Most people in "simple countries" like Philippines simply use the "use facebook to log on" option to everything. As soon as they lose the password they are locked out of everything. I know dozens of people like that. New mobile phone or SIM card -> new facebook account, and dozens of new other accounts (because you can obviously not log on to the other accounts with your new FB account).
If you mean Stalin, the people did not die due to bad "communist economy". Stalin killed them.
If you mean Mao, again, the people did not die due to "bad" communist economy. They died because everyone tried to overpower Mao and gave him false informations about how good the harvests are.
If you mean Pol Pot, he was of the opinion that people who live in cities and had a good education should become farmers, and switch houses with the farmers. So the farmers can enjoy city life and the high borns can do some hard work. He did not expect that farming is so hard that a highborn has no clue how to do it and caused a mass starvation...
Probably you don't know anything about history or about communism or about markets... "communist" east Germany was running superb, so is Cuba, despite of your sanctions.
The problem is not communism. The problem is that most communist countries are/were run by dictators.
Japan was "communist" from roughly 1945 till roughly 1988, no one noticed, because the two leading parties died not have the tag "communist" in their names, and the economy was a strong free market bases economy (because planned markets and democracy versus dictatorship or single party versus multi party systems have not much to do with "communism")
go ahead and send a flight of three B-52s loaded up with 60 cruise missiles to go ahead and eliminate most of the major buildings in North Korea. Was tried before... no idea why you proclaim such barbaric actions. Are you a barbarian?
When Hideoshi Toyotomi left Korea in 1598 with his troops, he ordered them to destroy all stone buildings they passed.
Sorry, mad pigs like you, who demand bombing another country back into the stone age, are not better than The Kim family, or Pol Pot and should be euthanized for the better of mankind.
but it would be easy for the US Why? NK is on another continent. What the fuck does the US care about a backyard country elsewhere?
There are two types of power, base and peak. That is a financial distinction.
From a power grid point of few that is irrelevant. Here you have: Base, same as above, and load following. You have to load follow all the time, regardless if you are ramping up in the morning, follow the shifting peak over daytime, or follow down to base in the night. Peak has no real counterpart, it is just load following.
Then you have "balancing power", fast reacting plants (and that has nothing to do with peak, you need them all the time), you really need them 24/24... not only at peak.
Then you have "reserve power", a 3 or 4 step set of reserve power plants that either can take over "load following", or even base load.
(Sidenote: a typical peak load plant obviously could also provide base load, but not for the price of a typical base load plant)
A gas turbine yields significant power after 10 seconds, around 30 seconds it is at 50% power and 100% is less than a minute. Depending what your purpose of your (reserve power?) plant is, you just take several of the turbines.
Germany has about 40% renewables (2017). 2016 Wind power was 15% and PV about 6%
Due to lucky circumstances it was 2017 much higher. For the nitpickers, electricity from brown and hard coal 2016 was 37% (40% 2015). I don't find an accurate link for 2017 at the moment. But it was a record year for renewables, something around 39.5%
Molten salt as storage for electric energy makes no sense. (No heat based storage makes sense; unless, you really want to get rid of the electricity and you simply only want to reuse the heat, e.g. in a bakery) Assume you have 100MWh to sore, you probably get 95MWh into the salt. And as any heat engine hardly can beat the 42% barrier of efficiency, you get maximum 40MWh back from the molten salt. Pumped storage round trip is close to 90% Storing it in a battery is close to 99% Storing it in a EV is also close to 99%
The respond time is not "sub seconds". The grid is organized around 3 levels of response times, ASAP, seconds and minutes. Seconds and minutes both means reaction time, e.g. a seconds reserve is ready in a few seconds but worst case only lasts 30 seconds (a small pumped storage, e.g. OFC it may last much longer). Minute reserve means it is ready after about a minute (a gas turbine is ready after about 30 seconds) and might only runs a few minutes because because a traditional plant reacted meanwhile.
Anyway, with smart meters, the power plant tells you to switch on/off your appliance. You are not reacting by yourself on market changes.
but ones which are aware of the demand in realtime and can instrcut devices to either draw electricity from the grid or put it back. That actually is what a smart meter is. Just because your meter is connected to the internet, does not make it a smart meter.
Overnight charging is an excellent use to pick up extra capacity in baseload generation. But it increases your base load. And if the power is not green, increases the pollution.
and I think in most areas wind generation works better during the day. Not really. Why would it? At coasts shortly after dawn and shortly after dusk wind increases. Depending where you are wind is stronger at night.
So, what would be a non human warming factor? How would it affect the planet over a mere 2 centuries than over ten thousands of years as in history?
You did not bring one so far. No worries, there are none, so spare your time to google/search for it.
The whole AGW debate (the term alone is american) is an american thing, emerging somewhere around 1985 when some idiots in america complained that this all is a hoax. When actually was the IPCC founded? Hu?
An international science agency was founded because America denied AGW... billions of dollars poured into it just to react to the "suspicion" of anti science american ideologists.
And now: America is turning it around! You see, the IPCC needs to publish this and that like this because they need funding.
Actually: there was never any reason to found or fund that organization. Everything they publish since 30 years are downplayed scenarios about what we can expect to happen in very close future.
And we know that since minimum 100 years.
We live in a time where a scientist has to defend his profession, very sad. Very Sad, indeed.
And those that landed probes on Venus and probes on Asteroids.
But no worries, there will soon be more countries doing such feats. However landing humans on Moon will likely not worthwhile during the next 50 or 100 years.
Hey, you got it all wrong again! Either it is a Planet or not. Planetoid makes no sense art all! What is next? Comet or Cometoid... or Comatoid? Planetoid or Planetissimal? How far do you want to go! AC? Hu? Mocking us again? I know you, try your mocking game elsewhere!
Now, come on Pluto, leave that cat alone, and don't piss at that car, the owner will shoot you, or us both!! Come on Pluto!!
We could count like the ancients did: You count the planets you can see with the naked eye: Mercury (extremely rarely visible), Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (also extremely rarely visible). Obviously we skipped earth. However the reason why ancient arenas had 5 lanes for running / horse racing is: because there are 5 visible planets for the naked eye. But most people will never see Saturn during their live time. In ancient times because they statistically died to early in our times because of light pollution (and Saturn is statistically only twice during your live close enough to be seen with the naked eye)
A brown dwarf star is a "star" that is a bit bigger than Jupiter, but not big enough to ignite fusion. Of course you could have a "brown dwarf" as a planet or companion of a main star...
Obviously the definition is fussy, as you can not really define things that are fussy by nature.
When is a girl fat? Obviously when she is overweight enough that you don't find her sexy anymore. On the other hand in a different culture that might be different. Or when is a girl sexy? When it is not to fat? Again that could be completely different defined in an other culture.
(Just like in christian mythology, Satan is called often "the devil" instead of by his name). but Satan is not his name. His name is Lucifer. And unlike the misstranslations you see on wikipedia or (other?) christian sites, it does not mean "Light Bearer", it means "Light Bringer", or in greek: Prometheus. The god who gifted mankind fire and technology.
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Most people in "simple countries" like Philippines simply use the "use facebook to log on" option to everything.
As soon as they lose the password they are locked out of everything.
I know dozens of people like that. New mobile phone or SIM card -> new facebook account, and dozens of new other accounts (because you can obviously not log on to the other accounts with your new FB account).
If you mean Stalin, the people did not die due to bad "communist economy".
Stalin killed them.
If you mean Mao, again, the people did not die due to "bad" communist economy. They died because everyone tried to overpower Mao and gave him false informations about how good the harvests are.
If you mean Pol Pot, he was of the opinion that people who live in cities and had a good education should become farmers, and switch houses with the farmers. So the farmers can enjoy city life and the high borns can do some hard work. He did not expect that farming is so hard that a highborn has no clue how to do it and caused a mass starvation ...
Probably you don't know anything about history or about communism or about markets ... "communist" east Germany was running superb, so is Cuba, despite of your sanctions.
The problem is not communism. The problem is that most communist countries are/were run by dictators.
Japan was "communist" from roughly 1945 till roughly 1988, no one noticed, because the two leading parties died not have the tag "communist" in their names, and the economy was a strong free market bases economy (because planned markets and democracy versus dictatorship or single party versus multi party systems have not much to do with "communism")
You trust someone because you consider him trustworthy.
And not because of his opinion.
Who cares who is marrying whom? It does not affect your life at the slightest.
You want to tell me an iPhone or a MacBook (Pro) is manufactured by forced child laborers?
And you actually are convinced about that?
And which of those did not exist before the web?
Alphabet? Because it is a new "financial construct"?
go ahead and send a flight of three B-52s loaded up with 60 cruise missiles to go ahead and eliminate most of the major buildings in North Korea. ... no idea why you proclaim such barbaric actions. Are you a barbarian?
Was tried before
When Hideoshi Toyotomi left Korea in 1598 with his troops, he ordered them to destroy all stone buildings they passed.
Sorry, mad pigs like you, who demand bombing another country back into the stone age, are not better than The Kim family, or Pol Pot and should be euthanized for the better of mankind.
but it would be easy for the US
Why? NK is on another continent. What the fuck does the US care about a backyard country elsewhere?
There are two types of power, base and peak.
That is a financial distinction.
From a power grid point of few that is irrelevant. Here you have:
Base, same as above, and load following. You have to load follow all the time, regardless if you are ramping up in the morning, follow the shifting peak over daytime, or follow down to base in the night.
Peak has no real counterpart, it is just load following.
Then you have "balancing power", fast reacting plants (and that has nothing to do with peak, you need them all the time), you really need them 24/24 ... not only at peak.
Then you have "reserve power", a 3 or 4 step set of reserve power plants that either can take over "load following", or even base load.
(Sidenote: a typical peak load plant obviously could also provide base load, but not for the price of a typical base load plant)
A gas turbine yields significant power after 10 seconds, around 30 seconds it is at 50% power and 100% is less than a minute.
Depending what your purpose of your (reserve power?) plant is, you just take several of the turbines.
Germany has about 40% renewables (2017).
2016 Wind power was 15% and PV about 6%
Due to lucky circumstances it was 2017 much higher.
For the nitpickers, electricity from brown and hard coal 2016 was 37% (40% 2015). I don't find an accurate link for 2017 at the moment. But it was a record year for renewables, something around 39.5%
Molten salt as storage for electric energy makes no sense. (No heat based storage makes sense; unless, you really want to get rid of the electricity and you simply only want to reuse the heat, e.g. in a bakery)
Assume you have 100MWh to sore, you probably get 95MWh into the salt.
And as any heat engine hardly can beat the 42% barrier of efficiency, you get maximum 40MWh back from the molten salt.
Pumped storage round trip is close to 90%
Storing it in a battery is close to 99%
Storing it in a EV is also close to 99%
The respond time is not "sub seconds". The grid is organized around 3 levels of response times, ASAP, seconds and minutes. Seconds and minutes both means reaction time, e.g. a seconds reserve is ready in a few seconds but worst case only lasts 30 seconds (a small pumped storage, e.g. OFC it may last much longer). Minute reserve means it is ready after about a minute (a gas turbine is ready after about 30 seconds) and might only runs a few minutes because because a traditional plant reacted meanwhile.
Anyway, with smart meters, the power plant tells you to switch on/off your appliance. You are not reacting by yourself on market changes.
but ones which are aware of the demand in realtime and can instrcut devices to either draw electricity from the grid or put it back.
That actually is what a smart meter is.
Just because your meter is connected to the internet, does not make it a smart meter.
Overnight charging is an excellent use to pick up extra capacity in baseload generation.
But it increases your base load. And if the power is not green, increases the pollution.
and I think in most areas wind generation works better during the day.
Not really. Why would it? At coasts shortly after dawn and shortly after dusk wind increases. Depending where you are wind is stronger at night.
Most Japanese are ethnically Korean.
The Ainu are mostly extinct.
Old Familes in Japan are either Chinese or Korean, partly intermixed with Ainu.
Modern Japanese are mostly Korean and partly Taiwanian and to a very low amount from Okinawa.
Of course you can not talk to a Japanese about that as Amaterasus' children are all sacret :D
SoftBank is not a bank. It is a tech holding company.
I thought they originally were a banking consortium, my mistake.
So, what would be a non human warming factor?
How would it affect the planet over a mere 2 centuries than over ten thousands of years as in history?
You did not bring one so far. No worries, there are none, so spare your time to google/search for it.
The whole AGW debate (the term alone is american) is an american thing, emerging somewhere around 1985 when some idiots in america complained that this all is a hoax. When actually was the IPCC founded? Hu?
An international science agency was founded because America denied AGW ... billions of dollars poured into it just to react to the "suspicion" of anti science american ideologists.
And now: America is turning it around! You see, the IPCC needs to publish this and that like this because they need funding.
Actually: there was never any reason to found or fund that organization. Everything they publish since 30 years are downplayed scenarios about what we can expect to happen in very close future.
And we know that since minimum 100 years.
We live in a time where a scientist has to defend his profession, very sad. Very Sad, indeed.
Oh, the GP was talking about the opposite, money send from Japan to Saudi Arabia.
And he was implying that the Japanese are kissing the ass of the Saudies.
It is extremely unlikely that a Japanese will ever be kissing the ass of someone who has not slitted eyes and slightly white/yellowish skin.
Softbank is a bank in Japan ...
Saudi Arabia is completely elsewhere. Perhaps you like to consult a map.
There aren't any non human warming factors on earth since millions of years.
Perhaps you want to check a book about it?
And those that landed probes on Venus and probes on Asteroids.
But no worries, there will soon be more countries doing such feats. However landing humans on Moon will likely not worthwhile during the next 50 or 100 years.
Pluto is a chunk of ice.
Earth and Mars are rocks.
Lucky we have no stupid Uranus jokes here :P
(just because americans can not pronounce Uranus correctly)
Hey, you got it all wrong again! ... or Comatoid? Planetoid or Planetissimal? How far do you want to go! AC? Hu? Mocking us again? I know you, try your mocking game elsewhere!
Either it is a Planet or not. Planetoid makes no sense art all! What is next? Comet or Cometoid
Now, come on Pluto, leave that cat alone, and don't piss at that car, the owner will shoot you, or us both!! Come on Pluto!!
We could count like the ancients did:
You count the planets you can see with the naked eye: Mercury (extremely rarely visible), Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (also extremely rarely visible).
Obviously we skipped earth.
However the reason why ancient arenas had 5 lanes for running / horse racing is: because there are 5 visible planets for the naked eye. But most people will never see Saturn during their live time. In ancient times because they statistically died to early in our times because of light pollution (and Saturn is statistically only twice during your live close enough to be seen with the naked eye)
A brown dwarf star is a "star" that is a bit bigger than Jupiter, but not big enough to ignite fusion. ...
Of course you could have a "brown dwarf" as a planet or companion of a main star
Obviously the definition is fussy, as you can not really define things that are fussy by nature.
When is a girl fat? Obviously when she is overweight enough that you don't find her sexy anymore. On the other hand in a different culture that might be different. Or when is a girl sexy? When it is not to fat? Again that could be completely different defined in an other culture.
(Just like in christian mythology, Satan is called often "the devil" instead of by his name).
but Satan is not his name. His name is Lucifer. And unlike the misstranslations you see on wikipedia or (other?) christian sites, it does not mean "Light Bearer", it means "Light Bringer", or in greek: Prometheus. The god who gifted mankind fire and technology.