while the 20/40 are vdsl. We are switching from comcast to qwest due to the outrageous price by comcast and their outages. In addition, I had to fight for vdsl rather than the adsl.
Seriously, without competition, other nations control our future. As such, we are insane to remain on oil. We should be pushing not just electric cars, but also natural gas, as well as mocrobial (real bio fuels, not ethanol from corn).
Yes, in certain places, they are efficient. However, if you do not have a good enough cooling source(say a river on a very hot day, space, etc), then it does not work so well. This is to steam turbine electric generation what LEDs are to Incandescents. What is really interesting is that it could be possible to replace these every 10 years and gain more efficiency.
that many are pushing a solution that is NOT going to happen in the USA. It does not solve the issue which is that ALL major nations are major polluters. Until a different solution is put forward, then nothing will change.
It is strange that neo-cons are desperate to kill R&D on this, when in reality, most of the climatologist would love to DISPROVE GW. The reason is that they would be a HUGE name .
Renewables is a superset that includes Solar. Solar is what we were talking about. I support AE, but only as a MIX. The idea that Wind or solar or (wind and solar) can replace all coal is insane. Instead, we should be pushing a mix such as geo-thermal (which will be the cheapest energy going), nukes, solar, wind, tidal, etc.
Most importantly, we should be pushing Energy Storage. This is the one piece that would change EVERYTHING. It would enable current plants to provide power while AE slowly takes over. It is much better than trying to overpower with more generation.
While I fully agree about the Internet growth, the fact is, that Clinton cut spending all 8 years of his time. That included with 2 of them with dems. In addition, the same set of neo-cons went on with a neo-cons president W, and ran up spending massively even in good economic times. That totally kills the arguments about a republicans congress making the difference. It is about a president who leads, vs. presidents that simply go along with CONgress. As noted to the neo-con coward before you, the fact that Nixon, Ford and Carter could make spending cuts with the same democrats that reagan had, says that it is not a dem congress that is the issue. It is basically bad leaders like reagan and W that run up spending on their favorite programs.
I always have to laugh when ppl post that Clinton was dragged. It ignores the fact that for the first 2 years he (and poppa bush for 1 year before Clinton) did spending cuts with a dem congress. In addition, it ignores the fact that as soon as W got in there WITH THE SAME GROUP OF NEO-CONS, that they ran up the debt quickly. Even during good spending time.
Likewise, Nixon, Ford, and Carter all managed to make spending cuts with the same set of dems that reagan had. And yet, reagan was INABLE to cut spending. In fact, under reagan and W, gov. grew faster than any president in history.
Cowardly neo-cons really need to quit re-writing history and perhaps learn a bit of logic.
As to green jobs, I agree. There ARE good green jobs. Wind is actually CHEAPER than Coal. So is geo-thermal. The problem is that ever idiot in the world is pushing Solar, even though it is not ready. But hey, it is not just liberals that push that kind of waste. Neo-cons have done their fair share. Heck, we pay more to subsidize coal miners health than we pay for Solar AND WIND COMBINED.
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Well, and that is understandable. That is also why I continue with a couple of domains and use google applications (though I do the web hosting on rackspace at this time). But, I used to enjoy doing my own server, etc. however, I have decided that I want a family and to focus on start-ups.
For over 15 years, I spent my time doing my own servers. Figured out that I was spending too much time doing server admin and not enough building sand castles. Now, I am on Google.
You scream about environmentalist and say that we will not mine rare earth. Yet, California pass re-starts later this year. Likewise, they will be doing the refining HERE, and producing magnets in USA. So, california pass's re-start shoots down the BS about not having any. In addition, other nations have plenty of mining and that includes Canada and many nations in EU. How clean are their operations? Clean.
The problem is NOT environmentalist. It is business execs that want to have the lowest cost by producing goods in a similar fashion as China. It is not going to happen. Yet companies make loads of money by simply putting up a clean operation right from the gitgo.
Oddly, other nations, like Canada and many in EU, have the ability to mine it cheaply AND clean their environment. Only in America where our Execs make 10-100 x what other nation's exec make, do we seem unable to do so. Why is that?
nah. They will just buy some republican pols and get them to write laws to skip that part.
No, it is not. The fact is, that if we pulled ore from china vs. from here, it would be cheaper here. California pass is starting up because of this. Our problem is that refining was shut down here because reagan pushed us to GIVE the tech to China. Now China has dumped on the market and destroyed our refining capability (well, that as California environmental nuts). But, the refining is coming.
I guess that means that it will be safe from Al Qaeda.
First off, ALL mater absorbs energy while undergoing a phase change. During that time, they are not changing temperatures. Once the phase change is done, then the temp will change.
Likewise, phase change is not a big deal. The issue is that it moves from solid to liquid. At time of changing to liquid, it will have to interact with another material to stay stick around or be in small micro bubbles that are attached.
Not a problem. It is from China. They will be using asbestos to handle this.
They have a trained troop for doing this. They admit it. The crackers in China have a death penalty against them, UNLESS it is directed at the west and they sell the information to the Chinese gov. (think of how the brits used pirates against the french and Spanish). That in the intel world have put out honeypots, seen the attacks from Chinese IPs and seen the false information from it show up in Chinese reports later on.
But other than that, no real reason to believe that China is the one who would want more information about holding games in China (like the way hitler did), or that China is spying on the west.
THat would be either Wyoming (with near 100% coal and low taxes), or Washington or Idaho (with large hydro).
.09 for electricity, though boulder is apparently looking to lower theirs by creating their own electric company. I will say that with Colorado Xcel, if you have an electric car and get the variable rate, it is something like .09 daytime, but .05 nighttime, but they will nail you if you do the charge in the daytime (spike in demand amp will cost you HEAVILY). .
Here in Colorado Xcel we pay
Actually, night time prices may go DOWN, not up. The night time is significantly under utilized. By getting electric cars on the grid, utilities can afford to put on larger base systems and skip the dispatchable systems (expensive to run, but quick to alter loads). If the utilities can increase the loads, then they can charge lower rates overall.
Just out of curiosity, what is your max bandwidth? You on a 12 or a 20 or a 40? The reason that I ask is that 12s are adsl , while the 20/40 are vdsl. We are switching from comcast to qwest due to the outrageous price by comcast and their outages. In addition, I had to fight for vdsl rather than the adsl.
Seriously, without competition, other nations control our future. As such, we are insane to remain on oil. We should be pushing not just electric cars, but also natural gas, as well as mocrobial (real bio fuels, not ethanol from corn).
Seriously, Google+ allows far better control of who sees what. I am walking away from facebook in part because of this reason.
Yes, in certain places, they are efficient. However, if you do not have a good enough cooling source(say a river on a very hot day, space, etc), then it does not work so well. This is to steam turbine electric generation what LEDs are to Incandescents. What is really interesting is that it could be possible to replace these every 10 years and gain more efficiency.
Thank you. Never heard that one before.
Most insurance companies these days, are far more concerned with getting bonuses to the executives.
that many are pushing a solution that is NOT going to happen in the USA. It does not solve the issue which is that ALL major nations are major polluters. Until a different solution is put forward, then nothing will change.
Yes.
It is strange that neo-cons are desperate to kill R&D on this, when in reality, most of the climatologist would love to DISPROVE GW. The reason is that they would be a HUGE name .
George Nield, head of Office of Commercial Space Transportation, gave an interesting talk at lunch in which he drew parallels between early aviation and the development of commercial spaceflight. He talked, for example, about the Army's first request for proposals for a heavier-than-air flight vehicle. The one group that qualified, the Wright Brothers, succeeded, thought not until after overcoming some severe difficulties. It was a fixed-price, milestone contract that worked. :Public-Private Partnerships: Back to the Future of Space Development
Charles Miller, NASA Senior Advisor for Commercial Space, is talking along similar lines
Renewables is a superset that includes Solar. Solar is what we were talking about. I support AE, but only as a MIX. The idea that Wind or solar or (wind and solar) can replace all coal is insane. Instead, we should be pushing a mix such as geo-thermal (which will be the cheapest energy going), nukes, solar, wind, tidal, etc.
Most importantly, we should be pushing Energy Storage. This is the one piece that would change EVERYTHING. It would enable current plants to provide power while AE slowly takes over. It is much better than trying to overpower with more generation.
While I fully agree about the Internet growth, the fact is, that Clinton cut spending all 8 years of his time. That included with 2 of them with dems. In addition, the same set of neo-cons went on with a neo-cons president W, and ran up spending massively even in good economic times. That totally kills the arguments about a republicans congress making the difference. It is about a president who leads, vs. presidents that simply go along with CONgress. As noted to the neo-con coward before you, the fact that Nixon, Ford and Carter could make spending cuts with the same democrats that reagan had, says that it is not a dem congress that is the issue. It is basically bad leaders like reagan and W that run up spending on their favorite programs.
I always have to laugh when ppl post that Clinton was dragged. It ignores the fact that for the first 2 years he (and poppa bush for 1 year before Clinton) did spending cuts with a dem congress. In addition, it ignores the fact that as soon as W got in there WITH THE SAME GROUP OF NEO-CONS, that they ran up the debt quickly. Even during good spending time.
Likewise, Nixon, Ford, and Carter all managed to make spending cuts with the same set of dems that reagan had. And yet, reagan was INABLE to cut spending. In fact, under reagan and W, gov. grew faster than any president in history.
Cowardly neo-cons really need to quit re-writing history and perhaps learn a bit of logic.
As to green jobs, I agree. There ARE good green jobs. Wind is actually CHEAPER than Coal. So is geo-thermal. The problem is that ever idiot in the world is pushing Solar, even though it is not ready. But hey, it is not just liberals that push that kind of waste. Neo-cons have done their fair share. Heck, we pay more to subsidize coal miners health than we pay for Solar AND WIND COMBINED.