Oh yeah? Back in my day, we didn't have any of that fancy modem stuff. I had to punch holes in cards and wait in line to run a program. When our school finally got a computer with a screen, it was always snowing. I remember...programming was uphill. Both ways...but we were happy back then. Kids these days don't know how good they've got it.
The man said he didn't care about social value. My point is that there is value in social relationships and it is foolish to only look at monetary relationships.
Education of women and urbanization are two major drags on population growth. These two factors might be enough to avoid catastrophe but it is going to be a close call.
The point is that your friends help you out. The reference to wealth is the only way to communicate such radical concepts to people who only believe in money.
If you think everyone else is an idiot, this could explain why you have no social wealth. When your friends help you with something that you otherwise would have had to pay for, that is part of your social wealth. It's not all about money.
Don't forget to add the sin taxes. Up here in Canuckistan, smokers pay a heavy tax to smoke and there is tax on junk food. Now the obese and smokers look more like a revenue stream.
The poor are punished by inflation when basic survival increases exceed their wages. It is not a big deal to a millionaire if the price of food goes up by 50% but it is a big deal to a minimum wage worker. The millionaire will be impacted by a slower increase in net wealth while the minimum wage worker faces the choice of homelessness or starvation.
I haven't read the FIT for Germany, but typical FITs only pay when energy is delivered. If the wind stops blowing, the generator is not able to charge for the capacity of the facility during that time.
Power exports are highly volatile and depend on who else is generating at the time and what the demand is at that time. If the majority of exports occurred in the evening, the exporter is likely doing so at or below cost. However, daytime rates are often several times higher than the price at night which would be a gain for the exporter.
The bottom line is that renewables make power trading more volatile but not necessarily more expensive. More generators mean more competition and the potential for lower prices. The power system is very complicated and very hard to characterize.
Not quite. Nuclear generates baseload power, meaning that it generates close to the same amount around the clock. It cannot react quickly enough to follow the daily fluctuations, making it unsuitable to be the sole source of power in the grid. Natural gas, hydro dams and to a lesser extent, solar PV can be used to follow load. Because of low prices for natural gas, most of the new generation comes from natural gas turbines and combined cycle facilities. Natural gas has about half the CO2/MWhr of a MWhr generated by coal. Not perfect, but a step in the right direction.
Your attitude underscores why liberal arts courses are useful. While they aren't useful for practical things like programming or designing chips, they are useful for getting out of the dark cave that many techs end up being trapped in. It takes a very specialized mind to do tech work and most people don't have that kind of mind. Inverting this thought, this means there is a whole society out there created by people who are not techs. If you want to participate in society beyond sitting behind a computer, understanding the rest of humanity is important and that is what humanities courses are for. Life is not just about working, nor is it just about money.
Have you checked the price of solar panels these days? Roughly $1000/kW. That's half of what it was a few years ago. The real problem with PV is its intermittent nature.
A classmate from grad school told me about his time as a night manager at a KFC somewhere in South Carolina. As one might imagine, KFC does not attract the sharpest knives in the drawer. During the day shift, there were some renos going on that required moving things around in the store room. The cleaning supplies ended up below a rickety shelf that held stored the bleach. Had these guys paid attention in high school, they might have understood that storing chemicals like this was very hazardous. To make a long story short, the shelf collapsed while my classmate was on duty. The resulting poison gas cloud forced the closure and evacuation of the restaurant. Fortunately, my classmate had a good understanding of chemistry, and got everyone out before they burned their lungs.
That is why learning chemistry is not a waste of time, even though it seems like a useless subject.
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How does that work for medications? Or eyeglasses? Can you expect to get a job when you can't see?
You can, right now. Welfare is an option for everyone, so ask yourself, if it is so great, why aren't you doing it?
You've answered your own question.
Oh yeah? Back in my day, we didn't have any of that fancy modem stuff. I had to punch holes in cards and wait in line to run a program. When our school finally got a computer with a screen, it was always snowing. I remember...programming was uphill. Both ways...but we were happy back then. Kids these days don't know how good they've got it.
The man said he didn't care about social value. My point is that there is value in social relationships and it is foolish to only look at monetary relationships.
Education of women and urbanization are two major drags on population growth. These two factors might be enough to avoid catastrophe but it is going to be a close call.
The point is that your friends help you out. The reference to wealth is the only way to communicate such radical concepts to people who only believe in money.
How about Somalia? Not too much statist socialism happening there?
If you think everyone else is an idiot, this could explain why you have no social wealth. When your friends help you with something that you otherwise would have had to pay for, that is part of your social wealth. It's not all about money.
Don't forget to add the sin taxes. Up here in Canuckistan, smokers pay a heavy tax to smoke and there is tax on junk food. Now the obese and smokers look more like a revenue stream.
Any chance that the camp had a bias against fat people and executed them first?
You have never been on the wrong end of a hostile takeover.
Aren't these the same people who said that a rising tide raises all boats?
The poor are punished by inflation when basic survival increases exceed their wages. It is not a big deal to a millionaire if the price of food goes up by 50% but it is a big deal to a minimum wage worker. The millionaire will be impacted by a slower increase in net wealth while the minimum wage worker faces the choice of homelessness or starvation.
I haven't read the FIT for Germany, but typical FITs only pay when energy is delivered. If the wind stops blowing, the generator is not able to charge for the capacity of the facility during that time.
Power exports are highly volatile and depend on who else is generating at the time and what the demand is at that time. If the majority of exports occurred in the evening, the exporter is likely doing so at or below cost. However, daytime rates are often several times higher than the price at night which would be a gain for the exporter.
The bottom line is that renewables make power trading more volatile but not necessarily more expensive. More generators mean more competition and the potential for lower prices. The power system is very complicated and very hard to characterize.
Not quite. Nuclear generates baseload power, meaning that it generates close to the same amount around the clock. It cannot react quickly enough to follow the daily fluctuations, making it unsuitable to be the sole source of power in the grid. Natural gas, hydro dams and to a lesser extent, solar PV can be used to follow load. Because of low prices for natural gas, most of the new generation comes from natural gas turbines and combined cycle facilities. Natural gas has about half the CO2/MWhr of a MWhr generated by coal. Not perfect, but a step in the right direction.
Doesn't matter. Have you seen those tiny arms? T Rex will never be able to shoot straight.
Don't tell that to the Brazilians!
Oh...for some mod points right now!
Your attitude underscores why liberal arts courses are useful. While they aren't useful for practical things like programming or designing chips, they are useful for getting out of the dark cave that many techs end up being trapped in. It takes a very specialized mind to do tech work and most people don't have that kind of mind. Inverting this thought, this means there is a whole society out there created by people who are not techs. If you want to participate in society beyond sitting behind a computer, understanding the rest of humanity is important and that is what humanities courses are for. Life is not just about working, nor is it just about money.
The nuclear plant is likely held in an LLC. This is a common corporate structure for all power plants, not just nuclear ones.
Have you checked the price of solar panels these days? Roughly $1000/kW. That's half of what it was a few years ago. The real problem with PV is its intermittent nature.
A classmate from grad school told me about his time as a night manager at a KFC somewhere in South Carolina. As one might imagine, KFC does not attract the sharpest knives in the drawer. During the day shift, there were some renos going on that required moving things around in the store room. The cleaning supplies ended up below a rickety shelf that held stored the bleach. Had these guys paid attention in high school, they might have understood that storing chemicals like this was very hazardous. To make a long story short, the shelf collapsed while my classmate was on duty. The resulting poison gas cloud forced the closure and evacuation of the restaurant. Fortunately, my classmate had a good understanding of chemistry, and got everyone out before they burned their lungs.
That is why learning chemistry is not a waste of time, even though it seems like a useless subject.
You fool! All the girls took French. That was reason enough for me to take it.