If I were to have solar panels on my roof and tore them off and put them on a pile and then took all my electronics and put that on a pile the solar panel pile would be much larger.
That's because the solar panels are 95% glass. Plain old insert silcon dioxide.
The falling costs benefit them as well, and they don't have to pay retail prices.
But the power companies do have to pay for a huge collection of substations, towers and poles that local solar generators don't. And maintenance on remote towers and high-tension lines is extremely expensive, as it is all done with helicopters.
Old enough to remember that large centralized operations have costs that smaller ones often don't have. In this case, the construction and maintenance of all the substations, towers and poles and that a power grid needs but the roof of my house doesn't.
The market will find a balance of these fores and they will almost always land in favor of the utility, of the big over the small.
Except you are forgetting that by far the bulk of the cost of a grid is in distribution to all those towers, poles and substations. A grid of cells on my house allows me to skip all that cost.
Trump doesn't have to worry so much about the Democrats as he does the Repubs that he defeated for the nomination. They will be back in force in 3 years to retake the nomination. Trump will be so bored he probably won't even run.
It does not indicate they just need to be extended among known lines, as you seem to assume.
In the case of "known lines" being science, which of course is physical in nature (there's no such thing as non-physical evidence), yes we do have to extend along those lines.
Physicalism is usually practiced and defended much the same way religion is.
Everything that benefits your life, including modern nutrition, medicine, transportation and the computer you are typing on, all derive from one source: science.
Science, in turn, is based on evidence.
Evidence is based on objective measurements. Measurements are necessarily physical in nature, because what would a "non-physical measurement" mean?
So we have:
No physicality -> no measurements.
No measurements -> no evidence.
No evidence -> no science.
No science -> superstitious twits like you.
In fact, after many decades of AI research, it looks like "strong AI" may actually not be possible physically in this universe.
Check back after many centuries of research. Computer science is younger than many people alive today. When you can use clairvoyance to predict what their descendants a dozen generations from now will achieve, then you will have a reason for making such a baseless claim.
Or do you not feel that a false accusation of rape and rape are on the same level when it comes to destroying lives?
No, they are not on "the same level", because one is true (an actual rape) and one is false (the baseless accusation). Lies can never be "on the same level" as truth.
Anyway, Title IX is not the problem: it is the incompetent and biased way universities employ it that is wrong.
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If I were to have solar panels on my roof and tore them off and put them on a pile and then took all my electronics and put that on a pile the solar panel pile would be much larger.
That's because the solar panels are 95% glass. Plain old insert silcon dioxide.
If it is not recycled then it is buried, either way we'd have a huge pile of stuff to deal with.
What, about 0.00001% of the "stuff" of discarded cell phones?
I think this says something about climate models too.
Yes, it says they are based on science.
The falling costs benefit them as well, and they don't have to pay retail prices.
But the power companies do have to pay for a huge collection of substations, towers and poles that local solar generators don't.
And maintenance on remote towers and high-tension lines is extremely expensive, as it is all done with helicopters.
You'll still be paying fixed charges to the electrical company each month
Not if you close your account.
After all, if you don't pay, the worst they can do is cut you off, which is exactly what you want.
We have never hooked up the hot water line to our washing machine, and the clothes come out beautifully clean.
Doesn't apply to a dishwasher, though.
How old are you?
Old enough to remember that large centralized operations have costs that smaller ones often don't have.
In this case, the construction and maintenance of all the substations, towers and poles and that a power grid needs but the roof of my house doesn't.
The market will find a balance of these fores and they will almost always land in favor of the utility, of the big over the small.
Except you are forgetting that by far the bulk of the cost of a grid is in distribution to all those towers, poles and substations.
A grid of cells on my house allows me to skip all that cost.
In this particular case, most of the voters probably do agree
Most of the citizens agree, but unfortunately, far too few of them can be bothered to vote.
You have no extraterritorial jurisdiction, you hosers! So like take off, eh?
FTFY.
Trump doesn't have to worry so much about the Democrats as he does the Repubs that he defeated for the nomination.
They will be back in force in 3 years to retake the nomination. Trump will be so bored he probably won't even run.
Better than a human is good enough for now
For the research phase, sure. But not for actual deployment.
Exactly.
Do we deserve to survive?
Am i being weird again ?
Without a doubt.
should i talk about the weather more ? or sports ?
Sure, as long as I don't have to listen.
I always assume being in rural Kentucky
Then your nephew is probably supplementing his $12/hour construction job with a $100/hour job making meth.
Storing total of 150 GB on phone now between SD card and internal storage.
Wow! That's a lot of porn.
And that fuel cap, there is actually fuel cap holder built into the gas door flap
Holy crap! I had no idea.
Thanks.
I've so far only managed to come up with one proper solution: build a Ringworld.
How about a 1% tax on each transaction? That would slow things down.
It does not indicate they just need to be extended among known lines, as you seem to assume.
In the case of "known lines" being science, which of course is physical in nature (there's no such thing as non-physical evidence), yes we do have to extend along those lines.
An actual scientist does understand that.
How would you know?
Physicalism is usually practiced and defended much the same way religion is.
Everything that benefits your life, including modern nutrition, medicine, transportation
and the computer you are typing on, all derive from one source: science.
Science, in turn, is based on evidence.
Evidence is based on objective measurements.
Measurements are necessarily physical in nature, because what would a "non-physical measurement" mean?
So we have:
No physicality -> no measurements.
No measurements -> no evidence.
No evidence -> no science.
No science -> superstitious twits like you.
In fact, after many decades of AI research, it looks like "strong AI" may actually not be possible physically in this universe.
Check back after many centuries of research.
Computer science is younger than many people alive today.
When you can use clairvoyance to predict what their descendants a dozen generations from now will achieve,
then you will have a reason for making such a baseless claim.
Best description of Turing I've read.
plausible excuses that often look like mansplaining.
Only a pathetic, ignorant fool would use a term like "mansplaining".
Or do you not feel that a false accusation of rape and rape are on the same level when it comes to destroying lives?
No, they are not on "the same level", because one is true (an actual rape) and one is false (the baseless accusation).
Lies can never be "on the same level" as truth.
Anyway, Title IX is not the problem: it is the incompetent and biased way universities employ it that is wrong.
The only truly reasoned argument in this thread.