A hurricane destroying such a windmill would need to be at least two times stronger than the strongest hurricane we have on records
Yes, I'm just providing an artificial example of a short life for the windmills, but they still beat tiny diesel things even with such a short life.
I really womder why the power that wind plant is generating is so expensive
Yes, retail price not price of production. In Australia for an example we've got some of the cheapest to produce non-hydro electricity in the world but the retail price is close to the most expensive - a consequence of having the regulators profit from the industry they are supposed to regulate. That is one of the things making household solar very popular with in some cases pay back times under five years.
You forgot the cable to the mainland to sell electricity to other folks. Having an order of magnitude more customers spreads those costs a bit more. What are a mere 1800 customers going to do with all those MW anyway?
It could be argued that linking to the grid would have the same effect of driving down the costs for those customers but there hasn't been enough incentive until now to build the link.
Only as dumb as more than 99% of Facebook users. Remember we used to tell kids not to give out their real name on the net? Then Facebook happened and what used to appear to be dumb is now the default. It would be truly ironic for you to post what you've written above if your name really is Matthew Ventura. Even more so if I was really the software dbaseIII that had become self aware over the years instead of someone taking the common form of it's name as a handle.
One notable "doxy", and I think she fits the term well by the old definition too, is the "journalist" responsible for both revealing that ghosts really exist with Amityville Horror and pushing the Darl McBride (SCO) vs linux line, is Ms O'Gara who revealed the home address of the founder of Groklaw. Her morals were definitely for hire so I think "doxy" fits. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/13/138210/sco-asked-ogara-to-smear-groklaw
You mean like screaming about evolution being not true?
It's the American way. You can't have hard working educated clergy like Medel trumping those cocaine sniffing lay preachers who were "born again" after a life of debauchery. That goes against the grain of minimum work for maximum profit and is downright ungodly. There used to be another American way.
The entire concept of "SJW" as an insult is ridiculous to start with and just makes me think of angry virgins who wonder why the "nice guy", or even just the guy who gets out of the basement, sometimes gets the girl and not them. The term at least serves a useful role as an angry idiot detector.
Among others, the idiots that opposed commercial development of solar at every turn and allowed China to corner the market with American developed technology. You would have noticed them, and others, so what is your motivation for playing the "stupid" card here? Is it a part of a joke that's unclear or something more sinister?
You can bet that the 30MW wind plant is a lot more expensive than the diesel generators were
Not over the long term including running costs. Let's assume a massive hurricane trashes those windmills in a decade and compare it with a decade worth of fuel - even with that artificial constraint the windmills are likely to win against tiny little things that make as much heat and noise as electricity. We're not comparing with 500MW of coal or 1GW of nuke in such a situation so anything without a lot of fuel per MW/h wins.
In some places even a cartoon of an imaginary person counts as child porn and people have been jailed for such images. Personally I think that's going too far and we should be worrying about crimes committed against children instead of being thought police. Go after child molesters first - there's been more effort going after Kim Dotcom by playing the child porn hosting card than going after a convicted child rapist like Polanski.
Substitute "not available at Walmart yet" for "bleeding edge". Make more sense now with a new context? It takes a while to go from lab to cheap commodity - far less time from lab to niche product.
Since I'd already addressed it before your post - most definitely. All that time wasted on a throwaway aside that had already been pointed out as such AND SETTING ME UP AS A STRAWMAN instead of a productive discussion. A complete and utter waste of time that just makes you look like a vindictive child instead of whatever you really are. Let's just put that behind us and take what you've written about trains as read.
It should be noted that our electric light rail are almost all modern
Sorry to point this out again - but mass transit is an example of an industry that the USA just is not interested in dealing with apart from buying stuff from elsewhere (eg. importing German trams/light rail for that modern stuff) and my point was that many others are heading that way unless there is a focus on quality and/or technological progress instead of mere hope and greed. That's the only reason why I mentioned trains as an example. Can we get back to that point or do you want to continue going off on a tangent and pretending that I'm leading you there?
With respect, it takes more time to plan out production lines for an economical design than it does to work out how to make a single reliable item that has to be hand crafted at great expense.
It took nearly that long for the current battery tech to leave the lab and be a commodity, so bleeding edge satellite batteries from 20 years ago may compare directly to ten year old or maybe even five year old laptop batteries.
obscene amount of CPU time is uses for doing just about anything.
Yes, the obscene amount on a Nokia N900 phone, on an older Kindle, on a thin client, on a Pentium fucking 60 - maybe up to 5% of CPU at times. How is a modern system with GHz instead of 60 MHz and multiple cores going to cope? It's best to think before posting Mr AC.
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GTK+ has also been used as a strawman for X. The Wayland people have used the slow startup of the new gedit as their example of how X is slow, and they have used the network transparency problems with the new gtk+ to say that only "old" software does not spam the network with full sized bitmaps. I wish Wayland the best but the fanboys who pretend that the bar for it to reach is set low are hindering it.
Another factor is nearby gas wells have lowered the local water table recently which changes how seasonal thawing happens on the spot, so "warming" should be taken literally as a matter of local conditions instead of a knee jerk assumption that the observer was blaming it on global warming so must be burned as a witch.
because something exists and is important to niche users, it must not be true that it isn't used "a lot?" Huh?
If you read my earlier post (about "attacking obvious examples of abandoned industries") after writing all of that you must feel really stupid for wasting so much of your time:) You missed the obvious example AND got things wrong in your criticism when you got "hung up on absolutes" by taking it literally and not as an obvious example, Were you drunk? Also why all the anecdotal shit when you can look up freight numbers that will correct it anyway?
So how does that GFC revisionism, even if by some magic it happened to be true, justify your crack about an entire race being lazy? There is a problem here that you should be able to identify with a mirror.
If you are going to go that far back should I start mentioning slavery and some bad American management practices that demonstrate that it's sorely missed? Will that hold up enough of a mirror to show how stupid your above comments are?
The US financial system fucked up the world's economy and the Greek situation, Spanish situation, Irish situation etc is an echo of it (because they blew everything on GFC bailouts and the cupboard is now bare), yet you have the gall to blame it on some sort of racial stereotype that is the opposite of reality. Greeks are lazy? You need to get out of your gated community.
Hence my reply that witty doesn't do it anymore. Going with a group following a fad does. However not all fads are worthless and getting to max karma with dumb jokes like I did was a flaw in the previous system.
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I addressed that in another post. Before the island had excess generating capacity there was not enough incentive to link it to the grid.
Yes, I'm just providing an artificial example of a short life for the windmills, but they still beat tiny diesel things even with such a short life.
Yes, retail price not price of production. In Australia for an example we've got some of the cheapest to produce non-hydro electricity in the world but the retail price is close to the most expensive - a consequence of having the regulators profit from the industry they are supposed to regulate. That is one of the things making household solar very popular with in some cases pay back times under five years.
You forgot the cable to the mainland to sell electricity to other folks. Having an order of magnitude more customers spreads those costs a bit more. What are a mere 1800 customers going to do with all those MW anyway?
It could be argued that linking to the grid would have the same effect of driving down the costs for those customers but there hasn't been enough incentive until now to build the link.
Only as dumb as more than 99% of Facebook users.
Remember we used to tell kids not to give out their real name on the net? Then Facebook happened and what used to appear to be dumb is now the default.
It would be truly ironic for you to post what you've written above if your name really is Matthew Ventura.
Even more so if I was really the software dbaseIII that had become self aware over the years instead of someone taking the common form of it's name as a handle.
One notable "doxy", and I think she fits the term well by the old definition too, is the "journalist" responsible for both revealing that ghosts really exist with Amityville Horror and pushing the Darl McBride (SCO) vs linux line, is Ms O'Gara who revealed the home address of the founder of Groklaw. Her morals were definitely for hire so I think "doxy" fits.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/13/138210/sco-asked-ogara-to-smear-groklaw
It's the American way.
You can't have hard working educated clergy like Medel trumping those cocaine sniffing lay preachers who were "born again" after a life of debauchery. That goes against the grain of minimum work for maximum profit and is downright ungodly.
There used to be another American way.
The entire concept of "SJW" as an insult is ridiculous to start with and just makes me think of angry virgins who wonder why the "nice guy", or even just the guy who gets out of the basement, sometimes gets the girl and not them.
The term at least serves a useful role as an angry idiot detector.
Among others, the idiots that opposed commercial development of solar at every turn and allowed China to corner the market with American developed technology. You would have noticed them, and others, so what is your motivation for playing the "stupid" card here? Is it a part of a joke that's unclear or something more sinister?
Competing against a monopoly that has small and expensive to run generators gives those magic 40% numbers.
Not over the long term including running costs. Let's assume a massive hurricane trashes those windmills in a decade and compare it with a decade worth of fuel - even with that artificial constraint the windmills are likely to win against tiny little things that make as much heat and noise as electricity. We're not comparing with 500MW of coal or 1GW of nuke in such a situation so anything without a lot of fuel per MW/h wins.
Not so hard to reduce prices 40% when you are up against a local monopoly that has been gouging it's customers by ridiculous amounts.
In some places even a cartoon of an imaginary person counts as child porn and people have been jailed for such images.
Personally I think that's going too far and we should be worrying about crimes committed against children instead of being thought police. Go after child molesters first - there's been more effort going after Kim Dotcom by playing the child porn hosting card than going after a convicted child rapist like Polanski.
Substitute "not available at Walmart yet" for "bleeding edge". Make more sense now with a new context?
It takes a while to go from lab to cheap commodity - far less time from lab to niche product.
Since I'd already addressed it before your post - most definitely.
All that time wasted on a throwaway aside that had already been pointed out as such AND SETTING ME UP AS A STRAWMAN instead of a productive discussion. A complete and utter waste of time that just makes you look like a vindictive child instead of whatever you really are. Let's just put that behind us and take what you've written about trains as read.
Sorry to point this out again - but mass transit is an example of an industry that the USA just is not interested in dealing with apart from buying stuff from elsewhere (eg. importing German trams/light rail for that modern stuff) and my point was that many others are heading that way unless there is a focus on quality and/or technological progress instead of mere hope and greed. That's the only reason why I mentioned trains as an example. Can we get back to that point or do you want to continue going off on a tangent and pretending that I'm leading you there?
With respect, it takes more time to plan out production lines for an economical design than it does to work out how to make a single reliable item that has to be hand crafted at great expense.
It took nearly that long for the current battery tech to leave the lab and be a commodity, so bleeding edge satellite batteries from 20 years ago may compare directly to ten year old or maybe even five year old laptop batteries.
Yes, the obscene amount on a Nokia N900 phone, on an older Kindle, on a thin client, on a Pentium fucking 60 - maybe up to 5% of CPU at times. How is a modern system with GHz instead of 60 MHz and multiple cores going to cope?
It's best to think before posting Mr AC.
GTK+ has also been used as a strawman for X. The Wayland people have used the slow startup of the new gedit as their example of how X is slow, and they have used the network transparency problems with the new gtk+ to say that only "old" software does not spam the network with full sized bitmaps.
I wish Wayland the best but the fanboys who pretend that the bar for it to reach is set low are hindering it.
Another factor is nearby gas wells have lowered the local water table recently which changes how seasonal thawing happens on the spot, so "warming" should be taken literally as a matter of local conditions instead of a knee jerk assumption that the observer was blaming it on global warming so must be burned as a witch.
Why attack the aside anyway? Is the actual point too hard to deal with?
If you read my earlier post (about "attacking obvious examples of abandoned industries") after writing all of that you must feel really stupid for wasting so much of your time :)
You missed the obvious example AND got things wrong in your criticism when you got "hung up on absolutes" by taking it literally and not as an obvious example, Were you drunk?
Also why all the anecdotal shit when you can look up freight numbers that will correct it anyway?
So how does that GFC revisionism, even if by some magic it happened to be true, justify your crack about an entire race being lazy? There is a problem here that you should be able to identify with a mirror.
If you are going to go that far back should I start mentioning slavery and some bad American management practices that demonstrate that it's sorely missed? Will that hold up enough of a mirror to show how stupid your above comments are?
The US financial system fucked up the world's economy and the Greek situation, Spanish situation, Irish situation etc is an echo of it (because they blew everything on GFC bailouts and the cupboard is now bare), yet you have the gall to blame it on some sort of racial stereotype that is the opposite of reality. Greeks are lazy? You need to get out of your gated community.
In both cases it was listed as the most recent IE for Win7 - still just one click to infect all the users network drives.
Hence my reply that witty doesn't do it anymore. Going with a group following a fad does. However not all fads are worthless and getting to max karma with dumb jokes like I did was a flaw in the previous system.