A standard modern 3MW wind turbine will deliver 6,6 million kWh per year. A turbine has an average lifespan of 20 years, so let's assume 132 million kWh total power produced for a steel wind turbine. That alone should tell you how unlikely it is that your statement is true.
This link http://www.sciencedirect.com/s... tells us that the energy cost for producing rolled steel is 1095 kWh per ton. If we round this to 2000 kWh per ton for a worst-case estimate it means that we need to use 66000 tons of steel for the tower in order to have it come out worse than the original energy cost.
For a comparison, the Burj Al Khalifa skyscraper uses 55000 tonnes of rebar for its entire structure.
There is this weird idea that renewable energies have massive subsidies, and fossil fuels are profitable all by themselves. Well, it's just not true. Most subsidies go to fossil fuels, *even without taking the environmental damage into account*.
From wikipedia:
Fossil-fuel consumption subsidies were $409 billion in 2010, oil products ca half of it. Renewable-energy subsidies were $66 billion in 2010 and will reach $250 billion by 2035, according to IEA. Taking into account the price difference offered to developing countries of the fossil fuels (in many developing countries, fossil fuels are sold below the regular price), then as of 2015 fossil fuels are subsidised with an estimated additional $550 billion per year.
I'm all for a level playing field. But the problem is that subsidies for fossil fuel will remain in place because they companies are so powerful and so entrenched in the political superstructure you have little chance of changing things. For example, wikileaks documents showed that Royal Dutch Shell has a standard practice where high-ranking public servants of the British and Dutch Foreign and Economic Ministries are detached to Shell for a while, and vice versa. There is no information available about why this is done, and what they do there. This will be similar for other oil companies.
Also, the subsidies are often hiding in all kinds of international trade agreements. This makes it hard to do something about them. A tax is much easier to work with, can be applied directly and is usually not subject to international agreements in the same manner.
I'm not sure I'd want to work there, but the pace of SpaceX's science and engineering advancements is astounding. Kudos to anyone who can take the stress; the output is truly impressive.
I get stressed whenever I have less work than I can handle, and feel great when I can really make a contribution and the work is twice the amount I could handle with confidence, and I need to find a solution that saves the whole project. The rush I get when I make the deadline in those circumstances is amazing.
Working with slower folks who need to have everything explained twice is also creating a lot of stress for me. I prefer smart co-workers that just need a few words, or none at all, and where we can count on getting things done because we're all very good at what we do and can trust each other in that.
Working for Tesla or SpaceX would be about the best job I could imagine having. Apart from building my own company ofcourse, which is what I'm doing now. But I'd settle for equity if I could help build those companies. They make tangible contributions to a better world.
Of course, I'm not an American so this option is mostly nonexistent. Still... I could dream:)
I think he's pretty aware of economies of scale. With Tesla he has been pushing toward the model 3 for years, just so the operation can be profitable and sustainable. To have him discount that whole strategy 'because rockets' sounds rather far-fetched.
I sure hope the patient in this case sues the hell out of everyone involved here for using a Windows-based solution.
In that case the patient won't get very far with his case. The point the patient *could* try to win the case on is whether the GxP-process included testing on the operating system used for the procedure, and the other software on it. What were the installation instructions for the software and where they obeyed to the letter? If it says "Install on windows XP and use whatever you like because it will run" it's likely the vendors are liable. If it says otherwise, the hospital may be liable.
Of course, liable for damages means you have to have had any damage in the first place, which didn't actually happen. Being pissed off is no reason to claim damage where I live, but in the USA things may be otherwise.
ECMAscript, actually. And that is a very cool functional language, IMO. It has a few warts, but all in all I've been playing with it recently to build myself a Neo4J library for D3, and it is very easy to learn, while having very powerful language aspects.
I live in a city where bikes have the right of way, most crossings have been removed (cars go around the city now, not through) and we have very wide paths for bikes. It makes cycling faster than taking the car for almost everything in town.
I like it a lot. It's both healthier and cheaper. And for the kids who go to school it's safer as well.
No, they also shut down the network with 19000 users. They said that anyone who had a phone could get access again "after explaining why they were using it". They are heavily overreaching their authority and will very likely be slapped down. The money laundering charge stems from the fact they guy involved asked a lot of money for the service (100 euro per month I read) and the police says "he had to know most of his customers were criminals, and [therefore] paying with black money".
I doubt this will hold water in court, but until that time, 190000 encrypted phones are off the air. I do have to say that that's a lot more encrypted phones than I thought would be in use locally. Especially given the high fees.
That's true. But fortunately, the citizens live in a nice quiet country where there is no risk at all from having all your data publicized. Especially when you're working undercover, or get caught in the crossfire, there is no risk at all from having your adress and that of relatives exposed on the internet.
Gawd I hope not. That will mess up my redecoration of the living room for sure. I'll never hear the end of it - "If only you had done it last year, before the universe was destroyed, we could at least have gotten some mileage out of those tiles!"...
Okay. I'll concede that point: yes, you can use public transport and eventually you can get to any place in Holland - even The Netherlands. It's not feasible for the daily commute, but every place in The Netherlands is *eventually* reachable by public transport.
I live in Europe, in The Netherlands. I just quoted the discussion that is currently running in the papers and the media. I live in a rich country, but the budget for healthcare is still limited. Cheaper than the US, but paying a lot of money for three months more life? Nope.
Since I wrote my previous comment, we got some news related to this. An acquaintance of my wife lived in China. Last week he suicided. He had cancer, and if had lived on, his daughter would have had to take on a lot of debt to pay for his treatment just to live a bit longer. Basically, she'd have had to sell herself. To avoid that, he suicided.
Since the Dutch government can't legally prevent the sale of cars that have been approved for sale in Europe, I doubt it will come to that. This whole plan is complete and utter nonsense. The treaties currently in place don't allow it, the infrastructure isn't there and we all know the government would rather commit ritual suicide than actually invest in infrastructure, so it won't happen.
Heck, when the model 3 was doing fine with pre-orders, one of the opposition parties immediately demanded that the tax breaks for EV were rolled back... and the ruling parties said "of course, but not right now, thank you." They aren't planning on spending money so this whole plan of theirs will just fall flat.
Unless you are actually employed or work as freelance consultant and happen to live outside the center of Amsterdam or Utrecht... The attitude displayed is an annoying one, mostly entertained by pseudo-intellectual hipsters who are still studying. Anyone who works as a consultant needs a car or has to face hours to commute (try Eindhoven-Utrecht if you don't live in the center, or Utrecht-Rijswijk, or Groningen-The Hague, or Nijmegen-Amsterdam, as several of my colleagues have to do).
I tried using the train when I lived in Eindhoven and worked in Utrecht for a while, when I didn't have my drivers license yet (never needed one when I was in my pseudo-intellectual hipster phase). Two hours for a single trip due was the rule, not the exception. And I had only a single destination then, not three, as is sometimes the case nowadays.
Interesting argument. I hadn't considered the impact of scale on the funding of the whole operation. You're right, I think, that that poses new problems.
However, while that would validate some form of copyright, it does in no way validate the current Disney extension. That was, for me at least, the straw that broke the camel's back: ever since it was ratified and a massive hold-up of the public was perpetrated by the MAFIAA, I have not been able to take copyright law serious anymore. While I don't make a target of myself, I have no objection to friends copying all my CDs, or downloading stuff from the piratebay. I will avoid paying for any content with copyright as much as I possibly can, with the exceptions of software (they're not the companies lobbying for the Disney extension and won't profit from immortal copyrights either). All my software is open source or fully licensed. But music or movies? Not if I can help it.
Let's assume it does cost that much. Suppose I'm a minister of a health department, and I have 10 million to spend on medication for 10.000 patients. I can treat them all with vaccines, antibiotics, and set broken bones for that amount, or I can provide therapy for one patient... I'm afraid that one patient will have to go elsewhere.
As long as the medical companies are racking up profits to the tune of 1000% on medication, there will NEVER be a budget that can buy all the medication a population needs. Since each company will charge "what the market will bear" the combined effect is more than the market can actually bear. And thus people die.
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Let's do some quick calculations.
A standard modern 3MW wind turbine will deliver 6,6 million kWh per year. A turbine has an average lifespan of 20 years, so let's assume 132 million kWh total power produced for a steel wind turbine. That alone should tell you how unlikely it is that your statement is true.
This link http://www.sciencedirect.com/s... tells us that the energy cost for producing rolled steel is 1095 kWh per ton. If we round this to 2000 kWh per ton for a worst-case estimate it means that we need to use 66000 tons of steel for the tower in order to have it come out worse than the original energy cost.
For a comparison, the Burj Al Khalifa skyscraper uses 55000 tonnes of rebar for its entire structure.
There is this weird idea that renewable energies have massive subsidies, and fossil fuels are profitable all by themselves. Well, it's just not true. Most subsidies go to fossil fuels, *even without taking the environmental damage into account*.
From wikipedia:
Fossil-fuel consumption subsidies were $409 billion in 2010, oil products ca half of it. Renewable-energy subsidies were $66 billion in 2010 and will reach $250 billion by 2035, according to IEA.
Taking into account the price difference offered to developing countries of the fossil fuels (in many developing countries, fossil fuels are sold below the regular price), then as of 2015 fossil fuels are subsidised with an estimated additional $550 billion per year.
I'm all for a level playing field. But the problem is that subsidies for fossil fuel will remain in place because they companies are so powerful and so entrenched in the political superstructure you have little chance of changing things. For example, wikileaks documents showed that Royal Dutch Shell has a standard practice where high-ranking public servants of the British and Dutch Foreign and Economic Ministries are detached to Shell for a while, and vice versa. There is no information available about why this is done, and what they do there. This will be similar for other oil companies.
Also, the subsidies are often hiding in all kinds of international trade agreements. This makes it hard to do something about them. A tax is much easier to work with, can be applied directly and is usually not subject to international agreements in the same manner.
Hmm... that is actually a testable hypothesis. One wonders...
I'm not sure I'd want to work there, but the pace of SpaceX's science and engineering advancements is astounding. Kudos to anyone who can take the stress; the output is truly impressive.
I get stressed whenever I have less work than I can handle, and feel great when I can really make a contribution and the work is twice the amount I could handle with confidence, and I need to find a solution that saves the whole project. The rush I get when I make the deadline in those circumstances is amazing.
Working with slower folks who need to have everything explained twice is also creating a lot of stress for me. I prefer smart co-workers that just need a few words, or none at all, and where we can count on getting things done because we're all very good at what we do and can trust each other in that.
Working for Tesla or SpaceX would be about the best job I could imagine having. Apart from building my own company ofcourse, which is what I'm doing now. But I'd settle for equity if I could help build those companies. They make tangible contributions to a better world.
Of course, I'm not an American so this option is mostly nonexistent. Still... I could dream :)
I think he's pretty aware of economies of scale. With Tesla he has been pushing toward the model 3 for years, just so the operation can be profitable and sustainable. To have him discount that whole strategy 'because rockets' sounds rather far-fetched.
I sure hope the patient in this case sues the hell out of everyone involved here for using a Windows-based solution.
In that case the patient won't get very far with his case. The point the patient *could* try to win the case on is whether the GxP-process included testing on the operating system used for the procedure, and the other software on it. What were the installation instructions for the software and where they obeyed to the letter? If it says "Install on windows XP and use whatever you like because it will run" it's likely the vendors are liable. If it says otherwise, the hospital may be liable.
Of course, liable for damages means you have to have had any damage in the first place, which didn't actually happen. Being pissed off is no reason to claim damage where I live, but in the USA things may be otherwise.
I really can't tell if you're joking or not. I guess you are, since you are very far from reality.
If you did mean this to be taken serious, I'd like to see you give a cost estimate for building a "hello world"-app as per your proposal.
The source is the article linked above. As in, the article you should have read before commenting.
Oh come on! Nobody ever does that here!
ECMAscript, actually. And that is a very cool functional language, IMO. It has a few warts, but all in all I've been playing with it recently to build myself a Neo4J library for D3, and it is very easy to learn, while having very powerful language aspects.
I live in a city where bikes have the right of way, most crossings have been removed (cars go around the city now, not through) and we have very wide paths for bikes. It makes cycling faster than taking the car for almost everything in town.
I like it a lot. It's both healthier and cheaper. And for the kids who go to school it's safer as well.
No, they also shut down the network with 19000 users. They said that anyone who had a phone could get access again "after explaining why they were using it". They are heavily overreaching their authority and will very likely be slapped down. The money laundering charge stems from the fact they guy involved asked a lot of money for the service (100 euro per month I read) and the police says "he had to know most of his customers were criminals, and [therefore] paying with black money".
I doubt this will hold water in court, but until that time, 190000 encrypted phones are off the air. I do have to say that that's a lot more encrypted phones than I thought would be in use locally. Especially given the high fees.
Because our planet is dying and that trumps your right to be a unique snowflake.
Sorry to break the news. Mother Earth doesn't need humans. Never has, never will. Go ask the dinosaurs if you don't believe me.
I tried but couldn't find any. Please tell me where I can find a live one.
That's true. But fortunately, the citizens live in a nice quiet country where there is no risk at all from having all your data publicized. Especially when you're working undercover, or get caught in the crossfire, there is no risk at all from having your adress and that of relatives exposed on the internet.
No, I just arrived late.
*Zing*
Did that hurt?
Oops, there go my mod points!
Yes, I'll be here all night! Don't run!
*zing* *badaboom* *crash*
Gawd I hope not. That will mess up my redecoration of the living room for sure. I'll never hear the end of it - "If only you had done it last year, before the universe was destroyed, we could at least have gotten some mileage out of those tiles!"...
Okay. I'll concede that point: yes, you can use public transport and eventually you can get to any place in Holland - even The Netherlands. It's not feasible for the daily commute, but every place in The Netherlands is *eventually* reachable by public transport.
Okay: http://www.avclub.com/article/...
I live in Europe, in The Netherlands. I just quoted the discussion that is currently running in the papers and the media. I live in a rich country, but the budget for healthcare is still limited. Cheaper than the US, but paying a lot of money for three months more life? Nope.
Since I wrote my previous comment, we got some news related to this. An acquaintance of my wife lived in China. Last week he suicided. He had cancer, and if had lived on, his daughter would have had to take on a lot of debt to pay for his treatment just to live a bit longer. Basically, she'd have had to sell herself. To avoid that, he suicided.
Since the Dutch government can't legally prevent the sale of cars that have been approved for sale in Europe, I doubt it will come to that. This whole plan is complete and utter nonsense. The treaties currently in place don't allow it, the infrastructure isn't there and we all know the government would rather commit ritual suicide than actually invest in infrastructure, so it won't happen.
Heck, when the model 3 was doing fine with pre-orders, one of the opposition parties immediately demanded that the tax breaks for EV were rolled back... and the ruling parties said "of course, but not right now, thank you." They aren't planning on spending money so this whole plan of theirs will just fall flat.
Because things are closer together and people live in each other laps?
We live in houses, you insensitive clod!
Nobody in Holland needs cars.
Unless you are actually employed or work as freelance consultant and happen to live outside the center of Amsterdam or Utrecht... The attitude displayed is an annoying one, mostly entertained by pseudo-intellectual hipsters who are still studying. Anyone who works as a consultant needs a car or has to face hours to commute (try Eindhoven-Utrecht if you don't live in the center, or Utrecht-Rijswijk, or Groningen-The Hague, or Nijmegen-Amsterdam, as several of my colleagues have to do).
I tried using the train when I lived in Eindhoven and worked in Utrecht for a while, when I didn't have my drivers license yet (never needed one when I was in my pseudo-intellectual hipster phase). Two hours for a single trip due was the rule, not the exception. And I had only a single destination then, not three, as is sometimes the case nowadays.
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Interesting argument. I hadn't considered the impact of scale on the funding of the whole operation. You're right, I think, that that poses new problems.
However, while that would validate some form of copyright, it does in no way validate the current Disney extension. That was, for me at least, the straw that broke the camel's back: ever since it was ratified and a massive hold-up of the public was perpetrated by the MAFIAA, I have not been able to take copyright law serious anymore. While I don't make a target of myself, I have no objection to friends copying all my CDs, or downloading stuff from the piratebay. I will avoid paying for any content with copyright as much as I possibly can, with the exceptions of software (they're not the companies lobbying for the Disney extension and won't profit from immortal copyrights either). All my software is open source or fully licensed. But music or movies? Not if I can help it.
Brilliant!
Let's assume it does cost that much. Suppose I'm a minister of a health department, and I have 10 million to spend on medication for 10.000 patients. I can treat them all with vaccines, antibiotics, and set broken bones for that amount, or I can provide therapy for one patient... I'm afraid that one patient will have to go elsewhere.
As long as the medical companies are racking up profits to the tune of 1000% on medication, there will NEVER be a budget that can buy all the medication a population needs. Since each company will charge "what the market will bear" the combined effect is more than the market can actually bear. And thus people die.