They're playing some tricks with the numbers to get capacity factors close to 0.3, which is physically impossible unless all your PV panels are super-high efficiency and track the sun. But this isn't the sort of thing you can just cover up. It's trivial to calculate the actual capacity factor for PV solar:
Installed peak capacity at the end of 2014 and 2015 was 18,173 MW and 25,459 MW respectively. So figure average capacity for 2015 was (25459 + 18173)/2 = 21,816 MW.
PV solar generation for 2015 was 23,232 GWh.
There are 8766 hours in a year (factoring in leap years).
Yeah sure, there's a conspiracy to cover up the real numbers. Or, you know, you might have botched your calculations. You took the solar output from large utilities only and divided it by the total solar capacity including distributed generation.
Solar capacity factors of >25% are relatively easy in the sun belt and can go as high as 36% with tracking and a high panel-to-inverter ratio (Lawrence Berkely study, 2014 figures).
There's an open source app called GadgetBridge that will support all the basics for Pebbles, and will keep working even if the Pebble cloud dies. You will still be able to load new apps and watchfaces and re-flash firmware. Apps that need to access the Internet may not work (for now, devs can contribute). As a side-bonus you get greatly increased privacy.
This is Android only, I don't know if there's an iOS equivalent (anyone?).
Tesla superchargers are 120kW max and it looks like the future standard will be 150kW, so refill time for 256kWh could be two hours or less, but that's not going to be available for non-Tesla (last name!) vehicles in the short term.
The issue for installers is that "the directory from which the application loaded" is the Downloads directory, not somewhere secure like c:\program files. This directory, which is not necessarily the current directory, is still first in the search order even when Safe DLL Search Mode is enabled.
It's simple accounting. Google makes money off Android whether they sell a tablet that contains it or not. Apple, on the other hand, has to pay their development costs through device sales. Similarly the overhead of Apple store real estate and employee costs has to be paid for by device sales, where else do you think their revenue per employee comes from?
Google's overheads for this product are much, much lower than Apple's. No glitzy stores, free operating system, minimal hardware development costs, and either direct sales or channel sales of the higher-margin 16GB product only.
So, it seems likely that Google is making a profit, just not a massive one, and this is likely to increase as components get cheaper. The Kindle Fire's cost of manufacture is down to $139 now, so they are no longer subsidizing either.
Thats not the point of the article. Its because Google and Amazon are subsidizing the cost of their tablets so much that the consumers are expecting other manufactures to do so.
Google aren't subsidizing anything at these prices. According to Forbes, "The $199 Nexus 7 8 GB variant costs exactly $151.75 to build while the $249 Nexus 7 16 GB variant costs $159.25. This implies gross margins of nearly 25% to 35% for the device, which are closer to what Apple makes on each iPad." Apple's gross margin on the "new iPad" is around 20%.
On the same chart (uswitch.com mobile tracker) the Galaxy S2 has outsold the iPhone 4S every month except April 2012, which was the only month that the 4S ever hit #1. So really the S3 is just taking the place of the S2.
Chrome not being able to bookmark all tabs to a folder is a serious deficiency that prevents me from saving sets of links that are the result of possibly lengthy research. Another constant annoyance is Chrome saving all files to Downloads instead of giving me the option to open.
Bookmarking all tabs is right-click on any tab, Bookmark All Tabs. Prompt for download location is a setting in Tools, Options, Under the Hood.
No, 65% of Android Market apps are free or ad supported, where only 36% of Apple app store apps are free or ad supported (source Distimo report April 2011). In absolute numbers there are more free apps on the Android Market than there are in the Apple app store.
The Samsung Galaxy S has had Bluetooth HID support for keyboard and mouse since Android 2.2. I've been using it with Bluetooth SPP since version 2.1, but it has a quirk where it won't connect to a serial device with class of service = 0, not sure if they've fixed that yet.
The Galaxy S doesn't use the Bluez stack, it uses some Broadcom closed-source code instead. It doesn't support L2CAP so you can't use Wiimotes.
A good digital scope costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars, so as a hobbyist I can't really justify that, but a $30 Logic Shrimp is just fine. I'm using it instead of a scope to do basic viewing of suspect or undocumented signals. When some pulse-width code driving a servo on a PIC32 wasn't working, for example, it was a useful check on exactly what was being generated.
According to this all the other Australian carriers already have it. Some European phones have an official version 2.2.1 upgrade now, which is a huge performance improvement. You can flash custom ROMs with this as a base. Also Cyanogenmod 7 for SGS, based on Gingerbread, is in alpha testing.
It does support Bluetooth keyboards, all tablets with Honeycomb will (the Galaxy S also supports them through some Samsung customizations). HDMI and USB is provided through the dock connector and the $50 multimedia dock.
Like open source software it's not just being able to change the design, it's having access to the full internal details of the product. Companies are encouraged to produce open-designed hardware or variants of it because it's cheaper than designing new hardware and marketing it from scratch, and when you buy it you get the full details of how it was made, so you can easily use, repair, reprogram and extend it without having to beg implementation details from a vendor who is uncooperative because they're trying to shield their proprietary designs from competitors.
Look at what Seeedstudio are doing with Arduino boards for example; they have taken the open-source Arduino design and extended it in interesting ways (Seeeduino Film for example) and they publish the full circuit diagrams, board layouts and firmware so if you want to mod or fix their boards you can.
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It is actually a 330/220/110 kV substation, with a capacity of around 472 MVA: http://wikimapia.org/19193860/... and http://ukrenergo.energy.gov.ua...
In 2014 around 30% of new installations used tracking (Figure 2 and Figure 3), and this is increasing in utility-scale installations as the technology improves and costs reduce (LBL ref figure 7, shows installed price per megawatt in 2014 was almost the same for tracking and fixed systems).
They're playing some tricks with the numbers to get capacity factors close to 0.3, which is physically impossible unless all your PV panels are super-high efficiency and track the sun. But this isn't the sort of thing you can just cover up. It's trivial to calculate the actual capacity factor for PV solar:
Yeah sure, there's a conspiracy to cover up the real numbers. Or, you know, you might have botched your calculations. You took the solar output from large utilities only and divided it by the total solar capacity including distributed generation.
Solar capacity factors of >25% are relatively easy in the sun belt and can go as high as 36% with tracking and a high panel-to-inverter ratio (Lawrence Berkely study, 2014 figures).
There's an open source app called GadgetBridge that will support all the basics for Pebbles, and will keep working even if the Pebble cloud dies. You will still be able to load new apps and watchfaces and re-flash firmware. Apps that need to access the Internet may not work (for now, devs can contribute). As a side-bonus you get greatly increased privacy.
This is Android only, I don't know if there's an iOS equivalent (anyone?).
... or the beancounters'll get ya. MuckRock even sounds like a Wire character.
Freezes like Windows 10 Anniversary Edition
Tesla superchargers are 120kW max and it looks like the future standard will be 150kW, so refill time for 256kWh could be two hours or less, but that's not going to be available for non-Tesla (last name!) vehicles in the short term.
According to the quickstart guide the Windows "nanoserver" docker image is 817MB. The Alpine Linux image is 5MB. Which is more "nano"?
The issue for installers is that "the directory from which the application loaded" is the Downloads directory, not somewhere secure like c:\program files. This directory, which is not necessarily the current directory, is still first in the search order even when Safe DLL Search Mode is enabled.
Germany is a nett exporter of electricity, and is exporting more than ever before. German solar PV in the south is reportedly greatly aiding the French, who are being asked to conserve power in the middle of winter. http://www.renewablesinternational.net/german-power-exports-to-france-increasing/150/537/33036/
It's been done for Samuel Pepys: http://www.pepysdiary.com/
Dude, you're a barista.
It's simple accounting. Google makes money off Android whether they sell a tablet that contains it or not. Apple, on the other hand, has to pay their development costs through device sales. Similarly the overhead of Apple store real estate and employee costs has to be paid for by device sales, where else do you think their revenue per employee comes from?
Google's overheads for this product are much, much lower than Apple's. No glitzy stores, free operating system, minimal hardware development costs, and either direct sales or channel sales of the higher-margin 16GB product only.
So, it seems likely that Google is making a profit, just not a massive one, and this is likely to increase as components get cheaper. The Kindle Fire's cost of manufacture is down to $139 now, so they are no longer subsidizing either.
Thats not the point of the article. Its because Google and Amazon are subsidizing the cost of their tablets so much that the consumers are expecting other manufactures to do so.
Google aren't subsidizing anything at these prices. According to Forbes, "The $199 Nexus 7 8 GB variant costs exactly $151.75 to build while the $249 Nexus 7 16 GB variant costs $159.25. This implies gross margins of nearly 25% to 35% for the device, which are closer to what Apple makes on each iPad." Apple's gross margin on the "new iPad" is around 20%.
On the same chart (uswitch.com mobile tracker) the Galaxy S2 has outsold the iPhone 4S every month except April 2012, which was the only month that the 4S ever hit #1. So really the S3 is just taking the place of the S2.
Chrome not being able to bookmark all tabs to a folder is a serious deficiency that prevents me from saving sets of links that are the result of possibly lengthy research. Another constant annoyance is Chrome saving all files to Downloads instead of giving me the option to open.
Bookmarking all tabs is right-click on any tab, Bookmark All Tabs. Prompt for download location is a setting in Tools, Options, Under the Hood.
No, 65% of Android Market apps are free or ad supported, where only 36% of Apple app store apps are free or ad supported (source Distimo report April 2011). In absolute numbers there are more free apps on the Android Market than there are in the Apple app store.
The Samsung Galaxy S has had Bluetooth HID support for keyboard and mouse since Android 2.2. I've been using it with Bluetooth SPP since version 2.1, but it has a quirk where it won't connect to a serial device with class of service = 0, not sure if they've fixed that yet.
The Galaxy S doesn't use the Bluez stack, it uses some Broadcom closed-source code instead. It doesn't support L2CAP so you can't use Wiimotes.
A good digital scope costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars, so as a hobbyist I can't really justify that, but a $30 Logic Shrimp is just fine. I'm using it instead of a scope to do basic viewing of suspect or undocumented signals. When some pulse-width code driving a servo on a PIC32 wasn't working, for example, it was a useful check on exactly what was being generated.
According to this all the other Australian carriers already have it. Some European phones have an official version 2.2.1 upgrade now, which is a huge performance improvement. You can flash custom ROMs with this as a base. Also Cyanogenmod 7 for SGS, based on Gingerbread, is in alpha testing.
The tablet uses a PDMI cable which is a standard, albeit an emerging one.
Blame your carrier, people in the rest of the world have had the 2.2 upgrade since October-November last year.
It does support Bluetooth keyboards, all tablets with Honeycomb will (the Galaxy S also supports them through some Samsung customizations). HDMI and USB is provided through the dock connector and the $50 multimedia dock.
Like open source software it's not just being able to change the design, it's having access to the full internal details of the product. Companies are encouraged to produce open-designed hardware or variants of it because it's cheaper than designing new hardware and marketing it from scratch, and when you buy it you get the full details of how it was made, so you can easily use, repair, reprogram and extend it without having to beg implementation details from a vendor who is uncooperative because they're trying to shield their proprietary designs from competitors.
Look at what Seeedstudio are doing with Arduino boards for example; they have taken the open-source Arduino design and extended it in interesting ways (Seeeduino Film for example) and they publish the full circuit diagrams, board layouts and firmware so if you want to mod or fix their boards you can.