According to the laws of thermodynamics the answer to your question "how long can it run without solar input" varies based on the size of the pool of salt. We have cubic miles of salt.
There are lots of folks who thought their Microsoft product was better for a while. But when it doesn't suit Microsoft's strategic goals to maintain it it's dropped like a hot rock. When that day comes it doesn't matter how much you liked it, nor how much you had invested. They have no care for the preservation of your data either - they made it incompatible on purpose, and you should have known better is their view.
Whether or not you can be made to know better before putting your data into their products is a whole other question. How intellectually disabled are you? Obviously you can read and write, but are you impaired by some sort of memory loss?
Quicken and Quickbooks is the only application I know of to have survived a full-on Microsoft assault on their business. Microsoft Money has folded. It's something to be proud of, I guess - for now.
He was editor and president of the Harvard Law Review, and taught law at the University of Chicago for 12 years - specifically constitutional law for eight. I don't know what you think is required to be considered an academic, but that seems to qualify.
Biden brought the Hollywood money back in the day, and that got him the VP slot and his **AA bosses some seats in the Justice Department, including Mr. MacBride who's working Kim Dotcom today. Despite the whole "supporting your vice president" thing, that's a liability moving into new elections. I don't want to think the O-man needs to or wants to make these sacrifices as an incumbent. He's a constitutional scholar and I think, a geek like us. At least I hope so.
BTW: I really hate the politicization of/. during crazy season. And yet here I am contributing to it.
It would not surprise me if there isn't an entrepeneurial opportunity in selling "Google fiber" canvassing materials: door hangers, yard signs, and so on. I know if they made us this offer in my town I'd be laying out these materials to take to the printers right now, and coordinating with grassroots canvassing volunteers to make sure my fiberhood was first or at least as close to the top as it could get. I wonder if they will publish fiberhood maps to help out with this.
And yeah, I think your prediction is the exact opposite of what's going to happen.
"Should not" is not "May not". Google wouldn't want to indemnify for-profit uses and open themselves up to being sued for loss of profits over downtime. Let's wait to read the fine print in the contract.
If I had an electric car, most of its power would come from hydroelectric power.
Me too, but that hydro power would be taken then away from people who would make up the lack with coal power because that's what they have. Have I saved carbon atoms from being freed into the atmosphere they were captured from long ago? No.
With enough electrical energy we could convert to a hydrogen/oxygen economy, rather than a carbon-based one. There are some issues though, like the Hindenburg. It turns out that Hydrogen in a normal Earthlike atmosphere is explosive. Also, it wants to be a gas rather than a liquid, which limits its utility. And as a gas, it passes freely through any known material at room temperature because hydrogen2 molecules are as small as molecules get.
And then there's the whole "we get half of our electrical energy from coal" thing, and the conversion losses.
Unless we get some good watts from some other source, your electric hybrid is likely generating more CO2 than my Chevy truck.
**for completeness, we might also consider the distribution of the heat between the surface and the molten core, but to be fair, other than the trivial amount of geothermal energy we use, there's a negligible amount to think about here.
Well thanks at least for including it for completeness, since that one source exceeds our current electrical energy needs for the next thousand years with current technology - by which time technology may have advanced a wee bit. The Yellowstone Caldera by itself throws off more thermal energy each minute than, converted to electrical energy, the world requires. And cooling that damned thing might be in our best interest since it's likely to bury 60% of the US in ash someday - again, as it has many times before.
Solar is great too, and can also be baseload power with a big enough heatsink - or balanced with geothermal plants that produce on demand solar and wind can use geothermal for a heatsink / corrector for low/no production. Geothermal plants can with slant drilling occupy a tiny surface space and tap a vast region, and can be baseload power as well as a peak power source.
There are a lot of other sources we aren't using right now. Petroleum refineries throw off a lot of waste heat, as do pulp mills, organic composting, server farms, volcanos, iron and aluminum and glass refineries. Any place there is a reliable significant thermal delta is an opportunity to reap electrical power, and the question is whether or not it can be done economically. As science progresses the delta and size of the installation becomes smaller. It's not as much "geothermal" as it is "thermal delta" electrical power.
There is no reason not to use both solar and geothermal to diminish our dependence on oil.
Nuclear works on thermal deltas too, but doesn't exploit them enough. Spent fuels, for example, heat their pools for a decade before they're considered "cool" enough to put into permanent storage (should any ever come available). That's a waste heat that's dissipated by evaporation (phase change) of water rather than claiming it as electrical power through modern energy capture technologies. Given modern technologies the spent fuel might give more electrical power than the reactor if it were exploited. I have issues with the whole "we don't have to take the trash out" mentality of nuclear proponents, but I have no problem with making the most of what they do.
We need to come to grips with the idea that "a big enough thermal delta is an electrical energy source." And then moderate the "Big enough" term with advances in technology. That's the ultimate recycling: finding utility for the thermal energy we are now throwing away.
"Some politician." That's how you dismiss the prime minister of Japan, who flew in a helicopter over a nuclear plant while it was melting down to give courage to the men working there? I'm curious... what do you do for a living?
The alternative being to keep overflowing our capacity to store spent fuel until something really bad happens to it. Come on now, if the people involved are smart enough and responsible enough to handle this stuff at all, they must be smart and responsible enough to take out the trash afterward. If they aren't that responsible we ought not let them play with this stuff. It is not reasonable to demand nuclear power without waste disposal.
The Japanese Prime Minister at the time, Naoto Kan said that the risk of cascading failures of multiple plants could have led to half of Japan's surface area becoming uninhabitable, and that this was an unacceptable risk.
Unless "cycled out" is code for "stored in the back yard" no, it's not. Nuclear is touted as cheap energy, but until we have a plan for permanent waste disposal we actually have no idea what it costs. And that fuel in the back yard can be far more dangerous than even new fuel.
Break down the one old reactor with the most spent fuel, and dispose of all the waste including the spent fuel. In return you can have two shiny new reactors of the most modern design. Repeat.
If you include SDCard you have to support vFAT. If you support vFAT you have to pay Microsoft. Microsoft wants to "F'ing kill Google." You can see where that might be a problem.
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According to the laws of thermodynamics the answer to your question "how long can it run without solar input" varies based on the size of the pool of salt. We have cubic miles of salt.
There are lots of folks who thought their Microsoft product was better for a while. But when it doesn't suit Microsoft's strategic goals to maintain it it's dropped like a hot rock. When that day comes it doesn't matter how much you liked it, nor how much you had invested. They have no care for the preservation of your data either - they made it incompatible on purpose, and you should have known better is their view.
Whether or not you can be made to know better before putting your data into their products is a whole other question. How intellectually disabled are you? Obviously you can read and write, but are you impaired by some sort of memory loss?
Quicken and Quickbooks is the only application I know of to have survived a full-on Microsoft assault on their business. Microsoft Money has folded. It's something to be proud of, I guess - for now.
You had to be AC to post that, really?
Well maybe the golden rectangle was appropriated, seeing as how it's a riff on the proportions of the Parthenon.
He was editor and president of the Harvard Law Review, and taught law at the University of Chicago for 12 years - specifically constitutional law for eight. I don't know what you think is required to be considered an academic, but that seems to qualify.
This is why you pay good lawyers. We're probably about three judges from who's going to really try ths case.
It's one thing to uplift the platform and get the president elected. It's a whole other thing to be a fucktard at re-election time.
Biden brought the Hollywood money back in the day, and that got him the VP slot and his **AA bosses some seats in the Justice Department, including Mr. MacBride who's working Kim Dotcom today. Despite the whole "supporting your vice president" thing, that's a liability moving into new elections. I don't want to think the O-man needs to or wants to make these sacrifices as an incumbent. He's a constitutional scholar and I think, a geek like us. At least I hope so.
BTW: I really hate the politicization of /. during crazy season. And yet here I am contributing to it.
Plus six for KCMO.
You can track their progress here.
It would not surprise me if there isn't an entrepeneurial opportunity in selling "Google fiber" canvassing materials: door hangers, yard signs, and so on. I know if they made us this offer in my town I'd be laying out these materials to take to the printers right now, and coordinating with grassroots canvassing volunteers to make sure my fiberhood was first or at least as close to the top as it could get. I wonder if they will publish fiberhood maps to help out with this.
And yeah, I think your prediction is the exact opposite of what's going to happen.
"Should not" is not "May not". Google wouldn't want to indemnify for-profit uses and open themselves up to being sued for loss of profits over downtime. Let's wait to read the fine print in the contract.
If I had an electric car, most of its power would come from hydroelectric power.
Me too, but that hydro power would be taken then away from people who would make up the lack with coal power because that's what they have. Have I saved carbon atoms from being freed into the atmosphere they were captured from long ago? No.
With enough electrical energy we could convert to a hydrogen/oxygen economy, rather than a carbon-based one. There are some issues though, like the Hindenburg. It turns out that Hydrogen in a normal Earthlike atmosphere is explosive. Also, it wants to be a gas rather than a liquid, which limits its utility. And as a gas, it passes freely through any known material at room temperature because hydrogen2 molecules are as small as molecules get.
And then there's the whole "we get half of our electrical energy from coal" thing, and the conversion losses.
Unless we get some good watts from some other source, your electric hybrid is likely generating more CO2 than my Chevy truck.
**for completeness, we might also consider the distribution of the heat between the surface and the molten core, but to be fair, other than the trivial amount of geothermal energy we use, there's a negligible amount to think about here.
Well thanks at least for including it for completeness, since that one source exceeds our current electrical energy needs for the next thousand years with current technology - by which time technology may have advanced a wee bit. The Yellowstone Caldera by itself throws off more thermal energy each minute than, converted to electrical energy, the world requires. And cooling that damned thing might be in our best interest since it's likely to bury 60% of the US in ash someday - again, as it has many times before.
Solar is great too, and can also be baseload power with a big enough heatsink - or balanced with geothermal plants that produce on demand solar and wind can use geothermal for a heatsink / corrector for low/no production. Geothermal plants can with slant drilling occupy a tiny surface space and tap a vast region, and can be baseload power as well as a peak power source.
There are a lot of other sources we aren't using right now. Petroleum refineries throw off a lot of waste heat, as do pulp mills, organic composting, server farms, volcanos, iron and aluminum and glass refineries. Any place there is a reliable significant thermal delta is an opportunity to reap electrical power, and the question is whether or not it can be done economically. As science progresses the delta and size of the installation becomes smaller. It's not as much "geothermal" as it is "thermal delta" electrical power.
There is no reason not to use both solar and geothermal to diminish our dependence on oil.
Nuclear works on thermal deltas too, but doesn't exploit them enough. Spent fuels, for example, heat their pools for a decade before they're considered "cool" enough to put into permanent storage (should any ever come available). That's a waste heat that's dissipated by evaporation (phase change) of water rather than claiming it as electrical power through modern energy capture technologies. Given modern technologies the spent fuel might give more electrical power than the reactor if it were exploited. I have issues with the whole "we don't have to take the trash out" mentality of nuclear proponents, but I have no problem with making the most of what they do.
We need to come to grips with the idea that "a big enough thermal delta is an electrical energy source." And then moderate the "Big enough" term with advances in technology. That's the ultimate recycling: finding utility for the thermal energy we are now throwing away.
"Some politician." That's how you dismiss the prime minister of Japan, who flew in a helicopter over a nuclear plant while it was melting down to give courage to the men working there? I'm curious... what do you do for a living?
The alternative being to keep overflowing our capacity to store spent fuel until something really bad happens to it. Come on now, if the people involved are smart enough and responsible enough to handle this stuff at all, they must be smart and responsible enough to take out the trash afterward. If they aren't that responsible we ought not let them play with this stuff. It is not reasonable to demand nuclear power without waste disposal.
The Japanese Prime Minister at the time, Naoto Kan said that the risk of cascading failures of multiple plants could have led to half of Japan's surface area becoming uninhabitable, and that this was an unacceptable risk.
Unless "cycled out" is code for "stored in the back yard" no, it's not. Nuclear is touted as cheap energy, but until we have a plan for permanent waste disposal we actually have no idea what it costs. And that fuel in the back yard can be far more dangerous than even new fuel.
Break down the one old reactor with the most spent fuel, and dispose of all the waste including the spent fuel. In return you can have two shiny new reactors of the most modern design. Repeat.
The proportions of the iPad are modeled after the Parthenon's "Golden Rectangle", itself derived from prior art.
The OS supports it, and if somebody else wants to make a tablet with SD card, fine.
Don't worry. There will be plenty to put under the tree for Chrismas.
If you include SDCard you have to support vFAT. If you support vFAT you have to pay Microsoft. Microsoft wants to "F'ing kill Google." You can see where that might be a problem.