Good point. However, as far as I can tell from my bill itemization, the fixed charge for maintaining the connection is very minor. The vast bulk of the monthly expense is generation per kWh and delivery per kWh.
You can store either LNG or CNG. The proposal was for CNG. Liquefying natural gas is even more energy intensive than compressing it. Plus either you need constant energy input to keep it liquid, or you have to allow for blow off, which is very dangerous.
Gas trucks roll through the neighborhood, it's a hassle. They could install gas powered generators, but in a scenario like that people would probably go with a diesel generator which is a more common way to provide off-grid power for people without solar.
Say WHAT? In what way are diesel tankers any less of a "hassle" than LPG trucks? I never felt inconvenienced by either one. They both visit my neighborhood.
Wire the house up to the grid normally and just use a big transfer switch to stop all use of the grid power all of the time. Presto, you're "grid connected" and the bastards can't touch you legally.
Domestic natural gas is also an excellent choice to provide emergency generation to cover power outages. The gas supply is generally essentially 100% reliable all the time, storms or not.
CNG at 250 bar stores 2.5 kWh/l. Gasoline stores 8.5 kWh/l. Lithium ion batteries store at most 0.7 kWh/l. So CNG isn't that bad for energy storage -- until you consider the vast weight of the required pressure vessel, and the energy and maintenance involved to compress it. Natural gas is delivered to the home at very low pressure.
WHERE THE HELL DO YOU GET THE ESPRESSOBIN, GODDAMMIT??? Not from KickStarter any more obviously. Not from Amazon - "We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." GlobalScale doesn't give any hint. Google doesn't yield any leads.
And how much $ is it in whatever fantasy world that it is actually available?
If you want to call powdered/sintered metallurgy "3D printing", you are welcome to your baby talk babble. Sintered metal dates back to at least the 1940s.
I would go so far as to state that Python's design is stupid in that it doesn't just flag all hard tab characters in the text as ERRORS. This would complete eliminate the potential for criticism. As it is, the criticism that invisible characters represent a fatal weakness is NOT entirely specious, and it is unfortunate because it is so unnecessary.
Nobody with any sense believes we should, but the present proliferation of a bewildering Babel of way too much programming language proliferation is not the ideal either. After one or two programming languages, to a small handful at the most, it becomes impossible to comprehend them, let alone master them.
I'm going to say this is a case where Betteridge does NOT rule. Yes, python is not perfect: it is as slow as molasses in execution speed, and has terrible multithreading capability. So what. These imperfections are completely outweighed by its superb readability/understandability/clarity, and the ease with which it can be learned.
No one is going to write an OS or an office suite all in python. But for a large swathe of programming tasks it is ideal. It is a lot more than just a scripting tool like, for example, perl.
Well. I lived to see it happen. Russia overthrew its communist masters and turned from an evil empire into a largely christian harmonious society mostly minding its own business and bothering no one. At the same time, yurrup and the eeew-ess have devolved into a deviant sewer of globalist filth, helpless, brainwashed, and controlled.
The western governments and the people who vote them in and put up with them turn my stomach. The way they scapegoat "the russians", making up stories out of whole cloth, is disgusting and revolting to any self-respecting rational free man (yeah, there are still a precious few of us left who you will NEVER NEVER NEVER succeed in brainwashing).
I feel much more kinship to my russian brothers than to the degenerate filth who surround me. There is nothing worth saving in these yahoos. I hope they all go to hell where they belong.
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Good point. However, as far as I can tell from my bill itemization, the fixed charge for maintaining the connection is very minor. The vast bulk of the monthly expense is generation per kWh and delivery per kWh.
2.5 kWh/l is not any kind of amount. It's an energy density.
You can store either LNG or CNG. The proposal was for CNG. Liquefying natural gas is even more energy intensive than compressing it. Plus either you need constant energy input to keep it liquid, or you have to allow for blow off, which is very dangerous.
Assuming they have such programs in your area. Otherwise you're SOL.
Say WHAT? In what way are diesel tankers any less of a "hassle" than LPG trucks? I never felt inconvenienced by either one. They both visit my neighborhood.
Wire the house up to the grid normally and just use a big transfer switch to stop all use of the grid power all of the time. Presto, you're "grid connected" and the bastards can't touch you legally.
You are NEVER going to get either one changed. In both cases, you are fucked.
No it isn't. The cost of the farcical Tesla PowerWall is obscene.
Domestic natural gas is also an excellent choice to provide emergency generation to cover power outages. The gas supply is generally essentially 100% reliable all the time, storms or not.
CNG at 250 bar stores 2.5 kWh/l. Gasoline stores 8.5 kWh/l. Lithium ion batteries store at most 0.7 kWh/l. So CNG isn't that bad for energy storage -- until you consider the vast weight of the required pressure vessel, and the energy and maintenance involved to compress it. Natural gas is delivered to the home at very low pressure.
What are you, stupid? If you actually do that and press "order now", all it does it take you to the stupid dead ends I listed. Jeeze.
WHERE THE HELL DO YOU GET THE ESPRESSOBIN, GODDAMMIT??? Not from KickStarter any more obviously. Not from Amazon - "We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." GlobalScale doesn't give any hint. Google doesn't yield any leads.
And how much $ is it in whatever fantasy world that it is actually available?
What the christ is wrong with their marketing?
"Illegal speech" is only one tiny step away from "illegal thought". You can stuff these laws in your keester.
If you want to call powdered/sintered metallurgy "3D printing", you are welcome to your baby talk babble. Sintered metal dates back to at least the 1940s.
What the fuck is a fidget spinner?
BWAHAHAHAHA!
I would go so far as to state that Python's design is stupid in that it doesn't just flag all hard tab characters in the text as ERRORS. This would complete eliminate the potential for criticism. As it is, the criticism that invisible characters represent a fatal weakness is NOT entirely specious, and it is unfortunate because it is so unnecessary.
Nobody with any sense believes we should, but the present proliferation of a bewildering Babel of way too much programming language proliferation is not the ideal either. After one or two programming languages, to a small handful at the most, it becomes impossible to comprehend them, let alone master them.
The word is "dominant". "Dominate" is a verb. "Dominant" is the adjective.
I'm going to say this is a case where Betteridge does NOT rule. Yes, python is not perfect: it is as slow as molasses in execution speed, and has terrible multithreading capability. So what. These imperfections are completely outweighed by its superb readability/understandability/clarity, and the ease with which it can be learned.
No one is going to write an OS or an office suite all in python. But for a large swathe of programming tasks it is ideal. It is a lot more than just a scripting tool like, for example, perl.
Well. I lived to see it happen. Russia overthrew its communist masters and turned from an evil empire into a largely christian harmonious society mostly minding its own business and bothering no one. At the same time, yurrup and the eeew-ess have devolved into a deviant sewer of globalist filth, helpless, brainwashed, and controlled.
The western governments and the people who vote them in and put up with them turn my stomach. The way they scapegoat "the russians", making up stories out of whole cloth, is disgusting and revolting to any self-respecting rational free man (yeah, there are still a precious few of us left who you will NEVER NEVER NEVER succeed in brainwashing).
I feel much more kinship to my russian brothers than to the degenerate filth who surround me. There is nothing worth saving in these yahoos. I hope they all go to hell where they belong.
Smells like Windoze crap to me. Linux and BSD are the fixes for this.
Betteridge says no.
What the hell is a "32 bit file"? What the hell is a "64 bit file"? A file is a sequence of goddam bytes.
Are you kidding? AC is not even using a BRAIN.