My GF had not been able to get pre-Obamacare insurance for ANY cost because of her medical history. So yep, pre-Obamacare plans were cheap... as long as you're healthy.
Apparently, you've flunked the physics test. The portion of energy dissipated by an object is proportional to its mass. So if you have a 1 ton car collide with 4 ton car then 80% of energy will be dissipated by the 1 ton car.
Technically, Comcast doesn't have a monopoly. Wave Broadband also has city-wide franchise since Nov 2017, so they are free to expand wherever they want. There's also a bunch of smaller neighborhood-style ISPs that are slowly being gobbled up by Wave.
Wave is really cheap. My 10-unit HOA was quoted with very affordable $35000 buildout cost for a ~1000ft line extension. Market magic!
It doesn't work well. Most of population in China live in two solar timezones. The other 3 are basically desert with sparse population. Everybody pretty much ignores their problems, like not being able to call phone support lines within reasonable times of day.
ITER is most certainly NOT dead. It's an active project that pretty much dwarfs any other scientific experiment in scale. It's designed as a burning plasma lab and it's results will benefit the MIT project.
I have a small solar panel that I bought at Fry's for an experiment. I've been trying to use it to run a webcam from my roof patio. It failed miserably.
This winter there were something like a week maybe of sunshine in total.
https://www.researchgate.net/f... - you can see that on average Seattle is reasonable, but it totally fails during winter. And winter is the time of outages when the backup power is important.
I live in a townhouse near Seattle. I don't have a space for a generator and solar panels are useless here. Power outages happen periodically here in winter (usual scenario - a tree branch falls on wires).
So I want to keep my automation systems running throughout the outage: Internet (fiber with 4G backup), phones (VoIP), fire alarms, security cameras, emergency lights, fireplace. The power draw is about 100W on average, so I need something like 2kWh for my systems to survive through an outage. A traditional UPS that fits these requirements will cost a couple thousand dollars and it'll the size of a small coffin, mostly because of the batteries. Nobody is producing a li-ion UPS.
So I bought a bunch of 12V li-ion cells from Aliexpress and connected them to a regular UPS in parallel. So far it's been working quite well, but I'm trusting these batteries so much that they are located in a maintenance shed that is separated from the building by a firewall. I'd really like to see a production-quality UPS with li-ion cells.
There is a quite big lot of people on the flood plains in the south-east of the country. Carolinas, shores of Missouri and so on. They'll have to move eventually, but you can bet it's not going to be easy.
California and all of the west coast, actually, is in a pretty good spot (if you don't consider droughts). Some amount of coastal land will be lost, but with steep shores megafloods are not a problem.
Correct. Water vapor acts as an amplifier - it's far less potent than CO2 by weight, but there's a lot of water in the atmosphere. Increasing CO2 will increase the water concentration even more. But this is not a runaway process, water also is more likely to precipitate as its concentration grows.
This is misleading. CO2 IR absorption _alone_ does not explain global warming. But it doesn't need to.
CO2 forcing the water vapor concentration increase most certainly does explain the current warming with statistically significant precision. Here's a nice summary: https://www.skepticalscience.c...
Well, the problem is, Texas (and Florida, and LA) is not going to move. So people will be bailing out Houston and Miami after "1000 year storms" until one day it becomes impossible financially.
The only solar thermal power plant in CA is struggling because it's badly designed and is not cost-competitive. It also for quite some time was failing to deliver the required contracted amount of power. Fortunately, they fixed some stuff and it finally is in compliance as of this week: https://www.the-american-inter...
Plankton is not terribly affected. It might lead to a few blooms and anoxic zones, but overall it'll be doing fine.
What's going to be affected are corals and species that use calcium exoskeletons, like shrimp. Corals are also badly affected by rising sea water temperature, causing coral reef collapses and the associated loss of habitat. This will propagate up the food chain, so there's going to be less fish and sea mammals.
Nor'easters are not known for their lows on atmospheric pressure. Height of the storm surge is actually quite indicative - winter storms are not moving fast and pretty much every storm experiences the high tide.
Meanwhile, the fact that TWO largest winter storms happened within 1 year is amazing.
Keen vents really take it to another level. I had a two-zone system for a house with 5 rooms and several heated closets/bathrooms. I could never really achieve balanced heating. For example, my favorite bathroom was too cold in summer and too hot in winter. With Keen vents I could make all rooms to be at comfortable temperature all the time. In the end I had something like 5-way system using Keens. It's really a great invention, simple and easy to use.
My current house has a real 4-way system which is good enough, the attic room too hot in summer but I can live with it. It's actually not terribly more expensive to put a multi-way system if you're building a house from scratch, you just need to add separate ducts and air valves. Nothing too expensive or exotic. But you can't really retrofit it into a house.
So an HVAC company wants you to buy expensive multi-zone systems. Duh.
Keen vents actually have a duct pressure sensor and will unlock if the pressure exceeds the threshold. It doesn't happen even if a couple of vents are open in the whole house.
As for scary tales of air conditioners blowing up because condensed coolant enters the pump, it simply can't happen. Evaporators in air conditioners are designed to hold all of the liquid coolant. And vapor is always removed through the high port.
I had Keen vents in my previous house. They provide very real savings and comfort improvements.
They most certainly do. For example, my bedroom is sandwiched between two heated floors and it rarely needs to be heated. Meanwhile, the attic room has to be heated very often. With zonal AC the hot air is delivered only to it, without causing other rooms to become uncomfortably hot.
You can run the heating system in fan-only mode but it's usually too slow to equalize temperatures by itself.
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Typically gun bullet marks are registered, so police can identify the gun. It doesn't work perfectly, but it helps a lot.
But then you’re probably surrounded by right wingers who beat and rape their children between participating in gun-fondling groupies.
It obviously can, but with a lower probability.
My GF had not been able to get pre-Obamacare insurance for ANY cost because of her medical history. So yep, pre-Obamacare plans were cheap... as long as you're healthy.
Apparently, you've flunked the physics test. The portion of energy dissipated by an object is proportional to its mass. So if you have a 1 ton car collide with 4 ton car then 80% of energy will be dissipated by the 1 ton car.
Except that I-94 now also contains optional "media profiles" field.
Technically, Comcast doesn't have a monopoly. Wave Broadband also has city-wide franchise since Nov 2017, so they are free to expand wherever they want. There's also a bunch of smaller neighborhood-style ISPs that are slowly being gobbled up by Wave.
Wave is really cheap. My 10-unit HOA was quoted with very affordable $35000 buildout cost for a ~1000ft line extension. Market magic!
Is it OK if I shoot you for jaywalking (this includes stepping on a road on flashing red sign)? It's a serious crime, really.
Or do you feel that you're entitled to break laws? Are you a crybaby?
It doesn't work well. Most of population in China live in two solar timezones. The other 3 are basically desert with sparse population. Everybody pretty much ignores their problems, like not being able to call phone support lines within reasonable times of day.
ITER is most certainly NOT dead. It's an active project that pretty much dwarfs any other scientific experiment in scale. It's designed as a burning plasma lab and it's results will benefit the MIT project.
I have a small solar panel that I bought at Fry's for an experiment. I've been trying to use it to run a webcam from my roof patio. It failed miserably. This winter there were something like a week maybe of sunshine in total.
https://www.researchgate.net/f... - you can see that on average Seattle is reasonable, but it totally fails during winter. And winter is the time of outages when the backup power is important.
I live in a townhouse near Seattle. I don't have a space for a generator and solar panels are useless here. Power outages happen periodically here in winter (usual scenario - a tree branch falls on wires).
So I want to keep my automation systems running throughout the outage: Internet (fiber with 4G backup), phones (VoIP), fire alarms, security cameras, emergency lights, fireplace. The power draw is about 100W on average, so I need something like 2kWh for my systems to survive through an outage. A traditional UPS that fits these requirements will cost a couple thousand dollars and it'll the size of a small coffin, mostly because of the batteries. Nobody is producing a li-ion UPS.
So I bought a bunch of 12V li-ion cells from Aliexpress and connected them to a regular UPS in parallel. So far it's been working quite well, but I'm trusting these batteries so much that they are located in a maintenance shed that is separated from the building by a firewall. I'd really like to see a production-quality UPS with li-ion cells.
There is a quite big lot of people on the flood plains in the south-east of the country. Carolinas, shores of Missouri and so on. They'll have to move eventually, but you can bet it's not going to be easy.
California and all of the west coast, actually, is in a pretty good spot (if you don't consider droughts). Some amount of coastal land will be lost, but with steep shores megafloods are not a problem.
Correct. Water vapor acts as an amplifier - it's far less potent than CO2 by weight, but there's a lot of water in the atmosphere. Increasing CO2 will increase the water concentration even more. But this is not a runaway process, water also is more likely to precipitate as its concentration grows.
This is misleading. CO2 IR absorption _alone_ does not explain global warming. But it doesn't need to.
CO2 forcing the water vapor concentration increase most certainly does explain the current warming with statistically significant precision. Here's a nice summary: https://www.skepticalscience.c...
Well, the problem is, Texas (and Florida, and LA) is not going to move. So people will be bailing out Houston and Miami after "1000 year storms" until one day it becomes impossible financially.
[citation needed]
The only solar thermal power plant in CA is struggling because it's badly designed and is not cost-competitive. It also for quite some time was failing to deliver the required contracted amount of power. Fortunately, they fixed some stuff and it finally is in compliance as of this week: https://www.the-american-inter...
Plankton is not terribly affected. It might lead to a few blooms and anoxic zones, but overall it'll be doing fine.
What's going to be affected are corals and species that use calcium exoskeletons, like shrimp. Corals are also badly affected by rising sea water temperature, causing coral reef collapses and the associated loss of habitat. This will propagate up the food chain, so there's going to be less fish and sea mammals.
What does Google Fiber censor, pray tell? Are you into child porn or maybe you are a Republican?
Nor'easters are not known for their lows on atmospheric pressure. Height of the storm surge is actually quite indicative - winter storms are not moving fast and pretty much every storm experiences the high tide.
Meanwhile, the fact that TWO largest winter storms happened within 1 year is amazing.
Oh, and there's a third storm on the way.
By the height of the storm surge. Serious damage assessment has not yet started.
Actually, it's in the top 3 of the worst storms in Boston. The other two storms are: 1978 blizzard and the long-forgotten Jan 4, 2018 storm.
Keen vents really take it to another level. I had a two-zone system for a house with 5 rooms and several heated closets/bathrooms. I could never really achieve balanced heating. For example, my favorite bathroom was too cold in summer and too hot in winter. With Keen vents I could make all rooms to be at comfortable temperature all the time. In the end I had something like 5-way system using Keens. It's really a great invention, simple and easy to use.
My current house has a real 4-way system which is good enough, the attic room too hot in summer but I can live with it. It's actually not terribly more expensive to put a multi-way system if you're building a house from scratch, you just need to add separate ducts and air valves. Nothing too expensive or exotic. But you can't really retrofit it into a house.
So an HVAC company wants you to buy expensive multi-zone systems. Duh.
Keen vents actually have a duct pressure sensor and will unlock if the pressure exceeds the threshold. It doesn't happen even if a couple of vents are open in the whole house.
As for scary tales of air conditioners blowing up because condensed coolant enters the pump, it simply can't happen. Evaporators in air conditioners are designed to hold all of the liquid coolant. And vapor is always removed through the high port.
I had Keen vents in my previous house. They provide very real savings and comfort improvements.
They most certainly do. For example, my bedroom is sandwiched between two heated floors and it rarely needs to be heated. Meanwhile, the attic room has to be heated very often. With zonal AC the hot air is delivered only to it, without causing other rooms to become uncomfortably hot.
You can run the heating system in fan-only mode but it's usually too slow to equalize temperatures by itself.