Wow, you must be a utility customer in austin. You forgot the community benefit charge, resource recovery fee, code compliance fee, drainage fee, and street sweeping fee. Oh, and taxes on all that. The future is now.
Free rides and lobbying local govs. I think they blew 10 mil on a failed prop in austin. They left. And as I told friends, they'll be back after a few months begging to come back. I hear they did a meet and greet with council last week. Maybe they will do the fingerprint check (along with all the other requirements the city has for ride shares) after all even though when the prop was being pushed, they said they could not possibly do that. Their other big cost in an effort to push out cab companies is to give free or heavily discounted fares. There were stories about phantom passengers in china because uber was giving free rides. So inventive drivers created fake passengers to drive around. Driver got paid by uber for the fake trip.
These types of roofs have been around since 2009 or 10. Dow, corning, gaf and now a bunch of chinese imports. Dow is getting out of the market. They never caught on, but I am sure musk and his marketing machine will make all the difference.
All I know is my state farm policy just made it crystal clear that if you are using your car logged into a ride share (with or without an active passengers) you are NOT covered for ANYTHING. If you want coverage for that add option XXX. My rates stayed exactly the same without the option. No idea what they charge for the option.
Except you assume I am against wind. I am totally for wind, just not this wind. West Texas, california, and other places have commercial profitable wind projects. This one is not commercial and by the looks will not be profitable. You can say what you want, but based on the optimistic view of 15c/kwh wholesale, rates in RI will need to be 40-45c/kwh. That is Hawaii expensive. Cost is not just generation. Those guys that get up on poles in the middle of crap weather get paid too. Transformers need replacing from time to time etc. That all rolls into rates.
You use all the positives and see none of the negatives. Again the OP used 16c/kwh RETAIL as their baseline. Do you know that means that probably the wholesale value, you know the value the juice is worth at the turbine, is probably around a nickel, meaning it will take 45 years to pay back. Even giving this project every possible break, it made no sense. Adding in a touch of reality puts it in crazy land.
No not every turbine is going to fail in 20 years. Some will fail sooner, some later and maybe one will fail at exactly 20 years, but I doubt it. Average means average. Why do you keep trying to bury yourself in this position? The original poster figured out the costs on this particular project were not very good. QED.
A friend used to send me emails incessantly that was just bat ---- crazy "facts" from right wing nutjobs. I thought anyone would at least google to see if it were true before broadcasting it. I'd be mortified if I repeated such easily checked facts as the world is flat. Nope, she believed it and when I'd send her multiple articles invalidating it, I think she did not believe me. But then this is a woman who I told to make sure she gets a 30 year fixed mortgage and she calls me 2 years after the purchase to tell me she got a letter from the bank changing her rate. She never read the mortgage docs. People as a mass are stupid.
Except in this case, the hack requires you to insert an SD card into the thermostat. So DMZ or no, you could be hacked. Although given you have a DMZ, I seriously doubt you'd be tricked into sticking some unknown SD card into the unit. Basically the article is hype. It is not an exploit if I have to load something into my thermostat. Who would even bother? A phone sure, but a thermostat????
The carrier infinity line uses a derivative of RS-485 to allow two wire communications. How do I know? Because I have a carrier unit right now that communicates with the outside condenser unit over the original dumb pair of unshielded standard thermostat wires. The outdoor unit is a 2 speed unit, and reports such things as coil temperature and fault codes to the thermostat. A somewhat negative side effect of this is the outdoor unit now needs a power supply which runs all the time to power the interface. If I had 4 wires to the outdoor unit, 2 would have been used for power/gnd and the outdoor unit would not have the separate power supply. The thermostat does not need wifi for operations. If I want it to talk to my phone, I would need to enable the wifi, but I don't have a need for that so I did not enable it.
Those old CRT monitors are not as inexpensive as you might think. A modern LED/LCD monitor draws basically 0 watts relative to the 200-400W a high end CRT one draws. If you run that 8 hours/day figure 70-130 dollars a year in electricity use. And in areas like Hawaii, you can triple that. Also I noticed massively more desk space when I finally moved off my 21" CRT's to panels.
No one needs you to unlock anything. I've had doors kicked open and windows broken to get in. It just is not that hard to break into a house. In fact, when I suggested to the officer I should beef up the frame of the door so it cannot be kicked in, he laughed, he said they'll just break a window instead.
I had my first cavity around 45, and have only 2 and I'm close to 60. My mother had no cavities until her late 50's. You can have hard teeth (less cavities more gum problems) or soft teeth(more cavities less gum issues). Flossing is great for gum issues. They blew it on this one, having gum problems is very bad for health. Flossing is a no brainer.
Except the only way the IOC will be fixed is if many athletes decline to participate this year and the IOC gets a GIANT black mark because they did not deem it necessary to relocate the games. An even bigger black mark would happen if say a gates, buffet, ellison or some other super rich guy said hey lets do an alternate olympics in greece this year at the old venue and have all the athletes go there instead. I know it is not going to happen because the athletes are bound to go to the olympics in 99% of the cases. The golfers have given a big FU but they did not need the money. A number of other athletes who also are not in need of the bucks have also said they are not going. But yes as you say the sports where the olympics are the keys to the dollars they are going because they basically have to or risk throwing away a lifetime of hard work. I don't watch the olympics anymore because of the way it is run.
As I said in my post, it depends. Wikipedia and other sources note nuclear/solar depends on the study and what factors are accounted for. Batteries alone cost more per kwh if you need to store the juice. It is a complicated problem and everyone seems to pick a side and hrumpf away.
Depends on the study. Wind does beat pretty universally. Also must add in costs for backup since the sun does not shine at night. For northern climates like ukraine this gets more problematic as demand at night is higher in winter. Shoot even in texas, peaks on cold nights can get very close to daytime summer loads. For texas, usually ok as wind is blowing out west on those nights, but I recall one brief cold spell where ERCOT was worried about satisfying demand during the night time peak and was worried they would need to do rolling blackouts.
To me what is interesting is the old nuke plant put out 4GW and the new biggest ever solar plant produces 1, and if the 1 is peak, then most of the time it is pumping more like 500MW and only during the day. I wonder if they costed out putting in a new nuke instead vs the solar and which was more expensive per watt.
He just got sued by the guy who manages those cute little girl dancers that performed at his rally's. for gods sake. Trump gets sued because he breaches contracts like they are toilet paper. He BRAGS about not paying people he is contractually obligated to pay. He does this because he knows that most people will not drag on for years in court to get paid 10K. Just check out how he handled those tenants in the 80's at one of the first buildings he bought. Get a clue.
Really, many cars today "know" the speed limit. A friend's nissan versa tells her when the car is exceeding the limit. So shouldn't auto-pilot obey the limit automatically, which even econoboxes can somehow figure out.
You are assuming that people at 4am will want to travel between austin/sa every 10 minutes. Buses run when they run because demand warrants it, and they run empty a good bit of the time even with that. To give you some idea of how much $ we are talking about, they say it is going to cost 20B, so assume for crazy sake they are correct and not off by the typical 5X. If capital costs 1 dollar per ride, that is 5.5million trips/day for 10 years. Austin/SA only has about 3 million people. So unless everyone (man, woman and child) is taking 2 trips/day for 10 years will they recover capital, assuming zero interest. This is a nerd site, does no one on this site even do a rough back of the envelope calculation for stuff like this.
Who is using lidar now? I thought everyone is still using only cameras, radar and sonar. Also as I understand it, part of the issue with tesla/mobileye is elon does not think lidar is necessary. I think he is wrong, and believe if the current systems had lidar, there would have been no death in florida.
It is the cost thing the media parrots that drives me nuts. I just saw on the local news there will be a San Antonio/Austin loop built in the next 20 years or so that will cost 10 bucks to ride, runs every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day. Heck a bus ride across town almost costs that much and those are not running 24 hours a day or every 10 minutes in most cases. Maybe I'll announce my new magic anti-grav sphere tech that runs on air and can transport you anywhere in 30 minutes or less.
Where is the "rule" that says they have to give even support. Didn't think so, there is none. He was an outsider and not favored. I'm shocked. Trump was not favored either by the elite, but he got the votes. Bernie did not get the votes. He was not quite as popular as he thought.
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Wow, you must be a utility customer in austin. You forgot the community benefit charge, resource recovery fee, code compliance fee, drainage fee, and street sweeping fee. Oh, and taxes on all that. The future is now.
Free rides and lobbying local govs. I think they blew 10 mil on a failed prop in austin. They left. And as I told friends, they'll be back after a few months begging to come back. I hear they did a meet and greet with council last week. Maybe they will do the fingerprint check (along with all the other requirements the city has for ride shares) after all even though when the prop was being pushed, they said they could not possibly do that. Their other big cost in an effort to push out cab companies is to give free or heavily discounted fares. There were stories about phantom passengers in china because uber was giving free rides. So inventive drivers created fake passengers to drive around. Driver got paid by uber for the fake trip.
These types of roofs have been around since 2009 or 10. Dow, corning, gaf and now a bunch of chinese imports. Dow is getting out of the market. They never caught on, but I am sure musk and his marketing machine will make all the difference.
All I know is my state farm policy just made it crystal clear that if you are using your car logged into a ride share (with or without an active passengers) you are NOT covered for ANYTHING. If you want coverage for that add option XXX. My rates stayed exactly the same without the option. No idea what they charge for the option.
Except you assume I am against wind. I am totally for wind, just not this wind. West Texas, california, and other places have commercial profitable wind projects. This one is not commercial and by the looks will not be profitable. You can say what you want, but based on the optimistic view of 15c/kwh wholesale, rates in RI will need to be 40-45c/kwh. That is Hawaii expensive. Cost is not just generation. Those guys that get up on poles in the middle of crap weather get paid too. Transformers need replacing from time to time etc. That all rolls into rates.
You use all the positives and see none of the negatives. Again the OP used 16c/kwh RETAIL as their baseline. Do you know that means that probably the wholesale value, you know the value the juice is worth at the turbine, is probably around a nickel, meaning it will take 45 years to pay back. Even giving this project every possible break, it made no sense. Adding in a touch of reality puts it in crazy land.
No not every turbine is going to fail in 20 years. Some will fail sooner, some later and maybe one will fail at exactly 20 years, but I doubt it. Average means average. Why do you keep trying to bury yourself in this position? The original poster figured out the costs on this particular project were not very good. QED.
A friend used to send me emails incessantly that was just bat ---- crazy "facts" from right wing nutjobs. I thought anyone would at least google to see if it were true before broadcasting it. I'd be mortified if I repeated such easily checked facts as the world is flat. Nope, she believed it and when I'd send her multiple articles invalidating it, I think she did not believe me. But then this is a woman who I told to make sure she gets a 30 year fixed mortgage and she calls me 2 years after the purchase to tell me she got a letter from the bank changing her rate. She never read the mortgage docs. People as a mass are stupid.
With your argument, why should I pay school tax if I have no kids?
Putin is on Trump's payroll. I don't know who said it, but I hear people say that. Could be true. (Said exactly as trump would say about crazy crap)
Except in this case, the hack requires you to insert an SD card into the thermostat. So DMZ or no, you could be hacked. Although given you have a DMZ, I seriously doubt you'd be tricked into sticking some unknown SD card into the unit. Basically the article is hype. It is not an exploit if I have to load something into my thermostat. Who would even bother? A phone sure, but a thermostat????
The carrier infinity line uses a derivative of RS-485 to allow two wire communications. How do I know? Because I have a carrier unit right now that communicates with the outside condenser unit over the original dumb pair of unshielded standard thermostat wires. The outdoor unit is a 2 speed unit, and reports such things as coil temperature and fault codes to the thermostat. A somewhat negative side effect of this is the outdoor unit now needs a power supply which runs all the time to power the interface. If I had 4 wires to the outdoor unit, 2 would have been used for power/gnd and the outdoor unit would not have the separate power supply. The thermostat does not need wifi for operations. If I want it to talk to my phone, I would need to enable the wifi, but I don't have a need for that so I did not enable it.
Those old CRT monitors are not as inexpensive as you might think. A modern LED/LCD monitor draws basically 0 watts relative to the 200-400W a high end CRT one draws. If you run that 8 hours/day figure 70-130 dollars a year in electricity use. And in areas like Hawaii, you can triple that. Also I noticed massively more desk space when I finally moved off my 21" CRT's to panels.
No one needs you to unlock anything. I've had doors kicked open and windows broken to get in. It just is not that hard to break into a house. In fact, when I suggested to the officer I should beef up the frame of the door so it cannot be kicked in, he laughed, he said they'll just break a window instead.
I had my first cavity around 45, and have only 2 and I'm close to 60. My mother had no cavities until her late 50's. You can have hard teeth (less cavities more gum problems) or soft teeth(more cavities less gum issues). Flossing is great for gum issues. They blew it on this one, having gum problems is very bad for health. Flossing is a no brainer.
Except the only way the IOC will be fixed is if many athletes decline to participate this year and the IOC gets a GIANT black mark because they did not deem it necessary to relocate the games. An even bigger black mark would happen if say a gates, buffet, ellison or some other super rich guy said hey lets do an alternate olympics in greece this year at the old venue and have all the athletes go there instead. I know it is not going to happen because the athletes are bound to go to the olympics in 99% of the cases. The golfers have given a big FU but they did not need the money. A number of other athletes who also are not in need of the bucks have also said they are not going. But yes as you say the sports where the olympics are the keys to the dollars they are going because they basically have to or risk throwing away a lifetime of hard work. I don't watch the olympics anymore because of the way it is run.
As I said in my post, it depends. Wikipedia and other sources note nuclear/solar depends on the study and what factors are accounted for. Batteries alone cost more per kwh if you need to store the juice. It is a complicated problem and everyone seems to pick a side and hrumpf away.
Depends on the study. Wind does beat pretty universally. Also must add in costs for backup since the sun does not shine at night. For northern climates like ukraine this gets more problematic as demand at night is higher in winter. Shoot even in texas, peaks on cold nights can get very close to daytime summer loads. For texas, usually ok as wind is blowing out west on those nights, but I recall one brief cold spell where ERCOT was worried about satisfying demand during the night time peak and was worried they would need to do rolling blackouts.
To me what is interesting is the old nuke plant put out 4GW and the new biggest ever solar plant produces 1, and if the 1 is peak, then most of the time it is pumping more like 500MW and only during the day. I wonder if they costed out putting in a new nuke instead vs the solar and which was more expensive per watt.
He just got sued by the guy who manages those cute little girl dancers that performed at his rally's. for gods sake. Trump gets sued because he breaches contracts like they are toilet paper. He BRAGS about not paying people he is contractually obligated to pay. He does this because he knows that most people will not drag on for years in court to get paid 10K. Just check out how he handled those tenants in the 80's at one of the first buildings he bought. Get a clue.
Really, many cars today "know" the speed limit. A friend's nissan versa tells her when the car is exceeding the limit. So shouldn't auto-pilot obey the limit automatically, which even econoboxes can somehow figure out.
You are assuming that people at 4am will want to travel between austin/sa every 10 minutes. Buses run when they run because demand warrants it, and they run empty a good bit of the time even with that. To give you some idea of how much $ we are talking about, they say it is going to cost 20B, so assume for crazy sake they are correct and not off by the typical 5X. If capital costs 1 dollar per ride, that is 5.5million trips/day for 10 years. Austin/SA only has about 3 million people. So unless everyone (man, woman and child) is taking 2 trips/day for 10 years will they recover capital, assuming zero interest. This is a nerd site, does no one on this site even do a rough back of the envelope calculation for stuff like this.
Who is using lidar now? I thought everyone is still using only cameras, radar and sonar. Also as I understand it, part of the issue with tesla/mobileye is elon does not think lidar is necessary. I think he is wrong, and believe if the current systems had lidar, there would have been no death in florida.
It is the cost thing the media parrots that drives me nuts. I just saw on the local news there will be a San Antonio/Austin loop built in the next 20 years or so that will cost 10 bucks to ride, runs every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day. Heck a bus ride across town almost costs that much and those are not running 24 hours a day or every 10 minutes in most cases. Maybe I'll announce my new magic anti-grav sphere tech that runs on air and can transport you anywhere in 30 minutes or less.
Where is the "rule" that says they have to give even support. Didn't think so, there is none. He was an outsider and not favored. I'm shocked. Trump was not favored either by the elite, but he got the votes. Bernie did not get the votes. He was not quite as popular as he thought.