Such a storm would (and did) destroy other kinds of power plants.
My guess is the author feels those other plants DESERVED getting destroyed, and without the green angle there is really not much of a story here.
I'd rather be asking why they are bothering to have cooling towers, and perhaps even why they are bothering to re-inject the water at all. The Island gets 200 inches of rainfall every month, and twice that in their summer months, and its sitting in the middle of the ocean. If it was still felt that injection was necessary, just inject rainwater and dispense with the cooling towers.
It won't matter how fast you get the plant back on line, because all the transmission facilities are torn down. This is the greater loss, yet it seems mentioned more in passing. I rather suspect those will be put back up on poles and towers rather than taking the opportunity to bury a such of the local grid as possible. The lesson will have to be re-learned.
Really? Because the story more or less proves (inspite of its hate mongering) that Viable wind and viable Solar can spring up with out Government picking winners.
The clowns in Congress can't even keep the streets paved. Don't look to them for a solution to energy. The best you can hope for is that they do nothing and let industry develop viable solutions.
But something funny has happened to renewables that major power companies and their Republican allies didn't see coming. Over the past two years, the solar industry has skyrocketed, with one new solar unit installed every four minutes in the US, according to the renewable energy research group Greentech Media. The price of photovoltaic panels has fallen 62 percent since January 2011.
Why is this story so full of anti-republican spin, when the facts so exactly vindicate the conservative and republican view?
The huge government subsidies proved to be a total flop. Private industry found the best solar and best wind solutions and put them into production.
The Conservatives were right all along. After the government plans collapse, with 500 million dollar loses, the hands off approach delivers a workable solution.
Several companies are also working full steam (pun intended) ahead on Mini and Micro-Nuclear that can be build for 100 million (less than a small shopping mall).
It appears this whole story is somehow about spewing hate more than shedding any light on the sustainable power developments.
Its because you are having trouble hearing. I once had an employee who talked at the top of his lungs on the phone, land line. I ordered him an amplify phone receiver, and the difference was like night an day. He was slowly going deaf, and didn't realize it.
If planes required ear buds, there would be a lot more peaceful flights. But you know that won't happen.
standard cabin noise covers up much conversational noise, yet people with cellphones pressed to their ears in that environment somehow do not feel the need to speak louder to compensate.
And right there you have the crux of the problem. This guy does not understand human nature. When people can't hear, they shout.
Without a headset requirement, there will be shouting. And most phone speakers are so weak you have trouble hearing in even a slightly loud environment. People will resort to the speaker phone function and then you get to listen to both sides of every conversation at once.
The best way to get people to talk softer is to require them to use earbuds or headsets.
Well if the on-board femtocell repeaters work well enough, you won't have people shouting into their phones, other than to overcome cabin/engine noise. I could see requiring earbuds, (and who wouldn't want that anyway). With ear buds, you can carry on a conversation just as quietly as talking between people sitting adjacent.
But it requires a good connection. I rather suspect the airlines will put in repeaters than promptly price it out of most people's comfort zone.
The most annoying thing would be people putting it on speaker phone so they could check something on their calendar while they talk. Gurrrrrr!
This article described interbreeding between several (at least 3) different sub-specie. They were obviously close enough to interbreed and produce viable offspring.
That's not that uncommon with closely related species. And these were closely related back at that time. Evidence of the survives in the Gene pool today.
Look, this was only 30,000 years ago. Some fragments of oral history extend back that far (although time gets pretty muddled in oral history).
This isn't the first scientific study that showed homo sapiens and neanderthal may have interbred. One wonders about whether this knowledge was passed down in legend and incorporated in ancient texts.
No, they didn't hack Safari. The put a cookie on your phone, just like every other cookie. Safari, unlike other browsers, blocks cookies from ad networks like Google’s. But Google had been exploiting a loophole to avoid the block, install cookies and track Safari users to show them personalized ads. It was a BUG in Safari. It was not a hack in any sense.
Except that the assassination doesn't actually have to take place. Merely offering money to such is illegal. Even if no money has actually changed hands yet.
I thought it was obvious, but the majority of congress critters were unaware of how pervasive NSA spying is. A number of them were shocked to learn how powerful NSA has grown. It's not even really clear that the committee members responsible for national security understood.
Actually, a larger number of them are out there backing the NSA Spying to the hilt. Any Congressman other than a first term greenhorn already voted for most of these measures and has an ass to protect.
But I'm also sure the misspelling grabbed ColdWetDog's eyeballs and bitchslapped them so hard that was necessary to triple read the post just to extract any meaning, while at the same time choking back a guffaw.
I can't believe this is being seriously considred..?!?!
WTF is in charge of the US with respect to these things?
Are we allowed to put these same type of things on Russian soil too?
The US has the same types of facilities in lots of different places, but not in Russia. The flight paths of the satellites are tracked by dedicated U.S. Air Force monitoring stations in Hawaii, Kwajalein Atoll, Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Cape Canaveral, along with shared NGA monitor stations operated in England, Argentina, Ecuador, Bahrain, Australia and Washington DC
These stations provide correction to the satellites, (internal clocks and ephemeris data) as each passes overhead, and thereby improves the accuracy.
Having them on US Soil isn't as bad as you might think. It subjects them to US control, Monitoring, and even taking them down should the situation warrant. It also makes GLONASS more useful/accurate in the US. (Many mobile phones can use GLONASS today). No way would the Russian's be allowed to put up a black-box installation. We would insist on knowing everything about what is going on in there).
If you have a cold war outlook on Russia, just remember the old adage of keeping your Friends close and your Enemies closer.
It seems unnecessary if you ask me. But then Russia doesn't have that many friends or wide spread bases for this type of installation in the western hemisphere these days. Cuba, and maybe one or two central american countries might be willing.
It also seems odd, that the CIA would let Obama would hand this to the Russians just to prop up his image. They probably have enough goods on him to prevent it. I doubt the American people would stand for it anyway, and Obama would be forced to tuck tail and run away from it.
Unlocked bootloader is not the same as network unlocked, unfortunately.
True, although Google is slowly repackaging Android such that you can update things without waiting for the carriers, and as soon as they complete this process by kicking the radio and screen drivers outside the kernel you will be able to do this easier.
(It was only desperation that got them into that mess of monolithic software loads in the first place. The damage they had to do to linux while shoehorning it into Android was mostly in destroying Linux's hard won kernel packaging.)
Right now Cyanogenmod has to tiptoe around a bit to avoid pissing off the patent trolls that own the radio drivers when they complete replace everything else, but attempt to leave your radios intact.
Unless, of course, you are posting from some alternate dimension in which no one needs or wants profits. How does everyone eat over there? You should share your secrets with us!
Its easy. When Mom stomps twice on the floor above his basement lair, it means dinner is ready.
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Actually, babies are amazingly resilient. After all, they are entrusted to incompetent, clueless, self centered, young, just-barely adults, and seem to survive at alarming rates.
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Such a storm would (and did) destroy other kinds of power plants.
My guess is the author feels those other plants DESERVED getting destroyed, and without the green angle there is really not much of a story here.
I'd rather be asking why they are bothering to have cooling towers, and perhaps even why they are bothering to re-inject the water at all. The Island gets 200 inches of rainfall every month, and twice that in their summer months, and its sitting in the middle of the ocean. If it was still felt that injection was necessary, just inject rainwater and dispense with the cooling towers.
It won't matter how fast you get the plant back on line, because all the transmission facilities are torn down. This is the greater loss, yet it seems mentioned more in passing. I rather suspect those will be put back up on poles and towers rather than taking the opportunity to bury a such of the local grid as possible. The lesson will have to be re-learned.
Wrong again.
The grants failed, the companies failed.
But cheap overseas manufacture succeeded.
Really?
Because the story more or less proves (inspite of its hate mongering) that Viable wind and viable Solar can spring up with out Government picking winners.
There are at least 12 companies working on Micro and Mini Nuclear plants, some of which can be trucked to a city, set into semi-buried location and trucked out again when their fuel or life is exhausted.
The clowns in Congress can't even keep the streets paved. Don't look to them for a solution to energy. The best you can hope for is that they do nothing and let industry develop viable solutions.
But something funny has happened to renewables that major power companies and their Republican allies didn't see coming. Over the past two years, the solar industry has skyrocketed, with one new solar unit installed every four minutes in the US, according to the renewable energy research group Greentech Media. The price of photovoltaic panels has fallen 62 percent since January 2011.
Why is this story so full of anti-republican spin, when the facts so exactly vindicate the conservative and republican view?
The huge government subsidies proved to be a total flop.
Private industry found the best solar and best wind solutions and put them into production.
The Conservatives were right all along. After the government plans collapse, with 500 million dollar loses, the hands off approach delivers a workable solution.
Several companies are also working full steam (pun intended) ahead on Mini and Micro-Nuclear that can be build for 100 million (less than a small shopping mall).
It appears this whole story is somehow about spewing hate more than shedding any light on the sustainable power developments.
Its because you are having trouble hearing.
I once had an employee who talked at the top of his lungs on the phone, land line.
I ordered him an amplify phone receiver, and the difference was like night an day. He was slowly going deaf, and didn't realize it.
If planes required ear buds, there would be a lot more peaceful flights. But you know that won't happen.
standard cabin noise covers up much conversational noise, yet people with cellphones pressed to their ears in that environment somehow do not feel the need to speak louder to compensate.
And right there you have the crux of the problem. This guy does not understand human nature.
When people can't hear, they shout.
Without a headset requirement, there will be shouting.
And most phone speakers are so weak you have trouble hearing in even a slightly loud environment. People will resort to the speaker phone function and then you get to listen to both sides of every conversation at once.
The best way to get people to talk softer is to require them to use earbuds or headsets.
Well if the on-board femtocell repeaters work well enough, you won't have people shouting into their phones, other than to overcome cabin/engine noise. I could see requiring earbuds, (and who wouldn't want that anyway).
With ear buds, you can carry on a conversation just as quietly as talking between people sitting adjacent.
But it requires a good connection. I rather suspect the airlines will put in repeaters than promptly price it out of most people's comfort zone.
The most annoying thing would be people putting it on speaker phone so they could check something on their calendar while they talk. Gurrrrrr!
Apparently they interbred quite a bit and continued for thousands of years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25020958
People roamed in those times, as settled farming hadn't come around yet.
Did you read the same article I did?
This article described interbreeding between several (at least 3) different sub-specie. They were obviously close enough to interbreed and produce viable offspring.
That's not that uncommon with closely related species. And these were closely related back at that time. Evidence of the survives in the Gene pool today.
Look, this was only 30,000 years ago. Some fragments of oral history extend back that far (although time gets pretty muddled in oral history).
This isn't the first scientific study that showed homo sapiens and neanderthal may have interbred. One wonders about whether this knowledge was passed down in legend and incorporated in ancient texts.
Ok, Julian, it's safe to come out now. Those bullies are all gone now.
Milk and cookies over here, won't you come out now?
Right.
If it's available to everyone and you don't need to brut force a password or steal one, it's Dice's fault.
No, they didn't hack Safari.
The put a cookie on your phone, just like every other cookie.
Safari, unlike other browsers, blocks cookies from ad networks like Google’s. But Google had been exploiting a loophole to avoid the block, install cookies and track Safari users to show them personalized ads. It was a BUG in Safari. It was not a hack in any sense.
4 hours worth of revenue, someone figured out.
Tax write off, cost of doing business, and all the money went to the lawyers.
You say it is inferior because it is inferior, which is somewhat circular.
Perhaps you can explain, or post a link?
By having Russian stations here we can order them shut down or seize them or spoof them far easier than having them in Cuba.
(Not saying I want them here, just playing devil's advocat).
Except that the assassination doesn't actually have to take place.
Merely offering money to such is illegal. Even if no money has actually changed hands yet.
It is pretty straight forward how it will work.
1) People send in money.
2) After a while the site closes down.
3) Person that put up the site earns a nice profit.
Strike number 3, an replace it with:
3) Three letter agency that put up the site knocks on your door.
Seriously, how could you not consider this might be a honeypot for kooks?
I thought it was obvious, but the majority of congress critters were unaware of how pervasive NSA spying is. A number of them were shocked to learn how powerful NSA has grown. It's not even really clear that the committee members responsible for national security understood.
Actually, a larger number of them are out there backing the NSA Spying to the hilt. Any Congressman other than a first term greenhorn already voted for most of these measures and has an ass to protect.
The rest of them don't want to have to deal with Pelosi.
I'm sure the point was not missed.
But I'm also sure the misspelling grabbed ColdWetDog's eyeballs and bitchslapped them so hard that was necessary to triple read the post just to extract any meaning, while at the same time choking back a guffaw.
I can't believe this is being seriously considred..?!?!
WTF is in charge of the US with respect to these things?
Are we allowed to put these same type of things on Russian soil too?
The US has the same types of facilities in lots of different places, but not in Russia.
The flight paths of the satellites are tracked by dedicated U.S. Air Force monitoring stations in Hawaii, Kwajalein Atoll, Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Cape Canaveral, along with shared NGA monitor stations operated in England, Argentina, Ecuador, Bahrain, Australia and Washington DC
These stations provide correction to the satellites, (internal clocks and ephemeris data) as each passes overhead, and thereby improves the accuracy.
Having them on US Soil isn't as bad as you might think. It subjects them to US control, Monitoring, and even taking them down should the situation warrant. It also makes GLONASS more useful/accurate in the US. (Many mobile phones can use GLONASS today). No way would the Russian's be allowed to put up a black-box installation. We would insist on knowing everything about what is going on in there).
If you have a cold war outlook on Russia, just remember the old adage of keeping your Friends close and your Enemies closer.
It seems unnecessary if you ask me. But then Russia doesn't have that many friends or wide spread bases for this type of installation in the western hemisphere these days. Cuba, and maybe one or two central american countries might be willing.
It also seems odd, that the CIA would let Obama would hand this to the Russians just to prop up his image. They probably have enough goods on him to prevent it. I doubt the American people would stand for it anyway, and Obama would be forced to tuck tail and run away from it.
They didn't say that yet, but they have started moving many other key parts out of the monolithic kernel.
Unlocked bootloader is not the same as network unlocked, unfortunately.
True, although Google is slowly repackaging Android such that you can update things without waiting for the
carriers, and as soon as they complete this process by kicking the radio and screen drivers outside the kernel
you will be able to do this easier.
(It was only desperation that got them into that mess of monolithic software loads in the first place. The damage
they had to do to linux while shoehorning it into Android was mostly in destroying Linux's hard won kernel packaging.)
Right now Cyanogenmod has to tiptoe around a bit to avoid pissing off the patent trolls that own the
radio drivers when they complete replace everything else, but attempt to leave your radios intact.
Unless, of course, you are posting from some alternate dimension in which no one needs or wants profits. How does everyone eat over there? You should share your secrets with us!
Its easy. When Mom stomps twice on the floor above his basement lair, it means dinner is ready.
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/15/137859024/rethinking-sids-many-deaths-no-longer-a-mystery
SIDS, pardon the pun, has been studied to death.
Newborns are the most fragile thing on earth, and every parent knows it. If a device helps showing a pattern, good!
Actually, babies are amazingly resilient. After all, they are entrusted to incompetent, clueless, self centered, young, just-barely adults, and seem to survive at alarming rates.
Slashdot has always been Thus.
It has always been a crows sourced link repository. It was never intended as a publisher of first record.
As for you seldom coming here, I see you posting every day on every story.