The self driving cars, I have experience with, Audi, Toyota, BMW etc. don't use anything anyone would claim to be AI, they not even use neural networks, like some american attempts. However: basically all algorithms involved come from AI research. Or a subsection of AI called "cognitive systems". The other subsection related to AI is obviously from robotics. (Planning and steering).
Given perfect weather and the absence of traffic, animals or pedestrians, lane tracking software is still hard. Not all roads are well marked No it is not. Marks are only used as guidelines. There are plenty of things lane tracking can use. Here is a list of about 20 algorithms: http://airccse.org/journal/jcs... I guess if you google for them individually you find youtube videos that show how the algorithms work.
Camara based lane tracking only fails in deep snow. But usually sides get market with sticks then, or a snowplow removes the snow (partially). (Yes, I do know that you don't do that in super rural USA... then don't drive an autonomous no steering wheel car there).
A household of 3 persons in Germany uses over a year on average 4250 kWh. That is close to 11kWh per day. So you obviously could generate that yourself if you wanted... But who wants to ride a bike at home after work for 4 hours to recharge the batteries... that went down during work time.
The reactors where fine, it was the emergency generators that were destroyed which are required for decay heat cooling that caused the whole accident No they weren't. We meanwhile know that the brought in emergency power generators could not safe the plant because the cooling system (the pipes) were destroyed by the quake.
No, because you have these people crossing multiple safe countries to arrive in Europe. Merkel laid out the welcome mat, and predictably the flood came. First of all: how would we avoid them traveling through a safe country? Secondly: which country would you consider save?
So you first claim they get no money, and now you ask what is wrong with a "refugee" receiving an allowance for 13 years after he was supposed to be deported? Because they don't get Hatz IV, they only get something like $200 pocket money per month.
13 years after he was supposed to be deported? He was not supposed to be deported. He stays until his refugee status changes. And that only changes if his home country is considered save. Usually if he stays long enough, learns the language, has a work permit, he can stay, with status "connived". Or if he has children in school here, or is married to one who has a "permit of stay" (or is German, obviously)
Merkel laid out the welcome mat, and predictably the flood came. You are bad with reading news. The refugees came first, and then Merkel formed politics to organize how to receive them.
You are a useful idiot beyond help. The idiot is you, you lecture about a situation you have no knowledge about. That is plain stupid. You give advice and hint about a situation you don't comprehend. You blame a politician for refugees seeking asylum into the EU, while that politician only has influence over Germany. That is simply brain dead. Then you claimed at the first post, Germany should change its immigration laws. Germany has no immigration laws! This year is the first time that politicians argue and give proposals to make one.
Even for an American or Canadian married to a German, it is extremely complex to come here and stay and get finally a life long permit to stay. If I marry my Thai GF, she needs a visa to visit me in Germany, it is ridiculous.
Why don't you quote what matter, CO2/KWH annually? You avoid it because you know that it hasn't been improving significantly. Because Homunculus already quoted it to you. CO2 per KWh dropped from 1980 till 2018 roughly from 100% - 2% renewables - 20% nukes -> ~78% CO2 to 100% - 38% renewables - 10% nukes -> ~52% CO2. So the change is from 78% CO2 producing plants to 52% CO2 producing plants. In my eyes that is a significant improvement
Plain and simple, and for that you don't need a graph. Es you probably have noticed: https://www.energy-charts.de/i... only goes back till 2008.
And that we now produce 38% last year and probably much more this year: you see yourself on https://www.energy-charts.de/ why the funk should I search you the relevant page?
Dude, no idea what you want to say. Last year we produced about 33%-38% of electricity CO2 free. This year in summer, we already are at 50%, but going towards winter, that might drop.
And: unlike you, I follow the discussion close enough to know that you got bombarded with dozens of links regarding to this topic by other/.ers
I gave you two institutions to check, fraunhofer.de and energy-dingsbums org, don't have it on my tablet, just look in the history. They answer all your questions.
So: I already know that you have links proofing my point. Why do you bother me searching the same links for you again?
Perhaps you want to google: transport grid, distribution grid. The french and german grids are only interconnected by transport grids. And over those, there is no unannounced, not prescheduled power transport.
The general power transport needs to be anounced 24h in advance, ad hoc transfers need to be anounced 1h in advance.
If you want I sent you a link to about 2000 pages of regulations how international europe wide power management works.
So, no. There is no random power flowing from France to Germany over the river Rhine, just because there is a french power plant on the other side.
BTW: France is a net importer of power from Germany... just in case you did not know.
As I actually worked 10 years in power companies: no, they are not reactions to demand. France overproduces, and because it has to react to that, it sells excess power. Germany has coal plants and can power them down easily, so it buys the excess power. France has nukes, which it only can power down and power up around the right circumstances.
Obviously thos nare market decissions. France has no influence on Germand grid stability anyway... a no brainer if you knew anything about the european grid(s)
Well, you are looking at it pretty wiered. I don't see a difference in the actual way of voting and your proposal. Considering that 80% voted against DST and 80% of those voted for keeping permanent summer time, your rant is pointless anyway. They voted like you want it, so why complain?
Time measurements are a problem, as the more accurate the clock, the greater it impacts the gravitational field. So a clock good enough to measure time accurately enough to give us the precision needed is a clock that isn't an inert part of the experiment but a direct contaminant. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is between time and energy, not between time and gravity.
Doing it "mentally" is only easy for a person who never did it, or even tried it. Obviously adding or subtracting a single 1 is easy. However preventing to mix up if you have to add it or subtract it, is for some reason pretty challenging. After all you are used to glance at your watch and figure: I have to go in 30 minutes. While in fact you are already 30 minutes later or have 1:30 hours left till you have to go.
The idea was shops e.g. would switch on the lights in the windows later. However many companies did not bother to change the clocks that control the lights... so no real saving.
But it is interesting how stupid and brain dead your reasoning is...
The most important country you should have guessed is: UK. GMT is defined by noon being at Greenwich. And from there we derive UTC and from there we derive the times for the rest of the world.
Ah, now I grasp it, "middle of the day", that is of course not the case. But middle of the daylight period, that is.
Yeah, a friend of mine did that. Having a watch on UTC.
He was always late, regardless if DST or ST... and he never flew to a country some time zones away, I think some co workers stole his watch... there was no other way to show him the foolishness of his way.
Oh, he once was on Madeira... perhaps he realized the foolishness of his way there... hm. At least he is no longer wearing a watch set to UTC (since a decade).
Noon should align with the position of the sun. I agree. But as we need to average that out somehow over Europe, I propose Warschau in the east and Paris in the west as the two measuring points. That would mean Berlin time is noon for Europe. Somehow I like that idea.
(Actually I voted keep summer time for ever, because actually I like to sit out in June on a terrace in Paris, sipping a wine and enjoying the aftermath of the sunset, glowing sky, a few high clouds illuminated by the sun "from below". Or having a late 22:00 sunset in Brittany)
In other words: I Napoleon Angelo, Imperator of Europe, with here in decree: 12:00, aka noon, shall be when the Sun is the highest above Porto, Portugal, the finest city in the world! And the rest of Europe has to adjust its time accordingly. Except Greece of course.
Socialism is in free market economies with democracy. Not necessarily. You seem to mix up "Social Democracies" with Socialism:D Most Socialist countries in the eastern block had no free markets but central controlled economies with small free markets attached, e.g. being allowed to bake bread and sell it on their own account. Or buy a calf, raise it and butcher it.
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The self driving cars, I have experience with, Audi, Toyota, BMW etc. don't use anything anyone would claim to be AI, they not even use neural networks, like some american attempts.
However: basically all algorithms involved come from AI research. Or a subsection of AI called "cognitive systems". The other subsection related to AI is obviously from robotics. (Planning and steering).
Given perfect weather and the absence of traffic, animals or pedestrians, lane tracking software is still hard. Not all roads are well marked
No it is not. Marks are only used as guidelines. There are plenty of things lane tracking can use. Here is a list of about 20 algorithms: http://airccse.org/journal/jcs...
I guess if you google for them individually you find youtube videos that show how the algorithms work.
Camara based lane tracking only fails in deep snow. But usually sides get market with sticks then, or a snowplow removes the snow (partially). (Yes, I do know that you don't do that in super rural USA ... then don't drive an autonomous no steering wheel car there).
A household of 3 persons in Germany uses over a year on average 4250 kWh. That is close to 11kWh per day. ... ... that went down during work time.
So you obviously could generate that yourself if you wanted
But who wants to ride a bike at home after work for 4 hours to recharge the batteries
The reactors where fine, it was the emergency generators that were destroyed which are required for decay heat cooling that caused the whole accident
No they weren't. We meanwhile know that the brought in emergency power generators could not safe the plant because the cooling system (the pipes) were destroyed by the quake.
A floating plant actually would not be affected by a tsunami, because it floats ...
In theory it does, in practice it did not work. :D
We all know that, so calm down
No, because you have these people crossing multiple safe countries to arrive in Europe. Merkel laid out the welcome mat, and predictably the flood came.
First of all: how would we avoid them traveling through a safe country?
Secondly: which country would you consider save?
So you first claim they get no money, and now you ask what is wrong with a "refugee" receiving an allowance for 13 years after he was supposed to be deported?
Because they don't get Hatz IV, they only get something like $200 pocket money per month.
13 years after he was supposed to be deported?
He was not supposed to be deported. He stays until his refugee status changes. And that only changes if his home country is considered save. Usually if he stays long enough, learns the language, has a work permit, he can stay, with status "connived". Or if he has children in school here, or is married to one who has a "permit of stay" (or is German, obviously)
Merkel laid out the welcome mat, and predictably the flood came.
You are bad with reading news.
The refugees came first, and then Merkel formed politics to organize how to receive them.
You are a useful idiot beyond help.
The idiot is you, you lecture about a situation you have no knowledge about. That is plain stupid. You give advice and hint about a situation you don't comprehend. You blame a politician for refugees seeking asylum into the EU, while that politician only has influence over Germany. That is simply brain dead.
Then you claimed at the first post, Germany should change its immigration laws. Germany has no immigration laws! This year is the first time that politicians argue and give proposals to make one.
Even for an American or Canadian married to a German, it is extremely complex to come here and stay and get finally a life long permit to stay. If I marry my Thai GF, she needs a visa to visit me in Germany, it is ridiculous.
Why don't you quote what matter, CO2/KWH annually? You avoid it because you know that it hasn't been improving significantly.
Because Homunculus already quoted it to you.
CO2 per KWh dropped from 1980 till 2018 roughly from 100% - 2% renewables - 20% nukes -> ~78% CO2 to 100% - 38% renewables - 10% nukes -> ~52% CO2.
So the change is from 78% CO2 producing plants to 52% CO2 producing plants. In my eyes that is a significant improvement
Plain and simple, and for that you don't need a graph. Es you probably have noticed: https://www.energy-charts.de/i... only goes back till 2008.
And that we now produce 38% last year and probably much more this year: you see yourself on https://www.energy-charts.de/ why the funk should I search you the relevant page?
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/...
So, now find a 1980 study yourself, or a 2000 or a 2008 what ever you want.
I really don't get why you are such a nitpicking moron and most of the time completely wrong.
However I admit I was not aware that the import/export situation between France and Germany has changed.
It changes every year, you see.
So two years we were not a net exporter to them, who cares?
It was in German news ... no idea where I picked it up, though.
Dude, no idea what you want to say.
Last year we produced about 33%-38% of electricity CO2 free.
This year in summer, we already are at 50%, but going towards winter, that might drop.
And: unlike you, I follow the discussion close enough to know that you got bombarded with dozens of links regarding to this topic by other /.ers
I gave you two institutions to check, fraunhofer.de and energy-dingsbums org, don't have it on my tablet, just look in the history. They answer all your questions.
So: I already know that you have links proofing my point. Why do you bother me searching the same links for you again?
Perhaps you want to google: transport grid, distribution grid.
The french and german grids are only interconnected by transport grids.
And over those, there is no unannounced, not prescheduled power transport.
The general power transport needs to be anounced 24h in advance, ad hoc transfers need to be anounced 1h in advance.
If you want I sent you a link to about 2000 pages of regulations how international europe wide power management works.
So, no. There is no random power flowing from France to Germany over the river Rhine, just because there is a french power plant on the other side.
BTW: France is a net importer of power from Germany ... just in case you did not know.
Of course I can, but not for the years in question.
Why don't you look for your self if you need 2008 till 2017?
As I actually worked 10 years in power companies: no, they are not reactions to demand.
France overproduces, and because it has to react to that, it sells excess power. Germany has coal plants and can power them down easily, so it buys the excess power.
France has nukes, which it only can power down and power up around the right circumstances.
Obviously thos nare market decissions. France has no influence on Germand grid stability anyway ... a no brainer if you knew anything about the european grid(s)
So please stop arguing about nonsense like this.
Well, you are looking at it pretty wiered.
I don't see a difference in the actual way of voting and your proposal.
Considering that 80% voted against DST and 80% of those voted for keeping permanent summer time, your rant is pointless anyway. They voted like you want it, so why complain?
Perhaps we should replace all Yo Mama' so fat with Trump is so fat or stupid jokes? /me runs and hides
Oh, I hit a nerve on some people I guess!
Time measurements are a problem, as the more accurate the clock, the greater it impacts the gravitational field. So a clock good enough to measure time accurately enough to give us the precision needed is a clock that isn't an inert part of the experiment but a direct contaminant.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is between time and energy, not between time and gravity.
Doing it "mentally" is only easy for a person who never did it, or even tried it.
Obviously adding or subtracting a single 1 is easy. However preventing to mix up if you have to add it or subtract it, is for some reason pretty challenging. After all you are used to glance at your watch and figure: I have to go in 30 minutes. While in fact you are already 30 minutes later or have 1:30 hours left till you have to go.
The idea was energy savings. So not that useless.
The idea was shops e.g. would switch on the lights in the windows later. However many companies did not bother to change the clocks that control the lights ... so no real saving.
But it is interesting how stupid and brain dead your reasoning is ...
PLEASE DO IT.... then maybe the USA can follow...
The US following something the EU is doing? You really think that is possible?
The poll/vote actually is: abolish DST.
Shift the timezone(s) to summer time.
80% are in favour of that.
Then you failed.
The most important country you should have guessed is: UK. GMT is defined by noon being at Greenwich. And from there we derive UTC and from there we derive the times for the rest of the world.
Ah, now I grasp it, "middle of the day", that is of course not the case. But middle of the daylight period, that is.
Yeah, a friend of mine did that. Having a watch on UTC.
He was always late, regardless if DST or ST ... and he never flew to a country some time zones away, I think some co workers stole his watch ... there was no other way to show him the foolishness of his way.
Oh, he once was on Madeira ... perhaps he realized the foolishness of his way there ... hm. At least he is no longer wearing a watch set to UTC (since a decade).
Noon should align with the position of the sun.
I agree. But as we need to average that out somehow over Europe, I propose Warschau in the east and Paris in the west as the two measuring points. That would mean Berlin time is noon for Europe. Somehow I like that idea.
(Actually I voted keep summer time for ever, because actually I like to sit out in June on a terrace in Paris, sipping a wine and enjoying the aftermath of the sunset, glowing sky, a few high clouds illuminated by the sun "from below". Or having a late 22:00 sunset in Brittany)
In other words: I Napoleon Angelo, Imperator of Europe, with here in decree: 12:00, aka noon, shall be when the Sun is the highest above Porto, Portugal, the finest city in the world! And the rest of Europe has to adjust its time accordingly. Except Greece of course.
So, as this is finished, bring me some oysters!
Socialism is in free market economies with democracy. :D
Not necessarily. You seem to mix up "Social Democracies" with Socialism
Most Socialist countries in the eastern block had no free markets but central controlled economies with small free markets attached, e.g. being allowed to bake bread and sell it on their own account. Or buy a calf, raise it and butcher it.