During Q2 2018, the price of electricity in South Korea was 126.089 South-Korean Won which was equivalent to 0.117 USD at the exchange rate at the time of collecting the data. During the same time, the world average price was 0.115 USD per kWh of electricity used. From: https://www.globalenergyprices...
So? Mining a coin in South Korea does not cost $20k... with a little bit of thinking that would have been obvious to you.
if you want to mine cheap, get a solar panel, mine in north africa or in asia or australia, or Nevada if you are in the US, there are certainly more places.
Sounds a bit strange, because alphalpha you usually mix with growing grains or corn, and use it as food for life stock. St least that is what we do in Europe, never heard about anyone exporting it.
Yes, but solar thermal can also run at night... and you might want to distribute water at night over the fields (of course with basins etc you can separate production and distribution). And it has as a side effect: heat. Unless in very big cities the deserts and smaller towns get quite cold at night. So you could provide heating if you wanted.
An iceberg in the bay of Dubai had a chilling effect, a desalination plant not. Again: we don't know the prices. It could be quite cheap.
However I agree that using thermal solar power to desalinate makes the most sense. However that would be a project of the arabic states. Capturing a ice berg and selling the ice there is a project of a free company... why ague with them? They are competing... isn't that suddenly no longer a good american thing?
hey became deserts because of some complex climatic systems that we should only tinker with very carefully No they became deserts because the ancient people there cut down all the trees.
Do you have any idea what the second and third order effects of greening a large area of desert might be? Yes, less CO2, not much so. And a nice cooling effect due to trapping of water and evaporation of it. It would catch rain and transform the local climate back to what it was 4000 - 6000 years ago.
However countries where that would work better are Libanon, Ethiopia etc. because about that countries we know for sure that they were forests 4000 - 6000 years ago.
More rain, yes. But locations like Sahara and Arabia, no way! How would a climate model predict the location of rain?
If they don't make it green: it will never rain there, much to hot, the clouds would be directed around the hotspot, just like it happened this year in Europe.
The deserts there are all man made. Basically by cutting down the forests.
Anyway, we have the technology to make them green. So if a sheik want to make himself a name that will be remembered for the next millenia he could work on such a project.
Is desalination really so hard? Yes and no. But what has that to do with my proposal?
Can't Dubai figure out a way to, you know, conserve water? Ever been there? If a german would waste as much water as a dubaians does, he probably got hanged in public. Seriously, they don't have a "water problem", they have mental problems. They are rich, hence they waste everything to impress the guests/slaveworkers/neighbours with their riches.
... $0.06 per kwh in Dubai. The wholesale price is likely about half that. I doubt that wholesales is half of it. $0.06 is just above production cost, depending how they make power in Dubai. Likely from oil mainly?
but what would they do then? Planting no wheat? So no green, no change in humidity? No change in micro climate?
So far we don't know what it costs to ship an iceberg so far. I hoped those desert countries simply would start a long term big "terraforming" project to make the deserts at least somewhat green again.
A few month a go someone, perhaps ShanghaiBill, gave a nice link about it on/.
But I have never bookmarked it, and I don't know with which keywords to search it. I'm sure if you actually were interested in the topic you allreay had found it.
Then you like get something that looks exactly like an iPhone, when you boot it it still looks like an iPhone, when you are on the home screen all icons still look like an iPhone.
As soon as you open an app, you realize it is Android.
... simply because I got the algorithm wrong. None of these "safe" languages would have prevented the 2nd kind of error. You don't know that. If you have more brain left to do the algorithm, or do the algorithm first in Python or on paper, you perhaps had avoided the mistake.
The problem basically is you can only shuffle 7 - 9 topics in your short term memory. That is basically your brains registers. If three of them are occupied by useless low level stuff, only the rest can be used for the algorithm.
Yeah, but in both cases only in the US muhuhuhuaaaa! In Europe and Asia they stay the same, theoretically. But I guess Apple would adjust its prices everywhere.
First of all: we don't have backup. You don't need that in an European interconnected grid. Secondly, lignite is not particular dirty. Since the late 1970s Germany scrubs the exhaust from its coal plants, just like most first world nations.
People talking about energy related topics should stop taking 30 - 50 year old facts for granted. The energy world has changed greatly.
As I said now several times: we meanwhile know that the cooling system itself was broken. Hence the replacement diesel generators, that replaced the ones destroyed by the tsunami, could not cool the plant.
That actually is a no brainer. Why should replacement generators not work when the cooling system is fine?
The first python program I wrote was a test for a job interview. It involved downloading meteorologic data from the internet. Analyzing it, creating a kind of summary and using a graph plotting library to display a graph (generate a *.png)
It would not have been noticeable faster if I had written it in C++, because... you know: downloading via a network.
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During Q2 2018, the price of electricity in South Korea was 126.089 South-Korean Won which was equivalent to 0.117 USD at the exchange rate at the time of collecting the data. During the same time, the world average price was 0.115 USD per kWh of electricity used.
From: https://www.globalenergyprices...
So? Mining a coin in South Korea does not cost $20k ... with a little bit of thinking that would have been obvious to you.
if you want to mine cheap, get a solar panel, mine in north africa or in asia or australia, or Nevada if you are in the US, there are certainly more places.
She was not really right anyway.
Eye operations to fix sight problems are routine meanwhile.
Sounds a bit strange, because alphalpha you usually mix with growing grains or corn, and use it as food for life stock. St least that is what we do in Europe, never heard about anyone exporting it.
Yes, ... and you might want to distribute water at night over the fields (of course with basins etc you can separate production and distribution).
but solar thermal can also run at night
And it has as a side effect: heat. Unless in very big cities the deserts and smaller towns get quite cold at night. So you could provide heating if you wanted.
An iceberg in the bay of Dubai had a chilling effect, a desalination plant not.
Again: we don't know the prices. It could be quite cheap.
However I agree that using thermal solar power to desalinate makes the most sense. However that would be a project of the arabic states. Capturing a ice berg and selling the ice there is a project of a free company ... why ague with them? They are competing ... isn't that suddenly no longer a good american thing?
hey became deserts because of some complex climatic systems that we should only tinker with very carefully
No they became deserts because the ancient people there cut down all the trees.
Do you have any idea what the second and third order effects of greening a large area of desert might be?
Yes, less CO2, not much so. And a nice cooling effect due to trapping of water and evaporation of it. It would catch rain and transform the local climate back to what it was 4000 - 6000 years ago.
However countries where that would work better are Libanon, Ethiopia etc. because about that countries we know for sure that they were forests 4000 - 6000 years ago.
Show us such a study please.
More rain, yes. But locations like Sahara and Arabia, no way! How would a climate model predict the location of rain?
If they don't make it green: it will never rain there, much to hot, the clouds would be directed around the hotspot, just like it happened this year in Europe.
The deserts there are all man made. Basically by cutting down the forests.
Anyway, we have the technology to make them green. So if a sheik want to make himself a name that will be remembered for the next millenia he could work on such a project.
Is desalination really so hard?
Yes and no. But what has that to do with my proposal?
Can't Dubai figure out a way to, you know, conserve water?
Ever been there? If a german would waste as much water as a dubaians does, he probably got hanged in public. Seriously, they don't have a "water problem", they have mental problems. They are rich, hence they waste everything to impress the guests/slaveworkers/neighbours with their riches.
Those deserts are deserts since 1000 years or more.
CO2 level changes wont change that.
You have to plant stuff and distribute water.
- and anything afloat that's not actively crewed is fair game, ...
That is not true since over 50 years
Actually today was a /. story about the first atlantic crossing by an unmanned sailing drone.
Meanwhile they build submarines :D
I doubt that wholesales is half of it. $0.06 is just above production cost, depending how they make power in Dubai. Likely from oil mainly?
In a desert it makes more sense to use solar thermal instead of a nuclear reactor.
Yeah,
but what would they do then? Planting no wheat? So no green, no change in humidity? No change in micro climate?
So far we don't know what it costs to ship an iceberg so far. I hoped those desert countries simply would start a long term big "terraforming" project to make the deserts at least somewhat green again.
A few month a go someone, perhaps ShanghaiBill, gave a nice link about it on /.
But I have never bookmarked it, and I don't know with which keywords to search it. I'm sure if you actually were interested in the topic you allreay had found it.
No I did not make anything up, they mentioned the x-ray images, did they not?
Well, that rain thing was this year extremely uneven distributed over the ares of the planet where you could grow wheat or rice ....
We always care about prices. ... just replaced the battery for something like $10.
That is why I have my 8 year old trusty iPhone 4S
Then you like get something that looks exactly like an iPhone, when you boot it it still looks like an iPhone, when you are on the home screen all icons still look like an iPhone.
As soon as you open an app, you realize it is Android.
You don't know that. If you have more brain left to do the algorithm, or do the algorithm first in Python or on paper, you perhaps had avoided the mistake.
The problem basically is you can only shuffle 7 - 9 topics in your short term memory. That is basically your brains registers. If three of them are occupied by useless low level stuff, only the rest can be used for the algorithm.
Yeah, but in both cases only in the US muhuhuhuaaaa!
In Europe and Asia they stay the same, theoretically. But I guess Apple would adjust its prices everywhere.
First of all: we don't have backup. You don't need that in an European interconnected grid.
Secondly, lignite is not particular dirty. Since the late 1970s Germany scrubs the exhaust from its coal plants, just like most first world nations.
People talking about energy related topics should stop taking 30 - 50 year old facts for granted. The energy world has changed greatly.
That is an age old post that never got fixed.
As I said now several times: we meanwhile know that the cooling system itself was broken. Hence the replacement diesel generators, that replaced the ones destroyed by the tsunami, could not cool the plant.
That actually is a no brainer. Why should replacement generators not work when the cooling system is fine?
Eve Online is mostly written in Python, client and server.
It is the MMO game with the most concurrent users online at any time of the day.
Speed is not their problem.
The first python program I wrote was a test for a job interview.
It involved downloading meteorologic data from the internet.
Analyzing it, creating a kind of summary and using a graph plotting library to display a graph (generate a *.png)
It would not have been noticeable faster if I had written it in C++, because ... you know: downloading via a network.
Luckily I usually have high skilled developers in my Java projects :P