Pretty well the rest can be laid at the feet of the house of Saud and us propping them up. Those fuckers are now financing ISIS/ISIL but we like them too much to ask them to stop.
The Shah was gone before Carter could do anything other than give him a place to hide, and Reagan came after Carter. As for Reagan, not even Republicans could stand him after part way into his second term. He was a pariah after what he did to the economy among other things, even though now he is revered as some sort of saint.
Silly, He couldn't have been traitorous as president
I bring to your attention King John, Magna Carta and how it's part of the foundation of the law of the USA. In fact a US president put a major part of it in modern terms "no man is above or below the law". Since divine right of kings and later presidents got thrown out they do not have unlimited power which was why there was so much sneaking about with Iran-Contra and selling weapons to Hezbolla less than a year after they had blown up more than one hundred US marines.
either the democrats do not want anyone to know
or they are neither utterly perfect or don't have the numbers to prevent an inquiry being a whitewash.
Insulation keeps water heated in the middle of the night hot until at least the middle of the next night, and you just need a tank big enough to hold what you use. As said above, a 1960s solution to what to do with all that spare base load power in the middle of the night instead of the expensive process of shutting coal fired units down at night to warm up again over several hours in the morning.
I had a Y2K bug introduced in 2008 in Macrovison's piece of shit "protection" software, flexlm, which stopped me running the software I had paid for because a perpetual licence was dated "00" and so was the year 2000. The phone support guy had never heard of the Y2K bug! It took a week and a half to sort out and meanwhile three people in the office had to work around it instead of using the software that was "protected". And people wonder why I prefer open source software.
Design things so that these systems are supply driven rather than demand run
1960 called and said something about reduced electricity rates at night and sending signals down the line to turn equipment off and on that is taking advantage of it. You pay industrial heating rates for electricity and you get it cheap but only get it at night.
Think about it - most industry runs when the sun in shining. Since thermal base load runs around the clock if it can we currently have cheaper energy rates at night to encourage using that up which is why usage doesn't drop towards zero at three in the morning, which it would do without that financial encouragement. So we could get a fairly big chunk (not all) of electricity requirements from solar thermal and photovoltaics without having to keep enough steam to run all night or huge batteries/pump storage whatever - although a mix of energy sources is far more sane.
However, if you lump burning coal to MAKE steel and similar things in with energy usage instead of just focusing on electricity generation it's not going to be replaced with solar. Sure, you can melt steel scrap in an arc furnace but to make steel from iron ore it's a chemical process and it's not just the heat that you want the coal for. China's vast appetite for imported coal at the moment is being used mainly for that and not just to produce electricity.
This sums up your approach of moving the goalposts from a simple case of wind or no wind to the graph that you do not understand:
ANSWER: Attempt to divert their attention.
Thank you for clearly outlining your method of attempting to refute my statement that the wind does not stop - goalpost moving. After all, what you were objecting to was my "The thing with wind, as any child who watches the TV weather knows, is that it is always blowing somewhere" comment. Why object to obvious reality in such a way? That's why I've been laughing at you all this time while trying to keep relatively polite and merely treat you like a very slow and disruptive student that should never have enroled.
It's getting there on the home scale merely due to massive price gouging by energy utilities with no sign of a halt to the increase in prices. We're heading for a crossover point even if batteries do not continue to drop in price.
There's also been stuff like solgel around for a while too which only needs temperatures available in domestic ovens. For now silicon still wins despite the massive energy input due to piggybacking on the huge economy of scale of semiconductor production. Vast amounts of energy consumed per ton ends up as hardly anything per square metre of very thin wafer.
Solar PV is perfect for areas that use a lot of air-conditioning
Which is a bit backwards IMHO since solar thermal is a damn good way to drive a big heat pump. Little ones not so much, but it would be perfect for large office buildings and shopping malls.
One thing that has been investigated is films that absorb and re-emit in wavelengths that photovoltaics can use. That way you could get better than 100% of what is available in a narrow band. Then of course there's the obvious of having some sort of cheap collector bigger than the area of the more expensive photovoltaics, for instance fresnel lenses.
You can say that about a lot of things, so the answer is just don't extrapolate to the point beyond where your model is useless due to noise being higher than likely signal. Such a thing should be obvious to anyone who thinks they know enough about modelling anything to comment on the subject. So Eric - science denier pushing politics or out of your depth?
In fact, there are multiple points on the charts that show high wind output during low energy usage
I suggest that you dedicate some time to learning what the graph you are using as a prop represents so that you can explain your imagined pattern well enough for others to notice it instead of wasting time here.
I'm discussing the combination of features, but yes, RDP, xrdp, NX and VNC are pretty much equivalent over congested links because they have the same underlying idea - screenscrape one way, input events the other and send as little as possible. Anything other than entire desktops is rare though which sucks and improving networks make the difference with X less noticable.
Come on now - you've had the graph you don't understand, the law that does not say what you pretend it does and despite thus not having a source that confirms your silly assertion you keep bleating for one from me - despite a wind chart effectively doing the job of indicating if there is wind or not. It is very clear where the bullshit is being sprayed from. Save me from utter losers that think politics trumps reality.
You don't have such an excuse for tilting at windmills. You are merely a well behaved sheep willing to deny reality for The Party like a good little useful idiot for Stalin. Truly pathetic, but you've certainly kept me feeling smug and superior for a few days now, so it was worth remaining polite. Did you really think your cut and paste tantrums would have any other effect other than to make others think you are worthless? "And yet it moves" is a good little quote to apply to your silly idea that the wind stops on a continent wide basis. Blind ideology does not trump reality and only provides the illusion of doing so when authoritarian politics is in play. This is supposed to be a technical site and not a wacko politics site that goes so far round the bend that it comes back around the corner as Stalinism, I suggest you continue pushing your devotional delusions among like minded people on a political site that caters to that.
Meant to be "not actually insane". I've been giving you the benefit of the doubt on so many things so long despite such a juvenile method of feigned mental illness to attack instead of discuss.
It's not a source - it's what you replied to with your various sidetracks into other issues. The depressing thing is that it has been long enough that you could have read enough to understand the factors behind the graph you used as a prop but have not chosen to do so. The other depressing thing is the feigned mental illness of the cut and paste repetitive post - come on now, you are not actually sane and older than two years old so you know better than to use silly tantrums to get what you want.
We had such things before the registry existed. It wouldn't work unless you input a word on page whatever of it's manual, a code on the box or some other secret outside of the file on the disk.
You'd think so, but it's pretty common to uninstall a broken program, then re-install it. Keeping the old parameter settings makes it easier (sometimes!) to re-install
Unless it's only broken due to registry settings that it follows as ordered even if they are stupid instructions. I think that's one is behind so many people advocating such extremes as a full OS reinstall every year or two, maybe longer on win7. Only a few applications and knowing enough to rip out the registry entries in such cases (I've had to do that far too many times for people and I'm a *nix guy when I work on computers) saves a full reinstall or falling back to an image.
Personally I see this as a failure of application programmers and testers to understand the platform they are working on than blaming it on Microsoft. The registry may be a stupid idea in some situations but it mostly works and it's nowhere near as stupid as those who write stuff to the registry without bothering to have a way of cleaning up afterwards.
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Pretty well the rest can be laid at the feet of the house of Saud and us propping them up. Those fuckers are now financing ISIS/ISIL but we like them too much to ask them to stop.
The Shah was gone before Carter could do anything other than give him a place to hide, and Reagan came after Carter.
As for Reagan, not even Republicans could stand him after part way into his second term. He was a pariah after what he did to the economy among other things, even though now he is revered as some sort of saint.
I bring to your attention King John, Magna Carta and how it's part of the foundation of the law of the USA. In fact a US president put a major part of it in modern terms "no man is above or below the law". Since divine right of kings and later presidents got thrown out they do not have unlimited power which was why there was so much sneaking about with Iran-Contra and selling weapons to Hezbolla less than a year after they had blown up more than one hundred US marines.
or they are neither utterly perfect or don't have the numbers to prevent an inquiry being a whitewash.
Insulation keeps water heated in the middle of the night hot until at least the middle of the next night, and you just need a tank big enough to hold what you use. As said above, a 1960s solution to what to do with all that spare base load power in the middle of the night instead of the expensive process of shutting coal fired units down at night to warm up again over several hours in the morning.
One of the reasons is cheaper night time electricity since not everything uses furnaces that take time to warm up.
I had a Y2K bug introduced in 2008 in Macrovison's piece of shit "protection" software, flexlm, which stopped me running the software I had paid for because a perpetual licence was dated "00" and so was the year 2000.
The phone support guy had never heard of the Y2K bug!
It took a week and a half to sort out and meanwhile three people in the office had to work around it instead of using the software that was "protected". And people wonder why I prefer open source software.
1960 called and said something about reduced electricity rates at night and sending signals down the line to turn equipment off and on that is taking advantage of it. You pay industrial heating rates for electricity and you get it cheap but only get it at night.
Think about it - most industry runs when the sun in shining. Since thermal base load runs around the clock if it can we currently have cheaper energy rates at night to encourage using that up which is why usage doesn't drop towards zero at three in the morning, which it would do without that financial encouragement. So we could get a fairly big chunk (not all) of electricity requirements from solar thermal and photovoltaics without having to keep enough steam to run all night or huge batteries/pump storage whatever - although a mix of energy sources is far more sane.
However, if you lump burning coal to MAKE steel and similar things in with energy usage instead of just focusing on electricity generation it's not going to be replaced with solar. Sure, you can melt steel scrap in an arc furnace but to make steel from iron ore it's a chemical process and it's not just the heat that you want the coal for. China's vast appetite for imported coal at the moment is being used mainly for that and not just to produce electricity.
Thank you for clearly outlining your method of attempting to refute my statement that the wind does not stop - goalpost moving. After all, what you were objecting to was my "The thing with wind, as any child who watches the TV weather knows, is that it is always blowing somewhere" comment. Why object to obvious reality in such a way?
That's why I've been laughing at you all this time while trying to keep relatively polite and merely treat you like a very slow and disruptive student that should never have enroled.
Fair enough. I'm carrying too much baggage from long arguments in this place and was too quick to judge based on a few key words.
Sorry about that.
It's not the Carnot cycle so no, they do not, although the final number won't be much more due to other limits.
It's getting there on the home scale merely due to massive price gouging by energy utilities with no sign of a halt to the increase in prices. We're heading for a crossover point even if batteries do not continue to drop in price.
There's also been stuff like solgel around for a while too which only needs temperatures available in domestic ovens. For now silicon still wins despite the massive energy input due to piggybacking on the huge economy of scale of semiconductor production. Vast amounts of energy consumed per ton ends up as hardly anything per square metre of very thin wafer.
Which is a bit backwards IMHO since solar thermal is a damn good way to drive a big heat pump. Little ones not so much, but it would be perfect for large office buildings and shopping malls.
One thing that has been investigated is films that absorb and re-emit in wavelengths that photovoltaics can use. That way you could get better than 100% of what is available in a narrow band. Then of course there's the obvious of having some sort of cheap collector bigger than the area of the more expensive photovoltaics, for instance fresnel lenses.
You can say that about a lot of things, so the answer is just don't extrapolate to the point beyond where your model is useless due to noise being higher than likely signal. Such a thing should be obvious to anyone who thinks they know enough about modelling anything to comment on the subject. So Eric - science denier pushing politics or out of your depth?
I suggest that you dedicate some time to learning what the graph you are using as a prop represents so that you can explain your imagined pattern well enough for others to notice it instead of wasting time here.
You have failed to prove that the wind stops over continents while I have shown that it does not, as nearly any child ever the age of twelve could do.
I'm discussing the combination of features, but yes, RDP, xrdp, NX and VNC are pretty much equivalent over congested links because they have the same underlying idea - screenscrape one way, input events the other and send as little as possible. Anything other than entire desktops is rare though which sucks and improving networks make the difference with X less noticable.
Come on now - you've had the graph you don't understand, the law that does not say what you pretend it does and despite thus not having a source that confirms your silly assertion you keep bleating for one from me - despite a wind chart effectively doing the job of indicating if there is wind or not. It is very clear where the bullshit is being sprayed from.
Save me from utter losers that think politics trumps reality.
You don't have such an excuse for tilting at windmills. You are merely a well behaved sheep willing to deny reality for The Party like a good little useful idiot for Stalin. Truly pathetic, but you've certainly kept me feeling smug and superior for a few days now, so it was worth remaining polite. Did you really think your cut and paste tantrums would have any other effect other than to make others think you are worthless?
"And yet it moves" is a good little quote to apply to your silly idea that the wind stops on a continent wide basis. Blind ideology does not trump reality and only provides the illusion of doing so when authoritarian politics is in play. This is supposed to be a technical site and not a wacko politics site that goes so far round the bend that it comes back around the corner as Stalinism, I suggest you continue pushing your devotional delusions among like minded people on a political site that caters to that.
Meant to be "not actually insane". I've been giving you the benefit of the doubt on so many things so long despite such a juvenile method of feigned mental illness to attack instead of discuss.
It's not a source - it's what you replied to with your various sidetracks into other issues.
The depressing thing is that it has been long enough that you could have read enough to understand the factors behind the graph you used as a prop but have not chosen to do so. The other depressing thing is the feigned mental illness of the cut and paste repetitive post - come on now, you are not actually sane and older than two years old so you know better than to use silly tantrums to get what you want.
We had such things before the registry existed. It wouldn't work unless you input a word on page whatever of it's manual, a code on the box or some other secret outside of the file on the disk.
Unless it's only broken due to registry settings that it follows as ordered even if they are stupid instructions. I think that's one is behind so many people advocating such extremes as a full OS reinstall every year or two, maybe longer on win7. Only a few applications and knowing enough to rip out the registry entries in such cases (I've had to do that far too many times for people and I'm a *nix guy when I work on computers) saves a full reinstall or falling back to an image.
Personally I see this as a failure of application programmers and testers to understand the platform they are working on than blaming it on Microsoft. The registry may be a stupid idea in some situations but it mostly works and it's nowhere near as stupid as those who write stuff to the registry without bothering to have a way of cleaning up afterwards.