Much of what was in "documentaries" like Inconvenient Truth and Gaslands was obvious BS. And we hear claims that Earth will be a lifeless cinder within a couple of generations even though CO2 levels have been much higher in the past.
Most of the denials that the climate is warming goes against well documented measurements.
The truth is somewhere in between. The best approach to minimizing the problem won't involve wealth transfer to poor nations. But neither side is going to budge.
Efficiency isn't everything. Generating excess electricity when you don't have a demand for it means you need some way of storing it, or you just dump it.
So now you need to figure out how to store all that energy until you can deliver it to the train when the train needs it; liquid fuels are very good at that. Even if producing it doesn't use the excess electricity efficiently it's a reasonable trade-off. I'm sure they considered batteries and wires, apparently they decided hydrogen is worth trying instead.
TFA pretty much agrees with you. If the headline had honestly said it's a more powerful single board computer for a somewhat higher price nobody would be complaining. But as already mentioned elsewhere, that isn't as clickbaity.
Does the SolidRun "destroy" the Pi? From a raw performance perspective, absolutely. That cannot be denied. Some folks will take issue with that claim due to the price difference, and I understand that point. But again, just looking at performance and potential, it is no contest. If a Raspberry Pi 3 meets your needs, however, then more power to you.
Here's a better link. As I read it, the idea is to use extra electricity from intermittent power sources such as wind and solar to produce hydrogen, which can then be stored and transported to where it's needed. That seems far better than trying to store electricity in huge batteries.
Thompson's calculations, based on a 2007 set of figures from India Rail, estimate that as much as three billion barrels of crude oil - or the equivalent of 214 million tonnes of CO2 - could be saved over one year by transitioning from diesel to hydrail.
"The two magic properties of hydrogen are the ability to store and transport it," Thompson says. "It's that utility of time and place which is unique to the hydrogen economy. And that's what you can't do with the existing power grid."
There's also an economic reason behind investing in windmills instead of diesel oil, as Busch explains: "We have fluctuations in wind and solar energy which gives us the chance to produce energy for very, very cheap."
If it is really obvious then where is the prior art?
It was first filed something like 20 years ago. Not many smart phones handled incoming calls and other notifications back then so prior art would be a surprise.
I'd call it a good UI design, but obvious to someone skilled in the art. Phone makes two sounds at the same time? Suppress the one that's less important. Duh.
In a communication terminal equipment and in a method of controlling call incoming, unnecessary noises in a period from the start of an alert sound to carrying out of the next operation can be reduced. When a predetermined operation is effected under the condition that an alert sound is ringing, the alert sound is stopped or the volume of the alert sound is reduced at least over a duration of call incoming.
Mute or reduce the volume of an alert while talking to someone on the phone?
it was a deal agreed to by the manufacturers blame them
We don't know what the terms of that deal are. Did Microsoft make the lock down a condition of selling PCs with Windows installed? Did Microsoft make it a condition of the deal that the manufacturer would not volunteer that it is locked? Given their history, I expect the answer to both questions is "yes".
We don't live in an industrial world, we shouldn't be treating our education system like a factory
If you like public education you'll love what Congress will do with socialized medicine. Remember, Pelosi's goal was to put insurance companies out of business:
“Well of course I wanted single-payer, and I wanted a public option. But that not being in the mix, uh, you have to prioritize what it is you want to get over the finish line.” - Nancy Pelosi
they'd either negotiate better quality (and higher price) with their Chinese manufacturers or they'd move their manufacturing to someone who can do a better job
Signing a contract for a certain level of quality is just a ritual. You can negotiate all the quality you want, but the manufacturer will still try to get away with cutting corners. That's considered good business, and if you let them get away with it you're a dumb businessman.
This was fought for and won by unions during early industrial age
Odd that you bring that up since the main force behind Uber and Lyft is the artificial price of taxi service brought on by those same unions. People blame politicians for the regulations, but who do you think owns those politicians?
The council has tentatively approved a One Touch Make Ready (OTMR) ordinance that would let a single company -- Google Fiber in this case -- make all of the necessary wire adjustments on utility poles itself
Lobbyists help write legislation all the time. I'd be surprised if Google wasn't in on the original ordinance.
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Much of what was in "documentaries" like Inconvenient Truth and Gaslands was obvious BS. And we hear claims that Earth will be a lifeless cinder within a couple of generations even though CO2 levels have been much higher in the past.
Most of the denials that the climate is warming goes against well documented measurements.
The truth is somewhere in between. The best approach to minimizing the problem won't involve wealth transfer to poor nations. But neither side is going to budge.
Let it succeed or fail on it's own merits. Instead of doing everything you can to block it based on irrational and unscientific fear.
I'm not sure why you talked about Daily Kos except for the fact that they're both left online news resources.
Other than the fact that Daily Kos and Vox were both founded by Markos Moulitsas there's no connection at all.
The spam isn't coming from either candidate's team. They're phishing attacks.
It reminds me of a story about removing the name of a Very VIP from certain emails.
"We're confident that there wasn't any material impact on our journalism from these issues
Daily Kos (aka Vox) was always a blog, it has nothing to do with journalism.
I would have thought the breach at Ashley Madison would have done them completely in on reputation loss alone...
Reputation loss? Ashley Madison? You must be joking.
...and caused a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (TM) of the rocket.
Efficiency isn't everything. Generating excess electricity when you don't have a demand for it means you need some way of storing it, or you just dump it.
So now you need to figure out how to store all that energy until you can deliver it to the train when the train needs it; liquid fuels are very good at that. Even if producing it doesn't use the excess electricity efficiently it's a reasonable trade-off. I'm sure they considered batteries and wires, apparently they decided hydrogen is worth trying instead.
Does the SolidRun "destroy" the Pi? From a raw performance perspective, absolutely. That cannot be denied. Some folks will take issue with that claim due to the price difference, and I understand that point. But again, just looking at performance and potential, it is no contest. If a Raspberry Pi 3 meets your needs, however, then more power to you.
what technology does it use if not solar panels?
Hot air. Which is used to inflate the price of Musk's stock.
In Korea, a worker at a convenience store alleged online that their phone exploded but Samsung said the person was currently unreachable.
Maybe unreachable because their phone exploded?
Thompson's calculations, based on a 2007 set of figures from India Rail, estimate that as much as three billion barrels of crude oil - or the equivalent of 214 million tonnes of CO2 - could be saved over one year by transitioning from diesel to hydrail.
"The two magic properties of hydrogen are the ability to store and transport it," Thompson says. "It's that utility of time and place which is unique to the hydrogen economy. And that's what you can't do with the existing power grid."
There's also an economic reason behind investing in windmills instead of diesel oil, as Busch explains: "We have fluctuations in wind and solar energy which gives us the chance to produce energy for very, very cheap."
Here's a video of a cow that clearly comes up with a plan, then carries it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If it is really obvious then where is the prior art?
It was first filed something like 20 years ago. Not many smart phones handled incoming calls and other notifications back then so prior art would be a surprise.
I'd call it a good UI design, but obvious to someone skilled in the art. Phone makes two sounds at the same time? Suppress the one that's less important. Duh.
In a communication terminal equipment and in a method of controlling call incoming, unnecessary noises in a period from the start of an alert sound to carrying out of the next operation can be reduced. When a predetermined operation is effected under the condition that an alert sound is ringing, the alert sound is stopped or the volume of the alert sound is reduced at least over a duration of call incoming.
Mute or reduce the volume of an alert while talking to someone on the phone?
Seriously?
More like RAID SQRT(-1)
it was a deal agreed to by the manufacturers blame them
We don't know what the terms of that deal are. Did Microsoft make the lock down a condition of selling PCs with Windows installed? Did Microsoft make it a condition of the deal that the manufacturer would not volunteer that it is locked? Given their history, I expect the answer to both questions is "yes".
I assume you're kidding. If not, please watch videos of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and let us know at what point a chute could be deployed.
Sure they can. Without piracy they might be collecting two or three times as much from streaming services. Who knows? Not you or me.
My problem with the music industry is that most music being sold today is terrible. And get off my lawn.
We don't live in an industrial world, we shouldn't be treating our education system like a factory
If you like public education you'll love what Congress will do with socialized medicine. Remember, Pelosi's goal was to put insurance companies out of business:
“Well of course I wanted single-payer, and I wanted a public option. But that not being in the mix, uh, you have to prioritize what it is you want to get over the finish line.” - Nancy Pelosi
they'd either negotiate better quality (and higher price) with their Chinese manufacturers or they'd move their manufacturing to someone who can do a better job
Signing a contract for a certain level of quality is just a ritual. You can negotiate all the quality you want, but the manufacturer will still try to get away with cutting corners. That's considered good business, and if you let them get away with it you're a dumb businessman.
Don't forget that in some cities there are also strict government limits on how many taxis can operate.
What part of "People blame politicians for the regulations, but who do you think owns those politicians?" did you not understand?
This was fought for and won by unions during early industrial age
Odd that you bring that up since the main force behind Uber and Lyft is the artificial price of taxi service brought on by those same unions. People blame politicians for the regulations, but who do you think owns those politicians?
The council has tentatively approved a One Touch Make Ready (OTMR) ordinance that would let a single company -- Google Fiber in this case -- make all of the necessary wire adjustments on utility poles itself
Lobbyists help write legislation all the time. I'd be surprised if Google wasn't in on the original ordinance.