Estonia? It's a tax haven just like Luxembourg. It's a place where Finns (and the rest of Scandinavia) hide their cash so they escape Finnish taxes. Sure you can do something like that in a country with 1 million people inside a system like the Eurozone. Not in a large country.
I remember EEStor a couple of years back. There are a lot of people who make wild claims of cost effectiveness or performance based on laboratory tests that don't scale up to a production system in actual practice. I reserve judgement until I actually see something for sale.
AFAIK the cheapest batteries right now are flow-batteries and they cost like twice per kWhr as much as what EOS claims their battery will cost.
Wind is ok assuming you have a lot of pumped-storage hydro capacity around. Take Denmark. They use Norwegian pumped-storage hydro to store excess generation and smooth shortfalls. If you do not have a lot of pumped-storage hydro around then its a bad idea to have a lot of wind generation. The alternative is nuclear. Barring that the alternative is coal. As usual.
Wind power. Also natural gas from the Magreb (think Algeria and perhaps Libya) to cover wind variability.
It will lead to higher consumer prices. The advantages? Someone will get paid a lot of money to erect windmills and others will get paid to rent space so people can erect windmills on top. Probably farmers. France has a lot of farmers.
The end user of electricity (which is basically everyone) be damned.
When I went to France I noticed a lot of people use resistive heating because the electricity is cheap. If a lot of people switched to central heating the country could probably be more energetically efficient. Somehow I suspect once they close the nuclear power plants the electricity prices will go up. A lot.
From what I get they were good at selling the product. Much of what Steve Jobs was good at. The problem was they had no technical sense of things whatsoever and her husband was the only person there who actually got it.
Steve Jobs might not have be able to do anything by himself but at least he had some technical sense of what was good. Even if he did some design blunders occasionally. He was also smart enough not to kick Woz out in the early days and surrounded himself with strong technical teams.
No the correct solution is to allow users to configure those aspects of the driver on a per app basis while shipping some pre done profiles for some applications.
Of course it runs much slower. With the kind of density the brain has if you increased the clockspeed a lot you couldn't even cool down the brain properly.
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More supermen:
http://spectator.sme.sk/c/2000...
Right...
http://tv.sme.sk/v/30393/v-bra...
Slovaks are supermen.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/tax_evas...
Estonia? It's a tax haven just like Luxembourg. It's a place where Finns (and the rest of Scandinavia) hide their cash so they escape Finnish taxes. Sure you can do something like that in a country with 1 million people inside a system like the Eurozone. Not in a large country.
Solar is still not cost competitive. Not if you include the cost of installation and inverters.
The only way it is competitive is with subsidies.
It makes sense if you are too far away from the power grid but the overall system costs need to go down a lot more.
I remember EEStor a couple of years back. There are a lot of people who make wild claims of cost effectiveness or performance based on laboratory tests that don't scale up to a production system in actual practice. I reserve judgement until I actually see something for sale.
AFAIK the cheapest batteries right now are flow-batteries and they cost like twice per kWhr as much as what EOS claims their battery will cost.
Increased access to Maghreb natural gas is considered an important factor in the EU plans for future energy development in Italy and France.
We have been waiting over a century for this. Maybe it will happen but I won't bet on it.
Wind is ok assuming you have a lot of pumped-storage hydro capacity around. Take Denmark. They use Norwegian pumped-storage hydro to store excess generation and smooth shortfalls. If you do not have a lot of pumped-storage hydro around then its a bad idea to have a lot of wind generation. The alternative is nuclear. Barring that the alternative is coal. As usual.
Wind power. Also natural gas from the Magreb (think Algeria and perhaps Libya) to cover wind variability.
It will lead to higher consumer prices. The advantages? Someone will get paid a lot of money to erect windmills and others will get paid to rent space so people can erect windmills on top. Probably farmers. France has a lot of farmers.
The end user of electricity (which is basically everyone) be damned.
Thatcher economic politics at their best. Rather unsurprisingly you need government investment to be a top dog in nuclear.
That sounds brilliant actually.
When I went to France I noticed a lot of people use resistive heating because the electricity is cheap. If a lot of people switched to central heating the country could probably be more energetically efficient. Somehow I suspect once they close the nuclear power plants the electricity prices will go up. A lot.
I never heard of him using it. What I did hear was that he did some stupid vegetarian diet. I wouldn't use acuptuncture to treat cancer.
The WHO considers the use of acupuncture is acceptable in the treatment and management of pain. Everything else is basically quackery.
The Woz always gets less attention than the Steve Jobs of this world.
From what I get they were good at selling the product. Much of what Steve Jobs was good at. The problem was they had no technical sense of things whatsoever and her husband was the only person there who actually got it.
Steve Jobs might not have be able to do anything by himself but at least he had some technical sense of what was good. Even if he did some design blunders occasionally. He was also smart enough not to kick Woz out in the early days and surrounded himself with strong technical teams.
I had never heard of it before. People talk about the TRS-80, the Atari 800, Commodore 64, Sinclair, I even heard of the Dragon, Oric. Never this one.
Then again it seems to be a lot older. From the era of the Altair 8800 so its little wonder I never heard about it.
No the correct solution is to allow users to configure those aspects of the driver on a per app basis while shipping some pre done profiles for some applications.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech...
http://thesis.library.caltech....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Purchasing gold bullion doesn't require paying VAT either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So it makes sense to do the same for Bitcoin.
...to fix the drone problem.
http://gizmodo.com/5955042/sou...
It might require some software changes though.
Same thing that killed Altavista. A search site is only as useful as long as it can resist this.
Of course it runs much slower. With the kind of density the brain has if you increased the clockspeed a lot you couldn't even cool down the brain properly.
You can always give them a bottle of whiskey instead of cash.