You reduce it in one place and increase it in another. Lighting is less power intensive now but desktop computers aren't. Neither are large high-refresh rate LCDs for that matter although Plasma would be worse.
Actually we could replace 25-30% of the cars on the road with electrics without increasing electricity production at all. You would be surprised at the amount of baseload electricity that gets produced produced in the nighttime that gets wasted.
In case you didn't get it SpaceX is a NASA contractor in a flight like this. Ask NASA why they are letting Nanoracks do it. I know Nanoracks is suppose to work with commercial operations. But I wonder if something like this was in the menu...
Tiangong? They are waiting for their new launchers to come online to do the bigger version. Wait until Long March 5 becomes operational. It's been delayed a bit.
The Chinese themselves see space technology as in the military sphere. The launchers are controlled by the Army. The satellites are considered defense projects. Don't assume they have a concept of civilian uses of spaces like you do.
Not for long... Japan makes better high-tech machines and machine tools than Germany. The USA often makes cheaper machines and can actually out-compete them in some segments like heavy machinery. Germany typically sells highly conservative designs which Just Work (TM) with powerful branding. That's their operating motto. Of course that only applies until they actually get some competition at it. Once the Chinese improve their quality control they are going to be dead in the water. Don't assume it won't happen. It already happened in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. China is next. At one time Infineon (division of Siemens) was a major DRAM manufacturer. Where are they now? Dead. Samsung and Hynix control the market. The Chinese are spending a lot of money in reverse engineering propulsion technology. Including German diesel engines. It's only a question of time. It may take a decade but will probably happen before that.
Heck if it wasn't for protectionism in the automotive market in Europe the Japanese (e.g. Toyota) would have killed the German automotive industry by now.
Windows Mobile was crap but had plenty of apps. The UI was putrid and the APIs were retarded but you could find apps for basically everything because it was backwards compatible waaaay back.
Windows Phone 7 broke backwards compatibility with Windows Mobile. Then Windows Phone 8 broke backwards compatibility with Windows Phone 7.
So basically Microsoft had like no application developers for their platform in the end. The ones that existed only made apps because Microsoft (and Nokia) flooded them with cash to do it.
You are ignoring all the Nokia patents Microsoft got in the process. The target was never the manufacturing plants, nor the software, nor even the R&D staff.
The main issues with Symbian was that it was a really ancient OS with a cumbersome low-level API. A lot of application back then for mobile were also written in Java ME which had all sorts of performance issues.
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Don't worry. They'll get coal and natural gas like they deserve.
You reduce it in one place and increase it in another. Lighting is less power intensive now but desktop computers aren't. Neither are large high-refresh rate LCDs for that matter although Plasma would be worse.
I think Google Maps started at Google. But they integrated other functionality later.
You are correct that YouTube was purchased.
I meant General Electric. Gah.
It might grow into a Generic Electric conglomerate model though. Conglomerates seldom end well as it's easy to lose corporate focus.
It was in the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car". Accurate enough for you?
So they are using more electric power but more of it comes from out of state. The energy mix is changing from Coal and Nuclear to Natural Gas.
I still don't think the amount of available peak generation capacity to power electric vehicles changed tremendously though.
In Estonia the minimum wage and cost of living is also lower. I bet the vodka is cheaper too.
You don't want a person driving the taxi. You want a robot slave.
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Seems portable enough to me.
Those places usually have decent public transport though.
Facebook was founded in 2004. So what?
The $4.9 billion includes SpaceX and SolarCity as well. It also includes loans which have been paid back.
I don't see you pointing to any sources either. Especially for your claimed decrease in electrical capacity.
PG&E made those statistics for California back when the EV-1 was being planned in the 1990s.
Actually we could replace 25-30% of the cars on the road with electrics without increasing electricity production at all. You would be surprised at the amount of baseload electricity that gets produced produced in the nighttime that gets wasted.
You can recompile if you use Linux with OSS.
In case you didn't get it SpaceX is a NASA contractor in a flight like this. Ask NASA why they are letting Nanoracks do it. I know Nanoracks is suppose to work with commercial operations. But I wonder if something like this was in the menu...
Tiangong? They are waiting for their new launchers to come online to do the bigger version. Wait until Long March 5 becomes operational. It's been delayed a bit.
The Chinese themselves see space technology as in the military sphere. The launchers are controlled by the Army. The satellites are considered defense projects. Don't assume they have a concept of civilian uses of spaces like you do.
Not for long... Japan makes better high-tech machines and machine tools than Germany. The USA often makes cheaper machines and can actually out-compete them in some segments like heavy machinery. Germany typically sells highly conservative designs which Just Work (TM) with powerful branding. That's their operating motto. Of course that only applies until they actually get some competition at it. Once the Chinese improve their quality control they are going to be dead in the water. Don't assume it won't happen. It already happened in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. China is next. At one time Infineon (division of Siemens) was a major DRAM manufacturer. Where are they now? Dead. Samsung and Hynix control the market. The Chinese are spending a lot of money in reverse engineering propulsion technology. Including German diesel engines. It's only a question of time. It may take a decade but will probably happen before that.
Heck if it wasn't for protectionism in the automotive market in Europe the Japanese (e.g. Toyota) would have killed the German automotive industry by now.
The guy who started the decline, Nokia CEO Elop, was a transplant from Microsoft. Microsoft knifed Nokia. Simple as that.
Windows Mobile was crap but had plenty of apps. The UI was putrid and the APIs were retarded but you could find apps for basically everything because it was backwards compatible waaaay back.
Windows Phone 7 broke backwards compatibility with Windows Mobile. Then Windows Phone 8 broke backwards compatibility with Windows Phone 7.
So basically Microsoft had like no application developers for their platform in the end. The ones that existed only made apps because Microsoft (and Nokia) flooded them with cash to do it.
The plan was basically to provide QT on both platforms and you could retarget to the platform you wanted.
Even today Tizen and Sailfish use QT.
You are ignoring all the Nokia patents Microsoft got in the process. The target was never the manufacturing plants, nor the software, nor even the R&D staff.
The main issues with Symbian was that it was a really ancient OS with a cumbersome low-level API. A lot of application back then for mobile were also written in Java ME which had all sorts of performance issues.