perhaps they need to bring some of their SolarCity panels to ensure they offset their energy usage, perhaps even get a few dollars back each month from ISS
They can install one of those solar powered CC enabled meters like in LA, so upon docking the commander can scan his Visa/Mastercard and open a tab until he undocks to go home.
... has only one single usb-c port and no other ports. You can call this strategy brilliant but in practice this means that people have to buy an extra adapter to connect all their peripherals to the one single usb-c port.
what about daisy-chaining like we used to do with SCSI? of course, all peripherals will have to be built with a pair of usb-c ports, increasing the cost
No, a road atlas or street map are designed to direct drivers along any road marked on the map. DUH! Every city I have moved into, one of my first tasks is to go to the local auto club and obtain the free maps or buy the Rand-McNally Thomas guide and learn the lay of the land, identifying all the routes accessible for me to get around to work, play, shop, eat, etc. This was decades before online map software, and nobody gave me approval to drive through the streets in any town that are open public roadways.
But in the long term, that's only going to - at best - shift the load to other side streets.
But isn't that what 0bama told Joe the Plumber 8 years ago, we've got to spread the wealth around. So it's perfectly acceptable in the post-0bama era to spread the wealth of the entitled streets to the disadvantaged
but those costs were likely also paid back to the developer's company via the infamous 20-50 year tax deferral so that the company effectively transfers the cost back to the city taxpayers in general, thus public does pay for your streets. so sorry that the realtor selling you the home didn't tell you about that little detail
True, very true. when I move to a new city I always bought maps or went to the AAA to obtain free ones to map out routes from my new home to work and other places I wanted to go, and searched out numerous alternate routes - HORROR of HORRORS - through residential side streets to give me options in the event of traffic congestion. Waze, Google, Garmin, etc. didn't exist in the primitive past, just my understanding of NESW and lines on colored paper. Public throughways are not private driveways for the entitled few.
You may be presumptive in asserting electric cars will overtake ICE in the next decade. Without a breakthrough in battery tech to increase storage capacity and reduce recharge time by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude, they will remain a richie rich boytoy. I'd love to have an electromotive passenger car, but should I choose to travel long distances, I'd rather not do it as the pioneers did in their Conestoga wagons on the prairie.
You may be onto something with the lighter than air craft, as there are several firms working on zeppelin-like craft. Each of those craft employ several propeller motors which could be electric powered. Assuming the weight of PV panels doesn't negate too much of the cargo lifting capacity, to generate the appropriate amount of power for the motors, this is a potential application. Perhaps the advent of thin film PV could be used instead of the current panels.
The problem is people are always thinking progress need to equate to a practical consumer level solution.
Without a practical consumer side, what are we solving then? Sure, it seems altruistically wonderful to engage in basic research, however, if it doesn't lead to widespread, large scale adoption as a technology, it seems a waste of time. You speak of lessons that are learned, well the basic lesson learned so far is that it is hardly feasible to use solar photovoltaic as an alternative aviation fuel.
"deniers" never were deniers in the first place, they are dedicated and honest scientists, mathematicians, and engineers who can see plainly the severe failings of the GCM (models) and are loathe to let such anti-intellectualism proliferate without warning the public.
Al Gore made $500M just by selling CurrentTV to Qatar (Al Jazeera) which paid him in fossil fuel revenues. Not to mention the uncounted hundreds of millions of dollars his global warming fund collected from carbon credits. Yeah, he made a couple of cents off of phony global warming.
gosh, the headaches of millennials who can't read the numerals on green shaded slips of paper adorned with appropriate dead presidents... not to mention circles of metal with similar dead presidents in bas relief
That morning I was getting ready to go to class, in my last quarter of senior year at university. The one thing I remember vividly was getting home late that evening to find the picture of Columbia on her launch pad had fallen from the wall and the glass and frame had shattered. It was eerie and most likely coincidence, but gave me time to ponder what had happened that morning as I swept up the glass. That evening President Reagan came on television to speak to the nation, having decided to defer his state of the union message to instead deliver an extraordinary speech to lead the nation in mourning, while pointing to a bright future in space. A day that can never be forgotten.
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perhaps they need to bring some of their SolarCity panels to ensure they offset their energy usage, perhaps even get a few dollars back each month from ISS
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They can install one of those solar powered CC enabled meters like in LA, so upon docking the commander can scan his Visa/Mastercard and open a tab until he undocks to go home.
... has only one single usb-c port and no other ports. You can call this strategy brilliant but in practice this means that people have to buy an extra adapter to connect all their peripherals to the one single usb-c port.
what about daisy-chaining like we used to do with SCSI? of course, all peripherals will have to be built with a pair of usb-c ports, increasing the cost
sounds like the age old teenage girl whine: "you're RUINING MY LIFE!"
No, a road atlas or street map are designed to direct drivers along any road marked on the map. DUH! Every city I have moved into, one of my first tasks is to go to the local auto club and obtain the free maps or buy the Rand-McNally Thomas guide and learn the lay of the land, identifying all the routes accessible for me to get around to work, play, shop, eat, etc. This was decades before online map software, and nobody gave me approval to drive through the streets in any town that are open public roadways.
The cities need to sue Waze.
Do the cities also need to sue AAA and Rand-McNally because they propagate maps to the unsuspecting public?
seems like you're describing south-western CA aka California
But in the long term, that's only going to - at best - shift the load to other side streets.
But isn't that what 0bama told Joe the Plumber 8 years ago, we've got to spread the wealth around. So it's perfectly acceptable in the post-0bama era to spread the wealth of the entitled streets to the disadvantaged
but those costs were likely also paid back to the developer's company via the infamous 20-50 year tax deferral so that the company effectively transfers the cost back to the city taxpayers in general, thus public does pay for your streets. so sorry that the realtor selling you the home didn't tell you about that little detail
that's only useful for the guys using C=64 powered GPS
True, very true. when I move to a new city I always bought maps or went to the AAA to obtain free ones to map out routes from my new home to work and other places I wanted to go, and searched out numerous alternate routes - HORROR of HORRORS - through residential side streets to give me options in the event of traffic congestion. Waze, Google, Garmin, etc. didn't exist in the primitive past, just my understanding of NESW and lines on colored paper. Public throughways are not private driveways for the entitled few.
You may be presumptive in asserting electric cars will overtake ICE in the next decade. Without a breakthrough in battery tech to increase storage capacity and reduce recharge time by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude, they will remain a richie rich boytoy. I'd love to have an electromotive passenger car, but should I choose to travel long distances, I'd rather not do it as the pioneers did in their Conestoga wagons on the prairie.
You may be onto something with the lighter than air craft, as there are several firms working on zeppelin-like craft. Each of those craft employ several propeller motors which could be electric powered. Assuming the weight of PV panels doesn't negate too much of the cargo lifting capacity, to generate the appropriate amount of power for the motors, this is a potential application. Perhaps the advent of thin film PV could be used instead of the current panels.
The problem is people are always thinking progress need to equate to a practical consumer level solution.
Without a practical consumer side, what are we solving then? Sure, it seems altruistically wonderful to engage in basic research, however, if it doesn't lead to widespread, large scale adoption as a technology, it seems a waste of time. You speak of lessons that are learned, well the basic lesson learned so far is that it is hardly feasible to use solar photovoltaic as an alternative aviation fuel.
Climate Change is real and has been for billions of years. AGWCC is a semi-religious article of faith by those who truly deny science.
it also has a structure for indulgences
"deniers" never were deniers in the first place, they are dedicated and honest scientists, mathematicians, and engineers who can see plainly the severe failings of the GCM (models) and are loathe to let such anti-intellectualism proliferate without warning the public.
Al Gore made $500M just by selling CurrentTV to Qatar (Al Jazeera) which paid him in fossil fuel revenues. Not to mention the uncounted hundreds of millions of dollars his global warming fund collected from carbon credits. Yeah, he made a couple of cents off of phony global warming.
gosh, the headaches of millennials who can't read the numerals on green shaded slips of paper adorned with appropriate dead presidents... not to mention circles of metal with similar dead presidents in bas relief
No intemperate jerk kicking the back of your seat every 2 minutes
That morning I was getting ready to go to class, in my last quarter of senior year at university. The one thing I remember vividly was getting home late that evening to find the picture of Columbia on her launch pad had fallen from the wall and the glass and frame had shattered. It was eerie and most likely coincidence, but gave me time to ponder what had happened that morning as I swept up the glass. That evening President Reagan came on television to speak to the nation, having decided to defer his state of the union message to instead deliver an extraordinary speech to lead the nation in mourning, while pointing to a bright future in space. A day that can never be forgotten.
and what of all those creatures and vegetation thriving in the intensely acidic plumes above ocean floor thermal vents?
Nuclear power plants are very low CO2 emitters, yet they are being abandoned willy nilly by fools deceived by environmental activists
That's what Hilary did