However, most research and medical breakthroughs come from publicly funded money, research, and institutions. They only find their way into the corporate portfolio latter.
It is too bad what you are saying doesn't make sense.
1. Are you talking about the (so called) problem of renewables being intermittent, or of efficiency? These are separate issues, but you have conflated them.
2. Solar Thermal generates electricity for hours after the sun goes down. Not all night long, but much longer than solar-voltaic. Certainly long enough to deal with much of the people come home, turn on TV and AC's.
3. In any one place, the wind is not always blowing, but the wind is always blowing somewhere. Enough wind power in enough places overcomes the intermittency of wind.
4. Some sources of alternative energy don't suffer from intermittency. Wave, tidal, geothermal, small scale hydro...
5. Energy storage from renewables can be as simple as pumping water up a hill.
6. Experts who have studied energy issues all of their adult lives believe that efficiency is one of the most powerful tools we have. See http://www.rmi.org/ for a good start. Saying they are "seriously deluded" is an ad hominem attack with no real substance to back it up.
6. If you wish to turn off your electricity, I won't stop you. However, I think that coming up with solutions that allow a comfortable modern lifestyle have a better chance of the mass acceptance we need to succeed.
Your statements about the effect of efficiency are pretty close to 100% wrong.
1. Living closer to work does not equal a more efficient car, so you are not making sense right off the bat.
2. If you do have a more efficient car, it is more efficient all the time, even if you end up driving a bit more. The amount of extra driving people are prepared to do if gas prices go down is nowhere near the amount of gas we could save if we doubled passenger vehicle efficiency. People don't have the time to double their driving, but doubling vehicle efficiency is already possible.
3. All transportation energy usage is only 28% of the energy usage of the US. This includes trucks, planes, trains etc... In all of these sectors efficiency can drop usage more than lower prices can increase demand.
4. We are talking about nuclear, which creates electricity. Most vehicles are not powered by electricity.
5. People don't actually care about how much electricity they are using. They care about the services they get from their energy. If energy prices go down because everyone has more efficiency TV's and refrigerators, most people are not going to think "SCORE, let's get ANOTHER refrigerator."
6. In states with high efficiency standards, energy usage per capita, and per unit of economic productivity
does down. Better efficiency does in fact work, and we are just scratching the surface of the potential. see: http://ert.rmi.org/research/cgu.html
The issues of renewable energy and energy independence have taken center stage in both media and political conversations lately, but the means of achieving various energy goals have proven to be rather controversial. Proposed options dominating news headlines include clean coal, nuclear energy, and offshore drilling. Is there an energy path that we can all agree upon?
The answer is yes, and Rocky Mountain Institute and Chief Scientist Amory Lovins were featured in a New York Times blog in response to last years Presidential Debate. Energy efficiency, a solution at the core of RMIs work, was discussed as a viable and economically profitable resolution to both energy and economy issues. New York Times writer Kate Galbraith points out that RMI and Amory Lovins have consistently advocated the benefits of a soft-path approach to energy, with efficiency at its core. You can read the article here.
When it comes to nuclear power specifically, every dollar invested in new US nuclear electricity will save approximately 2-11 times less carbon, and will do so roughly 20-40 times slower, than investing in the same dollar in energy efficiency and micropower (cogeneration plus renewables minus big hydro dams). Buying new nuclear capacity instead of efficiency causes more carbon to be released than spending the same money on new coal plants!
These conclusions and the empirical evidence supporting them are summarized in Forget Nuclear, and fully documented in The Nuclear Illusion, available for download here, which is to be published in early 2009 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal Ambio.
Hopefully our vision will help put these widely publicized issues into perspective and move us all toward a better understanding that takes us beyond politically divisive issues to collective and viable solutions.
The issues of renewable energy and energy independence have taken center stage in both media and political conversations lately, but the means of achieving various energy goals have proven to be rather controversial. Proposed options dominating news headlines include clean coal, nuclear energy, and offshore drilling. Is there an energy path that we can all agree upon?
The answer is yes, and this morning Rocky Mountain Institute and Chief Scientist Amory Lovins were featured in a New York Times blog in response to last years Presidential Debate. Energy efficiency, a solution at the core of RMIs work, was discussed as a viable and economically profitable resolution to both energy and economy issues. New York Times writer Kate Galbraith points out that RMI and Amory Lovins have consistently advocated the benefits of a soft-path approach to energy, with efficiency at its core. You can read the article here.
When it comes to nuclear power specifically, every dollar invested in new US nuclear electricity will save approximately 2-11 times less carbon, and will do so roughly 20-40 times slower, than investing in the same dollar in energy efficiency and micropower (cogeneration plus renewables minus big hydro dams). Buying new nuclear capacity instead of efficiency causes more carbon to be released than spending the same money on new coal plants!
These conclusions and the empirical evidence supporting them are summarized in Forget Nuclear, and fully documented in The Nuclear Illusion, available for download here, which is to be published in early 2009 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal Ambio.
Hopefully our vision will help put these widely publicized issues into perspective and move us all toward a better understanding that takes us beyond politically divisive issues to collective and viable solutions.
I'm a wedding photographer. We call this one the pay forwarding scam.
It starts with an email from a potential "client." They say they want to book you from overseas. Offer to send you a check, send a check for more than your fees, and ask you to pay for the invitation printer (or whatever) for them.
On my end, more small potatoes then the case ITA, this scam is easy to spot. The people don't act like a real wedding client, they don't want to talk on the phone, they don't know how to discuss wedding packages, they make have bad grammar etc... You can spot this long before they get to the ask.
For a long time, as soon as I had two or more tale-tale signs, I would quit the conversation. Then I got a PO Box. Now, I drag it on as long as possible (unless I'm extra busy that week). I like to see the look of the fake checks, and I like to waste their time.
It's like AT&T and Verizon are competing, not to see who can offer the best coverage, or the lowest prices, but instead they are competing to see who can suck the most.
Each week one of them pulls ahead with a new move like this.
And whom may I ask was forcing you to read it? Over hear at my terminal, there is nobody with a gun to my head, and so I am able to choose which articles I find interesting, and which I'd rather ignore. I recommend this strategy, it saves time not only in not reading articles I don't want to read, but also in not having to make comments about how I didn't want to read the article I read.
The summary says there is still and iPhone version. As far as I know, there is not. If you want to make Gizmo5 work with iPhone, you have to use fring (there may be other apps that work too, but fring does work)
If there is an iPhone Gizom5 app I don't know about, please let me know, I'd love to have it.
Google has disabled new Gizom5 signups, and Google Voice is invite only, but if you already have both, you can make Google Voice ring to your Gizmo5 for free. I can make free incoming and outgoing calls to my Mac with my G5 and GV combo.
Alex
Yesterday I was cold (older houses in California are not insulated, so even though it is only 55 degrees Fahrenheit outside it is still freezing in my office.)
I thought, I should go buy some long underwear. Then I remembered what day it was, and put on a hat instead.
Also, a friend from Japan posted on Facebook "What is black Friday?"
My answer:
"It is a day Americans commemorate the blackness of their souls by leaving what should be the joy of the company of their families to spend money they don't have on shit they don't need."
You can pirate an iPhone app? How?
I've bought plenty of iPhone apps, and downloaded others for free. I didn't even know you could pirate an iPhone app. How do you do it?
Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I don't feel like in this case the judge would have issued an order that someone should erase their hard drive. I think it was much easier for the judge to be like, ok Goog, pull the plug than it would be for him or her to say "This person should have their computer erased."
In other cases, I think a judge might do just that. If I was really worried about it, I would have encrypted offsite off shore out of jurisdiction blah blah blah. But at this point, that seems like way too much effort for a very small risk.
I'm more worried about an earthquake leveling my house (I live in San Francisco) and I'm taking great pains to create an offsite backup for all of my photos.
I though that it was better for kids to be the older ones in their class. Is there research about this? I just started my daughter in K late instead of early (November birthday) thiking being older would help her excel.
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However, most research and medical breakthroughs come from publicly funded money, research, and institutions. They only find their way into the corporate portfolio latter.
1. Are you talking about the (so called) problem of renewables being intermittent, or of efficiency? These are separate issues, but you have conflated them.
2. Solar Thermal generates electricity for hours after the sun goes down. Not all night long, but much longer than solar-voltaic. Certainly long enough to deal with much of the people come home, turn on TV and AC's.
3. In any one place, the wind is not always blowing, but the wind is always blowing somewhere. Enough wind power in enough places overcomes the intermittency of wind.
4. Some sources of alternative energy don't suffer from intermittency. Wave, tidal, geothermal, small scale hydro...
5. Energy storage from renewables can be as simple as pumping water up a hill.
6. Experts who have studied energy issues all of their adult lives believe that efficiency is one of the most powerful tools we have. See http://www.rmi.org/ for a good start. Saying they are "seriously deluded" is an ad hominem attack with no real substance to back it up.
6. If you wish to turn off your electricity, I won't stop you. However, I think that coming up with solutions that allow a comfortable modern lifestyle have a better chance of the mass acceptance we need to succeed.
1. Living closer to work does not equal a more efficient car, so you are not making sense right off the bat.
2. If you do have a more efficient car, it is more efficient all the time, even if you end up driving a bit more. The amount of extra driving people are prepared to do if gas prices go down is nowhere near the amount of gas we could save if we doubled passenger vehicle efficiency. People don't have the time to double their driving, but doubling vehicle efficiency is already possible.
3. All transportation energy usage is only 28% of the energy usage of the US. This includes trucks, planes, trains etc... In all of these sectors efficiency can drop usage more than lower prices can increase demand.
4. We are talking about nuclear, which creates electricity. Most vehicles are not powered by electricity.
5. People don't actually care about how much electricity they are using. They care about the services they get from their energy. If energy prices go down because everyone has more efficiency TV's and refrigerators, most people are not going to think "SCORE, let's get ANOTHER refrigerator."
6. In states with high efficiency standards, energy usage per capita, and per unit of economic productivity does down. Better efficiency does in fact work, and we are just scratching the surface of the potential. see: http://ert.rmi.org/research/cgu.html
For further reading, I recommend http://rmi.org/rmi/Reinventing+Fire+Solutions+Journal+Fall+2009
The answer is yes, and Rocky Mountain Institute and Chief Scientist Amory Lovins were featured in a New York Times blog in response to last years Presidential Debate. Energy efficiency, a solution at the core of RMIs work, was discussed as a viable and economically profitable resolution to both energy and economy issues. New York Times writer Kate Galbraith points out that RMI and Amory Lovins have consistently advocated the benefits of a soft-path approach to energy, with efficiency at its core. You can read the article here.
When it comes to nuclear power specifically, every dollar invested in new US nuclear electricity will save approximately 2-11 times less carbon, and will do so roughly 20-40 times slower, than investing in the same dollar in energy efficiency and micropower (cogeneration plus renewables minus big hydro dams). Buying new nuclear capacity instead of efficiency causes more carbon to be released than spending the same money on new coal plants!
These conclusions and the empirical evidence supporting them are summarized in Forget Nuclear, and fully documented in The Nuclear Illusion, available for download here, which is to be published in early 2009 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal Ambio.
Hopefully our vision will help put these widely publicized issues into perspective and move us all toward a better understanding that takes us beyond politically divisive issues to collective and viable solutions.
Amory Lovins, from the Rocky Mountain Institute. See links in parent comment.
The answer is yes, and this morning Rocky Mountain Institute and Chief Scientist Amory Lovins were featured in a New York Times blog in response to last years Presidential Debate. Energy efficiency, a solution at the core of RMIs work, was discussed as a viable and economically profitable resolution to both energy and economy issues. New York Times writer Kate Galbraith points out that RMI and Amory Lovins have consistently advocated the benefits of a soft-path approach to energy, with efficiency at its core. You can read the article here.
When it comes to nuclear power specifically, every dollar invested in new US nuclear electricity will save approximately 2-11 times less carbon, and will do so roughly 20-40 times slower, than investing in the same dollar in energy efficiency and micropower (cogeneration plus renewables minus big hydro dams). Buying new nuclear capacity instead of efficiency causes more carbon to be released than spending the same money on new coal plants!
These conclusions and the empirical evidence supporting them are summarized in Forget Nuclear, and fully documented in The Nuclear Illusion, available for download here, which is to be published in early 2009 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal Ambio.
Hopefully our vision will help put these widely publicized issues into perspective and move us all toward a better understanding that takes us beyond politically divisive issues to collective and viable solutions.
It starts with an email from a potential "client." They say they want to book you from overseas. Offer to send you a check, send a check for more than your fees, and ask you to pay for the invitation printer (or whatever) for them.
On my end, more small potatoes then the case ITA, this scam is easy to spot. The people don't act like a real wedding client, they don't want to talk on the phone, they don't know how to discuss wedding packages, they make have bad grammar etc... You can spot this long before they get to the ask.
For a long time, as soon as I had two or more tale-tale signs, I would quit the conversation. Then I got a PO Box. Now, I drag it on as long as possible (unless I'm extra busy that week). I like to see the look of the fake checks, and I like to waste their time.
Though now that I think a little more, a spam attack on your eyeballs could be troubling...
Each week one of them pulls ahead with a new move like this.
And whom may I ask was forcing you to read it? Over hear at my terminal, there is nobody with a gun to my head, and so I am able to choose which articles I find interesting, and which I'd rather ignore. I recommend this strategy, it saves time not only in not reading articles I don't want to read, but also in not having to make comments about how I didn't want to read the article I read.
Now I think I'm above average 1/2 of the time.
Something I overheard: "Can I grow weed on Farmvile and sell it on Mafia Wars?"
How do I know this? My best friend worked with Stevenson at Bezos's space venture Blue. (Neither of them are still there.)
The summary says there is still and iPhone version. As far as I know, there is not. If you want to make Gizmo5 work with iPhone, you have to use fring (there may be other apps that work too, but fring does work) If there is an iPhone Gizom5 app I don't know about, please let me know, I'd love to have it. Google has disabled new Gizom5 signups, and Google Voice is invite only, but if you already have both, you can make Google Voice ring to your Gizmo5 for free. I can make free incoming and outgoing calls to my Mac with my G5 and GV combo. Alex
Yesterday I was cold (older houses in California are not insulated, so even though it is only 55 degrees Fahrenheit outside it is still freezing in my office.) I thought, I should go buy some long underwear. Then I remembered what day it was, and put on a hat instead. Also, a friend from Japan posted on Facebook "What is black Friday?" My answer: "It is a day Americans commemorate the blackness of their souls by leaving what should be the joy of the company of their families to spend money they don't have on shit they don't need."
First ones up against the wall when the revolution comes.
You can pirate an iPhone app? How? I've bought plenty of iPhone apps, and downloaded others for free. I didn't even know you could pirate an iPhone app. How do you do it?
I'm listening to "A Girl Like You" on his myspace page right now.
In other cases, I think a judge might do just that. If I was really worried about it, I would have encrypted offsite off shore out of jurisdiction blah blah blah. But at this point, that seems like way too much effort for a very small risk.
I'm more worried about an earthquake leveling my house (I live in San Francisco) and I'm taking great pains to create an offsite backup for all of my photos.
If I had gmail and wanted to protect myself what would be the best way to do it?
A lesson for all gmail users. Use IMAP or POP3 in case a bank emails you something by mistake and gets a judge to erase your ass.
My email is on my own computer. My ISP could delete my account, but not erase my old emails.
good one.
Also having a moment of gratitude that I don't use gmail.
Also wondering if I can send someone I don't like sensitive email, and then have a judge erase their email account erased.
I though that it was better for kids to be the older ones in their class. Is there research about this? I just started my daughter in K late instead of early (November birthday) thiking being older would help her excel.