More likely they're using magnetic suspension to eliminate the ball bearings used in older designs, thus elminating the #1 cause of the noise and vibration- a ball bearing going dry.
Can anyone explain how your country works in this regard?
Not really, but I'll try. Insurance companies, like any other business, survive only if they are profitable; that is, only if premiums taken in are greater than costs going out. To that end- the cheaper your insurance is the less it covers and the sooner you hit such nasty little contract surprises as "maximum lifetime payment".
Do you still buy gasoline? The really wierd thing in the GWOT is if it wasn't for our overreliance on energy from the middle east, we'd probably be ignored as far as the Shi'ite-Sunni civil war is concerned.
Probably true- I grew up in Silverton, further down the valley, outside of the bannana belt conditions of Beaverton. Hmm. Perhaps I should put up a cheap wind speed recorder first...
Is in the United States borrowing or are foreign countries investing in us? For every side, there is a flip-side.
From the point of view of international economics being a weapon in warfare- both of these destroy the soverignity of the nation that is living beyond it's means. It's clear that the *only* reason for China's investment is to learn and adapt our technology for use against us.
Hydro Power only accounts for 50% of what the Pacific Northwest uses- unless you're in The Dalles or some other community that directly has a dam, you can't get rates that low without being a *major* bulk energy trader.
We have to worry about those things, especially in wartime. We need a strong economy to provide the resources to wage war.
Not neccessarily- in fact, a strong economy can be a detriment in time of war. What you really want is to change the market and devote a significant portion of resources to the government- regardless of the shortages, inflation, and destruction of wealth this causes. That's how you WIN the war.
Eh? The government doesn't have to pay patent royalties anyway. They are allowed to use any available tech without asking. Remember that "Intellectual Property" is a fiction created by the MPAA and RIAA. Patents are just temporary monopolies granted by the government and they can ignore em.
That's not the kind of property they need to confiscate. What they need to confiscate are steel mills, mines, factories, and retool them to produce tanks, armor, guns, ammo, bombs.
Don;t think that would help. This war isn't going to be won by lots of boots on the ground. If it does devolve into massed ranks of soldiers we are in deep poo poo.
It's already a war of genocide, at least on their side- listen to their preachers sometime. We are in deep poo poo- the only question is how many billions will have to die before it's over.
Economic power is power exactly like military or diplomatic power. Each can be leveraged to impose one's will on another. So as the world's superpower power in all three spheres we should be leveraging all three as needed.
This isn't that kind of war. This is a war of genocide. It will only end when there are either no more Islamic Nationalists of any stripe, or when everybody who doesn't subscribe to the winner's sub-sect is dead. The only way to win will be to wipe out billions of people; the question is will it be one, two, three, or six billion dead in the end.
At what cost though. Millions dead, a continent in smoking ruin, two thermonuclear blasts, etc. And on a more practical note, a Europe so traumatized as to be easy pickings for the Communists leading directly into the Cold War. If we can succeed in Iraq and more importantly, here at home against the Democrats we can win the GWOT without some of those horrific costs. The alternative is a World War where the casualty rate could quickly top the billion mark.
There is no way to avoid that now- listen to the rhetoric on the other side and you will quickly discover that. There is no way to win the GWOT without those horrific costs- and worse. And every day we delay because we are scared of paying those costs, is another day we look weak enough to attack.
Exactly like Chamberlin's apeasement of Germany lead directly to millions of graves and a ruined continent, allowing Democrats to stop us from dealing with this threat while it is still managable will end up costing untold lives in a few more years when Iran has the Bomb.
The last time this was "manageable" the current President's grandfather was still selling guns for oil in Arabia. It's been unmanageable for a long time now- a good three quarters of a century. The current war is just more appeasement.
Ok, just how far do you propose carrying your 'final crusade'?
30 million troops attacking from Russia, Morroco, South Africa, India, and Greece. Surround them, and work your way in, leaving nothing behind you alive. Any country within that border gaining nukes, that's when you use nukes.
Just nuke em all? Clinton decimated our armed forces, claiming a "peace dividend".
Clinton was as much of a Free Traitor as Bush is. That's why we need a draft- until 1/10th of our population is in the military.
Or didn't you wonder how spending on domestic programs could rise and the budget still get balanced?
9-11-2001 proved that we're in a different world- besides, the budget was never "balanced", it was always borrowing from the Chinese. Still is.
And apparently this model isn't low end- not with a 41% efficiency rate. You can't have a wind powered device screaming like a banshee without losing all of the energy that is going into the sound...
Agreed- and a good way to prove it would be to stop worrying about the stock market, profits, and low taxes for the rich and start confiscating technology to make war material and bring back the draft. If this is truly the war between civilizations you, I, and apparently President Bush think it is, the economy is of little consequence in comparison to survival. In WWII we ended the Nazi threat in a little under 4 years by devoting 125% of our GDP to the problem. If we did the same to Islamic Terrorism, I suspect this war could be over in a matter of weeks, with both Sunni and Shi'ites utterly destroyed, only leaving the much more moderate Sufi as the last Islamics.
I sometimes get that feeling about the Bush Administration also- but then I begin to wonder if I still have a government, and who their constituents really are.
But my point is that I can't hear *any* noise coming from these devices. None. It's in fact rather strange, watching this huge machine with a propeller going round and not even hearing the expected "whop whop whop" you'd expect from a lever that large moving at that speed (the reason is obvious- sonic booms come from the relative speed between the object and the air- if the air is what is pushing the object, then the relative speed differential is going to be *much* lower).
I don't even expect there to BE a stock market 20 years from now. The way the United States is borrowing, the whole thing will collapse long before then. What you're really seeing as a return is simply money borrowed from China- who will need it back to pay for oil in the next 5 years.
I live in a community without a homeowner's association. Some of my neighbors come from cultures where the standard for maintaining a home differs significantly from typical suburban US standards.
And that should affect you exactly why? I didn't buy my house as an investment- I bought it to live in. What happens on the other side of the fence is none of my business.
When my neighbor began parking his truck in his yard, began storing applicances and garbage in his lawn, installed a new concrete porch without a permit, refused to cut the grass, and ordered a portable storage unit delivered to his house where it has sat in the driveway for more than a year, what is my recourse?
All of that sounds like standard American suburbia to me. NONE of it affects you or your property. Now if you could *prove* damages, there are always the courts. I may have to do this soon to a neighbor who happens to be an old folks home- they take care of their landscaping except for this one tree, which is about to take out my gutters. But I'll give them a few options first, including paying for gutters that are more compatible with the tree, triming the tree to the 12 feet required by the city code, etc.
I'm still not anxious to be a part of an HOA, but there are some advantages.
Most cities do have codes that cover this however. The HOA is just snobery on top of that.
This is the second time I've seen this complaint about this technology- and I still don't understand it. I've visited PGE's Klondike Wind Farm- those 41% efficient turbines don't waste any energy they can be converting, they certainly don't waste it in "noise and vibrations". They're as silent as can be. You get more vibration and noise in a storm from the wind itself.
Over a twenty-year life, you'll find that you're actually spending around three times that for the energy... if you assume a modest return of 5% on your investments.
Given stocks over the last 10 years- you'll be lucky to see a 3% return on your investments from here on out. The world itself is being mismanaged to the point that eventually stockholders are going to have to eat their mistakes.
6. Instead of looking at your house energy costs, look at your car. Marry this to a Zap Xebra for your commuting, and ask yourself where else you could get a transportation system for under $19,000 that frees you from sending money to terrorists through the gas pump.
Depends where you live- I want to know where the submitter lives to be getting those prices on residential electricity. Here in Beaverton, OR, I'm paying 8.4c/kwh- this technology looks like it could be attractive as the cost of fuel-based electricity generation goes up. Heck- marry this tech to a Zap Xebra, and you've got independance from the gas station for (within $2000) about the same cost as a Toyota Prius.
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More likely they're using magnetic suspension to eliminate the ball bearings used in older designs, thus elminating the #1 cause of the noise and vibration- a ball bearing going dry.
Can anyone explain how your country works in this regard?
Not really, but I'll try. Insurance companies, like any other business, survive only if they are profitable; that is, only if premiums taken in are greater than costs going out. To that end- the cheaper your insurance is the less it covers and the sooner you hit such nasty little contract surprises as "maximum lifetime payment".
Do you still buy gasoline? The really wierd thing in the GWOT is if it wasn't for our overreliance on energy from the middle east, we'd probably be ignored as far as the Shi'ite-Sunni civil war is concerned.
Probably true- I grew up in Silverton, further down the valley, outside of the bannana belt conditions of Beaverton. Hmm. Perhaps I should put up a cheap wind speed recorder first...
Is in the United States borrowing or are foreign countries investing in us? For every side, there is a flip-side.
From the point of view of international economics being a weapon in warfare- both of these destroy the soverignity of the nation that is living beyond it's means. It's clear that the *only* reason for China's investment is to learn and adapt our technology for use against us.
Hydro Power only accounts for 50% of what the Pacific Northwest uses- unless you're in The Dalles or some other community that directly has a dam, you can't get rates that low without being a *major* bulk energy trader.
We have to worry about those things, especially in wartime. We need a strong economy to provide the resources to wage war.
Not neccessarily- in fact, a strong economy can be a detriment in time of war. What you really want is to change the market and devote a significant portion of resources to the government- regardless of the shortages, inflation, and destruction of wealth this causes. That's how you WIN the war.
Eh? The government doesn't have to pay patent royalties anyway. They are allowed to use any available tech without asking. Remember that "Intellectual Property" is a fiction created by the MPAA and RIAA. Patents are just temporary monopolies granted by the government and they can ignore em.
That's not the kind of property they need to confiscate. What they need to confiscate are steel mills, mines, factories, and retool them to produce tanks, armor, guns, ammo, bombs.
Don;t think that would help. This war isn't going to be won by lots of boots on the ground. If it does devolve into massed ranks of soldiers we are in deep poo poo.
It's already a war of genocide, at least on their side- listen to their preachers sometime. We are in deep poo poo- the only question is how many billions will have to die before it's over.
Economic power is power exactly like military or diplomatic power. Each can be leveraged to impose one's will on another. So as the world's superpower power in all three spheres we should be leveraging all three as needed.
This isn't that kind of war. This is a war of genocide. It will only end when there are either no more Islamic Nationalists of any stripe, or when everybody who doesn't subscribe to the winner's sub-sect is dead. The only way to win will be to wipe out billions of people; the question is will it be one, two, three, or six billion dead in the end.
At what cost though. Millions dead, a continent in smoking ruin, two thermonuclear blasts, etc. And on a more practical note, a Europe so traumatized as to be easy pickings for the Communists leading directly into the Cold War. If we can succeed in Iraq and more importantly, here at home against the Democrats we can win the GWOT without some of those horrific costs. The alternative is a World War where the casualty rate could quickly top the billion mark.
There is no way to avoid that now- listen to the rhetoric on the other side and you will quickly discover that. There is no way to win the GWOT without those horrific costs- and worse. And every day we delay because we are scared of paying those costs, is another day we look weak enough to attack.
Exactly like Chamberlin's apeasement of Germany lead directly to millions of graves and a ruined continent, allowing Democrats to stop us from dealing with this threat while it is still managable will end up costing untold lives in a few more years when Iran has the Bomb.
The last time this was "manageable" the current President's grandfather was still selling guns for oil in Arabia. It's been unmanageable for a long time now- a good three quarters of a century. The current war is just more appeasement.
Ok, just how far do you propose carrying your 'final crusade'?
30 million troops attacking from Russia, Morroco, South Africa, India, and Greece. Surround them, and work your way in, leaving nothing behind you alive. Any country within that border gaining nukes, that's when you use nukes.
Just nuke em all? Clinton decimated our armed forces, claiming a "peace dividend".
Clinton was as much of a Free Traitor as Bush is. That's why we need a draft- until 1/10th of our population is in the military.
Or didn't you wonder how spending on domestic programs could rise and the budget still get balanced?
9-11-2001 proved that we're in a different world- besides, the budget was never "balanced", it was always borrowing from the Chinese. Still is.
We don't have enoug
And apparently this model isn't low end- not with a 41% efficiency rate. You can't have a wind powered device screaming like a banshee without losing all of the energy that is going into the sound...
Agreed- and a good way to prove it would be to stop worrying about the stock market, profits, and low taxes for the rich and start confiscating technology to make war material and bring back the draft. If this is truly the war between civilizations you, I, and apparently President Bush think it is, the economy is of little consequence in comparison to survival. In WWII we ended the Nazi threat in a little under 4 years by devoting 125% of our GDP to the problem. If we did the same to Islamic Terrorism, I suspect this war could be over in a matter of weeks, with both Sunni and Shi'ites utterly destroyed, only leaving the much more moderate Sufi as the last Islamics.
I think that's "Eddie". A Bodyguard named Betty probably wouldn't inspire that much fear....
I sometimes get that feeling about the Bush Administration also- but then I begin to wonder if I still have a government, and who their constituents really are.
It seems to me that this, too, could be automated using the same program and an OCR.
But my point is that I can't hear *any* noise coming from these devices. None. It's in fact rather strange, watching this huge machine with a propeller going round and not even hearing the expected "whop whop whop" you'd expect from a lever that large moving at that speed (the reason is obvious- sonic booms come from the relative speed between the object and the air- if the air is what is pushing the object, then the relative speed differential is going to be *much* lower).
I don't even expect there to BE a stock market 20 years from now. The way the United States is borrowing, the whole thing will collapse long before then. What you're really seeing as a return is simply money borrowed from China- who will need it back to pay for oil in the next 5 years.
Unfortuneately not in Beaverton where certain trees are considered "Heritage Trees". It's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.
And most association have ways to change the rules if they don't like what you are doing. It could get nasty really quick.
Hmm- I've got to look into that. I wonder if Measure 37 in Oregon affects HOAs?
I live in a community without a homeowner's association. Some of my neighbors come from cultures where the standard for maintaining a home differs significantly from typical suburban US standards.
And that should affect you exactly why? I didn't buy my house as an investment- I bought it to live in. What happens on the other side of the fence is none of my business.
When my neighbor began parking his truck in his yard, began storing applicances and garbage in his lawn, installed a new concrete porch without a permit, refused to cut the grass, and ordered a portable storage unit delivered to his house where it has sat in the driveway for more than a year, what is my recourse?
All of that sounds like standard American suburbia to me. NONE of it affects you or your property. Now if you could *prove* damages, there are always the courts. I may have to do this soon to a neighbor who happens to be an old folks home- they take care of their landscaping except for this one tree, which is about to take out my gutters. But I'll give them a few options first, including paying for gutters that are more compatible with the tree, triming the tree to the 12 feet required by the city code, etc.
I'm still not anxious to be a part of an HOA, but there are some advantages.
Most cities do have codes that cover this however. The HOA is just snobery on top of that.
This is the second time I've seen this complaint about this technology- and I still don't understand it. I've visited PGE's Klondike Wind Farm- those 41% efficient turbines don't waste any energy they can be converting, they certainly don't waste it in "noise and vibrations". They're as silent as can be. You get more vibration and noise in a storm from the wind itself.
Over a twenty-year life, you'll find that you're actually spending around three times that for the energy... if you assume a modest return of 5% on your investments.
Given stocks over the last 10 years- you'll be lucky to see a 3% return on your investments from here on out. The world itself is being mismanaged to the point that eventually stockholders are going to have to eat their mistakes.
You missed #6:
6. Instead of looking at your house energy costs, look at your car. Marry this to a Zap Xebra for your commuting, and ask yourself where else you could get a transportation system for under $19,000 that frees you from sending money to terrorists through the gas pump.
Depends where you live- I want to know where the submitter lives to be getting those prices on residential electricity. Here in Beaverton, OR, I'm paying 8.4c/kwh- this technology looks like it could be attractive as the cost of fuel-based electricity generation goes up. Heck- marry this tech to a Zap Xebra, and you've got independance from the gas station for (within $2000) about the same cost as a Toyota Prius.
That's why one of the things I looked for when buying a house was a home-owner's association- and I avoided the areas that had such stupidity.
I can't think of a single scholarship I've ever heard of that makes award decisions based on a one time, 4 hour test.
Fry's has- it bundles it's GQ line with Fry's Linspire.
It'll be a lot easier to make progress there than at hardware sellers (Dell, HP, etc.)
Of course if we're following the theme, the hardware sellers will be Lowe's and Home Depot.