Based on their own numbers, they would have been better off putting PV panels on already existing buildings. 1/10 the cost (assume $1/watt for panel and $1/watt for installation).
This is $20/watt with generous rounding.
I'm betting this was a typical humanitarian project in Africa. Every government official had to be bribed and every high official's nephew put on salary, in order for the project to go forward.
Heal and toe under power? Is that some drifter move? It's just a downshift unless you are also braking, hence heal and toe...I don't subscribe to 'never powerbrake', but haven't been in the situation where I was already power braking and decided I needed to grab a gear (without upsetting the balance of the car doing donuts?).
You can argue about weather a paddle shift dual clutch is a manual or an automatic, it's 1% of the market. Most slushboxes remain slushboxes. They are sitting in top gear at a red light and don't even start to downshift until you gas it and intake vacuum drops, computer controlled but still the same old.
Don't even start about engine braking through a torque converter. The one thing no automatic can do is anticipate the corner, even the automatics with shifters take them as 'suggestions'. Shift kits are nothing new.
A Toyota truck or 4 Runner hopefully with solid axle in front.
A Suzuki 4x4.
Then you move the running gear (and brakes) down one truck, being sure to save engine from 3/4 ton dodge before discarding wreck. Throw away the Suzuki axles. 3 pretty capable 4x4s for 5 or 6 grand and a bunch of wrenching and welding. You should be able to take your pick, sell the other two and put money in your pockets.
Unless you're really good at welding drive-shafts, those are going to be a big expense.
Bullshit. The automatic can't read your mind, hence it's always trying to catch up with what you want. They are good for straight lines.
Automatics have caught up on fuel economy. But at the cost of being terrible drive by wire cars in both cases. I rented a Sentra that overrode my throttle stomp until it decided the steering wheel was straight enough, I would never buy a POS that did that.
I think it's reasonably safe to assume someone riding their bike on the street has control of their bike. So I pass them like any other vehicle, with similar clearance.
If I saw a kid just learning to ride, I'd give him extra room. But if an adult puts themselves on a road, I assume they know how to ride safely. Especially if they are riding on a high speed limit road.
If the wind is too high or the surface too rough it's the cyclists job NOT TO RIDE THERE. If the conditions suddenly change, they should stop, not lurch into traffic without looking and think it's someone else's job to avoid them. Everybody obviously should avoid any accidents that are avoidable, which means 'stay off the roads if the conditions are unsafe'.
Ronnie made a big mistake agreeing to Grahm-Rudman.
At this point any 'raise taxes now, cut spending later' plan should be a non-starter. At least until we see the Grahm-Rudman spending cuts we are already owed.
What do you call education that doesn't teach you to solve problems even one little bit? That just teaches you how much of a victim you are and that all problems are someone else's fault?
I can never be sure the person in the next lane won't lose control of their vehicle. So I should never pass anyone?
The highway code here explicitly says that two wheeled vehicles traveling in traffic lanes should ride in left (drivers side) car tire track, so they control their lane. However if they are riding in the bike lane, they don't 'own' any part of the traffic lane next to them.
I like TsingTao beer. It's Chinese but it's good. (Tsingtao was the German enclave during colonialism, the Chinese kept the recipe.)
So I tired some 'SingHa' beer (not the Thai SingHa, the Chinese one). It was nasty.
Mentioned it to some Chinese coworkers.
Their reaction: 'That beer is made in Shanghai with Shanghai city water, never drink it, it will give you cancer.'
The real open Chinese mess that our news is mostly ignoring is the Chinese stock market bubble. They are down 50% and still have a PE ratio in the 50 neighborhood.
Not anarchy, stalemate between two of the USA's enemies. Better yet one of the enemies (Saudi) claims they are friends, so this kind of Machiavellian trickery is the only attack on them open to us.
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So what you're saying is you guys are 'better than' us because you cooperate?
History disagrees BTW. Count the megadeaths. Europeans trust their governments too much. Too much cooperation.
What? You ether can't read or are just a moron.
Even a dumb as a rock hard green would prefer 10x the generation worth of PV panels.
Hopefully they are planning on using the money earned from this one to pay for the next. That way their will be no next.
The plant is a sunk cost. But it would be insane to spend any more money on this thing.
All costs are opportunity costs. Even a crazy hard green could get more for their money than this plant. With 10x the generation worth of PVs for one.
Based on their own numbers, they would have been better off putting PV panels on already existing buildings. 1/10 the cost (assume $1/watt for panel and $1/watt for installation).
This is $20/watt with generous rounding.
I'm betting this was a typical humanitarian project in Africa. Every government official had to be bribed and every high official's nephew put on salary, in order for the project to go forward.
Heal and toe under power? Is that some drifter move? It's just a downshift unless you are also braking, hence heal and toe...I don't subscribe to 'never powerbrake', but haven't been in the situation where I was already power braking and decided I needed to grab a gear (without upsetting the balance of the car doing donuts?).
You can argue about weather a paddle shift dual clutch is a manual or an automatic, it's 1% of the market. Most slushboxes remain slushboxes. They are sitting in top gear at a red light and don't even start to downshift until you gas it and intake vacuum drops, computer controlled but still the same old.
Don't even start about engine braking through a torque converter. The one thing no automatic can do is anticipate the corner, even the automatics with shifters take them as 'suggestions'. Shift kits are nothing new.
Be fair, nobody really plays off-road in brand new trucks anyhow. By the time they are ready to be banged up, they need work anyhow.
Of course you see the exceptions. YouTube is full of brand new, endoed, F-350s etc. People watched one too many commercials.
You get (for as you say little or no money):
A 3/4 ton Dodge (can be wrecked).
A 1/2 ton Dodge.
A Toyota truck or 4 Runner hopefully with solid axle in front.
A Suzuki 4x4.
Then you move the running gear (and brakes) down one truck, being sure to save engine from 3/4 ton dodge before discarding wreck. Throw away the Suzuki axles. 3 pretty capable 4x4s for 5 or 6 grand and a bunch of wrenching and welding. You should be able to take your pick, sell the other two and put money in your pockets.
Unless you're really good at welding drive-shafts, those are going to be a big expense.
The Cherokee was bad enough.
They (Chrysler, GM, Ford, Rover, Toyota) 'as a group' have succeeded in making trucks drive like cars. Only downside, ruined them as trucks/offroad.
Bullshit. The automatic can't read your mind, hence it's always trying to catch up with what you want. They are good for straight lines.
Automatics have caught up on fuel economy. But at the cost of being terrible drive by wire cars in both cases. I rented a Sentra that overrode my throttle stomp until it decided the steering wheel was straight enough, I would never buy a POS that did that.
What? That doesn't even make sense.
In stop and go, you give it power in first for a second, than coast as far as traffic will let you.
Some of the problems with autos are unfixable.
The transmission doesn't know what you are about to do, hence the slushbox is always playing catch-up.
Almost as good an idea as the Kegel shifter.
I think it's reasonably safe to assume someone riding their bike on the street has control of their bike. So I pass them like any other vehicle, with similar clearance.
If I saw a kid just learning to ride, I'd give him extra room. But if an adult puts themselves on a road, I assume they know how to ride safely. Especially if they are riding on a high speed limit road.
If the wind is too high or the surface too rough it's the cyclists job NOT TO RIDE THERE. If the conditions suddenly change, they should stop, not lurch into traffic without looking and think it's someone else's job to avoid them. Everybody obviously should avoid any accidents that are avoidable, which means 'stay off the roads if the conditions are unsafe'.
The guy that invented the sequential motorcycle transmission? Seriously, this isn't new at all.
Fuck them and their increase revenue. They have more than enough already.
Ronnie made a big mistake agreeing to Grahm-Rudman.
At this point any 'raise taxes now, cut spending later' plan should be a non-starter. At least until we see the Grahm-Rudman spending cuts we are already owed.
If you're hitting second gear in 'stop and go' you are doing it wrong.
My guess, you've never driven a stick in your life, but know you don't like them.
Anybody on /. think he's a genius?
Anybody? Don't be shy.
What do you call education that doesn't teach you to solve problems even one little bit? That just teaches you how much of a victim you are and that all problems are someone else's fault?
The Republicans, thank fucking dog. Did you see the mess they made in the first two years?
Of course operating without a budget changes things. Pulling EOs from dark smelly places changes things.
I can never be sure the person in the next lane won't lose control of their vehicle. So I should never pass anyone?
The highway code here explicitly says that two wheeled vehicles traveling in traffic lanes should ride in left (drivers side) car tire track, so they control their lane. However if they are riding in the bike lane, they don't 'own' any part of the traffic lane next to them.
I've never heard of any problems with industrial alcohol in the USA, at least not sense the repeal of prohibition.
In Europe I only ever hear of such things in nations with unreasonable booze taxes.
It's really more of a dirt poor, 3rd world nation thing. India, Africa etc.
When you can buy 'as good as it gets' vodka for $12/750ml there isn't much room to undercut them.
I like TsingTao beer. It's Chinese but it's good. (Tsingtao was the German enclave during colonialism, the Chinese kept the recipe.)
So I tired some 'SingHa' beer (not the Thai SingHa, the Chinese one). It was nasty.
Mentioned it to some Chinese coworkers.
Their reaction: 'That beer is made in Shanghai with Shanghai city water, never drink it, it will give you cancer.'
The real open Chinese mess that our news is mostly ignoring is the Chinese stock market bubble. They are down 50% and still have a PE ratio in the 50 neighborhood.
Not anarchy, stalemate between two of the USA's enemies. Better yet one of the enemies (Saudi) claims they are friends, so this kind of Machiavellian trickery is the only attack on them open to us.
Way to go USA indeed.