2 Mwh/car. Keeping things round, assume a $.10/kwh on/off peak spread, gets you $200/carday.
But you will need a lot of cars. 2000 meters drop at 2% grade is a long, expensive track. Even if you found an idle line, maintenance on that much track is a few bucks.
I like the loop of track between two gravel piles idea better. Sure you add loading/unloading losses, but gravel piles are understood, and much cheaper than added track and cars. $200/carTRIP is a much nicer number than $200/carday.
Also note that if you use standard railroad power (at one or both ends), cars need to be heavy even when empty. Laws of physics and all. Best load/car weight ratio might be putting an engine every x cars, where x is per engine haul capacity. Cars will still have to be heavy empty, just less so.
Train routes through mountain passes are already pretty saturated, very expensive place to lay track, hence not overbuilt. There is no place to park trains at the top.
The makers of cheap French wine 'went on strike'. Because they couldn't sell their low grade at any price anymore. French winos prefer cheaper, better wine...who would have guessed?
Can't sell you product, go on strike. French thinking.
'Trailer Park Boys' is doing a fine job of representing Canadian culture, are there other Canadian TV shows?
Netflix exposed the brilliance of 'Troll Hunter' to the world. Europeans should thank them and take a hint. Nobody want's to see movies summarizing Proost, blow Proost up 'real good' and French movies will find an audience. The French should quit whining and compete.
You thought all that clowning around, 'Cthulu 2012 Why vote for the lesser evil?', wouldn't eventually make it to Antarctica?
At this point I'd lay odds all three still in the race are ridden by 'brain slugs'. Cthulu isn't going to leave things to chance. Think about it: If you were Cthulu and you decided to run for president. What would you do? Buy up the contracts on all the likely candidates souls, so you can't lose.
Including the isotopes already used in medicine or industry?
You're basically saying the republicans will shut down industrial x ray inspection as a thing? Radioisotopes as sources for radiation therapy? Every research reactor as well?
No chance. Couldn't build pipelines without x raying the welds. Used as parts of sensors when drilling. Oil industry can't live without a radioisotope, here or there. Most families have also had some direct experience with nuclear medicine.
Choke on your tone as well. Condescending _and_ stupid is no way to go through life kid.
Of course the headset can make you sick standing up. It can also make you fall on your ass. If it doesn't, it's because the content, more or less, keeps up pointed up.
Virtual titty bar. Including robotic silicon tits for motorboating and a RC truck full of week old anchovies to drive by when you're sitting in virtual gyno row.
This post has a date stamp. Prior art for when someone tries to patent the business model.
There are currently about 30 million doses of vaccine, worldwide. It's estimated that it would take 36 months to get new production running.
When someone says 'all costs are opportunity costs' this is what they are talking about. There are a few functions that only government can do. Too bad governments have been too busy wiping grown children's noses for them to get their own jobs done.
Yes foreigners, your governments are even bigger slackers on this count. Guess who has the vaccines?
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How many kids does he have? He's not usually so polite.
2 Mwh/car. Keeping things round, assume a $.10/kwh on/off peak spread, gets you $200/carday.
But you will need a lot of cars. 2000 meters drop at 2% grade is a long, expensive track. Even if you found an idle line, maintenance on that much track is a few bucks.
I like the loop of track between two gravel piles idea better. Sure you add loading/unloading losses, but gravel piles are understood, and much cheaper than added track and cars. $200/carTRIP is a much nicer number than $200/carday.
Also note that if you use standard railroad power (at one or both ends), cars need to be heavy even when empty. Laws of physics and all. Best load/car weight ratio might be putting an engine every x cars, where x is per engine haul capacity. Cars will still have to be heavy empty, just less so.
Train routes through mountain passes are already pretty saturated, very expensive place to lay track, hence not overbuilt. There is no place to park trains at the top.
Let me guess? Drywalled into a space with no doors?
2 was netmare, but 3 was sweet.
The funny one was when box wine got to France.
The makers of cheap French wine 'went on strike'. Because they couldn't sell their low grade at any price anymore. French winos prefer cheaper, better wine...who would have guessed?
Can't sell you product, go on strike. French thinking.
Thank you for 'Troll Hunter'. That film is brilliant and making money on American Netflix.
I recommend it to all /.ers. You can skip reading the subtitles, if you want, and not lose much.
'Trailer Park Boys' is doing a fine job of representing Canadian culture, are there other Canadian TV shows?
Netflix exposed the brilliance of 'Troll Hunter' to the world. Europeans should thank them and take a hint. Nobody want's to see movies summarizing Proost, blow Proost up 'real good' and French movies will find an audience. The French should quit whining and compete.
Exactly the same thing could be said of theoretical stockholders. But we're in the real world and next earnings statement/election it is.
You thought all that clowning around, 'Cthulu 2012 Why vote for the lesser evil?', wouldn't eventually make it to Antarctica?
At this point I'd lay odds all three still in the race are ridden by 'brain slugs'. Cthulu isn't going to leave things to chance. Think about it: If you were Cthulu and you decided to run for president. What would you do? Buy up the contracts on all the likely candidates souls, so you can't lose.
Besides which, you are almost certainly spinning for a GW anyhow. It's a very typical size for thermal plants.
Sometimes someone writes something so moronic, you just have to point and laugh...HaHa...Points at rahvin112.
I hope you co-sign car loans for all you no-job having associates and drinking buddies. See how that works out for you.
Next election/Next quarter. Both government and publicly traded companies work in too short a time horizon.
Privately held companies on the other hand, don't have the built in short term view inherent in both government and stock peddling.
AC is just trolling. Calling yucca mountain a 'landfill' says it all. Idiot with bad memory parroting.
Including the isotopes already used in medicine or industry?
You're basically saying the republicans will shut down industrial x ray inspection as a thing? Radioisotopes as sources for radiation therapy? Every research reactor as well?
No chance. Couldn't build pipelines without x raying the welds. Used as parts of sensors when drilling. Oil industry can't live without a radioisotope, here or there. Most families have also had some direct experience with nuclear medicine.
Choke on your tone as well. Condescending _and_ stupid is no way to go through life kid.
I don't think they serve or let you carry booze over 80 proof on planes.
80 proof booze won't burn unless heated first. Then only the vapor burns.
It's all down to content.
Of course the headset can make you sick standing up. It can also make you fall on your ass. If it doesn't, it's because the content, more or less, keeps up pointed up.
IIRC Ellison worked for IBM on SQL before stealing the idea and APIs to form Oracle.
Virtual titty bar. Including robotic silicon tits for motorboating and a RC truck full of week old anchovies to drive by when you're sitting in virtual gyno row.
This post has a date stamp. Prior art for when someone tries to patent the business model.
Fun fact: Necrophiles classify themselves into two groups: Gooey Louies and Moldy Oldies.
There are currently about 30 million doses of vaccine, worldwide. It's estimated that it would take 36 months to get new production running.
When someone says 'all costs are opportunity costs' this is what they are talking about. There are a few functions that only government can do. Too bad governments have been too busy wiping grown children's noses for them to get their own jobs done.
Yes foreigners, your governments are even bigger slackers on this count. Guess who has the vaccines?
Monkeypox is the nasty one that has an animal reservoir.
It doesn't go human to human easily, only a very few cases known. But it's likely one mutation away.
The current stock is 40 years old.
It attaches your identification and passwords to the file, of course. What did you think incognito mode meant?
We're in another two right now (.com 2 and chinese assets). Greenspan had nothing to do with ether.
Europe's 'austerity' was more stimulus than America. Much more. Never trust words when used by a politician.