Mate! you made my day. What a wonderful statement. Well written.
Hope you don't mind, I posted your comment on SoloPassion.com
http://www.solopassion.com/node/3531
I turned off Windows automatic update a long time ago. I now selectively pick security updates that I think are relevant. The reason for this is that I have had various occasions where my PC started to play up after an update. When I rolled back the update things were fine again.
Yes, IT is forced the Microsoft way. There used to me several powerful producers of programming languages. Most notably Borland. Borland shot itself in the foot by neglecting Delphi and Microsoft took the small remainder of that market. Now almost all of the windows software houses use Microsoft products. They are Microsoft Certified, member of MSDN use almost exclusively MS visual Studio either for the old C++ or more often now the.net stuff. They tend to use MS SQL Server and of course use any other quick solution Microsoft throws at them.
Gradually the IT world as been super glued to the Microsoft way. Financial incentives are offered for those companies that have their software Microsoft Certified and on it goes. As a result software houses I work for have been changed from independent IT company to an exclusive Microsoft House and don't you dare to question the technology because most developers like the juicy bones thrown at them by Microsoft at regular intervals.
And of course as a result software users can not do anything else but go along with it. Your average software package today will require you already have MSI 3 windows installer,.net framework, DirectX and MSIE and I am sure this list is really much longer. As much as I have not cared for alternative OS'es, Now I am losing my market value with Borland Delphi I think I rather re-educate myself to work with an alternate OS instead of becoming a Microsoft lapdog.
I love the Amie Street concept and I am likely to buy from their site but the information they provide is not complete. Maybe not all songs start at $0.
It makes sense though. Lately they have signed up a bunch of record labels that then introduces a whole lot of albums all at once. Have a look at http://amiestreet.com/elvispresley All the Elvis songs start at $0.22. This is either because it is the introduction price or it is because only entire albums have been sold.
Yes there will be many bored idiots that download every free song without even listening to it....ever. Yes those free prices will very quickly become very low prices of $0.01 after which almost no-one will download them Yes this cuts out brain dead downloaders but serious buyers can still preview a streaming track and buy
I am not sure if they do it already but they could allow only registered users that are in credit to download free music.
Yes when the price hits the high cut-off point dumb people might buy DRM'ed songs from ITunes instead.
What I would like to know is what happens with the price when popularity of a song diminishes. Does the price go down again?
I hope this site becomes very successful and will attract a lot of great talent.
This reverse model suggestion keeps coming up. What are you people? Communists?
If some rasta dude pings together some crap song that nobody wants to listen to should he get money for that? No! The Amie street system gives the guy a chance by providing free access to the song. If the music is ok he will make a few bucks. If he is good or employs clever marketing he may sell more and make good money.
Why should great artists not be rewarded when their popularity sores even higher? Unfair? Are you jealous? Surely Amie street is not a social welfare system where losers are rewarded?
I can barely tell the difference between Queen and U2 but totally love this concept. It will place the money received (well at least 70% of it) straight into the artists hands without the fat cat publishers taking almost all of it. I would not be surprised if more artists will be able to make a living this way than ever before. At the same time I imagine it will be harder to become multimillionaire through music.
It will eventually also mean that there is less money for the big music publishers to promote crap music. I heard somewhere that the era of mega stars has passed. I agree with that. There will be more artists competing for a piece of the pie. Probably become more localized.
I wonder if anyone can suggest a way to influence this system to their benefit and I don't mean hacking.
You must be an American. I was taking the piss mate! Don't take yourself to serious. You know what is worth a try if you are serious about saving a human life? Get the fuck out of Irak! You really want to save lives? Spend your money on health care research instead on weapon research. Do you really, really really want to save lifes? Stop voting for these pathetic morons who are hell bound to run your nation into the ground. How incredibly stupid and single minded have you people become? Putting a robot in the place of the soldier who invaded and call that potential for saving lifes makes me mad!
This is sort of weird. Here's an army in a foreign country that wants to force peace on people. However there are individuals who don't want them there so they push back. Then the US army pushes back and so on.
Now the US Army has a great idea. Let's use a robot to shoot and ask questions later in order to save soldiers lives. Now the other guy needs to build his own stronger robot so that it can disable the US robot.
Just imagine. There is a guy on either side of a village square pushing around a joystick driving a robot to fight the other guys robot. Surely at this point even a US commander would start to wonder what the fuck they are doing over there because soon it becomes a pissing match where my robot is bigger than yours.
I love the idea of the kill switch.
US joystick operator aims to kill a group of civilians when suddenly a hand moves past the camera. "Click" the robot freezes. Two more hands in the view now and a wrench. A few minutes later a gun is carried away.
I really don't want to go to the cinema anymore. Me and my family ended up looking in the foyer of a movie theater to see what movies were going only to find notices everywhere that you can be prosecuted if you'd take a recording device into the theater! Well my mobile can record so what do you do? Anyway this arcane threatening combined with being exposed to stern warning about piracy and then a whole load of adverts put me off. We decided against seeing a movie and instead had a fun family dinner somewhere.
Movie theaters are history. Why would anyone would pay the price equal to a good DVD for the privilege to risk being prosecuted in a sticky theater with farting and sweaty people shoulder to shoulder.
Even if you were right, it would make no difference. My experience is that families are often intellegent / stupid across the board. So either it is thanks to the genes or thanks to good parenting and support. Either way smart people should have heaps of kids.
It is the wrong way around. Smart boys and girls should go at it like rabbits without protection without protection. Is it a wonder that humanity as a whole is dumbing down? So called intelligent people have less kids while social welfare losers produce a lot of offspring.
Yeah, you are right about engine power. The thing is, around here you can rarely drive at freeway speeds because of the traffic jams. Let's face it. At the speeds of a busy city you don't need cars that can do double the max allowed speed. Actually you never need that kind of speed.
Some argue that it is handy when passing. Well that is true when the speed difference between you and the other car is only slight so.... don't pass. It makes no real difference in your travel time anyway but not passing keeps you safer. Automatic speed adjustment systems would help a lot to stabilise traffic on freeways.
Driving at lower speeds means you can have a smaller engine. Smaller engines are lighter so they can be held by lighter frames. Smaller cars that can't drive at twice the speed limit don't need as much re-enforcement so they can get yet lighter again thus improving acceleration. The only argument against a car like this is the risk of being flattened by a big fat SUV but there are solutions for that.
I believe SUV's should be taxed heavier (On top of the extra fuel tax). They wear the roads more, take up more space on car parks and cause the majority of the serious harm on the road. In addition I believe that people that wish to drive performance cars or SUV's need a special drivers licence to do so. This would clear the roads of the SUV idiots and leave it safe enough to drive on with cars much more suitable for their purpose.
Right so you are saying that the "Heavier than your car" war not only rages in the SUV market but also among smaller cars. Indeed, more crash resistant, 5 air bags and I suppose the weight increase of cars has to keep up with the weight increase of it occupants as well. I wonder how those old sub 1000 kg cars would hold up with 3 obese Americans in it assuming you could actually squeeze them in.
Sigh, all I want is a light car. Single or double seater even. Something like the Honda Insight would do but they are very expensive around here. We really need a big old fuel crisis. In a way I sort of hope to see the fuel prices double in the next year. Maybe that will finally beat some sense into people. After all, fuel economy became a big issue after the 1970 oil crisis.
Glad someone else remembers that too I was starting to doubt my sanity. They are carry on as if cars have never been more fuel efficient which is bullshit. I remember by dad's car did 18 km per litre the unit used in those days. This is 42 mpg in US units or 5.55 litre per 100 km. (Thank you http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/fuel )
Also cars those days had a little light or lights on the dash showing how economic you were driving. I believe it came on when the vacuum in the carburettor reached a certain value. Cars back then were marketed for their low aerodynamic drag and economy. Now the car shape is sole determined by fashion. Do they still use wind tunnels for cars? Where have those fuel economy warning lights gone? My Holden/Vauxal/Opel Vectra uses 9 liter per 100 km on average (26 mpg ) which is a shocking performance compared to cars from more than 3 decades ago.
Just today I might have had exactly that problem. First drastically slowing down of execution with high HD activity. I decided to reboot and that was it. When Windows was loading it failed halfway and blue screened. Even safe mode would not allow it to boot. Placing the HD in a different PC gave the same problem.
This is typical. I recall the first Diskettes and how reliable they were. As PC's got cheaper these things became notoriously unreliable. CD's same thing. They used to always work and now even silver pressed disks won't always load on relatively new drives. This week I needed to install something from my original Windows XP Pro disk. The disk had never left the shrink-wrap it came in and the surface looked immaculate. But no sir, it would not load on any of my PC's. Now with the increasing HD density we can no longer rely on HD either!
I believe that the critical files on a PC operating system should not be stored on a HD. Why not store the entire OS on flash memory and copy those parts which are accessed frequently such as the registry to the HD on bootup. Also a separate area on the drive could be set aside for temp files while pure data is stored on the less frequently accessed parts of the HD.
In this day and age where we have to rely on HD to store our home video's, photo's and music we need reliable storage more than ever. I find it unacceptable that today's PC hardware has become so unreliable and I am not talking about cheap and nasty $400 Dell PC's here. And don't even start talking about backup. There is nothing reliable and large enough to backup a modern HD to. I rather go back the smaller 80 GIG drives then continue down this wobbly path.
"Thanks Boeing" ??? WTF is that all about. This technology was developed by a New Zealand company and brought to the attention of Boeing by a New Zealand airline! A lot of clever shit emerges from New Zealand. unfortunately most are better inventors than businessmen but if you say thanks don't automatically assumes it comes from a USA company.
Actually most movies would fit on a 4.7 GB disk provided you dispense with all the crap surrounding the actual movie. Of course Lord of the Rings or the latest Pirates movie would be too long.
I want DVD's that simply start playing the moment they are entered into the drive. No super weird menu's to figure out with often ambiguous structures. Just pop in and play. My main reason for copying DVD's.
I get upset every time I spend money to hire a DVD and then be forced to sit through warnings and adds. It makes me WANT to copy the DVD and strip this crap.
Cheers mate, Well, Ebay came to the rescue. I got my part for $33 instead of $350 dollars. Imagine that, 10 times more if you purchase that part locally! On some days this place really feels like a little island.
Nope, I bought a Nintendo Wii. But your sarcastic comment is not that far off the mark. It is getting increasingly difficult to find suppliers that treat their customers with respect and decency. Sometimes, and these days far too often, there is no choice and you have to buy from the "bad" guy either because competitors have been pushed out or because markets have been shaped in such a way that alternative goods can not be obtained in certain parts of the world.
I am having that very fight now where I need a car part that costs here $350 while in the UK the same part inc shipping would cost $100 but of course the resellers in the UK are not allowed to ship to New Zealand.
It is a stinking awful market out there where I am the muddy stressed cash cow being worked for all I'm worth.
I recently bought our first game console for the family. I would have been open to any brand but Sony appears to be a terrible technology bully forcing propriety solutions onto the market and then fleecing it's customers as long as they can. To me Sony as a publisher is one one the most active DRM fanatics whipping their customers into shape.
Basically, Sony is not a brand that I associate with fun and entertainment but with litigation and bullying it is that simple. We are due for a new TV and sound system. Sony products will simply not be considered regardless of how good or cheap they are.
I don't want to do business with Sony and I am hoping their problems are due to the fact that more people feel this way. I am hoping that people finally stand up to large brands and tell them to play nice or piss off.
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I just read their pdf based documentation http://www.hydro.com/library/attachments/en/press_ room/floating_windmills2_en.pdf but it appears they will use a 120 meter long concrete submerged cylinder. This thing will weigh the hundreds of tons you are talking about. But you are right, there is an issue they have not solved yet because they say Quote
"For the concept to work, it is crucial that the wind turbines be light, requiring further technological development to realize the goal of establishing offshore wind farms at greater sea depths."
So it seems they too are concerned about the weight at the top. I reckon that might be fixable by placing the generator in the base of the concrete tube or tower and run a shaft or transmission belt up to the rotor.
I suppose lowering the rotor is out of the question because the blades might hit ships.
Damn, I hate to admit it but I indeed stuffed up big time. Very stupid but thanks for putting me straight. That volume of ice translated to a layer over the antarctic (14 million square km) is only 25 meters thick.
It does make me accept the potential possibility of sea level rises but it won't throw me into a global warming panic frenzy. I better check my math a few more times before I post next time.
You are so right!
I like to add to that the fact that albums are also a great trick to sell you the same songs over and over as they occur in different combinations on the albums.
Every time government proposes a new law we seem to take it for gospel that something must happen one way or the other. Politicians play this game successfully over and over. They raise a non issue, get a discussion started by proposing some crazy "solution" and then people happily discus and offer alternate "solutions" and thus accepting the "fact" there is a problem that needs legislating.
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Mate! you made my day. What a wonderful statement. Well written. Hope you don't mind, I posted your comment on SoloPassion.com http://www.solopassion.com/node/3531
I turned off Windows automatic update a long time ago. I now selectively pick security updates that I think are relevant. The reason for this is that I have had various occasions where my PC started to play up after an update. When I rolled back the update things were fine again.
.net stuff. They tend to use MS SQL Server and of course use any other quick solution Microsoft throws at them.
.net framework, DirectX and MSIE and I am sure this list is really much longer. As much as I have not cared for alternative OS'es, Now I am losing my market value with Borland Delphi I think I rather re-educate myself to work with an alternate OS instead of becoming a Microsoft lapdog.
Yes, IT is forced the Microsoft way. There used to me several powerful producers of programming languages. Most notably Borland. Borland shot itself in the foot by neglecting Delphi and Microsoft took the small remainder of that market. Now almost all of the windows software houses use Microsoft products. They are Microsoft Certified, member of MSDN use almost exclusively MS visual Studio either for the old C++ or more often now the
Gradually the IT world as been super glued to the Microsoft way. Financial incentives are offered for those companies that have their software Microsoft Certified and on it goes. As a result software houses I work for have been changed from independent IT company to an exclusive Microsoft House and don't you dare to question the technology because most developers like the juicy bones thrown at them by Microsoft at regular intervals.
And of course as a result software users can not do anything else but go along with it. Your average software package today will require you already have MSI 3 windows installer,
I love the Amie Street concept and I am likely to buy from their site but the information they provide is not complete. Maybe not all songs start at $0.
It makes sense though. Lately they have signed up a bunch of record labels that then introduces a whole lot of albums all at once. Have a look at http://amiestreet.com/elvispresley
All the Elvis songs start at $0.22. This is either because it is the introduction price or it is because only entire albums have been sold.
I disagree.
Yes there will be many bored idiots that download every free song without even listening to it....ever.
Yes those free prices will very quickly become very low prices of $0.01 after which almost no-one will download them
Yes this cuts out brain dead downloaders but serious buyers can still preview a streaming track and buy
I am not sure if they do it already but they could allow only registered users that are in credit to download free music.
Yes when the price hits the high cut-off point dumb people might buy DRM'ed songs from ITunes instead.
What I would like to know is what happens with the price when popularity of a song diminishes. Does the price go down again?
I hope this site becomes very successful and will attract a lot of great talent.
This reverse model suggestion keeps coming up. What are you people? Communists?
If some rasta dude pings together some crap song that nobody wants to listen to should he get money for that? No! The Amie street system gives the guy a chance by providing free access to the song. If the music is ok he will make a few bucks. If he is good or employs clever marketing he may sell more and make good money.
Why should great artists not be rewarded when their popularity sores even higher? Unfair? Are you jealous? Surely Amie street is not a social welfare system where losers are rewarded?
I can barely tell the difference between Queen and U2 but totally love this concept. It will place the money received (well at least 70% of it) straight into the artists hands without the fat cat publishers taking almost all of it. I would not be surprised if more artists will be able to make a living this way than ever before. At the same time I imagine it will be harder to become multimillionaire through music.
It will eventually also mean that there is less money for the big music publishers to promote crap music. I heard somewhere that the era of mega stars has passed. I agree with that. There will be more artists competing for a piece of the pie. Probably become more localized.
I wonder if anyone can suggest a way to influence this system to their benefit and I don't mean hacking.
You must be an American. I was taking the piss mate! Don't take yourself to serious. You know what is worth a try if you are serious about saving a human life? Get the fuck out of Irak! You really want to save lives? Spend your money on health care research instead on weapon research. Do you really, really really want to save lifes? Stop voting for these pathetic morons who are hell bound to run your nation into the ground. How incredibly stupid and single minded have you people become? Putting a robot in the place of the soldier who invaded and call that potential for saving lifes makes me mad!
This is sort of weird. Here's an army in a foreign country that wants to force peace on people. However there are individuals who don't want them there so they push back. Then the US army pushes back and so on.
Now the US Army has a great idea. Let's use a robot to shoot and ask questions later in order to save soldiers lives. Now the other guy needs to build his own stronger robot so that it can disable the US robot.
Just imagine. There is a guy on either side of a village square pushing around a joystick driving a robot to fight the other guys robot. Surely at this point even a US commander would start to wonder what the fuck they are doing over there because soon it becomes a pissing match where my robot is bigger than yours.
I love the idea of the kill switch.
US joystick operator aims to kill a group of civilians when suddenly a hand moves past the camera. "Click" the robot freezes. Two more hands in the view now and a wrench. A few minutes later a gun is carried away.
I really don't want to go to the cinema anymore. Me and my family ended up looking in the foyer of a movie theater to see what movies were going only to find notices everywhere that you can be prosecuted if you'd take a recording device into the theater! Well my mobile can record so what do you do? Anyway this arcane threatening combined with being exposed to stern warning about piracy and then a whole load of adverts put me off. We decided against seeing a movie and instead had a fun family dinner somewhere.
Movie theaters are history. Why would anyone would pay the price equal to a good DVD for the privilege to risk being prosecuted in a sticky theater with farting and sweaty people shoulder to shoulder.
Even if you were right, it would make no difference. My experience is that families are often intellegent / stupid across the board. So either it is thanks to the genes or thanks to good parenting and support. Either way smart people should have heaps of kids.
It is the wrong way around. Smart boys and girls should go at it like rabbits without protection without protection. Is it a wonder that humanity as a whole is dumbing down? So called intelligent people have less kids while social welfare losers produce a lot of offspring.
Yeah, you are right about engine power. The thing is, around here you can rarely drive at freeway speeds because of the traffic jams. Let's face it. At the speeds of a busy city you don't need cars that can do double the max allowed speed. Actually you never need that kind of speed.
Some argue that it is handy when passing. Well that is true when the speed difference between you and the other car is only slight so.... don't pass. It makes no real difference in your travel time anyway but not passing keeps you safer. Automatic speed adjustment systems would help a lot to stabilise traffic on freeways.
Driving at lower speeds means you can have a smaller engine. Smaller engines are lighter so they can be held by lighter frames. Smaller cars that can't drive at twice the speed limit don't need as much re-enforcement so they can get yet lighter again thus improving acceleration. The only argument against a car like this is the risk of being flattened by a big fat SUV but there are solutions for that.
I believe SUV's should be taxed heavier (On top of the extra fuel tax). They wear the roads more, take up more space on car parks and cause the majority of the serious harm on the road. In addition I believe that people that wish to drive performance cars or SUV's need a special drivers licence to do so. This would clear the roads of the SUV idiots and leave it safe enough to drive on with cars much more suitable for their purpose.
Damn, we really desperately need an oil crisis.
Right so you are saying that the "Heavier than your car" war not only rages in the SUV market but also among smaller cars. Indeed, more crash resistant, 5 air bags and I suppose the weight increase of cars has to keep up with the weight increase of it occupants as well. I wonder how those old sub 1000 kg cars would hold up with 3 obese Americans in it assuming you could actually squeeze them in.
Sigh, all I want is a light car. Single or double seater even. Something like the Honda Insight would do but they are very expensive around here. We really need a big old fuel crisis. In a way I sort of hope to see the fuel prices double in the next year. Maybe that will finally beat some sense into people. After all, fuel economy became a big issue after the 1970 oil crisis.
Glad someone else remembers that too I was starting to doubt my sanity. They are carry on as if cars have never been more fuel efficient which is bullshit. I remember by dad's car did 18 km per litre the unit used in those days. This is 42 mpg in US units or 5.55 litre per 100 km. (Thank you http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/fuel )
Also cars those days had a little light or lights on the dash showing how economic you were driving. I believe it came on when the vacuum in the carburettor reached a certain value. Cars back then were marketed for their low aerodynamic drag and economy. Now the car shape is sole determined by fashion. Do they still use wind tunnels for cars? Where have those fuel economy warning lights gone? My Holden/Vauxal/Opel Vectra uses 9 liter per 100 km on average (26 mpg ) which is a shocking performance compared to cars from more than 3 decades ago.
What if my heart stops! No circulation and then no power for my bionic fingers to dial 911 on my wrist watch.
Just today I might have had exactly that problem. First drastically slowing down of execution with high HD activity. I decided to reboot and that was it. When Windows was loading it failed halfway and blue screened. Even safe mode would not allow it to boot. Placing the HD in a different PC gave the same problem.
This is typical. I recall the first Diskettes and how reliable they were. As PC's got cheaper these things became notoriously unreliable. CD's same thing. They used to always work and now even silver pressed disks won't always load on relatively new drives. This week I needed to install something from my original Windows XP Pro disk. The disk had never left the shrink-wrap it came in and the surface looked immaculate. But no sir, it would not load on any of my PC's. Now with the increasing HD density we can no longer rely on HD either!
I believe that the critical files on a PC operating system should not be stored on a HD. Why not store the entire OS on flash memory and copy those parts which are accessed frequently such as the registry to the HD on bootup. Also a separate area on the drive could be set aside for temp files while pure data is stored on the less frequently accessed parts of the HD.
In this day and age where we have to rely on HD to store our home video's, photo's and music we need reliable storage more than ever. I find it unacceptable that today's PC hardware has become so unreliable and I am not talking about cheap and nasty $400 Dell PC's here. And don't even start talking about backup. There is nothing reliable and large enough to backup a modern HD to. I rather go back the smaller 80 GIG drives then continue down this wobbly path.
No we something with a high oil content. Politicians are full of crap but we could feed politicians to the algae ponds.
"Thanks Boeing" ??? WTF is that all about. This technology was developed by a New Zealand company and brought to the attention of Boeing by a New Zealand airline! A lot of clever shit emerges from New Zealand. unfortunately most are better inventors than businessmen but if you say thanks don't automatically assumes it comes from a USA company.
Actually most movies would fit on a 4.7 GB disk provided you dispense with all the crap surrounding the actual movie. Of course Lord of the Rings or the latest Pirates movie would be too long.
I want DVD's that simply start playing the moment they are entered into the drive. No super weird menu's to figure out with often ambiguous structures. Just pop in and play. My main reason for copying DVD's.
I get upset every time I spend money to hire a DVD and then be forced to sit through warnings and adds. It makes me WANT to copy the DVD and strip this crap.
Cheers mate, Well, Ebay came to the rescue. I got my part for $33 instead of $350 dollars. Imagine that, 10 times more if you purchase that part locally! On some days this place really feels like a little island.
Nope, I bought a Nintendo Wii. But your sarcastic comment is not that far off the mark. It is getting increasingly difficult to find suppliers that treat their customers with respect and decency. Sometimes, and these days far too often, there is no choice and you have to buy from the "bad"
guy either because competitors have been pushed out or because markets have been shaped in such a way that alternative goods can not be obtained in certain parts of the world.
I am having that very fight now where I need a car part that costs here $350 while in the UK the same part inc shipping would cost $100 but of course the resellers in the UK are not allowed to ship to New Zealand.
It is a stinking awful market out there where I am the muddy stressed cash cow being worked for all I'm worth.
I recently bought our first game console for the family. I would have been open to any brand but Sony appears to be a terrible technology bully forcing propriety solutions onto the market and then fleecing it's customers as long as they can. To me Sony as a publisher is one one the most active DRM fanatics whipping their customers into shape.
Basically, Sony is not a brand that I associate with fun and entertainment but with litigation and bullying it is that simple. We are due for a new TV and sound system. Sony products will simply not be considered regardless of how good or cheap they are.
I don't want to do business with Sony and I am hoping their problems are due to the fact that more people feel this way. I am hoping that people finally stand up to large brands and tell them to play nice or piss off.
I just read their pdf based documentation http://www.hydro.com/library/attachments/en/press_ room/floating_windmills2_en.pdf but it appears they will use a 120 meter long concrete submerged cylinder. This thing will weigh the hundreds of tons you are talking about. But you are right, there is an issue they have not solved yet because they say Quote
"For the concept to work, it is crucial that the wind turbines be light, requiring further technological development to realize the goal of establishing offshore wind farms at greater sea depths."
So it seems they too are concerned about the weight at the top. I reckon that might be fixable by placing the generator in the base of the concrete tube or tower and run a shaft or transmission belt up to the rotor.
I suppose lowering the rotor is out of the question because the blades might hit ships.
Damn, I hate to admit it but I indeed stuffed up big time. Very stupid but thanks for putting me straight. That volume of ice translated to a layer over the antarctic (14 million square km) is only 25 meters thick.
It does make me accept the potential possibility of sea level rises but it won't throw me into a global warming panic frenzy.
I better check my math a few more times before I post next time.
Cheers
You are so right! I like to add to that the fact that albums are also a great trick to sell you the same songs over and over as they occur in different combinations on the albums.
Every time government proposes a new law we seem to take it for gospel that something must happen one way or the other. Politicians play this game successfully over and over. They raise a non issue, get a discussion started by proposing some crazy "solution" and then people happily discus and offer alternate "solutions" and thus accepting the "fact" there is a problem that needs legislating.
Why not a third option....Do nothing!