Because the Chinese panels are not cheaper than Tesla's. They are about the same due to higher efficiency of Tesla. However, Tesla will likely use some Chinese panel.
Considering that much of OSS was originally developed on Minix, I would argue against that.
Heck, dos got it's start by emulating cp/m, and then xenix commands were added to move to xenix/Unix.
As such, Unix, and even cp/m deserve more credit that dos/windows.
Not only are they boomers, but the ethics of those boomers were horrible.
Bill gates? Stole most tech.
Jobs? Same.
Ellison? Not as criminal as gates or jobs, but was considered unethical in most business dealings.
The list goes on.
The GOP has controlled Congress for over a decade and they HATE anything musk does. they have tried to kill NASA funding to them, while keeping it flowing to Russia.
Exactly. Ibm in the 50-70 was a power House. But from 80-90, they were a monopoly that got in the way, and now, they are nothing as told by no real innovations or profits.
Google used to be, but they have shown that it is easy to turn evil and stupid.
So, at this time, it is musk who is making changes to the world and forcing companies to respond.
Tesla is forcing Western car makers to switch to EVs. Even now, sales in the west for ICE vehicles have dropped solely due to Tesla.
Then u have SpaceX which is currently the lowest cost launcher and about to drop it further with FH. Then unlike other companies and nations, SX continues to invest into a massive reusable rocket that will put 3-5x the FH into LEO.
His next 2 ventures is to put up a massive constellation of SATs, as well as build a high speed train system. The SATs will actually get a manufacturing line that is supposed to allow for other satellites to be built. Whereas SATs normally cost $100-500M, his line will produce a sat for under $10M. This will change space economics all around.
Add in the hyperloop and boring, and we see a small number of tech companies that are forcing massive changes in space, and land transportation.
First off, nuclear does not have massive subsidies, except when u try to add the indemnity clause for accidents.
Secondly, there is very little risk with an SMR. The reason is the reactors are prebuilt and checked at a factory. With old approach, it takes years to build reactors on site, test them, etc, which allows for the far left to raise costs with legal challenges, etc. With SMR, after approval, the reactor is installed in 6 months and running within another 3-6 months.
And as to ROI, the ability to replace all shutdown and current nuclear reactors, along with coal and Nat gas, makes these very likely to be decent.
On your Yellowstone comments, I will trust NASA and the geologists and engineers that they brought in more so than others.
Also, before NASA did this a separate study by mit on Geothermal confirm all of that and more.
Clinton; W; Obama; Trump; Tom Tancredo of Colorado; Ted nugent (and is a pedophile).
The list goes on and on.
At this point, I would like to see America require all 18 y.o to do boot camp, if not a year worth of service. At least that way, politicians would have their kid's lives on the line and would think twice before doing things like Iraq or Libya.
yahoo is using bing and bing as a total search has less than 15% of global.
Monopolies is when 1 group has control.
A monopoly is characterized by a lack of competition, which can mean higher prices and inferior products.
50% is MORE than enough to control. And I throw out the 50% issue because I suspected that you were not bright enough to figure it out. So far, you have fucked up what a monopoly is.
As to cars, prior to 2006, GM, Chrysler and Ford had more than 40% of the global market and a lot more of American market. After 2006, we had 2 car makers and thankfully now have 3. Even though most of the regular car makers' sales are dropping, Tesla continues to have demand grow faster than they can produce.
nothing fair or intelligent about per capita. That is one of the WORST measures/normalization going. The reason is that you and I really do not make the REAL decisions. It is gov and business that do. As such, emissions per $ GDP is the only intelligent normalization.
And as long as 3rd world nations continue to add more coal plants, this will NEVER clean up. ALL NATIONS HAVE TO STOP ADDING, and START SHUTTING THEM DOWN.
in terms of AE / $ GDP or AE per capitia, they are actually one of the lowest.
In addition, in terms of clean energy, they ARE the lowest.
Finally, as long as they continue to add MORE coal plants than AE rather than shutting them down, it will not matter.
nuscale is almost there and 1B would put them over the top quickly.
For others, if they had a 1B grant from the feds, they could get other investors VERY QUICKLY.
IOW, just as W/Os investment into Solar and Wind created a number of companies here (to which China targeted and destroyed a number of them or simply offered much bigger incentives to move to China), created a number of companies here.
By getting 5 nuke SMRs going, it will encourage other SMRs to build here.
LOL.
China produces more CO2 than anybody. There will not be a penny going to them for credits, thats for sure.
Claiming that would be like claiming that Tesla will by pollution credits from Ford Trucks.
geo-thermal is drilling. BIG MONEY in that. HUGE money. Trump has lots of ppl in his pocket.
And as to nukes, wishful thinking? Hoping that Perry will do the right thing and push that.
geo-thermal can already be cheaper than BOTH wind/solar with/without storage. That is a fact.
Why they are not being drilled is because it is hit/miss. IOW, we have lots of experience at finding oil/gas, so nearly all wells come up profitable. BUT, finding heat down below is a whole other issue.
NASA is pushing for us to put in geo-thermal with injection all around yellowstone to keep it from blowing again. This should be pushed by the gov and like wind/solar, given some subsidies help to get it going. At the same time, I would push for tax breaks for any oil well that is converted into geo-themal HVAC, if it has certain conditions (i.e. enough heat).
As to SMRs, I would pick the top 5 companies and give them 1B each to get their systems R&D, and tested/vetted. Then I would offer up guaranteed funding for 50 of these to be built, with limits of 20, 15, 10, and then 5. IOW, the faster you get your SMR out, the more reactors with guaranteed funding can be built. I might even say that each of these companies would get 1/2 of the funding paid for the first 3-5 reactors.
Then I would also try to get a STANDARD for controls and back-end. IOW, allow a company like Babock/wilkins to build out a site that would allow for say 5-10 reactors of which say 3-5 might be of 1 type and another 3-5 of another. This would allow for reactors that process thorium, or better yet, waste, to be added later on.
really?
So, exactly WHAT search engine competes against Google? This says in the 90s. Another measure claims 75%.
that is a monopoly. It might be natural (MS and IBM were created and enforced illegally), but still a monopoly.
Facebook ? Who else has more than 50% of the market? Hell, who else has more than 15% of the social networking market?Here shows facebook with ~75% of the social networking market. The LOWEST that I could find was 39%,
with you tube have similar so that the 2 of them owned the industry.
I would call that a monopoly.
Amazon? Don't get me started there. NOBODY competes against them except for Alibaba Group and that is because Chinese gov pretty much blocks Amazon while subsidizing Alibaba.
By breaking these companies up, into just 3 companies each, it would get competition moving forward. It is not as though they are going to shrink. They will simply become hungry and compete against each other.
BTW, when W/O bailed out GM and chrysler, they should have broke them apart into smaller companies and had them competing. Had that happened, we would have seen radically different results in America.
been coding since the 70s. I was very much here. Win 95 was NOT that big of deal. It was for the MS weenies, but it was not installed right away on all computers. DOS/Win3.1 ran on new ones for a LONG LONG TIME.
First, I am not a fan of trump (though I did stick up for for the first 5 months due to my giving all presidents before 6 months; I just could not last 6 with trump).
Secondly, trump can talk coal all he wants. But, the simple fact is that utilities will decide based on current AND FUTURE expected costs. We all know that coal is dirty and expensive. The last thing that an American utility is going to do is add a new coal plant knowing full well that today is the cheapest it will ever be, and it is STILL more expensive than nat gas, and wind.
Geothermal will be added because it requires drilling and trump will be here to help his buddies in oil/gas.
And as to nukes, we have more than 10 companies working on SMRs. America, in fact the world, requires new nuclear power. I believe that the GOP will push for subsidies to get these going AND probably install them in various places.
Heck, we are stupid for not installing nuclear power in our territories. Puerto Rico is IDEAL for NuScale's SMR. These are 50 MW in size and the cooling could desalinate the water. So many issues solved.
actually, the whole point is that the effort required is NOT worth it. They can not make a dent.
Instead, we need all nations to drop their emissions. The only way to do that is hit them on exports.
If we use sats for measuring, we can see CO2 float in and out of nations and can then determine not what is causing, but simply WHO is causing it.
Then normalize based on emissions / $ GDP.
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Because the Chinese panels are not cheaper than Tesla's. They are about the same due to higher efficiency of Tesla. However, Tesla will likely use some Chinese panel.
It is just not easy to get HR and C*s to want to pay them enough.
Therein lies the REAL issue.
Tesla has not been using federal tax dollars.
Considering that much of OSS was originally developed on Minix, I would argue against that. Heck, dos got it's start by emulating cp/m, and then xenix commands were added to move to xenix/Unix.
As such, Unix, and even cp/m deserve more credit that dos/windows.
Oh good god.
Please go to Pacific bottom and clean up the plastic.
Not only are they boomers, but the ethics of those boomers were horrible.
Bill gates? Stole most tech.
Jobs? Same.
Ellison? Not as criminal as gates or jobs, but was considered unethical in most business dealings.
The list goes on.
The GOP has controlled Congress for over a decade and they HATE anything musk does. they have tried to kill NASA funding to them, while keeping it flowing to Russia.
Exactly. Ibm in the 50-70 was a power House. But from 80-90, they were a monopoly that got in the way, and now, they are nothing as told by no real innovations or profits.
IBM is pretty much dead. For the last decade they have been being killed by firing top ppl and lazy ppl alike, while hiring loads of cheap inept.
Google used to be, but they have shown that it is easy to turn evil and stupid.
So, at this time, it is musk who is making changes to the world and forcing companies to respond.
Tesla is forcing Western car makers to switch to EVs. Even now, sales in the west for ICE vehicles have dropped solely due to Tesla.
Then u have SpaceX which is currently the lowest cost launcher and about to drop it further with FH. Then unlike other companies and nations, SX continues to invest into a massive reusable rocket that will put 3-5x the FH into LEO.
His next 2 ventures is to put up a massive constellation of SATs, as well as build a high speed train system. The SATs will actually get a manufacturing line that is supposed to allow for other satellites to be built. Whereas SATs normally cost $100-500M, his line will produce a sat for under $10M. This will change space economics all around.
Add in the hyperloop and boring, and we see a small number of tech companies that are forcing massive changes in space, and land transportation.
First off, nuclear does not have massive subsidies, except when u try to add the indemnity clause for accidents. Secondly, there is very little risk with an SMR. The reason is the reactors are prebuilt and checked at a factory. With old approach, it takes years to build reactors on site, test them, etc, which allows for the far left to raise costs with legal challenges, etc. With SMR, after approval, the reactor is installed in 6 months and running within another 3-6 months. And as to ROI, the ability to replace all shutdown and current nuclear reactors, along with coal and Nat gas, makes these very likely to be decent.
On your Yellowstone comments, I will trust NASA and the geologists and engineers that they brought in more so than others. Also, before NASA did this a separate study by mit on Geothermal confirm all of that and more.
Clinton; W; Obama; Trump; Tom Tancredo of Colorado; Ted nugent (and is a pedophile).
The list goes on and on.
At this point, I would like to see America require all 18 y.o to do boot camp, if not a year worth of service. At least that way, politicians would have their kid's lives on the line and would think twice before doing things like Iraq or Libya.
why did few invest into wind/solar prior to W/O hug subsidies for these?
Monopolies is when 1 group has control.
A monopoly is characterized by a lack of competition, which can mean higher prices and inferior products.
50% is MORE than enough to control. And I throw out the 50% issue because I suspected that you were not bright enough to figure it out. So far, you have fucked up what a monopoly is.
As to cars, prior to 2006, GM, Chrysler and Ford had more than 40% of the global market and a lot more of American market. After 2006, we had 2 car makers and thankfully now have 3. Even though most of the regular car makers' sales are dropping, Tesla continues to have demand grow faster than they can produce.
nothing fair or intelligent about per capita. That is one of the WORST measures/normalization going. The reason is that you and I really do not make the REAL decisions. It is gov and business that do. As such, emissions per $ GDP is the only intelligent normalization.
And as long as 3rd world nations continue to add more coal plants, this will NEVER clean up. ALL NATIONS HAVE TO STOP ADDING, and START SHUTTING THEM DOWN.
in terms of AE / $ GDP or AE per capitia, they are actually one of the lowest.
In addition, in terms of clean energy, they ARE the lowest.
Finally, as long as they continue to add MORE coal plants than AE rather than shutting them down, it will not matter.
nuscale is almost there and 1B would put them over the top quickly.
For others, if they had a 1B grant from the feds, they could get other investors VERY QUICKLY.
IOW, just as W/Os investment into Solar and Wind created a number of companies here (to which China targeted and destroyed a number of them or simply offered much bigger incentives to move to China), created a number of companies here.
By getting 5 nuke SMRs going, it will encourage other SMRs to build here.
LOL.
China produces more CO2 than anybody. There will not be a penny going to them for credits, thats for sure.
Claiming that would be like claiming that Tesla will by pollution credits from Ford Trucks.
geo-thermal is drilling. BIG MONEY in that. HUGE money. Trump has lots of ppl in his pocket.
And as to nukes, wishful thinking? Hoping that Perry will do the right thing and push that.
geo-thermal can already be cheaper than BOTH wind/solar with/without storage. That is a fact.
Why they are not being drilled is because it is hit/miss. IOW, we have lots of experience at finding oil/gas, so nearly all wells come up profitable. BUT, finding heat down below is a whole other issue.
NASA is pushing for us to put in geo-thermal with injection all around yellowstone to keep it from blowing again. This should be pushed by the gov and like wind/solar, given some subsidies help to get it going. At the same time, I would push for tax breaks for any oil well that is converted into geo-themal HVAC, if it has certain conditions (i.e. enough heat).
As to SMRs, I would pick the top 5 companies and give them 1B each to get their systems R&D, and tested/vetted. Then I would offer up guaranteed funding for 50 of these to be built, with limits of 20, 15, 10, and then 5. IOW, the faster you get your SMR out, the more reactors with guaranteed funding can be built. I might even say that each of these companies would get 1/2 of the funding paid for the first 3-5 reactors.
Then I would also try to get a STANDARD for controls and back-end. IOW, allow a company like Babock/wilkins to build out a site that would allow for say 5-10 reactors of which say 3-5 might be of 1 type and another 3-5 of another. This would allow for reactors that process thorium, or better yet, waste, to be added later on.
really?
So, exactly WHAT search engine competes against Google? This says in the 90s. Another measure claims 75%.
that is a monopoly. It might be natural (MS and IBM were created and enforced illegally), but still a monopoly.
Facebook ? Who else has more than 50% of the market? Hell, who else has more than 15% of the social networking market?Here shows facebook with ~75% of the social networking market. The LOWEST that I could find was 39%, with you tube have similar so that the 2 of them owned the industry.
I would call that a monopoly.
Amazon? Don't get me started there. NOBODY competes against them except for Alibaba Group and that is because Chinese gov pretty much blocks Amazon while subsidizing Alibaba.
By breaking these companies up, into just 3 companies each, it would get competition moving forward. It is not as though they are going to shrink. They will simply become hungry and compete against each other.
BTW, when W/O bailed out GM and chrysler, they should have broke them apart into smaller companies and had them competing. Had that happened, we would have seen radically different results in America.
been coding since the 70s. I was very much here. Win 95 was NOT that big of deal. It was for the MS weenies, but it was not installed right away on all computers. DOS/Win3.1 ran on new ones for a LONG LONG TIME.
First, I am not a fan of trump (though I did stick up for for the first 5 months due to my giving all presidents before 6 months; I just could not last 6 with trump).
Secondly, trump can talk coal all he wants. But, the simple fact is that utilities will decide based on current AND FUTURE expected costs. We all know that coal is dirty and expensive. The last thing that an American utility is going to do is add a new coal plant knowing full well that today is the cheapest it will ever be, and it is STILL more expensive than nat gas, and wind.
Geothermal will be added because it requires drilling and trump will be here to help his buddies in oil/gas.
And as to nukes, we have more than 10 companies working on SMRs. America, in fact the world, requires new nuclear power. I believe that the GOP will push for subsidies to get these going AND probably install them in various places.
Heck, we are stupid for not installing nuclear power in our territories. Puerto Rico is IDEAL for NuScale's SMR. These are 50 MW in size and the cooling could desalinate the water. So many issues solved.
actually, the whole point is that the effort required is NOT worth it. They can not make a dent.
Instead, we need all nations to drop their emissions. The only way to do that is hit them on exports.
If we use sats for measuring, we can see CO2 float in and out of nations and can then determine not what is causing, but simply WHO is causing it.
Then normalize based on emissions / $ GDP.