If any of this was possible, it would have been done already. But the long distance transmission losses and wheeling charges will kill you. Forget shifting solar or wind back and forth, the owners of nukes and hydro plants and would love to sell power across the country to maximize their return on capital costs.
If the economics were there, the regional grids could easily be extended to ship power across the country. But they are not, unless you can make economics someone else's problem with subsidies. By whining "Muh green energy!"
People who make these "Wow! Wouldn't it be neat if we...." statements with no idea how the existing systems already work make me think they are trying to sell bridges to suckers.
The US management of ICANN has largely been hands off. And NSA surveillance of Internet traffic is not dependent on who manages its address space. So that will continue.
What will happen, if ICANN is placed under the authority of weaker management, is that every little tin pot dictator and authoritarian regime will attempt to impose their authority over their corner of it. And instead of ICANNs current policy of keeping local autocrats at arms length, they will be forced into supporting their authority.
I guess I'd have to see the language of the actual law that obliges you to install PV panels and connect them to the grid with no compensation or agreement for payment at certain rates.
Isn't that due to the contract you entered into for net metering and installation subsidies? And now that the utility has reneged on their part, can't you get out of yours?
What about the spinning reserve that the power company has to maintain in the event your coal plants or nuclear plants drop off line?
Already figured into the difference between wholesale and retail energy prices.
they are likely geographically so much distributed that, there is no need for increasing spinning reserves either.
Geography doesn't enter into the reliability of coal/hydro/nuclear. Not like it does when its overcast or calm over a wide region. And then the diversity provided by renewable resources sufficiently remote to be available undermines arguments about system losses and feeding your neighbors' loads. The sun might be shining hundreds of miles away. But counting that as a reserve needs to consider the same line losses that other centralized sources incur.
I don't know about key escrow. But when it comes to back doors, those same people sure do seem to get their panties in a bunch when they find one in their own stuff.
you need to take all the fishing boat owners in, say, Boston Harbor
Why just Boston Harbor? What about all the fishermen in villages around the world? "Just stop fishing" means that people will have to eat something else. Probably something cultivated or raised on land. And since we (in the first world) are already farming most of the viable land, this means going to third world countries, throwing the indigenous people off their land and raising crops and livestock.
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If any of this was possible, it would have been done already. But the long distance transmission losses and wheeling charges will kill you. Forget shifting solar or wind back and forth, the owners of nukes and hydro plants and would love to sell power across the country to maximize their return on capital costs.
If the economics were there, the regional grids could easily be extended to ship power across the country. But they are not, unless you can make economics someone else's problem with subsidies. By whining "Muh green energy!"
What's wrong with the old ones?
People who make these "Wow! Wouldn't it be neat if we ...." statements with no idea how the existing systems already work make me think they are trying to sell bridges to suckers.
The US management of ICANN has largely been hands off. And NSA surveillance of Internet traffic is not dependent on who manages its address space. So that will continue.
What will happen, if ICANN is placed under the authority of weaker management, is that every little tin pot dictator and authoritarian regime will attempt to impose their authority over their corner of it. And instead of ICANNs current policy of keeping local autocrats at arms length, they will be forced into supporting their authority.
I'd say it was the flush toilet.
I guess I'd have to see the language of the actual law that obliges you to install PV panels and connect them to the grid with no compensation or agreement for payment at certain rates.
Due to state law
Isn't that due to the contract you entered into for net metering and installation subsidies? And now that the utility has reneged on their part, can't you get out of yours?
What about the spinning reserve that the power company has to maintain in the event your coal plants or nuclear plants drop off line?
Already figured into the difference between wholesale and retail energy prices.
they are likely geographically so much distributed that, there is no need for increasing spinning reserves either.
Geography doesn't enter into the reliability of coal/hydro/nuclear. Not like it does when its overcast or calm over a wide region. And then the diversity provided by renewable resources sufficiently remote to be available undermines arguments about system losses and feeding your neighbors' loads. The sun might be shining hundreds of miles away. But counting that as a reserve needs to consider the same line losses that other centralized sources incur.
Why the hell is that sentence so long and so difficult to read?
72 words, one sentence. All I can say is, "Yes, dear."
Counting sheep is good for going to sleep,
No its not
I wonder what an ombudsman really is.
Here is a picture of ours.
What about the spinning reserve that the power company has to maintain in the event your solar panels or wind generator drop off line?
send tweets from Emacs
Next task: Pipe the Emacs psychiatrist straight to Twitter and run as a background process. That ought to keep the Twits busy for a while.
I don't know about key escrow. But when it comes to back doors, those same people sure do seem to get their panties in a bunch when they find one in their own stuff.
Emacs is the purest implementation of Zawinski's Law
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mobile app assigned a phone number to my tablet.
Everything the phone company does involves phone numbers. Don't like it? Disable 3G/4G connectivity and live from WiFi AP to WiFi AP.
isn't physically connected to the house network.
Stuxnet. Iranian centrifuges.
Calm down Zhang, I've got it handled: We'll just tell them "Oh, those are just for our internal debugging, LOL, nothing to worry about!
FTFY
Good. I've been wondering why we've been using the name of the Egyptian Goddess of wisdom.
2.5 Tons?
What's that in Roman Numerals?
Mow your dang lawn.
Why? It's winter in this IP address block.
you need to take all the fishing boat owners in, say, Boston Harbor
Why just Boston Harbor? What about all the fishermen in villages around the world? "Just stop fishing" means that people will have to eat something else. Probably something cultivated or raised on land. And since we (in the first world) are already farming most of the viable land, this means going to third world countries, throwing the indigenous people off their land and raising crops and livestock.
The fish.
My IP address is 192.168.1.1 Come and get me.