I didn't ask the difference. I asked how to describe it.
Since you claim EE (doubtful, given your lack of grasp of the topic, but likely given your pedantry and assertion of expertise in something you don't know anything about), I'll put it in EE terms.
Define "broadband". Read the FCC's definition of broadband. Go on, do both of those and get back to us.
If you ignore the heat energy put into the system from outside, it appears you are creating heat with the electrical energy.
The only person ignoring the energy put into the system from the outside is you. You are asserting that I'm wrong because when you do it wrong, it's wrong. Congratulations, you've proved yourself wrong, many times.
If the efficiency was 100%, then the movement of "4 kW" (again, wrong unit but wtf)
When you don't even know the units involved, can't spell them properly, and assert they are non-standard (when they are quite standard), and furthermore, ignore the multiple sites indicating that they are the industry standard units for measuring heating capacity of a device, hpow can anyone take you seriously about your unsubstantiated opinion on what it should be? Ho on, present your own cites. I've cited many, and your only arguement is "shut up, because I don't like you using the correct terminology."
A US-made pill made for US market exported to Canada, and re-imported into the US by a user is illegal because the US-made pill is too unsafe to be in the US. The FDA and DEA and all that work together to secure the US IP monopoly for profit, and against the best interests of the people.
Scheduled drugs are not even done according to their own rules. Marijuana is safe (0 OD in recorded history), and has valid medical use, so it should be lower on the list, or off it, compared to the current position. The drug and enforcement agencies aren't even internally consistent, targeting medical treatments based on politics, not science.
You've explained how the market in the US is broken, but not how it's impossible to have a perfect market for health care.
The barriers are high, and the information exclusive. These are facts in the US, but not requirements.
The very notion of specialization, one of the foundations of the modern economy, on it's own, precludes perfect information because the buyer will never know as much about the product as the seller.
Buying a car, I have had more than one friend enlist my help to buy a car. I know as much or more about cars than most people selling them. But doing the same with medical issues is illegal. That's not a function of specialization, but law. I'm banned by law from giving legal or medical advice, as I haven't passed certain arbitrary barriers.
Efficiency cannot be greater than 100%, hence the reason they included that statement. You can find similar statement elsewhere if you look for them.
Not because it isn't true, but because pedantic assholes who can't understand complex thoughts whine endlessly about it.
But I now think I see where you are confused. Efficiency measures the energy put into and then taken out of the system,
I'm not confused. You are wrong on that, like everything else. Define the system. For a homeowner, the "system" is their home. They put in 1 kW electricity and get out 4 kW of heat. That's 400% efficiency. But that violates thermodynamics!
No, you pedantic idiot. Thermodynamics has one (And only one) system. The Universe. I hope you've heard of that system. It's where you keep all your stuff.
The homeowner efficiency is 400%. The thermodynamic efficiency is 100% or less.
But you must be an engineer. You use the useless measure that seems more theoretically valid, but completely worthless in the real world.
A not so perfect example that illustrates this idea is a gas pump. For a few hundred watt-hours, you can fill a gas tank with enough energy to drive a car for hours, expending thousands of times the energy than the pump used. That does not make the pump a thousand percent efficient. You have moved energy, you don't get credit for that when talking efficiency. With a heat pump, efficiency does not include the heat moved, only the energy required to move the heat and any gains or losses in the process.
You are amusingly stupid. You do know that they are directly compared, billions of times a day, right? They convert to a dollar figure, but you do measure efficiency of the fuel (including the pump), so the pump efficiency affects the efficiency of the fuel, and vice versa. As the pump costs are negligible compared to the fuel it moves, the end user doesn't have any idea or care about the efficiency of the pump.
But when heating a house, the answer changes. The "pump" is the sole cost for someone with an "inefficient" heating source. For that, including free energy with the pump should be (and is) measured.
By the way, despite your focus on my typing, kW = kilowatt. Watt is the unit. It is a global standard term for power capacity. If is accidently typed KW or Kw, I meant kW. That should have been obvious as well given the discussion, I am not sure what other unit you would have thought would apply, I never seen anyone confused that way before in such a discussion.
I accept your apology. I assume that's what it is, as you were being a pedantic jackass, and so your apology for misusing kW 100% of the time you used it (up to that correction, where it was your first successful use of kw - we are so proud you learned something, even if it was painful and you are being deliberately obtuse at this point) is accepted. Units are important. And Kw is invalid, so had an unambiguous meaning that you don't know what units are, while KW was similarly unambiguous, as it designates Kelvin*Watts, but as you say, is silly in this discussion. But then, everything you say has been so, so how did you expect me to know which was deliberate ignorance and which was accidental?
Yup. The Republican Communists. Marxists want the people to rise up and sieze the government and have the government control industry. The Republican Communists want the corporations to buy the government. The paths are different, but the end is the same, though Republican Communism isn't usually the name given, but fascism.
"Free Market Capitalism" is more concisely called "fascism". The ideal capitalism is never tried. Informed consumers, low barriers to entry, and all that. It works more efficiently, but the corporations hate it. Competing on a fair and even platform is too hard. Passing laws, erecting barriers and all that work better to eliminate competition and increase profits.
What's the issue. They reverse engineered a protocol, then emulated thousands of users. I saw nothing in the law that prevents emulating a user. They essentially accessed Waze using an API. It's just that the publicly accessible API wasn't expected to be used. And like most data, 1000x innocent data becomes something creepy. Like walking on the sidewalk isn't creepy, but walking past the same house 1000 times is.
Ok, enough. You don't have an engineering or physical sciences background, that is clear.
I have an engineering degree. Do you?
You skim google searches and assume you understand what you are reading.
You don't skim anything and declare that makes you smarter than people who have researched topics.
You use terms that make no sense like "a Kw of cooling", which any engineer will tell you makes no sense.
Don't use quotes unless you are actually quoting. "a Kw of cooling" was never said by me. For one, I know that kilo is a lower case "k", something you've apparently never figured out. And a Kw isn't a unit of anything. So if you are going to quote someone, actually quote them. And even if you meant "kW" (which, given you've never managed to successfully write it correctly, I'm not sure you know what it means), I never said that. That makes you not only the dumbest person on the planet, but a liar as well.
Outside the US, kW is a common term. Inside the US, BTU, and tons are used (oddly, the only time I've ever seen "Tonnes" used in the US was in relation to cooling).
Are you asserting that tons of cooling "makes more sense"? http://www.fujitsugeneral.co.n... Fujitsu lists cooling in kW (as does everyone else, but you don't believe any cites anyway, as you said).
So forgive me if I have to try and figure out what the heck you think you are talking about.
Try? You haven't tried. You've only attacked me personally, and ignored all cites. If you have to try to understand it to understand it, then try. Go on. Try. Shouldn't be too hard. It's the truth (presented with many cites, which you refuse to read because they don't agree with your delusion).
For starters, you don't understand the unit measure of a watt, how to use it in a sentence, and much less how to do engineering comparisons with it.
The makers all quote specs in Watts, so I used the same terminology the manufacturers use (As well as the mechanical engineers working on the HVAC systems, at least outside the US). If your complaint boils down to me using SI, rather than American units, so you chose to be obtuse, that just makes you the idiot. Go on, read the Fujitsu official website and tell me nobody else uses Watts.
At least I know the difference between a kW and a KW, you are obviously too stupid to realize that SI is case sensitive.
You speak of efficiency but don't understand you must define a system in order to speak efficiency.
No, I'm the one that told you you needed to define a system. You refused, then state that you didn't because I need to define a system to prove you right? I can't. You are wrong. You asserted I'm wrong because you are too stupid to define a system.
COP is not efficiency.
Yes it is. The Coefficient of Performance is efficiency. It's re-stated as a ratio that doesn't state "efficiency" because of the idiots like you that would complain because *you* don't understand thermodynamics.
I'd point out your technical errors, but you haven't actually said anything technical. You launched straight into the personal attacks and ignored the facts. Anyone who holds a correct belief that disagrees with your delusion must be crushed. You must be fun at parties.
So you don't know how it works, and are too stupid to Google, and want me to explain it to you. The problem is I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
But I assume when you say '4KW cooling from 1KW electrical' you don't really understand what you mean, and are mixing terms from two different aspects of a design.
So you are too stupid to understand, and too stupid to Google, and thus conclude I'm stupid for saying something you don't understand. That's brilliant. You must be the smartest person in the world.
Try reading these two links and let us know how that goes for you. Presumably, if you have an issue with Wikipedia, you can edit it before you come back. Wikipedia asserts that COP can be greater than 1 (the "impossible" act of getting out more than you put in), so feel free to edit Wikipedia if you hold a religious conflict with that belief.
When you finish with those, try some other Google searches. Let me know if you need help with that too. And feel free to apologize for being a jackass. It's not like heat pumps haven't been around for hundreds of years, with billions of units running around. Since you have no idea what they are and how they work with that longevity and install base, one would presume that you don't know how a car works. Cars have wheels. That's the level of ignorance you are showing, and then arguing with me that cars can't roll downhill because the brakes at the bottom would reduce kinetic energy without increasing potential energy.
You know enough to know what kinetic energy and potential energy are related, but, being the dumbass you are, you don't know that brakes convert the energy to heat. That's the level of stupidity you show arguing about heat pumps. There are billiions of them, and they were around since long before you were born, but you don't have any idea of the basics of how they work, yet pick a fight about them.
You are an amusingly idiotic embodiment of the Dunning–Kruger effect. You know what thermodynamics is (presumably, you haven't shown a grasp of it, and can't even get units right when incorrectly correcting someone else about units), so you are an expert in heat pumps, that must operate under the rules of it. You know enough to be confident in your complete stupidity, but not enough to know you don't know anything about the subject.
Then how would you describe a system that got 4 kW of cooling from 1 kW of power? 4 kW of heating from 1 kW of power?
Oh, and for correcting others incorrectly, you should probably use the terms correctly. It's not Kelvin-Watts.
You don't get more work out of a system than you put in to it, it would violate the basic laws of physics. You should have paid attention in class.
You should have paid attention in class. "System" is undefined, and you are assuming (incorectly) what it is. You are pretty danmed stupid for correcting people so incorrectly. The only one here that has no idea of what they are talking about is you. But I'm sure you will come back with some reason why it's my fault you are stupid.
Go on, explain how you get 4kW of heating from 1kW electricity use, and why shouldn't you call that 400% efficient, if you compare it to a 100% efficient electric resistive heating unit. I'm sure you are capable of more non sequiturs about thermodynamics, but try answering the one simple question first.
Why is an app "malware"? In most cases, they improve functionality. My banking app is much much better on a phone. Shortcuts that are things more commonly done, in a manner that requires fewer clicks and fewer pages to do the most common things. Some complex things are missing, but for 99% of what someone goes to a banking app on a phone for, the app is vastly superior to going to the webpage.
So someone who claims the moon landing was a hoax should be given the same attention as someone who documents the maximum size of trees based on the capillary effect, and the predictions of that in maximum height.
You can waste your time treating every new conspiracy theorist as a unique claimant with a valid point.
Generating 4kW cooling from 1kW electricity is common for domestic air conditioners. That you are dumb doesn't mean it violates thermodynamics. Learn what a heat pump is and how it works before stupidly correcting others.
So because some people use a filter that will reduce their visibility, any tags or actions that reduce visibility are censorship? The car dealership being out of red cars, so my choice is black or dark blue is censorship, as that reduces my visibility! Nope, that logic doesn't work when applied in any other situation.
Define "harm". The sensitive conservatives get offended any time someone tells them they are offensive, and claim being offended is harm, but only if it's them being insulted.
It should be, but in most cases, "incest" implies rape of a child. So, because of the implications of child rape, incest is not given the same level of acceptance. Though, there is plenty of incest fantasy porn and stories.
Failing to act on such homophobic comments is criminal. Making an illegally hostile workplace is illegal. Even in places where homosexuaity is illegal, it's still generally illegal to make a hostile environment.
Yeah, so? Netflix and HBO are subscription based services. iTunes, Vudu, and Steam are not. The rent/buy model is dying. Netflix isn't even considered a "streaming service" where Wal-Mart streaming and iTunes are rated. The "streaming service" category only includes pay-per-stream, which excludes the subscription models, as they don't break down streaming the same way. Hulu, HBOgo, and Netflix are a separate and non-competing service, according to the industry number-keepers.
A natural gas fired boiler is not significantly more energy efficient over oil fired. The energy density makes oil more valuable, so you pay less per unit energy for oil, but the CO2 exhaust is no less. And a quick check shows that there is no natural gas utility in Seward, AK. So train or boat to get the gas in would eliminate the cost savings most people associate with gas. So moving from oil to gas would be roughly identical in terms of CO2 exhaust, with the gas winning because it's generally cheaper (though that's measured in places with existing utilities). But a heat-pump system is much more efficient than a boiler. A boiler is 80-95% efficient. Heat pumps hang out around 400% efficient, and this one claims better than regular efficiency, though by how much isn't stated. It isn't even close, and less so when you consider that the heat pump can run in both directions, heating some areas, while cooling others. And, though low on details, this looks to be a ground loop system (so called, even if it's water, not ground), so exchanging heat with 32 degree seawater is more efficient than -10 degree air, saving more, and pushing the efficiency above the air-to-air number I gave above.
The basis of all is that that the brain is only linked to the world. Change the reception of the senses, and you change the reality of the brain. Whether it's a sim (shadows on a wall), or a sim (we are a computer program), or real, we couldn't tell the difference.
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I didn't ask the difference. I asked how to describe it.
Since you claim EE (doubtful, given your lack of grasp of the topic, but likely given your pedantry and assertion of expertise in something you don't know anything about), I'll put it in EE terms.
Define "broadband". Read the FCC's definition of broadband. Go on, do both of those and get back to us.
If you ignore the heat energy put into the system from outside, it appears you are creating heat with the electrical energy.
The only person ignoring the energy put into the system from the outside is you. You are asserting that I'm wrong because when you do it wrong, it's wrong. Congratulations, you've proved yourself wrong, many times.
If the efficiency was 100%, then the movement of "4 kW" (again, wrong unit but wtf)
Wrong unit? Did you call Fujitsu and tell them that they used the wrong terms in their documentation? How about everyone else on the planet but you? "The standard unit for the rate of heat transferred is the watt (W), defined as joules per second." Oh, there's another Wikipedia entry for you to deface to keep your distorted world view intact.
When you don't even know the units involved, can't spell them properly, and assert they are non-standard (when they are quite standard), and furthermore, ignore the multiple sites indicating that they are the industry standard units for measuring heating capacity of a device, hpow can anyone take you seriously about your unsubstantiated opinion on what it should be? Ho on, present your own cites. I've cited many, and your only arguement is "shut up, because I don't like you using the correct terminology."
They've been saying that for more than 20 years now. How's that working out? What country are you moving to when she wins the presidency?
A US-made pill made for US market exported to Canada, and re-imported into the US by a user is illegal because the US-made pill is too unsafe to be in the US. The FDA and DEA and all that work together to secure the US IP monopoly for profit, and against the best interests of the people.
Scheduled drugs are not even done according to their own rules. Marijuana is safe (0 OD in recorded history), and has valid medical use, so it should be lower on the list, or off it, compared to the current position. The drug and enforcement agencies aren't even internally consistent, targeting medical treatments based on politics, not science.
The barriers are high, and the information exclusive. These are facts in the US, but not requirements.
The very notion of specialization, one of the foundations of the modern economy, on it's own, precludes perfect information because the buyer will never know as much about the product as the seller.
Buying a car, I have had more than one friend enlist my help to buy a car. I know as much or more about cars than most people selling them. But doing the same with medical issues is illegal. That's not a function of specialization, but law. I'm banned by law from giving legal or medical advice, as I haven't passed certain arbitrary barriers.
Efficiency is max at 100%,
So if I can run a resistive heater and get 1kW of heat from 1 kW of electricity, one would call that 100% efficient.
Are you with me so far?
Then, you replace that with a heat pump and you input 1 kW of electricity and get 4 kW of heat, what would you call that?
You get more out than you put in.
Efficiency cannot be greater than 100%, hence the reason they included that statement. You can find similar statement elsewhere if you look for them.
Not because it isn't true, but because pedantic assholes who can't understand complex thoughts whine endlessly about it.
But I now think I see where you are confused. Efficiency measures the energy put into and then taken out of the system,
I'm not confused. You are wrong on that, like everything else. Define the system. For a homeowner, the "system" is their home. They put in 1 kW electricity and get out 4 kW of heat. That's 400% efficiency. But that violates thermodynamics!
No, you pedantic idiot. Thermodynamics has one (And only one) system. The Universe. I hope you've heard of that system. It's where you keep all your stuff.
The homeowner efficiency is 400%. The thermodynamic efficiency is 100% or less.
But you must be an engineer. You use the useless measure that seems more theoretically valid, but completely worthless in the real world.
A not so perfect example that illustrates this idea is a gas pump. For a few hundred watt-hours, you can fill a gas tank with enough energy to drive a car for hours, expending thousands of times the energy than the pump used. That does not make the pump a thousand percent efficient. You have moved energy, you don't get credit for that when talking efficiency. With a heat pump, efficiency does not include the heat moved, only the energy required to move the heat and any gains or losses in the process.
You are amusingly stupid. You do know that they are directly compared, billions of times a day, right? They convert to a dollar figure, but you do measure efficiency of the fuel (including the pump), so the pump efficiency affects the efficiency of the fuel, and vice versa. As the pump costs are negligible compared to the fuel it moves, the end user doesn't have any idea or care about the efficiency of the pump.
But when heating a house, the answer changes. The "pump" is the sole cost for someone with an "inefficient" heating source. For that, including free energy with the pump should be (and is) measured.
By the way, despite your focus on my typing, kW = kilowatt. Watt is the unit. It is a global standard term for power capacity. If is accidently typed KW or Kw, I meant kW. That should have been obvious as well given the discussion, I am not sure what other unit you would have thought would apply, I never seen anyone confused that way before in such a discussion.
I accept your apology. I assume that's what it is, as you were being a pedantic jackass, and so your apology for misusing kW 100% of the time you used it (up to that correction, where it was your first successful use of kw - we are so proud you learned something, even if it was painful and you are being deliberately obtuse at this point) is accepted. Units are important. And Kw is invalid, so had an unambiguous meaning that you don't know what units are, while KW was similarly unambiguous, as it designates Kelvin*Watts, but as you say, is silly in this discussion. But then, everything you say has been so, so how did you expect me to know which was deliberate ignorance and which was accidental?
Yup. The Republican Communists. Marxists want the people to rise up and sieze the government and have the government control industry. The Republican Communists want the corporations to buy the government. The paths are different, but the end is the same, though Republican Communism isn't usually the name given, but fascism.
Yeah, no true "capitalism". Anyone who doesn't like it doesn't understand the "real" it.
"Free Market Capitalism" is more concisely called "fascism". The ideal capitalism is never tried. Informed consumers, low barriers to entry, and all that. It works more efficiently, but the corporations hate it. Competing on a fair and even platform is too hard. Passing laws, erecting barriers and all that work better to eliminate competition and increase profits.
There is no authorization, so unauthorized access is everyone, including regular users of the app.
What's the issue. They reverse engineered a protocol, then emulated thousands of users. I saw nothing in the law that prevents emulating a user. They essentially accessed Waze using an API. It's just that the publicly accessible API wasn't expected to be used. And like most data, 1000x innocent data becomes something creepy. Like walking on the sidewalk isn't creepy, but walking past the same house 1000 times is.
Ok, enough. You don't have an engineering or physical sciences background, that is clear.
I have an engineering degree. Do you?
You skim google searches and assume you understand what you are reading.
You don't skim anything and declare that makes you smarter than people who have researched topics.
You use terms that make no sense like "a Kw of cooling", which any engineer will tell you makes no sense.
Don't use quotes unless you are actually quoting. "a Kw of cooling" was never said by me. For one, I know that kilo is a lower case "k", something you've apparently never figured out. And a Kw isn't a unit of anything. So if you are going to quote someone, actually quote them. And even if you meant "kW" (which, given you've never managed to successfully write it correctly, I'm not sure you know what it means), I never said that. That makes you not only the dumbest person on the planet, but a liar as well.
Outside the US, kW is a common term. Inside the US, BTU, and tons are used (oddly, the only time I've ever seen "Tonnes" used in the US was in relation to cooling).
Are you asserting that tons of cooling "makes more sense"? http://www.fujitsugeneral.co.n... Fujitsu lists cooling in kW (as does everyone else, but you don't believe any cites anyway, as you said).
So forgive me if I have to try and figure out what the heck you think you are talking about.
Try? You haven't tried. You've only attacked me personally, and ignored all cites. If you have to try to understand it to understand it, then try. Go on. Try. Shouldn't be too hard. It's the truth (presented with many cites, which you refuse to read because they don't agree with your delusion).
For starters, you don't understand the unit measure of a watt, how to use it in a sentence, and much less how to do engineering comparisons with it.
The makers all quote specs in Watts, so I used the same terminology the manufacturers use (As well as the mechanical engineers working on the HVAC systems, at least outside the US). If your complaint boils down to me using SI, rather than American units, so you chose to be obtuse, that just makes you the idiot. Go on, read the Fujitsu official website and tell me nobody else uses Watts.
At least I know the difference between a kW and a KW, you are obviously too stupid to realize that SI is case sensitive.
You speak of efficiency but don't understand you must define a system in order to speak efficiency.
No, I'm the one that told you you needed to define a system. You refused, then state that you didn't because I need to define a system to prove you right? I can't. You are wrong. You asserted I'm wrong because you are too stupid to define a system.
COP is not efficiency.
Yes it is. The Coefficient of Performance is efficiency. It's re-stated as a ratio that doesn't state "efficiency" because of the idiots like you that would complain because *you* don't understand thermodynamics.
I'd point out your technical errors, but you haven't actually said anything technical. You launched straight into the personal attacks and ignored the facts. Anyone who holds a correct belief that disagrees with your delusion must be crushed. You must be fun at parties.
But I assume when you say '4KW cooling from 1KW electrical' you don't really understand what you mean, and are mixing terms from two different aspects of a design.
So you are too stupid to understand, and too stupid to Google, and thus conclude I'm stupid for saying something you don't understand. That's brilliant. You must be the smartest person in the world.
Try reading these two links and let us know how that goes for you. Presumably, if you have an issue with Wikipedia, you can edit it before you come back. Wikipedia asserts that COP can be greater than 1 (the "impossible" act of getting out more than you put in), so feel free to edit Wikipedia if you hold a religious conflict with that belief.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.powerknot.com/how-e...
When you finish with those, try some other Google searches. Let me know if you need help with that too. And feel free to apologize for being a jackass. It's not like heat pumps haven't been around for hundreds of years, with billions of units running around. Since you have no idea what they are and how they work with that longevity and install base, one would presume that you don't know how a car works. Cars have wheels. That's the level of ignorance you are showing, and then arguing with me that cars can't roll downhill because the brakes at the bottom would reduce kinetic energy without increasing potential energy.
You know enough to know what kinetic energy and potential energy are related, but, being the dumbass you are, you don't know that brakes convert the energy to heat. That's the level of stupidity you show arguing about heat pumps. There are billiions of them, and they were around since long before you were born, but you don't have any idea of the basics of how they work, yet pick a fight about them.
You are an amusingly idiotic embodiment of the Dunning–Kruger effect. You know what thermodynamics is (presumably, you haven't shown a grasp of it, and can't even get units right when incorrectly correcting someone else about units), so you are an expert in heat pumps, that must operate under the rules of it. You know enough to be confident in your complete stupidity, but not enough to know you don't know anything about the subject.
Oh, and for correcting others incorrectly, you should probably use the terms correctly. It's not Kelvin-Watts.
You don't get more work out of a system than you put in to it, it would violate the basic laws of physics. You should have paid attention in class.
You should have paid attention in class. "System" is undefined, and you are assuming (incorectly) what it is. You are pretty danmed stupid for correcting people so incorrectly. The only one here that has no idea of what they are talking about is you. But I'm sure you will come back with some reason why it's my fault you are stupid.
Go on, explain how you get 4kW of heating from 1kW electricity use, and why shouldn't you call that 400% efficient, if you compare it to a 100% efficient electric resistive heating unit. I'm sure you are capable of more non sequiturs about thermodynamics, but try answering the one simple question first.
Why is an app "malware"? In most cases, they improve functionality. My banking app is much much better on a phone. Shortcuts that are things more commonly done, in a manner that requires fewer clicks and fewer pages to do the most common things. Some complex things are missing, but for 99% of what someone goes to a banking app on a phone for, the app is vastly superior to going to the webpage.
So someone who claims the moon landing was a hoax should be given the same attention as someone who documents the maximum size of trees based on the capillary effect, and the predictions of that in maximum height.
You can waste your time treating every new conspiracy theorist as a unique claimant with a valid point.
Generating 4kW cooling from 1kW electricity is common for domestic air conditioners. That you are dumb doesn't mean it violates thermodynamics. Learn what a heat pump is and how it works before stupidly correcting others.
So because some people use a filter that will reduce their visibility, any tags or actions that reduce visibility are censorship? The car dealership being out of red cars, so my choice is black or dark blue is censorship, as that reduces my visibility! Nope, that logic doesn't work when applied in any other situation.
Define "harm". The sensitive conservatives get offended any time someone tells them they are offensive, and claim being offended is harm, but only if it's them being insulted.
It should be, but in most cases, "incest" implies rape of a child. So, because of the implications of child rape, incest is not given the same level of acceptance. Though, there is plenty of incest fantasy porn and stories.
Failing to act on such homophobic comments is criminal. Making an illegally hostile workplace is illegal. Even in places where homosexuaity is illegal, it's still generally illegal to make a hostile environment.
Modding someone down is not censorship. Expressing disapproval of someone presenting lies as the truth is not censorship.
Yeah, so? Netflix and HBO are subscription based services. iTunes, Vudu, and Steam are not. The rent/buy model is dying. Netflix isn't even considered a "streaming service" where Wal-Mart streaming and iTunes are rated. The "streaming service" category only includes pay-per-stream, which excludes the subscription models, as they don't break down streaming the same way. Hulu, HBOgo, and Netflix are a separate and non-competing service, according to the industry number-keepers.
A natural gas fired boiler is not significantly more energy efficient over oil fired. The energy density makes oil more valuable, so you pay less per unit energy for oil, but the CO2 exhaust is no less. And a quick check shows that there is no natural gas utility in Seward, AK. So train or boat to get the gas in would eliminate the cost savings most people associate with gas. So moving from oil to gas would be roughly identical in terms of CO2 exhaust, with the gas winning because it's generally cheaper (though that's measured in places with existing utilities). But a heat-pump system is much more efficient than a boiler. A boiler is 80-95% efficient. Heat pumps hang out around 400% efficient, and this one claims better than regular efficiency, though by how much isn't stated. It isn't even close, and less so when you consider that the heat pump can run in both directions, heating some areas, while cooling others. And, though low on details, this looks to be a ground loop system (so called, even if it's water, not ground), so exchanging heat with 32 degree seawater is more efficient than -10 degree air, saving more, and pushing the efficiency above the air-to-air number I gave above.
The basis of all is that that the brain is only linked to the world. Change the reception of the senses, and you change the reality of the brain. Whether it's a sim (shadows on a wall), or a sim (we are a computer program), or real, we couldn't tell the difference.