Of course I do. I just grow tired of people telling me that I can live with solar panels on my roof and an electric car in my garage. Nobody is telling you that.
Large portions of the US live in cities but because of the large distances we travel regularly and the potential for lengthy power outages an electric car is not viable. And you don't fathom that other countries don't have such power outages. And in case, just in case, other countries have mobile generators.
There's something like 4 billion people with unreliable power. On a planet with 7billions? Sorry, you are a moron to believe something like that.
we include people with enough electricity for a single light bulb. You can't charge a car off of that. Not right now, perhaps. No idea about what country you specifically are talking.
These people might be able to get reliable electricity soon with solar panels and a battery pack but that's not going to charge an electric car too. Of course you can. Just double the amount of PV cells. Most "countries" you are thinking about are actually not switching from a gasoline car to a solar powered EV. They switch from gasoline powered bikes to electric bikes and safe money to by their first car: an EV.
You simply don't fathom in what a backwater yahoo world _you_ are living.
90% of your posts regarding energy, renewables etc. are completely irrelevant for 90% of the people on the planet. Because they don't live in the center of South Dakota, or where ever you live.
Powere outages, hellllloooo! For that to happen in Europe you need a majour disaster and several bad happenstance's happening together. And then the helicopters lift in emergency generators, or if the land is travel able they come by truck.
And then you come again and tell me about your "standard of living"... rofl. Simply face it: USA has a power grid that is worth than some of the few remaining third world countries. And you think: that is the standard and the rest of the world must be worth. How hilarious!!
Power outages.... tzzz... the last big power outage in Germany was a decade ago. Strange weather combinations lead to tons of ice freezing on power line towers. Dozens collapsed. And then the winter got colder. So we drove trucks with emergency generators into the area. Took weeks to get a reliable land connection again. The 50 years before that: no outages. The only power outage I personally witnessed was loss of power to the street lights, because of a truck crashing into a transformer. The rest of my barrio, I mean the houses etc. are on a different grid: nothing happened!
With the new north to south HVDC connects for the wind power surplus we go underground for long distance land lines, too. We DEVELOP our nation. We don't stick with wooden poles in the middle of nowhere 100 miles away from the next power plant, the poles probably 50 yeas old or older. WTF, get a clue.
Power outages here are resolved in minutes or an hour. And except for bad ass accidents they never happen.
What we see in fish and bird stomachs seems to disagree (german news was full with dead whales, fish, birds beaching around europe who died to plastic - albeit relatively big plastic - trash).
everywhere you go there are people crawling about. In the big cities... surrounded by wide empty lands, well, often farmed.
If you travel you should look at the landscape and not just land, hotel, beach, hotel, another flight, hotel, beach, one tourist tour.
Outside of Europe I only have ben in North Africa and Thailand so far. The areas are completely empty compared to Europe. On the other hand, central France is super empty too.
Overpopulation was a perceived thread in the 1970s, where we had hunger _everywhere_.
The planet easy can hold 25 billions, and with proper management probably 100 billions. Current estimates are the population will plateau around 10billions.
There is no overpopulation problem. There are _waste_ problems. 50% of all food harvested in industrial countries gets thrown away. In countries like Thailand it is even more! In the US huge amounts of energy are wasted. Same in plenty of other countries. Germanys CO2 reduction is in a huge deal based on reduction of energy consumption. But still we have the idiocity to harvest sea food in the north sea, ship it to north africa for removing the meat, and shipping the meat back to Germany to sell it in sea food "restaurants". Just because it is cheaper to waste fuel and pay a low wage job in Africa than pay a decent wage for a german or immigrant worker.
The problem of the planet is "globalization". Exploiting the currency/wage differences by super corporations instead of doing the right thing and setting up working societies in their mother lands.
Most parts of Thailand are not particular hot. Either they are to high, in the north around Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, or have to much wind, at the coasts e.g. Phuket. No idea about Columbia (would need to check a map;D ).
The points where it really gets hot are big continental planes like Siberia, Mongolia, parts of China, "central" Africa around the equator.
"tropical Paradies" like Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand not necessarily become much hotter, the water around them is dampening the heating.
where only a few percent (like the US, Western Europe) are enjoying the wonderful lifestyle You don't travel much, do you?
We have basically the same life style everywhere on the planet meanwhile. A few exceptions in countries like Somalia etc.
Go where you want, people have AC if they want to, usually enough food, refrigeration, a car or two, TVs, internet, mobile phones, and probably a higher speed connection than you have.
Sure, there are still Tuareg or Bushmen, but they live that life because they enjoy it, not because they could not live in an ACed house.
Problems in countries are because of politics, corruption etc. Not because of overpopulation, lack of food or other things. Look at Greece, all problems home made. A country where the rich exploit the less rich or poor. Many greeks own property and a bit of land. But can not live from it. Now they get false tax recipes from the tax authorities to pay ten times the properties tax the land is worth. Why? So the rich one can buy the land and the farms when the poor ones get evicted and the land auctioned. Then years later the tax recipes gets corrected...
Look at Syria, the royal house is rich enough to feed every citizen for decades. But they don't want to.
The law is about "expressing hate speech". If it is only invisible in Europe, but still visible in the rest of the world, it is still "expressed", hence still illegal. In other words: if judge makes vacation in Thailand, and looks at the facebook page of a guy he recently has convicted and still/again sees the hate speech, he just would probably this time not fine him, put really put him in jail.
As long as you don't spread "hate speech" you can comment on what you want.
Why are you claiming such nonsense?
If I would write: "Merkel is a catastrophe for my Country! All the refugees should be kept out!" or similar stuff like that: who cares? Which judge had any legal leverage against that? Hu?
Actually the laws are well defined. "Hate Speech" is just the moniker you are using to refer to those laws. And by that you pretend they would be vague or inappropriate or authoritarianism or censorship.
When was that? In WWII, the Germans didn't attack the US. Actually we did. It was kept a secret during WWII, more or less. But afterwards actually everyone knows, well, you obviously not. We sank dozens if not hundreds of ships along the coast, and in some rivers and shelled some harbor factories from sea. With submarines of course. That was actually very early in the war. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/edit... Ooops, actually close to 400 ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We tried a experimental long range bomber that flew from France to about 20miles north of New York in a trial bombing run. 36h round trip flight. Luckily we only had vey few (2?) of those planes and they never went operational.
I don't find a link regarding the land bombardments from uboats... I saw a history movie about that a few days ago, though.
In germany gas is liquified in big plants. I don't know about what you want to nitpick. A good deal of international gas transport is already liquified gas. So I had assumed you just take that instead of liquifying other gas, so you only need to ship it in a truck to your place and store it in an appropriated tank.
You made somewhere a mistake in your numbers. 1kg liquid gas has about 13kW/h energy. It makes no sense to compress or liquify it with the numbers you gave.
if it were perfect, the thermostats wouldn't all have to have 0.5C graduations, for instance Yes, and the prices in the grocery store would always be whole Euros.
Sigh....
Units of metric volume and cooking is another domain example where the utility of metric units is not ideal.
Rofl... how do you come to that idea? Most cooking recipes are actually build around metric units. If you look around cooking then the differences between imperial and metric only result in using one more egg or one less egg and a slightly larger or smaller dish. The differences between your pound and my pound is about 10%, your pint is a bit more than half a litter, so "a half pint" and a quarter liter are close to the same, and so on.
The nice thing about metrics is that weight and volume is coupled for most liquids, so if you are in a hurry and need a quarter liter of milk you can just weight 250g.
Bottom lines it comes down to what you are used to use. There is absolutely no difference in efficiency or what ever when I use metrics and you use what ever system suits you.
My point is simple: you always look at everything from your rural (and third world) perspective. Why don't you write a disclaimer below each post: unfortunately I live in remote spot, with unreliable power, harsh winters and 3h driving away from the next biggest town (or what ever it is)?
Sorry, having power outages, regularly... that is "unbelievable" from an outside point of view.
P.S. an well insulated house is not cold in hours. If you put everyone in 1 or two rooms together, a good insulated house will basically heat itself by body warmth.
Electric cars are just not compatible with large segments of the US population. A quick Google search tells me that 15% of the US population lives in rural areas. What now? Large segments, or 15%?
I have seen Elephants in Nepal, painting each other. Playing soccer, in teams, aka they knew whom to pass the ball and whom to avoid and played for the correct goal. They threw big darts on balloons, kinda laughed when they missed and where excited when they hit.
I actually drink either red wine or cold beer when siting in the hot tub. But I go to public Saunas, so we don't drink there:D Here in Germany not many people have a private Sauna. However when I was young the Sauna parties where ugly drinking parties, too.
Dude, if they claim they have X unique identified page accesses per day, and base their marketing on that and make a contract, and it is later figured that that is *false* then it is *fraud*
Of course it is, like any other european country. But why would you cook with electricity when you can use gas? I mean except if you have special favours? (We are talking about gas from a gas grid, not about gas bottles).
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In a sane country, yes.
In the US, likely not so much.
Of course I do. I just grow tired of people telling me that I can live with solar panels on my roof and an electric car in my garage.
Nobody is telling you that.
Large portions of the US live in cities but because of the large distances we travel regularly and the potential for lengthy power outages an electric car is not viable.
And you don't fathom that other countries don't have such power outages.
And in case, just in case, other countries have mobile generators.
There's something like 4 billion people with unreliable power.
On a planet with 7billions? Sorry, you are a moron to believe something like that.
we include people with enough electricity for a single light bulb. You can't charge a car off of that.
Not right now, perhaps. No idea about what country you specifically are talking.
These people might be able to get reliable electricity soon with solar panels and a battery pack but that's not going to charge an electric car too.
Of course you can. Just double the amount of PV cells. Most "countries" you are thinking about are actually not switching from a gasoline car to a solar powered EV. They switch from gasoline powered bikes to electric bikes and safe money to by their first car: an EV.
You simply don't fathom in what a backwater yahoo world _you_ are living.
90% of your posts regarding energy, renewables etc. are completely irrelevant for 90% of the people on the planet. Because they don't live in the center of South Dakota, or where ever you live.
Powere outages, hellllloooo! For that to happen in Europe you need a majour disaster and several bad happenstance's happening together. And then the helicopters lift in emergency generators, or if the land is travel able they come by truck.
And then you come again and tell me about your "standard of living" ... rofl. Simply face it: USA has a power grid that is worth than some of the few remaining third world countries. And you think: that is the standard and the rest of the world must be worth. How hilarious!!
Power outages .... tzzz ... the last big power outage in Germany was a decade ago. Strange weather combinations lead to tons of ice freezing on power line towers. Dozens collapsed. And then the winter got colder. So we drove trucks with emergency generators into the area. Took weeks to get a reliable land connection again. The 50 years before that: no outages. The only power outage I personally witnessed was loss of power to the street lights, because of a truck crashing into a transformer. The rest of my barrio, I mean the houses etc. are on a different grid: nothing happened!
With the new north to south HVDC connects for the wind power surplus we go underground for long distance land lines, too. We DEVELOP our nation. We don't stick with wooden poles in the middle of nowhere 100 miles away from the next power plant, the poles probably 50 yeas old or older. WTF, get a clue.
Power outages here are resolved in minutes or an hour. And except for bad ass accidents they never happen.
Well, my "thermostat" has a nice old school LCD :D
What we see in fish and bird stomachs seems to disagree (german news was full with dead whales, fish, birds beaching around europe who died to plastic - albeit relatively big plastic - trash).
everywhere you go there are people crawling about. ... surrounded by wide empty lands, well, often farmed.
In the big cities
If you travel you should look at the landscape and not just land, hotel, beach, hotel, another flight, hotel, beach, one tourist tour.
Outside of Europe I only have ben in North Africa and Thailand so far. The areas are completely empty compared to Europe. On the other hand, central France is super empty too.
Overpopulation was a perceived thread in the 1970s, where we had hunger _everywhere_.
The planet easy can hold 25 billions, and with proper management probably 100 billions.
Current estimates are the population will plateau around 10billions.
There is no overpopulation problem. There are _waste_ problems. 50% of all food harvested in industrial countries gets thrown away. In countries like Thailand it is even more! In the US huge amounts of energy are wasted. Same in plenty of other countries. Germanys CO2 reduction is in a huge deal based on reduction of energy consumption. But still we have the idiocity to harvest sea food in the north sea, ship it to north africa for removing the meat, and shipping the meat back to Germany to sell it in sea food "restaurants". Just because it is cheaper to waste fuel and pay a low wage job in Africa than pay a decent wage for a german or immigrant worker.
The problem of the planet is "globalization". Exploiting the currency/wage differences by super corporations instead of doing the right thing and setting up working societies in their mother lands.
Most parts of Thailand are not particular hot. ;D ).
Either they are to high, in the north around Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, or have to much wind, at the coasts e.g. Phuket.
No idea about Columbia (would need to check a map
The points where it really gets hot are big continental planes like Siberia, Mongolia, parts of China, "central" Africa around the equator.
"tropical Paradies" like Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand not necessarily become much hotter, the water around them is dampening the heating.
where only a few percent (like the US, Western Europe) are enjoying the wonderful lifestyle
You don't travel much, do you?
We have basically the same life style everywhere on the planet meanwhile. A few exceptions in countries like Somalia etc.
Go where you want, people have AC if they want to, usually enough food, refrigeration, a car or two, TVs, internet, mobile phones, and probably a higher speed connection than you have.
Sure, there are still Tuareg or Bushmen, but they live that life because they enjoy it, not because they could not live in an ACed house.
Problems in countries are because of politics, corruption etc. Not because of overpopulation, lack of food or other things. Look at Greece, all problems home made. A country where the rich exploit the less rich or poor. Many greeks own property and a bit of land. But can not live from it. Now they get false tax recipes from the tax authorities to pay ten times the properties tax the land is worth. Why? So the rich one can buy the land and the farms when the poor ones get evicted and the land auctioned. Then years later the tax recipes gets corrected ...
Look at Syria, the royal house is rich enough to feed every citizen for decades. But they don't want to.
I was doing that and I was getting a lot of headaches in spite of eating a lot of salt.
Perhaps the salt is at fault?
Most modern nutrition contains to much salt already, no point in adding more.
I'm sorry to scatter your illusions: http://www.nature.com/news/bot...
A simple search for "plastic in the ocean photos" gives you an overview.
Or this one: http://ocean.nationalgeographi...
The law is about "expressing hate speech".
If it is only invisible in Europe, but still visible in the rest of the world, it is still "expressed", hence still illegal.
In other words: if judge makes vacation in Thailand, and looks at the facebook page of a guy he recently has convicted and still/again sees the hate speech, he just would probably this time not fine him, put really put him in jail.
All points wrong.
As long as you don't spread "hate speech" you can comment on what you want.
Why are you claiming such nonsense?
If I would write: "Merkel is a catastrophe for my Country! All the refugees should be kept out!" or similar stuff like that: who cares? Which judge had any legal leverage against that? Hu?
None, you are an idiot.
Actually the laws are well defined. "Hate Speech" is just the moniker you are using to refer to those laws. And by that you pretend they would be vague or inappropriate or authoritarianism or censorship.
When was that? In WWII, the Germans didn't attack the US.
Actually we did.
It was kept a secret during WWII, more or less. But afterwards actually everyone knows, well, you obviously not.
We sank dozens if not hundreds of ships along the coast, and in some rivers and shelled some harbor factories from sea.
With submarines of course. That was actually very early in the war.
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/edit...
Ooops, actually close to 400 ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Summary about german operations close or in the Americas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We tried a experimental long range bomber that flew from France to about 20miles north of New York in a trial bombing run. 36h round trip flight. Luckily we only had vey few (2?) of those planes and they never went operational.
I don't find a link regarding the land bombardments from uboats ... I saw a history movie about that a few days ago, though.
In germany gas is liquified in big plants.
I don't know about what you want to nitpick.
A good deal of international gas transport is already liquified gas. So I had assumed you just take that instead of liquifying other gas, so you only need to ship it in a truck to your place and store it in an appropriated tank.
You made somewhere a mistake in your numbers. 1kg liquid gas has about 13kW/h energy. It makes no sense to compress or liquify it with the numbers you gave.
if it were perfect, the thermostats wouldn't all have to have 0.5C graduations, for instance
Yes, and the prices in the grocery store would always be whole Euros.
Sigh ....
Units of metric volume and cooking is another domain example where the utility of metric units is not ideal.
Rofl ... how do you come to that idea? Most cooking recipes are actually build around metric units. If you look around cooking then the differences between imperial and metric only result in using one more egg or one less egg and a slightly larger or smaller dish. The differences between your pound and my pound is about 10%, your pint is a bit more than half a litter, so "a half pint" and a quarter liter are close to the same, and so on.
The nice thing about metrics is that weight and volume is coupled for most liquids, so if you are in a hurry and need a quarter liter of milk you can just weight 250g.
Bottom lines it comes down to what you are used to use. There is absolutely no difference in efficiency or what ever when I use metrics and you use what ever system suits you.
My point is simple: you always look at everything from your rural (and third world) perspective.
Why don't you write a disclaimer below each post: unfortunately I live in remote spot, with unreliable power, harsh winters and 3h driving away from the next biggest town (or what ever it is)?
Sorry, having power outages, regularly ... that is "unbelievable" from an outside point of view.
P.S. an well insulated house is not cold in hours. If you put everyone in 1 or two rooms together, a good insulated house will basically heat itself by body warmth.
Electric cars are just not compatible with large segments of the US population.
A quick Google search tells me that 15% of the US population lives in rural areas.
What now? Large segments, or 15%?
Well, .0 and .5 steps. :D
my regulation device for indoor heating obviously uses
Did not know that that is inconvenient for some people
The machine has no will, no soul, no innate purpose; therefor no intelligence.
That depends on your Weltbild or more precisely religion.
I for my part as an atheist would say: nothing has a soul.
On the other hand most animistic religions, e.g. Shinto, would say: everything has a soul.
Up to you if your AI painting robot or car manufacturing robot has a soul or not.
I find religions that put souls in some things and no souls in the rest rather irritating :D
I have seen Elephants in Nepal, painting each other.
Playing soccer, in teams, aka they knew whom to pass the ball and whom to avoid and played for the correct goal.
They threw big darts on balloons, kinda laughed when they missed and where excited when they hit.
Because at the time the people discovered that effect, they used a word from their language. In Japanese that is Ki, in Chinese it is Qi.
If you had tried to pay attention instead of putting me into the "wacko corner" that would have been obvious 3, 4 or 5 posts back.
On the other hand, I'm not convinced that it is only increased blood flow :D but that is what the "scientists" saw.
Of course.
Nevertheless everyone is doing it.
I actually drink either red wine or cold beer when siting in the hot tub. But I go to public Saunas, so we don't drink there :D Here in Germany not many people have a private Sauna. However when I was young the Sauna parties where ugly drinking parties, too.
Dude, if they claim they have X unique identified page accesses per day, and base their marketing on that and make a contract, and it is later figured that that is *false* then it is *fraud*
You seem to have failed in basic law.
Wow, what is itching you today?
I have no such meter yet, and those (your) meters usually are unfortunately not coupled to market prices.
They only give you a useless web interface.
Of course it is, like any other european country.
But why would you cook with electricity when you can use gas? I mean except if you have special favours? (We are talking about gas from a gas grid, not about gas bottles).